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

The three-layer aluminum bucket was filled with one and a half layers of wheat. In order to free up the aluminum bucket, while Mu Xi was grinding the remaining corn, Zhao Yeqing took out the husker to peel the wheat, intending to remove the half layer of wheat. Grind into flour.

It took Mu Xi another day to grind the corn. The corn kernels were put in sacks and placed in the hay house. The corn cobs were stacked in the space inside the brick wall. Last year they could still be stacked outside, but this year It rained too much, so I had to take everything indoors.

The rainy and humid weather is not without its benefits. At least this year, the two of them brought the preserved oyster mushroom strains to the bacterial room for planting. In just one month, all the media in the bacterial room were covered with oyster mushrooms. There is no room to grow any longer.

Zhao Yeqing ate countless meals of fried oyster mushrooms, oyster mushroom soup, stir-fried oyster mushrooms with pork belly... and so on, a series of oyster mushroom delicacies that almost hurt him.

I thought I could finally consume some of the oyster mushrooms, but within a few days, the oyster mushrooms in the mushroom room were full again, as if nothing had happened.

Zhao Yeqing never opened the door to the mushroom house again.

Love will grow as long as it takes, she can't eat anymore.

Harvesting corn, threshing, pounding wheat, grinding flour…

The two of them worked hard for seven or eight days before they finally had some time off.

Being busy is not useless. In addition to harvesting a bunch of food, Zhao Yeqing also successfully made Zhao Yeqing forget the existence of the bird's nest.

When he got up in the morning and brushed his teeth by the well, Zhao Yeqing had a habit of patrolling around the house while brushing his teeth.

Wandering around, she suddenly remembered the bird's nest she had forgotten. She walked over and took a look, but there was still no bird in it.

Ok?

Zhao Yeqing originally wanted to turn around and leave, but suddenly he found an inconspicuous brown feather in the straw bird's nest.

After holding it in my hand and identifying it for a long time, I still didn't recognize what kind of bird it was. I hurried to the well to spit out the foam in my mouth. After brushing my teeth, I ran to the kitchen to find Mu Xi.

"Mu Xi! Can you tell what kind of bird this is?"

"Found in the bird's nest?"

Mu Xi took the feather. The length of the feather was about the same as the little finger, and some small dots could be faintly seen on it.

"Could it be a sparrow?"

If you want to say which bird is the most common in the meadow, it must be the sparrow. Judging from the color of the coat, it is also very similar, but the length is slightly longer.

"Can't you?" Zhao Yeqing didn't want it to be a sparrow that would steal her food instead of helping to eat bugs. "The lamp in the backyard is near the wisteria. If it can attract the bird's nest, it should be attracted by mosquitoes. Bar."

When you turn on the lights, there are so many bugs on it, it’s like a big buffet.

Sparrows love to eat crops. Although they also eat insects, they are less able to eat small mosquitoes flying in the air. They will mostly eat grasshoppers and ants on the ground.

In order to see clearly what kind of bird it was, Zhao Yeqing moved the cameras placed next to the rice fields to face the bird's nest.

Sitting in her room and looking at the computer screen, she finally waited until nightfall for the bird that came to live in the nest.

The two deliberately turned on the lights in the backyard and clearly saw a bird more than 20 centimeters long flying into the nest.

At this glance, the two of them were sure that it was definitely not a sparrow. It was much larger than a sparrow, and its fur color was very complicated, including brown, white, black, and brown, and the patterns were very mottled.

The fur looks like a small owl, but it is definitely not an owl.

The two of them felt that they looked familiar, but they couldn't remember it for a while until they heard the very distinctive cry.

'Da da da da da da...'

There was silence in the room for a while. Neither of them knew whether to cry or laugh, and the eyes facing each other were full of complexity.

This is a nighthawk for sure.

Zhao Yeqing didn't know how to describe his luck, so he said okay, but the bird that came was a nighthawk. As long as it was in the courtship period, people who screamed like machine guns at night would not be able to sleep at all.

But it is definitely not bad luck, because this bird is the best mosquito-eating bird, and there is also a mosquito mother bird, which is very powerful in getting rid of mosquitoes.

Zhao Yeqing could only pray silently that it would find its partner quickly, so that it would no longer have to bark incessantly.

The two of them listened to the machine-gun-like chirping of birds until they finally couldn't bear it anymore at two in the morning and fell asleep.

However, the effect is quite obvious. Since Nighthawk moved in, the number of mosquitoes visible to the naked eye in the house has decreased. At least they are no longer everywhere like before when the lights are turned on on the windows.

Zhao Yeqing secretly went to the bird's nest to take a look during the day. The nighthawk slept in the bird's nest during the day. She walked lightly to the corner next to it to take care of the citrus tree.

If you want to eat oranges this year, you will definitely not be able to eat them. The citrus tree was severely damaged by the snow last year, and the branches and leaves of the entire tree need to be maintained for a year.

The condition has improved a lot since the transplant. The re-grown crown is almost as tall as her. If it grows more branches and leaves, it should be able to bear fruit next year.

The weeds on the ground also need to be cleared. In the backyard, only the grass near the corners is denser, and the weeds in the middle have almost been pecked by chickens.

If you put chickens in the backyard during the day, they will not only eat the weeds in the backyard, but also eat the mosquito carcasses that fell on the ground.

Mu Xi emerged from the greenhouse in the courtyard, cooed a few times, attracted the chickens, and threw a handful of worms to them.

Seeing Zhao Yeqing walking over to her, he said, "There have been a lot of bugs on the fruits and vegetables recently. It may be related to the increase in rainfall. See if you can get something to kill the bugs."

There are many small caterpillars and caterpillars appearing on the fruit trees. The former can be caught with your hands, but the latter are really annoying.

As climate changes, rainfall increases, and the ecology improves, the most obvious increase in mosquitoes is various moths. Before moths grow wings, they are various caterpillars.

Zhao Yeqing also has a very low tolerance for caterpillars, the type that makes goosebumps all over his body when he sees one.

But now there are no targeted pesticides that can control these insects. We can only manually pick the insects off the leaves every day.

Mu Xi was okay, he wasn't afraid of these things, but there were too many, which not only delayed his time, but also caused him to get rash if he accidentally got pricked by some caterpillars, so he had to wear thick gloves to do this work.

Zhao Yeqing returned to the room and started looking through the agricultural books that he had read countless times.

Agricultural books published in each province basically give planting suggestions and pest and disease control according to the local climate characteristics.

But now that the climate has changed a lot, she can find less useful information, and she has to explore many things by herself.

I read several books but couldn't find the key to prevention and treatment.

Just as he was about to give up, Zhao Yeqing was about to close the book when his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a cost-effective method to control all pests in the preface.