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

Less than half a year later, Grandma Sun was brought to the meadow by Mu Xi again.

With the arrival of spring, their small cotton base is about to start sowing for the first time.

Before planting, the land has to be rested again, and Grandma Sun supervises the whole process.

She loves eating spring bamboo shoots the most. Every morning when she gets up or comes back from the fields, she goes to the back of the house to see if there are any new bamboo shoots.

She took time out of her busy schedule to manage the cotton fields to eat the leftover fresh spring bamboo shoots. She put them into a newly bought transparent glass jar and added mountain spring water to pickle them into sour bamboo shoots.

When Zhao Yeqing woke up in the morning, she saw a pile of bamboo shoots in the yard. She had no choice but to persuade him: "Grandpa Zhang said that you should eat less bamboo shoots at your age. It's hard to digest."

Grandma Sun kept saying "hmmmm" in response, and when she saw Zhao Yeqing looking at her, she finally said, "I'll just have two more meals and then I won't eat..."

His tone sounded somewhat pitiful. Zhao Yeqing smiled and said, "It's not like I won't let you come. You can come whenever you want next year or the year after. I can't say anything else. As long as there's food to be found in the mountains, I'll make sure you're full."

Grandma Sun also smiled: "Your place is good, the soil is fertile, unlike the mountains in my hometown, which are full of rocks and difficult to grow crops."

Speaking of soil quality, Zhao Yeqing actually didn't quite understand, "Why do you say that it's easy to grow cotton here? And I have to plant the seeds so many days in advance."

Although the soil is relatively fertile and there is sufficient sunlight, there is so much rain in the autumn that if we hadn't found someone to help us in the early stages, we would have never been able to reclaim all the land at home.

Grandma Sun glanced at her and said that she was ungrateful for what she had: "The meadows here have been inhabited by cattle, sheep, and all kinds of creatures for years. To put it bluntly, they eat, drink, defecate, and urinate on them. The soil is fertile, which is half the quality of other places, not to mention the sunlight that is most important for cotton."

As she spoke, Grandma Sun touched the tile floor and said, "Look how dry it is. When I came from the city a few days ago, the tile floors and walls in the city were already wet. You said before that the grasslands were also uncomfortable in the past few years, right? You haven't seen the city in those years."

Grandma Sun told Zhao Yeqing what happened after the polar night, and she finally understood what it meant to be unaware of what you have.

It is said that in those two years, when spring came in the city, the air was so steamy that breathing was like holding your breath in a hot spring. The windows in the house could not have even a crack and had to be closed as soon as you entered the house, otherwise the whole house would be flooded.

The weather got hot early, and it was humid and stuffy. Some people joked that if you put an electric mosquito swatter in the house, you don’t need to turn on the lights at home after turning it on, and the lights will be on all the time.

The city has been working overtime to produce mosquito repellent products since spring. Grandma Sun waved her hands and said, "Oh, it was a hard time. The electric mosquito coils used before could not kill mosquitoes, but only repel them. They were useless against the mosquitoes of those years. My old skin was swollen from the bites."

Finally, they could only go back to producing the old mosquito coils that were ignited in a coil, which was slightly poisonous. Every night, they would light a coil in the room and wait until the mosquitoes were driven away before going to bed.

"So, the return of the south wind here is actually not that serious, and the plum rain season can almost be considered negligible."

Grandma Sun picked up the cotton seeds and did the final screening: "What are the most important things when growing cotton? Fertilizer, sunlight and temperature. The soil here is fertile, so there will be no damage from the rainy season after planting. The summer is long and there is less fog, which can make up for the anthracnose and boll rot caused by humidity in the city."

"But we have the autumn rainy season here..." Zhao Yeqing said, and suddenly realized: "That's why we have to plant in advance! The temperature has started to rise now, and this is the unique advantage of the meadow you mentioned. We can plant early when the temperature rises, and we can plant and harvest early, avoiding the autumn rainy season!"

Grandma Sun smiled and nodded: "That's right."

Mu Xi came back by bike for lunch. Zhao Yeqing saw that his clothes were soaked with sweat in the temperature of over 10 degrees Celsius, so he asked him to take a hot shower and change clothes before eating to avoid catching a cold.

He was not allowed to go out in the afternoon. Zhao Yeqing asked him to build the dragon fruit rack at home.

She planned to use a piece of the grain field at the door to plant pitaya. The branches and leaves of the pitaya were limp, so she had to erect concrete pillars and tie the branches and leaves to them.

However, the dragon fruit seedlings also need to be picked up in the city, and it will take another one or two years for the seedlings to grow, so it is not something that needs to be done now. Mu Xi knew that Zhao Yeqing was worried about him being too tired, and just as he was about to say that they had just arrived, Zhao Yeqing rushed him onto the plane.

"Then go get the dragon fruit and passion fruit seedlings back."

It took more than three hours to go back and forth to the city. When Mu Xi got off the plane with the fruit seedlings, Zhao Yeqing had already returned from work.

He said: "I saw the progress of the road construction from the plane. The front part has been completed. Now they are digging a road around the deep pit in the next city. As long as that section is paved, it will be fast to move forward."

The repair material developed in the city is very strong, just like a ready-made small bridge. People can pass directly over the crack, but it can only support cracks within 30 meters in width, and only people can pass, not cars.

After people have passed, support pillars will be put on both sides of the crack to prop up the unsupported bridge in the middle so that cars can pass. After the main force leaves, some people will be left behind to use original building materials, such as steel bars and cement, to repair the crack from narrow to wide.

The road was less damaged and did not require much repair, as long as you could get through the cracks to reach the meadow.