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

It rained for three days before it stopped.

After the rain stopped, the fruit trees in the backyard all sprouted new branches, with many bright yellow branches mixed in among the dark green leaves. The rain knocked down the wisteria flowers all over the ground, and now almost only the green leaves were left on the flower vines.

The water flowed out from the drainage ditch on the grass outside the yard. Mu Xi went out and blocked the hole in the wooden fence for the drainage outlet. There was originally a small door woven with barbed wire on the wooden fence to prevent snakes from entering. Come in here.

However, the water flow was too strong in the past few days, and the relatively fine barbed wire not only hindered the flow of water, but was almost blown away by the water flow.

No snake could rush upstream in such a large current, so the two simply opened it.

When I walked outside the yard and stepped on the grass, I stepped on water as expected.

The water accumulated in the soft grass and was squeezed out when you stepped on it, making you walk like "biaji biaji".

The rain was heavy and long. Zhao Yeqing guessed that it wouldn't rain again in a short time, so he asked Mu Xi to take out the oversized canvas at home.

"We will build a temporary shed between the brick kiln and the vegetable field. After the red bricks are dried, they will be taken directly to the brick kiln to be burned, so as not to have to move them around."

The two of them had poured the red soil next to it before, but now that it was soaked by the rain, they could save water to mix it with the mud.

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Red bricks were placed under the temporary shed. Worried about water in the grass underneath, they pieced together a wooden floor using wooden planks that had been broken by wild boars.

Now Zhao Yeqing is making bricks at home, and Mu Xi has gone out to chop down trees again. He still needs to mend the fence next to the grain field. Even if he can't prevent wild boars, he can still prevent some small animals from stealing grain.

Before the water on the meadow has completely evaporated, it is not easy to dry the red bricks. The brick kiln was built before the red bricks were dry.

The red brick materials dismantled from the previous brick kiln were used, and some small red bricks were dried before the brick kiln was dismantled to build a new brick kiln with a length, width and height of more than two meters.

I don’t know if this brick kiln can be directly converted into a charcoal kiln by sealing the vents. If possible, it will be more convenient to burn charcoal in winter. The charcoal fired from the earth kiln is not always heated so evenly, and many charcoals are not. Not fully carbonized.

Part of the charcoal that is not completely carbonized still retains the dark brown color of the original wood. When it is burned, it is easy to produce smoke or ignite an open flame, which will burn out after a while, which is a huge waste of wood.

When Zhao Yeqing was firing the first batch of red block bricks, he was observing the air outlet of the new brick kiln. If he found any unreasonable areas, he would make adjustments based on the conditions of the first batch of bricks. Generally, the first batch was used for experiments. .

But she was pretty lucky, and the first batch was basically a success.

After Mu Xi repaired the wooden fence in the past few days, he began to demolish the courtyard wall. He first demolished all the sides near the damaged wall, and then moved up all the steel bars that were needed.

This time the courtyard wall is made of red bricks and steel bars. Even if the wild boar comes again, the two of them are confident that it will not be broken through so easily again.

It was just that movable cement was used to pour the wall panels. A big reason was that he thought that he could expand the yard in the future. Mu Xi came to ask Zhao Yeqing, "Should we expand?"

Zhao Yeqing looked at the direction of his home. To be honest, the size of their yard was a bit too big for two people to live in. It would be better to build upwards if they wanted to expand.

The two of them live on the second floor now. It is a bit difficult to build a third floor. Not to mention the earthquake resistance level, even the transportation of materials is quite tiring. But there are kitchens, bathrooms, toilets on both sides, and even a hay house can be built above. It's impossible to live on the second floor.

"It's not going to be expanded. Not to mention that it can't be lived in. We still need to build more red brick walls. That's it."

It took the two of them nearly a month to knock down the courtyard wall and build it again. By the time they had a brand new and solid courtyard wall, the rice at home was ready to be planted.

Finally, I have time to take back the corn. If I don’t take it back, it will be eaten by the birds.

During this time, the two of them kept guessing why the wild boar came to attack the wall of their home. They had not seen any trace of the wild boar for a long time, and it didn't look like it came from the birch forest.

There are sticks and snow cakes over there in the broadleaf forest. Could it be that they were sent over from the pine forest?

But aren’t there elephants over there? Even if the elephants leave, they will probably be taken over by the original tigers or the previous wolf pack.

We can't let the wolves and tigers leave too...

The two of them were not sure about the changing patterns of the current forest, so they could only keep guessing.

After being calm for so long, the two of them had lowered their guard. But not long after they fell asleep, a familiar loud noise came again. They reflexively jumped up from the bed and walked to the window. They saw a wild boar throwing the gun again. The wooden fence was smashed.

After the crash this time, instead of rushing in to destroy the crops like before, he turned around and ran away.

Zhao Yeqing laughed angrily, "Is it sick? Just because it hits the wall?"

The forest is really big, and there are all kinds of pigs.

What else can I do, I can only get up and use spare boards to patch up the wall.

It was not Mu Xi's habit to sit in fear and wait for death. He could not wait for it to hit the wall every day.

There is no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

This time he could clearly see that the smelly wild boar came from the pine forest.

After patching up the fence and turning on all the lights on the courtyard wall, the two slept until dawn. After breakfast, they went to the pine forest to check the situation.

You can't go so rashly. The cattle and sheep at home have not been let out today. They are kept in the barn to eat feed. The fence at home has been upgraded. Even if the dog is not kept at home to guard the house, there is no need to worry about anything happening.

Put the four dogs on the edge of the forest and let them wander around for a while, and then follow them to explore inside. Sometimes their noses are more useful than any experience.

Waiting for the dogs to come back, the two of them stayed outside the forest. Zhao Yeqing did not want to sit in the car. He saw the signs of eating the wild grass around him and the droppings left by the deer. He guessed that there should be Not considered dangerous.

He got out of the car and walked to the ramie bush, picked up the hatchet he took out from the trunk of the car and started chopping.

Mu Xi picked up a long wooden stick from the side and pulled Zhao Yeqing aside. "Don't chop it yet, wait until I beat the leaves first."

The long wooden sticks were swung up and down quickly and forcefully between the straight ramie poles, knocking down the dense leaves on them to the ground, leaving only the bare ramie poles waiting to be harvested.

Now there is no shortage of feed at home, and there is no need to bring back the ramie leaves. All you need to do is cut off the poles and bundle them. When harvesting the poles without leaves, you won’t accidentally encounter bugs. Basically, bugs on ramie grow on the leaves. back.

After loading a large bundle of ramie poles in the trunk, the four dogs came back to explore the way.