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

She did have an idea. There would definitely be too many piglets to eat at once. She planned to kill a few more piglets and freeze them all. When the time came to bake them, she could just defrost them to prevent the piglets from growing up. If you don’t, you won’t be able to make roast suckling pig.

When the soy sauce is brewed, make some homemade fermented bean curd or sesame sauce and peanut butter. The roasted suckling pig will taste even better.

Now that the pig has been weaned, it must be slaughtered as early as possible.

The two slaughtered most of the remaining piglets at home and kept two to raise. Half of the remaining piglets were kept in the refrigerator and the other half were cooked and fed to the dogs.

It will take more than two months for the soy sauce to be brewed according to the original time. During this time, the fermented bean curd can be made, but not the sesame paste and peanut butter. The stock at home is barely enough for eating, but it will definitely not be enough for making sauce.

Still have to plant some.

Three-quarters of the wheat they planted last year is still uneaten, and half of the rice is left. The two of them don’t plan to plant any more food this season. They can plant corn to make silage, so they won’t plant wheat and rice yet. If you leave it there without eating it, it will easily become moldy.

Fortunately, there are aluminum buckets for the food at home. It’s okay to store the food in it. If the wheat doesn’t fit in the sacks, it has to be taken out to dry in the sun every now and then.

In addition to silage corn, the remaining fields are used to grow peanuts, sesame, soybeans, mung beans, red beans, etc.

There are also some crop seeds that have never been planted. You also need to find a field to sow some new seeds to prevent the old seeds from germinating over time.

For example, there are not many opportunities to eat these beans. In the past, she would buy some and boil them in water when she saw them for sale in the market. After they were cooked, she would add some salt and eat them as snacks. But she would get tired of them after not eating much, so it was okay to eat them occasionally. .

Therefore, the broad beans at home have never been sown.

Mu Xi took out the broad beans to dry and prepared for sowing: "It's okay. If we can't finish it, we will use it to make bean paste. I remember that the red oil bean paste in Sichuan Province is made from broad beans. It can also be used when cooking. superior."

This is a good idea.

Speaking of doubanjiang, Zhao Yeqing said: "I have made fermented bean curd from the leftover soybeans at home, and I can also make some tempeh. Once it is done, we can have an expensive hot pot with oily residue."

There are more and more things to do, but we still have to prioritize.

The top priority is to get the handheld harvester back from the bottom of the mountain. Now the grain field is full of weeds that have grown above the calf. It will take several days to finish the grain field if harvested manually.

The principle of the harvester is that a circular gear blade continuously rotates to cut off the plants in the field. It can be used to harvest wheat, rice, corn, soybeans and other crops, or to harvest pasture or weeding. .

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Sharpening the knife will save you from chopping wood, and getting the harvester back will do twice the result with half the effort.

It’s just that no one has walked down the mountain for almost two years, and I don’t know if it’s still possible.

Mu Xi planned to go by himself, "I will take the dog with me. It will probably take two days to get back. You can just prepare the seeds to be sown at home. You have to worry about what and how to plant."

He was quite good at manual labor and craft work. After returning to the mountains for so long, he just couldn't learn this kind of thing as quickly as Zhao Yeqing.

"That's okay, then you go early and come back early, and pay attention to your safety."

There were no dangerous animals near the path down the mountain. Although the two of them did not go down the mountain this year, sometimes Mu Xi would go to the bamboo forest to dig some bamboo shoots to eat. They had not seen any dangerous animals and there were no traces.

She felt more at ease going down the mountain.

But what she didn't expect was that Mu Xi met a group of 'old friends' instead of encountering any ferocious animals.

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Zhao Yeqing prepares the seeds to be planted at home, as well as the lime and fertilizer to be poured into the ground.

The lime was brought back in pieces. Mu Xi would break the large pieces on the spot into small pieces for easy transportation and then transport them back. When he wanted to use them, he sprinkled water on the small pieces of limestone, and the limestone would spread into ash or It is in the form of small pieces, which can be used after sieving and crushing.

You have to plan what to plant in your family’s food plot.

Even if you want to continue planting corn, you cannot continue to plant it on the original corn land. Continuous planting of a single crop will seriously deplete the soil of nutrients, and you will have to replace it with other crops.

Zhao Yeqing plans to sow various beans on the land where corn has been planted several times in a row, so that the rhizobia in the roots of the beans can nourish the land.

Wheat was planted in the paddy field last year, and corn was planted in it this year. It also happened to realize the rotation of rice-wheat-corn. The soil was not consumed in a single way. The nutritional needs of several crops are different, and there will be no reduction in yield. Case.

There were also sweet stalks. Even if it wasn't for making sugar, she still wanted to grow some every year to eat them as fruit.

Other crops that you don't want to plant but must be replanted are planted in the original rape field. This land is not big or small. After planting a variety of plants, even if the row spacing is wider, it can be planted.

It's just that when the subsequent crops are sown, pigs can no longer be let out at will in front of the house, otherwise the food will be spoiled.

Now, in addition to the four old pigs used to save seeds at home, there are only two piglets that were born this year, which are not difficult to feed.

While Zhao Yeqing was waiting for Mu Xi to come back at home, he went to the fields again to see if there were any new straw mushrooms growing.

The last meal of straw mushroom stewed chicken was really disappointing. I ate all the straw mushrooms in one meal. The straw mushrooms soaked in chicken soup were more delicious than the meat.

She held a small wooden stick in the rice field and picked up the rotting straw, which had gradually turned black, to reveal the straw mushrooms underneath.

Maybe it’s because there was a lot of rain in early spring. This time the straw mushrooms were harvested more than last time. After setting aside enough for a meal, the rest was taken to the drying room to dry out the moisture. The dried mushrooms It's more fragrant than sun-dried.

There is no need for sunshine in this weather. In the past few days, the sun has only come out for a while at noon. At other times, it is a bit gray, and the lowest temperature has reached around 19 degrees to 20 degrees.

Zhao Yeqing went to see the ducks in the duck house this morning. The little one in the nest had already been born. Now that it is spring again, it is estimated that the ducks in the house will lay eggs again soon.

The mother duck has not left the nest recently, and each of the ducklings stuck their buttocks out and burrowed under the mother duck's belly. Zhao Yeqing also very considerately delivered their rations directly to them. However, the mother duck was protecting her young and stretched her neck when she saw Zhao Yeqing coming over. Want to nag her.

Zhao Yeqing had already been mentally prepared, holding a small stick and slowly pushing the small plate filled with feed over to feed.

Calculating the time, Mu Xi had already left for two days and should be back today, but he didn't know when he would get home.

It will definitely be difficult to clean up the mountain road that has not been walked for so long. The food Mu Xi brought on this trip was only enough for two days. If she didn't get home this afternoon, she would have to go and pick it up.