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

But having said that, Zhao Yeqing still couldn't believe the leopard that appeared halfway. It was definitely not possible to live in the same house. If the leopard got stressed or hungry at night and wanted to eat a midnight snack, the two of them would not do it. Crap.

In addition, now that the dog and leopard have grown up, they cannot stay together in the original small compartment, which is too crowded.

The three leopards' nest was placed in the space inside the newly built brick wall. When Zhao Yeqing went to get the curtains back, he brought back a few quilts.

Keep the ones that look clean and brand-new for your own use, and spread the rest in the brick wall to make a leopard's den.

Seven or eight pounds of quilts are enough to keep warm during this season.

Lock the cattle and sheep into the barn, and drive the chickens into the chicken coop before Xiaohong comes back.

Mu Xi cooked the pig food and took it to the door to let it cool. When their dinner was ready, the pig food could be poured into the trough.

Zhao Yeqing held the radish and mutton soup in his left hand and slowly blew it to cool down before putting it into his mouth. The chopsticks he held in his right hand penetrated the fried radish meatballs like bamboo skewers and skewered the meatballs into skewers.

The freshly fried radish balls are so crispy that you have to blow them twice before putting them in your mouth for chewing. They have the sweetness of radish and are not greasy at all.

The dogs ate well beside them, but the three leopards didn't need two people to feed them. They could still catch prey outside and feed themselves.

The two discussed while eating. Now that the floor heating has been installed, they wanted to take advantage of their free time to plow the grain field before it snowed.

After planning what to do, the rest of the time is reserved for enjoying the floor heating.

It's not yet warm enough to use floor heating, so I tried it out today just for testing.

But since it's burning, I must enjoy it for a night first.

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As a result, the sleeping environment was too comfortable and they stayed in a space with a constant temperature of more than 20 degrees. As a result, the two of them originally planned to get up early in the morning to prepare the land. In the end, they ended up returning to the house after feeding the livestock, and only got out of bed at noon. climb up.

It wasn't because I felt it was time to get up, but because the fire in the floor heating had gone out because there was no more wood.

All I could do was get up and get ready to prepare the land.

The land that has been planted with sweet potatoes, beans, sesame, and corn has not yet been plowed. A little care will be needed to facilitate planting next year.

Zhao Yeqing has learned his lesson this year and does not plan to plant winter wheat and highland barley anymore. The weather will cause the harvest to fail if he is not careful. Now that there is enough food, there is no need to worry about it.

There is also a small garden in the backyard that needs to be taken care of.

The rhododendron originally planted in the middle has stopped blooming. When it starts to snow after a while, it will be moved to the basement. The marigolds planted next to it will also be moved to the basement.

At that time, she planted marigolds not only because the flowers were easy to grow and very durable, but also because they had insect-repelling effects.

This marigold has a bit of a stinky smell and is also called stinky chrysanthemum. Planting it behind the house can prevent mosquitoes. She had planned to use it to prevent mosquitoes and flies that appeared due to livestock breeding in the yard when the weather was hot.

When the weather gets cold, transplant it to the basement and plant it near the tomatoes. It can also help drive away nematodes on the fruits and vegetables.

Now the vegetables in the basement are growing very well, but the mushroom room has declined and the oyster mushrooms have stopped growing.

Zhao Yeqing plans to use wheat grains to preserve the strains and store them at a temperature of about five degrees above zero until next spring before planting them.

She moved the strain into a glass bottle, took it indoors and placed it as if cultivating mycelium for the first time, waiting for the mycelium inside to be filled with wheat grains.

Mu Xi roughly leveled the wheat field, and when he came back he still had small corns in his hands.

"The corn has to wait, but these corn shoots are ready to eat."

After saying that, he opened his hands, revealing about a dozen corn shoots held between his hands.

After they had saved the corn for silage, they still had two rows of corn left for their own consumption. Generally speaking, only one corn was left to grow on a corn stalk, and the remaining underage corns were broken off to avoid them. Compete for nutrients.

The corn grown in this way will be full and full.

Corn shoots are also Zhao Yeqing's favorite. She peeled off the corn husks, revealing the small shoots filled with tender green corn silks inside.

She did not waste the corn silk, she collected it all in the bowl. The corn silk now is very fresh and tender, different from the withered yellow corn silk of mature corn.

The fresh green corn silk can also be used to scramble eggs, and the boiled corn silk water is sweeter than the water cooked from old corn silk.

When eating a salad at a western restaurant in the city, the price of corn shoots is more expensive than meat.

At first, she really liked eating this stuff, so she bought a large box from the group buying software. The price of ten pounds of corn shoots shipped directly from the place of production was not as expensive as a salad.

Zhao Yeqing kept all the corn shoots in the refrigerator, planning to stir-fry them when cooking dinner in the evening.

Ask Mu Xi to put a small milk pot on the stove to boil water, and then put fresh corn silk into it to boil the water.

While Mu Xi was boiling water, he thought of the pasture he had just seen. "In ten days and a half, the second crop of pasture will be almost ready to be cut."

Zhao Yeqing blinked in confusion, raised his head and thought carefully, only to realize that it seemed that it had been some time since the last harvest of the first crop of grass.

"This time flies by quite quickly. If you think about it, it's almost the Chinese New Year."

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Cold comes and summer comes.

When all the fallen leaves have almost fallen and there are no more leaves on the meadow that can be blown over, the New Year has passed and the Lunar New Year is about to usher in.

Zhao Yeqing's New Year's plans this time couldn't be as simple as last year. Their life was so good this year. They didn't lack anything, they had food and drink.

The sense of ritual must be sorted out.

The two went to the foot of the mountain and brought back all the red paper stored in the villagers' homes. They also found a bottle of ink with gold powder.

They plan to put couplets on all the doors of their houses.

The red paper is a big roll, so you have to cut it out by yourself to the size of the Spring Festival couplets with blessing characters.

The two of them were very good at handwriting, and when it came time to start writing, they looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

The last person took a brush and practiced on the red paper that had been discarded due to a cutting error.

Zhao Yeqing won by a narrow margin and won the right to write the Spring Festival couplets for the first time in his family.

Due to his lack of technical skills, Zhao Yeqing finally chose to paste the couplets on the door of the brick house. The upper and lower couplets only had four words, and the horizontal couplet also had four words.

First couplet: Good harvest.

Second line: The six animals are prosperous.

Horizontal batch: more than enough every year.

Mu Xi stood aside and watched her finish writing the twelve words, and gave her a thumbs up, "It's reasonable and very practical."

Zhao Yeqing was also very satisfied and put the couplet aside to dry before putting it away.

It’s not the time to post Spring Festival couplets yet, the best time is early in the morning on New Year’s Eve.

Have to wait a few more days.