Chapter 24 Meow?
When the bayberry soup cools down a bit, cover it with a lid and put it in the freezer.
In the freezer, it only takes half an hour for the warm bayberry soup to cool down completely.
Zhao Yeqing picked two mint leaves from the vegetable garden, patted them lightly with his palms and put them into the iced bayberry soup.
She was patrolling the large vegetable garden with a bowl of iced bayberry soup. The chickens wandering outside were relatively obedient. After being driven away a few times, they did not insist on going into her shed. She would drive the chickens back later and open the shed.
The peppers and eggplants need pollination recently. They are growing well and have many flowers.
The tomato was still a little thin, so Zhao Yeqing gave it special care.
Maybe because the weather was getting warmer, she watered the plants more frequently, and the tomato seedlings became a little leggy. They looked quite tall, but the main stems were thin and long.
After Zhao Yeqing picked off two leaves at the bottom of the tomato seedling, he laid the branch down and buried the lower part with soil.
There are small white hairs on the tomato stems, and some have small white bumps. These are where roots can grow. They will take root as long as they are buried in the soil.
The pepper plant had grown a lot of side branches, and Zhao Yeqing pinched them off one by one.
Avoid direct sunlight and wait until dark before watering everything.
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The next day, Zhao Yeqing was ready to go out early in the morning when it was still gray to check on the rabbit trap.
Rabbits like to be active at night. If you catch one and don't take it away in time, if it encounters a fox or an eagle, it will become food on the plate.
Unfortunately, when we got there, we found that some of the food at the entrance of the cave had been eaten and the trap had been triggered, but there was not even a single rabbit hair on it.
Zhao Yeqing checked at the entrance of the cave and found that the traces there did not look like those of a rabbit, but rather like those of a bamboo rat.
It is a kind of rodent about thirty to forty centimeters long, about the same size as a rabbit, with small mung bean eyes. Unlike ordinary mice with long mouths, its mouth is short and round. She thinks the bamboo rat's nose is upturned like a pig's nose, so when she was a child, she always called bamboo rats pig rats.
Many people like to catch bamboo rats and eat them, saying that they taste like duck meat.
Bamboo rats may be found because there is a large area of Guanyin bamboo nearby.
Zhao Yeqing didn't believe that he couldn't catch a rabbit, so he wandered around the grass looking for a rabbit's nest.
This is the terrain that rabbits love to hang out in the most.
At the junction with the forest on the other side, Zhao Yeqing finally found several connected holes. They were not the kind that were underground, but were drilled out of the grass pile.
She made several traps and placed them near each hole, and finally she caught three little rabbits on the third day.
One grey and two white.
The grey one is a female rabbit, and the two white ones are males.
Zhao Yeqing kept them in the bamboo cage that he brought back when he bought the chickens.
There is a round hole on the bamboo cage with a lid, which can be opened to feed food.
Zhao Yeqing got what he wanted and began to plan his own rabbit farm.
Although she found that these rabbits were not very good at digging holes, there was no guarantee that they would use unconventional means to escape.
She planned to mix the leftover cement and lay a cement floor to raise rabbits.
There are still a few bags of cement left, more than enough to pave a small area.
Rabbits cannot tolerate heat, so Zhao Yeqing marked out a piece of land outside the outer wall behind the house, pulled out all the grass on the ground, compacted the soil and then covered it with cement.
It is surrounded by thick wooden boards, hoping that it can last longer and not be bitten off in just a few days.
The surrounding wooden walls were about one meter high. She had seen rabbits jump fifty to sixty centimeters high before, but with a one-meter-high wooden board, they probably couldn't jump out.
Zhao Yeqing also used the remaining scraps to make a food trough, and used an old stainless steel bowl as a sink.
After the rabbits were thrown in, they were obviously wary and stayed there motionless. Zhao Yeqing put food and water for them.
When Zhao Yeqing went to check again the next morning, the rabbits were already jumping around.
In order to see the rabbit-carrot scene, Zhao Yeqing found carrot seeds from the seed pile and sprinkled them in the potato and sweet potato area.
Then the sign of the potato and sweet potato area was officially changed to the root and rhizome area.
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June 1, 3033
It had been two months since she returned to the mountains, and one and a half months since the ground cracked.
Except for the voice on the radio when the ground cracked at the beginning, which told people to wait for rescue, today there was finally a different voice.
'Issued an orange high temperature warning: relevant departments and units shall, in accordance with their duties, take emergency measures to prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature at rescue sites, stop outdoor reconstruction and open-air operations, take protective measures for the elderly, weak, sick and young people, and relevant departments and units shall pay special attention to fire prevention.'
Zhao Yeqing listened, scattered the chicken feed in the yard, and watched a group of silly chickens running over and pecking at the ground.
An orange high temperature warning means that the temperature will rise above 37 degrees in one day.
The temperature in the mountains is relatively low, averaging nearly ten degrees lower, and is now around 27 or 28 degrees.
This temperature is indeed unusual in early June.
This kind of abnormal high temperature has only occurred a few times in the past hundred years, all of which were El Niño phenomena. I don’t know if it is this year or not. Every time El Niño occurs, their country has not been affected by excessive high temperatures.
Because every time El Niño occurs, it starts to rain and floods occur everywhere.
If this is the case this year, it will undoubtedly be adding insult to injury.
Zhao Yeqing was wondering whether he should explore a way out. Even if he didn't go out for the time being, it would give himself one more option.
She climbed up the mountain and went up to the observation tower, looking across the crack.
Extending upwards from the road, there is a clear shadow, which should be caused by the collapse of the nearby land.
The further you go into the mountains, the less shadows there are.
In other words, it is not necessarily impossible to get out.
But as far as she could see, the shadows had already shrunk or disappeared to an unknown number of kilometers away.
At least 30 kilometers away...
She didn't have the courage. For example, the traces left by the black bear when she was cutting pine oil last time made her dare not run to that forest again.
What's more, there are many more ferocious beasts in the mountains than just this bear.
Zhao Yeqing turned his gaze towards the direction of the town, but couldn't see any details. It seemed no different from when the disaster first hit, but it also seemed even more desolate.
They are in a mountainous area, and after the disaster, the authorities will definitely transfer people to the county town. Rescue in the mountains is too difficult, and transportation of supplies is also a big problem.
Before going home, Zhao Yeqing took a look at the spring to see if there was anything unusual.
As soon as I got close, I heard some unusual noises coming from the bushes...
"Meow..." The sound was light and soft, and a little sticky.
Zhao Yeqing: ??? What?
Where did this little kitten come from in the mountains?
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