Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

The burden on the two of them now is not even a little bit greater than before.

In addition to feeding himself, he also has to feed four dogs and twelve sheep.

Now that Guomu and Xuebing are ready to hunt, let them fend for themselves. They are not favoring one over the other. After all, they are still clouded leopards and belong to the forest. They will return to the forest one day and cannot lose their ability to hunt.

The biggest difficulty now is the disease on the twelve sheep in front of us.

It’s not just a disease.

The two of them studied all night long with the sheep prevention and treatment manual, and finally figured out all the symptoms.

Some suffer from sheep-nosed flies, some suffer from diarrhea, heat stress, pica, rotten mouth...

Fortunately, almost all commonly used medicines are available in the tool room.

The next thing to do is to cure the disease one by one.

Other symptoms may occasionally occur in one or two sheep, but heat stress and rotten mouth are common in almost all sheep.

Heat stress is a reaction to heat stroke caused by sheep being unable to withstand such a hot summer, and rotten mouth is oral ulceration. It is not a serious disease, but it is contagious.

Before dawn in the morning, Mu Xi went out to hunt first, while Zhao Yeqing prepared the medicines needed by the sheep at home.

Oral diseases need to be smeared with ice boron powder, sheep nose flies need to be treated with oral anthelmintics, diarrhea needs antibiotic injections, and syringes are also prepared in the tool room.

There were also two sheep with pica. Zhao Yeqing saw them constantly opening their mouths to gnaw on the wool from the buttocks of other sheep, which almost made them bald.

Sheep with pica need to be fed calcium tablets, vitamins and cod liver oil.

What this man eats is worse than a sheep.

As for heat stress, it is the simplest and most difficult. As long as the sheep are cooled down, the disease will be cured without treatment. The difficulty lies in how to cool them down in such hot weather.

The book says that the sheep must be fed baking soda, salt and vitamins, and mint is also acceptable.

In addition to these, what still needs to be improved is the sheepfold.

The top of the current sheepfold is an ordinary straw shed, which is empty on all sides. Only thick wooden sticks are used to make a fence. It looks ventilated, but there is almost no wind in this weather.

To cool down the sheep pen, the book said that you can use water spray to cool down, or you can install a wet curtain. She guessed that the wet curtain should be similar to the water curtain she made for the greenhouse before.

There is also shearing sheep.

After she completed all the regulations, Mu Xi came back with the prey.

A pheasant and a rabbit are all prepared for a few dogs. They are a little malnourished and need to be replenished. The paste and snow cakes have been eaten outside.

Zhao Yeqing lit the fire pond and cooked the rabbits and chickens before feeding them.

The big dog was lying next to a few children. Seeing Zhao Yeqing come in, he quickly stood up and blocked the children.

She wasn't very familiar with it yet, so she didn't force it. She put the meat down and went out and closed the door.

Mu Xi was already applying medicine to the sheep in the sheepfold. When she walked past the bones next to the sheepfold, she still felt a little uncomfortable.

"Let's bury the old man's body first." That's what she thought yesterday, because she was afraid that Gouzi wouldn't agree.

Mu Xi came out after applying medicine to the sheep, washed his hands, pulled off the cloth he used to cover his mouth and nose, and took a long breath.

The smell of the sheepfold is hard to describe.

He thought for a while and said, "We can build a tomb next to the house. Are you afraid?"

Zhao Yeqing shook his head. If it had been before, she would have been a little scared. But now she has adapted well. What's more, this is his home.

The two dug a hole next to the house. Mu Xi called the dog out, put on gloves in front of the dog, collected the bones, and then filled the hole.

Wanting it to watch, its owner slept here without leaving it.

The dog didn't move the whole time. When he was burying the soil, he paved it with his two paws and lightly covered it with soil.

There are no wooden boards at home. After these days of work are over, they will come and erect a monument for the old man.

The two of them barely slept last night, and the bedding in the room was not very usable. Zhao Yeqing planned to go down the mountain to lie down today and return to the village to see if he could find clean sheets and bedding in any house.

Mu Xi's leg injury was not fully healed, so walking on the meadow was fine. If she went down the mountain, she was afraid of tearing the wound apart, so she planned to go down the mountain herself.

The road down the mountain used to be walked by people all year round. No animals would set up their territory in this kind of place, so it was quite safe.

Mu Xi handed her the shotgun and taught her how to use it before letting her go.

Zhao Yeqing went down the mountain with a shotgun on his back. There was nothing in his backpack, and he just wanted to fill it up later.

Mu Xi followed quietly, and did not turn back until he was less than 500 meters away from the bottom of the mountain.

In the current situation, he couldn't do anything by himself and let her just stay at home. He was afraid that if something unexpected happened to him one day, Zhao Yeqing would have to be able to adapt to live a good life alone.

Based on his memory from last time, Zhao Yeqing searched for several clean houses and found several sets of unused sheets and quilts from the closet.

The bed in the wooden house was also made of wooden boards. The quilt underneath was yellow and hard, and so were the pillows.

Zhao Yeqing found a thin old cotton quilt, which he could only say was better than nothing, but it was better than clean.

I found a summer quilt.

She wouldn't cover her when it was so hot, she just wanted to hold her to sleep.

There was no room for it in a backpack, so I found a backpack to put my things in. The backpack was slung in front, and I had to carry a large plastic bucket full of things in my hand.

It was already dark by the time she climbed to the meadow area. Mu Xi was waiting for her at the intersection. When he saw her coming back, he stepped forward to take everything.

On the way home, I heard her chattering,

"A family member had a cellar, and I thought there was something good in it. Good guy, as soon as I opened it there were two bones... I also saw a bed of newly spun cotton quilts. They were big, soft, and comfortable to look at. , it’s a pity that the weather is too hot to cover it up..."

She likes the cotton quilt best. Although it is a bit heavy, it is the weight that covers her body that makes her feel inexplicably safe and makes it easy to fall asleep.

When she got home, she found that the smell of food was already in the house.

On the only small wooden table in the kitchen, there was a large pot of wild mushroom and chicken soup, and a few soft noodles.

Mu Xi put the things back in the house, walked into the kitchen and said, "The owner of the house still has some dried mushrooms in the warehouse. I set up a few traps when I went to hunt rabbits in the morning. In the afternoon, I found a pheasant. The flour is from us." Brought back from the mountain."

Generally, many soups containing wild mushrooms will turn gray in color. Mu Xi didn't know how to cook it, but the chicken soup was golden and fragrant.

She reached out and touched it. The soup bowl was no longer hot and was warm. It was just right to drink soup now.

One bite of cake, one bite of meat, and some soup, and I felt that most of my fatigue had dissipated.

The taste of dried mushrooms is tough, but the aroma is stronger than that of fresh mushrooms, and it is full of soup.

She thinks mushrooms are more delicious than meat.