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

Zhao Yeqing took the notebook over and checked that it was indeed time. "Okay, you harvest the rapeseed and I harvest the wheat."

"Go and harvest the rapeseed. The rapeseed won't scratch your hands or make your skin itch. Or let me harvest both. You can cut the sweet potato vines. Don't worry, I checked yesterday and there are no snake nests."

After harvesting sweet potatoes last time, the two of them thought that as soon as the piglets were born, the family would need more pig food. After harvesting, they raised seedlings and planted them. Sweet potatoes grow quickly, and now the sweet potato vines have covered the entire house. piece of land.

Zhao Yeqing had no objection. The piglets at home had been weaned, and she could hang them up with sweet potato vines again.

After all, the big pig is now very strong and can no longer be bullied. Every time he feeds the pig, he wants to drag her into it.

After weaning, the pigs had to be fed. When she approached with a large bundle of sweet potato vines, she could see the big mouths of the pigs waiting for feeding, their front hooves touching the fence, and their eyes shining brightly.

After feeding a large bundle of sweet potato vines, they felt like they were only about half full.

Zhao Yeqing fed the sow an extra sweet potato as a snack. After finishing the meal, he stood at the door of the pig pen with his hands on his hips. Looking at the pig pen that had just been cleaned the day before yesterday and was dirty again today, he felt dizzy.

After the number of pigs increased, they ate more and pooped more. The straw that had been replaced not long ago became very dirty again. There was not much straw left at home. The weather was humid and the hay straw bedding in the barn They are prone to mold and must be replaced frequently to ensure that livestock do not get sick.

Looking outside, Mu Xi had already harvested one-third of the wheat field. Zhao Yeqing sighed and went to help.

Mu Xi saw her coming and asked, "Didn't I tell you not to come? Don't wait until your neck and arms are itchy again at night."

"We don't have enough straw at home, and the pig pens need to be replaced again. I'm thinking that the two of us can harvest it together, and we can provide them with mats after harvesting. When the wheat is harvested, if we don't plant anything in a short period of time, we will have to mow the grass and come back. Dry it and make bedding.”

Zhao Yeqing said this with a weak voice. It was good to plant things in this weather, but the livestock were not easy to manage, and there were many mosquitoes, so he was afraid of diseases.

Mu Xi said: "Aren't we just going to let the pigs graze on the meadow when the grain is harvested? If that can be done, they can be pulled outside most of the time, just like cattle and sheep, and the cleaning pressure will be reduced." It’s reduced a lot, don’t be too anxious.”

Zhao Yeqing nodded, finally feeling a little more comfortable.

Maybe it’s because the younger days are coming soon and you have to do a lot of work every day, so sometimes you suddenly feel like you don’t want to do anything.

Mu Xi moved faster and harvested all the wheat in less than a day.

After returning home, he asked Zhao Yeqing to take a shower. After harvesting the wheat, he put it in the field and covered it with plastic sheets. He made some small cakes for her while she was taking a shower.

It is the simplest cup cake. I turned on the small oven collected from the tourist area. It has not been used since the polar night. When baking anything, it is better to go to the backyard and use a homemade oven to save energy.

When Zhao Yeqing came out of the shower, he found that the whole brick wall was filled with the aroma of baking cakes. He rubbed his hair with a towel and walked to the kitchen.

When Mu Xi saw her coming in, he put the cake in front of her and said, "Try it."

He wasn't very good at making desserts, so he only learned how to make this simple cake after watching Zhao Yeqing make it several times.

Zhao Yeqing knew that he had noticed a change in her mood. Before the cake was eaten, her mood had already been calmed down.

"What else do you want to eat? I'll do it."

Zhao Yeqing finished a cake in a few mouthfuls, and his mouth was full. He thought of the pigs in the pig pen who had no worries about eating and sleeping all day long, "I want to eat roasted suckling pig."

Roast suckling pig can't be eaten now, so it needs to be prepared in advance. Mu Xi defrosted a piece of pork belly and made her a plate of Sichuan-style salt-fried pork.

Zhao Yeqing eats deliciously. Compared to the bright red dishes in Sichuan cuisine, she prefers non-spicy Sichuan dishes like salt-fried pork, which are fragrant and go well with rice.

"Forget it, let's keep the pig for a while. I still want to eat pork tomorrow. Let's make some braised pork belly and steamed pork ribs with rice flour."

Steamed rice originated in Gan Province. Sichuan Province also makes steamed rice very good, with a slightly spicy taste, and the Shao Bai with pickles, just thinking about it makes me drool...

Zhao Yeqing added, "If you like sweet food, you can also make it sweet and white."

The sweet pork belly is served with red bean paste. At first glance, it sounds like a dark dish, but it actually melts in your mouth and is fat but not greasy.

Zhao Yeqing's preference for sweets was average and he could eat several pieces, but not more.

"It's okay, I can make both sweet and salty ones."

There were the most pork dishes, and Mu Xi tried his best to cook delicious food for Zhao Yeqing, successfully allowing her to comfortably spend a few days of physical disorder and emotional instability.

Finally, a small space was freed up in the refrigerator. Zhao Yeqing picked a watermelon, squeezed it into juice, and froze it into popsicles.

There was a bumper harvest of watermelons recently. Three large ones ripened in a row, so I took one to squeeze the juice. It was impossible to feed the watermelons to the pigs, and I could barely feed the watermelon rinds.

The pigs in the pig pen were about to fight over the watermelon rinds, which made Zhao Yeqing, who had been a bit sentimental recently, feel this and said to Mu Xi,

"You see, it's easy to be satisfied if you haven't eaten good food. If you feed me watermelon every day, I guess there will be no pigs to snatch the watermelon rind. I remember when we first came to the meadow, we were so poor at that time. We couldn't even eat some rice if we wanted to. I had to go down the mountain to find rice. At that time, I didn’t think too much about it now. Now that I have everything at home, I’m still sentimental. Do you think I’m being too pretentious?”

Mu Xi took her back to the kitchen, wiped the watermelon juice on her hands with a wet towel, and poured a glass of watermelon juice for her.

"I'm not being pretentious. Every stage is hard work. I used to have less and have less worries. Now there are so many things at home and I'm busy every day. It's normal to get tired over time. Look at the weather now, it doesn't look like it's going to be bad. It’s dark, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get cold. We have enough food at home, how about we rest for the first half of this year?”

That's okay.

Zhao Yeqing exhaled the pent-up energy in his chest, "Yes, after working hard for several years, taking a break for half a year is not too much."

Even though Jiye had nothing to do for a whole year, he couldn't go anywhere. He was under a lot of pressure and the weather was too cold. Being stuck in the house every day couldn't be considered a rest. It was almost like being in jail.

Now that the wheat and rapeseed are harvested, the corn will be harvested in a dozen days, and the pigs will be let out to graze on their own. The two of them can go around on the meadow again.

Zhao Yeqing pointed in the direction of the tourist area and said: "When we came back from the tourist area last time, I thought that we had never been to the forest near there. Now I suspect that the elephant entered the meadow from the forest over there. , I want to go and have a look.”