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

Chapter 225 Sweet Rod

If the rice seedlings are being raised in the field and she discovers that there are field snails when they first grow, then the field snails must not be kept. The snails crawling in the rice field will affect the growth of the seedlings.

But after she raised the seedlings, she planted them in the field. The seedlings were already more than ten centimeters tall, so the snails in the field would no longer affect it, and they would fall down even if they climbed up.

Manure can also fertilize rice fields, killing two birds with one stone.

After junior high school, she rarely saw snails in the fields at the foot of the mountain. The rice fields were full of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Only some snails could be seen in the ditches upstream of the rice fields.

But those are inedible, the living environment is poor, and the water quality is unstable.

Now all the water in the rice fields has been drained away, leaving only a little water at the bottom of the rice fields.

This is the time when you can see clearly whether there are snails in the rice fields.

She bent down and got as close to the field as possible so that she could see more clearly in the dim light.

She vaguely saw some black objects in the rice fields. She seemed to have vaguely seen them when she was draining the field water last night, but at the time she thought they were just a few lumps of mud.

When he walked to the rapeseed field, Zhao Yeqing smelled the slightest scent of flowers on the tip of his nose, and looked up to find that some rapeseeds were already blooming in the rapeseed field.

But it seems that only a few bloom early.

When she came back to water the rice fields at dawn the next day, she clearly saw the condition of the rapeseed fields.

More than a dozen early-blooming rapeseed flowers are already giving off their fragrance, attracting bees who have been up early in the morning to collect honey.

It should have taken about ten days for the flowering period to arrive, so Zhao Yeqing took out a small notebook and re-recorded the growth cycle of rapeseed.

It is speculated that it may be because the current weather is a bit hot, which has pushed the rapeseed flowers to bloom in advance. Now that the temperature is not like before, the cycle must be recalculated.

It is estimated that the harvest time of soybeans and peanuts will also have to be earlier.

It seems that rapeseed flowers will bloom in the next few days.

Zhao Yeqing remembered that before the ground cracked, he had seen on the Internet that a teacher from the Agricultural University had planted 63 colors of rapeseed flowers. The entire field of rapeseed flowers looked like a painted scene, too beautiful to be true.

Super beautiful and real

But now there are only golden rapeseed flowers in this rapeseed field, but as long as they are all in bloom, the golden flowers will be beautiful when piled together.

Zhao Yeqing took advantage of the opportunity before the flowers bloomed to pinch a handful of the rapeseed that was still in bud, and took it back to cook noodles.

The flowers are pretty, but they still don’t stop her from eating them.

The rapeseed flowers now have the lowermost stems and outer skin removed, and they are very delicious when cooked directly in water.

The sweet vegetable stems are crispy and tender after peeling off the skin.

After Zhao Yeqing had breakfast, the temperature gradually rose, obviously hotter than yesterday.

She lifted up the sweet pole that was hoisted into the well yesterday, peeled off the skin and served it as an after-dinner snack.

After being chilled, the sweet stick is like eating a sugar cane popsicle, but the kind that requires spitting out the residue.

Now the sun is so strong during the day that it is difficult to go to the fields to work. Even if I wear a hat and bend my waist, my back will be burned and painful after a while.

Zhao Yeqing hid in the house and finished eating the sweet popsicles. He felt that the sweetness of the sweet popsicles was now suitable for eating on an empty stomach, so he broke off another popsicle, cut it into sections, and hung it into the well for cooling.

It’s okay to eat it empty-handed, but making sugar is probably not that interesting yet, so we’ll have to wait for a while.

With this sweet popsicle, the sultry weather is relieved.

Zhao Yeqing was so addicted that he had to eat an entire iced sweet potato every day just to feel comfortable.

It wasn't until she was about to take out the fifth sweet pole to eat that Mu Xi suddenly opened the courtyard door.

Zhao Yeqing heard the front yard door being pushed open with a creak in the backyard, and thought it was Sticky and Snow Cake coming back.

When I peeked out from behind the house, I saw Mu Xi stepping into the yard.

Zhao Yeqing was very surprised, "Why are you back now?"

It's only been six days, and it's still morning.

Mu Xi put his backpack in the kitchen, poured a glass of water and drank it. He leaned against the window and replied to Zhao Yeqing outside with a slightly confused breath:

"This time it went well. We didn't see Houshan Lake last time. It was actually blocked by a protruding mountain. As long as we go around, we will find the location of Houshan Lake, which is only two kilometers away."

"So you're back home?"

Mu Xi shook his head, "I'll come back first when we get there, and go directly with the horse to move things."

After saying that, he looked at the rope in Zhao Yeqing's hand. The rope extended into the well, and it didn't look like he was fetching water. The bucket was still standing aside.

"What are you doing?"

Zhao Yeqing chuckled, and the movement of pulling the rope in his hand accelerated, and he lifted the cold sweet pole from the well in a few strokes.

He took it into the kitchen and peeled it with a knife before handing it to Mu Xi, "Try it quickly. It will quench your thirst and cool down your body temperature."

Mu Xi took a bite and the cold juice slid down his throat, wiping away the heat on his body. The sugar in the sweet stick also provided just enough nutrients to soothe his tired body after the journey.

"That's good. Are the seeds ripe? Can they be saved?"

Zhao Yeqing laughed out loud immediately, and she knew Mu Xi would like it.

"I've never seen you care so much about anything. Don't worry, I've kept all the full seeds. But the sweet stalks now have a lot of empty seeds. I guess by the time sugar can be made, the seeds will be full."

Mu Xi remembered something, opened his backpack, and took out a large bag of loquats.

"The last time I went there, there weren't many fruits. When I came back this time, I saw a lot of them were ripe, so I just picked them all."

This loquat is big and plump, perfectly ripe, and not too soft to store. It should not go bad after being stored for a few days.

Zhao Yeqing looked like he had just picked loquats, and then thought that he had returned home in the morning, and said, "Did you not sleep last night? Did you drive all night on the mountain road?"

Mu Xi hurriedly explained, "I fell asleep, but woke up in the middle of the night. I thought I had nothing to do and just hurried on. I met Mushi and Xuebing on the road. They accompanied me to the pine forest before leaving."

Since the heavy snowfall, there have been no ferocious animals near them, so Mu Xi dared to be bold and walk at night.

Speaking of this, Zhao Yeqing put the freshly peeled loquat into his mouth and vaguely expressed his guess,

"I suspect that the foxes and snakes in the meadows are all gone now, which is why the voles are so prevalent."

After hearing this, Mu Xi suddenly realized the reason. He thought of the situation he encountered on his way back this time, and said:

"Speaking of voles, I think there should be improvement in the near future, but we will also have more troubles."

Zhao Yeqing was stunned, "What should I say?"