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

Chapter 419 Changes

Thinking of the past few years, when he went to the toilet, he wished he could split a piece of paper in half and use it. Now that the days were finally over, Zhao Yeqing felt particularly happy.

Judging from the current consumption of papermaking materials, each of the materials they have left is enough to make nearly ten pieces of paper. There is more bamboo than paper bark. Although bamboo paper is thin and requires relatively fine materials, it is actually wasted. More.

The two spent another three days turning all the materials into paper.

Drawing on the experience of the first time, when drying bamboo paper, I chose to stick the paper on the wooden board and dry it slowly, but there was no way to use the adhesive. Chemical adhesives were definitely not available or available, so I had to Let’s see if we can find plants that can be used as adhesives on the mountain in the future.

The two large piles of paper were put away properly, and the temperature has not continued to cool down in the past few days.

The two of them were finally able to plant the rice seedlings.

Early in the morning, Zhao Yeqing arrived at the seedling cultivation ground and his heart skipped a beat——

The rice seedlings that were green and full of life a few days ago are now half lying on the ground with their heads down. The leaves are gradually turning yellow, and the rice seedlings in the entire rice seedling field are dying.

Zhao Yeqing hurriedly knelt down and pulled out a rice seedling from the ground to see what was going on.

There is no insect damage on the surface of this rice seedling, and there are no spots or white powder on the leaves. The biggest reason is that it appears on the roots.

Sure enough, as soon as the seedlings were unearthed, Zhao Yeqing saw the roots of the rice seedlings that had turned black.

Is this... soaked?

Zhao Yeqing went down with a shovel and dug out a large piece of seedlings. Without exception, the roots of the seedlings were soaked. The soil was dry on the surface, but underneath it was heavy and moist brown-black.

But neither of them watered it in the past few days.

"Mu Xi! Have you watered the rice fields in the past two days?"

Mu Xi just threw some fruits and vegetables outside the fence. Hearing Zhao Yeqing's words, he ran over before he could and shouted back: "No."

When I got closer, I realized why she asked.

Zhao Yeqing dug several shovels, pulled out all the seedlings from the ground, and broke up the clumped soil on the roots. Most of the roots that should have been white inside had turned black, and the few that were not black had also turned yellow.

"How could this be?"

Mu Xi confirmed that he had not watered it. The two of them had been busy making paper these past few days and had long forgotten about watering.

Zhao Yeqing squatted and looked at the dug soil under his feet. It was already black and shiny. Needless to say, it was fertile, but the problem was the quality of the soil.

"This soil has been in this rainforest environment for so long. It has been soaked by rain all year round. The originally soft soil has been squeezed and compacted by the water flow... I was careless this year. The soil in previous years is not as compact as this year. , and dry rice seedling cultivation has higher requirements on soil.”

A few years ago before the ground cracked, the soil requirements for dry rice seedling cultivation were even higher. The soil had to be sieved and made fine before being used for planting. The seeds developed later have stronger soil-bearing capabilities, but the soil requirements are still the same. Higher.

Zhao Yeqing pulled out all the rice seedlings on the ground, gathered them together, and rubbed the fresh seedlings with his fingers. They had grown more than ten centimeters tall. If it hadn't been for this, they could have been inserted into the ground.

Now we can only throw the whole handful into the corral and become a delicacy for the livestock to compete for.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the livestock snatching for food and said helplessly: "We have to start all over again if we want to transplant rice seedlings. But judging from the current situation, it is better to use water to grow rice seedlings than to deal with such a large area of ​​rice seedling cultivation land."