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

Silkworms are divided into several stages, with molting as the progression standard and levels divided according to 'age'.

From the moment they hatch, they are called first-instar silkworms. Today is the seventh day. The silkworms have undergone the first round of molting and successfully turned into second-instar silkworms. This molt will go through a total of four times until the fifth-instar silkworms. Cocoons will begin to form.

Zhao Yeqing remembered that the whole process took about a month, and Mu Xi would report the silkworms he observed every day to Zhao Yeqing to take notes.

When the notes were made into a small book, the silkworms finally began to slowly climb up the square cluster.

These silkworms are very orderly. After the two put the square cluster close to the silkworm seat, the silkworms are insects that can climb up and find a place to build their cocoons.

Each silkworm will put itself in a small grid. If it crawls to a room with "people", it will continue to move forward until it finds a room without "people" before getting in.

The occupancy rate of the square clusters is as high as 90%. For the few silkworms that have not found a place to fall down, or those who have not encountered the square clusters and do not know how to climb up, the two people will manually grab the silkworms and place them in the vacant square. Gerry.

Waiting for the time for the cocoons to form, the two went to the fields to harvest the rice. Now that they had all the tools at home, they didn't have to pick a specific time to harvest the rice from the two fields. One person harvested and the other bundled it. It only took more than two hours to finish. .

The threshing still had to be done manually. There must be a threshing machine in the village, but the two of them searched everywhere they could, but they couldn't find it. They thought it was in those wooden buildings. They didn't dare to go there because they were afraid. Collapse, let's do it manually.

After the rice was recovered, it was left to dry in the yard. Zhao Yeqing sat in the yard and turned over the rice with a wooden rake. Mu Xi went down to the basement silkworm room to take out the silkworms that failed to spin cocoons and dry them in the sun.

These silkworms are dead and can no longer spin cocoons, but they can be used as Chinese medicinal materials when dried.

The aluminum bucket was filled with golden rice again, and a sack was left to be pounded into rice. The new rice was fragrant and sweet when cooked, and the old fire cooked it into a thick white porridge. You could drink two of the rice even if you smelled the fragrant rice, and you didn’t even need to add side dishes. A big bowl of white porridge.

During this period of time, it was time for farming to fall asleep again. The two of them stacked the straw in the hay house. They had not yet decided whether to carry out autumn sowing. Mu Xi planned to move the tools back to the village first.

Now there is a three-wheeler at the bottom of the slope, and electric vehicles can be used on the slope. Zhao Yeqing does not need help in the process, and Mu Xi can move it all by himself from morning to night.

Zhao Yeqing was sorting the meat in the freezer at home.

The remaining pork was originally placed in the kitchen refrigerator. The cattle and sheep slaughtered this time and a small amount of beef were also placed in the kitchen refrigerator, and most of them were placed in the freezer at the door of the kitchen.

The horizontal freezer was packed to the brim, and two pieces of beef couldn't even fit inside. During this period, I ate beef every day.

The dogs ate happily, and Zhao Yeqing thought it was good at first, but after a long time it didn't work anymore and he still wanted to eat some pork.

Except for the brisket, all other parts of the beef are lean. Every once in a while, Zhao Yeqing would crave the fragrant and oily pork belly, so the endless beef was made into beef sausages. In the drying room, there is still a fire burning in the summer.

Before the earthquake, every Spring Festival news broke out that a certain family burned down their house because of smoking bacon.

The two of them were also worried about this kind of problem, so they smeared a layer of yellow mud mixed with broken straws on the inner wall of the drying room early to prevent burning. They originally thought about applying cement, but felt that it was not necessary. .

There was no such problem in the past two years, and the summer was still wet and rainy. Until this year, the rain in summer was nearly half less than last year. The terrain changes in each part will cause the wind direction to change.

Zhao Yeqing guessed that it might have something to do with the landslide on the cliff? Maybe it blocked a certain wind blowing from the distant sea?

There are coastal cities in the province where they live, so returning to the south every year is particularly serious. Zhao Yeqing thought that it would be great if they lived in a mountain range not far from the sea. Maybe they could find a way out and get a seafood meal. Now this If you go to sea at this time, no one will grab you.

Seafood is not available, but fresh food from streams and rivers is still available. There are especially many crabs during this period. If you move a stone in the stream, you can see small crabs fleeing.

Still following the old rules, he took it back to make porridge and drank it. Zhao Yeqing picked up a piece of crab, bit it into pieces, and gently sucked the sweetness inside. He let out a comfortable sigh: "Do you think this can be raised? If it is raised artificially, it should be larger."

Mu Xi couldn't laugh or cry: "You can raise fish in one pond and lotus in another pond. You still want to build a crab pond?"

Zhao Yeqing was just saying that there were silkworms at home that were about to hatch, so he definitely didn't have time to manage the crabs.

Thinking of this, he picked up a piece and took a deep sip to satisfy his craving.

Speaking of lotus ponds, it’s now the time to harvest the lotus roots underneath. If we don’t harvest them later, the lotus roots in the mud will rot and become nutrients at the bottom of the water.

The lotus pods on the water were fresh and plump, and the lotus seeds were so bulging that they were about to fall out. Zhao Yeqing stretched out his hand and picked one near the pool. He immediately peeled off the green skin, removed the lotus heart, and put the fresh lotus seeds into his mouth.

The green lotus heart was hidden in the palm of her hand. The lotus seeds were sweet. She peeled another one, took out the lotus heart inside and threw it away in front of Mu Xi. When she stuffed the lotus seed into his mouth, she maliciously removed the lotus heart hidden in the palm of her hand. The lotus heart was also stuffed in.

Seeing that his brows were tightly knitted together as soon as he chewed his teeth, Zhao Yeqing had long since suppressed a smile and ran into the yard with lotus pods in hand. Ever since the last incident, she had always been holding back a breath, wasn't it? Angry, but a feeling that I couldn't describe.

It was full of swelling. After today's troubles, the anger dissipated, so that the indescribable sound of water would not be in my mind every time I saw him.

Mu Xi knew that she was uncomfortable, so he just stayed there and refused to spit it out. He held his neck and swallowed the bitter lotus seeds. He took off his shoes and jumped into the pool to touch the lotus roots in the mud.

When I put the mud in, I forgot to sift out the stones. As I was walking, I would step on something that would hurt my feet. Mu Xi did not hesitate and bent down to fish out the stones and throw them away, lest Zhao Yeqing come down next time. Sometimes I touch my feet.

She couldn't bear the pain the most. When she stepped on a small smooth stone with her bare feet on the gravel beach by the lake, she screamed in pain. Among the clothes and shoes she collected, there were those kind of wooden-soled slippers with a single sole. She never wore the massage stones, saying they hurt.

Touching the stone, Mu Xi's hand just opened under the water, and he suddenly felt a slippery feeling between his fingers.