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

The scope of the yard is limited, and only two plants can be planted, and the rest will be planted in the grain field.

This is a habit that Zhao Yeqing developed in Meishan. The vegetables grown outside the yard were easily destroyed and eaten by wild animals. Only the small vegetable garden in the yard was her most guaranteed source of food.

This habit is the same here. If she can plant it in the backyard, she won't plant it outside. If it can't be planted in the yard, she will leave two plants and plant the rest outside.

At first, the two of them piled firewood beside the fence directly behind the backyard. Later, due to heavy snowfall in winter, the original firewood shed was knocked down. Later, they helped it up and was knocked down again, until they built a space inside the brick wall. The firewood was moved in.

The original firewood shed was located where the banana and citrus trees are now.

It is much easier to store firewood inside than outside. However, as there are more and more equipment, electrical appliances, machinery, etc. in the home, especially large tools such as walking tractors, the tool room cannot accommodate them. Yes, it was easy to get damp when placed in the basement, so the firewood had to be moved outside.

There are not many opportunities to use it in daily life, that is, it is used occasionally when the wood stove is used, or when smoking bacon and sausages. The stock of firewood at home has also become less, so it is piled in the corner of the backyard.

When the two moved the firewood away and tried to build a scaffolding to plant passion fruit, they found that the space was still too small, and they could only plant one plant at most.

The passion fruit is then climbing vines, so the scaffolding needs to be square and some grids are laid on top. When the vines cover the grid, there will be a shadow underneath that is completely blocked from the sun.

This thing grows luxuriantly, and the area of ​​this piece of land is only about two square meters. If the passion fruit climbs up in the later stage, the support in this area will only be enough for one plant to grow at most. If there is one more plant, the sunlight will be competed with each other. , or the bracket cannot bear the load.

Zhao Yeqing thought about it and decided to give up the traditional planting method and use ordinary climbing vegetables to build a triangular frame for planting, so that the two plants would not interfere with each other and the space would be suitable.

Passion fruits planted in grain fields have to be put on a shelf, and you can't put all your eggs in the same basket.

Large-scale planting of passion fruit requires ridging. The walking tractor accessories that the two brought back this time happened to have a ridging tool. They plowed and plowed the land once before making ridging. Each ridge was spaced more than two meters apart. The distance between plants is about one and a half meters.

We don't have many seedlings at home this time, only about twenty. If all are planted, half the survival rate will be enough for two people to feed them for a year.

Zhao Yeqing thought about it, this thing can be stored, not that it can be kept fresh for a long time, but that the pulp can be dug out and frozen into pieces in the refrigerator. It can be used directly to soak in water in the summer.

If you are lucky and the harvest is high, you can plant it once and eat it for two years.

But Zhao Yeqing has never eaten passion fruit that has been frozen for two years.

Passion fruits can be planted and then scaffolded. After all, there is a process from seedlings to vines. The two planted passion fruits in the wheat field, which is the land closest to the door of their house. The wheat they planted this year is a small harvest. , it is estimated that there will be no need to plant it next year.

The two of them thought that if the passion fruit they planted this year didn't work, they would wait until next spring to use this frame to continue planting. After all, it is normally the right time to sow and plant this thing in spring.

It's just that the weather now is different from before. The temperature does not fluctuate much throughout the year. It doesn't matter if you have succeeded in raising seedlings and tried various methods.

I set up a stand to cut down the bamboo forest behind the house. After cutting down the slightly larger bamboos, I split the bamboo joints and saw the familiar bamboo insects inside.

The bamboo worms in their mountains here are not the fat ones as thick as a finger, but smaller ones, about the thickness of the tip of a chopstick. They are fried in oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper, and they taste very fragrant. It smells like bugs.

After so many years of chopping bamboo, the two of them got tired of eating bamboo worms. This time they harvested a small pile. Zhao Yeqing threw it directly into the chickens and ducks. The next second, it seemed like they were picking up money with money scattered from the sky. That's called chaos.

A bamboo insect landed on the head of a chicken, and the top of the chicken's head was almost bald after being pecked.

The benefit of chickens eating bugs is very obvious, that is, they lay eggs.

In the next two days, the egg production at home increased by one-third. Zhao Yeqing cooked five or six hard-boiled eggs every day and put them in bowls in the kitchen. He was a little tired from growing passion fruit recently, and he felt hungry after physical exertion. When you come back to drink water, you can eat one in two mouthfuls.

The yolk aroma of free-range eggs is the richest, and it will not get stuck in your throat when cooked. If you are tired of boiled eggs, add marinade to make them into braised eggs. The extra salty aroma will make them easier to eat.

The dogs at home also eat a hard-boiled egg every morning. A dog of this size can eat eggs every day without any pressure. His coat is smooth and smooth, and he looks majestic when he takes the cattle and sheep out.

Mu Xi came in from the outside and handed the unused thin hemp rope to Zhao Yeqing: "There's half left. You put it away first. I'm going to take a shower. It's too hot."

The days after the rain are always extremely hot and muggy, and the real cooling will not come until the muggy heat passes.

This thin hemp rope was used to tie the passion fruit and the bracket so that it could find a way to climb up. Zhao Yeqing put away the thin hemp rope and went to the pond with a small sickle.

During this period, the lotus leaves are already at their most luxuriant and will wither after a while if not picked.

Cut a small bundle and put it in the yard to dry. Once dried, it can also be used to make tea.

In addition to causing internal heat in the upper respiratory tract, the heat during this period is also prone to intestinal problems. Drinking some lotus leaf tea can help cleanse the intestines.

Mu Xi didn't need to go out of his way to popularize this, she could also know something about it.

I wonder which office worker who sits for a long time, especially those who need to lose weight, doesn’t know about lotus leaf tea.

There were too many fish in the fish pond. The small fish that had spawned in the spring had grown into big fish. Zhao Yeqing waved the net and picked up two big ones. He walked to the wooden fence and without hesitation Throw it out.

Two lively carps were thrown away with a look of horror on their faces and fell on the meadow not far away.

Zhao Yeqing turned around and walked back. This was not the first time she had done this. She knew that as long as the fish was thrown out and came back for more than an hour, it would definitely be picked up by some animal.

It’s not a waste if you can’t finish it yourself.

When I went home, I caught a few more and took them back. After they were raised and vomited out, Mu Xi slaughtered them and prepared them for snacks.