Chapter 450 Cucumber
At the edge of the wall, the wild goose flapped its wings and called out to the wall. The sound quickly alarmed three other geese, who also flapped their clipped wings and walked to the edge of the wall.
The two men had excellent eyesight. When they turned around, they saw a long snake crawling into the wooden fence, spitting out its tongue and trying to attack the geese.
In fact, snakes are not really afraid of wild geese or geese, but they are afraid of a parasite in their feces. Wild geese are not their natural enemies.
But the two of them rarely let the geese out for a stroll during this period. When they are not at home, they are afraid that they might fly outside the wooden fence and it would be dangerous. Although their wings have been clipped, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, so they can still flap their wings a few times.
As a result, there was very little goose droppings on the grass within the wooden fence. The snake probably took advantage of this opportunity to get in and steal food. Unexpectedly, the two were still leisurely today, so they let the ducks and geese out to play on the grass.
Catch the snake as soon as it comes in.
The snake was a small green snake, with no red on its head or tail. Mu Xi walked a few steps towards it, squinting his eyes to identify it: "It should be a small green snake commonly seen in the mountains. I guess it's not poisonous."
The snake is not big, its body is about the thickness of a thumb, and it is quite long, more than one meter.
Mu Xi walked to the drain outlet to check, and sure enough, the wire mesh that was originally used as a cutoff had been pushed open. After it was re-stuck, the battle beside the wooden fence was over. The snake saw that there was someone at the place where it had originally entered, so it turned around and swam quickly to another place.
There is actually a hole?
The wooden fence built by the two men was quite large, with weeds growing on the edge of the fence. The two men hadn't paid attention for a long time, and there was a large hole leading to the outside.
However, this hole does not look like a snake hole, but more like a rat hole. I am afraid that the rat inside was eaten by the snake and then occupied the house.
The two men who were originally preparing to cut the sweet pole were disrupted and went home to get a shovel to fill the hole. The snake inside had already escaped through another hole.
Mu Xi went back to cut sweet potato poles, while Zhao Yeqing checked inside the wooden fence to see if there were any other places with the same mistake.
There is less rain on the meadow in the summer. Under the sunlight, the grass leaves gradually change from bright green to dark green and are not as soft to the touch. Several kinds of wild vegetables that originally grew fresh on the grass also grow old and produce small black seeds after their flowering and withering.
Zhao Yeqing collected these tiny seeds, no matter what variety they were, and did not store them separately, but put them together. Anyway, these wild vegetables usually grew in the same place and would not eliminate each other.
Wait until after the Chinese New Year next year, then scatter the seeds outside the house to see if you can harvest more wild vegetables.
Nowadays, wild vegetables are not completely inedible. If not the stems, there are still leaves. Most wild vegetables are bitter with a refreshing aftertaste. In the summer, cooking wild vegetable soup can help clear away heat and reduce fire.
Mu Xi had already cut two bundles of sweet potato stems. Seeing Zhao Yeqing coming back with a handful of wild vegetable leaves, he asked, "Do you want to eat sweet potato stems?"
There was no sun at the moment, so my face didn't get sunburned, but it was still hot and stuffy. After walking around, my forehead was covered with sweat, not to mention Mu Xi who was chopping the sweet pole with his head down.
"Eat, wait a moment." Zhao Yeqing quickened his pace and went back to the kitchen. He put down the things and put the seeds in a small box. He placed the box on the windowsill to ventilate and dry it for a while. He had just brought the seeds back, so it was inevitable that they were stained by the dampness of his palms.
I poured two cups of water, picked two mint leaves from the kitchen windowsill, patted them hard on my palms to bring out the fragrance, and then put them in the cups.
Mint is often used in summer drinks, so Zhao Yeqing dug up a mint plant that was planted in the greenhouse in the yard, transplanted it into a small clay pot, and placed it on the windowsill in the kitchen for easy access at any time.
She thinks clay is the best material for making planting pots. It absorbs water and is breathable without suffocating the roots. It is very suitable for growing mint, which likes a well-ventilated environment. The only disadvantage of clay pots is that they are a bit heavy.
Zhao Yeqing carried two glasses of water to the field and handed them to Mu Xi, "Both glasses are yours. I'll go in and drink later."
Mu Xi didn't hesitate to raise his head and gulp down two glasses of water, then handed the sweet potato stalks that had been chopped into small pieces on the ground to Zhao Yeqing.
"Take it back home and sit down to eat. I just chopped it with a hatchet, so the cut may be a little dusty. Wash it before eating."
After driving Zhao Yeqing back into the house, he continued to cut the sweet potato stems.
Work is easy in this season, and he can handle all the grain fields by himself. Zhao Yeqing had fainted once due to heatstroke when the temperature was extremely high, just like the time when she was seriously injured by the bear. As long as conditions permitted, Mu Xi tried his best not to let her go to the fields.
PTSD is a yes.
Not to mention that it is still summer, and it is the hottest time of the year. Even if the sun has set halfway, the remaining glow is still scorching.
There was not much work to do in the fields, and Zhao Yeqing happily enjoyed the treatment from his partner. He cleaned the sweet potato stalks, left one to eat slowly, and put the others in the refrigerator to chill.
Dinner was cold noodles.
Since I didn’t have the yellow fresh noodles, I used the white noodles I had at home that I had dried and preserved.
After cooking and rinsing with cold water, add fresh shredded cucumber and carrot, and fried peanuts. It would be even better if there is some braised beef.
Kill the cow. We will kill the cow after we finish these two days.
After shredding the cucumber, half of it was left. Zhao Yeqing cut it into slices and sprinkled sugar on it to make sugar-mixed cucumber.
I've been eating sour smashed cucumbers a lot recently, and I'm a bit sick of it. Most of the cucumbers grown at home are the old, white-green and coarse cucumbers from the countryside, which are more suitable for making sweet ones by sprinkling sugar on them.
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This kind of cucumber has to have both ends cut off and thrown away. It is inedible and will make your mouth numb after eating it.
When it was thrown out of the window, it was snatched away by the chickens in the backyard and was eaten up in a short while.
It's not that they eat fast, it's that there are so many of them.
Zhao Yeqing prepared dinner, walked out of the kitchen and shouted outside, "It's time to eat!" Then he walked to the backyard and locked the chickens back into the chicken coop.
You can’t leave it outside all the time, otherwise the backyard will be full of chicken poop.
All the chickens were put into the cages. Zhao Yeqing counted them, not counting the chicks. There were a total of twenty-five chickens.
There are too many. Let’s kill them.
If I can’t finish the food, I force the dogs at home to eat it. They should enjoy this blessing.
It was getting dark outside. Mu Xi turned on the yard light when he walked into the yard. The lit bulb immediately attracted all kinds of small flying insects to cling to the round bulbs. The bulbs were slippery, and those that couldn't cling would fall down and make way for the insects behind them.
Mu Xi remembered seeing an electric mosquito swatter in the home of a silkworm farmer in the village. He would bring it back to try next time. Zhao Yeqing would definitely like it. If he waved it towards places where there were a lot of flying insects, it would produce a burst of crackling electric light.
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