Chapter 346 Snail
Mu Xi had already fed them a meal of half-cooked rice after he found out they had hatched.
Half-cooked rice helps the newly hatched ducklings digest food. They need to be fed for about three days in a row before they can be fed other foods.
When Mu Xi got up, the duck feed had already been cooked. Zhao Yeqing blew the half-cooked rice to cool it down before taking it to the original owner's house and opening the partition of the incubator.
A few little ducks were originally sleeping together, but when they heard the noise they hurriedly hid in the corner.
Now Zhao Yeqing could see clearly that the four little ducks were yellow and black, with black backs and yellow bellies. They were very cute little furry balls.
Zhao Yeqing placed the small box of warm water and rice in the insulated box, resisted the urge to reach out and touch them for fear of scaring them, and took a few more glances before reluctantly closing the door.
The duck's down is very fine and looks very nice to touch.
After feeding the chickens in the incubator, I go to feed the chickens in the chicken coop.
The little ducks in the chicken coop seemed to have mistaken the hen for their mother and kept hiding under the hen's belly.
This makes feeding the chickens a little difficult, as the other chickens in the chicken coop will definitely snatch all the feed.
I could only cruelly reach out and grab the duckling from under the hen's belly.
The caught duck cried so miserably, but Zhao Yeqing also fulfilled his wish of petting the duck.
Put a few ducks in an incubator and keep ten ducks together to make it easier to manage them.
Zhao Yeqing finished feeding the ducks, and Mu Xi finished feeding the pigs.
Recently, the sweet potato vines have grown quite lushly, and the supply of pig food has been greatly alleviated, but it is not enough to feed them every day, so I still have to cut some pig grass from time to time.
After breakfast, Zhao Yeqing ran back to the house and took out the book he had read before, trying to find the breed of duck.
Gray back and yellow belly, this feature is actually not obvious. Zhao Yeqing looked at the pictures and text descriptions in books and found that many ducks have this feature.
You can only give up and wait until they grow up a little.
Now the dogs don't need to go out hunting rabbits, and Zhao Yeqing doesn't need to go out with them to graze. He just needs to let the dogs take the cattle and sheep out, and he can finally stay at home to take care of the vegetable garden and grain fields.
Mu Xi had just weeded the field two days ago, so he could take a break these two days. Since there was nothing to do, he moved the stone mill out and started grinding beans to make tofu.
Mu Xi turned the stone mill, and Zhao Yeqing put the soaked beans into the holes of the stone mill. After grinding, Zhao Yeqing walked around the fields while eating a bowl of freshly baked tofu pudding.
She didn’t know if it was because the ecology was gradually improving, but there were more insects in the fields than before. They weren’t pests, but occasionally she’d see some she’d never seen before crawling through the fields.
Now the wheat seedlings have grown above the knee, and the corn has come from behind and is a little taller than it.
The rapeseed in the field was fresh and tender. Zhao Yeqing walked around and planned to pick some to cook in soup tonight.
The fastest growing crop is definitely the grass. In a dozen days or so, the first round of harvest will be ready for the grass. However, the beehives placed next to the pasture have not been harvested yet.
Zhao Yeqing finished his tofu pudding and was about to go back and get another bowl. When he passed by the rice field, he caught a glimpse of something black in it.
She stopped and took a closer look. Wasn’t this the snail that she had discovered a few years ago and had never appeared again?
Zhao Yeqing put the bowl on the edge of the field and began to look for snails around the field. After walking around the field, he found that there were quite a lot of them.
This is still on the surface. I guess when we put some snail traps, we will pick up more snails.
Zhao Yeqing didn't rush to scoop it out. He took the bowl home and told Mu Xi about it.
In the evening, the two of them took a small bamboo basket, put some vegetables in it, and placed it in the paddy field where the snails were seen.
The next day, before dawn, Zhao Yeqing ran to the edge of the field to take a look. When he turned on the flashlight, he saw the dark green snails inside.
The snails will be attracted by the vegetables in the basket before dawn, and may run away when daybreak comes. You have to harvest them at this time to get the most.
In addition to the basket, Zhao Yeqing also used a lamp to search carefully on the rice stalks. When it gets dark, the snails will climb up the rice stalks and cling on to rest.
She picked all the snails near the edge of the field, and directed Mu Xi, who was wearing rain boots, to go down to the field to catch those in the middle of the paddy field.
Zhao Yeqing harvested a whole basket of snails in the morning. She was so happy that her teeth were showing. She finally had the snail noodles she had been looking forward to for a long time.
It’s a pity that there are only field snails and no stone snails, so the flavor of the soup will be quite different.
The meat of field snails is thick and delicious when stir-fried, but stone snails are more fragrant.
When Mu Xi saw so many snails, he walked to the fish pond and looked with a light to see if there were any stone snails in it.
After looking for a long time, I still found nothing. It might be that their fish pond was too deep and there were no stones next to it. Stone snails usually live by attaching themselves to stones.
Zhao Yeqing said, "Why don't we go look for it in the stream and maybe we can find it."
There are so many snails now, she doesn't believe that there are no stone snails in the stream. Anyway, it will take a long time to eat the snails. They have to be soaked in clean water to spit out the sand, and only after the sand is spit out can they be fried.
Zhao Yeqing poured a basket of snails into a basin, added well water, and then dripped a few drops of oil into it to help speed up the spitting out of sand.
It was just daybreak when they finished cooking breakfast. After eating, the two packed up their things and headed into the mountains, following the waterway that led from the water source to the fish pond until they found a stream.
This side was also the place where the two had dug up wild kudzu root and picked snow lettuce. This forest was between the birch forest and the pine forest. The terrain was relatively flat and the view was relatively wide. The two men acted separately, one along the upstream of the stream, and the other along the downstream of the stream to search.
The upper reaches are to the north and the lower reaches are to the south. Mu Xi gained nothing all the way to the north, but Zhao Yeqing gained a lot in the warmer, more humid, mossy and rocky area downstream.
The further down they went, the more turbid the water became. Zhao Yeqing saw that the water flowed through a waterway that seemed to have just collapsed. Fresh mud was washed away by the water, causing the water from there onwards to be yellow.
A small puddle appeared at the location of the collapse, about two or three square meters in size. A lot of stones had fallen nearby, and the stones were covered with moss and snails.
Zhao Yeqing squatted on the ground happily and picked off all the small snails that were attached to it.
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