Chapter 197 Planting wheat and releasing water from the fields
The fish bladder is cooked in the sauce until it is soft and sticky, and the gelatinous texture sticks to your lips. The fish roe has a delicate taste and no fishy smell at all.
The taste of fish intestines is quite peculiar, with a slight bitterness, but then a sweet aftertaste.
After eating the fish intestines, I picked up the fish eggs and bit them. The tiny fish eggs scattered in my mouth. After I broke the grains into pieces, my mouth was filled with sweetness, which just neutralized the bitterness that remained in my mouth.
The golden shell of the fish absorbed the sauce, and the fish skin still retained a bit of crispness. She poked the fish with chopsticks, picked out the small bones inside, mixed the rice and fish together, and poured a ladle of sauce on them to mix well.
The thick brown sauce coats the white fish and rice, with crispy fish skin in between.
Zhao Yeqing ate with a satisfied look on her face. Mu Xi put the fish meat with the bones removed into her bowl and said, "If you like it, go get two more tomorrow."
There are many fish in the lake, so occasionally eating one or two spawning fish will not have much impact.
Zhao Yeqing loves to eat fish fowl. When he was a kid, he recalled that there was a rumor that the chickens used for fried chicken had eight pairs of wings. He sighed,
“It would be nice if every fish could grow eight fish bubbles.”
Mu Xi put the fish head into her bowl and said, "Eat more to nourish your brain."
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After sowing rapeseed, the weather was good and the daytime hours began to gradually increase.
The dried wheat seeds can be directly sown in the fields.
Winter wheat needs to be germinated when sowing, but spring wheat does not.
Winter wheat is sown in autumn. In order for the wheat to germinate quickly and be more resistant to frost after the tillering period, it must be germinated and accelerated before sowing.
The climate in spring is suitable, and wheat seeds can germinate as long as the temperature is above three degrees.
A dozen degrees is the most suitable temperature for it.
The seeds are sown in rows, not too dense or too sparse. It is best to dig a small furrow before sowing.
The wheat field was not large, so Mu Xi used a hoe to dig a trench in front, and Zhao Yeqing followed behind and scattered the seeds. The two of them could finish the work in an afternoon.
Wheat cannot be planted too deep, as this will affect germination; nor can it be planted too shallow, as this will result in the roots becoming unstable and causing the plant to fall over.
The moisture conditions in the wheat fields are not particularly good. In order to adjust them, they spread water and fertilizer in the wheat fields a few days ago. Now all they have to do is sow the seeds and cover them with soil.
After finishing planting wheat before dusk, most of the planting tasks for the first half of the year have been completed. The next steps are transplanting rice seedlings, field management, and planting some vegetables and forage grass.
After a while, when the seedlings in the corn and rapeseed fields grow taller, you can also plant some garlic in them to prevent insects.
The pasture was decided to be ryegrass, alfalfa, and corn grass.
The two previous pastures and wheat fields were sown with three kinds of forage grass seeds respectively, and the remaining barley fields were used to reserve seeds for the three kinds of forage grasses.
By the time we had finished preparing the pasture and sowing the seeds, it was already mid-December.
The two men spread fertilizer on the pasture and collected the shrimp cages from the lake.
During this period, we harvested lake shrimps several times, but the number was not large, and the female shrimps with eggs were thrown back into the lake.
After all the shrimps caught were dried, only a handful was left.
Zhao Yeqing put the dried shrimps into a stone pestle and ground them into shrimp powder with the pestle. Adding a little bit of it when cooking can enhance the flavor.
Mu Xi came back from his daily inspection of the fields. "Everything is fine. The rice is sprouting normally. The glutinous rice seems to be sprouting better than the rice."
It seems that the dry seedling raising method can also be tried when planting rice in the second half of the year.
The rice field is only half an acre, and after the harvest, another round of late rice has to be planted.
In the past, they would plant rice seedlings at the end of March and harvest them in July, planting the late rice seedlings in the fields while harvesting.
The late rice must be planted before the end of the Beginning of Autumn. Time is very tight as it is the first busy farming season in autumn - the double harvest.
Zhao Yeqing observed the growth of the seedlings, recorded the growth cycle in a notebook, and determined the time for raising late rice seedlings.
By the end of December, the early rice seedlings in the fields had finally grown, and Mu Xi opened the water outlet to fill the rice fields with water.
After the water in the field had been released for more than an hour, Zhao Yeqing held a pot of seedlings, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked into the field to prepare for planting.
The fields were always wet. As soon as I stepped in, my feet sank a few inches. The water in the fields was above my ankles, and my skin close to the water was tickled by the rippling water waves.
Picking up the rice seedlings, I thought about the tips for transplanting rice in the original owner's notes.
"I'd rather float on water than lose my waist."
In other words, the waist of the seedlings should be level with the water surface, or the water surface should be slightly lower than the waist of the seedlings.
The seedlings should be planted in rows, with a distance of more than 15 cm between rows.
Zhao Yeqing had just planted two rows of rice seedlings when the water level in the field had reached the waist of the seedlings.
She quickly blocked the water outlet.
This interruption made her realize that her waist was sore.
I used to feel nothing when I was bending over for a long time, but after bending over for a long time and then standing up again I felt my spine bones were stiff.
Zhao Yeqing put his hands behind his back and pounded his waist a few times, then looked up at the progress.
It’s still a long way to go before it’s finished.
Mu Xi had just finished dealing with the glutinous rice seedlings grown in dry cultivation and was walking over with the seedlings. Seeing her pounding her waist in a daze, he walked a few steps into the field, put his hands under her armpits, and lifted her up from the rice field.
He picked it up and put it on the edge of the field.
"Your period will come in a few days. Didn't I tell you not to go down and just watch the water in the field?"
Zhao Yeqing's playful smile as he made jokes.
Mu Xi glanced at her and said nothing more. He picked up the seedling basin and went to the field. Zhao Yeqing walked barefoot to the fish pond and washed the mud off her feet.
Both of them had only drunk a glass of milk in the morning, and now they were a little hungry.
Zhao Yeqing touched his stomach and asked Mu Xi with a smile, "Are you hungry? What do you want to eat? I'll go cook."
Mu Xi looked up and observed her expression. "Well, I'm hungry. I think I want to eat noodles."
"Really?"
He immediately changed his tone, "Actually, I don't really want to eat noodles, so I should want to eat fried rice?"
Zhao Yeqing nodded, "Okay, no problem."
Zhao Yeqing took a beef sausage that had been smoked for more than a month, cut it in half, cut it into small cubes and fried it with oil.
Beat two eggs into egg liquid, fry them until half-cooked, then pour last night's leftovers into the pot.
Smelling the aroma, Zhao Yeqing was already thinking about what to eat in the evening.
After eating beef, mutton and bacon for half a winter, I'm really sick of it. I'm also tired of eating fish these days.
Not to mention her, the dogs at home are all so hungry from eating meat that their eyes are dull.
Almost all the meat from the brown bear that was killed was fed to the dogs.
After a week of eating, they would rather eat rice than bear meat.
In the end, only porridge and snow cakes were not picky about food. They ate a lot every day and only finished them after the snow melted.
Other animals become very thin after the winter and have to rush out to find food, but these two leopards become fat and plump after the winter.
Thinking about the dog and leopard at home, an idea suddenly flashed through her mind, but disappeared so quickly that she didn't catch it.
He brought two bowls of fried rice to the edge of the field and told Mu Xi to wash his hands before eating. After absentmindedly putting a spoonful of fried rice into his mouth, he said incoherently,
"I always feel like I've forgotten something."
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