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

The roller device on the edge of the cliff is made of wood and has not been painted. It is now covered with a thin layer of moss and feels a little slippery.

Mu Xi took the rope to prepare for the descent, while Zhao Yeqing used the blade of a sickle to scrape the device, scraping away the moss on the handle that would need to be held by hand for a while.

After Mu Xisuo descended, Zhao Yeqing walked a short distance to the right while waiting to observe the situation of the cliff on the other side of the previous landslide.

The slope stone wall that originally collapsed has now settled for such a long time, and weeds have grown on some of the soil that fell on it. From a distance, many plants can be seen growing on the soil on the cut surface.

Zhao Yeqing was a little annoyed because he forgot to bring his binoculars when he went out.

However, judging from the current situation, it seems that it has stabilized and will not easily collapse again. After all, nearly a year has passed, and it rained for so long some time ago. The condition of the slope still looks the same as when it first fell.

I'll go over and have a look after planting the rice.

During this period of time, Zhao Yeqing did not come to replenish the gasoline. Zhao Yeqing used two arms to swing the device to hoist the gasoline up. After all the gasoline was taken up, his arms were so sore that he could not lift it up.

As soon as Mu Xi came up, he rubbed her arms to relax her muscles and said with some distress:

"Don't you dare go down the mountain. If you could go down, I could get gasoline up there, and you wouldn't have to work so hard."

Zhao Yeqing put one hand in Mu Xi's hand and unscrewed the kettle with the other hand. He took a sip before replying: "It's useless even if I dare to go down. It's not easy to climb up from the bottom of the cliff. It's better to just stay there." above."

Even if there is a safety lock, it is only an aid. To climb up, you still need to rely on your arm strength. Although Zhao Yeqing is much stronger now, his endurance is still a little worse. Coupled with his fear of heights, it is not that easy to do it. It is easy to be dangerous.

It took two trips to carry a few barrels of gasoline to the electric car, and it would take more than one trip out of the woods to get it all. Mu Xi took Zhao Yeqing out after two trips to the outside of the woods.

This went back and forth, and by the time I drove home, it was almost dark.

While Zhao Yeqing was waiting for Mu Xi in the woods, he accidentally discovered the duckweed that she had been talking about for a long time on the edge of the swamp. When spring came, it would grow in large areas wherever it was available. Zhao Yeqing only pinched less than three of it. One part is enough to get two big handfuls.

It can be eaten for three or four days. It is delicious stir-fried and cold.

When they eat duck feet here, they eat white stems. It looks a bit like coriander. In some places, it is also called duck celery. Among the wild vegetables, there is a wild vegetable that looks very similar to white stems. When Zhao Yeqing was on a business trip, he saw Chaozhou people calling it red mugwort because it has a red stem.

Not only are the stems of these two wild vegetables different in color, but their aromas are also different. The texture of the leaves is also different. The red stems are rougher, so they don't eat them. They prefer to eat the white stems, which are more tender and soft.

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Zhao Yeqing was careful and dug out a few plants with their complete root systems. He planned to plant them outside the yard when he returned home. This was a habit he had lived in the mountains for a long time. He always wanted to move something back home and plant it.

There were too many cows, sheep and ducks in the front yard. She was worried about being eaten, so she went to the right-hand wall of the bamboo forest outside the backyard and planted it. This kind of wild vegetable does not require too much care and can grow wildly as long as it can survive. .

Mu Xi parked the car, took down the gasoline and put it into the house. Xiao Hei went out to play for a while and ran back to the dogs to show off with some pride.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but have a headache when he looked at the large group of livestock in the open space around the grain field.

Today, Xiao Hei went out to take care of his personal hygiene before coming back. However, the animals on the grass have been eating, drinking and urinating recently. They cannot be cleaned up like in the barn. The sheep and horses are fine, but there are still a few big cows. Well, if you don’t clean it up after a long time, the smell is really hard to describe.

No wonder the cattle and sheep didn't let out when it rained some time ago. There were no more cattle and sheep grazing on the grass, and there was more excrement left behind. After the rain stopped, the weeds outside grew better this year than last year.

In previous years, we could cut some grass on the grass at the door and cut it to make hay. I'm afraid that won't be possible this year. It will probably be eaten by cattle and sheep. However, we have also planted rice and wheat this year, so there should be no shortage of straw. .

Straw is thicker than ordinary hay, and it needs to be chopped a little more if it is mixed with feed.

The grassland is growing well this year. Last year, we had to wait until after the Qingming Festival to cut the first crop of grass. This year, it is expected to be cut more than half a month earlier. The silage made from corn straw is almost exhausted, and the silage cellar can be filled after harvesting. Available.

Just after Grain Rain, the weather, which had been sunny for just a few days, started to rain again as if to suit the occasion.

Chunyu appears during this period, and it will be the beginning of summer soon.

The days flew by in the blink of an eye, ninety spring days were only three months old.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the rice seedlings and glutinous rice seedlings that had tillered in the field, and harvested tonight's midnight snack from the rice field where there were snails even before the rice transplanting started.

Tonight, I will use the Guangxi recipe, stir-fried snails with perilla and pickled bamboo shoots, and add two bright red pickled peppers.

This jar of pickled peppers was newly made after last autumn. Then it got colder. I don’t know whether it was because of the temperature or because the pepper seedlings had been alive for too long. They gradually withered and died.

The fruit and vegetable seedlings that were replanted this year were grown along with the rice seeds, and they are now almost ten centimeters tall.

The original planting basement is now used by Zhao Yeqing as a nursery room, which happens to have plant growth lights. During the day, the PC board is turned on to receive natural light, and at night, the planting lights are turned on to allow the seeds to receive light 24 hours a day.

The seedlings cannot withstand the erosion of rain during the seedling stage, so it is best to raise the seedlings inside first.

The land for growing vegetables has to be plowed again every once in a while. Zhao Yeqing pulled out all the old plants from last year and threw them away, leaving a large area of ​​land free for re-planning this year.

Eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, and beans are vegetables that are grown every year. Selective cultivation of loofah, bitter gourd, etc. only requires a small piece of land. Just plant one or two plants.

The soil in the vegetable field has become a little hardened after being washed and squeezed by rain for a year. You have to use a hoe to dig deep into the ground to dig up the mud, break it up, and mix it with manure before continuing to plant.

The vegetable field is not like a grain field. In order to prevent pests and also burn the straw, you can only sprinkle some lime to kill the bacteria and remove some of the insect eggs hidden in the soil, which is better than nothing.

Vegetables are the most prone to bugs. After preparing the soil in the vegetable field and two days after planting the pepper seedlings, Zhao Yeqing opened the back of the pepper leaves and saw small transparent insects as big as sesame seeds adsorbed on them. behind the leaves.