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

The dogs at home heard the sound of the car from far away and jumped up and waited at the door of the wooden fence. When Zhao Yeqing got out of the car and opened the door of the wooden fence to let Mu Xi drive in, there were three dogs hanging on him in an instant. .

Good weight...

She pulled some of them off and said, "Why are they so heavy? Why did you eat secretly when I wasn't home?"

It was just for fun. She had only been away for two days and had not gained any weight even by eating secretly. However, she loved to rub the bellies of several dogs and call them fat while doing so.

Mu Xi put it bluntly: "You just bully them and they can't speak. If you want me to say this to you, you have to be impatient with me."

"Then you say something and try it?"

"...I will not say."

"Humph."

After returning home, he was destined to have no more leisure time. Zhao Yeqing couldn't sit still and immediately ran to the rice fields to see how the rice was growing.

It’s almost harvest time, and now the grain filling has begun, and there are more birds on the rice fields.

Among them, sparrows were the most numerous, with groups of sparrows being the worst. There were many moas, but the scarecrows had nothing to rely on. When they saw Zhao Yeqing rushing into the rice fields to drive them away, they dispersed, but they did not go far and stopped not far away. On the wall, just waiting for people to go away and continue to come back to eat.

This game was used to protect animals before the earthquake. When I was a child, I saw many people selling it in the market, but later I didn’t dare to do it anymore. Many people used to have shotguns at home, but now I can’t find them even if I try to find them. You can knock down these little things that harm crops and give them to the dogs as snacks.

She also thought it was delicious.

When I first came to the meadow, when I was planting crops in the wheat fields and highland barley fields on the meadow, there were not as many sparrows as there are now. After shooting down a few with a slingshot, I was so frightened that they did not dare to approach for a long time. .

Now that their biggest natural enemies have decreased and their breeding numbers have increased, they are really having a headache for a while.

"If only I could find the shotgun."

The bullets for the shotgun are not hard to come by. They are not serious military ammunition. They are made of iron sand. They cannot hit other things, but they are very useful for hunting birds.

Mu Xi recalled that he didn't seem to see shotguns in the village, "If it doesn't work, why not get a bird net?"

There used to be no shotguns in the village, or those who were too lazy to shoot would put bird nets in the woods. They were somewhat similar to fishing nets. The two ends of the nets were tied to two trees in the forest. As long as a bird flew by, they would fly. Trapped in the web, the more I struggle, the tighter I become.

He had the impression of seeing a fishing net before. Mu Xi recalled that on the first floor of the family's house closest to the bottom of the mountain, that is, the family where he saw the walking tractor, there seemed to be a fishing net hanging on the wall. He just didn't know that so many years had passed. , will it become brittle and break when pinched?

Places where humans live have always chosen areas with water sources since ancient times. Most of the rich cities are built on water. There are very few people who live in arid and barren places unless forced by circumstances.

Even they settled in this place with abundant water and grass after looking for water sources.

If it hadn't been for an accident, there would have been a river surrounding the mountain at the foot of the village. The water was cut off by the cracks and flowed into the cracks. Most of the fishing nets on the mountain were used for fishing by the river.

"Next time, go and have a look. If it's not broken, bring it back. I won't be idle during this period. I can catch as many as I can."

After Mu Xi packed up the necessities again and left the meadow to go to the village to continue making looms and spinning wheels, Zhao Yeqing put the cattle and sheep out early every morning at home, and then sat on the edge of the field watching the sparrows.

The sparrows didn't dare to approach at first, but as time went by, they didn't leave when they saw Zhao Yeqing, so they became bold enough to fly to the fields openly and openly.

This was the moment she was waiting for, so she pulled the slingshot and shot out.

However, if this thing is not used for a long time, it really loses its accuracy. The bird is not hit, and the stones it throws out only serve as a bluff to scare the bird.

After hunting all afternoon, I harvested two sparrows, enough for the family dog ​​to eat.

And the long row of sparrows still standing on the wooden fence, refusing to leave, seemed to be laughing at her helplessness.

Zhao Yeqing learned from the experience and planned to create other traps.

When I was a child, when sparrows were not protected animals, adults would use shotguns and nets to catch birds. Children sometimes used slingshots to kill birds, but more often they would lay traps.

Sprinkle some rice on the ground, use a wooden stick to support the basket, and tie the wooden stick with a thin rope. When the sparrow goes to peck at the rice, pull off the wooden stick and let the basket fall down to cover the sparrow. This is what they do best when they are young. Love’s way of catching sparrows.

The weeds on the grass were luxuriant and unsuitable for spreading rice to lure them, so Zhao Yeqing placed the trap near the edge of the field. The weeds here had been cleared away, and it was still close to the rice field. All he had to do was squat behind the fence beside the rice field. Just pull the rope.

This method was very effective. It was obvious that these sparrows had never seen the "Evil Heart" and were completely unprepared for such traps. Zhao Yeqing caught a bunch of sparrows in one morning, tied their feet with ropes and dropped them on the edge of the fence.

It was useless to scare them, but the shrill chirping of this string of sparrows was quite effective. The number of sparrows on the fence dropped sharply in the afternoon, and the trap failed to harvest a single thing.

When Zhao Yeqing returned home in the evening, the bunch of sparrows were cleaned and hung on the eaves to dry and then frozen. When Mu Xi came back, she planned to tell him that she had shot them with a slingshot.

When Mu Xi went there this time, she took Xiao Hua away. Xiao Hua was the most greedy. She planned to share this bunch of sparrows with the dogs after Xiao Hua came back. She couldn't favor one thing over another.

In the evening, the dogs came back with the cattle and sheep. Zhao Yeqing counted the numbers and then put the cattle and sheep into the barn.

This year the sheep have mated before the beginning of spring, and it is almost time to give birth. Since the last time the sheep encountered the wolves, the two of them have not killed any sheep. If this year's sheep are born, the sheep pens will have to be filled. No more.

The cows that were originally planned to be killed were not killed. There is too much work to be done every day. Fortunately, there are a lot of equipment available now. Otherwise, the farm work in the fields would have to take more time and effort, and everyone would be tired. died.

Zhao Yeqing thought about it carefully and felt that he was really lost. Killing cattle and sheep has become a burden now. Even in peacetime, the people in the village were never so heroic.

After the cattle and sheep are slaughtered, the life of endless meat will begin again.

After counting the livestock, Zhao Yeqing isolated the sheep that were about to give birth and added extra feed.

When he came out of the sheepfold, he saw Xiaohong kicking the front door with his horse's hooves. Zhao Yeqing walked over and opened the door to bring Xiaohong in.

Now that there are enough transportation tools and farming equipment at home, there is almost no need for Xiaohong to do anything. He only needs to let it out to graze on its own every day, and no feed is wasted.

As soon as he brought Xiaohong in, Zhao Yeqing noticed that Xiaohong's hooves had grown a lot, and he couldn't help but touch his nose with some guilt.