Chapter 94 The Wind Rises

But before that, I had been sitting on this hillside with my hands on the ground.

When he raised his hand to cover his mouth, there were some grass debris on his hand. When he took his hand away, the grass debris remained on Mu Xi's lips.

Mu Xi's lips are very beautiful, neither thick nor thin, with a deep philtrum that makes the lip peaks look three-dimensional. The hot weather makes her lips redder than usual.

Zhao Yeqing looked away and pointed upwards, saying vaguely, "There are grass clippings."

Mu Xi raised his hand and wiped his lips, perfectly avoiding the grass clippings every time.

"Anything else?"

She took a look and said, "Yes."

"Where?"

"That's it."

"Help me wipe it."

Zhao Yeqing wanted to refuse, but the other party's eyes were calm, as if to say that it was you who did it, and it was normal to ask you to wipe it off.

It would be rude to refuse again.

She reached out to those lips, her eyes wandering and she didn't dare look directly at them, and accidentally poked her finger between the two lips.

!!!

Zhao Yeqing quickly looked up and saw Mu Xi's complicated eyes and raised eyebrows.

She pulled her fingers out, wiped them on the grass clippings, and turned sideways in an attempt to pretend that she was not paying attention.

"alright!"

She hid her flushed face in the dark sky.

I heard a voice coming from the man behind me.

"Oh."

Zhao Yeqing felt that he was mocking him.

Just as he was adjusting his mood and preparing to fight back, he turned around and saw Mu Xi's gaze fixed on the distance.

"look."

Zhao Yeqing looked in the direction of his finger.

In the direction of the trap in the distance, there was a dark shadow near the trap number three they had set.

Trap No. 3 is a snare trap. It consists of a long bamboo pole with a locking sleeve, which is usually fixed to the ground with a small wooden stick. Whenever an animal walks by, it will be tied up by the locking sleeve and suspended in the air.

The bamboo pole was not short, so she thought the thief must not be a very short animal.

But the shadow was very short.

Just as she was wondering, the figure hidden in the shade of the tree suddenly jumped up, meandered up the bamboo pole, and swallowed the prey in the trap into its mouth in one bite.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but move back even though he was so far away, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

It was a snake about two meters long and as thick as a bowl.

No wonder the trap couldn’t catch it, the traces on the ground were left by it crawling past.

She had never seen such a big snake before, and she never felt this chill all over her body when she saw bears, lions and tigers.

A warm hand touched her back. She looked up at Mu Xi, and the other person's hand moved to her head and rubbed it.

"What are you afraid of?"

Zhao Yeqing wanted to cry but had no tears. "Why don't we just give up this trap?"

The snake had obviously gotten used to coming to this trap to find food, and it would be too dangerous for them to come over again.

Mu Xi nodded in agreement and pulled her up from the ground.

The sun is slowly rising in the sky.

The first rays of morning light fell on the ground, allowing them to see the snake's patterns more clearly.

Mu Xi narrowed his eyes slightly, "It looks like a Burmese python."

Zhao Yeqing didn't want to look at it anymore, "Let's go, let's go."

If you abandon one trap, you have to look for another one.

The two men followed the traces of the water source and set new traps in another place. They then harvested the prey in the original two traps before returning home.

Two yielded only one rabbit, and one caught an animal she had never seen before.

Its fur is black and brown with white tips, and it looks so adorable. Zhao Yeqing reached out to put it down, but was almost bitten.

Mu Xi clamped it down and let Zhao Yeqing untie the noose.

After grabbing the animal and looking it up and down, he said he had never seen one before and only said, "It looks like a badger."

The two men released it and returned home with their only prey, a rabbit.

After checking the manual, I confirmed that this animal is called a crab-eating mongoose. It emits a foul odor and usually eats small animals such as frogs and snakes.

Thinking of the big snake, Zhao Yeqing had an inexplicable liking for this snake-eating animal and forgave it for wanting to bite her, at least it didn't fart at her.

But after working all morning, no one dared to catch the thief, and the trap set another one.

Fortunately, the only rabbit was a grass rabbit, which was quite big and enough for the whole family to eat.

Mu Xi's plan today was still to go cut grass, as they were still a little short of half the amount of silage they had ordered.

Before he went out, he put his shotgun on his back, squatted down to tie his shoelaces and gave instructions.

"If you don't want to make hay, don't do it. Just turn the hay over and feed it to the chickens and rabbits."

Zhao Yeqing nodded and sent him out.

Turning the hay and feeding the chickens and rabbits took no more than half an hour in total.

Zhao Yeqing planned to wait for Mu Xi to bring back the grass before continuing to make silage. If they worked together, they would finish the work early and not worry about it all the time.

While the sun was still young, she quickly went to water the vegetable garden.

The vegetables grew very fast and were already more than ten centimeters tall. Zhao Yeqing cut a handful of water spinach and left the stems underneath so that they could continue to grow.

The bean vines have grown very high and are beginning to produce flower buds.

Among the vegetables grown, only beans bloom and bear fruit, but it is also convenient as there is no need for manual pollination.

Bean flowers pollinate themselves before they open.

I can’t help but sigh that growing vegetables in summer is less troublesome.

She climbed out of the greenhouse, put the water spinach into a wooden barrel in the well, and then put the wooden barrel into the well to keep the water spinach fresh.

If left outside for a short time, they will wilt, but vegetables cannot be harvested at night, as the wounds of the plants will easily become infected without sunlight.

She came back into the house from outside and wiped the sweat from her head with a towel.

I always feel that today is a little hotter than usual.

The meals the two of them eat while working during the day are mainly carbohydrates, so it would be a waste if they didn't eat the rice and flour in the village.

Zhao Yeqing took out two eggs from the chicken coop and put the one that could hatch back, leaving only one.

Beat it up and fried it into rice.

Mu Xi dragged the cart home, unloaded the hay, threw the sheep's morning food into the trough in the sheepfold, and piled the rest next to the house.

After unloading the hay, Mu Xi prepared to go out again, "Wait for me to bring back two more loads before I start making silage. Don't start."

Zhao Yeqing stuffed the bowl of fried rice into his hands and said, "Eat your fill before you go. What are you busy with? Just cut the grass and I'll make the feed."

Mu Xi finished his meal in a few minutes, washed the bowl, and shook the water off his hands, "Go take a nap. You got up so early in the morning to wait. You usually sleep like a pig. How can you not be sleepy now?"

Of course he was sleepy. Zhao Yeqing rolled his eyes at him and said, "Just go to bed early tonight. It's hard to sleep in such a hot weather..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhao Yeqing felt a slight itch on the part of his neck that was soaked with sweat.

She thought it was her illusion, and when she looked up, she saw that Mu Xi's hair was moving.

"The wind is...windy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle breeze blew, bringing warmth in the air.

The two were still stunned by the first change in the weather in half a year. The wind changed suddenly.

The originally gentle breeze gradually became stronger, blowing even the taller grass on the pasture flat.

The two men realized that there was hay drying outside and ran out.

After we hurriedly collected all the hay, the wind started to get stronger.

The trees in the distant forest bordering the meadow were swaying left and right in the strong wind, and broken branches circled in the air and then fell to the ground.

The wooden house, which had been busy and had not been repaired recently, was hit hard by the strong wind, and the kitchen door, which had not been closed in time, made a loud bang and died heroically.

The sky suddenly darkened...