The temperature changes quickly in autumn. Xia Lunong and his friends were wearing short-sleeved shirts and thin coats yesterday, but when they woke up, the north wind was already blowing outside.
While Xia Lunong was brushing his teeth, his hands and feet were covered with goose bumps, and the color of the skin on the back of his hands had changed. Kong
Zhi poured him some water to wash his face and pushed him into the room, "Go change into a set of long-sleeved pajamas."
"Okay." Xia Lunong rubbed his arms vigorously, "I'm freezing, the temperature is dropping so fast. By the way, I wonder how my brother and his friends are doing outside?"
"They mostly use their animal forms for activities, so they shouldn't catch a cold."
"That's right." Xia Lunong prayed, "I hope everything goes well for them."
Xia Lunong ran to the room, and without changing into pajamas, she changed directly into a set of casual clothes, and also put on a sweatshirt jacket on the outside.
Wearing it like this, he looked clean and young.
Kong Zhi bent down and kissed him, "This dress is nice."
"It's mainly because you look nice." Xia Lunong smiled, "Wash the vegetables, I'll go out and see Xia Huajiao."
Xia Huajiao stood obediently in a corner of the yard, and the wind blew its crown.
The other pepper trees were the same, dancing in the strong wind.
Xia Lunong put her hand on the trunk of the pepper tree and asked, "Are you cold?"
The pepper tree shook its crown and made a "whoosh" sound, indicating that it was not cold.
Pepper is a deciduous tree, and Xia Lunong was a little worried that its leaves would fall off sooner or later, and it would be hit by that.
However, facts proved that Xia Lunong was overthinking. Not only was the summer pepper not affected, but it was also very excited. Its branches were waving in the cold wind, just like a hyperactive child.
Xia Lunong originally wanted to wrap the lower part of the pepper tree with straw to help it keep warm. Seeing it like this, she couldn't help but smile.
Xia Lunong patted the trunk of the summer pepper, and after making sure that it was fine, she went to the backyard to see the honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle is an evergreen plant, so this little cold wind is no problem at all. Feeling Xia Lunong, it stretched out its branches to wrap Xia Lunong's ankles, and was very energetic.
The two kids at home were not afraid of the cold wind, so Xia Lunong breathed a sigh of relief and was in the mood to check other plants. There was basically no problem with the other plants, and the leaves were all fine.
He walked around and returned to the kitchen, where Kong Zhi had already cut the vegetables.
Seeing him come back, Kong Zhi said, "It's just starting to get colder, so there won't be any problems."
"I hope so. After dinner, shall we go check on the pigs and cows?" Xia Lunong said, "It's getting cold, so we have to go over there to see if we need to do anything."
Kong Zhi nodded, "We'll bring some kitchen waste to feed the chickens later."
Xia Lunong made a "no problem" gesture.
There were only two of them at home, so breakfast was simple, just some noodles.
Their flour came from the wheat they grew themselves, and it tasted very good.
Even without adding anything, the two of them can each eat a big bowl of plain noodles. Now add some vegetables, an egg, and a spoonful of chili oil, and the taste will be even better.
After breakfast, the two of them carried the kitchen waste to the pig pen in a bucket.
It was only early in the morning, but Zheng Linguang had already fed the pigs.
These pigs weighed at least a hundred pounds, and each one or two of them were plump and white, and their bodies were dry and white, which looked very tempting.
Xia Lunong stood outside the pigpen and pointed, "We should be able to eat pork this year. Let's wait until the New Year to kill the biggest one."
Kong Zhi took a look and said, "Kill it during the New Year? Shouldn't we make some bacon in advance?"
Xia Lunong shook her head, "Forget it. How much bacon have we eaten this year? Let's wait and see if there is any extra pork during the New Year. If there is, it won't be too late to make bacon."
While they were talking, He Shuhui came over.
The young man was a little shy. He greeted them when he saw them, "Brother Kongzhi, Brother Xiaoxia, you are here?"
Xia Lunong smiled and said, "The weather is getting cold. We came to see how the cows are doing. Do you want to get something?"
He Shuhui looked at the cowshed, nodded, and really made a suggestion, "The ground will be getting colder and colder. Can you put some straw on the ground? It will be convenient for the cows to lie on the ground."
As he said this, he looked at Xia Lunong's face and quickly added, "I think they may be afraid of the cold. If there is no straw, it should not be too late. " Tight."
Xia Lunong patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Your suggestion is very valuable. We have made a note of it. We will seize the time to get some straw to spread it over in the next few days. Is there anything else?"
He Shuhui was a little embarrassed and said with his head down: "I haven't thought of it for the time being."
Xia Lunong encouraged him with a smile, "Then if you have any suggestions, you can come and tell us anytime you think of them. You can also come and play with us when you have nothing to do."
He Shuhui glanced at Kong Zhi quickly, responded and said: "Then I'll go to herd the cattle."
"Go ahead." Xia Lunong said, "Let's take a look here."
Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi watched him drive the cattle to herd.
These calves have grown up over the past few days, and they have gained some weight. They look like they are half grown. It is quite scary to see such a group of bulls herded out.
Xia Lunong turned to Kong Zhi and said, "These calves have grown so big, isn't it time to get nose rings on them? Otherwise, they may not be able to control themselves in the future." Kong Zhi said,
"We will discuss this after Brother Huo Qu and the others come back."
Xia Lunong nodded and went with him to see the chickens, ducks and geese they raised next door.
Their chickens, ducks and geese have always been free-range, wandering around nearby, pecking at small insects and grass leaves, etc. They are free-range chickens .
There are many eyes and ears in the base, and these chickens are generally not lost if they are free-range, and they taste better.
It was cold today. When they passed by, the chickens, ducks and geese were running around and curled up under the trees.
The north wind blew their feathers.
The hens seemed to be particularly afraid of the cold. They huddled together, their eyes squinted due to the wind, and looked listless and pitiful.
Xia Lunong couldn't bear it, "Let's drive them all to the chicken coop. It will be troublesome if they catch a cold."
"Okay. Let's talk to Aunt Zheng later and ask her to help feed them at noon."
After checking the livestock and making sure there was no problem, the two returned home.
It was still early, Xia Lunong calculated what she had to do in the next few days, and said to Kong Zhi, "Why don't we go out and see how the honeysuckle is doing? I haven't seen it for a while, and I don't know how it is growing."
Kong Zhi looked at the time, "Should we bring food with us or go directly after dinner?"
"Bring food!" Xia Lunong said nostalgically, "It's been a long time since we had a picnic outside, why don't we bring some ingredients and cook outside, and then we can have dinner outside and enjoy the autumn after finishing the work, how about it?"
Kong Zhi didn't object.
Xia Lunong looked at the ingredients at home and decided to bring a few more sweet potatoes to stew them outside.
Apart from sweet potatoes, there was nothing good at home.
Xia Lunong said with some regret: "It would have been nice if we had caught a chicken when we went to the chicken coop just now. Now we can take a chicken outside to roast it."
Kong Zhi said: "Wait. I'll go catch
one now." Xia Lunong thought for a moment and said: "That's fine. I'll go to Brother Liu to exchange some soybeans, and then plant some soybeans near the honeysuckle. We've been talking about planting soybeans for so long, but now it's time to go back." I haven't planted anything yet."
Kong Zhi tilted his head and asked, "Is it too late to plant soybeans in this weather?"
Xia Lunong said, "It's definitely too late to plant ordinary soybeans. The temperature is not high enough. Now I have my superpower, so it should be fine if I use it a few more times. Soybeans are not expensive anyway, and you can get several kilograms of them with just a little bit of stuff."
Kong Zhi stopped objecting, and he and his men split up and went about their respective work.
Kong Zhi was very quick. When Xia Lunong came back, he had already prepared the chicken. "What are you going to do now? Take the chicken out directly?"
"Marinate it first, otherwise the chicken may have no taste. Wait a minute, I'll go upstairs and get two lotus roots." There
was plenty of sauce at home. Xia Lunong mixed a secret sauce and smeared it on the inside and outside of the chicken. He also stuffed lotus roots, potatoes, etc. into the chicken's belly.
In this way, the chicken was marinated. He wrapped it with lotus leaves outside. When he went out later, he would mix some mud and wrap it outside, and then put it in the fire to make a kiln chicken.
The two prepared to go out.
Kong Zhi turned into a giant golden eagle in the yard.
Xia Lunong climbed onto his back.
Kong Zhi's beast form is bigger now, he can carry more and fly more steadily. Xia Lunong can easily keep his body steady on his back. Sometimes he doesn't even need a safety rope. He just holds his neck firmly and doesn't have to worry about falling off.
Kong Zhi waited for him to sit down, flapped his wings and took off, flying directly out of the base.
The people on guard on the city wall saw their figures and simply registered.
Kong Zhi was very fast, and it only took him ten minutes to fly to the bottom of the mountain.
They quickly found the location of the honeysuckle.
Xia Lunong had cleared the weeds near the honeysuckle many times, but now looking back, the weeds were growing lushly again, and there was no effect at all.
Xia Lunong climbed down from Kong Zhi's back and sighed, "These weeds are so stubborn."
"It's just right to cut this patch of weeds and feed them to the cows." Kong Zhi put on his clothes, "If you don't want to feed the cows, you can cut the grass and use it to make fire and cook. It's just that these grasses are almost dead."
Xia Lunong said, "Then burn it and use the ash to fertilize the fields, which will be convenient for us to grow soybeans."
After he finished speaking, he went to see the honeysuckle. The honeysuckle was growing well, and the vines had already climbed very long, but it had no self-awareness.
It was like any ordinary plant, growing there silently. Except that it grew more luxuriantly and faster than ordinary honeysuckle, it didn't look special.
Xia Lunong carefully checked it around, feeling a little disappointed and a little relieved. He input some supernatural power into the honeysuckle and left it alone.
The two put on their labor protection socks and started mowing the grass.
There were a lot of weeds nearby, most of which were dry and yellow.
The sickle mowed down a large area at once. Xia Lunong straightened up to look at it, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
The two piled the cut grass in the middle and cleared enough space around it. Then they threw the chicken and sweet potatoes wrapped in mud into the haystack and started burning it directly. There
was some grass that was not dry and withered mixed in the grass. When it caught fire, the fire was not big, but a puff of smoke came out.
The two watched the fire to prevent it from burning elsewhere while dealing with the grass roots in the open space.
Digging grass roots is a strenuous job. There is no way to be lazy at this job. You can only dig hard with a hoe.
The overall environment in the wild is not good now, and the soil is relatively dry. The roots of these weeds are very deep, intertwined underneath, and almost all of the soil is grass roots. It is very difficult to dig it up.
Xia Lunong started panting after digging for a while.
His physical strength is not bad, but doing this is too exhausting.
The two of them did not bother to talk at all, and just worked in silence.
It took the two of them more than two hours to roughly clean up the grass roots in the land of only 20 to 30 square meters.
After cleaning up the grass roots, this piece of land was basically dug.
Xia Lunong looked up, wiped the sweat off his face and panted, saying, "Okay, we've done two jobs at once, so we don't need to turn the soil later."
Kong Zhi said, "When the fire is out, just wet the ashes with water and mix them evenly with the soil."
"Let's talk about this later. I'm so tired. I need to take a break." Xia Lunong supported his waist and used a hoe to turn the fire. "The roast chicken should be cooked."
He used the hoe to pick out the big mud ball in the fire, and also used the hoe to pick out a few burnt black sweet potatoes.
The sweet potatoes were very hot and needed to cool down before eating, so he opened the chicken first.
He knocked open the mud ball that had been burned and hardened, and inside was a yellow-brown lotus leaf.
The lotus leaves also exuded wisps of heat, mixed with a fragrance that smelled very tempting.
Xia Lunong took a deep breath and reached out to untie the rope on the lotus leaf.
His fingertips were red from being burned, and he would occasionally pull his hands back to pinch his ears, then continue to remove them after a while.
Kong Zhi saw him like this and said, "If it's really too hot, wait a while before removing it. Come over and take a rest first."
"It's not hot, it's still bearable." Xia Lunong blew on her hands and said from the upwind direction, "It's so windy and cold today, it will cool down in a while."
Kong Zhi walked over and gently put his arm around his waist, "I'll do it."
"It doesn't matter who comes. Aren't you afraid of getting burned?"
"It's different. My hands hurt, not my heart."
Xia Lunong raised her head, smiling, and nudged him with her elbow. "To be honest, you were a Chinese language and literature major, right? Why do you keep saying these things? I can't beat you."
"I'm an aerospace engineer." Kong Zhi said indifferently, "I can't say it to others, but I'm just expressing it to you."
Xia Lunong covered her face with her hands, bowed to him, and said seriously, "I lost. But."
Kong Zhi also had a smile on his face. He opened the lotus leaf, and the unique fragrance of muscle immediately wafted out.
Xia Lunong immediately stopped talking and leaned over to look.
The skin of the chicken was an attractive sauce color, and it was still shiny and steaming. Just the smell was enough to make people salivate.
Xia Lunong immediately took out the disposable gloves next to her, "Quick, quick, we are ready to eat chicken."
Kong Zhi responded, put on the gloves, and cut the chicken into several large pieces.
During the splitting process, the aroma of the chicken became more intense.
They stewed this chicken just right, and it was still covered with gravy.
Looking at the light yellow chicken, the meat should be very tender and firm.
After Kong Zhi divided the chicken, he handed the chicken wing to Xia Lunong, "Eat slowly, be careful not to burn it!"
Xia Lunong took it, "Eat it together."
Xia Lunong always felt that chicken wings were the essence of a chicken.
He took a bite of the chicken wing. The chicken wing was very tender, tender and fragrant. The sauce on it was the essence of the essence. The sauce was slightly salty and spicy, and it went perfectly with the chicken.
This chicken was a native chicken they raised. It was usually fed with coarse grains, grass and insects. The meat was very fragrant. When it was stewed like this, the fragrance was more prominent, and the skin and meat were tighter than boiled chicken.
The most important thing was that eating chicken in this way could maximize the desire to eat meat.
After Xia Lunong finished eating a chicken wing, he felt an indescribable satisfaction.
Kong Zhi gave him another chicken wing.
Xia Lunong waved his hand, "You try it too, the taste of chicken wings is different from other parts."
Kong Zhi replaced it with a large chicken drumstick and gave it to him, "Then eat the drumstick."
The chicken drumsticks are also very delicious when stewed in this way.
The meat of the chicken drumsticks is very tender and has no fiber. When you bite it, the delicious gravy spurts out, hot and fragrant.
Xia Lunong raised his head and blew, feeling extremely happy.
After eating the chicken drumsticks, he tasted the lotus roots and potatoes inside.
The lotus root cubes were crisp, tender and sweet, and the potatoes were soft and fragrant. Even in the same chicken, they had completely different flavors, but they were all excellent.
Xia Lunong ate half of the food in one breath and said with emotion, "I am really a culinary genius."
Kong Zhi peeled the sweet potato for him, "Try it while it's hot."
What they brought out today was sweet potato, which was different from ordinary sweet potato. The sweet potato was much sweeter
. After breaking it open, the orange-yellow sweet potato flesh was almost oozing with runny meat when it was steaming.
Xia Lunong took a small bite and found that the sweet potato was also delicious.
Not only was it fragrant and sweet, it also had the unique smoky smell of roasted sweet potato, which matched the slightly cool autumn weather. It was simply perfect.
Xia Lunong ate a bite of chicken, a bite of sweet potato, a bite of lotus root, and a bite of potato, and soon she was full, and Kong Zhi cleaned up the rest.
After the two of them finished, Xia Lunong felt warm, squinting her eyes and feeling a little drowsy in the autumn wind.
Kong Zhi said, "You go to the grass next to you and take a nap, I'll deal with this fire."
Xia Lunong refused, "Let's do it together, put out the fire as soon as possible, mix these ashes into the soil as soon as possible, and go home to take a nap after we're done."
Kong Zhi said, "That's fine, then you watch over the fire here, and I'll go over there to fetch water."
They really had to be very careful when using fire in the wild, especially to prevent sparks from flying out, and they couldn't leave anyone alone in this situation.
Xia Lunong nodded, "Then I'll wait for you here."
Xia Lunong was not idle while waiting there. She used a hoe to dig up the nearby soil and built a low wall around the fire.
After it was built up, when it was flushed with water later, the ashes with sparks would not be washed everywhere.
Kong Zhi quickly carried the water back, and the two worked together to pour the water on the fire, and then dug up soil nearby and mixed it with the ashes.
After the two checked and made sure that the fire was completely extinguished, they scattered the ashes on the nearby soil.
These ashes will become the first base fertilizer for this piece of soil.
With this base fertilizer, the soybeans will surely grow very well.
The next thing will be easy.
Xia Lunong scattered soybeans on the land that had just been reclaimed today, using her supernatural powers to stimulate them to grow, and then carried water to water the land thoroughly.
Under the urging of the supernatural powers, the soybeans soon sprouted plump little buds and grew roots, which were deeply rooted in the land.
Xia Lunong looked at it and confirmed that when she came back tomorrow, these soybeans would grow into tender seedlings.
He nodded with satisfaction and said to Kong Zhi with a yawn, "Let's go back first and come over to check tomorrow."
Kong Zhi pinched the back of his neck, "Have you used up your superpowers?"
"Yes." Xia Lunong leaned on him and said lazily, "I'm so sleepy that I can hardly open my eyes."
"Then let's go back first and I'll bring you over to check tomorrow."
"Okay." Xia Lunong said, "Let's see how they grow tomorrow. We can pull out the thin ones and stir-fry them with bean sprouts."
Xia Lunong likes to eat bean sprouts very much, especially those that have just grown out of the ground. They are green, tender and very refreshing.
He said, "I don't know if my brother and his friends will come back tomorrow. If they do, we can take some bean sprouts to the cafeteria to exchange for some other meat to cook hot pot."
Kong Zhi packed up his things. "Even if they don't come back tomorrow, they should be back the day after tomorrow. If you want to eat hot pot, just wait until they come back."
"That makes sense. We just happen to have some hot pot ingredients at home." Xia Lunong said, "The hot pot ingredients have been sitting around for so long, and we haven't had a proper hot pot meal yet. It's a pity to think about it."
"The livestock are fat in autumn and winter, so we can eat slowly." Kong Zhi took off his clothes and handed them to him, "Let's go back."
He turned back into a golden eagle, turned around and motioned for Xia Lunong to climb on.
Xia Lunong climbed onto his back skillfully, fixed all the tools, hugged his neck and said, "You can take off."
The golden eagle called out, flapped its wings and carried him directly up the mountain.
It only took them more than ten minutes to go back, and it was already past three in the afternoon when they returned to the base.
Kong Zhi said, "You take a nap. I'll go to the fields to take a look. What do you want to eat tonight? I'll bring some food back."
"Anything is fine. I've had enough for lunch. Just bring whatever you want. Vegetables will do. No need to change to meat."
Kong Zhi nodded. "Go to sleep. I'll call you when I get back."
Xia Lunong would feel particularly tired every time his supernatural power ran out. Hearing this, he didn't force himself. He yawned and went back to his room to sleep.
He fell on the bed, wrapped himself in the quilt and slept until after six in the afternoon. Kong Zhi had returned, but his brother and the others had not returned yet.
Xia Lunong made some food casually. After the two of them finished eating, they washed up early and went back to sleep.
This sleep is a verb.
Young people are like dry wood and fire, so the intensity of the fire is naturally needless to say.
The next day, Xia Lunong slept until noon again. Anyway, they were the only two people at home, so Xia Lunong didn't feel guilty at all.
They got up too late today, so they just had lunch before going to the wasteland they reclaimed yesterday.
When they arrived at the field, Xia Lunong jumped off Kong Zhi's back excitedly, intending to pick some bean sprouts to have hot pot tonight or tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, when he ran over to take a look, he saw that the wasteland they reclaimed yesterday had grown some weeds, but there was not a single bean sprout.
He was completely stunned, and opened his arms to Kong Zhi blankly and said, "Where are our bean sprouts? Did we come to the wrong place?"
Kong Zhi frowned and came over to take a look.
The soybeans planted yesterday were indeed gone. Even if the soil was dug up, there was no trace of bean sprouts or soybeans. Instead, there were some round black feces.
Some small animal must have come last night or this morning and eaten their bean sprouts.
Kong Zhi said, "It must have been eaten. Take a look at this."
Xia Lunong also realized what was happening. He looked at the black feces and gritted his teeth.
Just now he thought it was dust in the soil, but it turned out to be traces left by thieves!