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

Chapter 206 Measures after the rain

It has been raining for two days, and today it has turned into drizzle. Judging from the speed of the clouds in the sky moving from north to south, it is estimated that the rain will stop in the evening.

After turning around, the crops in the field did not appear to be lodging. After all, they had been growing for more than a month, and their roots were deeply rooted in the soil.

Crops in the vegetable garden were not so lucky.

The sweet potatoes and potatoes lying on the ground looked unaffected, but the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants that had just been planted were not even ten centimeters tall, and several of them were already lying on the ground.

Mu Xi went to the tool room to get a rope and broke off some firewood sticks. Zhao Yeqing inserted the sticks next to the seedlings and tied the vegetable seedlings and the sticks together with small hemp ropes.

They compacted the soil under the seedlings with their hands, thinking that there would be no problem now, and then the two of them went back to the house to wash their hands and cook.

But in the evening, a gust of wind mixed with moisture and heat blew from the south, colliding with the north wind carrying cumulus clouds.

The humidity increased, and cumulus clouds began to gather overhead. The clouds were so thick that they seemed ready to fall to the ground due to their weight.

After the two winds competed, they gradually dispersed. The clouds accumulated above seemed to have finally found a breakthrough, and heavy rain poured down.

They were lucky in previous earthquakes because the epicenter was far away from them.

But the current heavy rain is no longer the case. The clouds seem to have only gathered within a hundred kilometers. The pouring rain washes the meadows, and the streams that were originally rising in water level are now tending to turn into small rivers.

The channel originally carved out by the stream could no longer hold so much water, and gurgled outward toward the meadows and woods.

The two of them could only go out to drain the water in their raincoats.

Zhao Yeqing was cleaning a drainage ditch blocked by grass roots and soil when he suddenly felt the bamboo hat on his head being hit by a stone, making a 'click' sound.

She subconsciously reached out and touched the bamboo hat, and felt a cold hard object from the edge of the bamboo hat.

It's hail.

Mu Xi was obviously hit too. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked up at the sky.

"It is estimated to be caused by the collision of warm and cold winds. Now that the wind has stopped, the hail should not last long, and it should not be as big as the previous hail in Meishan."

The two men cleaned and widened the blocked drainage ditch, and dug an extra drainage ditch that only led into the forest.

With a low point, in addition to the water in the fields, the water on the grass also rushed to the drainage ditch.

Zhao Yeqing went home holding a hailstone the size of a peanut, and lay beside the window in a daze, feeling the hail gradually get smaller in his hand until it melted.

All the two of them could do now was wait for the rain to stop.

Just like last year when it rained heavily, it snowed in winter, and the temperature was over 40 degrees, there was no other way but to wait.

The sleet and hail lasted only one night and then stopped, and the heavy rain continued.

The heavy raindrops knocked the bright azaleas blooming in the yard to the ground. It was already a week later when the rain stopped.

The originally bright flowers have been crushed into the soil.

Zhao Yeqing breathed a sigh of relief when he opened the door. Fortunately, the south wind did not continue to blow. The air outside was moist and cool, not sticky and humid under the south wind.

The cumulus clouds in the sky have dispersed, and the long-lost sunshine shines on the meadow, accompanied by a very close rainbow.

One end of the rainbow fell on the top of the mountain in the distance, and the other end fell between the home and the pasture.

Zhao Yeqing was overjoyed, "Mu Xi, come and see!"

She opened the door of the room as wide as possible, and fresh air poured into the room. Apart from Mu Xi, there were also several dogs who had been holding back at home for several days who were attracted by her voice.

"Woof woof woof!" he yelled and ran out of the house excitedly.

Mu Xi walked out and saw the rainbow that was almost within reach, and the scene couldn't help but bring a smile to his face.

The two quickly fed the livestock and then went out to look at the fields.

After several days of heavy rain, the meadow was cleaned and washed, and the grassland vegetation that was originally only about ten centimeters above it, as if acting as a catalyst, now jumped to twice its height.

There are also weeds growing among the crops in the fields, and the tares in the rice fields have grown beyond the rice seedlings.

In addition to the wild growth of weeds, the biggest fear after rain is waterlogged roots and mildew caused by moisture.

The two of them spent the whole morning bending down to weed in the field, and only after weeding was done did the land reveal its original appearance.

The dark yellow soil is no longer covered by weeds and has to be dried in the sun until the water evaporates.

After lunch, we still have to add fertilizer to the ground.

Fields that have been washed by rain for a long time will lose nutrients and must be replenished and topdressed after rain.

Zhao Yeqing sighed helplessly. She only applied fertilizer once ten days ago, but it was all in vain after the heavy rain.

I can only honestly take the manure and spread it again.

Manure is organic fertilizer and will not burn the roots if spread too much. The carbon in it can also prevent empty shells from appearing during subsequent wheat filling.

But it is best to add some ternary fertilizer, that is, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

Zhao Yeqing has been storing kitchen waste to ferment nitrogen fertilizer since the weather got hotter. Phosphate fertilizer needs to be supplemented with egg shells and the like, but there are too many fields at home, and egg shells are definitely not enough.

The bones of the chickens, cows, sheep, wolves and bears that we eat at home are not thrown away. They are all dried and crushed into powder, which is then sprinkled on the ground to become phosphate fertilizer, which can also supplement calcium.

Animal bones, especially those of wild animals, are relatively hard, and it takes a lot of effort to dry them, crack them, and then grind them into powder.

While Mu Xi was grinding the bones, Zhao Yeqing spread a layer of plant ash on the ground, which was regarded as potassium fertilizer.

Don't use too much plant ash, as spreading too much can easily burn the roots.

The condition of the crops in the field was better than expected, especially the wheat. After absorbing enough water, not only did it not fall down, but it grew several centimeters higher.

Except for some leafy seedlings in the vegetable field that were killed by raindrops as soon as they emerged, the other vegetables looked to be in good condition. The stems straightened out as soon as the sun hit them, and the wilted leaves also regained some of their energy.

The fruit and vegetable seedlings that worried Zhao Yeqing the most were fine.

After initially fixing it with wooden sticks, no further measures were taken.

I originally thought that since the seedlings had just been planted, I would forget about them if they died. At worst, they would be replanted when the rain stopped.

Unexpectedly, not only did they survive, but their rhizomes also grew stronger than last year.

No wonder when I was growing vegetables on the balcony before, I saw many books that taught me to shake the plant rhizomes with my hands when I had nothing to do, to imitate the situation of plants being beaten by wind and rain in the wild, so that the plants can grow strong and take root down.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the tenaciously growing crops, and felt very complicated when he thought that the vegetables he had grown on the balcony before were still growing in a mess despite careful care, as if they were ready to die at any time.

In an instant, she seemed to guess the inner activities of these seedlings——

Vegetable seedlings grown in the mountains: I am perseverant, strong in growth, and not afraid of wind or rain!

Vegetable seedlings grown on the balcony: Ah, I don’t like to drink tap water. I’ll die first.