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

These are all due to the fact that before the fence was built, the pigs were grazed in the grain field. Before grazing, the piglets were put out. If they didn't usually grow anything, they would spread some fertilizer to maintain the land.

The temperature this year seems to be lower than last year. Corn and wheat have been planted, but rice is still growing. The most suitable temperature for its growth is above 20 degrees. The lowest temperature during this period has reached 15 degrees. Zhao Yeqing Some are worried that if the temperature continues to drop, it will affect the growth of its seedlings.

But the seedlings have been raised, so we can’t stop planting them.

The rice fields had been rotated with several other crops before sowing this time. Corn was planted last time, and wheat was planted last time. Now that the land has been cultivated, rice will be planted again. The two of them are still thinking about a good harvest. But don’t let the temperature ruin it.

Mu Xi walked out of the seedling field and told Zhao Yeqing about the situation of the seedlings.

"It will be ready to be planted in a few days. It looks good, but the growth rate is a little slower. I wonder if these rice seeds have survived and evolved under the extreme conditions in the past few years. I always feel that they are almost Not much affected.”

Mu Xi's tone was full of uncertainty as he spoke, fearing that it was his own misunderstanding.

Zhao Yeqing is quite optimistic, "It's okay, no matter what happens, there will be no problem with wheat. It is cold-resistant. If you have wheat, you won't starve to death. Even if you can't grow rice, you won't be able to grow it."

She thought that it would be impossible to harvest nothing, and at most it would just be a reduction in production.

As they talked, they went to the drainage ditch outside the yard to see the soaked papermaking materials.

After adjusting the widening of the drainage ditch, the water flow will be relatively small, with only a small amount of flowing water, ensuring that it will not rot and at the same time remove soluble impurities contained in the material.

The bamboo with the green part scraped off and the bark of paper mulberry with the outer brown rough old bark removed have been soaked in it. It has been soaked for about ten days now, and it is ready to be taken out for cooking.

The soaked material becomes softer, and the paper bark and bamboo strips can be torn into strands directly by hand.

After tearing it up and putting it in a bamboo basket, it was put into a large pot that had been set up on the red brick stove. Water was put in it and lime was sprinkled on it. After boiling, it was covered with a lid and allowed to ferment for a week.

Seven days later, the malt in the grain field has sprouted small tips.

The original bright yellow fibers in the iron pot are now gray, like moldy and rotten wood.

Gently rub your hands on the fibrous tissue, and a layer of soft material will be rubbed off. You can clearly feel some rough fiber strips under the soft material with your fingertips.

Zhao Yeqing poked it with his finger and nodded with satisfaction:

"It's almost there. It's still early today. How about we start processing it today? It will take a lot of time to dry it later."

Alkaline water fermentation saves a lot of time. Another method is to soak the materials in alkaline water. That method takes more than three months, while boiling the fermented materials only takes a few days.

After the materials have been processed, they have to use a stone hammer to pound them. The two plan to use the stone pound used to pound glutinous rice cakes during the New Year to clean and remove the dust inside. This stone pound has not been used for a long time. When they are not pounding glutinous rice cakes, they almost use it. No, after all, glutinous rice has not been grown for a long time, so there is not much left.

When the two of them moved the stone out, they planned to plant some glutinous rice in the second half of the year, but they can't plant it now. The weather is no longer suitable for the growth of rice, and the same goes for glutinous rice.

After putting the soaked ingredients in the stone pound, Mu Xi took out a long wooden stick that was more than two meters long and thicker than his calf, and was used to beat the rice cakes.