Chapter 232 The rain stops
She was suddenly startled by this thing.
When I looked closely, I realized it was a small fish.
No one knew where it came from, but it had been hiding in the puddles under the meadow. When Zhao Yeqing walked by, it was startled and jumped out in shock.
Zhao Yeqing picked it up from the ground and found that it was a small crucian carp. He planned to take it back and throw it into the fish pond. Whether it could survive depended on its luck.
With a small fish in their hands for no apparent reason, they had to speed up their return journey.
When she got home, the rain had slowly subsided. She threw the fish into the pond, made sure it didn't turn over, and swam away after it gradually regained its strength in the water before she stood up.
The grapes planted next to the fish pond have now almost climbed all over the trellis, and the vines have covered most of the fish pond.
The flowers seemed to be blooming, but after the heavy rain, a lot of the petals were blown away.
Zhao Yeqing felt heartbroken when she saw this, and so did her rapeseed.
Rapeseed flowers have many buds on one plant, and most of them had bloomed before the heavy rain. I don’t know whether they were successfully pollinated in those two days. If most of them were not pollinated, I estimate that the rapeseed harvest this year will be greatly reduced.
She could only hope that the bees in the hive were hardworking enough.
There are still a small number of rapeseed flowers that have not been knocked down. Zhao Yeqing walked around the rapeseed field and picked the rapeseed flowers that obviously had no hope of producing seeds.
Only by eating them can you realize their final value.
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The drizzle lasted for another three days before it finally went away.
The cumulus clouds on the horizon have gradually dissipated, and it looks like they are finally going to stop.
Mu Xi moved the beehives back to the edge of the field.
This time the rain was fierce and long-lasting, and the newly planted cotton was soaked by the heavy rain as soon as it emerged.
Fortunately, soybeans were intercropped. The grown soybean plants on both sides of the cotton blocked a lot of raindrops, allowing these weak seedlings to survive the heavy rain.
After inspection, Zhao Yeqing found that one third of the cotton shoots were lost, which was much better than she had imagined.
She had made the worst plan, thinking that the cotton would be completely destroyed. Even if it wasn't all gone, at least half of it would be lost. Unexpectedly, her luck was pretty good.
After she grew the pumpkin seedlings, she also dealt with the remaining cotton seeds, intending to replant them, but now it seems that she dealt with too many.
The rapeseed situation is not optimistic this time, and she plans to replant. Now that the sun is out, she will process the remaining rapeseed seeds and plant them in the peanut field.
Cotton only occupies half of the area originally planted with corn, and the remaining half of the corn field is empty. Zhao Yeqing plans to plant rapeseed in the empty space.
While she was taking care of the fields at home, Mu Xi went to the citrus orchard again. After the heavy rain, the nutrients in the soil were severely lost, so he carried two loads of manure down the mountain to fertilize the citrus trees.
The fields at home also need fertilizer.
Now Zhao Yeqing doesn't mind having too many cattle and sheep at home. At this time, he is just afraid that there will not be enough manure.
After fertilizing the fields, I also had to fertilize the vegetable garden. It was dark when I finished working on several large plots of land.
It will take a while to finish the work in the citrus orchard, mainly because the fertilizer has to be carried up and down the mountain, which takes a lot of time going back and forth.
Mu Xi woke up and carried manure down the mountain.
After getting up and finishing his meal, Zhao Yeqing was busy working in the fields. It was not yet time to plant rapeseed, so he had to straighten the cotton seedlings that were a little crooked due to the rain, and compact the soil underneath to prevent them from growing crooked or falling over.
Before planting rapeseed, the land has to be dried first because there is too much moisture in the land now.
After the cumulus clouds dispersed, the sun returned very unceremoniously.
The temperature rose instantly, by five degrees. As the temperature rose, the accumulated water in the entire meadow forest evaporated.
The air was hot and humid, several times more uncomfortable than the return of the south wind that she had experienced since she was a child.
It feels like I'm being suffocated by the extremely humid air.
Even my nasal cavity felt wet.
Squatting on the ground to handle the young cotton seedlings was a huge workload. Although the soybeans next to them blocked some of the rain, the soil underneath was soaked by the rain. The soil was floated up, and the roots and stems of the young cotton seedlings below were almost washed out of the soil.
Many have to be replanted.
The young seedling had only grown two small leaves, not even as thick as a toothpick. It seemed that it had been washed out, but not completely. The root at the bottom was still rooted in the soil, maintaining its vitality.
To replant, you have to pull out the young seedlings without damaging the roots underneath which are as thick as a hair.
Even though Zhao Yeqing was wearing a small vest, he still felt dizzy from the heat. Halfway through the process, he felt like he was going to have a heat stroke.
I was squatting on the ground feeling groggy and almost fell to the ground accidentally.
He thought to himself that something was wrong. After he slowly calmed down, he stood up and hurried home.
His steps were unsteady, as if he had lost his direction. He walked back to the kitchen to wash his face. He returned to his room only when he felt a little more awake. Before he could even take out the medicine box, he fell on the straw mat on the floor.
When Mu Xi came back, he found that the courtyard gate was not closed and the room door was also open.
After putting down his burden and washing his hands, he returned to the room and found Zhao Yeqing lying on the ground.
He was horrified and hurried forward to help her up. He called her several times but she didn't wake up. He noticed that her face was red and guessed that she might have heatstroke.
Mu Xi hurriedly touched her forehead and face.
It was hot but not very hot, and she didn't have a fever. I helped her lie down flat and ran out to get some well water to cool her down.
The well water is icy cold in this weather, and there is no ice at home, so I can only use this to cool down. I wiped my face, neck and arms with the wet towel, and Zhao Yeqing woke up in a few minutes.
I felt dizzy and wanted to speak but as soon as I opened my mouth my stomach started churning.
Mu Xi helped her up, and gently stroked her back to help her suppress the nausea. He felt a little guilty.
"You have heat stroke, you feel dizzy and nauseous. Blame me. I should have taken care of my house before going out."
After saying that, he brought the opened bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water to her mouth.
Zhao Yeqing tilted his head back and drank it. In the past, he thought the medicine was extremely unpalatable, but when he felt really uncomfortable, he just wanted to drink two more bottles to get better quickly.
Although the medicine tasted strong, it was very effective in suppressing the nausea, and Zhao Yeqing felt better in just a few minutes.
She wanted to shake her head at Mu Xi, but as soon as she shook her head, the dizziness came over her again. She could only hold back her nausea and said, "Don't blame you. It was me who kept saying I was worried about the orchard when it was raining."
Seeing that she wanted to stand up, Mu Xi picked her up and put her on the bed.
"You need to rest well. Just tell me if you need anything and I'll get it for you."
Zhao Yeqing asked for a glass of water and wanted to sleep for a while. Mu Xi sat by the bed and fanned her.
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