An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

If a war breaks out at that time, what Xia Qingyue is most worried about is "fortifying the city and clearing the countryside", which is a combat strategy.

This means that if the King of Xiang was defeated and retreated to another place, the situation at that time must have been extremely urgent, and there would be no extra time to take away a large amount of useful supplies. In order not to leave these supplies to the enemy and provide the enemy with shelter for rest, emergency measures would be taken to clear out the food, houses, fields and other items in the suburban villages.

As a result, the villagers in the villages at the foot of the mountain lost their livelihood security and would inevitably run to the mountains to find new shelter until the war ended.

If that time really comes, she doesn't want to go out, but stay in her own little home to farm, plant and raise livestock, working from sunrise to sunset.

After thinking about it, Xia Qingyue decided to go to the cave that Chen Yuzhen had mentioned before tomorrow to find out the situation.

If you know yourself and your enemy, you will be victorious in every battle.

The sun set in the west, and the rosy glow filled the world. Xia Qingyue went to the stream and took the fish cages away. They had been confiscated in the morning and had been left in the stream for two days and one night.

Both fish cages were heavy and she couldn't lift them, so she had no choice but to go back to the tiankeng, put her things down and then go back to get the fish cages.

She saw a lot of fish in the fish cage through the gaps in the bamboo strips, and moved her eyes to the canal, wondering whether to build an ecological pond.

Chickens, ducks and Heihei need to eat fish every day. If they can’t go out and catch fish in the future, wouldn’t that mean they will be deprived of their food supply?

Heihei is fine, as he can eat with her. It’s not good for chickens and ducks to eat wild grass and rice bran every day.

Since the chickens and ducks have eaten fish and shrimp, eggs can be picked up every day.

She decided, “We have to build one!”

If it is to be built, it must be built well. It is definitely not possible to do it well in the short term relying on her own strength. She can only work on it day after day and accumulate little by little.

Having decided to build a pond, she had to decide where to build it. She looked around the tiankeng and finally decided on a location near the paddy field on the left side of the canal, where the open space was wider and relatively flat.

She roughly estimated that even if a pond with a diameter of about ten meters was built, the place over there would not be crowded.

We will be busy planting rice later. When the weather clears up and the firewood on the mountain is dried, we will have to find more firewood. The firewood we are using now was found by the original owner's mother before she passed away, and it is almost used up.

For dinner, she planned to cook dry rice and stir-fry two dishes, scrambled eggs with deer ears and leeks, and stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts.

The deer ear chives she brought back yesterday have not been planted yet. Because of the cool weather, they did not wilt. She planted them in the field and planted more than 30 plants.

She planted the watercress she brought back at the edge of the canal, but she didn't know if it could survive.

After feeding the chickens and ducks, I picked up two chicken eggs and three duck eggs. After a few days, there were more than ten eggs accumulated in the wooden trough for storing eggs.

When it got dark, she had prepared dinner. The fried leeks were crispy and tender, and the eggs were delicious. The combination was simply delicious.

The stir-fried garlic shoots with bacon are enhanced with dried chilies to enhance the flavor. It is spicy, salty and fragrant, and goes especially well with rice. Fortunately, Xia Qingyue had reserved half of the dish for tomorrow morning, otherwise she would have been unable to resist eating it all.

After dinner and cleaning up the kitchen, she ate some mulberry-baked bacon.

After Heihei had eaten his fill, he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

After drying for a while, the food was almost digested. She covered it with some cypress leaves and slowly dried it over the fire. Then she walked to the open space and started her evening exercise.

after an hour.

After the exercise, Xia Qingyue was so tired that she wanted to lie down on the bed immediately, but she hadn't taken a shower yet.

It is not advisable to take a shower or drink water immediately after exercise, so she sat down to rest for a while and made plans for tomorrow.

After taking a shower, she called Heihei to follow her back to the room, and couldn't wait to lie down on the bed to rest and sleep.

A good night's sleep.

Now Xia Qingyue has developed a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. She gets up at six o'clock every day at dawn.

In her previous life, she was a corporate slave who went to work every day and wished she could take a break and sleep all day long. When she traveled to another world and lived there for a while, there were no electronic devices and not many entertainment programs. She repeated the same things over and over again every day, but she still felt fulfilled, happy and satisfied.

It turns out that if you rest early and go to bed well at night, you can get up early the next day, feeling refreshed and full of energy.

Perhaps it was because of her regular lifestyle. She changed the bandages on the wound on her forehead every day and paid attention to hygiene. The scab on the wound had begun to fall off.

When washing her face, she used the water in the basin as a mirror and saw that half of the scabs had fallen off, and the skin color of the places where the scabs had fallen off was slightly darker than other parts.

“I don’t know if it will leave scars.”

Everyone loves beauty, including her.

"Oh, let it be." She brushed down her hair to cover the ugly scabs.

After everything was ready, Xia Qingyue went out. In the morning, she went to take a look around the cave that Chen Yuzhen mentioned, and came back in the afternoon to plant rice.

The bright sun shines in the sky, and the forest is full of vitality.

Wild flowers are blooming in bright colors, red, white and yellow, and the industrious little bees are busy collecting nectar from the flowers.

She walked while admiring the beauty of nature. When she saw some medicinal herbs on the way, she stopped to pick them. The wild vegetables and mushrooms grew scattered, so she did not stop to pick them.

After walking for nearly an hour, she finally reached her destination, but she didn't know where the cave was exactly.

However, she will start her search by looking for traces left on the ground.

After searching for a while, she found some traces of wild animals on the muddy path, some big and some small, some like rabbits and pheasants, and some like wolf footprints.

Some of them were larger than human footprints and were deeply sunken into the ground. She guessed that they might have been left by a black bear.

There are many ferocious beasts in the forest, and it would be terrible if you accidentally encounter one.

After searching for a long time, I finally found some messy shoe prints somewhere else. I followed the footprints all the way, but the traces were interrupted at the back.

"No no no."

Heihei raised his head at her and jogged in one direction.

Xia Qingyue's face showed joy. It seemed that Heihei had smelled the clue, and she followed it closely.

After passing through a patch of messy grass and stepping onto a grassy slope, there was a relatively flat sandy area with scattered trees and overgrown weeds.

She stood beside a big tree and saw a cave about several meters wide and more than ten meters high a hundred meters in front of her.

At this time, one could vaguely see human figures moving around in the cave, and some furniture and utensils were placed on the ground outside the cave.

This should be the cave that Chen Yuzhen mentioned.

Xia Qingyue took advantage of the cover of trees and weeds and slowly approached the cave. She moved to a few dozen meters to the side of the cave and squatted in the grass.

Chen Yuzhen walked out of the cave with her mother-in-law, Li's mother, and father-in-law, Li's father. They discussed where to put the outside utensils in the cave.

Considering the surrounding situation, the cave is deep in the forest. It is difficult to find it if you don't know the direction and look carefully. The location is quite remote.

When Xia Qingyue came here, she passed by a river. There was water nearby and the forest was rich in resources. Strictly speaking, the cave was a good place to stay.

"Benfu and his two sons will be able to move completely after one more move. From today on, our family will live in the mountains."

Father Li spoke in a heavy tone.

Mother Li sighed, "Yes, if we don't move to the mountains, there will be no way to survive. At least in the mountains, it is stable and we can find wild vegetables to eat. As far as I know, not only us, but several families are also discussing moving to the mountains."

Chen Yuzhen opened her mouth to speak, but heard footsteps and voices. It was Li Benfu and his two sons who came up carrying some things.

Hearing the sound, Xia Qingyue turned around and saw the father and his two sons carrying a lot of things on their backs. They all had red faces and were out of breath, obviously exhausted.

Her gaze followed the father and his two sons, and suddenly, a few sneaky figures appeared in her peripheral vision.

More importantly, it looks familiar.