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

Don’t forget to pick some autumn wild vegetables along the way.

After returning home, Mu Xi took the wild vegetables into the kitchen, and Zhao Yeqing spread the plastic sheet containing the osmanthus in the backyard and picked out the broken and dried osmanthus.

The front yard was already occupied by pasture, and she picked sweet-scented osmanthus flowers in the backyard. After selecting, she could wash them with well water.

She picked out the freshest ones and planned to dry them later to make snacks, and then pick out the second-class ones and store them for making tea or eating them later.

After picking, there are still dozens of kilograms left.

What can osmanthus be used for? The first thing she thinks of is eating it. The osmanthus used for eating must be cooked, that is, dried or made into sauce.

In addition to eating, it can also be used to make fragrances if the quality is not that good. She has seen others using osmanthus to extract essential oils in the past, but their demand for essential oils is really not big now.

You need to use fresh osmanthus to make essential oil, so you have to spend time processing the osmanthus before you can return to Meishan. With so much osmanthus, you will definitely not be able to process it in two days.

Zhao Yeqing simply gave up the idea. The weather was getting colder and colder, so it was safest to go back as soon as possible.

She plans to dry the remaining osmanthus flowers and make them into sachets if she wants the fragrance. Although the fragrance will dissipate faster, it saves trouble.

First- and second-grade osmanthus can be dried in the sun to make osmanthus sugar sauce, some of which are like the osmanthus honey made in Meishan.

But now they are running out of time. Their plan is to go back to Meishan tomorrow. Zhao Yeqing roughly cleans the osmanthus flowers and puts them in the yard to dry them. In the evening, he raises the oven and dries all the osmanthus flowers directly.

Fresh osmanthus is actually not as fragrant as dried osmanthus when eaten, and it is also bitter, so it must be dried first before eating.

After Mu Xi brought the fresh Guizhi to the room, he came out to take over Zhao Yeqing's work.

"I'll wash it, and you go get the osmanthus flowers in the room."

Zhao Yeqing shook off the water on his hands, walked to the room and put the sweet-scented osmanthus in a vase. After a while, the room was filled with fragrance.

She saw the small garden outside through the glass window. The flower seeds that had been sown before had grown out and were expected to bloom in a week. The rhododendron had also adapted to the current environment, taking root in the soil and growing. Flower buds.

They will go back to Meishan tomorrow and spend a few days back and forth, just in time to harvest the red and mung beans at home.

Dahuang and the others have now learned to drive away the cattle and sheep that want the food fields and pastures, but she still doesn't feel comfortable letting the dogs herd the cattle and sheep like this.

In the end, the two decided to use a delay device to put in the feed. If they walked back and forth faster, they should be able to get back in three days. If they put enough feed before leaving, the subsequent device only needs to be run twice.

Zhao Yeqing sighed, it would take technology to change life. If there were automated equipment, there would be no need to worry about so many things.

Drying sweet-scented osmanthus is very simple. The flower is small and the water evaporates easily. The two of them worked until twelve o'clock in the evening. One person dried the sweet-scented osmanthus, and the other took the dried grass back to the hay room. In the end, there were about ten kilograms left. The osmanthus is not dried.

Zhao Yeqing took it directly to the yard and said, "Let it dry in the yard. If it rains unluckily, I will throw it away when I get back. If it doesn't rain, I can dry it in the sun for a few days and put it away when I get back."

In the morning, before setting off back to Meishan, the two of them looked around the house inside and out, left rhubarb and small yellow flowers, prepared enough food for them for three days, and gave them repeated instructions.

"You can't eat it all at once! It will take us three days to come back."

In the past, the dogs were quite obedient and not greedy.

The doors and windows of the house were locked. After the last black blind attack, when expanding the yard, Zhao Yeqing left dog holes in the yard wall for them to facilitate their entry and exit in emergencies.

Even if a few greedy dogs have eaten all the food, they can still get out of the dog hole to look for food.

There is the smell of a few dogs at the entrance of the cave, and most animals dare not go in even if they get close.

The two put away the feed, turned on the grow lights in the basement, sprayed enough water in the bacteria room, checked the luggage, and took Xiao Hei out.

Worried about encountering wild beasts on the road, the two of them speeded up in unison. According to Mu Xi's previous experience,

"When I came back before, the closer I got to Meishan, the less traces of animals there were. But this time it looks a little different."

The two of them were in the meadow recently, and they didn't see many of the most common rabbits. Apart from sparrows, they rarely saw other species of birds in the sky. The wild boar that appeared in the pine forest and the wolf that appeared behind them were even rarer. never seen it.

On the contrary, after approaching Meishan, Zhao Yeqing found traces of pheasant droppings and foxes among the grass.

The last time Mu Xi came back, it was still summer. She speculated, "The altitude of Meishan is lower and the temperature is relatively higher. There were no traces of animals here at that time, so they must have gone to escape the summer heat. Now that winter is coming, those animals that have escaped should be gone." came back."

In summer, the temperature in the meadow is a few degrees lower than in Meishan. In winter, the temperature here is naturally higher than that in the meadow. The temperature is probably much more comfortable.

Although there are many hills surrounding the meadow house, which is more sheltered than the open prairie, it is still much colder than the small two-story house in Meishan surrounded by woods.

If it weren't for the fact that the planting area in Meishan is too small and the area for growing pasture and grain is not enough, it would be most comfortable to move back here for the winter.

The two chatted about the pros and cons of the houses on both sides, but their journey was not delayed at all. It was midnight when they reached Meishan.

After walking for more than ten hours with basically no rest, Zhao Yeqing felt some burning pain in the soles of his feet when he stopped.

She ignored the pain and quickly walked to the courtyard door and opened it.

The flashlight he held in his hand had a large wattage and he could see his surroundings clearly.

An unpopular house will always have a sense of dilapidation. The yard is full of fallen leaves. The small vegetable garden in the yard is now overgrown with weeds, and the cracks in the soil in the corners are also filled with weeds.

Mu Xi stepped forward and pushed the door open. There was not much dust in the closed space, and Zhao Yeqing looked a little dazed.

Thinking about it carefully, she had left Meishan to live in the meadow for more than two years. She had just left for the water source. She wanted to come back, but she didn't expect that when the water source became available, a landslide would occur, cutting off the original road.

Later, I was able to go back, but there were a group of cattle and sheep outside, and the grain storage was also on the meadow.

Mu Xi rubbed the top of her hair and interrupted her random thoughts, "I just tried it and the water is still clear. You go wash your face first and I'll prepare dinner."

The rations the two brought back were very convenient, including a few large flatbreads, last year's smoked beef sausage and a large tomato.