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

The monitoring does not consume much power. After connecting two wires, the monitoring can be placed at the door. I just don’t know if it can be successfully connected to a mobile phone or computer.

Mu Xi had never thought of this: "If it is the monitoring installed by the tourist area officials in various places, then their monitoring rooms have equipment that can be directly connected, or it can be used directly in other people's homes. I still remember how many households There are smart surveillance cameras at the door, but I don’t know if they can be used without the Internet.”

Real-time monitoring may not be possible, but it should be fine to store the video in a memory card. It may not work when you see a bear the first time, but if you put it on the edge of a field, you can still see if there are any voles within the monitoring range.

Following the movement of voles, you might be able to find their nests by following the clues.

This can be an alternative. Write it down in a notebook first, and then you will know whether it is feasible after the snow melts and you go to the tourist area.

The planting plan for the first half of next spring has already been written down in the book. Zhao Yeqing has gained experience this year and plans to plant much earlier than last year.

Anyway, the temperature is rising faster now. Planting earlier can also try to avoid the rapid rise in temperature after the beginning of spring.

To avoid being like last year, when we encounter high temperatures of over 40 degrees before they are mature, all crops will become more or less sick or suffer from reduced yields.

As long as the planting plan is advanced by more than a month, most of the problems that occurred last year can be avoided.

Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with this year's plan and is confident that this year's grain and vegetable output will definitely be higher than last year's.

We don’t plan to plant glutinous rice again this year, so that rice can be planted in a large area, and there is no need to leave room for soybeans in the corn fields. They will all be planted with corn. Wheat is still the same land as before, but it will be planted this year. Earlier, it is not a big deal for cold-tolerant wheat, and it can avoid subsequent high temperatures.

Rapeseed flowers will continue to be planted in the original land. Zhao Yeqing plans to use the original peanut land to grow sweet stalks, so he will no longer grow food crops in the backyard.

This year it is not for making sugar, but for eating fruit. The small piece of land where we plant peanuts is completely enough.

The pasture is the same as before, including alfalfa and ryegrass. A lot of seeds were left behind from these two pastures last year, and they are the richest among the pasture seeds.

Other pastures have not been planted for a long time. Zhao Yeqing plans to sow some appropriately this year and save new seeds to prevent the old seeds from being left out for a long time and the germination rate will not be high.

The greenhouse built in the yard at the end of last year has not been used much. This year she plans to plant all the vegetables in the yard. A small part of the large vegetable plot outside the yard will be used to grow potatoes, and the rest will be planted with sweet potatoes.

In this way, the yield of sweet potatoes is enough for the pigs at home.

Counting the time, once the weather gets warmer in two months, it will be mating season for the sheep and pigs at home, and the original number of adult sheep will have to be controlled again. The lambs born last year will also slowly grow up, and the old sheep will have to grow up. You have to kill two of them for meat, lest the grass grown in two fields is not enough for them to eat.

The book also has to calculate whether next year's pasture, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops used as feed will produce enough to supply the family's livestock and the livestock that will be born later.

After killing two or three more sheep, they should be almost there. There are still four pigs left. When the adult pigs give birth, two males and two females will be selected for breeding, and the rest will be slaughtered for meat.

Later, due to the cold weather and the need to save feed, the two of them also reduced the amount of pig food. The meat did not grow as fast as before. The adult pig now weighs about 180 to 90 kilograms.

It will definitely break through the two hundred kilograms mark before spring begins.

Pigs are really edible. Zhao Yeqing thought of the cellar that was full of sweet potatoes, but now it was obviously three-quarters empty. If he continued to eat like this, his family would be depleted.

Or after spring, as soon as the sow becomes pregnant, they will kill the boar immediately.

The more I think about it, the more feasible it is. Otherwise, with such a large number of livestock, feeding cows, sheep and pigs, two people would be exhausted next year.

Every time I talk about controlling the number of sheep, I fail to implement it successfully in the end. The main reason is that there are two kinds of sheep, sheep and goats. In order to avoid inbreeding as much as possible, it is best to keep four of each type of sheep. Head, two males and two females.

Sheep and goats cannot reproduce. She had considered this before. If sheep and goats could reproduce, there would be no need to keep so many sheep.

But after reading the original owner's book, it was explained that sheep and goats can reproduce, but the number of chromosomes is different, so the probability of reproduction becomes extremely low.

In the end, the two had no choice but to keep so many sheep, 4 of each type, 8 in total, and they would slaughter any more.

There are now more than ten lambs in the sheep pen, and there are three adult sheep suitable for slaughter, two sheep and one goat.

In this weather lately, there is no need for a refrigerator. It can save electricity by killing the sheep and throwing them in an outdoor freezer. The two of them decided to take advantage of these two days and get rid of the sheep at home since they couldn't go out anyway.

The butcher's knife has been used several times and is a little dull. It needs to be sharpened first.

Mu Xi squatted by the well sharpening his knife, "To kill all three sheep, should I kill one or two first?"

"I'll go see if I can let it go."

Zhao Yeqing turned around and ran towards the yard. Open the freezer to see how much space is left inside.

Most of the pig she killed last time had been eaten. The carnivores in the family would consume more quickly. The remaining bit was the result of her deliberate control.

The remaining space in the freezer can accommodate two sheep.

He continued to run back to the kitchen window, lying on his stomach and said to Mu Xi outside: "You should be able to put it down if you squeeze it from three ends, and it will definitely be fine with two ends."

"Then just kill two heads first. The meat won't taste that good if it's been frozen for a long time."

The temperature now is not bad, about minus 20 degrees, and frozen meat will not suffer from frostbite. In the previous temperatures of minus 6 to 70 degrees, the freshly slaughtered pigs turned white within two days after being thrown into the freezer.

Zhao Yeqing still smiled and said to Mu Xi: "How about we go into the refrigerator. The refrigerator has a freezing temperature of 4 or 5 degrees and a freezing temperature of minus 18 degrees. No matter what, it will be warmer than outside."

It's about minus 20 degrees now, which is about the same as the minus 18 degrees in the refrigerator and freezer.

After sharpening their knives, the two went to the basement. If conditions allowed, it would be better to slaughter the sheep on the ground for easier cleaning. However, the temperature outside was too low, and the two were worried about what would happen to the sheep if it screamed too miserably. Predators are attracted.

After slaughtering the sheep, a lot of blood inevitably fell on the ground. The ventilation in the basement was not that good after all. Zhao Yeqing was afraid of attracting insects, so he shoveled up the blood-stained soil, took it to the ground, and replaced it with clean soil. .

The sheep have just been slaughtered, and the traditional water mutton and roast mutton will not be missing.

The two cats were eating and drinking at home, and after eating a sheep with their four dogs...

The winter that lasted for a year is finally over.