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

She found that when the water flowed from one device to another, the water pressure was not enough, so it would all flow down through the small holes and fail to flow to the next device successfully.

Increasing the water pressure will definitely not work. Not to mention the trouble, it may also cause the water flow to be too fast and the water will not flow through the small holes.

Only the shape of the small hole can be improved.

Zhao Yeqing tried several times and changed the small hole that was originally straight up and down into a funnel shape, wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, to ensure that when the water comes in, it can stay in the device for a while and then flow down, so that the water can reach the next device smoothly. .

One problem is solved, and there is the next one.

It’s not just the water flow issue, it’s the drainage issue.

The drainage excavation made before was relatively shallow and the slope was not enough. It could only cope with short-term rains without problems. Now that this device is installed, it is still prone to problems if it is used every day.

The entire drainage ditch needs to be dug again, and the slope needs to be adjusted. This work cannot be done during the day. It can only be carried out after five or six o'clock, when the sun sets behind the mountains and the temperature drops slightly.

Then there is the issue of load bearing.

Installed on the roof of the greenhouse, it is just a half piece of bamboo. The weight is not heavy and can only be borne by the frame of the greenhouse.

However, there are bamboo water channels connecting the devices, so load-bearing columns need to be erected on the ground.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yeqing ran towards Mu Xi again.

Mu Xi had already sawed off the branches of the big tree and was sawing the thickest trunk.

Seeing Zhao Yeqing running over again, he stopped her and asked, "Why are you running around?"

Zhao Yeqing shared his ideas and experimental results, "I'm just here to see if you have any suitable branches for load-bearing columns."

Cedar trees also have thick branches. The thickest one Mu Xi cut was as thick as the mouth of a large bowl, almost as thick as the main trunk of a small greening tree on the roadside in the city.

Mu Xi followed her request and found the branches she needed, then removed all the prickly leaves and branches.

"You go back first, I will help you drag it back later."

It's true that she can't just drag it around, and she's not in a hurry. There isn't enough bamboo for the waterway now, so she has to cut it down.

Zhao Yeqing collected and bundled the small branches and carried them home as firewood.

While pruning the vegetable field, she saw that the pumpkin that she had not picked before had now turned from yellow to a beautiful orange color. She could wait a little longer before picking it, but she couldn't help it.

We have crab porridge in the evening. Crab porridge is salty, so if it is salty, it must also be sweet.

This makes sense.

After Zhao Yeqing convinced himself, he went to the vegetable garden and picked the only mature pumpkin.

It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and she planned to cook the porridge first. Making porridge was a time-consuming task.

Crab porridge and pumpkin porridge cannot be porridge. They must be cooked until they bloom and the whole pot of rice becomes sticky.

Zhao Yeqing split the pumpkin he picked just now into two halves with a knife, scooped out the pumpkin seeds in the middle and put them in a bowl. He then used a paring knife to scrape off all the skin and cut it into small pieces.

You definitely don’t need a whole pumpkin to cook pumpkin porridge, so divide the rest into two bags and put them in the freezer.

The crabs are still kept in the bamboo tube, with a stone covering the top to prevent them from crawling out.

Small stream crabs are different from hairy crabs. The water quality they live in is clean and clear running water, and there is almost no dirt on their bodies.

Zhao Yeqing used chopsticks to put the small crabs into a plastic bottle one by one. Some of them still held the chopsticks and refused to leave. She threw them down hard. Then she added water to the bottle, screwed on the lid and shook it vigorously.

Some fine sediment was washed out, and all the little crabs inside were dizzy. At this time, they were poured out and split into two halves with a knife.

Scrape off the old skin from the ginger, cut it into thin slices with a knife, put the sliced ​​crab and ginger into a casserole filled with rice and water, cover it, light the fire on the small coal stove, and simmer slowly for two hours. .

Chop the pumpkin as much as possible and put it into the rice cooker filled with rice and water.

Today I went to Xiaoshuitan to escape the summer heat. I almost didn’t turn on the fan during the day, so there was a slight surplus of electricity. The lack of a stove meant that I could use the rice cooker to cook porridge.

The big pot on the stove will stir-fry some more food.

I asked Mu Xi and he said that smoked wild boar meat needs to be boiled in water, otherwise it will be too hard.

After boiling water and cooking the smoked wild boar meat for forty minutes, the originally tightened meat stretched a little, and when pinched with your fingers, it was no longer so hard.

Take it out and cut into thin slices with a knife.

Zhao Yeqing fished out a handful of pickled bracken from the jar in the corner. This was made in spring. Now the bracken in the jar has turned yellow and soft, and smells like prunes.

I picked two millet peppers from the vegetable garden. The temperature was too high and the recent millet peppers have not turned red. The same goes for tomatoes. The lycopene cannot accumulate. One part of the tomato fruit is red, one yellow and one white.

Fortunately, you can eat millet peppers even if they are green, and they are spicy enough.

Smash two cloves of garlic flat with a knife and throw them into the hot oil pan. Add the millet and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the washed pickled bracken.

The pickled bracken needs to be stir-fried with enough oil to make it fragrant, and finally the smoked wild boar slices are added.

The pickled bracken and smoked wild boar are both salty and can be cooked without any additional seasoning.

Both kinds of porridge would take another hour to cook. Zhao Yeqing washed his hands and walked to the yard to turn the dried peaches.

The dried peaches that had been in the sun for a day were already a little wilted, like candied preserved fruits.

It can be collected and eaten now, but the preserved fruit is not easy to store. After another day in the sun and turned into dried peaches, the storage time will be doubled.

She couldn't help but eat a piece. The rich peach flavor was sweet and juicy, and it was more fruity than eating peaches directly.

When I cooked the peach meat in the morning, there was a lot of peach water left in the pot. This water was comparable to freshly squeezed juice.

Zhao Yeqing poured the peach water into the pot. The pink peach water looked particularly beautiful in the transparent glass pot. She went to the small vegetable garden to pick two mint leaves, patted them with her hands and put them in.

This was enough to be posted on WeChat Moments. She couldn't help but take a photo to record it. Maybe she could post it someday.

Mu Xi had already brought back the thick branches she wanted to use and the wood for making the table.

Several bamboos were needed to make the installation, and Mu Xi said he would cut them back tomorrow.

Zhao Yeqing took advantage of the fact that the porridge was still not ready and dug the drainage ditch first.

The previous drainage was relatively shallow, the soil in the ditch was relatively loose, water easily seeped and was difficult to drain away, and the angle was not particularly good.

Zhao Yeqing dug a new drainage ditch from high to low. Every time he dug a drainage ditch outside the shed, he stepped hard on it with his feet and compacted the soil.

It took half an hour to build only two ditches, which was half a small vegetable garden.

The porridge on the stove is ready to be cooked. It is difficult to control the heat when burning firewood. The porridge cooked in a casserole will inevitably have a slightly mushy bottom. If there is no burnt smell from the outside, it is not a big problem.

Zhao Yeqing wrapped it in two wet handkerchiefs and took the casserole off the small coal stove. His hands still couldn't bear the heat, so he quickly put them on his ears to cool down.

The heat in my hands faded away, and I opened the lid of the casserole, and a smell of rice mixed with the unique sweetness of crabs wafted out...