Defeat natural disasters with farming

In the village, everyone who is free is building the fence. Only the young and those in poor health are not involved. Most of them are doing some logistics work. For example, Ye Yu is not able to withstand the sun, so she cooks some tea to cool off at home for them. To drink, he cooks sour plum soup, lemonade or mung bean soup in turns every day. To his surprise, the most popular of them is mung bean soup. When it's cold, sometimes it's left for a long time, and the taste is similar to smoothies, not to mention them, even Ye Yu likes it very much.

In addition to tea, watermelon is also essential. Summer is the ripening period of watermelon. The green-skinned watermelon with yellow stripes is round and bulging. You don’t need to pat it with your hands to know that the flesh inside must be ripe. The red watermelon is especially delicious. , the only disadvantage is that there are a lot of seeds, and you need to spit out the seeds when eating, which is sometimes troublesome, but when the sweet and sweet pulp is eaten in your mouth, these shortcomings dissipate like smoke.

Ye Yu just cooked today's mung bean soup, and put some extra honeysuckle and chrysanthemum in it, which are used to relieve heat and detoxify. While it was cooling, he went to help his mother repair the mat. Their mat is It is made of bamboo. After several years of use, the bamboo strips will crack and the thin wires in the middle will break. Therefore, it needs to be repaired every few years. Sometimes with good luck, the problems are not serious. It only needs to remove a few bamboo strips, and it will be over soon, but this is a rare case. More often, a whole connecting line needs to be replaced, which will take at least a day or two.

This time, it is necessary to replace the entire thread connecting the bamboo strips. The thread they usually use is made of animal tendon, which is both elastic and strong, and it will only break once every three or four years.

Mother Ye removed all the bamboo strips, and then said to Ye Yu: "Look, this piece is cracked, you need to pick it out and throw it away, otherwise it's easy to catch the meat when you sleep."

Ye Yu nodded thoughtfully, "I see."

Seeing him nodding, Mother Ye continued, "Except for the cracked ones, you can't take the ones that are worm-eaten or uneven in the middle. You have to replace them with the bamboo strips we just polished."

When the bamboo strips were all ready, the two of them began to check the two holes of the bamboo strips one by one. If the holes were blocked, they had to use tools to unclog them. This was not a difficult job, but it required patience. It was very taxing, and Ye Yu's eyes were so tired after looking at a few pieces of bamboo strips, she had to stand up and look into the distance for a while.

Sometimes the tendons are still tangled into a ball, which needs to be untied a little bit patiently.

Doing this thing too much even relieved some pressure. Ye Yu was so addicted to it that he almost forgot the time. In the end, it was Chu Xufeng who came over to bring him back to his senses.

Chu Xufeng brought Jia Yi to bring tea, and Ye Yu took them to the well, pointed to the four barrels of mung bean soup and said, "That's it."

"Okay." Chu Xufeng replied.

He motioned Jia to pick up two buckets of mung bean soup, while he picked up the other two buckets.

Ye Yu originally wanted to help, but was stopped by the two of them.

Now is the hottest time, the outside temperature is more than 40 degrees, which makes people feel flustered, so at noon when the sun is the most poisonous, everyone went home to rest, and came out in the afternoon to continue building the city wall.

The cement workshops and brick workshops on the mountain were working day and night. Truckloads of cement and green bricks were pulled over by donkeys and dumped on the ground. The cement was stirred and spread on the green bricks to make the city wall stronger.

Father Ye has been outside these days, except for going home to sleep at noon and night, he has not left at other times, so he has been tanned a lot, and his face is so black that it shines.

Father Ye saw them coming to wipe off his sweat and greeted them: "You are here."

Ye Yu nodded, served him a bowl of mung bean soup, and said with emotion: "The progress is very fast, and it is estimated that the construction will be completed in another month."

"That's not true." Father Ye said cheerfully, "It won't take a month, and it will be over by the end of July."

Father Ye estimated that the construction of the outer city wall happened to be on July 29th, and it was only two days before August entered. It’s funny to say that since the construction of the city wall was completed, the children in the village like to climb on the city wall to play. Well, the adults didn't scold them. Anyway, there is nothing going on in the village recently, so it's a good thing for the children to learn archery from the patrollers.

On the top of the main gate of the outer city wall are engraved three big characters, Jiwangcheng.

The engraved handwriting can be called flying and dancing, and the words were written by Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng together.

After the construction of the outer city wall was completed, everyone rested for half a month, and then began to build the inner city wall. The inner city wall is the last line of defense for the city of Jiwang. If the outer city wall falls in the future, everyone will retreat to the inner city wall and carry out Final defense.

Therefore, the importance of the inner city wall is no less than that of the outer city wall, and the same care must be taken when building it. However, autumn is getting closer and closer at this time, so they have to allocate some people to go hunting on the mountain. , the autumn prey is the fattest time, even though they have started to raise pigs and sheep, but not enough to eat every day, hunting is still a high priority.

In this way, the speed of building the city wall slowed down a lot, but Ye Yu made up his mind that they could still finish the construction before the snow fell.

As soon as autumn came, everyone was divided into two teams. The young and middle-aged naturally went to the mountains to hunt, and the rest went to the mountains to pick.

The picking team is relatively safe. The places they pick are cleaned up, and there are no large animals. If you have to say it, you may encounter pheasants and hares. These are not very effective, and the picking team can catch them.

The only time it could be called a thrill, that time was an accident, they were picking apricots, the whole body of the newly ripe apricots showed a light flesh color, only the tip of the top was pink, like a girl blushing The cheeks are average, and the apricot taste is particularly good, and the darker the color, the sweeter it is;

That's why everyone picked the apricots happily, but when they were chatting and eating apricots, somehow the bees in the hive were disturbed, and countless bees suddenly "buzzed" and flew towards them. They started to sting people, but fortunately there was a shallow stream nearby, and everyone jumped into it. Coupled with the torches they always had, they managed to smoke away a swarm of bees.

As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune depend on each other, and good fortune and prosperity come together. This is very reasonable, just like some of them were stung by bees and got bruises all over their faces, but they also found the beehive, which was hidden in the deepest part of the forest. On a huge dead tree, because most of the bees came out to attack them, there were not many bees left inside.

Ye Yu only needs to put on the hood, light a fire under the hive, and smoke out all the bees.

After the honeycomb was exposed, he took a knife and started to take honey. Once the honeycomb was cut open, thick honey flowed out, the color was extremely clear, and it smelled faintly of apricot.

He stopped picking up two jars. At this time, the hive was still in good condition, and there was still some honey in it. In this way, when the bees came back, they would not abandon the hive easily. They could come to fetch honey next year. It's called sustainable development.

These bees seem to be honey made from apricot pollen, so it tastes like apricot, not so sweet, but sour, which is very delicious.

In addition to honey, there are all kinds of mountain products and fruits in the mountains. There are too many to count. You can eat them after picking them up and cleaning them. If you can’t finish them, you can dry them in the sun and store them in the cellar for winter. .

Ye Yu especially likes the picked apricots and peaches. After a few days, the skin of the apricots will change from flesh-colored to orange-yellow, with fine fluff growing on them. Once you bite into it, the pulp will separate from the core. There is no need to throw away the apricot core. , can be collected to make almonds, almonds are also delicious, you can also make almond tea, grind into powder and add osmanthus, sugar, etc., it tastes sweet, especially in winter, a bowl of hot almond tea After eating, the whole body became hot.

And peaches have more juice. When Ye Yu ate them, he felt like peaches, but not so sweet. He ate and thought, half of the peach trees on their fruit mountain were wild peach trees transplanted from the mountain, and half were wild peach trees transplanted from the mountain. It is grown from peach pits, and I don't know what it tastes like when it matures. Will it taste better than wild ones.

Probably everything is unbearable. After only half a month, some fruits on the fruit mountain matured, including apricots, peaches, ringo, pomegranates and persimmons.

Some trees are so short that you only need to carry a ladder to pick the fruit, but the ringo tree grows taller and you need to use other methods.

Therefore, the last utensil they used to pick fruit was a two-meter-long bamboo pole. The front part was cut in half to form a "V". The person holding the bamboo pole made the "V" sandwich the fruit , As long as you twist the fruit hard, it can fall, and there are people below to catch the fruit with a net bag, so that the fruit will not fall to the ground and break.

As he expected, the fruit grown by himself has been carefully cared for, and it grows much better than the wild ones. Not to mention the larger size, it also tastes sweeter.

After the fruit trees in the village are harvested, they can be distributed. Basically, every household can get a small box of different fruits. After the distribution, they can exchange according to their own preferences. The least popular among all fruits is pomegranate. It's too troublesome to eat, and the pulp is only a little bit, so it's not as much as spit out seeds.

Ye Yu was no exception. He spat out the pomegranate seeds in his mouth and sighed, "It hurts my mouth."

Mother Ye nodded, "Me too. If not, let's stop eating."

"It's useless to keep it, and pomegranates can't be dried into pomegranates." Ye Yu thought for a while and said, "I'll just mash them all into pomegranate juice. It tastes good to drink."

"Success." Ye Mu replied, "I'll help you."

"It's actually quite simple." Ye Yu rolled up his sleeves and said.

The pomegranate is orange-red as a whole, and it is round in the hand, with petals on the top. Ye Yu cut a square opening on the top with a knife, exposing the crystal clear seeds inside, and then cut the pomegranate along the white membrane. Cut open so the pomegranate seeds can be easily removed.

There is no need to add sugar or honey to the mashed pomegranate juice, and the original sweetness and sourness are already very suitable. Drinking a cup every morning just removes drowsiness and wakes up the taste buds.

Mother Ye especially likes to drink it. Put the pounded pomegranate juice in the well water and it will be cool. It is also very comfortable to drink a glass with a meal.

In the end, Mother Ye even exchanged half a box of pomegranates with others.