Chapter 21 Wall
Before going home, Zhao Yeqing cut up the two dead fish and put them in the fish cage as bait to continue fishing.
The leaves wouldn't leak, but they couldn't resist her shaking hands.
When I got home, the water in the leaves was almost gone, with only a dozen small fish left in it, occasionally flicking their tails.
Maybe because it has rained these two days, the wild boars have not come to the vegetable garden to cause trouble again.
It was a blessing from God that the heavy rain washed away the smell of the road she had traveled from cutting pine oil, so the black bear should not be able to find her.
Throw the small fish you brought back into the basin and add some water to them.
Put the mushrooms aside and deal with them later.
The ground was a little muddy after the rain. The floor of the yard was not paved with bricks or slabs, but dirt. As people walked up and down, there was a trail of muddy footprints on the floor of the house.
Zhao Yeqing didn't clean the floor. He would have to walk around again soon anyway, so the floor would still be dirty.
While the ground is wet, saw out the board and hammer it in. It is easier than when the ground is dry.
After eating the last two small loaves of bread, Zhao Yeqing carried the power supply and electric saw out.
That day, for fear of snakes, all the branches and leaves were removed, leaving only a bare trunk of the tree.
The trunk of the tree was so thick that she couldn't hug it by herself. A lot of soil had been brought out from the roots of the tree, leaving a big hole where it had originally grown.
Zhao Yeqing used a ruler to measure the length of the trunk and divided the entire trunk into three sections. Each section was about two meters long. One section of the trunk could be sawed into eight wooden boards of varying widths.
While sawing the wood board, she took a piece of clothing to cover her head and face, and put on a pair of sunglasses to prevent wood chips from flying into her eyes and splashing onto her face.
Zhao Yeqing is 1.66 meters tall, and the wooden board is a head taller than her when standing upright. It is difficult for her to exert force even if she stretches out her hands, so she can only put her feet on a bench when she knocks each board into the ground.
She was so busy that when only a ray of sunlight remained and the orange-yellow light shone through the top of the mountain onto the vegetable garden, she finally hammered the last piece of wood into the ground.
Each side of the residential plot was about twenty meters long. She spent an afternoon paving the road, and the side behind the house was fifteen meters long.
At this rate, it would take her more than four days to fence all four sides, not counting the time spent cutting down trees.
Other people use cranes and trucks to cut down trees and transport wood, but she only has an electric tricycle and herself as a labor force.
If she only cut down the trees around the house, she could save transportation time. She looked in the woods next to the vegetable garden and found that the terrain there was relatively flat, so the cut down trees would not roll down the mountain.
But these trees are not as big as the one that fell before. These are still relatively small, with a diameter only half that of that tree.
A tree can produce at most ten wooden boards, but none of them are as wide as the tree itself. It takes about 20 trees to cut down a fence.
Because the width is narrower, it means more wooden boards need to be hammered into the ground, and the working hours will be longer.
She calculated that it would take about 20 days to build the fence, which would be enough time for her to harvest vegetables...
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What to do, she already wanted to give up...
Haha, without a team, you can only work alone until you die.
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Zhao Yeqing went home, washed the mushrooms, and threw them into the pot to cook a large pot of mixed mushroom soup. He sliced the meat that had been thawed, seasoned it, and coated it with starch to make smooth meat slices, which he dipped into the mixed mushroom soup.
From the moment the lid of the mushroom soup is opened, the house is filled with a wonderful smell.
Zhao Yeqing took out his mobile phone and turned on the variety show. He poured the rice into a large bowl and poured the mushroom soup on the rice. Every grain of rice was soaked up with the soup.
My grandmother’s family used to have a famous herbalist. I’ve heard her say that many edible fungi contain trace amounts of toxins, but adding shiitake mushrooms can eliminate most of the toxins.
From my childhood memory, shiitake mushrooms were very popular with my grandmother and were known as the king of fungi. My grandfather would eat the shiitake mushrooms in one bite and then say arrogantly, "Let's see who is the king."
Zhao Yeqing put the bowl on the table, put the chopsticks on it, called his grandparents' names softly, and sat down to eat after two minutes.
This is the custom here. When they cook the favorite dishes of their deceased relatives or eat delicious fish and meat during festivals, they will first set up chopsticks to offer to their relatives.
Zhao Yeqing slowed down and chewed every mouthful of rice carefully before swallowing it. She loved to eat rice soaked in soup, but it is easy for people to forget to chew and just swallow it directly, which is why there is a saying that eating rice soaked in soup hurts the stomach.
So every time Zhao Yeqing ate rice with soup, he tried to slow down.
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Zhao Yeqing placed the fish caught in the fish cage next to the stove and dried them into small dried fish.
These days, she spent her time cutting trees, fishing in small ponds, and picking wild vegetables.
Zhao Yeqing basically doesn't keep watch at night anymore. Wild boars came twice during the day, but were scared away by the torches erected next to the vegetable garden. It was only when she got up to chop trees during the day that she saw wild boar footprints nearby.
The torches could not sustain burning for a whole night, so Zhao Yeqing piled up several areas similar to bonfire circles with stones, spread enough wood and charcoal on the ground, and added pine oil. He lit it at around 11 o'clock in the evening and it could barely last until after five in the morning.
She doesn't sleep for long. If she takes a nap at noon, six hours of sleep at night is enough. If she sleeps for eight or nine hours, she can't even get up.
Ten days later, most of the wall was built. From the first day when I finished the work and was lying in bed unable to lift my hands, on the tenth day, I was walking briskly with a wooden board in one hand and a chainsaw in the other.
She felt that she was already a mature construction worker.
After she cut down a dozen trees in the woods next to the vegetable garden, a small area was freed up, and she was thinking about what she could do with it.
The ground was not completely empty. There were still a dozen tree stumps on the ground. He did not dig up the stumps. There were still many hidden leaf buds in the stumps. If they did not die due to the disaster, they would still grow side branches and become trees in time.
Zhao Yeqing sat on a tree stump to rest during his work and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand. The weather has been getting hotter recently, and this year's summer seems to have come earlier than in previous years.
The mobile phone cannot receive the weather forecast, and the perceived temperature should be around 25 degrees.
In previous years, people could still wear sweaters and coats in Meishan during this month.
As the weather warmed up, the peppers, eggplants and tomatoes that Zhao Yeqing planted were catalyzed by the temperature and began to form buds. Zhao Yeqing was a little worried because this happened earlier than she had expected. She went from watering once every two days to once a day and also had to fertilize on the go. Frequent watering resulted in the loss of nutrients faster, so she needed to fertilize with the water every few days.
Recently, the electric saw cannot supply electricity to the refrigerator, so she cannot store food. She takes time out at noon almost every day to go out and find fresh food. She goes into the woods to avoid the sun and work when the ultraviolet rays are strongest.
There were no fruits on the loquat tree anymore. The peach tree and osmanthus tree next to it had not yet bloomed when she came back. They had been full of flowers since the ground cracked, but many of them have withered in the past few days.
The peach blossoms that are forced to fall due to the high temperature are not falling one by one, but falling to the ground in one complete flower. The sweet-scented osmanthus tree is a species of Osmanthus fragrans, which blooms several times a year. Tear open the plastic bag, spread it on the ground and shake the branches, and golden flower rain will fall on the bag, and soon there will be a thick layer of it.
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