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

Zhao Yeqing was looking forward to their arrival at the meadow. Finally, when Mu Xi went to the city to buy agricultural supplies for the cotton base and heard that his second cousin had given birth to a big fat girl, he brought the news and fertilizers and pesticides back to the meadow. The large army from the city finally arrived at the meadow.

The people who came to estimate the wind resources last time had already surveyed the location for building the wind power station and directly chose the previous tourist area, where there was more flat land and better construction conditions.

Large white fans are arranged and built on the undulating hills.

The people in the engineering department wanted to build a signal tower first to facilitate communication with the city, but the signal tower could not supply electricity without wind power generation. The communications department built a small base station that only consumed more than 30 degrees a day, and brought it here to be powered by solar power and a generator.

When the super-large fan blades were made in the city and sent to Caoyuan, Zhao Yeqing was finally able to lie on the bed at Caoyuan's home and surf the Internet as he wished.

After the Internet was connected, the equipment in the cotton fields was upgraded from LAN connection to Internet monitoring. The cameras set up around the greenhouse and the real-time transmission of soil health conditions allowed the two people to manage dozens of acres of cotton bases while lying at home.

However, this year is not so leisurely. According to Zhao Yeqing, this year is the first year of her entrepreneurship. Even if the cotton base can be managed without worry, she still has to prepare for the subsequent animal husbandry.

Due to artificial intervention in cattle and sheep breeding, originally there were only two old cows that could reproduce. Every year the old cow in the family had to work hard to give birth to calves, because only one cow was not related by blood and could mate. Now it is different, as the city can provide new breeding bulls and cows.

There is also artificial intervention in the breeding of goats and sheep.

After the road was open to traffic, Mu Xi first went to the city to order a large amount of building materials, moved them to the meadow, borrowed two people from the engineering department, and built a long row of animal sheds outside the yard in preparation for subsequent animal husbandry.

The Engineering Department was also easy to talk to, thanks to Zhao Yeqing who often went to offer warmth and was worried that they didn't have fresh vegetables and chicken and duck meat, so he would send them over from time to time, and sometimes even two roasted chickens.

I am grateful to you for helping me. I am just borrowing two people to do two days of work. Why wouldn’t I agree?

There was a lot of competition for the spots to go. Their home had all the delicious food and drinks, which was better than the dry work meals in the department.

During the growing season of the cotton fields, the livestock were taken care of and the dragon fruit and passion fruit were transplanted into the fields.

Zhao Yeqing stood on the balcony on the second floor in a daze.

There are lush fields, more and more livestock, and from a distance you can see large white fans standing tall. From time to time, the mobile phones in your hands can receive the ringtone of family group message alerts.

It feels like it’s time.

She turned on her cell phone, called up Feng Lixuan's chat window, and asked him to help order a batch of saplings.

The planting department in the city started breeding various seedlings after the polar night. They had the same idea as Zhao Yeqing at the beginning. The natural disasters in recent years were both natural disasters and man-made disasters. What was taken from nature must be returned.

There is no charge for the saplings. They are mainly used to replant the cut-down trees for the villagers living in the mountains. The city will also send people regularly to replant the cleared forests. If you have enough money, you can give a symbolic amount of money, which will also be used for the expenses of re-breeding saplings.

The phone received a message from Feng Lixuan.

Feng Lixuan: Got it! Arrange it right away!

Feng Lixuan: (extending his hand) Send me money!

Zhao Yeqing: I don’t have the money. I won’t give it to you. I still owe the city a large sum of money. I can only pay it back after the cotton harvest. We’ll talk about it then.

Feng Lixuan: (crying) The department has no funds! I live a hard life every day! Without two kiln chickens and a roast duck, the pain cannot be made up!

Zhao Yeqing: ...I got it. I’ll give you another roast goose.

Feng Lixuan: (love) (love) (love) (rose) (rose) (rose)

During the years the two had been in the mountains, the birch and pine forests were the most severely cut down.

The pine trees were fine, as there were quite a lot of pine seedlings being bred in the city, but the birch trees were not among the options for breeding. The city asked people to collect birch seeds and bring them back, asking Zhao Yeqing to plant the pine trees first and add the birch trees later.

Zhao Yeqing and Mu Xi went to plant trees together. This was where animal footprints were most frequent before, but now there are fewer traces visible to the naked eye.

"There are many traces of human activities on the meadow, so this is inevitable."

This is also the reason why Zhao Yeqing plans to build the animal shed outside the wooden fence in the future. Now there are not even many signs of fox activities nearby.

The city also gave the two of them surveillance alarm devices. Whenever there is an incident similar to the previous wild boar attack, the camera can use thermal sensing and AI to detect signs of animals from a distance, then send an alarm to the people in the house, and then turn on the strong light drive button with one click to drive away the approaching wild animals.

In addition to the saplings, there are also meadows that are gnawing on by a large number of livestock. Zhao Yeqing re-soaked grass seeds in the grass circle that had not been used for several years, and opened two more pastures nearby. This time one is larger than the previous two. Now that the two have tractors, they are not worried about not being able to handle the work.

They have been spending money all the time, and in order to make up for the losses, the two of them have woven all the silk they harvested in the past two years into silk cloth. Now that they can get a shop in the city, Zhao Yeqing wants to open a small shop to sell things, but he doesn't want to be restricted by a shop, and he doesn't want to spend money to hire people.

Mu Xi contacted Brother Zhao and asked him to introduce some wealthy customers. When Brother Zhao found out that the customer wanted to sell mulberry silk fabrics, he immediately promised to help introduce customers.

Brother Zhao said bluntly: "I don't take a commission. What you sell doesn't conflict with what I sell. Just consider it as helping a friend. When I make money and want to buy, you can give me a discount."

Zhao Yeqing likes this kind of free and straightforward style. He plans to make a set of silk summer short-sleeved shorts pajamas for people after the next batch of silk cloth comes out.

In summer, there is more cloth left over.

There's no way, they are too poor now.

This kind of poverty lasted until the autumn of the ninth year after the ground cracked, when the cotton was finally harvested.

Under Grandma Sun's management, the yield of each cotton field has more than doubled, and she has generously shared her years of planting experience with others.

Zhao Yeqing kept all of this in mind. When the cotton was sent to the city to offset the previous debts with some surplus, and when he sold the silk cloth to earn his first pot of gold, Mu Xi invited a decoration team from the city to redecorate the house.

The original main house, which was made of wood, was demolished and a basement was dug out for storage.

The original main house was built as a brick house with a basement floor and two floors above ground, with two rooms on both the first and second floors.

The wooden fence was moved outward, and a large silage pit and hay house were built on the side close to the broad-leaved forest to supply the large number of cattle and sheep that followed.

A small bungalow with two rooms was added outside the yard. This was something Zhao Yeqing had already anticipated. In the future, when she raised more cattle and sheep, she would have to hire someone to manage them, and then she could be her own boss.

Feng Lixuan fought hard for this position.

But the whole family unanimously rejected the idea. The city still needed people, and it would be impossible for a young man like Feng Lixuan who had already become familiar with his job to retire before the age of fifty.

But the city has now relaxed some of its employment policies, especially for those who have become disabled due to natural disasters. There are no restrictions on what they can do or whether they have to stay in the city.

Ten years after the earth broke apart.

The number of livestock at home had doubled, and the shearing and sorting of wool alone made Zhao Yeqing's eyes go dark. She posted a job posting online, and a couple came. They didn't know much about animal husbandry, but when they were young, their family grew up in the countryside, and they had herded cattle and sheep, and they didn't mind the dirt and tiring work.

She said that food and accommodation were provided, and even the salary was negotiable, but they still came to ask.

Zhao Yeqing said directly on the phone: "I can't offer you a very high salary, but I will definitely not treat you badly in terms of food and accommodation."

The wife said: "We don't have suitable jobs in the city, so we can only survive by hard labor. When we were young, we lived freely in the mountains. When we grew up, we worked in factories and wanted to go back to our hometown to get married and have children after making money. But we couldn't go back before we made money. As it is now, we might as well go back to the place we like."

Both of them were beaten by reactionaries. The wife had her ears cut off and the husband had his fingers chopped off. Mu Xi took them to the meadow and asked Zhao Yeqing to take another look.

The young couple, the wife's surname is Yang and the husband's surname is Wang. They are younger than Zhao Yeqing and Mu Xi. Their hometown is in the Northeast. They think they will never be able to go back in this life, and they can't find a suitable job in the city.

Xiao Wang is a taciturn man who rarely smiles. He is quite tall. Zhao Yeqing asked them if they had made up their minds. Xiao Wang said, "My wife is unhappy every day in the city, and I am not happy either. This place is nice, and it is a bit like our hometown."

They said they would try the job for a few days first. Zhao Yeqing observed carefully and found that both of them were not fussy people and worked very hard, so he decided to keep them.

Ten years after the ground cracked, Zhao Yeqing and Mu Xi finally got their wish of becoming bosses.

Grandma Sun now basically lives on the meadow. Originally, when she saw that the base was getting on track, she wanted to leave, but Zhao Yeqing thought that if she let her go back, she would be an old lady all alone, so Zhao Yeqing did not let her go and pestered Grandma Sun to stay on the meadow to accompany her.

Grandma Sun agreed, but moved her luggage to a room on the first floor of the new two-story brick house, saying that she would live there from now on.

Zhao Yeqing didn't understand, but Mu Xi understood it immediately.

The old lady was thinking of making room for the two of them.

That night, a man who had been suppressed for a long time and dared not take any big action could not wait to take action. Zhao Yeqing scolded him shamelessly with shame and anger, but he could not bear the man's hoarse voice shouting in his ear again and again:

"Wife..."

Finally, she thought drowsily, forget it, it wasn't the busy farming season yet, and she didn't have to move anyway, so she might as well enjoy herself.

Mu Xi wanted to hold a wedding ceremony again. Zhao Yeqing was not obsessed with this, but Mu Xi was more insistent than her. She said that it had to be a sense of ceremony so that she could still remember it when she was old.

There were no miscellaneous friends or colleagues to invite. Only the Feng family, assistant, Brother Zhao and a few familiar friends in the city, as well as Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng from the team were invited.

When Mrs. Feng knew that they were going to re-hold their wedding, she took out her folding reading glasses from her pocket and put them on, opened the drawer, took out the old almanac, and found a good day.

When Mu Xi answered the phone and heard the time the old lady mentioned, he couldn't help but blurt out: "So long?"

The old lady said that she had to leave time to sew the wedding dress.

Zhao Yeqing was shocked to hear the news that an old lady in her nineties still had to pick up needle and thread, so he hurriedly called the old lady back and told her that it was not necessary.

Mrs. Feng: "It's not made from scratch, it's just modified. The wedding dress is the one your grandmother wore. According to the custom at that time, it had to be passed down to the daughter to wear after her wedding. There was a meaning behind embroidering some new patterns on the wedding dress before she wore it."

Zhao Yeqing repeatedly said that just adding a little would be enough, and the finished product she received exceeded her expectations.

A simple red wedding dress with different patterns embroidered on it with different stitches, including pomegranate flowers, dragons and phoenixes, magpies dancing around dragons and phoenixes, and intertwined branches embroidered by the old lady.

The wedding was held on a meadow and was lively from noon to midnight. The staff who were setting up the wind turbines nearby also came to have a drink at the wedding.

Everyone wore their most festive clothes. Even Xiao Hei's son, a few months old puppy, had a red bow tied around his neck. He ran around the two of them with his big round eyes open.

After the wedding, Mu Xi carefully considered their wedding photos and selected a few of them. He sent them to the city to have them enlarged and printed. He then made a huge photo frame and hung it in the house.

Every time Zhao Yeqing entered the house, he would see a magnified version of his face hanging above the fireplace. After enduring for a few days, he still couldn't help but take down the photo frame. It was too embarrassing.

I just reluctantly kept the one in the room, at least it wouldn't be seen by others.

Before selling the cotton to the city last year, she kept a small portion for spinning and weaving. Her efficiency was a bit low, but the rich people in the city who bought her silk cloth did not like the things produced on the assembly line in the city, and preferred the cotton cloth woven by Zhao Yeqing's hands.

From time to time, she would weave a few pieces of cloth and ask Mu Xi to take them to the city to sell. She would drive there. In addition to cotton cloth, she also sold silk cloth. Because the round trip was long, she would go to the city about once a month. Unless the customer paid extra money, she would rarely break this rule.

As for why they drove, it was because when they were building the road to the meadow, the gas station was discovered and confiscated. The two of them had no more gasoline and were reluctant to fly the helicopter.

Customers who are in urgent need of goods will receive extra gasoline subsidies, so they will fly helicopters into the city to deliver goods.

After paying off their debts last year, they expanded their farmland by a few acres, and the two of them could save a lot from weaving cloth.

September 3043, the autumn of the tenth year after the Earth Shattering.

The cotton base had its second round of harvest, and large bales of cotton were transported to the city, along with seven sheep and five pigs.

The two made a fortune.

In March 3044, when the next round of seeding was about to begin, the signals across the country were finally connected. With the help of the national interconnection system, many people found their family and friends who had been lost for many years.

Zhao Yeqing hesitated for two days, and finally, while lying in bed late at night, she mustered up the courage to search for her bestie's name on the internet. When she saw the avatar with her own photo light up, the last bit of darkness in her heart was finally broken. She enlarged the photo and looked at it several times, unable to hide the joy on her face.

Before she could click on the contact button, the person behind her raised his hand and put his arms around Zhao Yeqing's waist, holding her tightly in his arms from behind.

Zhao Yeqing was about to struggle and say that she was busy, but Mu Xi grasped the soft flesh around her waist and turned her around. Her eyes were fixed on the scar on Mu Xi's neck, and the distinct Adam's apple on it slid up and down. The sound she made was a little aggrieved:

"Why don't you take a look at me, Mr. Zhao?"

She smiled and replied: "I'm watching, why are you jealous? We still have to watch for decades."

Yes, they still have long and wonderful decades ahead of them.