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

The grass on the meadow is starting to grow, and the two's pastures are about to be sown.

The grass roots that were buried deep in the snow last year are still in the soil. It is best to dig them out in advance. After clearing them, sowing seeds will make the grass grow better.

The amount of feed at home is running low, and it is estimated that it will be enough to last for a few months. The pasture will definitely not be harvested in a month, and the livestock at home can only rely on the grass on the meadow to fill their stomachs.

Heavy snowfall and polar night have caused everything on the meadow to wither. Now it has just regained its vitality. All the herbivores have come out in full force. Whether it is vegetation in the forest or meadow, the number of leaves that can be grown for animals to eat is now very limited. .

Zhao Yeqing estimated that both the woods and meadows would be bare for a long time this year. At least the ground and shorter plants near the ground would have been eaten clean.

I hope this summer will come slower this year, otherwise these eaten grass blades will be forced back by the high temperature before they can grow.

Whether it is human civilization or the natural environment, after suffering a heavy blow, it will take a long time to recuperate before returning to normal. If this summer or winter is like last year, I don’t know how many animals will be destroyed next year. starve.

Compared with humans, animals that rely on natural resources to survive rely more on the weather. They can rely on their accumulated experience to adjust the methods and times of sowing and planting, and crop maintenance, and use various means to support themselves.

But the same cannot be said for those animals.

Now it's not that they worry about wild animals when they can't protect themselves, but they rely on this meadow and mountains for their lives. In such an environment, if the vegetation decreases, then the number of herbivores will decrease. It will also be reduced accordingly.

As the number of herbivores decreases, the food sources for carnivores will gradually decrease. Eventually, the group of beasts without food will choose to extend their claws to them at the risk of being shot.

Human beings are at the top of the food chain, but they are also a link in the food chain. Once the food chain is broken somewhere, no one can survive alone.

After the two of them finish their work, the grass circle on the meadow still needs to be sown, and the grass seeds on the original meadow and the highland barley wheat field will also have to be sown with grass seeds.

The two of them didn't know if the things they did had any effect, they could only say they were doing their best.

Cleaning up the pasture is not that simple. The grass roots that are deeply rooted in the soil have to be dug out one by one, and the soil above the dug grass roots has to be shaken off.

No pre-cultivation work was done on these two pieces of land, and deep plowing was required after weeding.

Just like grain, you can sow after spreading lime and base fertilizer. Fortunately, the sowing method is the same as sowing rape, and you don't need to bend down to sow holes.

The two pastures were cleared, and after Mu Xi had spread all the base fertilizer, Zhao Yeqing approached the pasture after seeing that the manure would not be affected. He squatted down and put the grass roots piled by the two people on the edge of the field into a basket, intending to throw them elsewhere. go.

Squatting down and picking up grass roots, she caught a glimpse of a small green seedling growing in the corner of the fish pond next to her.

"what?"

Zhao Yeqing moved forward two steps while still squatting on the ground, lowered his head to observe the green seedlings with small leaves, and raised his voice and shouted:

"Mu Xi! Come here and see if this is a grape seedling?"

Mu Xi hurriedly walked out of the yard after hearing this. After the snow melted some time ago, the meadow was wet everywhere. The nearby streams broke ice and the snow water poured into the streams and waterways, causing the surface of the land near the water sources on the meadow to be wet. A watery patch.

The two planned to open the previous water channel in a few days and put the bamboo water channel collected before winter back to its original place to let the water flow into the fish pond.

So he couldn't wash his hands next to the fish pond after applying fertilizer, so he had to go back to the yard to wash his hands. As soon as he finished washing his hands, he heard Zhao Yeqing's cry.

Shaking the water in his hand, he walked over and lowered his body to look: "It's grapes. The cold tolerance of grapes is neither very good nor weak. Although the previous vines are dead, the roots underneath may still grow saplings again. It's also possible It was the grape seeds that fell into the ground last year that sprouted.”

This made Zhao Yeqing a little surprised. She thought that the grapes could not be saved, "But the grape trellis collapsed due to the weight of the snow. We will build another one for it when it grows up. Now let's get a stick and let it climb slowly." "

There were a lot of small bamboo poles left at home, about the thickness of a thumb. The two of them found one and inserted it into the soil next to the seedling. Zhao Yeqing carefully avoided the roots of the young seedling and gently moved towards it. Insert it downward to ensure that the young seedlings can slowly climb up the bamboo pole without damaging the root system.

Mu Xi looked at the fish pond filled with snow water and asked, "Will we still raise fish this year?"

"Of course I have to raise them." Zhao Yeqing nodded matter-of-factly, "If you have some vegetable leaves that you can't finish or when you feed the chickens, just sprinkle some corn kernels on them and you can feed them. It's so easy to raise them, so of course you have to raise them."

This is not to say that fish farming itself is very simple. If you are engaged in the breeding industry, you have to spend a lot of money on site labor or fry feed. If you get sick or get sick easily, you will have to bear a lot of risks.

But it’s okay for them. The fish are caught from the lake for free. The feed for the fish is also some scraps or when feeding the chickens. It costs almost zero. If you accidentally raise it to death, you can fish it in the lake again. Just throw it in and let it go.

The water used is also of the same quality as the lake. When you want to eat fish, it is very convenient to fish one directly from the fish pond without having to go all the way to the lake.

Zhao Yeqing doesn't mind spending so much time and energy raising a pond of fish. After all, raising fish is not like farming. Fish raising does not require KPIs. Everything will become very hard once it is linked to KPIs. Without the pressure of KPIs, nothing can be done. Be happy.

Zhao Yeqing suddenly thought that he returned to Meishan just to get rid of work and embrace nature. Even if he occasionally grew vegetables and raised chickens and ducks, it was just for his own entertainment. He never expected that he would become a farmer by experiencing a farmer.

When I think about it, I feel that I am lucky but also a little bit sad.

The two returned to the house and counted the number of grass seeds. It was easier to save grass seeds than to save fruits, vegetables and grains. Each mature grass plant produced a considerable number of grass seeds, and it did not take long. .

The two of them had accumulated a lot of pasture seeds and planned to take some of each to sow seeds in the meadow.