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

Mu Xi estimated that it would take him three or four days to pick the persimmons by going back the same way he came from before. The round trip would take more than a week, and he would be able to catch up with the harvest of corn stalks.

"Then I'll go into the mountains to pick the persimmons in the next two days."

Zhao Yeqing shook his head quickly,

"Don't go, it's just a persimmon. It doesn't matter whether you eat it or not. It's not that important."

Now is the season to forage for food and accumulate fat. If there are wild animals in the mountains, now is the most dangerous time. Living in the mountains for a week for a persimmon is too risky.

When I was in Meishan, there were not many persimmon trees, so logically there should be some here.

Mu Xi nodded, "Then I'll go look around a bit more. It just so happens that I can pick some more cinnamon bark and fragrant leaves."

There will be almost no wild animals going down the mountain, except for some small snakes, and only the monkeys we have seen before.

Within the scope of human activities, wild beasts are unlikely to appear, so searching in this direction is the safest.

Mu Xi went to hang out nearby, but Zhao Yeqing stopped going. There were still many things to deal with at home.

Vegetables picked one after another must be made into dried vegetables for storage. Vegetables with relatively high moisture, such as tomatoes, will lose a lot of flavor and taste much worse when made into dried vegetables. Zhao Yeqing plans to make them into cans.

The last time I made canned citrus, I had already used up two large jars. I washed the empty glass jars and used them to hold tomatoes.

Zhao Yeqing cleaned the cutting board, cut the surface of the cutting board with a knife and washed it before using it to cut tomatoes.

Wash the tomatoes and cut them into small pieces and put them directly into the jar. After filling, cover the top with boiled and then cooled boiled water, and finally put the lid lightly on top without tightening.

Put a little water in the pot, put the glass jar with tomatoes inside, cover it and bring it to a boil. After five minutes, open the lid and quickly tighten the untightened bottle cap, then immediately turn it upside down and place the bottle with the bottom facing up. vacuum.

The canned tomatoes stored in this way are better preserved and can last for half a year without any problems.

In order to extend the shelf life, Zhao Yeqing chose to store it in the refrigerator first. When the weather gets too cool after a while, the refrigerator will have to cut off the power.

At that time, everything inside will have to be moved out.

It's fine when refrigerated, but when the temperature is only a few degrees, taking it out or putting it in is about the same.

It’s just that frozen meat is more troublesome.

The two of them killed half of the sheep some time ago, which was nearly 60 kilograms of sheep. After removing the wool, internal organs, blood and bones, the remaining meat was about 80 kilograms.

The two of them could only consume about three kilograms of food in a day, which is not enough to eat sheep every time. If they eat too much, they will be very tired. They can eat vegetables and staple food, and occasionally eat eggs, fish, etc. for a change. , it is consumed even more slowly.

Fortunately, we have four dogs at home, otherwise we might not be able to finish them all in winter.

The good news is that the leeks are gradually blooming, and when she makes the leek flower sauce in a while, in addition to the tripe meat, she can also use up the lamb blood sausage.

Even boiled mutton goes very well with chive sauce.

In order to promote flowering, Zhao Yeqing found elemental fertilizers such as calcium, magnesium and boron in the fertilizer pile provided by his eldest nephew, and sprayed some on the vegetable leaves to speed up growth and flowering.

This kind of elemental fertilizer is relatively safe. Unlike pesticides, which are harmful to the body, occasional use is beneficial and harmless.

As the weather cools down, the strawberries in the basement begin to bloom and bear fruit again.

The PC board on the top is now open 24 hours a day, and the bees will come over to pollinate the strawberries when they smell it, so there is no need for manual operation.

But she still has to pay attention to the condition of strawberries every day. This fruit is too easy to get sick and get bugs. Even if there are no problems, she has to occasionally spray orange peel essential oil and other things to prevent pests.

She used to eat fruits, and one of the fruits she cleaned most carefully was strawberries. They were so easy to get sick that it was impossible to grow them in large quantities without using pesticides.

Which fruit farmer says that their strawberries never use pesticides or fertilizers, and that the fruit is red, large and yields a high yield, that must be a lie. She is planting just a few of them now, and it takes a lot of effort to take care of them, not to mention the large-scale greenhouse cultivation. .

Zhao Yeqing squatted in front of the strawberry. Seeing that today's weather was also sunny, he took scissors and cut off the extra leaves of the strawberry.

A maximum of five leaves per strawberry plant is sufficient, and excess nutrients must be reserved for fruit development.

After cleaning up the basement, I also need to check out the food plot.

This batch of sweet potatoes is growing well, which may be related to the better weather. The leaves are growing rapidly. Half a month ago, they were just small vines of 20 to 30 centimeters, and now they have grown into a large vine.

Zhao Yeqing took the sickle and cut it out in one go. The leaves grew too lush and caused the fruits in the ground to swell, so he cut them all and fed them to the pigs.

This little wild boar has obviously grown up in a few days. When he first came back, he was as big as a large cat when he was carrying it. Now he is a full-fledged little pig, not to mention that it is difficult to carry. Effortless.

The work at home was almost finished, so Zhao Yeqing pulled out a long sweet potato vine, moved a chair, sat at the door of the pig pen, threw the sweet potato vine on his hand into the pen, and started fishing for pigs.

When the little wild boar in the pig pen saw something to eat, he raised his two front hooves and stood up against the fence. When Zhao Yeqing saw that the pig was about to eat, he lifted it up a little.

She remembered that the wild boar sold in the market in the past was always more expensive than ordinary pigs. This wild boar could not be let out to run in the mountains. It was easy to run away, so she had to work hard to help her exercise at home.

A sweet potato vine teases the pig and has a great time.

At the end of the game, when the pig couldn't jump anymore, she was finally willing to let go and threw half of the harvested sweet potato vines into the pig pen.

A few wild boar cubs ate so much that half of the sweet potato vines were wiped out in a short time.

Now that the weather is nice, Zhao Yeqing is sitting in the yard, leaning on the back of a chair and taking a nap. The cool breeze occasionally blows by, and in his ears he can hear the rustle of pasture and the hum of little wild boars eating.

When Mu Xi came back, he saw that Zhao Yeqing had almost fallen asleep on the ground. He put down the basket behind him and hurriedly went up to straighten her head.

"Why did you fall asleep here?"

Zhao Yeqing rubbed his eyes to wake up a little, and his voice was still sticky with sleep, "You're back."

Mu Xi's eyebrows were soft, and after washing his hands in response, he went to wash the towel and handed it to her to wipe her face to refresh herself.

"How can you sleep so soundly?"

After Zhao Yeqing wiped his face, he handed the towel to Mu Xi, stretched out and said confidently,

"Spring is sleepy, summer is sleepy, hibernation occurs, and autumn naps are all good times to sleep all year round."

"Yes, yes, what you said makes sense." Mu Xi brought the basket over, "Eat it, I've tasted it, it's sweet or not."