Chapter 277 Underground Pigsty
Twenty-one degrees.
This number is not surprising, as it is a normal temperature for an early autumn evening.
But if the temperature was 25 degrees yesterday, it would be abnormal.
At this moment, the first thought in Zhao Yeqing’s mind was - it has indeed come.
I actually felt that this was normal for some reason.
Perhaps this is the reason why humans, the most intelligent species on the blue planet, have super strong adaptability.
Different varieties of crops mature early or late. It takes more than a month to harvest the red and green beans at home, and more than two months to harvest the corn.
The high temperature this year continued until early October, and I thought that if we planted quickly, we would definitely be able to harvest.
Now we can only hope that the red and green beans can be harvested normally, but the situation of corn is very uncertain.
However, Zhao Yeqing had already prepared for the worst. "If the temperature drops too quickly, the corn will be cut down and stored directly before it blooms and forms ears."
The third silage pit, which was originally planned to be built before the grass harvest, must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. It should be built now while the sunshine at noon is still good, which can speed up the drying of the cement on the surface.
The two of them, who originally felt they had some free time, suddenly became busy.
I'm going to dig limestone tomorrow, and I have to deal with the ramie I cut today.
The ramie on the ground has been divided into two parts: stems and leaves.
Mu Xi said: "There are no bugs this year, just a few small aphids."
After hearing this, Zhao Yeqing approached the ramie leaves with confidence.
At noon, pigs are fed fresh pig grass, which can also be cooked and mixed with some rice bran and sweet potatoes to make the pigs grow faster.
Zhao Yeqing rinsed the ramie leaves with water and put them directly into the feeding trough. He still had a lot of work to do tomorrow, so he didn't want to make things so complicated today. Anyway, he could still feed them for more than a year, which was enough time for them to grow up.
Then prepare the ramie stalks and soak them.
If she had known that she would be busy tomorrow, she would not have gotten up early today.
Zhao Yeqing gritted his teeth and said, "We have to have another good meal tonight!"
Grilling skewers is a bit hard work. The person grilling has to be busy all the time and can only eat a few bites in the end.
Zhao Yeqing plans to braise lamb tonight.
There is no shortage of furs at home this year. After the sheep was slaughtered, the skin was not peeled off, and the whole sheep is covered with skin.
Chop it into pieces and throw it into the pot and simmer it with thick oil and red sauce until the meat is crispy and the skin is tender before serving it on the table.
The lamb skin, which has been completely stewed and softened, turns into gelatin as soon as you lick it. The sauce under the lamb is mixed into the rice and then put into your mouth along with the gelatinous lamb skin.
I didn’t eat rice yesterday, and all I ate was pie all day today. For a rice lover, this is already the limit.
This dish can only be paired with white, crystal clear rice with plump grains and a strong aroma!
Only when you are full can you have the energy to work.
After the two men dug the lime, they began to divide the work, one paved the ground and the other built a silo.
Fortunately, there were a lot of red bricks left, otherwise I would have to dig up mud to make bricks, which would have taken a lot more effort.
After working hard, the two finally finished all the work three days ago.
The concrete floors of the silo and front yard have been laid and are waiting to dry.
These days, the livestock have been driven to the basement for convenient feeding, and the dog has been ordered not to run in the yard, and can only go out through the back door if it wants to go out to play.
You can actually walk in the front yard, as the previously paved concrete floor leads directly to the gate, but I’m afraid the dogs will step on it.
In the morning, Zhao Yeqing walked along the originally paved cement floor to feed the piglets in the pigpen.
There is no room for them in the basement, so they can only be kept on the ground for now.
"Will the underground expansion collapse if it's too wide?" Zhao Yeqing was a little worried that it was not stable.
Mu Xi’s idea was to simply open another room instead of directly demolishing the original earth wall.
"Dig a door to add an extra room instead of expanding the overall area. It should be fine if the original earth wall is left thicker."
Zhao Yeqing nodded, "That's the only way. If there are enough materials, we can build a few more load-bearing columns."
It didn’t take much time to build an additional underground room, so the two of them started the work after resting for a day.
After digging the basement, we had to move back all the big trees that had been left outside.
The pulling force of the ox cart is quite strong. Mu Xi originally wanted to take both adult oxen out to pull the cart, but suddenly he thought of something and after careful examination he found that the cow was pregnant again.
The only option is to let the bull and the calf go out to work together.
The calf is obviously more lively and not as easy to control as the bull.
It takes about two years for a cow to reach adulthood. This calf is only about ten years old, which is at the age of being lively and active.
But his strength is not small, so he can easily pull some dry firewood.
The dried wood was taken home and sawed into small pieces with an electric saw, and then chopped into firewood.
The firewood filled the entire newly rebuilt firewood shed, and the remaining firewood was put into the newly built brick wall, which made good use of the extra space inside to store firewood. When cooking in the kitchen, there was no need to run to the firewood shed in the backyard to get firewood.
Mu Xi also left enough wood from two large trees to burn into charcoal.
"Isn't that too much?" Zhao Yeqing looked at the amount of firewood that needed to be burned into charcoal. This tree was at least ten meters tall. "Will it not be used up?"
Mu Xi thought the more the better, "It won't go bad if it's left alone anyway, so it's always good to do more."
Last year, we opened an earthen charcoal kiln on the back slope, which was quite rough.
If you want a higher charcoal yield, the charcoal kiln still needs to be improved. Improving it alone is not enough. It is better to dig one more. It will save time to burn two together.
They haven't set up the floor heating equipment yet.
While Mu Xi was burning charcoal, Zhao Yeqing started to store forage.
The first crop of pasture will be harvested next month, and the harvested grass must be made into silage immediately. By then, it will take several days to harvest and chop the grass.
The hay reserves in the hay house were not enough, so she had to take some time to go to the meadow to cut some and dry it.
It is more troublesome to harvest non-cultivated grass because you have to identify whether there is any grass that will cause poisoning to cattle and sheep if eaten.
If this is not possible, just make the grass on the pasture into hay and fill the newly built silo with fresh corn stalks.
In the fall, they planted corn on more than half an acre of land. According to common sense, they could produce at least four to five tons of silage.
Zhao Yeqing sighed. It seemed that it would not be so easy to eat fresh corn this year.
If all else fails, leave a few plants in the field. The number doesn't need to be large, as they will eat them anyway.
There is still a lot of corn left from the spring sowing and harvesting. It is only used to feed cattle and sheep occasionally, to nourish the pregnant ewes, and to feed chickens. It should be enough to last until after winter when the next crop can be planted.
Zhao Yeqing's calculations went smoothly, but she still didn't expect that developments a few months later would exceed her understanding.
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