The continuous autumn rain has been falling, and the temperature is also dropping day by day, as if winter has arrived early. Some time ago, people were still wearing short sleeves, but the temperature has plummeted in the past few days, and everyone has turned out their autumn clothes from the boxes. As if overnight, the whole Liang Village entered a cool autumn, cold and gentle.

Of course, the rainy season that lasts for more than ten days or even a month in summer naturally does not appear in this season, and after a few days of rain, the autumn rain finally stops.

After waking up in the morning, Liu Rui did not see the hazy and cloudy scene of the previous days, but instead a clear sky.

The lead-like clouds have dissipated, revealing a pure blue sky that makes people feel calm, and the occasional white clouds that drift by add a bit of leisurely mood.

In the yard, the magpies, who had been blocked in the bird's nest by the autumn rain for several days, naturally took this opportunity to chirp in the osmanthus trees, and then rushed into the nearby mountains and meadows to look for insects whose wings were wet by the rain. For these resident birds, food in autumn and winter is not a big problem, because the climate in Qingyun is pleasant, even in winter, everything will not be depressed, and there can still be plenty of food.

The hens also walked around the yard with their chicks, pecking at the grass from the cracks in the rocks from time to time and digging the broken soil at the base of the wall, looking very excited. The yellow-throated marten and the flower cat walked quietly past the chickens with a light step, and soon their figures disappeared into the woods in the backyard.

For the yellow-throated marten, the weather after the rain is the best time to hunt, and the rats that have been holding in the rat hole for several days are taking this opportunity to wander outside.

Soon, the yellow-throated marten and the little flower had each caught a mouse, dragged it to the bottom of the tree, and ate it slowly. Although they were covered in raindrops from the grass, they were a little embarrassed, but it didn't detract from their murderous aura at all.

The yellow-throated marten and Xiaohua went to the backyard to hunt, and the idle and bored Xiao Hei could only play in the yard with a small leather ball that Xiao Zhang Peng landed on Liu's house. Since the yellow-throated marten came to the Liu family's compound, the few followers of Xiao Hei were busy getting into the back mountain, and they easily stopped showing up. Xiao Hei, who didn't have a follower, didn't want to learn hunting skills, but learned to entertain himself.

Liu Rui, who walked out of the yard, found that after an autumn rain, the whole world seemed to be cleaned and became extremely enchanting.

In the wilderness, in the mountains and forests, some thin and invisible, like light veil smoke swirled, it was the autumn mist showing its last brilliance under the sun. Perhaps, after a while, they will disappear in the bright sun, and no trace will be found.

However, the mist is still one of the most beautiful sights in the world, and it allows the mountain village and the forest to blend together perfectly, and there is no longer any separation from the other.

Under the blue sky, the smoke did not dissipate until it was high in the air, and there was no trace of it. These cooking smoke are like the symbol of the early morning in the mountain village, and after they appear, the sound of chickens and dogs barking appears in Liang Village one after another. Immediately after, other noises also came and went, and the entire Liang Village quickly woke up from its slumber.

Just like the early morning for thousands of years, Liangcun still welcomes the arrival of a new day with its unique quiet and peaceful. The housewives still get up early to cook, wait for the little ancestors in the family to finish eating, and then send them to school with their friends nearby.

In rural areas, because there are not many cars coming and going, children from preschool and above walk to school on their own, and only kindergarten children need to be sent to school by the adults of the family. Before seven o'clock in the morning, dolls dressed in colorful clothes ran out of the streets and alleys of the village, and they chased and played with each other, and the crisp laughter echoed in the air like silver bells, falling on the smooth stone pavement.

In each small farm yard, the owner is packing up all kinds of tools and preparing to go to work. In the past few days, because of the continuous autumn rain, the villagers have been confined to their homes for several days, and they are anxious that all kinds of farm work have not been completed, and they are a little angry.

Although the autumn harvest is now over, it does not mean that there is no farm work in the field, and every household still has all kinds of tedious work in order to have a good harvest in the coming year.

In some fields, the land is a little compact, so you need to prepare enough farm fertilizer and reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, so you can see that the barn is full of farm manure from each family, and when these fertilizers are ripe, they can be used in the spring of the next year. The piles of straw on the edge of the barn were also transported to the fields by the villagers, piled up, and gradually rotted under the erosion of rainwater, and also became a type of organic fertilizer, a nutritious field.

When winter comes, although the mountains are still verdant, the fresh grass is not easy to find, and it is almost extinct. Therefore, farmers who feed cattle and horses will take advantage of the late autumn season to collect some forage all over the mountains and fields, and keep it for the winter to feed their livestock.

Some farmers still have some chestnuts that have not yet been harvested, so they naturally have to take advantage of the rain to stop harvesting, otherwise they will rot under the trees, which will be a loss. In addition, plum trees and peach trees in the mountains need to be removed from the weeds under the trees, so as to help the growth of fruit trees.

It is said that the plan of the year lies in spring, but in fact, for farmers, winter is already the season to prepare for the coming year, and many things must be done before winter comes. Among them, the overwintering management of fruit trees will be the top priority!

Take the Liu family as an example, as soon as it is late autumn, a large number of fruit trees need to be managed accordingly to ensure that there is sufficient nutrition for growth and development in the coming year.

For the newly planted fruit trees this year, Liu Rui needs to cover the roots of the fruit trees with a thick straw layer for insulation after soil cultivation and fertilization, so as to ensure that these small saplings can survive the test of winter.

As for the original longan and sand pear, they have already entered the full fruiting period, and Liu Rui is not worried about their nutrition, but needs to prune them accordingly. After the rain stopped, Liu Rui would pick up the big scissors and prune the old trees in the orchard, cut off the dead branches and leaves, and cut off the excess branches, so that the fruit trees could have a better growth situation.

As soon as the autumn rain stopped, the whole Liang Village recovered from the previous idle mood, and the villagers rushed to the mountains or fields with various tools, cattle and horses or carts.

In Liangcun, the gradual deepening of autumn does not mean that the farm is idle or resting, but has more meaning. In such a transitional season, the villagers tend to be more attentive in order to be able to work more and lay a good foundation for the next year's harvest!

Hope is often bred in the ordinary!

(To be continued)