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

With a "swish" sound, he was also startled. He suddenly pulled his hand out of the water, took two steps to the edge of the pool and crossed to the shore.

As soon as Zhao Yeqing came out with a glass of honey water to rinse his mouth, he saw that the panic on his face had not faded, and he walked ashore in two steps in one go.

"what happened?"

Mu Xi saw her coming and shook his head: "I don't know, there is something slippery in the water."

"Water snake?" Zhao Yeqing was most afraid of this thing and subconsciously thought it was a water snake.

Mu Xi stretched out his palm and clenched his fist, recalling the feeling: "It seems...it's not very similar. I subconsciously thought it was that way at the time. But now that I think about it more carefully, it's not quite right. It's more like a loach." Category."

This is reasonable. It is common for loaches to be found in lotus ponds. The two of them have never been in the lotus pond, and they don't pay attention to it. If there are actually loaches, it will be an unexpected bonus.

Zhao Yeqing didn't dare to go down, so he ordered Mu Xi: "Go down and have a look."

...Mu Xi was speechless, is her boyfriend so worthless?

After going down further, it was not so easy to touch. Instead, I followed the lotus root whip I touched and found the already grown lotus root.

The growth method of this thing is somewhat similar to that of bamboo. After the originally planted lotus seeds grow a few lotus leaves, the rhizomes under the water will spread and continue to grow, growing lotus root whips. The nodes of the lotus root whips will continue to grow lotus leaves. Out of the water.

The long spreading lotus root whip may be divided into several or a dozen nodes to grow lotus leaves. After the last lotus leaf grows, the lotus root whip will begin to accumulate energy and supply nutrients to its end. It swells and grows lotus roots.

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The arm-length lotus root was pulled out, Mu Xi washed the mud off it in the water, and then handed the white and tender lotus root to Zhao Yeqing.

The lotus root was divided into two sections. Zhao Yeqing compared them and found that they were only shorter than his own arm and almost as thick as a fist.

Mu Xi also touched a lotus root strip underneath, broke it off and threw it on the shore. This is a lotus root that has not yet expanded. It is sweet and crispy when fried. One root is only as thick as a finger. The pond at home is not big, and the entire lotus pond has been touched. That’s less than 200 kilograms of lotus roots.

Doesn’t this thing say how many kilograms per mu can be produced?

Although this lotus pond is less than an acre of land, it is still only half an acre. Two hundred kilograms is really too little.

Mu Xi thought he hadn't touched carefully, so he touched it again from beginning to end, but there was still no lotus root missing. Zhao Yeqing put all the lotus roots that Mu Xi had thrown up on the shore into a bamboo basket. There were not many lotus roots, but there were a lot of lotus roots. A little more than the two imagined.

Zhao Yeqing had never grown lotus roots before. Looking at the half-basket of lotus root strips, he guessed: "Is it possible that they are not fully developed, or that they are not fully mature yet?"

Mu Xi had no more gains in the lotus pond. He was about to go ashore. His feet slowly moved towards the edge of the lotus pond. Suddenly, he encountered a familiar slippery foot. He quickly reached down and fished out the brown loach from the pond. Suddenly he was thrown to the shore.

The water droplets that were thrown out just fell on Zhao Yeqing's body. The water droplets were not clear, and the black and yellow color of the underground soil was very obvious on his face.

Zhao Yeqing was sprayed all over her body and her face was covered with confusion when a slippery touch suddenly came from her feet, which scared her so much that she jumped three feet high.

After seeing clearly that it was a loach, he stroked his chest in shock and looked at Mu Xi with a ferocious look.

"Okay, okay, revenge, right?"

Seeing her wringing her hands, rolling up her sleeves, taking off her shoes and about to jump into the pool, Mu Xi quickly stopped her and apologized: "I'm wrong, wrong, I really didn't mean it, I just didn't choose the direction to throw it up in. Don't come down, there's still water in the water." Some of the rocks have not been cleaned, so be careful to prick your feet."

On the edge of the pond, the sun was shining, and the breeze was blowing and swaying the lotus leaves, which were still filled with water droplets that had just splashed on them. Zhao Yeqing was sitting on the large grass next to him, and was coaxed by Mu Xi for a while before he was reluctantly coaxed.

In fact, he wasn't really angry. The main reason was that he was coaxing him seriously, so he just looked at his nervous look, which was quite interesting.

Seeing that he was finally coaxed, Mu Xi breathed a sigh of relief. He wanted to jump back and feel if there were any more loaches, but Zhao Yeqing stopped him: "Don't go down, it's so cold inside, let's talk about it tomorrow."

This is how it is in the mountains. The hotter the weather, the colder it is. When the weather gets colder, the water becomes warmer.

I soaked in the rivers and streams in the mountains. I felt cool when I first got in. After I got used to the water temperature, I unknowingly spent time playing and caught a cold when I got home.

Mu Xi followed Zhao Yeqing into the yard dragging a bamboo basket of lotus roots. He dragged it to the backyard and turned on the faucet to clean the lotus roots.

Zhao Yeqing took the freshly dried and still steaming ginger from the yard, cut it into slices, put it into a pot and boiled it into ginger soup.

The hotter the weather, the easier it is to catch a cold if you don't pay attention. They both drank a bowl, and after staying outside for a long time, there was a thin layer of sweat on their backs. It would be cooler inside the house, and this sweat would make it easier to catch a cold. .

Zhao Yeqing took out all the lotus root strips that Mu Xi had washed, packed them in bags and put them in the refrigerator. The bags were sealed. The cross section of the lotus root strips is very easy to oxidize, and the surface is also easy to oxidize. If a sealed bag is not used, it will oxidize in less than a day. Turned yellow and turned black.

Set aside a large plate for stir-fry tonight.

As for the lotus roots, Zhao Yeqing hasn't figured out how to eat them yet. Although the output is not high, there must be something wrong with the two people's breeding methods, but two people can't finish the two hundred kilograms of lotus roots dug out.

"So why did we finish digging then?"

Zhao Yeqing asked the soul question, but was stopped by Mu Xi. The two of them were speechless for a moment. After a while, Mu Xi said:

"How about making it into lotus root starch?"

With so much lotus root to eat, making lotus root starch is the fastest way to consume it.

Isn't this a bit too wasteful? Zhao Yeqing remembers that it took two full years to finish the kudzu powder they made. Even if they only use 100 kilograms of lotus root to make lotus root powder, they can get nearly five, Six kilograms.

It doesn't sound like much, but it tastes like a lot. Every time you eat a bowl, put a few spoons in each bowl, and you can eat five or six kilograms of lotus root starch for a long time.

Mu Xi opened the cabinet and found that the osmanthus honey he had made before had been used up. "Last time I said I was going to get some osmanthus, but I was busy and forgot about it. I'll go there in the next two days and get more to make honey." You can make tea."

There are flowers everywhere in this season, and bees can live in any beehive placed outside. The two made a curtain to protect the beehive from rain, leaving only a few slits exposed for the bees to fly in and fly in. Out, usually even in the rainy season, the rain will not wet the hive.

The yield is not high, but the honey produced every year is enough for two people to feed for a year.

Zhao Yeqing went to the lotus pond to dig some mud and came back, intending to use the sticky and wet mud to preserve the lotus roots.