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

She picked all the reed shoots she could find; the chickens and ducks loved eating them.

The chickens and ducks have been fed for more than half a month. They usually eat reed shoots or wild grass mixed with rice bran, or fish and shrimp. They have all grown fat, and the hens and ducks lay an egg almost every day.

This shows that feeding in this way is good.

Chicken and duck eggs are found with the help of Heihei. With its help, they can be found faster.

Xia Qingyue began to set traps to catch chickens and ducks. She chose a place with a puddle of water where chickens and ducks often came to play.

After setting the trap, she hid in the dark, and soon, a buzzing sound filled her ears.

The pesky mosquitoes are here again!

There are especially many mosquitoes in places with moisture and lush vegetation, such as reed marshes.

She waved her hands to drive away the mosquitoes, but it had little effect. A few chickens and ducks came over, but she didn't dare move at all, for fear of making any noise and scaring them away.

After waiting for a few minutes, she caught a few chickens and ducks, but her body was in terrible condition. Her face and neck were extremely itchy, and there were several large red bumps.

For the sake of the chickens and ducks, she decided to endure it a little longer.

More than half an hour later, Xia Qingyue, who had caught three chickens and two ducks again, couldn't stand the itch anymore.

If you ask her what animal she hates the most besides snakes, maggots, and leeches, it must be mosquitoes.

As soon as I heard the buzzing sound, I started to feel irritated for no reason.

Xia Qingyue had no choice but to pack up her things and go back early. On the way, she saw some mugwort and mint and cut a few bunches.

When we got to the stream, we collected the fish cage and took it back with us.

She hides the fish cages in secluded places and you have to look carefully to find them.

If we just throw the fish cage into the stream, wouldn't it be like trying to cover up one's own fault and telling others that there is someone here who puts the fish cage out to catch fish every day?

When she returned to the tiankeng, her body was very itchy, so she got a basin of clean water and applied it to the bitten areas, which provided some relief.

Then she lit four pagoda mosquito coils and placed two at each entrance of the kitchen cave. She didn't believe that the mosquitoes could not be killed in this way.

It was still early, so she washed the wormwood and mint and prepared to make an ointment to repel mosquitoes and relieve itching.

Wash the wormwood and mint, wipe off the moisture with a clean cloth, and chop it into small pieces. The place where she was bitten was still itchy, so she applied some herbs on the bump and the itching went away.

The crushed mugwort and mint were put into a ceramic pot, which was originally used by Zhu Erniang to make soup.

Xia Qingyue didn't like the soup, she liked spicy and strong flavors.

Put the ceramic pot on the stove, put in the chopped mint and mugwort, about half of the pot, then pour camellia seed oil in, until the oil covers the herbs.

Light the fire and simmer slowly until the flavor comes out, then simmer for another ten minutes, set aside and let it cool and soak overnight to allow the herbal juice and oil to blend better.

Only after finishing her work did she have time to look at today's harvest.

It turned out that her estimate was wrong. There were only nine wild rabbits, and two of the female rabbits had bulging bellies.

This was an unexpected surprise. Xia Qingyue smiled with curved eyebrows and gently tapped the noses of the two pregnant rabbits. "Don't worry when you get to my house. I will definitely take good care of you."

The original owner's family also raised rabbits in a pen, but some pheasants and wild ducks were competitive and inevitably would quarrel with the rabbits, so Xia Dasong got a tall wooden board and placed it horizontally in the pen.

Originally, Xia Qingyue only raised chickens and ducks. She thought the wooden board was in the way and removed it.

At this moment, she moved the wooden board into the pen and placed it as before, then let the rabbit out of the backpack and prepared some wild grass, the prickly ash she had found a few days ago, and some drinking water for it.

Wild rabbits also eat wild fruits.

The rabbits who had just arrived home were timid. As soon as they were free, they ran to the corner and huddled together.

Xia Qingyue didn't watch over them and went to see how many chickens and ducks had been caught.

There are six pheasants and four wild ducks.

Originally, she wanted to catch the chickens and ducks and save one duck to kill and eat. However, considering it was so late and she could not finish one duck, she changed her mind and decided to kill the duck at noon tomorrow.

She had already decided which duck to kill and how to do it.

Today we put the chickens and ducks in the pen and let them adapt on their own.

Xia Qingyue came to clean the fish cages. Today she got a basin of small fish and shrimps, and three big fish weighing more than three or four pounds. She picked them out and saved some more. In a few days, she would go to the creek to find river shrimps and bring them back. She would pickle them with salt and make them dried.

For dinner, she made a cold bracken salad. She soaked the dried bracken in water in advance, cut it into sections, blanched it in boiling water, put it in cold boiled water to cool down, added salt, sugar, matsutake and fresh soy sauce as seasonings, and finally poured hot oil on the minced garlic and chopped green onions.

The spicy and crispy fern is ready.

She didn’t finish her lunch, so she made some fried rice with eggs and ate it with some cold bracken.

I don’t have much appetite in hot weather, so I need to eat some refreshing dishes to stimulate my appetite.

After dinner, she sat down to weave straw sandals. She had finished one pair last time, so she had to make another one to complete a pair.

The soles of straw sandals are easy to break if they are made thin, so she made three more layers, about two centimeters thick.

If you only make one layer of sole, a pair of shoes can be made quickly, but it will take more time and effort to make a thicker sole.

But she has plenty of time, so she can take her time.

After the straw sandals were made, she also wanted to make a few pairs of underwear out of cotton cloth.

At first she felt uncomfortable wearing it, but she gradually got used to it.

However, I was used to wearing it in my previous life, and it is really hard to adapt to not wearing it now.

In the early morning, a hint of golden light appeared on the eastern horizon and gradually enveloped the earth.

The morning breeze blew gently, and the crystal dew on the grass and trees fell down, making a large area of ​​the ground wet.

cuckoo-

quack--

In the pen, the chickens and ducks sang a chorus.

Xia Qingyue walked into the pen carrying half a bucket of reed shoots mixed with rice bran. As soon as she came in, chickens and ducks swarmed around her.

"Eat it. You can grab whatever you want. Everyone has a share."

She poured out the food for the chickens and ducks and replaced the water. She was a little worried about whether the rabbit could adapt to the new environment.

Looking at the rabbit through the wooden board, the wild grass and water that I put out yesterday evening were obviously less.

When the rabbit heard the noise, it shrank back into the corner.

Seeing that they were willing to eat and drink, she felt relieved.

Xia Qingyue came out carrying an empty wooden barrel, washed her hands, and before having breakfast, she processed the medicinal oil that had been soaked overnight.

After a long period of soaking, the medicinal oil turns dark green, and the cool mint and wormwood fragrance is very strong. Tie a piece of cloth on the ceramic pot, slowly pour the medicinal oil in, and filter out the herbal residue.

The ceramic pot is filled with medicinal oil. Put some beeswax in it over low heat, boil it until it melts and reaches a suitable temperature, that is, when it is still in liquid state before solidifying, then pour it into the mold.

Xia Qingyue made the mold out of the bamboo tube used to make candles, and the height was only half the height of the candle tube.

The solidified ointment was grass green in color. When she applied a little on her body, it felt cool. She took some and put it in the small cloth bag she carried with her so she could take it out whenever she needed it.

This small cloth bag was sewn by her. She carries it across her body when she goes out. It is very convenient to carry slingshots, stones and other items in it.

She kneaded the dough to make dough balls, fried an egg, and served with cured horse meat, deer ears, and leeks as the sauce.

It looks weird, like a hodgepodge, but it tastes particularly delicious.

The cured horse meat is slightly salty and dry and fragrant, the eggs are delicious, and the deer ear chives are refreshing, crispy and tender.

Very appetizing.

After eating, she poured water into the iron pot. There was no firewood in the stove, but there was some charcoal burning with residual heat. The water would be hot at noon and she could use it to kill and pluck the ducks.

Before starting to dig the pond, Xia Qingyue used the wood ash water mixed last night to water the crops.