Chapter 451 Equipment
After washing my hands and face, I went into the kitchen and saw the cold noodles on the table. I thought to myself, no wonder there was no fragrance.
Zhao Yeqing was busy doing something in front of the kitchen counter, and the sound of a kitchen knife chopping could be heard.
After a while, a plate of cold salted chicken was served on the table. It was prepared yesterday. Zhao Yeqing was thinking about eating cold noodles today. Salted chicken is also a cold dish and goes well with noodles.
The free-range chickens raised by farmers have the taste of chicken, as the people of Guangdong Province say. The quality of the chicken at home in the past two years has been very high, and is in no way inferior to the chicken from a farm stay that my foodie colleague from Guangdong Province found by driving to a certain mountain.
How can it not be delicious if you drink mountain spring water every day and eat organic food and chicken raised with insects?
The method of making salted chicken is extremely simple. You can tell the recipe of the whole dish from the name. It is just the simplest boiled chicken in salted water, then taken out and cut into pieces and served on the table. The most important test of a simple dish is the quality of the ingredients themselves.
Just like the classic line - 'The most high-end ingredients are often cooked in the simplest way.'
On weekdays, the two of them often eat steamed chicken. No scallions or ginger are needed. Just kill and wash the chicken and steam it in a pot. When it is cooked, tear it into pieces, prepare a soy sauce sauce, and add some chopped sand ginger to the sauce. It is so delicious that it makes you take a deep breath.
This is also the reason why the two have never controlled the number of chickens. They are easy to raise and taste good.
But now there are really too many of them, so we have to slaughter some of them first, otherwise the chicken coop will not be able to accommodate these chicks when they grow up.
The dogs at home had boiled chicken as their staple food for the next few days. The bones were crispy and there was not a single bone residue left in the dogs' bowls after meals.
We also have to eat some vegetables. Spinach is the best and fastest growing vegetable at home. The sunshine is good during this period, and the leaves have grown very tall. Zhao Yeqing is just average about spinach and doesn't like it very much, but he didn't plant it last year, so he planted some this year and saved the ones he couldn't eat for seeds.
After cooking, it is mixed with old pumpkin paste and placed in the dog bowl. Zhao Yeqing seldom feeds pumpkin to the dogs because he has to wash their faces every time they finish eating the pumpkin paste, otherwise they will look like they have eaten poop.
After Mu Xi finished cutting the sweet poles, he went to the village again. Zhao Yeqing followed him and waited on the slope. When he got bored, he used a pickaxe to chisel out a step.
Until Mu Xi pushed the walk-behind tractor down the slope, tied a rope on it, and one person pulled it from above while the other pushed it from below. It was not difficult to push it with wheels, and it came up in a short while. The difficult part was the accessories at the back.
These accessories are not small parts, but rakes, rotary tillers, ridgers, weeding wheels, etc. installed on the front and rear of the walk-behind tractors.
It's made of metal, quite heavy, and difficult to carry, so it has to be placed on a cart and pushed.
Mu Xi put them all in the cart they found in the village and dragged it up the slope. It took the two of them several trips to move all the things.
With this thing, housework becomes more convenient. It is more convenient than the equipment they had before, such as the weed wheel.
The harvester the two had obtained before could weed, but it could only remove taller grass. The grass roots left at the bottom had to wait until the soil was moistened before they could be dug out with an iron rake.
It is different with a weeding wheel. It is made of two iron cylindrical wheels that will be inserted into the soil when rotating, shoveling up the grass and grass roots together, and shallowly plowing the surface of the land in the process.
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The tractor can be filled with diesel or gasoline, and the consumption is quite large. If there wasn't a whole gas station, the amount of gasoline obtained in the tourist area before would not be enough for several uses.
Now there is no worry, you can use it however you want.
After installing the iron plow for farming, Mu Xi added oil to the walk-behind tractor. When he transported it back before, he brought a small bottle of oil to test whether it could operate normally. He only brought it back after making sure there was no problem. Otherwise, if it couldn't be used, it would be a waste of work.
The tractor started, and Mu Xi pushed it to the field, then pressed the switch of the plow in front. The iron tool was inserted into the ground, and the land was plowed, and the grass roots that were originally left in the soil were pulled out one by one.
Especially for the sweet potato fields that have just been harvested, the sweet potato stems on the top have been harvested, but the roots underground have not yet been dug out.
The machine is more powerful than the two had imagined. Normal grass roots will definitely be fine, but the roots of the sweet stalks are very strong. During normal cleaning, they need to dig out the roots one by one, one pit at a time.
Each time the roots would bring out a large piece of soil that wrapped around the roots, and it was very difficult to dig with a hoe. Unexpectedly, as the machine rolled forward, the roots were dug out. Some of the roots that were not completely dug out were cut, broken or crushed in the soil.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but let out a small cheer.
What is a magic weapon? This is it.
If this were the Great Plains, we might be able to find a few large tractors or harvesters in someone's house, and plowing a hundred acres a day would not be a dream.
But relatively speaking, Zhao Yeqing prefers the mountains here, where he can make a living. Maybe he has become accustomed to it and feels that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. But if people from the plains were to come and live here, they would probably feel that it is more comfortable to live in their hometown.
When I was a child, I often heard villagers living near the mountains chatting. Their voices were full of envy for those living in the plains. They thought the land there was easier to grow crops because it was so flat that any machine could go up on it, just like this tractor.
They envy the people in the plains who can use large tractors to drive harvesters in the fields and all the crops can be automatically harvested into the truck bed without requiring so much manpower. That is the real farming.
It's not like a big mountain. If you want more space to grow crops, you have to eat away a part of the mountain to make a small piece of land, and it has to be a dirt mountain. If someone lives on a rocky mountain, let alone growing crops, even green leafy vegetables can't grow well.
The only tractor that can be used is this kind of hand-held tractor. Many families do not want to buy a slightly larger tractor, but the terrain restrictions make it impossible to use it.
From an economic benefit perspective, it is true that the plains create better farming conditions. Before the ground split, it was stipulated that trees could not be cut down indiscriminately in the mountains. Even if they were grown at home, they had to be reported. Hunting was also not allowed.
Even when picking herbs, it is easy to accidentally pick some unfamiliar plants, and then once it is reported and found to be a certain level of protected plants, the offender will either be fined or detained.
Places with good environment and natural ecology will be set up as protected areas, and the things inside cannot be moved.
So it’s no wonder that people envy the plains. That being said, if they were asked to live in a different environment, they would definitely not want to do so.
Most of the young people who go to the city to work want to bring their elderly parents over to live with them, but when that time really comes, the elderly people talk about how this mountain becomes perfect in every way.
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