Chapter 268 A string
Seeing that the two people were about to cross the river, Huhu and Xuebing stood still.
It looks like it wants to stay in the misty mountain.
Zhao Yeqing touched the two leopards with understanding, rubbed his face against theirs, and waved his hands reluctantly.
"Okay, you two go back. Be safe and come back when you have time."
These words sound just like what we say when we send off our children to go out and work hard after the Chinese New Year.
One of them was walking in a daze due to fever, and the other was walking staggeringly due to injury. They finally got home, but they couldn't rest right away and had to feed the cattle and sheep quickly.
The livestock at home will rebel if they don’t have a meal, bleating and mooing non-stop, not to mention the chirping chicken coop.
I can't work these days, I need to take better care of my health.
The original plan was that after returning, Mu Xi would continue to build a house, and Zhao Yeqing would continue to farm.
The grain fields have all been planted, but the vegetable fields have not yet been planted. Only radishes, cabbages and onions have been planted before, and leafy vegetables such as Chinese cabbage have not yet been planted.
Soak the seeds before leaving and sow them directly.
Zhao Yeqing recovered relatively quickly. He was back to full health after sleeping for a day. But Mu Xi was not so good. He had to wait patiently for the wound to scab over.
As soon as he got up in the morning, Zhao Yeqing started sowing the vegetable seeds.
Most of the vegetable seeds this time were sent by my eldest nephew. They came in colorful packaging bags with planting instructions carefully marked on them.
For example, for slightly larger vegetables, the planting density marked above is about 8,000 plants per acre. Such plant spacing can determine that the row spacing and plant spacing are equal. You can find out the row-plant spacing by calculating.
One acre of land is 667 square meters. Dividing it by 8,000 plants, we get the square meters of nutritional area. Taking the square root, we can calculate that the row spacing is about 28 centimeters, which is very clear.
This kind of vegetable does not need to be planted very deep. After Zhao Yeqing raked the soil in the vegetable field to make it flat, he used a hoe to make a shallow groove and evenly scattered the vegetable seeds.
When encountering smaller seeds, such as bok choy, which are only the size of millet grains and are easy to scatter unevenly, mix the seeds with some loose sandy soil and then sow them together.
For this kind of vegetables with weak soil-breaking ability, there is no need to cover them with a thick layer of soil. Just a shallow layer will be enough.
Zhao Yeqing walked along the groove where the seeds were sown and gently dug the soil with his feet to cover it slightly.
This way you won’t tire your waist and you can finish the work while standing.
But you still have to bend down when sowing.
Although the weather now is much better than before, it is still over 30 degrees Celsius. There are no clouds above to block the sunlight, so it is still a bit hot at noon.
The feet are steaming with the hot earth air, and the back is burning with the scorching sun.
Only after working in the fields and earning a living can one truly understand the hardships of writing poetry.
Mu Xi called out to Zhao Yeqing several times, asking him to come back first and go out later when it wasn't so hot.
But Zhao Yeqing has a problem. Once he is serious about doing something, he will not let go until he finishes it.
After covering the ground with soil, he hurried back into the house.
I didn't feel it when I was working in the fields, but when I got home and turned on the fan, I felt a burning pain on my back.
Mu Xi frowned and said nothing, seeming a little angry.
Zhao Yeqing thought he was angry with her and felt that she didn't take care of her body, so she said, "I'm fine, the temperature will go down in a while, it's just a little red, but the skin is not peeling."
Mu Xi still took the ointment and applied a layer on her body, then handed her the prepared lunch.
Mu Xi's shoulder was injured and he couldn't move it. He could only use his right hand which was weak. It took him an hour to prepare lunch.
Zhao Yeqing ate up all the simple fried egg noodles.
At night, she found that Mu Xi was still angry, "Why are you so angry for so long?"
Mu Xi pursed his lips and said nothing. Zhao Yeqing pretended to be angry, and then he quickly admitted,
"I'm not mad at you, I just can't help you..."
Now she understood that he was angry with himself and had probably been blaming himself all day.
Zhao Yeqing found it funny. "When I was sick, you were the one doing the work. And even if you hadn't come back, I would have lived alone and I would have had to do these jobs too."
Mu Xi put his chin on her shoulder, and didn't dare to put his arms around her back, for fear of touching her wounds. He just put his arms around her waist and retorted, "I won't not come back."
The hand on her waist made her feel a little itchy, so she pushed the man's hand away and patted his face to comfort him. "Then wait a few days until your injury is healed, and you can do the work while I rest."
Mu Xi is in excellent physical condition. He recovered quickly the last time he was injured by a hyena. This time, even though he was bitten by two large wounds, the wounds did not become infected.
Of course, it is also related to taking anti-inflammatory drugs.
Apart from lying down these days, Mu Xi could only do some simple cooking, or dry some medicinal herbs in the yard, and process the snake skins and snake gallbladders that he had collected this time.
Only after the wound had scabbed over and the blood scab had almost fallen off did Zhao Yeqing agree to let Mu Xi come out to work.
If the blood scab does not fall off, it will rub against your clothes while you are working. If you scrape it off forcibly, it will bleed again, and once it bleeds, it will easily become infected.
In this time of shortage of medical care and medicine, infection is a matter of life and death.
I have almost used up all the western medicines at home, and some of those with a short shelf life have expired.
Mu Xi: "Once we have dealt with things at home, we will go to the tourist area to look for medicine."
The two of them had brought back all the non-expired and long-shelf-life medicines from the tourist area, but the medicines prepared in the homestays were not fresh.
The medicines in the homes of the herdsmen living nearby have long expired.
However, this time, Mu Xi's target was not the previous places, but to find the car of the group of people who first stole the oil and drove away.
If they could steal the gasoline and run away, then it is impossible that they only stole the gasoline. There must be a lot of supplies and equipment in the car.
After Mu Xi finished burning all the red bricks, Zhao Yeqing also took care of the newly reclaimed grassland.
Use the sun to sterilize and sprinkle lime powder, then stir the soil and add rotted manure.
After drying in the sun for a few days, you can start sowing.
All the grass seeds saved from last year were spread out, mainly alfalfa and ryegrass. These two varieties are cold-resistant, and even when winter comes, they will not die for a while, and can still grow before minus 20 degrees Celsius.
Before Mu Xi officially built the new hay house, he had to pick the tea fruits that should have been ripe.
There were still many things to do at home, so Zhao Yeqing couldn't go with him this time. Before Mu Xi left, he sprinkled a layer of realgar powder on his body and repeatedly emphasized the need to be careful before letting him go.
The trip went very smoothly, but when he came back, he was wet and holding a bunch of struggling little things in his hands, which made Zhao Yeqing stunned on the spot.
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