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

Just cut the bamboo directly outside the backyard. Now there are so many bamboos outside that they need to be cleaned from time to time, otherwise they will grow into the vegetable garden.

I would also like to get some ramie back, and it can be used to make rope and paper. But according to the rules of previous years, the area where the wolves are found happens to be near the pine forest where the ramie is. I don’t know if there is a herd of elephants this year, but the wolf pack is still there. Will it appear near there?

Mu Xi walked outside and looked at the width of the drainage ditch. He planned to widen the middle section and put pebbles or gravel underneath to create a small puddle.

This drainage ditch is the main drainage ditch that connects the fish ponds and lotus ponds, as well as the small drainage ditches around the grain fields. It is used to divert water from the previous rice fields, water discharged from rain, and water overflowing from the two ponds. , directly discharged outside, leading to the bottom of the charcoal-burning soil slope outside.

Because of the rainy season that followed, the ditch became wider and wider. Now it is half a meter wide. Mu Xi expanded it in the middle and dug it wider. Then the papermaking materials can be soaked in it. The water will be flowing and relatively clean. It doesn’t waste water, and it’s much closer than taking it to the nearby stream.

Get more in one fell swoop.

Before preparing the papermaking materials, Zhao Yeqing first took out the wheat seeds to be sown and dried them in the sun. In addition to wheat, some rice also had to be planted. The two of them didn't eat much, but they still had to feed four dogs, and they had to feed them from time to time. Give the pig a scoop of food.

The corn planted last season was harvested as silage and had no fruit. This season we have to plant another field of corn.

In the second half of the year, because there was not much corn left, most of the chickens at home were fed wheat and rice, and they were thinner than when they were fed corn. In the few months after the corn was harvested, the chickens ate corn every day, and there was a yellowish color under the chicken skin. Oil, even if it's too fat, it won't work.

It is better to mix some of various feeds into the chickens. Feeding corn can also ensure the egg production rate of the chickens.

The seeds from the regular grain plot were taken out to dry, and the two of them went outside the yard to chop bamboo.

The papermaking cycle is long, and more materials need to be processed. Only by doing more at one time can we ensure that the paper consumption for one year can be supplied.

Of course, the premise is that both of them can succeed.

Mu Xi had never done it. He was older than Zhao Yeqing. There was no such extracurricular activity when he was in school. By the time it was available, he would have been promoted from primary school to junior high school. Children in older grades did not have extracurricular activities.

Two bundles of bamboo were cut down, which should be enough for making paper. It also happened to clean up the overgrown bamboo forest.

Mu Xi still had to go to the forest to get the bark of the paper mulberry tree, while Zhao Yeqing was processing the chopped bamboo at home, while keeping an eye on the chickens in the backyard.

This group of chickens had no interest in the fruits and vegetables in the greenhouse in the yard, but they were very excited whenever they heard the sound of plastic sheets in the yard. They knew that grain or crop seeds were being taken out to dry, and they all ran to the fence blocking the front and back yards. Next to the fence, eager to try.

Like cats and dogs who heard the sound of plastic bags.

Zhao Yeqing moved a small bench and sat in the front yard, blocking the view of the chickens, while handling the bamboo with a hatchet.

Bamboo must first be split into long strips two to three fingers wide, and then the outer green skin is peeled off with a knife to reveal the bright yellow part inside. This part is called the 'second green' in medicine. Also called Bamboo Ru, it can cure vomiting.

In the past, Mu Xi would scrape off this layer and collect it, but Zhao Yeqing was afraid that the pulping would fail, so he put aside the bamboo with only the skin removed.

Such bamboo can already be used to make paper.