Chapter 242: Expanding the Fish Pond
The PC board above has not been turned on these days, and the fill light is all plant lamps, not only to experiment the effect of the plant lamps, but also to determine the power consumption.
After several days of experiments, the two plants underground grew very well. They were away from the hot sun and seemed to be more energetic than when they were on the ground.
Zhao Yeqing picked a strawberry that had just turned completely red and stuffed it directly into his mouth. "It's turning red faster than the one on top. I think I can just take it down."
After two days of experiments, they found that the load-bearing capacity of the PC board above was no problem. The two were afraid that they would accidentally step on it, so they specially cordoned off the area and brought a few dogs with them to make sure that no one was allowed to step on it before they felt relieved.
But Huhu and Xuebing haven't come back recently, and I'm afraid they'll jump on top if they come back one day. These two leopards must weigh more than 60 kilograms now, and I don't know if the board can withstand it.
In the evening, the two of them moved the tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, watermelons, the pumpkins that had just been planted, and the climbing loofahs and cucumbers...all underground.
After dividing the areas, a small piece of land is left for sowing green leafy vegetables.
The two planted spice vegetables such as green onions, garlic sprouts and perilla around various vegetables, which not only saves space but also has the effect of repelling insects.
Zhao Yeqing turned on the planting light above his head. The 50W bulb could just illuminate all the plants within the 15 square meters, and the entire basement was brightly lit.
The most common thing left out there now is sweet potatoes.
It's time to harvest the sweet potatoes, but the two of them were so busy that they didn't have time to do it.
The only time to work is in the morning and evening, when it is dawn but the sun has not yet risen, and when the sun has set but there is still light.
The two got up early and quickly harvested the sweet potatoes in the field.
There aren’t many sweet potatoes this year, but they’re all pretty big.
Two kinds of potatoes are planted, purple sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes. There are not many varieties of purple sweet potatoes. It can be seen that the villagers living at the foot of the mountain still prefer the high-yield sweet potatoes.
Before the sun came out, the two successfully pulled out all the sweet potatoes, removed the stems and leaves on the ground, and moved the sweet potato fruits to the cellar.
Freshly harvested food must be cooked and eaten while it is still hot.
It is not suitable to roast sweet potatoes in summer, so Mu Xi cut the sweet potatoes into pieces and made syrup, adding ice cubes to it, in order to bribe Zhao Yeqing to make him a meal of candied sweet potatoes.
When Zhao Yeqing made it before, he wanted to learn it, but the last time he tried it with yam, he found that it was not as delicious as Zhao Yeqing’s.
Zhao Yeqing took this opportunity to sit in the rocking chair and rock back and forth, enjoying the sugar water scooped up by Mu Xi with a spoon and brought to her mouth.
After finishing a bowl of food slowly, he smacked his lips and said reluctantly, "Okay, I'll make it for you tonight."
Mu Xi knew she was just joking, so she cooperated by bowing and imitating the intonation of the crosstalk she often heard while working, saying, "Thank you then."
It's quite interesting for the two of them to live these days.
When Zhao Yeqing was cooking at night, Mu Xi was fanning him. It was not convenient to bring in an air-conditioning fan because the kitchen was used for cooking and there was a lot of dust. The air-conditioning fan sucks in air first and then blows it out, so it would be bad to bring it in and use the machine.
I don't mind the old-fashioned fan, but the wind force is too strong, even at the lowest setting it's quite loud. It's okay to direct it toward the side when I'm not cooking, but when I'm cooking and lighting a fire, once the air in the kitchen flows, the wind will easily blow the fire aside, and the ashes from the fire pit below will also be raised.
It is most appropriate to fan Zhao Yeqing manually, as the air supply angle is precise. Recently, they cannot go out to work during the day, so they are only busy in the morning and evening. They are not tired after resting for a whole day. Mu Xi is happy to fan Zhao Yeqing and also provides sweat wiping service.
The two of them first worked together to prepare other dishes, and only when it came to the last dish, the candied sweet potato, did Zhao Yeqing work alone.
Once this last dish is served, you can start eating.
In addition to the candied sweet potato that Mu Xi specifically requested, he also fried sweet potato balls and sweet potato fries with the leftover oil from frying bean curd balls, as well as a steamed fish and blanched vegetables.
There are more and more fish in the fish pond. I didn’t notice it before, but now the little fish hatched from the eggs laid in the spring have grown a lot and fill the entire pond.
The two of them were discussing while eating.
"Now that the temperature is getting higher and higher, the fish ponds must not only be expanded but also deepened so that the water temperature inside can be kept low enough."
After all, the fish were caught from cold water lakes. Although carp, grass carp and the like have strong adaptability, the current temperature is too high and will continue to rise. There is no way to ensure that the temperature of running water is low enough. If it weren't for the grape trellis above, the water temperature would have exceeded the standard long ago.
If you can't work during the day, you have to work in the morning and evening.
The light was poor at night, so the two of them could only use lamps. They found enough power strips, so they connected a few more and turned on the lights in the field outside the yard.
The two men marked out an area next to the fish pond that was about the same size as the previous pond, intending to dig out this side first and then drain the fish and water over here.
Then deepen the original fish pond, and finally connect the two sides, and it will be done.
It definitely couldn't be done in one day, so we had to wait until the evening of the next day to dig the new fish pond. On the third day, we exposed the fish to the sun all day to sterilize it, and only started to process the other side in the evening.
After the two men drained the water into the new fish pond that had been dried in the sun, they hurried down to the pond to catch the fish. They threw all the small and big fish in the pond, blocked the hole, and then began to deepen the pond.
"It's a pity that the ecosystem that had already been formed in this fish pond has been destroyed."
Zhao Yeqing dug out all the soil from the bottom of the drained fish pond and filled it up. When he was done digging, he poured the soil into the other fish pond.
The soil at the bottom was already covered with moss and aquatic plants, so it would be a pity to throw it away.
After the original fish pond was deepened, the fish had to be dried for a day the next day.
The two went to the lake early in the morning, planning to get some water plants and moss-covered stones and throw them into the fish pond.
They haven't been here for a long time. After the flood during the last rainy season, this place has become different from before.
The originally few aquatic plants on the shore suddenly increased in number, and animals such as wild ducks and geese that could be seen in the lake last year disappeared. Zhao Yeqing looked at so many plants on the shore and even wanted to feel if there were any wild duck eggs.
But not only were there no eggs, there was not even any trace of wild ducks.
Mu Xi also found that there were fewer animal footprints by the water this year.
Both of them were puzzled. Logically speaking, as human activities here have decreased, the number of animals should have increased.
In the past, because this was a human activity area, the animals' territories would gradually retreat to the uninhabited mountains. Now, for two years, there have been no humans active on the meadow except the two of them, so the animals that had originally migrated should have returned.
Although the weather is hot, it is not so hot that all animals disappear.
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