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

The pork knuckle was stewed in the pressure cooker until it was so soft that he couldn't pick it up with chopsticks. Mu Xi went to the cupboard and got a porcelain spoon. He used the chopsticks and spoon together to put a piece of pork knuckle into Zhao Yeqing's bowl.

The red soup on the pork knuckle soaked into the rice. Zhao Yeqing wrapped all the sauce on the rice before pulling the pork knuckle steak into his mouth.

The pork knuckle is very soft and melts in your mouth as soon as you take a sip. It is not greasy at all when paired with the sweet, sour and spicy sauce. Unfortunately, it is just the beginning of spring, and the crops grown at home are limited, otherwise it can be paired with some purple knuckles. Su will taste better.

When Zhao Yeqing's pig's trotters came out of the pot, several dogs were drooling and sticking out their tongues next to them. However, the fish-flavored pork knuckles mixed with sauce were too salty and not suitable for feeding dogs. She had already specially helped the dogs while marinating them. We stewed some pork leg.

This marinade has a light salty taste. Chop the stewed meat, mix it with a spoonful of soup, and mix it with rice to feed them. The dogs had been eating fish every day for the past few days, but suddenly they changed it to pork. I finished the food in the rice bowl in no time.

There isn't much staple food left at home, and I rarely feed the dogs recently, only once or twice a week. I can't bear to part with the staple food, but they are never short of meat.

But when they could start planting rice seedlings in the rice field, they found that their dog didn't like to eat much anymore, and even didn't eat much pork.

As usual, the rice fields are soaked in water before transplanting, and the rice seedlings are not transplanted until the soil in the field becomes soft.

When the two discovered it, it was the first day of rice transplanting. They were too busy with the work at hand to take care of the dogs. It took them two days to plant all the rice seedlings before they went to graze them. It depends on what the dogs are like.

The reason why Zhao Yeqing was so relieved to wait until the rice seedlings were planted before checking on the dogs was because she found that the dogs seemed not to be eating because they were sick but because they were full.

It was normal to be full in one day. After all, Rhubarb and the others would catch some rabbits on the meadow from time to time for teething ceremonies, but their stomachs were full for two or three days in a row, which was a little different from before.

Is it possible that the hunting skills of these paparazzi have improved and they can catch good things every day?

The two of them followed over after planting the rice seedlings. They didn't find anything wrong all morning, but when they came back for dinner at noon and went to see it again in the afternoon, they discovered something was wrong.

There was obviously blood on the mouths of Xiaohua and Xiaohuang, and Dahuang and Xiaohei were not near the sheep.

The two looked at each other, and Zhao Yeqing said, "Have you gone hunting?"

After staying there for a while, they saw Da Huang and Xiao Hei chasing a gray rabbit running from a distance. Da Huang pounced and bit the rabbit on the back.

The movements were very fast, running, jumping and flying in one go. It looked no worse than the wolves and jackals the two of them had encountered before.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but clap his hands and cheered on the spot. When the two came back after eating, the fur around their mouths were all red.

"No wonder you two don't like to eat when you go home recently. It's me, why are you so good at eating outside?" After saying that, he didn't forget to give the two of them a hard slap on the head.

But then I thought something was wrong. Why haven't I seen many rabbits that are so good at catching rabbits before? Could it be that rabbits have become stupid after this winter?

Zhao Yeqing asked his doubts, and an idea flashed in Mu Xi's mind, and he suddenly thought of something from the past.

"Do you still remember that there were previous rodent eradication activities in the farmland at the foot of the mountain?"

Zhao Yeqing was stunned by this meaningless sentence, and then he responded: "When I was a child, the cadres in the town and village were killing more and more rats at the foot of the mountain?"

"That's the one."

It was impossible for her to not remember this matter. There was a big fuss in the nearby villages at that time, and the grandparents at home talked about it many times.

What I’m talking about is that during that time, nearby villages reported that a lot of crops in the fields had been eaten by rats, and they wanted officials from the villages and towns to come down and help eradicate the rats. Because the feedback took too long, the town finally brought cadres to do it. A large-scale rat eradication campaign.

It looked very effective at the time. I didn’t see any mice for a long time. I spent two seasons peacefully. I successfully completed the autumn harvest and passed the winter again. But who knew that when spring came, there would be more mice than before. .

The people in the village had no choice but to rush to the town to seek help in the hope of getting rid of the rats. After all, it was heartbreaking to see the crops that had just been planted in the spring being eaten by rats in just a few days.

This happened to more than one village. The same situation occurred in several villages where the town came down to help exterminate rats. The town had no choice but to come down and help exterminate rats again.

But I didn’t expect that this time it would only last for two seasons. As soon as spring and summer passed, and when the grain was being prepared for harvest, the rat plague broke out again, which was more serious than the previous two times.

That year almost all the nearby villages were deprived of food. The town had no choice but to go to the city and province to invite experts to help solve the problem.

After an investigation, experts determined that the cause was due to unclean rodent control. This situation has also occurred in many areas.

This situation occurs when rat poison is released on a large scale, but due to lack of experience, the rat eradication rate is less than 75%. The remaining rats are basically strong rats with better genes, because this rat eradication activity has led to the decline of their population. Collapse', and when the remaining rats notice it, they will start breeding like crazy.

Rats have bicornuate uteruses, and they can give birth to a large number of babies in one litter. The consequence of the crazy breeding of strong rats with good genes is that the number of rats is greater than before the eradication of rats, and it is more difficult to eliminate them.

Finally, after experts were invited to eliminate rats again in a more comprehensive and effective way, there was finally no more rat infestation the following year, and a lot of subsidies were given to farmers that year, so there was no bigger trouble.

Of course she remembered that people from all over the country were victims of this incident.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yeqing knew what Mu Xi was talking about: "You mean, too many rabbits died or were captured in winter, causing the existing rabbits to breed crazily?"

Mu Xi: "I'm not sure, it's just a guess. I need to go to the meadow to see the specific situation."

Rabbits are also very fertile. The two of them have raised so many before, so they understand the reproductive ability of this animal. If this happens wildly, it will have a huge impact on the meadow.

Mu Xi was wandering around to check, while Zhao Yeqing rode on Xiao Hong and ran to a farther place to have another look.

The two of them went home from afternoon to evening. Rabbits are very alert. It would be impossible to see a bunch of rabbits directly on the grass. They would all hide when they heard the slightest movement.

It can only be inferred from the gnawing of vegetation on the meadow, and looking for traces of rabbit activity, including rabbit nests and rabbit droppings.

Neither of them are professionals, but from observation, a lot of vegetation on the meadow is indeed consumed, and some places are bald. At this rate, unless the deer or rabbits continue to develop deeper into the meadow, it will The meadow on their side is easily eaten up.

If this area is depleted and their sheep have nothing to eat, those animals might come over and steal their crops.