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

Just as Mu Xi said, after hearing the gunfire, the jackals never appeared again in more than half a month.

The two of them stayed at home for a few days, and after confirming that it was safe, they got into the business of mowing the lawn in full swing.

After more than half a month, in addition to going to traps every day to collect prey and maintain traps, I also had to go to the mountains to cut firewood, take care of grass circles, and take care of vegetable gardens...

After finishing the daily chores, I spent the rest of my time mowing the grass.

A total of nearly three thousand kilograms of forage was harvested.

The most indispensable thing in a meadow is land. The grass is spread flat on the ground to dry and turned over once a day.

Zhao Yeqing counted the time and felt that the pack of silage from the previous experiment should be almost ready to be opened.

If successful, the grass cut back today will no longer need to be made into hay, and silage can be made in large quantities.

Mu Xi walked into the hay house and rolled out the silage wrapped in a large black bag from the corner.

Because of the tight pressure, the entire bag of feed is like a round, thickened version of a large tire.

Zhao Yeqing opened the top seal, and a sour fragrance hit his nostrils.

He reached in, grabbed a handful, and kneaded it. The grass particles that were originally rough and brittle have now become very soft, like new grass growing in spring.

There was no loss of water at all. She pulled the feed apart and took out the feed in the middle and bottom to check one by one.

No mold, no white hairs, and no bugs of any kind.

Zhao Yeqing narrowed his eyes with a smile, held up the silage and raised his head and said, "Success!"

Mu Xi was affected by her appearance and couldn't help but laugh, "Well, it worked."

With silage, the sheep will not have to worry about having nothing to feed this winter.

All the grass cut back from today will be chopped into silage.

The two of them are busier than before. Compared with hay, silage requires more processes - chopping, squeezing, bagging, and sealing.

Mu Xi dragged the cart out to cut grass every day, while Zhao Yeqing processed the fresh grass he brought back at home.

Each batch of packaged silage should be marked with a date to avoid taking the wrong feed that has not yet fermented. Once opened, harmful bacteria will enter and the feed will become moldy and deteriorate.

Each package of silage weighs about eighty pounds and is mixed with hay. One package is about two days of ration for the sheep.

In fact, according to what the book says, they only have these ten sheep, and the silage just needs to be piled together, covered with film, and fermented, which is simpler and faster.

Packaging silage for fermentation is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the good thing is that it is not affected by weather factors. The current situation is special and the weather variables are large, so we still have to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

She could only repeat the action of cutting grass and packing it.

After making food for a week in a row, Zhao Yeqing felt that he was almost turning into food.

My whole body smells like grass.

When passing by the sheepfold, they want to pounce on them and lick them.

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December 3033, 12

Zhao Yeqing got up and said that he really didn't want to make feed anymore today.

Volunteer to go to the trap to get today's prey.

Mu Xi gave her the gun to carry on her back, just in case, and asked Sticky and Snow Cake, who had not yet gone out to hunt, to follow them.

Some of the previous traps have been destroyed, and some have been placed for a long time and cannot catch prey. Now there are three newly placed traps.

Zhao Yeqing checked one by one and found no harvest at the first place, a pheasant at the second place, and nothing at the third place.

But it's obvious that the third trap has been triggered, and there are pheasant feathers on it!

This place is at the junction of woods and meadows. There was originally a water source, and there was land that was once cultivated nearby.

They guessed it was a land for growing wheat or barley.

So they set up traps nearby. If there were animals that used to steal food, they would be caught in the traps.

Zhao Yeqing found signs that the soil on the ground had been dragged, and a piece of nearby thatch had also fallen. Walking in the direction where the thatch fell to the ground, he saw a lot of thatch with dots of blood on it.

Their traps are small traps and cannot catch large animals.

The marks of the thatch falling to the ground and being dragged on the ground were like those left by a large animal falling to the ground and being dragged away.

How does that explain the missing pheasants on her trap?

This is not the first time prey has been stolen from this trap, and no traces have been found before.

Zhao Yeqing guessed that the traces left this time were either because a wild animal came to eat the pheasant in her trap, and the mantis caught the cicada and the oriole left behind.

Or there was a fight between wild beasts nearby, and the winning one took away her chicken.

Zhao Yeqing rearranged the trap, grabbed Gumou and Xuebing who wanted to follow the blood trail, and turned around to go home.

Life was not easy to begin with, yet he came to steal her chicken.

Zhao Yeqing returned home and called Mu Xi.

She wants to dig a big trap nearby to find out who the thief is.

Many animals in the mountains have extremely strong athletic abilities. Wild animals have two tools for survival, such as Mu Mu and Xue Pan.

Now it can jump over her head.

So she had to dig the hole deep enough.

Mu Xi always responded to her sudden whims, but he just said a few words before taking action.

"Don't come and see this trap alone in the future."

If it is a social animal, if one falls in, there is no guarantee that others will wander nearby.

Zhao Yeqing's main purpose was to listen to the advice and patted his chest to ensure that Mu Xi started digging.

A pit more than two meters deep was dug, covered with tree branches, and then covered with a layer of leaves.

Zhao Yeqing waited patiently for three days, but found nothing every time.

But the prey on the trap still disappeared.

It was still dark on the fourth day, so she took Mu Xi and waited on the top of a hill where the trap could be seen.

The sense of smell of wild animals is too sensitive, that is, the weather is abnormal now, with no wind under the sun for several months, otherwise they would have to choose the direction of the wind.

The wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and the animal could smell it from so far away.

The two looked at the moon and waited for the arrival of the uninvited guests.

The moon appears larger at higher altitudes, and the shadows above it are clearer.

It seems that everyone heard different versions of the story when they were young. Some said the shadow above was the shape of a rabbit, and some said it was a toad palace.

The version she and Mu Xi had heard since childhood was very rich. The shadows above were divided into palaces, rabbits, people and an osmanthus tree with lush branches.

Zhao Yeqing talked nostalgically about the stories his grandma told them in the past.

Mu Xi thought of something and said with a playful smile,

"I remember someone wearing a bed sheet when he was young said he was Chang'e..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Yeqing reached out and covered his mouth.

"Stop talking!" Her toes were almost pierced through the ground.

Mu Xi blinked and his eyes moved down to the small hand covering his mouth.

After Zhao Yeqing was embarrassed, he realized that the palm of his hand was soft and hot.

He took his hand away as if he was getting an electric shock.