Chapter 227 Peanut Harvest
It was not until midnight that Mu Xi opened the door.
Zhao Yeqing was already half asleep when he saw Mu Xi, half naked, push open the door and walk in. There was a whistling sound of wind outside.
He closed the door and said softly, "Did I wake you up?"
Zhao Yeqing's voice was vague and tired. "You're back. Why did you take so long?"
Mu Xi had taken a shower before coming in. Now he was shirtless and changed into a piece of clothing. He replied,
"Xiaohong can only walk up and down the mountain. The slope is too steep for it to carry anything. I have to carry everything up and down the mountain. Only when we reach the col can Xiaohong carry the things. We also encountered a group of migrating wild boars, which delayed us for a while."
He lay down on the bed, picked up the rabbit fur blanket and covered her belly with it, "Go to sleep first, we'll talk tomorrow."
Zhao Yeqing wanted to reach out and hug him to sleep, but felt it was too hot, so she pulled his arm over, held him in her arms, smelled the scent of soap on his body, and fell asleep again.
When I woke up again, Mu Xi was still not awake.
She tiptoed out of bed and opened the door. The wind outside had died down and dark clouds were gathering in the sky. It was estimated that it would rain in the next few days.
After feeding the livestock at home, Zhao Yeqing went to check the beehives again. She was afraid that moving the beehives yesterday had affected the bee colony, so she packed up and ran away overnight.
I walked to the edge of the rapeseed field and heard the familiar 'buzzing' sound, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Almost all the rape flowers have bloomed, with a rich fragrance and a golden color.
The bees, having regained their composure, were now busy collecting nectar in the rapeseed fields. Zhao Yeqing wished he could go down to the fields to help them collect nectar.
Otherwise, when it rains, or it rains continuously, the rape flowers will have difficulty in pollination and will not easily produce seeds.
Mu Xi got up and didn't see anyone. He put on his clothes, washed up, and went out to look for someone. He found Zhao Yeqing next to the rapeseed field.
"What's wrong? You look so sad."
Zhao Yeqing expressed his concerns, "I'm afraid the rapeseed won't produce seeds, and heavy rains can easily knock down the rapeseed flowers."
Mu Xi didn't know much about growing rapeseed. "Is there any way to prevent the flowers from falling off or before and after the rainy season?"
"We have done everything we can. We have dug drainage ditches to prevent waterlogging. The only way to deal with the problems with the plants is to apply fertilizers, such as urea or boron fertilizers, but fertilizers are not available now."
Mu Xi recalled the things he brought with him, "I brought back some of the pesticides and fertilizers you left in the tool room. Would you like to take a look?"
Zhao Yeqing almost forgot that Mu Xi went back to get something this time. Hearing this, he pulled him into the house.
"Where do you put it?"
"In the original owner's house."
Zhao Yeqing walked straight in. She actually didn't know what the fertilizers were, as they were all brought by her eldest nephew.
Compound fertilizer, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, urea...urea is fine!
It is just right for the rape flowers now.
Zhao Yeqing searched through the items, but found that there were not many left that could be used. They were all for the vegetable garden. Few were suitable for the grain garden, and the quantity was not much. His nephew had never expected that this day would come.
"Urea and potassium dihydrogen phosphate can be used. Unfortunately, there is no boron fertilizer. It would be better if there was boron fertilizer, which can fix the flowers."
Boron fertilizer?
Upon hearing this, Mu Xi quietly went around to the back of a shelf and dug out a bag from the Chinese herbal medicines stored by the original owner.
He took it and opened it——
It's full of white borax.
Zhao Yeqing was stunned. "You put fertilizer and Chinese medicine together?"
Mu Xi shook his head. "This is traditional Chinese medicine. It's the raw material for Bingpengsan, which can cure oral ulcers."
The two looked at each other and burst out laughing.
With borax, urea and potassium dihydrogen phosphate, Zhao Yeqing felt much more at ease.
Even though it was just a last-minute effort, at least I tried my best.
If there is really no other way, we can only sigh that it is fate.
If the flowers were killed by the rain, the worst that could happen was that she would just pick the rapeseed and cook it.
Zhao Yeqing diluted the borax and lowered the concentration before spraying it on the ground.
Instead of sprinkling it into the soil, it is sprayed directly on the leaves of the rapeseed flowers, allowing the nutrients to act directly on the inflorescence and leaves on the upper part of the plant.
Mu Xi thought that the rapeseed field was too big to be protected, but the vegetable garden could still struggle.
He imitated what he had done in Meishan before, and built a shed in the vegetable garden with wooden sticks, and covered it with the bark he had collected from the trees he had cut down before.
It is best to reinforce the roof of your home before the rainy season arrives.
After finishing the shed in the vegetable garden, Mu Xi climbed up the ladder and nailed the remaining wooden boards to the roof. He was afraid that if there was a strong wind like last year, the house would not be able to withstand it, so he thought about going to the woods to cut down two trees.
He put the cart on the ox and said to Zhao Yeqing who was picking peanuts in the peanut field,
"I'll go for a while and be back soon."
Zhao Yeqing responded, "Be careful."
Her words were a little unclear, and her mouth was stuffed with sweet fresh peanuts.
The peanuts are almost ready to be harvested now. I have been busy digging ditches these days and have not visited the peanut field.
I thought that a lot of peanuts from this peanut field would be stolen by voles.
But when she pulled peanuts from the beginning to the end of the field, she found that not many peanuts had been stolen.
Could it be that the vole had also noticed the weather and had moved away?
Zhao Yeqing didn't have time to think about it, his hands kept moving and he pulled out all the peanuts.
If there are not many peanuts, people usually take them home and pick them by hand. If there are many, they take them to an open space at the edge of the sky and smash them hard to knock the peanuts off the roots.
Zhao Yeqing planned to take them all back first and deal with them slowly at home after the rain.
The peanuts have all been stored in the kitchen and cannot be piled up in the yard as it could rain at any time.
She picked a few peanuts, turned on the tap, washed the dirt off them under water, then peeled the shells and put them into her mouth.
Fresh peanuts are sweet and have a flavor that fried peanuts don’t have.
Zhao Yeqing thinks that fresh nuts are better than roasted ones, such as peanuts and walnuts. Fresh ones are moist and sweet.
After finishing the handful of peanuts in his hand, Mu Xi came back leading the cow.
She picked two more, washed them, peeled them, and stuffed the light pink peanuts into Mu Xi's mouth.
There were two small trees on the cart. Their diameter was only as thick as a calf, but they were quite tall.
Mu Xi: "If we saw the house into sections and reinforce it, it should be able to survive this rainy season."
Zhao Yeqing thought about the wood that supported the house last year, which later shifted.
"Same as last year?"
Mu Xi gestured and said, "Last year we didn't have time to drive piles into the ground, so this year we can reinforce the wood in the ground. This way, the angle doesn't need to be too large, which saves a lot of space and is also more solid."
Zhao Yeqing didn’t quite understand, but since Mu Xi had made up his mind, he could just leave it to him.
Mu Xi had an idea, so he started the construction very quickly. The next day, he had reinforced all the houses. When he was thinking about fixing the roofs,
Drops of cold rain hit his face.
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