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

I was woken up after less than two hours of sleep. Then I saw a big wild boar in the yard. After I killed it, I had to carry it to the broadleaf forest. I didn't dare to throw it too close for fear of attracting wolves.

After going back and forth, both physically and mentally exhausted, Zhao Yeqing still felt dizzy even after a good sleep.

Once the biological clock is disrupted, no matter how long you sleep, you will not be able to sleep comfortably at night.

I walked to the corn field, rubbing my beating temples, and saw that nearly one-fifth of the corn had been trampled by wild boars. It was now the corn harvest season, but it was not the ripening stage yet, but the fresh and tender stage.

Zhao Yeqing picked up the unspoiled corn on the ground and threw it into the basket. She didn't want to look at the corn that was stepped on and eaten. She didn't know why these wild boars were so crazy that they suddenly came to cause trouble.

I picked about a quarter of the corn and went home. I plan to keep this for myself. I will save a few to eat recently, and peel the rest into corn kernels and put them in the refrigerator to freeze.

Every time I plant corn, I freeze a bag of corn kernels, which is enough to last me half a year.

Fresh corn kernels are fried together with small pieces of carrots and cucumbers. Just add a little salt and they are fragrant and sweet. It goes very well with rice.

She is just picking the corn now. The corn stalks have not been cut yet, and she plans to leave them until the wax ripening period of the remaining corn has passed before harvesting them together.

Mu Xi didn't sleep for long. He was worried that he wouldn't be able to sleep at night, so he got up after only two hours of sleep. This was also because he kept thinking about the unrepaired wall and couldn't sleep well.

After getting up, I went downstairs and saw Zhao Yeqing cleaning up the debris at the broken wall in the front yard.

The break is on the right hand side of the gate of the wall when looking from the inside. Fortunately, it is on this side. If it were on the left hand side, it would probably frighten the livestock at home, and even the drying room close to the yard wall would have to be damaged. Crash.

On the right, there are only two silage cellars next to the wall. However, the walls of these silage cellars were originally built with red bricks and cement, which are much more stable than the courtyard walls. If they were bumped, they would be fine.

Zhao Yeqing sighed and said to Mu Xi, who had washed his face: "Look, any laziness you have had in the past will eventually turn into your own fault."

Mu Xi just checked the remaining lime reserves before washing his face. The last time he went to dig a truckload of lime and came back, only a little was used to pave the road. There was still a very sufficient inventory left in the original breeding basement, next to it. There are also steel bars that were brought back from the tourist area.

"It will take a lot of time to completely rebuild the courtyard wall. There are two options now. One is to pour cement and steel bars and then repair this section, and the other is to directly replace the entire wall with a structure of red bricks, cement and steel bars."

The former is stronger than before, but only a little, but the advantage is that it is simple and convenient. The latter is much stronger, even though the red bricks must be fired, and they cannot be moved in the future.

Zhao Yeqing learned this lesson, and after living in the mountains for a long time, he also developed a diligent temperament. He chose the latter option without much thought.

"Burn the bricks. At least it will be safer. Nothing is more important than safety."

The damaged areas of the yard fence were first taped with plastic sheets to block them. It couldn't block any sharp teeth or claws, but it could also block the little snakes that wanted to crawl in.

With a pickup truck and a small three-wheeler, it was not so hard to dig out the red mud and move it back. It took a day to transport two trucks of red soil, one large and one small. Mu Xi had to get the red soil and lime the next day. , Zhao Yeqing started preparing to make red bricks at home.

In order to save trouble and make it stronger, the red bricks this time were fired very large, and their size is close to the common building material "block bricks", several times larger than ordinary red bricks.

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block bricks

In the past, block bricks were made of concrete or industrial waste materials such as cinder and slag. The bricks were large, relatively easy to build, and light in weight, but they were not that strong.

Red bricks are much stronger, but the process of building the fence piece by piece takes too long. Zhao Yeqing plans to combine the two and use the material of red bricks and the size of the bricks to make the fence material.

This can take the advantages of both, but also combines the disadvantages of both, which is that it is too thick and takes up space and is heavy.

These two shortcomings are nothing to Zhao Yeqing. The area of ​​the courtyard wall is large or small. If the original small-sized red bricks are used, it is indeed very large and takes a long time to build. This large-sized one can be used , a wall doesn’t cost much, and it doesn’t weigh much.

In addition, it is too thick and the area is too wide. This problem is not a problem. In the past, every inch of land was precious in the city. Now, even if the two of them built a house on the entire meadow, no one would be able to take care of it.

But in this case, the original brick kiln will no longer be used and a new one will have to be built. Otherwise, this small brick kiln can only burn three bricks in one kiln and it will not be able to hold it.

The new brick kiln was moved outside the yard to the wall next to the birch forest. Nothing was planted in this area, so no matter how hot the bricks were fired, it would not hinder anything else.

The mold for the red bricks also needs to be remade. Now the mold for the red bricks has to be made from a large piece of wood, with a hollow hole in the middle. Wood is the most convenient material.

The preliminary work took several days to prepare, but before the two could start construction, the Beginning of Summer rain came down.

After the bricks are made, they have to be dried before they can be fired. Now that it rains, all work has to stop first.

Fortunately, all the recovered wheat has been dried in the past few days. A handful of golden wheat straws were washed into the soil by the rain as soon as they were reduced to ashes in the wheat field.

Zhao Yeqing's mind was filled with excitement. There were no insects in the newly burned land. The rain washed plant ash into the soil to increase its fertility. When the rain stopped, the soil became soft, and once the land was plowed, another round of planting could be done.

Mu Xi was a little dumbfounded, "Ancestor, we can't finish eating so much." The fence hadn't even started yet, and he was looking for work for himself again.

"Isn't this a pity?"

The time and place are favorable, and it is obvious that there will be a good harvest if you plant the seeds.

This is like suddenly receiving a no-threshold coupon. As long as you spend money, you will definitely get a discount and you will obviously take advantage of it. How can you tolerate this?

Finally, the two of them discussed it and decided to pull an ox over to plow the land and sprinkle the seeds of the sweet pole into it.

This thing doesn't require much management. As long as there is sufficient light and water is added from time to time, it will be able to squeeze out some sugar when it is harvested.