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

It was a bit risky to go to the village at the foot of the mountain at this time, but Mu Xi wanted to take the dogs with him, so there shouldn't be any problems. After all, several actual battles had proven that the fighting power of the dogs was not weak.

When the two came back from cutting wood, they analyzed the footprints they saw near the path down the mountain. The creatures moving near the path were relatively small, and no gregarious creatures were found. This can directly rule out the jackals and jackals they saw before. The wolves ran away.

The terrain of the jungle at the foot of the mountain is not favored by those ferocious carnivores who are good at running. There should be no problem if you bring four dogs with you.

There couldn't be a housekeeper in the house. Zhao Yeqing thought for a while and compared the fighting abilities of himself and the four dogs. He felt that it would be safer for Mu Xi to take the dogs with him.

It was a bit heavy to move the entire plow back. The two originally planned to go to the village below to find a wooden plow and then remove the iron plowshare from the wooden plow.

Unexpectedly, Mu Xi brought a whole plow with him when he came back, and the plow was not made of wood. I don’t know which corner he dug out a large iron plow, and forced him to carry it back.

Mu Xi lifted the plow with one hand and handed it to Zhao Yeqing: "It just looks heavy, but it's not actually heavy."

After that, he weighed it with his hands and said, "It should only weigh about 17 or 18 pounds."

Zhao Yeqing stretched out his hand and took it easily. It looked really heavy, but in fact it was not heavy. The weight of the plow was light, which made it easier to hold the plow when plowing. In comparison, the original wooden plow Much heavier.

The two of them took advantage of the fact that the ground was wet and soft, and spent the next few days plowing it out.

After the snow melts, the meadow looks bare. The withered weeds in autumn have long been pressed back into the soil. I don’t know whether it is because the weather is still too cold or because there has been no light before. This year, the meadow is not green at all. No idea.

Looking around, the entire meadow looks extremely depressed, with dust everywhere.

However, Mu Xi said that when he went down the mountain this time, he found that on both sides of the road down the mountain, on the branches that seemed to have withered when he was cutting wood, some green buds slowly emerged. He must have regained the meadow. Revitalization is also a matter of time.

One person went to the fields with an ox. The area of ​​the corn field that Mu Xi dealt with was relatively large. The area of ​​Zhao Ye Qingli's wheat field was only two-thirds of the corn field. In addition, Mu Xi gave her the newly brought iron pears. So when she finished the entire field, Mu Xi's cornfield was only half finished.

Zhao Yeqing originally wanted to work hard and take care of the rapeseed field, but it was already past noon and the two of them hadn't had lunch yet.

He asked Mu Xi to switch the iron plow to his cow, and he took the calf back to feed it some grass and made lunch by the way.

Mu Xi found that the land this year was extremely fertile, and some of the dug soil was so black that it shone brightly. The earthworms that had been hiding underground in winter were forced to come up to the ground to breathe due to the snow water flowing into the soil.

He didn't move the earthworms that were still alive, and just let them stay in the soil to help loosen the soil. If there were earthworms that were accidentally cut off by the plow, he picked them up and put them aside until Zhao Yeqing called out. When he went home for lunch, he threw the broken earthworm carcasses into the chicken coop to give the chickens extra food.

As soon as they got busy with farm work, their lunch would become very simple. Zhao Yeqing fried a lot of pancakes today and put enough eggs in them to make the pancakes turn light yellow.

"I don't know if it was too cold before. The chickens basically didn't lay any eggs during this period, but now the temperature has warmed up. We forgot to touch the eggs in the morning. I just went to touch and found more than a dozen eggs. "

After calculation, there were more eggs than hens. She picked out all the unfertilized eggs and found seven or eight.

Five eggs are beaten into the newly ground flour, and a handful of fresh green onions are sprinkled into the hot oil pan. Each cake is very thin, and it is somewhat translucent when you hold it up.

Zhao Yeqing liked the taste of onions, so she cut a sweet green onion into shreds and wrapped it in a green onion egg pancake. She thought it tasted better this way.

Mu Xi's taste in this aspect is different from hers. He thinks green onions are a bit spicy when eaten raw, unless paired with a rich sauce, similar to the sweet noodle sauce of Beijing roast duck or sour plum sauce.

About a dozen of the thin pancakes were all eaten, and the food became especially delicious after working.

After eating, Mu Xi said: "You don't have to go and prepare the lime to be spread when you leave soon. I changed the iron plow and it went very quickly. I can just plow the other areas later." . ”

Zhao Yeqing nodded in agreement: "That's okay. You plow the original peanut fields and rapeseed fields first. We'll talk about the rice fields and vegetable gardens tomorrow. We'll finish plowing these fields today and sprinkle them with lime."

When Mu Xi went to plow the fields in the afternoon, Zhao Yeqing prepared lime at home. Not every piece of the excavated limestone had been crushed. There was also a large piece that had not been crushed. After crushing all the limestone, the particles were ground into fine pieces. Sprinkle it on the ground for the best effect.

After spreading lime to disinfect, let it dry in the sun for a few days before plowing again, and then spread the base fertilizer to prepare the seeds for sowing.

The large gray-white limestone was broken into small pieces by Zhao Yeqing with a hammer, then ground into fine pieces, put into a bucket, and taken to the field to splash.

In fact, we could have plowed the rice fields and vegetable fields together today, and then splashed lime together tomorrow.

But Zhao Yeqing saw that the weather was good today, sunny and windless, so he thought about spreading lime on all the plowed planting land first. If the wind blows tomorrow, the lime will not be spread.

Whether they are splashing lime, fertilizing, or spraying pesticides on the fields, farmers generally choose to do it in clear and windless weather, so as to avoid splashing things from entering the eyes or being sprinkled on the body, and also reducing the impact on the surrounding environment. .

After tidying up the planned plots of land, the good news was that there was no wind the next day. The two of them successfully plowed the vegetable fields and rice fields and sprinkled them with lime.

Zhao Yeqing plans to re-ridge the rice and vegetable fields this year.

The two of them had dealt with the ridges and ridges formed in vegetable fields and rice fields the year before last when they were preventing voles. It was the same this year. They had to knock them out and build them again, otherwise voles would love to make nests underneath them over time.

Although the number of voles must have been greatly controlled after this winter, I am afraid that there are still mouse nests down there that have not been destroyed, and it will be troublesome for new voles to live in them directly.

After the two people flattened all the fields, Zhao Yeqing actually discovered their den.