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

Zhao Yeqing put the boiled spice water aside and waited until the chicken was soaked. As the spice water cooled, the spices inside gradually diluted the fragrance, and then he took the chicken in and soaked it.

At night, Mu Xi covered the persimmons in the yard with plastic sheets to prevent them from getting wet with dew.

The peeled persimmon skin was also drying outside. He stretched out his hand and pinched it. When he found that it was almost dry, he took it in.

Zhao Yeqing curiously asked what the use was.

When she was in Meishan, grandma would also dry persimmon peels, but she had never used them on her body.

Mu Xi raised his eyebrows and smiled, "You can use it this winter."

Zhao Yeqing hated people who talked and talked and pinched Mu Xi's flesh, "Speak quickly!"

Mu Xi raised his hands in surrender, "Tell me about it...this is for you to relieve your hangover."

Zhao Yeqing's troubled hands stopped and he pinched the dried persimmon skin and suddenly realized, "No wonder I haven't used it before, I guess it was all used by grandpa."

Last winter, Zhao Yeqing got himself drunk. Mu Xi was worried that it would happen again this year, so he hurriedly prepared it in advance.

When wine was mentioned, Zhao Yeqing exclaimed, "That's right, we haven't even made this year's sweet wine yet!"

"Make it so early?" This homemade sweet wine should not be stored for too long, as it is prone to bacteria.

Zhao Yeqing muttered: "Try it, what if last year's wine koji goes bad?"

Mu Xi then understood how the wine koji could go bad. It was just because someone was greedy.

Making sweet wine mash is easy and hassle-free.

Mu Xi first took out the chicken that had been soaked yesterday and wiped off the moisture on the surface, then put it into the cool spice water and continued soaking it for nearly two days.

After handling the chicken, take out the glutinous rice and soak it.

After Zhao Yeqing finished feeding the chickens, he cut a handful of sweet potato vines and fished for wild boar cubs.

Mu Xi said she was childish, and soon took a sweet potato vine to join the game.

The rain on the meadow has dried up today, and the cattle and sheep were taken out by Rhubarb to graze.

Zhao Yeqing thought that he didn't have to miss a few days, or else he would harvest the grass and dry it into hay today.

In Mu Xi's plan, he had to go back to Meishan before winter came and bring back their own winter clothes.

You can’t still wear last year’s red Xiangyun cotton-padded jacket during the Chinese New Year this year, right?

When Mu Xi came back, he had a three-in-one jacket in his backpack. There were also old clothes brought back from previous years in the cabinet at home, which were always better than wearing someone else's.

Zhao Yeqing had more clothes. There were clothes in the box he dragged back, and two large boxes were sent back by courier.

"How about I go back with you this time? I haven't been back for a long time."

"Row."

Mu Xi nodded. It would be best for Zhao Yeqing to go back by himself. She knew best what she could bring to her home.

This time the harvest was not like the rush to harvest the crops before. The two harvested slowly. Anyway, the pasture was right at the door of the house. After harvesting, they only needed to carry it a few steps and put it on the cement floor in the yard to dry.

Planting and harvesting are not so hard as long as the weather is good. There is a slight cool breeze blowing, neither cold nor hot, and I don't feel tired after harvesting two pastures.

After two days of mowing, the harvest was almost done. Zhao Yeqing stayed in the field to finish the work, while Mu Xi went home and took out the soaked chicken to dry.

The wind has been blowing recently, so just hang the soaked chicken in the air outlet to dry. If there is no wind, you have to use an electric fan to dry the skin.

The chicken is done when the skin is completely dry and the neck is firm.

Zhao Yeqing left less than half of the alfalfa crop unharvested. Not many plants have bloomed in the mountains recently, so he planned to keep this as a source of nectar for bees, which was better than nothing.

The grass that is placed to dry in the yard needs to be weighed down with bricks, otherwise it will be blown away by a gust of wind.

The next crop of forage will not be harvested for more than a month. Now, except for the newly built silo, the original one is mostly empty. There are so many livestock in the house that they are depleted quickly.

By the time the next batch of forage is harvested, the feed in this silo should have been used up, just enough to fill it up.

All the time is stuck just right, and I feel inexplicably comfortable.

This batch of forage was taken back, Zhao Yeqing grabbed two handfuls of fresh ones and put them in Xiaohong's trough.

The weather has been nice recently, so I let it go out to play on its own from time to time. I don’t know if Xiaohong is particularly humane, or because the weather has been bad for a long time, so it knows that living with them is the most correct thing.

In short, after being let out several times, he did not run around. After eating and playing enough, he came back by himself in the evening.

Horses eat grass, unlike cattle and sheep, which do not regurgitate. It is best to eat small meals frequently. It likes the fresh and tender green grass that has just been harvested. Zhao Yeqing gave it two big handfuls and kept them for it in the evening. As a late night snack.

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When the sweet wine that Zhao Yeqing longed for was ready to drink, it was also time to harvest the corn stalks.

According to the original plan, more than 20 corn plants were left on half an acre of land, and the rest were harvested for silage.

She remembered that farmers had planted corn and wheat in the past, but purchasers kept the price too low, and in the end the farmers were unwilling to plant corn and wheat.

Even if they are planted, they will be harvested when they have no fruit and are just green corn stalks or wheat seedlings.

Then selling it to feed dealers or farmers to make silage is more profitable than growing wheat and corn, and it takes less time. There is no need for final harvesting or waiting for maturity. The most important thing is that it will not be harvested. Black-hearted buyers lower prices.

But this is also forbidden by the superiors. This is an act of destroying grain, and it is necessary to ensure that the grains are returned to the warehouse.

Merchants also complain that the market is difficult and they can only reduce costs, each insisting on their own opinions and their own reasons.

Low grain prices hurt farmers, and in the end only the poorest farmers were in trouble.

Mu Xi didn't know much about these things. While cutting corn stalks, he listened to Zhao Yeqing talk about the changes in recent years.

"I haven't been back much in recent years. My eldest nephew talked to me about these things when he was renovating the small building."

The Feng family's shop is an agricultural supplies store that sells agricultural tools, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. I can't wait to hear a hundred people complain about this kind of thing a day.

We chatted about doing farm work, and with the good weather, we didn’t feel tired even after a day of harvesting.

The two of them are now very agile. It would have taken two or three days to finish the harvest when they first came back, but now they can finish it in one day.

The moisture content of the corn stalks at this moment is very high, nearly 65% ​​or more. After peeling away the outer skin, Zhao Yeqing took a bite as if eating sugar cane. The moisture inside was slightly sweet, which was not as sweet as the sweet stalks and sugar cane. , but this is also one of the favorite snacks of children in rural areas.