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

On a hot and sleepy morning, what you eat for breakfast has a great impact on your mood for the day. Mu Xi's breakfast today is very suitable for Zhao Yeqing. It is already nearly 10 o'clock, and a big bowl of noodles will probably not even be needed for lunch. have eaten.

After the two of them were full, they had to take care of the animals at home.

Feed the dogs at home first, let them take the cattle and sheep out to graze first, open the stable and let Xiaohong graze on the grass outside the yard, and then feed the chickens, ducks and pigs.

You need to pay special attention to pig food. Now the sow at home is pregnant.

Pregnant sows and boars have different feeds and need to be supplemented with more nutrients. Pig feeds also include corn, vegetables, bran and other high-protein and high-fiber feeds.

When I watched the live broadcast online, I saw some pig farmers feeding their pigs watermelons, but their pigs did not get this treatment. The watermelons that Zhao Yeqing planted this year have not yet produced results.

In fact, based on the time of sowing the watermelons, they should be ready to eat by now. However, because the weather humidity is too high, the watermelon seedlings have been infected with several diseases. The watermelon seedlings cannot be prevented and can only be pulled out and replanted, so they have only just bloomed now.

Whether they will be able to eat watermelon this summer is still up in the air, but don’t even think about pigs.

After feeding the pig, Zhao Yeqing's forehead was covered with sweat. He walked to the kitchen and took a sweet stick, peeled it and broke it in half. He handed half of it to Mu Xi, "Just now I saw two more sticks on the wall in the backyard. Gecko, don’t forget to catch it later.”

Gecko is also a traditional Chinese medicinal material, but Zhao Yeqing does not want to use it for medicine, but wants to put it in the livestock shed at home.

In this weather, there are a lot more flies in the barn than before. Even if the two of them clean the feces in the shed every day, they still can't stop their reproduction speed.

The gecko eats flies, and if it can help suppress it, it can save the two of them a lot of time.

There is not much work to do today. The ramie harvested previously has been soaked and left to dry for a whole morning. After drying, I went to the room and twisted the hemp rope while blowing the fan.

"It would be great if our wool could be turned into wool thread by rubbing it like this."

Mu Xi recalled: "I remember that wool was made using a thread-winding machine. It looked a bit like a simple version of a sewing machine, but I don't know how it works."

Zhao Yeqing didn't expect it to be possible, so he just sighed casually when he heard Mu Xi mention the machine, "I remember you said you wanted to make a seeder."

Mu Xi clicked his tongue, "Fortunately, you reminded me, otherwise I would have forgotten."

Putting down the ramie in his hand, he took a pen and paper from the table. He was not very good at drawing. After drawing several times, it didn't look like a three-dimensional thing, and the lines were crooked.

Zhao Yeqing put the ramie in his hand and said, "Okay, I'll do it. Just tell me the principle."

It is still necessary to make a seeder. The weather is not hot this year, so maybe we can prepare for autumn sowing.

The drawing was finalized after the third pass, and the materials used were simple. I didn’t know if it would be possible to make it with bamboo first.

Bamboo likes the current humid and warm climate best. The bamboo forest near the path down the mountain is growing extremely vigorously. Most of the bamboo forest that was originally frozen and crushed by the snow has become more lush than in previous years in just six months.

I have also accumulated a lot of bamboo poles at home, so I can use them directly without having to dig them in the forest.

Mu Xi was chopping bamboo pieces, thinking of the current climate, and said, "I don't know if this winter will be that cold again. If the current climate can continue into winter like a normal tropical rainforest, then we will be better off. "

In a normal tropical rain forest, the lowest temperature in winter is only around 20 degrees, and the climate is very warm all year round.

Zhao Yeqing had already rubbed a large bundle of ropes. He had to take a break from time to time, otherwise his hands would blister. He rubbed his red palms, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

Mu Xi: "I was thinking that since we use a lot of bamboo and we have to travel so far to see it every time, why not dig some and plant them outside the wall of our backyard. Anyway, this thing will grow quickly and be edible. Bamboo shoots, and bamboo can be used.”

This is a good idea. Bamboo can grow more than one meter in a night. If it can be planted near home, it can be cut down when needed.

"I think it's okay. No matter whether the winter is cold or not, I'll plant it first. If the winter is too cold and it freezes to death, I can just dig it out and plant it in the spring next year. It just needs to be farther away from the courtyard wall to avoid snakes. Bamboo shoots crawl in."

The two chatted and worked very efficiently. When Gouzi came back with the sheep, the seeder 1.0 was already online.

Mu Xi put a handful of corn inside and tried to roll the wheel below. The seed outlet was made into three gears, separated by a small piece of bamboo. The lower the gear, the smaller the gap, which is suitable for sowing small grains of crop seeds. .

The corn kernels were considered large, so Mu Xi adjusted the gear to the highest level and pushed the seeder forward. As the rollers moved, the seeds would come out. Sometimes one would come out, and sometimes not. It was very difficult. Unstable.

Zhao Yeqing put down the hemp rope in his hand and came to help to find out what went wrong.

"Try smoothing the bamboo pieces around the edge of the seed outlet. It may be because there are some rough spots here that have too much friction and prevent the seeds from falling out."

Mu Xi used sandpaper to polish the edges of the bamboo pieces very smoothly. After blowing off the powder on them, he reinstalled the bamboo pieces. This time, the effect of version 2.0 was much better than before. At least there were seeds almost every time. Can come out.

Zhao Yeqing took another handful of wheat and put it in to try. Mu Xi adjusted the gear to the second gear, but it seemed that the second gear was still a little too loose for it. When the wheel moved forward, the wheat seeds flew down. Lose.

The two could only start debugging again. Two days later, the seeder 5.0 came online. This time, it could finally take into account the three sizes of corn, wheat, and rice seeds.

Mu Xi's original idea was that it would be best to use this to sow seeds as small as rapeseed, but Zhao Yeqing directly rejected his idea.

"You can just sow the rapeseed directly. We don't need to make the machine so precise. It also takes a lot of time. We don't want to create demand for ourselves."

So Seeder 5.0 became the final version.

It's finally time for the rapeseed field to bloom, and the second crop of alfalfa next to it is also in full bloom at the same time.

Two flower fields competed to bloom, and the beehive placed in the middle of the two fields finally welcomed the first batch of bees this year.