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

With the bees moving in, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The rapeseed at home is blooming, but the wind has been relatively light recently and the rain has been frequent. The pollen of the blooming rapeseed is easily washed away by the rain, and there is no wind to help pollinate. If it continues to rain, it will be troublesome.

Now that the bee swarm has settled in, they definitely don't need to worry about pollination anymore. Mu Xi went out to dig bamboos and planted them, while Zhao Yeqing went into the fields to pick rape flowers and came back to make tonight's dinner.

The rapeseed was growing so luxuriantly that Zhao Yeqing did not dare to go deep into the field for fear that there might be a snake hidden inside.

There was no wind or rain today, and you could only smell the strong fragrance of flowers when you were close to the rapeseed field. Zhao Yeqing pinched a large handful of rapeseed flowers, only the middle part of the stem, and a second crop of rapeseed could continue to grow at the break.

The insect-bitten leaves are cleaned up at the edge of the fish pond. They can be torn off directly and thrown into the fish pond or into the snail pond without any waste.

There are more moths and butterflies now, and after the rape fields bloom, there are also more small caterpillars in them.

Some caterpillars are still small when they are born, about the thickness of a chopstick head, but within a week they will grow to be as thick as a little finger. The thickest one is about the same as an index finger, and a big green strip will stick to her rapeseed. superior.

Zhao Yeqing took the long bamboo pole to catch up the ducks that had just entered the water, and rushed directly into the rape field to eat bugs.

The ducks, who have been chased several times, have become very familiar with it. From being panicked at the beginning to being calm now, they slowly followed the direction guided by the bamboo pole to their buffet dining area.

Looking at the growing ducks, one by one becoming more and more rounded, she seemed to have not been to the lake for a long time, and she didn't know what was going on there now.

Zhao Yeqing wanted to go and have a look, but he didn't want to drive there. Every time he drove into the meadow, the animals would be scared and run around. Xiaohong was taken away by Mu Xi for a while and couldn't come back. She just I can sit bored and wait on the edge of the field.

But when she was standing still outdoors, no matter how thickly she wore it, mosquitoes would come and swoop around. She couldn't sit still anymore and ran to the back of the yard to dig a hole for the bamboo that was about to arrive home.

After waiting for two hours, Mu Xi returned home. Behind him was a pile of soiled bamboo whips on a cart dragged by Xiao Hong.

Bamboo is not like a tree. A tree is just a seed. In the soil, bamboo rhizomes spread everywhere. From the rhizomes, small bamboo shoots emerge one after another and eventually grow into bamboo.

It is also possible that a small patch of bamboo forest shares the same rhizome, and these rhizomes are bamboo whips.

The bamboo whip has bamboo shoots growing upward on one side and roots on the other side. Mu Xi searched for a long time before finding the thickest sections of the bamboo whip, and one section had small bamboo shoots on it.

"The climate now is really suitable for bamboo growth. You can't even imagine that the bamboo forest has nearly doubled in size just a few months ago."

That means that a lot of vegetation near the bamboo forest that is not adapted to the current climate has died, so the territory will be given up to the bamboo forest to continue to expand its sphere of influence.

Zhao Yeqing threw the shovel in his hand to Mu Xi, "You plant first, I want to take a look at the lake."

He got on his horse, pulled the reins and waved to Mu Xi: "Let's go. I'll be back in a moment."

Zhao Yeqing had just helped Xiaohong trim the horse's hooves the day before yesterday, and now the wind was blowing under her feet as she ran so fast that she almost lost her sunglasses.

In addition to the original herbs, many flowers that Zhao Yeqing had never seen appeared on the meadow. At first glance, they were yellow, red, and orange, and they were quite beautiful.

There are still rabbits and deer on the grass, but the deer are different from before.

The previously seen elk, white-lipped deer and other species that could only be seen in cool alpine meadows have now been banned by species such as white-tailed deer and sika deer that can appear in tropical rainforests.

The altitude near the lake is about early 2,000, and the altitude will be higher when you get closer to the tourist area. I don’t know if the climate characteristics are the same as here.

Zhao Yeqing's speed slowed down after riding into the meadow. I looked around at the changes around me. Until I reached the lake, she thought for a moment that she was in the wrong place.

The original lake was vast and silent, like a sapphire located in the mountains, surrounded by gray-yellow sand and stones, with only a few layers of withered yellow thatch in the corners.

But now it is very different.

The sapphire mirror was broken, and there were various water birds and wild ducks wandering on it. Zhao Yeqing couldn't name them for a while. The originally withered and yellow thatch has now grown into a large green area around the shore.

The water level has also increased a lot. The big rock that Zhao Yeqing always liked to lean on when fishing is now half submerged by the water level. There is also a wild duck squatting on it and taking a nap.

Various green algae plants also grew on the yellow sandy beach. Zhao Yeqing dismounted and quietly approached the shore without disturbing the animals on the lake.

Some of the grasses on the ground are frizzy and dry, and some are hairy to the touch. There are also many Selaginella growing on the larger rocks.

This fern has a history of hundreds of millions of years. It is one of the oldest plants in existence. It is extremely tenacious. When there is a lack of water, it can even pull its roots out of the soil, roll them up into a ball, and be covered with them. The wind blows to places with water and then takes root and grows.

The leaves are very similar to those of cypress trees. When there is no water, they roll up into small balls.

Image source China Natural Museum Herbarium

Zhao Yeqing picked one up and rubbed it with his fingertips. He looked around at the familiar yet unfamiliar place in front of him. He took out his phone from his pocket, turned it on, took two photos and took them home to show Mu Xi.

When he got home, Mu Xi had already planted bamboo. "Is it fun at the lake? Have you picked up any wild duck eggs?"

Zhao Yeqing handed him the reins and waited for him to tie Xiao Hong before taking out his phone and handing it over, "Where do you think this is?"

After reading this, Mu Xi turned off his phone and said, "If this continues, we can go fishing for piranhas in the water."

Zhao Yeqing rolled his eyes at him: "How can that thing be found in our country? According to your statement, there are probably crocodiles crawling in the rivers and streams at the foot of the mountain..."

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After Zhao Yeqing said this, the two couldn't help but look at each other. Piranha might be a bit ridiculous, but judging from the current world where common sense cannot be used to infer, crocodile is really not impossible.

"I guess it will be difficult to go back to Meishan in the future. Fortunately, we have moved to the meadow now. If we still live in the mountains, there will probably be only a lot more snakes, insects, rats, and ants."

Zhao Yeqing thought of the various brightly colored spiders hanging on the roadside vegetation and nearby trees when she went to look for wild vegetables on the path down the mountain a few days ago, and couldn't help but tremble.

In a rainforest climate, living in a humid place with more vegetation is more dangerous. Now that I live in a meadow, I have to clean up the spider webs on the eaves from time to time.

There are inevitably some gaps in a self-built house. Nighthawks can eat the bugs outside, but those that crawl in through the gaps can only be removed manually by two people.

Zhao Yeqing walked to the greenhouse in the courtyard and picked a handful of mint leaves to make a natural insect repellent.