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

Those bugs are so pervasive that the two of them will plug up small gaps with something or use cement paste every time they find them. But those little bugs can always find small gaps that they can't see and get in, making it impossible to prevent them.

The mint is growing very well this year. It has grown from a small plant to a small mint tree. The height is as high as her knees. The crown is quite large, probably about 20 to 30 centimeters.

There are more than one mint trees growing so well, which are just enough for her to extract the essential oil that repels spiders.

Spray on the eaves and near the window frames.

It's hard to say for other insects, but it's quite effective against spiders.

Zhao Yeqing was not afraid of small spiders with normal colors, but he was afraid of those with super bright colors, or those that were very big and hairy.

The last time she saw a spider in the woods, it was bigger than her open palm, and there were black hairs all over her body. Mu Xi's description was that at that moment, she felt as if she had seen a ghost, and her face turned pale. .

From that time on, Zhao Yeqing rarely went to the woods, and Mu Xi also rarely went there, unless they had to get materials. At other times, the two of them would take care of the vegetable garden and livestock shed at home.

After such a long period of time, the two of them were finally able to figure out some of the current characteristics of climate change, and knew when it might rain and when it would be sunny.

It is difficult to use common sense to infer that seeing dark clouds accumulating may mean it is raining. Now there may be no clouds, and it is obviously sunny, but the light rain is falling.

After finally waiting for a long sunny day, the two spent two days harvesting and threshing the rice, and another three days drying the rice.

It is rare that there has been no rain in recent days. Compared with the previous high temperature weather, the rice was dried in one day. It took three times as long to dry the rice in the last half day. It rained lightly.

The two took the rice into the drying room and dried it for a while before putting it into an aluminum bucket.

Some of it was left to beat new rice.

The family has been out of rice for a month. In the past month, the two of them have basically been eating pasta or corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes as their staple food. Now they can finally eat the rice that Zhao Yeqing has talked about countless times.

"Look at the temperature, which is currently at the highest temperature of 36 or 7 degrees Celsius. It is neither rising nor falling. Do you think we should still do autumn sowing?"

While Zhao Yeqing was speaking, she was still spinning the fan in her hand, and the rice bran was blown from the outlet to the ground. The roaring sound was not very clear to Mu Xi. She repeated it again, and Mu Xi finally heard it clearly.

"I think we can give it a try. Instead of growing rice, we will plant corn and wheat. If the weather gets really cold then, corn will be harvested as silage. Wheat is more resistant to cold and will definitely not be harvested."

In fact, the inventory at home is enough to feed two people for more than half a year. However, after experiencing the long polar night last year and almost running out of food, I still have lingering fears.

"Okay, let's try to see how your planter 5.0 works in practice."

Currently, only rapeseed is left in the grain fields and has not yet been harvested. All other fields have been harvested. The weeds in the wheat and corn fields are already calf-high at the earliest.

If the two of them wanted to plant, they had to clear the land first. This year, with guaranteed food rations, Zhao Yeqing, who mainly followed his own will, clapped his hands together:

"The corn fields have been cleared, and the wheat will be planted in the rice fields to avoid the trouble of having to weed again. Didn't I say before that we don't want to plant monocultures? It just gives the land a change."

In the past, Zhao Yeqing would have definitely cleared away the weeds that robbed the land of nutrients for next year's harvest.

Now she no longer wants to have such high demands on herself. She just needs to eat enough. As for the wheat field full of weeds, if one day she really can't stand it any more, just throw two sheep in and maybe it will be cleared up.

perfect.

The task of clearing the cornfield was left to Mu Xi, and Zhao Yeqing drove the oxen and the iron plow to slowly turn over the rice field.

The weather now rains from time to time, and the soil is not dry. It is easy to plow. In less than half a day, a large piece of land was plowed, sprinkled with lime and left to dry for two days.

Zhao Yeqing was particularly serious about spreading lime this time. It was more necessary to sterilize and kill the land than before.

The adaptation of the crops that have been saved to the environment basically remains in the previous climate, and it is not known whether the crops sown this time can adapt to the current high-humidity and hot environment.

The spring-sown crops have basically not lost production and have increased compared to the previous two years. This is mainly because the climate at the beginning of this year was relatively mild and the crops gradually adapted to the high-humidity environment. This is why they were lucky enough to not encounter any pests or diseases.

Zhao Yeqing did not use the seeds saved from the previous two years, but was preparing to sow this year's newly harvested wheat and corn seeds, hoping that the seeds would be able to adapt to the current climate like their mother plants.

After the land is sterilized, freshly decomposed manure is spread on it and tilled again before it is ready for sowing.

Version 5.0 of the seeder has added a lot of small designs, including a forward-moving wheel in the front, a suppressing wheel and a soil covering device in the back, which can be used to complete the soil covering work after the seeds are sown in the front.

When the front wheel rotates, it drives the axis inside to roll. When rolling, the seeds will fall into the ground along the seed outlet according to the adjusted size of the seed outlet.

It’s almost like this, but it’s not completely consistent. Please refer to the text (picture source from the Internet)

Zhao Yeqing put the wheat seeds inside and pushed them forward. He turned around and checked the sowing situation all the way. He found that the sowing rate was basically above 90%. Occasionally, empty sowing would occur, and reseeding may need to be done later.

However, this amount is much faster than manually bending down to sow seeds. It took Zhao Yeqing less than two hours to push this machine to plant an entire field of wheat.

Before doing this, it would have taken both of us a whole day to farm, and we would be so tired that our backs ached.

The soil is relatively moist now. If you push the seeder roller forward for more than 20 minutes, the soil will get stuck on the wheel. You have to clean off the soil before you can continue working.

If it weren't for this reason, the sowing speed would be even faster.

Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with this machine. According to the current working efficiency of this tool, she can plant five acres of land a day by herself!

Otherwise, the use of tools is a sign of the progress of human civilization.

It took Mu Xi less than two hours with the seeder to sow all the corn.

"It's okay, but the wheels don't move very well. I'll go to the tourist area tomorrow to get some old tire materials and come back to modify it."