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

October 3033, 10, sunny, 26 degrees Celsius.

The two waited all night without sleeping, and climbed out of the cellar at five o'clock in the morning before the sun came up.

Today is finally the day to harvest rice.

Even if the two used all means to cool down and shade, the high temperature would inevitably have an impact on the harvest.

Fortunately, it was quite rewarding.

There is no water in the rice fields, the land is dry and hard, and there are a few leaves in the golden rice fields that are still green.

To cut rice, you need to be fully equipped - put on gloves, sleeves, and wrap your neck with cloth.

Mature rice leaves are hard and have sharp edges that can easily cut your hands. The dust they raise can get into your collar and make your skin itchy on contact.

The method of cutting rice is similar to that of thatch. The method is to grab the top of the root and cut it with a sickle, leaving a short length of rice stalk on the ground.

The area was not large, so the two of them finished mowing in an hour and a half. Seeing the piles of grain rising at the edge of the field, the fatigue of harvesting rice disappeared.

The joy brought by the harvest can comfort the tired soul and make people persist year after year.

Zhao Yeqing thought that when everything calmed down, she would take over all the fields under the mountain.

The satisfaction brought by a good harvest is delayed. After several months of waiting, it is more fulfilling than the instant gratification brought by playing videos on mobile phones in the past.

The harvested rice must be threshed first. There is definitely no threshing machine at home, so the two can only use primitive beating and threshing.

Mu Xi had made a threshing barrel out of wood two days ago. It was less than one meter high, square, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.

Zhao Yeqing had no experience and only relied on his childhood memories. He grabbed a handful of rice straws with both hands, held them at the roots, lifted the rice and slammed it against the wall of the barrel.

After the impact of the rice ears above, grains of rice were knocked to the bottom of the barrel.

A handful of rice needs to be beaten back and forth several times until all the rice on it is knocked off, then the straw in the hand is thrown down, and another handful is picked up to continue beating.

The two people in the field alternated their movements. You hit it down and I lifted it up. The rice hit the barrel, and the barrel had a large cavity, making the sound of "Bang!" Bang! Bang! ' sound.

The sound echoed in the forest for an hour, and the sound gradually stopped when the red sun appeared on the horizon.

The golden grains in the threshing bucket were already rising. Zhao Yeqing was leaning on the edge of the bucket, feeling tired and happy. Even Mu Xi relaxed his recent tense mood and curled up his mouth.

As the saying goes, if you have food at home, you will not panic.

Zhao Yeqing went home and took the sacks, put all the millet in them, and filled them all into three sacks.

I only have an old-fashioned steelyard at home, and the scale is too small to weigh.

Mu Xi picked up one bag with both hands and put it down, then picked up the other two bags. He weighed it several times before saying, "It should be a hundred kilograms."

Zhao Yeqing was very satisfied that one hundred kilograms of millet could be beaten to yield about seventy kilograms of rice. In fact, based on the area they planted, the harvest should be more than two hundred kilograms.

But their rice seeds were not carefully selected from the beginning, and the fertilizers were not applied according to the characteristics of the rice. They just applied whatever fertilizer they had at home, and then there was a long period of high temperature.

It’s really a series of twists and turns.

Fortunately, the result was good. Logically speaking, seventy kilograms of rice would be enough for the two of them for half a year, not to mention the confiscated corn and the remaining sweet potatoes and potatoes in the cellar.

There is no need to go out and look for supplies anymore.

Only this time, the temperature was too high and the weather was too abnormal.

Mu Xi speculated that if the high temperature continues, drought will either continue until water sources dry up, or there will be a counterattack and continuous heavy rainfall.

In either case, it is not suitable for growing crops.

Instead of just sitting there waiting for death, it's better to go out and see if you can find a way out.

As long as we can hold on and give the planet a little more time to complete its cleansing, it might be able to recover.

Zhao Yeqing felt that this time it was all kinds of things, as if the planet was sick, and the places with the worst industrial pollution were swallowed up by the cracks in the ground, as if it was pulling out the poisonous thorns that had pierced itself.

The main culprit is the people themselves.

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The two dumped the recovered millet on the cement floor of the yard. It still needs to be dried for a day before it can be stored. After drying the moisture, the millet will not become moldy.

It was too late to harvest the corn field, so Zhao Yeqing broke off a few corns and planned to eat roasted corn for lunch.

The rest will have to wait until the sun goes down to take it back.

He also took back the straw that was left after threshing the millet in the field, tied it up and put it in the yard to dry in the sun.

Zhao Yeqing grabbed a handful of fresh millet to comfort the chickens that were still surviving.

Now the chickens have been moved indoors and raised in Mu Xi's kitchen.

He built a chicken coop under the kitchen sink. He opened the faucet slightly and water dripped into the sink above the chicken coop, which cooled the chicken coop underneath.

Zhao Yeqing went to roast corn, while Mu Xi made automatic feeders and automatic water feeders beside him.

Take a few leftover large bottles of Happy Water, cut out a round hole at the bottom, and drill holes around the bottom.

Get some larger plastic bottles, saw off the bottom, fill them with prepared cement mortar, insert the bottles with round holes in them, and wait for the mortar to solidify tomorrow.

Zhao Yeqing's roasted corn is almost ready. She likes to sprinkle cumin and hot sauce powder on the roasted corn, but Mu Xi doesn't add anything.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the two of them finally went to the field to break corn.

Holding the corn on the pole, it takes less effort to twist it off than to break it off directly. With a crisp click, a piece of corn is unscrewed and thrown aside, and then picked up again after a while.

After breaking off a corn plant, the corn stalk must be stepped down with your feet. Breaking the corn stalk will stop it from growing and absorbing nutrients from the land. It can also be used as firewood after it is dried.

The entire corn harvest is about fifty kilograms.

Zhao Yeqing planned to peel off half of the corn kernels while they were still fresh, put the peeled corn kernels in the freezer, and fry them directly when it was time to eat, so that they would still be crispy and sweet.

I don’t plan to save corn seeds. There are still a lot of corn seeds left in Feng Lixuan’s seed bag, and they can be planted again next year.

The germination rate will decrease if the seeds are left for a long time, and most corns are hybrid varieties, which are not suitable for seed saving and will reduce the yield.

Unless there is really no need to plant any more in the future, consider saving seeds and continuing to plant.

Shelling corn was laborious, so Mu Xi took over the task.

Zhao Yeqing processed the other half of the corn. After the corn was cooked, he pulled off the outer leaves, tied a knot between the leaves, and strung all the corn together.

A series of corns were hung on the eaves. They are still bright yellow and have green leaves. When the corns are dried, they will turn golden yellow, and the outer leaves will fade and turn white.

The two finished their work quickly, then washed up and went to bed.

Starting today, the two of them will go back to the time difference. After collecting the dried millet tomorrow and setting up the automatic feeder, they will set off to look for supplies.