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

He must be vindictive, but Zhao Yeqing didn't really hurt the little elephant, so he shouldn't be in trouble.

Zhao Yeqing still stayed at home honestly for several days without going out, for fear that the elephants would smell the smell and come to his door.

Fortunately, the weather was calm for several days, so Zhao Yeqing climbed to the top of a hill near his home and looked into the distance to see if there were any elephants on the meadow.

The meadow near my home is still the same as before. From a distance, you can see the soft pasture blown into waves by the wind. There are deer and rabbits on the meadow, but not a single elephant.

It was as if the elephant she saw a few days ago was a hallucination.

Is it possible that he really followed the large army?

Soon there were so many things going on at home that Zhao Yeqing had no time to think about the elephant group.

It has rained several times recently. I don’t know where the mushroom spores came from and fell into the yard of my house. I woke up one night and there were little mushrooms everywhere in the corners and cracks of the front yard, the backyard, the grass, the greenhouse in the yard, the vegetable garden outside, and the grain field. .

As soon as Zhao Yeqing got up and looked at these densely packed little mushrooms, he felt dizzy for a while. After they washed up and had breakfast, they started pulling mushrooms in full swing.

These mushrooms are not just one kind, they are found everywhere in various colors. One look at the appearance shows that each one is not a good thing.

The two wore gloves and masks for fear of being infected accidentally.

After working on it all morning, the mushrooms at my feet have piled up with small tips. These cannot be thrown away casually. If they are thrown nearby and crushed into the soil, if there are already spores on them, they will continue to grow.

You can't burn it either, you can only take it farther into the woods and throw it away.

Mu Xi put all the small mushrooms on the ground into a plastic pot, filled most of the pot, and said to Zhao Yeqing: "Don't do it now, take a rest after lunch, and do as much as you can in the afternoon. Anyway, they will grow again tomorrow morning." new."

This mushroom has grown so much that the number of spores blown over must be quite large. Not all the spores will grow out in one day, and some of the spores in the soil may not emerge until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

But you can't wait until the day after tomorrow to pull them out together. If you encounter a fast-growing mushroom variety, if you don't pull out today's mushrooms, they may have matured and sprayed out new spores the day after tomorrow, and it will be even more troublesome by then.

Zhao Yeqing stood up, took off his gloves and kneaded his sore neck, "Don't throw away the ones in the basin yet. We can throw them away together after the plucking in the afternoon."

It took three days to pull out all the mushrooms. Most of them were near my home. After all, the two of them often walked around and stepped on them. The surrounding grass grew sparsely, and the exposed land was just enough for the mushroom spores to grow. .

The mushroom house where oyster mushrooms were grown before was made of wood. The spores drifted to the wooden walls of the house, and small mushrooms sprouted from the walls.

Mu Xi took the plucked mushrooms down the slope where he used to make charcoal and threw them away.

When the polar night ended, the first place the two went to was the small slope over there. The shrubs and saplings that had dried up and died have now grown branches and leaves again, and they are so lush that you can't see the depression before.

It’s just that the previously dominant shrubs were suppressed by ferns, and various vines were also clinging to the trees. Hanging from the branches, the small slope with no tall trees blocking the open view was blocked to the point that it could only be seen through the gaps. To a corner of sunshine.

In this corner, the sunlight shines down from between the leaves, bringing with it the soft green of the leaves, making this small slope even the exposed soil appear green.

The mushrooms were just thrown at the bottom of the slope, and Mu Xi was not worried that these mushrooms would grow and overrun here.

It can never compete with these vines and ferns.

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Thanks to the current weather, the most important watering work in summer has been omitted, which means that many of the crops grown have yellow leaves and wilting.

"This is the root of retting."

Zhao Yeqing felt distressed and pulled out the corn seedlings that had grown taller, shook off the soil on the roots, and observed the condition of the roots. If they were completely rotten, they could only be thrown away. If symptoms first appeared and the corns were only partially rotten, they would be rescued. .

It had been some time since the seeds were sown, and Zhao Yeqing was too lazy to replant them. Fortunately, the losses were not too high.

She sometimes thinks that her good attitude may be due to the fact that when she first planted wheat in the meadow, she encountered weather of dozens of degrees below zero, resulting in no harvest of winter wheat. After that experience , even though the high temperature the year before last reduced most of the production, she did not feel uncomfortable.

Now I don't care about this loss anymore.

It can be seen that as long as the expectations are low enough, more or less will not affect the mentality.

In addition to the crops, the animals at home are also due to give birth.

Pigs are the first to react. The gestation period of wild boars is usually four months. The two of them have never delivered a pig, and there are no books on postpartum care for sows at home. When they were young, they went to join in the fun when the sows gave birth in the village. The methods of watching and delivering cattle and sheep are similar.

The two of them stayed behind the first sow when she lay down and started giving birth.

In order to prevent other pigs from causing trouble, another pregnant sow and the remaining boars were separated by logs.

After the sow's belly rose and fell, she saw the first piglet showing its head.

The newborn piglet was all wet and sticky, and the umbilical cord would automatically separate from the mother's body as soon as it was born. Mu Xi quickly wrapped the piglet's body in a bath towel and wiped off the mucus from its mouth and nose so that it could breathe normally.

Zhao Yeqing saw that the pigs at home were not too fat and thought they would not be able to give birth to many piglets, but when Mu Xi carried them out one by one, she panicked.

There was a piglet that looked like it was dead when it was born. Mu Xi picked it up and slapped the piglet on the chest several times, and then let it go until the piglet resumed breathing.

Six piglets were born in one litter. Mu Xi looked at Zhao Yeqing with a dull expression on his face, as if he was asking, "How can I afford to raise this?" He could only comfort him: "Actually, according to normal values, six piglets are already considered a small number. Well, domestic pigs that can give birth need to have twenty pigs in one litter, and there are usually more than ten pigs."

Zhao Yeqing: .....Thank you, I was comforted.

But these are just the piglets of a pig, and there is a sow that has not yet given birth. According to Mu Xi, if that one performs normally and gives birth to more than a dozen piglets in her lifetime, don’t blame her for being cruel. Starting from next month, every piglet will be born. A roast suckling pig on Monday.

It is important to keep the piglets warm and hygienic after they are born. The two of them cleaned the area where the sows and piglets that had just given birth lived, and covered it with straw that was newly collected this year.

The temperature in this weather is neither too high nor too low, and the piglets need to be prevented from heat stroke. An ice basin that has not been used for a long time is placed in the pig pen to help cool down.

"Go to the tourist area another day and look for the kind of ceiling fan that falls on the ceiling. Bring one back and put it in the pig pen to cool them down."