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

Zhao Yeqing was stunned on the spot, and was thrown to the soft grass by the running rush.

She raised her hand and brushed her fur twice, pushed away the mess, sat up, pointed at the unfamiliar leopard and asked it, her eyes widened and she asked: "Your brother-in-law?"

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Zhao Yeqing sat on a chair and looked at the three leopards in front of him.

She didn't speak for a long time, until the unfamiliar leopard seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, stood up and paced back and forth, and finally stood next to the snow cake and rubbed its head against it, as if it was being coquettish.

Zhao Yeqing turned his head indifferently and finally accepted this fact.

Mu Xi had already prepared dinner and food for the leopards.

He originally wanted to kill a chicken, but Zhao Yeqing wouldn't let him.

"What kind of chicken should I eat? If I don't have chicken at home, I can just eat fish."

Mu Xi couldn't laugh or cry and went to the fish pond to catch three big fish.

During the meal, Zhao Yeqing ate boiled mutton, and he did not forget to make a small stove for the glutinous rice cakes and snow cakes, feeding them a piece from time to time.

He simply ignored the other leopard who was looking at him.

At this time, a leopard suddenly appeared. Zhao Yeqing was a little surprised, but it was also expected.

Even if the two of them got by in the spring, it was now time for the two leopards to reach adulthood.

The autumn before winter is the breeding season for clouded leopards. If things develop normally, we may see little clouded leopard cubs tomorrow.

Mu Xi added fuel to the fire: "Maybe I have it in my stomach now."

She glared at the leopard again angrily.

But thinking about it together, everything that happened recently was a wake-up call for the two of them.

The temperature suddenly started to drop some time ago. In just one month, the average temperature has dropped by nearly ten degrees.

There are fewer and fewer creatures near the meadow, and as you go to lower altitudes, there are more creatures.

Luohuo and Xuebing, who had been away from home for so long, also came back. She was not so mysterious and thought that these two clouded leopards were smart enough to bring them back to see if they had a partner.

They only speculate that this winter will not be easy.

After observing for two days, they didn't know if Xuebing and Luomu had told them in advance, but they found out that the new leopard would not attack cattle, sheep, and chickens, so they felt a little relieved.

The three leopards go out to hunt in the morning, and sometimes they come back at night, and sometimes they only come back every two days.

As the days passed slowly, Zhao Yeqing watched as the beans and sesame seeds in the field gradually became fuller. It was almost time to harvest. He and Mu Xi took sickles to the fields and collected all the crops and plants.

They are first piled in the yard to dry, just like soybeans. After they are dried, they are spread out flat and beaten with a flail until all the beans and sesame seeds are beaten out.

Mu Xi piled the remaining dry bean poles in the space inside the brick wall, which could be used as kindling when lighting a fire.

Zhao Yeqing cleaned up the watermelon vines in the basement, which were no longer suitable for its growth.

After cleaning up, the winter melons that had grown seedlings were planted on the spot.

When the weather gets colder, watermelons can only be pulled out, but strawberries are like a fish in water.

The maximum ground temperature is only fifteen degrees every day, but the planting basement can still have a constant temperature of twenty degrees. This is even when it is only covered with PC boards and not covered with soil. If the board is covered with soil, the temperature can be higher.

The slightly cooler weather greatly increased the sweetness of the strawberries. Zhao Yeqing picked seven or eight red strawberries when he came out of the basement.

After cleaning it, I popped one into my mouth. I guessed it would be sweeter than before, but I didn't expect it to be so sweet.

There is no trace of sourness at all, the strawberry pulp is purely sweet and has a slight milky taste.

She narrowed her eyes in enjoyment. It was indeed a service that she had taken care of. When it entered the fruiting period, she also deliberately controlled the water content. Controlling the water content could increase the sweetness of the fruits.

Cover the remaining beans with beeswax cloth and put them in the refrigerator, leaving one to feed Mu Xi who was raising ashes from the beans.

“After harvesting this batch of beans and sesame seeds, it’s almost time to take back the sweet potatoes.”

Zhao Yeqing was still a little reluctant to part with it. If he didn't harvest the sweet potatoes, he could still feed the pigs with sweet potato leaves. After harvesting, he would have to cook a lot of pig food every day.

However, when they took the beans back a few days ago, they dug up the sweet potato field and found that the sweet potatoes planted here were indeed more productive than those planted in the vegetable field before.

Zhao Yeqing guessed, "It must have something to do with the soil quality. The soil in the vegetable field before was relatively thick and moist, which was not suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes. The wheat field here has been deeply plowed and then exposed to high temperatures, so the soil quality is lighter than that there. "

But no matter how good the harvest is, it is still not that simple to feed six pigs.

Mu Xi also had some regrets, "When I brought them back, I thought I would only need four, but I was afraid that I would die if I couldn't feed them, so I thought that if I brought back two more, the error tolerance would be higher. I didn't expect them to adapt so well." .”

Not only is it easy to adapt to, it can be said to be very enjoyable.

In just two months, several pigs have grown to around 70 or 80 pounds.

The weather is getting colder now. I just washed the strawberries with cold water and my hands were a little red from the cold. Zhao Yeqing clasped his hands together and rubbed them a few times before letting out a few breaths and said:

"The Chinese New Year will be celebrated in less than a month. How about killing a pig first?"

According to this growth rate, it is estimated that there is no problem in gaining more than ten or twenty kilograms in a month, and the weight will be almost one hundred kilograms. Even if the pigs raised are one hundred kilograms, they will still have oil and water.

Mu Xi nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

The harvested red and mung beans were weighed on the scale, and they almost weighed only about fifty kilograms. Generally, the yield of red and mung beans per mu is 100 kilograms, and the high-yielding ones can be as high as 150 kilograms.

Their area is less than half an acre each, and they don't have specialized fertilizers or pesticides, so they can produce a yield of forty or fifty kilograms, which is already very gratifying.

I can’t eat many beans, but these few dozen kilograms can probably be eaten for a whole year.

Mu Xi put the beans and sesame seeds into the hay room. After he came up to wash his hands, Zhao Yeqing took him to the fire to warm his hands.

He said: "Didn't you say some time ago that you wanted to find the cars of the group of people who ran away first? There should be some medicines and other supplies on them. I'm afraid this winter will be difficult. Medicines are the most important. The more The better to be prepared.”

Looking for the car is simpler and more trouble-free than returning to Meishan. Just drive and look for it.

It shouldn't be a problem to go back and forth in the same day. After all, the ground cracked before, and the way was probably blocked long ago. It must not be more than a few dozen kilometers away.

Zhao Yeqing responded: "Then let's go look for it first and then harvest the sweet potatoes when we come back."

Sweet potato cannot escape at home, and there are many uncontrollable factors outside. It is safer to give priority to getting things back.

The temperature at night was already less than ten degrees.

Zhao Yeqing had been sitting around the fire early in the morning, playing with his mobile phone, watching videos or chatting. The two of them never left the kitchen.

During dinner, she originally thought about trying the mung beans she had just collected and cooking mung bean porridge, but the weather was still too cold, so Mu Xi only used freshly beaten sesame seeds to make some sesame sugar cakes for her as a snack.

Zhao Yeqing was chewing sesame sugar cakes and remembered a snack that his grandparents would buy during the Chinese New Year when he was a child. "Do you still remember that snack that was eaten during the Chinese New Year? It's an ellipsoidal strip with a fluffy hollow in the middle and sprinkled with sesame seeds." Is that candy?”