Chapter 351 Climate
The three dogs came back, and Dahuang also pulled his head out of the hole. It seemed that they had cooperated with each other. Dahuang forced the animal out, and the other three caught it outside.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the animal, which had a long snout, black-gray fur, and claws turned outward.
"Mole? No wonder."
The mole in the dog's mouth was motionless. Could it have been bitten to death?
Zhao Yeqing was about to go up to check, but Mu Xi grabbed his hand and said, "Don't go. You don't know our dog well enough. It's definitely not bitten to death. This animal is also good at pretending to be dead. I'll go get the cage first."
Mu Xi took out the bamboo cage that had previously held the fox and stuffed the mole inside.
When the mole found himself shut up, he immediately came to life, and tried desperately to get out, and began to bite with his upper teeth.
But when its teeth hit the bamboo cage, Mu Xi took a small branch and poked it back.
Watching this round ball being poked down in the bamboo cage, it climbed up again and tried to get out.
Not to mention it's kind of cute.
"How do we deal with this?"
This mole is neither good nor bad. It does not eat crops nor steal food from the house. Although it is called a rat, it is an animal of the mole family and does not have the bad habits of rats.
They live underground all year round and eat various insects and insect eggs underground. They can help the land get rid of pests such as white grubs, so they are considered beneficial animals.
However, when it runs around in the fields looking for insects to eat, it can easily damage the roots and stems of crops. Among the insects it eats are also earthworms that are beneficial to crops.
Mu Xi took a piece of cloth and covered the bamboo cage, and the mole inside suddenly became quiet.
"This little guy lives underground all year round without seeing the sun. Even at night, he only comes out occasionally to walk around. If he stays in the sun for too long, it could easily cause problems."
After that, he picked up the bamboo cage and stood up, "It's better not to leave it at home, I'll take it outside and release it."
When Mu Xi went out, Zhao Yeqing took a shovel and filled up the mole hole. He waited until he had prepared breakfast, fed the four dogs, and let them take the cattle and sheep out before coming back.
"What's taking so long?"
Mu Xi washed his hands, took the pancake handed over by Zhao Yeqing, and took a bite: "We were afraid that it would find a way back, so we sent it a little far away. Didn't we plant pasture grass on the meadow before? We just threw it over there."
Places where things are planted are prone to pests, so throwing this thing there would be beneficial.
After breakfast, Zhao Yeqing took care of the wisteria flowers that he had not arranged yesterday while taking advantage of the good light. Mu Xi took a new wire to connect the broken place.
It’s a pity that this wisteria has not grown very big yet. If it grows into a big tree, the entire backyard will be covered with wisteria flowers.
As for wisteria, its flowering period is actually from April to May, and now it is almost over. Once this batch of flowers withers, it will be time for the fruits to be produced.
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July.
The highest temperature in the entire meadow has reached 33 degrees.
The wisteria and azaleas in the backyard have all withered, the wisteria pods have slowly grown out, and the marigolds scattered under the shelves are blooming brilliantly and colorfully.
The two of them had already harvested the first crop of forage, chopped it up and put it into the silo. The wheat grains were full and ready to be harvested at any time.
The rice has entered the filling stage, and the first batch of milky corn has been picked. The two of them kept it for themselves, and the rest will be dried after the summer vacation, and can be picked after the wheat harvest.
The rapeseed is ready to bloom. The climate this year is much better than the year before, and the plump flower petals on the top are ready to burst at any time.
The sweet potato stalks are ready to be eaten. Recently, the two of them have been cutting one from time to time to eat as a snack. Since they are not planning to make sugar this year, they will not harvest them at a unified time and can cut them whenever they want.
Spring-sown crops can basically be harvested in three months at the shortest and four months at the longest. The time difference is very short and close, so it is extremely busy when it comes to harvest.
But during this busy farming season, what keeps the two of them busy is not the crops in the fields, but the mosquitoes in the house.
A month ago the temperature on the meadow had already breached 30 degrees, and the two thought they were doomed, estimating that 40 degrees would soon be approaching.
But I didn't expect that the temperature would not rise any more after reaching around 33 degrees, and the temperature was very stable every day.
After this temperature persisted for about 20 days, trouble began to arise.
It started raining.
It still follows the pattern of rain this year, raining for a while and then stopping for a while, raining for a while and then stopping for a while, there is sunshine and rain every day.
The air was hot and humid, causing the number of mosquitoes to increase rapidly.
That is why, even though the wheat in the field was ready to be harvested, the two men had not yet gone; they were busy running to the woods to cut mugwort.
There are so many mosquitoes in the house. When I go to the toilet at night, if any skin is exposed, there will definitely be a few bumps on it when I come back.
I can only put the harvesting aside and find more mugwort to use as mosquito coils in the house.
I didn't even dare turn on the lights in the yard. After just a few minutes, the lights went out.
It wasn't that the two of them turned it off, nor was there a problem with the wiring or the light bulb. Instead, the surface was simply covered with dense swarms of mosquitoes. Someone with trypophobia would probably die on the spot after seeing this.
When the two went to the woods to harvest mugwort, they found something wrong.
The climate change during this period caused the trees near the meadow to also appear similar to the ones on the Misty Mountain.
The bark was covered with moss, and the vines grew rapidly, winding their way to the tall branches and hanging down. It was not as lush as those in Yunwu Mountain, but the growth rate was truly amazing.
The path that the two men had cleared was also covered with ferns.
On the way down the mountain, the surrounding vegetation was originally mostly thatch, but now the thatch has been completely suppressed by ferns, and there are also many leeches and snakes.
In the summer, when they go into the woods, both of them will bring wooden sticks to avoid scaring off any snakes. The stick in Zhao Yeqing's hand has changed from a short stick to a twice-long stick, because there are too many snakes now and the range needs to be expanded.
They quickly harvested two baskets of mugwort and returned home. Each of them drank a large glass of ice water before taking the mugwort to the yard to dry.
If it's not raining now, we have to dry the sun quickly. Even if it's sunny now, it can rain at any time.
Hot, rainy, and lush vegetation.
Originally, the nearby forests were evergreen broad-leaved forests or coniferous forests, but now the climate has changed so suddenly that it seems that the area is about to be transformed into a tropical rainforest.
After drinking the ice water, he filled another pot and put it in the refrigerator. Zhao Yeqing could only fill a cup of room temperature water and then throw two ice cubes into it.
He drank the water in one gulp and chewed two ice cubes into pieces in his mouth.
Mu Xi walked in from outside the yard, holding a small snake about half a meter long in his hand.
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