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

Zhao Yeqing stretched her head and saw that the bamboo basket was full of large orange-red persimmons. She smelled the fragrance of the persimmons as soon as she got closer.

"I really found it for you, but so many are probably spoiled and I won't be able to finish them all."

The harder persimmons were placed at the bottom, and the soft persimmons were placed on the upper layer. Mu Xi took a ripe and soft persimmon, peeled it and handed it to her.

"Don't you like persimmons?"

The ripe orange-red persimmon flesh looks very tempting, and you can feel the sweetness just by smelling the aroma.

Zhao Yeqing put the soft persimmon into his mouth in one gulp. His eyes lit up when he heard Mu Xi's words. He was still eating without thinking about talking, but the taste of the sweet and waxy persimmon cake, which was covered with white frost, was already in his mind.

She swallowed the persimmon in her mouth, and her hands were covered with orange-red persimmon juice. Because of the high sweetness and sufficient sugar content, her whole hands were sticky.

Zhao Yeqing washed his hands and asked, "Did you encounter any danger?"

Mu Xi shook his head, "There are not many traces of animals in the mountains this year, whether it is the pine forest or the birch forest, or the meadows and woods going down the mountain."

Zhao Yeqing had a solemn look on his face, but he couldn't help but touch the red persimmon with his freshly washed hands.

Mu Xi couldn't laugh or cry, "Why wash your hands if you still want to eat?"

"It feels uncomfortable if I don't wash it."

Mu Xi stopped her movement, took two persimmons, peeled them, put the pulp in a bowl, and put a spoon in the bowl before handing it to her.

"Eat it. You can only eat two today. Persimmons are cold in nature and your stomach won't be able to bear it if you eat too much."

There are five or six persimmons in a basket in the refrigerator. Peel off the remaining ones, cut off the sepals, and keep the calyx disk. When peeling, you must use stainless steel knives to prevent iron knives from oxidizing and discoloring the tannins in the pulp.

The skin of the persimmon is thin enough to retain the pulp as much as possible. After peeling, put it in a dustpan and put it in the yard to dry.

Mu Xi took out the dustpan and took a look at the dried shrimps that had been dried a few days ago.

I squeezed it with my hands to feel the humidity. I felt that the water had almost dried, so I took it back.

Zhao Yeqing finished eating the persimmons and put the cooked dried shrimps in the refrigerator. After taking out some of the raw dried shrimps, he asked Mu Xi to take the rest to the original owner's house for storage.

The raw shrimp skin taken out is used to make shrimp powder.

Although the shrimp skin is very dry now, it still needs to be fired again before grinding it into powder, so that the shrimp shell can be carbonized for easier grinding.

Some salt had already been sprinkled on the dried shrimps when they were dried. Zhao Yeqing didn't want the shrimp noodles to be too salty, so he didn't add any more salt.

In addition to shrimp powder, Zhao Yeqing also took some cooked and sun-dried carrots, roasted them on the fire for a while, and then ground them into powder together with the shrimp skins after they became crispy.

The shrimp powder mixed with carrot powder will be more fresh and sweet.

I took a small jar and put it in the cupboard.

The wind suddenly started blowing outside the window.

A gust of wind blew against the open glass window in the kitchen, and the glass in the wooden window frame shook and rattled.

Zhao Yeqing walked to the window, and a gust of wind carrying some sand and dust happened to blow over, and a foreign object suddenly entered his eyes.

She squinted her eyes and closed the window. She gently held her eyelids with her hands and shook them, trying to see if she could shake the foreign objects out.

Mu Xi walked in, saw her movements, and stepped forward quickly, "Don't move, I'll do it."

Gently blowing a few times into Zhao Yeqing's eyes that were trying to open wide, "Is there more?"

Zhao Yeqing's eyes were red. He opened and closed his eyes to make sure there were no foreign objects before shaking his head.

Mu Xi said: "The wind has picked up, and the mud originally used to cover the PC board has been blown away. I'm afraid it will be blown down to the basement, so I should cover it up first."

Zhao Yeqing nodded in agreement.

Usually when the PC board is opened, the mud is pushed to both sides and piled up loosely. It is not covered again until the PC board is closed.

When the two arrived at the backyard, they found that a lot of soil had fallen from above. They quickly covered the board and pushed the mud flat.

After sealing it, Zhao Yeqing walked to the basement and cleaned up the crops buried in the soil.

As soon as I came out of the basement, I felt a drop of rain fall between my hair.

Then the raindrops fell pattering down.

Quickly running back to the house, Mu Xi took back the persimmons he had just taken out to dry, and said helplessly: "It hasn't been two hours since I took them out."

You can only put it in a dry room with a fire and wait until the rain stops before taking it out.

I hope it won't rain for too long, otherwise the persimmons will become moldy and spoiled.

Fortunately, it rained heavily all night and then stopped.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't believe it when he woke up early in the morning and saw a clear blue sky.

The weather has changed very strangely in the past few years, and there are only a few days of good weather.

She was saying the day before yesterday that it was almost time to carry water to water the fields. What a coincidence, it rained yesterday just after she finished talking.

Not too big and not too small, it just feeds the somewhat dry land with water.

There was a gust of wind in the evening, and when I woke up in the morning, it looked like it had never rained before. All the dark clouds were blown away, and the sun was warm and genial.

Now that the front yard is covered with cement, it will no longer be muddy or waterlogged when you step on it.

Zhao Yeqing mixed today's feed and took it to the corral one by one to feed.

Mu Xi took out the persimmons that he had brought in yesterday and the dried fish that had been dried under the eaves to dry again.

After yesterday's rain, the temperature dropped by two degrees today.

The temperature in the morning is now less than 20, and there is still a breeze blowing from time to time.

Observing the weather, Zhao Yeqing felt that it didn't look like it was going to rain anytime soon, so he said, "Let's make the air-dried chicken today while the weather is suitable."

There are nearly twenty adult chickens in the chicken coop now, there are probably about ten baby chickens, and there are still a dozen newly hatched fluffy chickens.

Of all the livestock farming practices, raising chickens is the simplest. They grow faster and taste better.

The dozen or so fluffy chickens will probably have turned into adult chickens before winter is over, let alone the dozen or so baby chickens.

So he didn't hesitate to kill the chickens now. He directly caught ten chickens, cut their throats, bled them and plucked their feathers.

In some places, they like to use fire to pluck the hair, which is more convenient. However, even if the hair is completely plucked from the chicken after burning, there will still be a smell.

They prefer to scald the chicken feathers in boiling water, which is slower, but the chicken after hair removal is white, tender and has no odor.

When Mu Xi was killing the chickens, Zhao Yeqing soaked the spices in warm water in advance. When all the chickens were killed, he put the spices into a large pot and added water to boil.

Mu Xi put the chicken that had been killed, gutted, and the claws removed into a large basin. He used the largest basin in the house, with the mouth of the basin being about one meter in diameter.

Add water, green onions, ginger slices, peppercorns and a lot of salt to the basin, stir well and soak for a whole day.