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

Generally, after putting the mulberry leaves on, it is best to finish eating within an hour. If left for too long, they will become stale. Silkworms are oligophagous animals and eat a huge amount of food. It is very easy to eat stale mulberry leaves. Get ill.

In particular, they digest very quickly and will suffer from diarrhea after eating. If the slightly wilted mulberry leaves mixed with silkworm pellets are eaten by silkworms, trouble will come.

In mild cases, diarrhea may occur; in severe cases, diarrhea may result in diarrhea and death.

The two of them returned to the ground, had lunch, and came back more than an hour after feeding.

The mulberry leaves on both sides were almost eaten. After inspection, it was found that there were a lot of broken mulberry leaves left in the silkworm seats where individual mulberry leaves were fed. This situation is very common during normal feeding.

The silkworm seat with mulberry branches placed directly next door gave Zhao Yeqing a small surprise.

"The silkworms climb up directly to eat. The fallen and dirty mulberry leaves are less likely to be eaten, and there are very few fallen mulberry leaves that are broken. This method is good!"

She picked up a bare mulberry branch and checked that there were no silkworms on it before taking it off. The mulberry leaves on the mulberry branch had been eaten.

Mu Xi looked at the silkworm seat: "This silkworm crawls onto the mulberry leaves to eat. The silkworm pellets fall under the silkworm seat. There are almost no broken leaves in the silkworm pellets. It is much easier to collect medicinal materials."

I just don’t know if this method is enough for mulberry trees.

The grown-up mulberry tree is not much different from other trees. The trunk becomes lignified and rough, and only the newly grown branches are still as fresh and green as an herbaceous plant.

The growth rate is not too impressive either. Compared to other trees that don’t grow many branches and leaves in a year, the branches and leaves of mulberry trees should grow very fast, but the trunks grow very slowly, and it’s rare to see them grow very big. mulberry tree.

The branching speed will be faster in spring. It is autumn now and the temperature is not the most suitable for the growth of mulberry trees. If we blindly use mulberry branches to raise silkworms, I am afraid that the supply of mulberry trees at home will be even worse.

Zhao Yeqing, who has already gained experience, is not impatient. At most, he will clean the silkworm seats a few more times. If he is more diligent, the silkworms will not get sick easily.

Mu Xi picked a basket of oranges in the backyard and shouted to the basement: "Stop looking, come up and eat the oranges."

During this period, the oranges are so sweet that you don’t even need to open your mouth to try them. You will know that from time to time, one or two fruits will have wormholes on them. Don’t be afraid if there are worms. Just throw away the ones that have been drilled by the worms. The rest will be fine. Orange segments are still edible.

In the past, Zhao Yeqing would throw away the whole fruit when encountering this kind of thing. He didn't feel bad throwing away the ones he bought with money, but he couldn't bear to throw away the ones he had grown with great difficulty, so he just threw away the ones bitten by insects. .

Now I can better understand the reason why grandma's generation was reluctant to throw away things. It was not just because she was hungry. Since she was a child, she has heard the older generation keep talking about how she lived through the "food barrier" and ate both grass roots and tree bark. It’s even more because it was grown with hard work.

Every fruit I have seen since childhood, watered and fertilized, and looked forward to every day. They say it is food, but in fact it is comfort in a lonely life.

There were too many ripe fruits, and this year we got a bumper harvest as expected. Zhao Yeqing made some of the citrus into citrus jam. This thing is not very suitable for eating with bread and steamed buns, but more suitable for making drinks.

Add enough honey to the sauce in advance. If you want to drink citrus honey water later, use a clean spoon to scoop a small spoonful into the glass jar, put it into the water glass and shake it twice, and you will have a fruity drink. .

In the past few days, I have been staring at the silkworm seats in the basement. The silkworms have grown up, and the soybeans that Zhao Yeqing prepared to use for making sauce have also fermented.

Mu Xi picked the most mature watermelon. This watermelon was kept just for the sauce. It was already a little overripe and had a strong sweet taste, but the texture of the melon pulp had become soft. It was not very tasty when eaten as a fruit. It can be used It's perfect for making sauce.

While Zhao Yeqing was making melon bean paste, Mu Xi was kneading dough to make steamed buns and noodles.

The noodles made at home have been eaten up. This time, in addition to noodles, Mu Xi also wants to make some small wontons.

Compared to noodles, Zhao Yeqing prefers small wontons with thin skins and meat fillings. They are the kind that become thin and transparent after being cooked, not the thick-skinned ones from Sichuan and Chongqing.

The thick-skinned chaoshou is still too heavy to eat in the morning, because the skin is thicker, so it tastes better in either sour soup or red oil, which is more suitable for eating during the day and night.

The thin-skinned small wontons only need to be cooked in water, put soy sauce, scallion, shrimp skin and sesame oil on the bottom of the bowl, and then pour the hot water used to cook the wontons to make wonton soup.

There weren’t much shrimp left. They didn’t go to the lake to fish for shrimp this year. In total, the two of them hadn’t gone out much to observe the conditions in the meadow for two or three months. Zhao Yeqing took out the fried sauce and put it in a bowl. , looking at the steamer steaming the steamed buns, he said:

"We have been going out for the past two days. We went to graze together in the morning. We also went to put the shrimp pots by the lake before coming back. We haven't been there for so long. We are lucky that nothing happened to the cattle and sheep."

Mu Xi: "Actually, I originally thought about going to the village in the next two days to see if there is anything else that can be moved back, and to see the condition of the meadow. If the two of us go out together, we might as well go and get some gasoline. Add it back."

Driving around in the meadow can take more than an hour at most, and setting up shrimp pots only takes about ten minutes. Now that we are out, we can do all the things that need to be done before going out.

Zhao Yeqing thought it would work: "How about we go early in the morning? After feeding the silkworms, we can go out."

"Row."

The steamed buns come out of the oven. The hot steamed buns are the softest. There are two types of steamed buns made. Some of them are specially made into the thousand-layer steamed buns from Shandong Province. They add old noodles and fold them layer by layer before rolling them into dough. Get into the steamer.

This kind of steamed buns requires more flour, and when taken out, the weight is firmer than ordinary steamed buns, and it is extremely satisfying to bite into it.

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Delicious, love to eat

The steamed buns were a bit big, so the two of them could only share one, and they had to save some space for other steamed buns.

Not to mention eating it with melon bean sauce. Mu Xi originally thought it was a dark dish, but he didn't expect it to be so delicious.

It is salty and delicious, very appetizing. In addition, watermelon is put in it, which gives it an extra sweetness. This sweetness is different from the sauce with honey, white sugar and brown sugar. It is a very natural and fruity sweetness, which makes it more delicious. The sauce that was supposed to be very heavy with chili, onion and garlic became a bit refreshing.

It's impossible for people who have a sweet tooth not to like it. From the moment Mu Xi picked up the third steamed bun, Zhao Yeqing knew that the sauce was enough to satisfy his appetite. He originally wanted to eat some wontons, but now he could only eat it by himself. People enjoyed it.

The pasta was filling. Mu Xi could rarely eat so much, and the steamed buns were dry. Zhao Yeqing poured him a cup of goat milk that had been boiled and chilled to remove the fishy smell. The liquid soaked the steamed buns in his stomach. Mu Xi arrived. It was still going strong at eight o'clock in the evening.

I didn't even eat dinner, so I woke up the next morning craving this bite again.

The two of them ate steamed buns, and Zhao Yeqing planned to make some soy milk when he got back, so that he could eat it together during this time. He couldn't drink goat's milk every day, which made her gain weight.

It's not all without benefits. He doesn't go out to bask in the sun and drinks goat's milk at home. Zhao Yeqing is one degree whiter than last year.

Not only is he whiter, Zhao Yeqing feels like he has become rounder. He has spent less time working in the fields in the past two years, and a lot of labor has been replaced by mechanical equipment. In particular, in the past, he needed to chop wood for cooking, but now he can also use gasoline to convert electricity. Come and get it done.

The flesh on the body is not so tight now, and feels a little soft and tactile.