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Zhao Yeqing immediately shook his head.
"I definitely don't want to go out now. The radio is silent and even the radio can't be maintained normally. I don't know how chaotic it is outside. We can be self-sufficient in the mountains. Let's not go out and eat relief food to add burden to the country."
She recorded today's planting notes and put the cap back on the pen.
"But once things become more stable, I have to get out. I can't be a caveman my whole life."
Mu Xi stood up with the blueprint in hand. "I'll go chop down some trees now. Once I finish making the beehive, I'll continue exploring. When we get back to Meishan, I'll bring back a generator to charge your phone. I'll try to prevent you from becoming a caveman."
Zhao Yeqing hung the shotgun on his back and patted his shoulder. "Go, the continuation of human civilization depends on you."
After saying this, she turned around and left the yard and went to the fields.
The family's meals depend on her.
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After the rice heads, water can no longer be added to the rice fields and must be drained.
Without water covering the rice fields, weeds began to grow wildly in the fields without any hindrance.
The spring rain comes from time to time, and every time the rain stops, Zhao Yeqing has to pull weeds in the rice fields for a whole morning.
At first she felt very tired, but later she got used to it. She had a lot of free time anyway, so after pulling out the weeds in the fields, she still had the energy to run to the pasture to continue pulling weeds.
In the past, when growing pasture grass, no one paid attention to pulling out the weeds. Now that there are no traces of wolves on the meadow, she comes here to take a look when she has nothing to do, and pulls out some weeds on the pasture while herding cattle.
The difference between pulling out the weeds and not pulling out the weeds can be seen from the grass circle.
The grass seeds for the pasture and the hay circle were planted at the same time. The ryegrass in the hay circle is now only more than ten centimeters high, while the ryegrass in the pasture is almost thirty centimeters high.
It's also thick and strong.
She recently went back and forth to the meadow and found that the herd of deer that came from the snow-capped mountains had not returned yet, and the meadow was full of signs of being gnawn.
Zhao Yeqing followed Dahuang to find a suitable grazing route, as the previous place had been eaten up by deer.
But nature has its own laws. Although the arrival of deer on the meadow has caused a decrease in the amount of grass on the meadow, their fur and feces have brought different plant seeds here.
Zhao Yeqing found some medicinal herbs that were not there last year near the ramie fields. They were all varieties that sika deer would eat, and the seeds were probably brought by them.
After finding a place where the sheep could graze, Zhao Yeqing went to the place where the deer had grazed to "pick up leftovers."
In addition to mushrooms found in the forest, you can also find a lot of them on the meadows. Zhao Yeqing can pick up a few while walking.
However, her target was not mushrooms, but day lilies that deer would not eat.
Daylily contains biota, which can be poisonous to deer if eaten, so she would just look at the places on the meadow that had been nibbled by deer and then walk straight over to find the remaining taller plants, and she would always find them.
You can never have too much day lily. It is delicious whether eaten fresh or dried, and it is perfect for making soup.
They walked back when they had almost finished picking. As soon as they reached the pasture, they saw Mu Xi placing the finished beehives on the edge of the pasture.
"It looks like this alfalfa will bloom in a few days. I'll go check on the bee trap tomorrow."
Zhao Yeqing opened the beehive and saw things like partitions inside.
Mu Xi explained, "It's used to build honeycombs for bees. It's made of hexagonal honeycombs and is used to store pollen and make honey."
The structure of the beehive is very complicated, and he only made a rough outline. All he can do is pray that the bees can adapt to it.
The next morning, Mu Xi went to check the beehive, but still found nothing inside.
Zhao Yeqing gave up. "Forget it. When the alfalfa blooms, apply some syrup directly on the edge of the beehive. I don't believe that the bees attracted by the alfalfa field can resist the temptation of this syrup."
This is the only way for now. Mu Xi washed the bee-attracting barrel and hung it out to dry. After it was dry, he put it in the newly built tool shed.
The tool shed was not built in the front yard, but next to the bathroom so as not to hinder the subsequent expansion of the sheep pen.
Mu Xi prepared his backpack for the trip into the mountains. "Then I'll continue exploring the route. It's still early today, so we can still have time to set off early."
After Zhao Yeqing had enough food supplies and confirmed that the shotgun was loaded, he said, "Be careful in the mountains..."
Just when she was talking, she saw Huhu and Xuebing, who hadn't been home for a few days, step into the yard. She hurriedly called them over and said, "You two should come with us."
She touched the stomachs of the two leopards and found that they were full and did not look sleepy at all.
Mu Xi walked to the door and called the two leopards' names. They stood up and followed him out.
The further you go when exploring, the longer the distance becomes and the more time it takes.
The last time I went out it took me four days and three nights, and I don’t know how many days it will take me to come back this time.
Originally, she wanted to just not go back to get the things. It was not impossible for them to survive on the meadow as it was now, but it was too dangerous to explore the way back.
Mu Xi shook his head and said, "Then when the solar power comes back, not only can we charge our phones, but we can also stop using kerosene lamps at home. Then we can gradually bring tools like electric saws from Meishan. It will always be better than manpower."
After hearing what he said, Zhao Yeqing didn't say anything else. The fact that she could use electric lights was already very attractive to her.
There was no human habitation within a hundred miles, and theirs was the only house with people living in it. At night, when everything was quiet and pitch dark, there was only a dim kerosene lamp in the room. It was not a pleasant feeling.
She was already prepared for Mu Xi to be away for a week.
But a week later, Mu Xi still hadn't come back, and Zhao Yeqing was completely panicked.
She had been a little uneasy in the previous two days and could only calm down and comfort herself, but on the seventh night, Mu Xi still did not show up.
Zhao Yeqing forced herself to close her eyes and sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she packed her things and went out to look for someone.
Mu Xi was exploring and clearing the land along the way. She just had to follow the cleared path.
The last time Mu Xi came back, she said they had walked about forty to fifty kilometers. At her speed, it would probably take two days to complete the journey.
But no matter how clean the road was, it was still a mountain road after all. Walking more than 20 kilometers a day was already the limit. The environment in the mountains was complicated at night, and Mu Xi had already taken the solar-charged flashlight away, so she could only stop to make a fire and set up camp at night.
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