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

Mu Xi was busy cooking pig food in the kitchen. There was a fire in the kitchen and the temperature was much higher than outside, so the numbers on the watch were not accurate.

Zhao Yeqing put his watch on the window sill outside and waited until he was full before picking it up and looking at the numbers.

8 degrees Celsius.

The temperature can drop really fast.

The two finished feeding the livestock and went to the fields with rakes and hoes.

There is also a saying for harvesting sweet potatoes: dig them out first, then shake off the sweet potato vines on top, and shake off the mud on the sweet potato fruits before placing them in a dustpan.

You have to be very careful when using the hoe, so as not to break the sweet potatoes or break the skin.

Once the skin of this sweet potato is broken, it will become moldy and rotten. Only when the skin is intact can it be stored for a long time.

This is the ration for the few wild boars in the family that are waiting for food throughout the winter. If it gets moldy, they will starve.

It's good weather to do farm work now, as long as you don't touch water.

After bending down and working in the field for half an hour, my body warmed up. It was warm, not cold and not sweating.

A large field of sweet potatoes cannot be harvested in one day. If you dig half of it, harvest it first, and then dig the other half the next day, so as not to dig out all the sweet potatoes. In the morning, there is mountain fog and dew, which makes it easy to get damp. get mouldy.

The recovered sweet potatoes need to be dried in the sun to dry out the skin before being stored in the cellar, so that the sweet potatoes can be stored for a longer period of time.

Zhao Yeqing took a guide to rural planting for poverty alleviation and read through the notes on sweet potatoes, and both of them knew what to do.

The sweet potatoes will definitely not fit in the original cellar if they are taken back. If they are placed in the breeding basement, they are worried that the temperature environment will be unstable and they will easily become moldy.

The original plan was to store it in a wooden box and store it in the breeding basement. The wooden box could ensure that the temperature and humidity inside would not change too much. However, I did not expect that the output was much higher than expected.

After all the sweet potatoes were harvested and spread out in the yard, there was no space to dry them. The next day after harvesting, they were spread out directly in the field to dry, and they were all taken back in the evening.

A rough estimate is that it weighs about three thousand kilograms.

Zhao Yeqing never thought that he would be able to grow so many sweet potatoes in his life, and his eyes went straight when he looked at the thick sweet potatoes in front of him.

"Where should I put all these?"

After discussing for a long time, the two finally had no choice but to dig out the space next to the pig pen in the basement to use as a storage room.

At that time, a separate door will be made for the storage room and closed to ensure the stability of the environment.

It's just used to stack sweet potatoes, so it doesn't need to be too fine. An all-soil structure is enough, and it's more suitable for the storage environment of sweet potatoes.

"These should be enough for them to eat, right?" Zhao Yeqing was still a little worried, after all, pigs can indeed eat.

Adult pigs need to consume about five kilograms of grain a day, mixed with rice bran and leftovers. These three thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes should be able to survive for half a year.

Anyway, in another month, one pig will have to be killed first. When these pigs grow to 150 pounds, another pig will be killed to reduce the burden.

In the end, four pigs are left to breed, and then they will be able to breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to feed.

Zhao Yeqing took two large sweet potatoes. Of course, he had to taste the freshly dug ones when they were freshest.

Now that the weather is cold, the hot water on the stove in the kitchen at home is available 24 hours a day. When sleeping at night, the red charcoal left over from burning firewood is used to warm the hot water in the fire pit.

Mu Xi took the sweet potato, washed off the soil on it, and buried it directly in the ashes under the fire.

Plant ash is very clean, but the soil needs to be washed. After all, it is the soil after watering with manure.

It takes some skills and experience to directly stuff sweet potatoes into plant ashes and roast them. If you place them too close to the fire, they may burn before they are cooked. If you place them further away, they may not be cooked for a long time.

The two have been roasting sweet potatoes since they were children, and they are quite confident in controlling the heat.

Sweet potatoes buried in plant ashes cannot emit fragrance, so when to roast them depends on experience.

Zhao Yeqing felt it was almost done, so he used tongs to pull apart the plant ashes and pinch out the hot sweet potatoes underneath.

While blowing air, press the sweet potato lightly with your fingers. If all sides are soft, it is ready.

The two big sweet potatoes were taken out. Zhao Yeqing blew on his lips and gently tore open the skin of the sweet potatoes with the heat in his hands.

White heat burst out from the sweet potato skin, followed by a sweet sweet potato aroma.

The sweet potatoes were sweet and soft, with a hint of chestnut aroma and the sweetness of pumpkin. Zhao Yeqing looked satisfied as he ate, and his hands were covered with black marks on the slightly carbonized sweet potato skins.

Sure enough, no one can resist the first roasted sweet potato in early winter.

After Mu Xi finished eating, he went to get hot water first. The two of them rubbed the black marks on their hands in the basin. Mu Xi said: "This batch of sweet potatoes seems to be sweeter than the previous batch. Use the ones from the cellar to feed the pigs." Well, keep some of this batch for yourself."

Zhao Yeqing agreed very much, "The weather is not bad recently. Although it is cold, there is sunshine every day. It would be good to make some dried sweet potatoes and keep them as snacks."

Now all the vegetables in the vegetable garden have not been harvested, and the grain fields have been cleared. Before winter, the two only need to collect the radishes, green onions, cabbages and other vegetables in the vegetable fields. The winter vegetables they have stored are enough for three days. Four months.

You definitely can't eat cabbage, radish, and green onions every day. Zhao Yeqing also arranged to start planting some cold-tolerant vegetables in the basement.

It is said that after frost comes, radish and winter cabbage must be taken back, so as to prevent the weather from being too cold, and the water in the radish will crystallize and dehydrate, which will cause the radish to wither.

But the weather now is different from before. The frost has passed, but judging from the temperature, it's almost time to take back the radishes in the past few days.

Cabbage is slightly more frost-resistant than radish, and cabbage that has been beaten by frost will be sweeter and can be recovered after a period of time.

Zhao Yeqing had been harvesting sweet potatoes for two days, and as the weather got colder, it was extremely difficult to get up in the morning. Mu Xi rarely stayed in bed until nine o'clock.

If it weren't for the livestock at home that had to be fed, he would definitely choose to sleep with his girlfriend in the bed for another half hour.

I got up and finished the morning's work. Taking advantage of the fact that it hadn't snowed yet and the temperature outside was relatively stable, I opened the door and let the livestock out for air.

The cattle and sheep were taken away by the Dahuang family to eat grass, while the chickens wandered around in the backyard catching insects.

Xiaohong went out to play by herself and expected to come back in the afternoon. Today, the three leopards were lying down in the yard. They were not afraid of other animals coming to attack them, so they opened the door with peace of mind.

Mu Xi made breakfast and dragged his girlfriend, who was huddled in the quilt watching videos, up to eat.

There is no fireplace in the room, and I originally wanted to make a floor heater, but I have been busy with work lately and have not been able to do that at all.

Now the sweet potatoes in the yard have to be collected quickly, and the storage cellar must be dug first.

Zhao Yeqing had a full meal and finally woke up after being lazy all morning. He put his phone away and said:

"Let's dig together. After digging, we can warm the floor."