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

Mu Xi had already fed them a meal of half-cooked rice after he found them breaking out of their shells.

Half-cooked rice helps digestion of ducklings that have just broken out of their shells. They need to be fed for about three days in a row before feeding other foods.

When Mu Xi got up, the duck feed had already been cooked. Zhao Yeqing blew the half-cooked rice to cool down before taking it to the original owner's house and opening the partition of the incubator.

Several little ducks were originally sleeping together, but when they heard the noise, they hurriedly hid in the corner.

Now Zhao Yeqing could see clearly. The four little ducks were yellow and black, with black backs and yellow bellies. The fluffy little balls were particularly cute.

Zhao Yeqing placed the small box containing warm water and rice in the incubator. He resisted the urge to reach out and touch them for fear of scaring them. He took another look before reluctantly closing the door.

The duck's down is very thin and easy to touch at first glance.

After feeding the ones in the incubator, I went to feed the ones in the chicken coop.

The little duck in the chicken coop seems to regard the hen as its mother and has been hiding under the hen's belly.

Feeding is a bit difficult now. If you put it in the chicken coop, other chickens will definitely grab all the feed.

I could only ruthlessly reach out and grab the ducklings from under the hen's belly.

The duck he caught quacked miserably, but Zhao Yeqing also fulfilled his wish to pet the duck.

Put a few ducks into an incubator so that ten ducks can stay together for easier management.

Zhao Yeqing finished feeding the ducks, and Mu Xi also finished feeding the pigs.

The sweet potato vines have grown more lush recently, which has greatly eased the pig food supply, but it is not enough to feed them every day. From time to time, I still have to cut some pig grass and bring it back.

After breakfast, Zhao Yeqing ran back to the house and dug out the previous book, trying to find the breed of duck.

Gray back and yellow belly, this feature is actually not obvious. Zhao Yeqing looked around at the pictures and text descriptions in the book and found that many ducks have this feature.

We can only give up and wait until they grow up.

Now there is no need for the dogs to go out to hunt rabbits, and Zhao Yeqing no longer has to go out to graze with them. He only needs to let the dogs take the cattle and sheep out, and he can finally take care of the vegetable garden and grain fields at home.

Mu Xi had only weeded the past two days, so he could rest during these two days. Since there was nothing to do, he took out the stone mill again and started grinding beans to make tofu.

Mu Xi turned the stone mill, and Zhao Yeqing put soaked beans into the holes of the stone mill. After grinding, Zhao Yeqing walked around the field with a bowl of freshly baked bean sprouts and ate them.

I don’t know if the ecology is gradually getting better, but there are more insects in the fields than before. They are not pests, but occasionally she will see some crawling in the fields that she has never seen before.

Now the wheat seedlings have grown to above the knees, and the corn has come up from behind, a little taller than it.

When the rapeseed fields were fresh and tender, Zhao Yeqing wandered around, planning to pick some and cook them in soup tonight.

The grass that matures the fastest is definitely the first round of harvesting in more than ten days. However, the beehives placed next to the pasture have not moved yet.

Zhao Yeqing finished drinking the bean curd and planned to go back and fill a bowl again. When he was passing by the rice field, he saw something black inside.

She stopped and took a closer look. Wasn't this the snails she had discovered the year before and never appeared again?

Zhao Yeqing placed the bowl on the edge of the field and started looking for snails around the field. As he walked around, he found that there were quite a few.

This is still done openly. It is estimated that when some snail traps are placed, the number of snails picked up will be more.

Zhao Yeqing didn't rush to fish it out. He took the bowl home and told Mu Xi about it.

In the evening, the two took a small bamboo basket, put some vegetables in it, and placed it in the paddy field in the area where the snails were seen.

Before dawn the next day, Zhao Yeqing ran to the edge of the field to take a look. He turned on his flashlight and saw green and black snails inside.

This snail will be attracted to the green vegetables in the basket when it is still dark, and may run out when it gets light. You have to take advantage of this time to harvest, so as to gain the most.

In addition to the basket, Zhao Yeqing also searched carefully on the rice poles with a light on. When it was dark, the snails would climb up the rice poles and rest on them.

She picked all the snails near the edge of the paddy field, and in the middle of the paddy field, she directed Mu Xi, who was wearing rain boots, to go down to the field to catch them.

After harvesting a whole basket of snails in the morning, Zhao Yeqing smiled so hard that she finally got the snail noodles she had been waiting for.

It's a pity that there are only field snails but not stone snails, so the flavor of the soup will still be a bit inferior.

The meat of field snails is thick and plump, and it is very delicious when fried, but in terms of aroma, stone snails are better.

When Mu Xi saw there were so many field snails, he went to the fish pond and looked for them with a light to see if there were any stone snails inside.

After looking for a long time, I still found nothing. It may be that their fish pond is a little too deep and there are no stones beside it. Stone snails usually live on the stones.

Zhao Yeqing said: "How about we go look for it in the stream and maybe we can touch it."

Now that there are so many snails, she can't believe that there are no stone snails in the stream. Anyway, eating the snails doesn't happen for a while. They have to be soaked in clean water and spit out sand. After spitting out the sand, they can be fried. .

Zhao Yeqing poured a basket of snails into a basin, added well water, and then added a few drops of oil to help speed up sand vomiting.

After cooking breakfast, it was just dawn. After eating and packing their things, the two of them walked into the mountains and walked along the waterway that led the water source to the fish pond until they found a stream.

This side is also the place where the two of them dug wild kudzu and picked snow sweet potatoes. This forest is between the birch forest and the pine forest. The terrain is relatively gentle and the view is relatively wide. The two of them moved separately. One person went upstream along the stream, and the other Find it downstream along the stream.

The upstream was to the north and the downstream was to the south. Mu Xi found nothing all the way to the north. On the contrary, Zhao Yeqing made a lot of gains in the warmer, humid and moss-covered lower reaches.

The water became turbid as he went down. Zhao Yeqing saw that the water passed through a water channel that seemed to have just collapsed. The fresh soil was washed away by the water, causing the water flowing back from there to be yellow.

A small puddle appeared at the location of the collapse, only about two or three square meters in size. A lot of stones fell nearby, and the stones were covered with moss and stone snails.

Zhao Yeqing squatted on the ground happily and picked off all the small stone snails attached to it.