Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Zhao Yeqing's eyes widened and he blinked for a long time before speaking.

"Where did you go to bring wild boar cubs to a litter?"

Mu Xi held a finger-thick rattan in his hand, with a string of black-brown wild boar cubs tied to it, six in total.

The four hooves of the wild boar cub were tied together tightly, and he could only use his body to keep trying to break free of the restraints.

Mu Xi put the wild boar cubs on the ground, "It's not one litter, there are two litters in total. I caught three piglets from each litter. I didn't take them all and left two for them, so that they can be bred later."

Quite considerate.

After Zhao Yeqing was shocked, he was also a little happy. The farmed wild boars might not be as fat-free as wild wild boars, and they would be served delicious food and drinks, but they would not be allowed to move.

After a year of raising it, wouldn’t it be just a few hundred pounds of plump pork?

She knelt down and looked at a few wild boar cubs. Not to mention, even wild boars were quite cute when they were young.

The newly brought wild boar cannot be kept directly with other animals for fear of carrying germs.

Mu Xi had marked two litters of wild boar cubs with different parents in advance, and was now considering which two sows to keep for breeding.

There were more females and fewer males. Only one male piglet was taken from the litter, that is, four females and two males.

It wasn't that Mu Xi wanted more sows for breeding, but that the boars had to be castrated. Uncastrated pigs had a stronger smell, and neither of them had the castration skills, so he only took two.

When these two uncastrated boars grow up next year, the meat from the slaughter can be used as food for the family dogs.

Zhao Yeqing estimated that the wild boar was only a little over a month old and had just been barely weaned.

Calculating the days is more reasonable. The gestation period of wild boars is about four months, which is just before the weather gets hot, which happens to be the breeding season.

It was probably because the piglets were weaned that the sows were further away from the nest, allowing Mu Xi to take advantage.

The wild boar's sense of smell is very sensitive. Zhao Yeqing hurriedly asked: "Is this sow coming to your door smelling your scent?"

"Probably not." Mu Xi tugged on his clothes that were almost dried in the sun. "When I came back from the wild boar cub I found in Yunwu Mountain, I soaked it in the river for a while to remove the realgar smell from my body. It’s gone.”

Zhao Yeqing nodded with relief, "Where are these animals kept?"

Several wild boars are still small. Wild boars that grow naturally grow meat slowly, and now they only weigh just over ten kilograms.

Mu Xi took a few bricks and built a simple pig pen, "Put them inside first, and then deal with them after the hay house is built."

During this period, feed the pigs homemade pig feed first, and then build a new large pig pen after the piglets have eliminated all the bacteria that may be carried in their intestines.

Now Zhao Yeqing is afraid that the sweet potatoes he originally planned to plant may not be enough.

Before, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to finish the sweet potatoes, but now six piglets are simply not enough.

But pigs are probably the easiest to worry about. Omnivores will eat anything.

Even the rice bran after beating rice at home can be used for feeding, as well as sweet potato vines. Cows and sheep didn’t like the many sweet potato vines before, but pigs are not picky.

Zhao Yeqing counted the sweet potato pieces that were originally planted, and silently planted a new batch of seedlings.

It seems that the sweet potato field needs to be expanded again.

The previous vegetable plot was not enough, and the grain plot in front of the house is now not full, so it can be used to grow sweet potatoes.

Red beans, mung beans, and sesame seeds occupied the original rapeseed and peanut fields, and corn was planted on the original corn fields.

The remaining wheat fields and rice fields are vacant. Zhao Yeqing plans to plant sweet potatoes in the wheat fields. The two crops will not interfere with each other and will not cause diseases.

But that won't work if you rotate sweet potatoes and peanuts. Both crops are very susceptible to nematode disease, which is very unfavorable for subsequent planting.

In addition to the wild boar, Mu Xi also brought back a rhododendron in his basket, as well as the palm fruit that Zhao Yeqing had coveted on the way to Yunwu Mountain.

After Mu Xi put the palm fruits in the kitchen, he took the rhododendrons still with the soil balls to the back of the house and planted them. Now there is a small garden behind the newly built hay room, which can be seen from the bedroom window of the brick house. .

The small garden is enclosed with red bricks.

Because the firing techniques and materials used for red bricks are relatively primitive and rough, not all the fired red bricks are intact, some will crack and break, and some red bricks will fall accidentally during the construction process. break.

These defective red bricks are piled in the corner of the house.

Mu Xi remembers that when he was in elementary school, some green belts in the school would be surrounded by red bricks. The red bricks were inserted side by side into the ground, with only a sharp corner exposed. Many children loved to step on the sharp corners of the red bricks. Go back.

Zhao Yeqing picked out some other seeds and brought them over, including marigolds and some wood sorrel used for gardening.

This kind of wood sorrel has flowers in a variety of colors and is very easy to grow. As long as it's not too hot, it can basically survive.

The small garden is only a few square meters. Mu Xi said: "Next year, if the weather is not so hot, I will build a shelf in the garden and plant some climbing plants."

Zhao Yeqing also likes those climbing plants, whether they are blooming or not. For a moment, her mind imagined walls and plant shelves covered with green leaves. It would be better if there were flowers among the green leaves.

After taking care of the garden, the two of them returned to building a new house in the next period of time.

Build the frame of the hay house, lay the floor first, then build the walls, wait until the sun has dried the cement, and then cap the house.

After the house was dried and roofed, all the things in the old hayroom were moved to the new hayroom.

The hay reserves that could fill the old hay room half full, after all were removed, would only occupy half of the new hay room.

Zhao Yeqing first put away the rice bran from the threshed millet. This thing is very susceptible to moisture. It was not so particular in the hot days of drought. Then it rained for two days, and the original wooden hay room became somewhat damp.

After taking it out to dry, luckily it didn't become moldy or smelly, otherwise feeding the pigs would be a problem in a short period of time.

Before the sweet potatoes mature, the two of them don't have time to cut hogweed recently. They have to build all the houses first.

After demolishing the old hay room, Mu Xi began digging a hole to build a new septic tank.

Zhao Yeqing re-examined the terrain, "The current location of our toilet is too close to the well. We cannot dig it here. We need to lay pipes and move the septic tank farther away, preferably downhill."

The location of their house is such that the farther you go to the back of the house, the lower it becomes.

Zhao Yeqing didn't want it to be close to drinking water, and he also wanted to dig the septic tank wider, so he had to set up the tank outside the yard.

The most difficult thing to solve now is the pipeline problem.