Chapter 436: Clearing the Sloping Path
There was no grain drying in the front yard, so Zhao Yeqing released the grown-up geese from the cage.
Let them roam freely between the front yard and the back yard. Large animals are guarded by the walls, but snakes and the like can only be kept away by these.
Mu Xi also erected a row of barbed wire on the top of the newly built courtyard wall to increase the height. These barbed wires can only prevent small animals that are good at climbing, but cannot prevent snakes, so snakes still have to rely on geese.
The four wild geese have all hatched and had their wings clipped. They have been raised by humans since they hatched and have adapted very well to the domestic environment. They walk around the yard with their heads held high.
The two men locked the door and walked out of the yard. This time they brought enough dry food with them and expected to stay in the mountains for two days.
If things don't go well, we can go back tonight. If things go well, we can go home tomorrow and manage the livestock alone, while the rest of us can continue to repair the path in the woods.
Originally, Zhao Yeqing planned to bring all four dogs, but after thinking about it, he decided to only bring Xiao Hei and Da Huang. Xiao Huang and Xiao Hua would stay at home to look after the house. If he brought more dogs, he would have to prepare a lot of food for them. They have been eating a lot recently and are quite heavy.
The little flower that was left behind was smart and able to adapt to changing circumstances, and the little yellow ran fast, so if anything really happened at home, he could come and report it.
They stopped outside the forest, took the electric bike out of the trunk and rode into the woods.
When we drove to the edge of the swamp, we found that the water level that had risen last time had receded, and the reason why electric cars could not pass further was that there was a rugged downhill slope.
When they went out, the two of them brought some small wooden boards with them to smooth out the rugged terrain. Even if the angle of inclination could not be changed and people could not ride on it, they could still get off the bike and hold on to the front of the bike to walk through this section of the road.
After this rugged downhill, the road becomes relatively flat.
The two continued riding to the edge of the cliff, stopped the electric bike, and Mu Xi climbed up a tree in a few steps. He raised the telescope to observe the situation from here to the middle of the slope, and whether the area near the slope was safe.
When observing a situation, the first and most noticeable thing is color, followed by living things.
There are not many brightly colored things in the forest. Through natural evolution, only plants and animals that need to attract the attention of other creatures will evolve themselves into bright colors, such as flowers that attract bees to collect nectar and pollinate.
Most animals and plants have evolved to be more low-key, making themselves inconspicuous in the forest.
When Mu Xi looked over, he observed carefully for a while before he saw several sika deer hiding in the bushes, several snakes hanging on the trees not far away, and their targets, some of which were small squirrels and some were birds perched on the branches.
Overall there was not much danger, and he did not climb very high, as if he were to be blocked from view by the dense treetops in the forest. He only climbed to the top to take a look at the condition of the slope and then went down to the treetops to see the situation along the way.
"There weren't any large dangerous animals, just some snakes and some deer near the edge of the slope."
Zhao Yeqing nodded. It was normal to have deer. Deer also loved to run on the slopes of cliffs, which was somewhat similar to goats.
"What about the traffic?"
This is a bit tricky. Mu Xi sighed, "It's not smooth. It's a bit bumpy all the way. It's passable, but it takes some time. Fortunately, the slope is relatively flat, and there is a particularly flat and smooth part in the middle."
Zhao Yeqing smiled when he heard this: "So good? They even prepared an electric bike trail for us."
It was just a joke, but it was indeed an unexpected surprise. It was probably because there used to be a stream of water flowing from top to bottom on this cliff, which washed the cliff for many years and created a small motor vehicle lane on the original rock cliff.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but think that her good luck, which hadn't won any prizes in the past few decades, had probably been used in these places now.
It takes some effort and thought to ride an electric bike to the edge of the cliff.
This side is close to the cliff, and the soil layer below is not as deep as that in the forest. The closer to the cliff, the thicker the rock layer is, and the weeds are not as tall.
Clearing the weeds became simple, but rocks were not as easy to trim as soil. If the protruding rocks on the road were too large, the two of them had to go around them. If the rocks were not large enough to be avoided, they would find a way to smash them with a hammer.
An afternoon passed and by dusk the two had only walked one-third of the distance.
Zhao Yeqing's hands became numb from pounding the big rocks. The electric bike didn't come over and stopped at the edge of the cliff. The two of them just walked and cleared the road. The broken rocks had to be moved to the potholes to fill them up.
Her hands, legs, and waist were sore from the journey. As soon as the tarpaulin was put up, Zhao Yeqing got in and lay down, not wanting to move. Mu Xi patted her legs and said, "Get up first and sleep on the sleeping bag."
Zhao Yeqing put two sleeping bags under the tarpaulin and was so tired that he didn't care about his image at all. He lay on his back with his legs spread out and didn't want to move at all.
Mu Xi lit a fire and fed the dogs before starting to prepare food for the two of them.
He boiled some water in a folding pot, beat two eggs into it, added a few vegetable leaves and a handful of fresh noodles.
The fresh noodles were cooked in a short while. Mu Xi was too tired to stand up, so he moved over to pull Zhao Yeqing up to have dinner.
Tired and hungry, everything tasted delicious to Zhao Yeqing. He ate the noodles without any oil and only added a little salt with relish and drank up all the soup. Finally, he sighed comfortably and lay down again.
During the night rest period, Zhao Yeqing only slept for three hours before getting up to let Mu Xi sleep. Tomorrow she would only be busy until dusk and would go home, leaving Mu Xi alone to continue clearing the road in the woods.
The cleaning work went smoothly for two days. Although the process was hard, after two days, we were able to complete almost half of the work.
Zhao Yeqing saw that it was almost dusk, so he rode his bike back and planned to come back to pick up Mu Xi on the third day, by which time the road should have been cleared.
The livestock at home were so hungry that they almost ate the straw on the floor of the barn. Although enough feed had been placed there before leaving the house yesterday, these unrestrained animals still ate it all in one day.
She had originally thought that these ruminant animals would never starve themselves, but now it seemed that they really would not starve, as the floor had been chewed clean.
While cursing, I added grass to the pig feed. There was no time to cook the pig feed, so I could only cut sweet potato vines and feed them raw.
There are also advantages to feeding raw pigs. Pig manure contains less water. If you feed pigs with watery pig feed, the manure may look like a lot, but there will be nothing left once it is dried. The output of several large pigs weighing several hundred pounds combined is not as high as that of two cows.
After feeding the animals, Zhao Yeqing filled the barn with hay. He did not have dinner until it was completely dark.
I haven't taken care of the farmland at home for two days, and the vegetable and grain fields have grown a lot of weeds and unknown small mushrooms, which are obviously inedible.
To clean this kind of mushroom, not only must you pull it out and not crush it, but you also have to shovel away the soil around the mushrooms to ensure that most of the spores are removed.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the ducks and geese, who had been cooped up for two days, were driven into the pond to soak. The vines were full of grapes, but there was no time to pick them. The overripe ones fell into the pond one by one, and were eaten by the ducks and geese playing in the pond.
Wild geese are more agile than ducks in this regard. They can catch some fruits falling from above in mid-air and swallow them in two gulps by tilting their necks back.
Zhao Yeqing tied a sharp curved knife to a long bamboo pole and a small net bag under the curved knife. He stretched the bamboo pole to the bottom of the grape rack above the pond and could cut a bunch of sweet grapes by simply waving the pole.
The connection at the top of the grapes was cut off and they fell straight into the small net bag, pressing the bamboo pole downward and bending it. Zhao Yeqing quickly pulled the bamboo pole back. The net bag and the bamboo pole could only bear the weight of a bunch of grapes. Any more would fall into the pond.
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