Chu Ying looked at the fence with a few gaps and some adobe bricks piled up next to the wall, maybe it's time to build a fence, although it's not particularly dry yet, but the fence is still built early, if you wait for the real drought to build again, others must think that this family must have a lot of food at home, and then it will attract people's eyes.

Chu Ying piled the adobe bricks on the ground to dry, and began to build a fence there, and the ash in the middle was directly used to reconcile the thin mud, because the four houses and utility rooms were arranged in an L-shape, Chu Ying dismantled the original fence and expanded it to the west.

"I'm going to pick some weeds, this fish has also killed a lot, this yard has put on the shelves to dry fish fillets, if you want to kill the fish, then kill it again, there is no need to kill so many fish, I don't know how to do it this day, this fish have been killed, and then I have to buy fish fry, how cost-effective."

Chu Ying knew that Ye Qiu felt sorry for these fish, but Chu Ying also thought that it would be more hasty to kill the fish when the drought came, and there would definitely be others to steal the fish at that time.

"Well, that's enough, let's talk about it then, kill five or six a day, keep the small ones, and there won't be much meat to kill." Chu Ying looked at the water level that had dropped a little more, and she didn't know when it would rain this day.

The big shed outside chatted with the three of them so that Chu Ying didn't circle the pond, if they were to be circled, it would take five or six more working hours, and Chu Ying didn't think about enclosing the pond, so he let Ye Qiu kill some every day, or they would all enter other people's stomachs, and the most important thing was that he was afraid that there would be no water to clean these fish at that time.

After another half a month, the water still hasn't fallen, and the yard is full of shelves to dry dried fish and vegetables, and when she went out of the fence and looked at the water level in the pond falling a little bit, Chu Ying's heart became anxious again. Some of the vegetables in the field are fine, they don't need much water, and the water in the pond is enough.

Chu Ying was afraid that these vegetables would be sunburned, so she took a linen cloth and tied it to the wood inserted in the ground, and covered it with a piece across the ground, this linen cloth can slightly block some sunlight, mainly to make the moisture of these vegetables not steam so quickly.

Chu Ying drove more than a dozen chickens to the chicken coop in the utility room, but they couldn't be free-range anymore. Chu Ying gets up early every day to cut a lot of grass and come back to dry, but I am afraid that it will be too dry and the grass will wither, and these dried hay rabbits can also eat, anyway, the fence has been built, and the dried fish is almost done, so Chu Ying will make more hay.

The main thing is that the rabbits that are growing need more fresh forage. The big rabbit itself has accumulated some fat, and it won't be good if you don't eat it for a few days.

When the fish was dried and dried, Chu Ying put it in the jar and put reed leaves and mud at the mouth of the jar to isolate the moisture in the air, but there is really not much moisture in the air now, but this method can be stored for a longer time.

Chu Ying didn't put too much salt in this dried fish, firstly, the weather was very hot and dried for three or four days, and secondly, when the fish was too salty, it would take more water to dilute the salt in the body, and the most important thing was that this salt was more expensive.

"It's all digging wild vegetables outside, but it's good to go and pick some early." Ye Qiu poured most of the wild vegetables in the basket on the ground, but Chu Ying couldn't tell a few kinds of wild vegetables, so he didn't go to help.

"It's a hurry, and there are a lot of weeds mixed in it, so it's not as good as a few days ago." Ye Qiu drank a big bowl of water, sat on the wooden pier, picked up the wild vegetables, put them in the wooden basin to clean, and when they were clean, they were cut into small sections and put on the bamboo weaving to dry, and turned over the previous drying, and put the dried ones in the clay pot.

Fortunately, Ye Qiu went to pick wild vegetables early, and more than ten cans of dried vegetables were made at home, if he started picking wild vegetables at this time, he would definitely not be able to rob those women.

"It's okay, there are already a lot of them at home, but it's better to pick some, which others are picking and we haven't go, and others still think we don't lack it." Chu Ying put all the dried hay in a coarse sack and piled it in the house, one of the two newly built houses was full of hay and firewood, and there was no need to go out and cut it in a hurry when the time came, and the other room was filled with three large water tanks, which was enough for Chu Ying and Ye Qiu to live for a while.

"Yes, fortunately, I made all the fish into dried fish before, and the pond is half water, and there are some small fish in it that can still survive. It would be nice if there was a heavy rain, even if all these dried fish and vegetables were made in vain, I really couldn't stand it this day. Ye Qiu patted the ash on his clothes, then climbed down the pond and picked some lettuce and came back to cook.

The sun is getting stronger and stronger, Chu Ying didn't go out to cut the grass, so she put away the dried fish, and it was not good to be looked down upon when the time came. These clay pots containing dried vegetables and dried fish were all moved to the attic, leaving only some in the kitchen.

"The rivers over there are half smaller, Li Zheng is no longer allowed to open the canal to release water, every few days to release water, a lot of men are carrying water to water the ground, when I came back, I also saw Wang Jiyuan, people have tanned a lot, this crop is the root of life, this rice is in need of water, this weather is really killing people."

Chu Ying knew that Wang Qiyuan still owed a lot of money when he became a relative, and now that there were more people in the family, it was even more expensive to eat, so when Chu Ying waited for the evening, she went to Wang Qiyuan with two cans of dried fish.

"Is Brother Wang at home? Is Aunt Wang here? Chu Ying waited at the door for a long time before someone opened the door, Chu Ying looked at Bai Yuhe who opened the door, and her belly was slightly bulging, as if she had a child.

"Mother and Yuyuan have gone out, do you have anything wrong?" Bai Yuhe's face didn't seem to be good, and he was still holding a wooden stick in his hand.

"It's nothing, it's just that the fish in the pond were killed and dried fish, and some of them came to the pond, why haven't they come back so late? What about the pear orchard? ”

"Liyuan asked my mother to send it to my grandmother's house." Bai Yuhe lay down in the outer hall and hid the wooden stick.

"Well, are you pregnant? But you have to take care of it, and your face is not very good. "Chu Ying put the dried fish in the kitchen, and she couldn't let a pregnant woman carry these.

Seeing that Bai Yuhe was a little distracted, Chu Ying waved her hand in front of her, looking at her distracted and lonely appearance, which was very different from her usual spirit.

"Yes, I'll talk to him when the garden comes back, thank you so much, you can think of us, do you have enough to eat yourself? You have to keep some of it. I don't know what will happen in the future. Chu Ying saw that she didn't have a match, so she left early.

When I went out, I saw that there was a fire point in the distance that was slowly moving towards this side, and it was estimated that Wang Jiyuan and Aunt Wang were back, so Chu Ying went home first, and when he met Wang Jiyuan, he was afraid that he would not keep these things.

Chu Ying wiped her body and was about to rest, when she saw Wang Qiyuan coming over with a stick, she just sent two cans of dried fish, this Wang Qiyuan would not be so excited, and everyone wanted to take a wooden stick to teach him a lesson.

Wang Qiyuan walked up to Chu Ying and threw the stick on the ground heavily, angry and annoyed, and sat on the ground without saying a word. Chu Ying stood next to her and didn't know what to say.