In the summer, both plants and animals enter the growing season.

In autumn and winter, the decayed and withered weeds regrow their green leaves, stretching out their crisp veins, standing proudly.

Cai Hongming took his daughter to walk slowly on the road, with the wide Turtle Lake on the left and the hillside planted with thatch and elephant grass on the right. After these elephant grasses were planted here earlier, they were nourished by the jade toad sap, grew strong and young, and became more adapted to the climate of the northwest. So after the expansion of the farm, Cai Hongming specially asked people to plant elephant grass on the newly bought land. When they reach adulthood, they can be released to forage freely, which also saves a period of feeding time.

On the Turtle Lake, birds are dancing.

Last winter, many migratory birds flew through here to rest and then flew south to spend the winter, leaving behind many chicks and eggs.

Cai Hongming asked the eggs to be incubated in the incubator on the farm. The hatchlings and fledgling birds remain on the farm, the most numerous of which are the wild geese. The wild goose, also known as the original goose, the goose, the strange goose, the black-billed goose, the sand goose, the grass goose or the wild goose, is the ancestor of today's domestic goose.

Because these wild geese are big and have a lot of meat, they were specially taken care of by Cai Hongming, and now they are all fat.

In terms of meat quality, the meat of the wild goose is more fine, suitable for stewing, stir-frying, stewing, boiling, etc., while the meat of the goose is more fatty and tender, suitable for roasting, frying, and frying, both of which have their own merits.

After Cai Hongming ate the goose meat once, he felt that the taste was okay, so he raised the wild goose as a kind of poultry, and it is unknown whether it will evolve into a domestic goose in the future. It's just that the wild goose is now a "three haves" protected animal that is beneficial to the country, has important economic value, and has scientific research value. If you want to raise it, you must apply for a license, otherwise you will be fined after being caught. Cai Hongming had to supplement the information again. The person who handled the certificate from the Forestry Bureau looked at him strangely, because he had already come to reapply for the certificate several times. I guess I'm asking: Is your home a zoo? Really raise everything?

Some of the remaining birds made nests in the grass by the Turtle Lake, while others lived in the mountains. Every day, some birds will forage in the lake, and it has become a scenic spot in the western capital.

However, when it came to the hot weather. The birds that flew south for a holiday flew back. It seems that when I flew to the south, I ate the sweetness here, and once I got here, I never flew forward again.

The birds in Turtle Lake are gathering more and more, and sometimes the black pressure is overwhelming, which affects the normal life order of the farm. Therefore, Cai Hongming has begun to plan to let people move the birds in the Turtle Lake to the lake formed by the collapse of the dark river. Cai Hongming gave it a name, "Qianlong Lake". Because below was where the dragon veins used to be.

I took a look at the Turtle Lake. Cai Hongming took his daughter and continued to walk forward.

As you walk, you can see a large area of rice growing near Lake Turtle on the opposite side.

Now the rice is growing well, the green leaves are about to drip water, and when the wind blows, there will be a burst of rice leaves.

In the rice fields, the turtles that were not caught last year have grown bigger than a palm, crawling among the rice paddies looking for something to eat. Like this kind of turtle bigger than a palm, it sells for 50 yuan a pound in the market during the Spring Festival, although the economy is sluggish this year. But it can also be sold for more than 40 yuan. Cai Hongming doesn't want such a high price, as long as these turtles can be sold for about thirty yuan, he can make a lot of money.

After seeing the rice, I walked out of the city gate and was greeted by a jungle of towering giant pillar cacti.

After he bought these giant pillar cacti from southern Fujian, they gradually adapted to the local climate, and even under the severe cold this year, they are still full of vitality.

So. After buying the land again last year, he planted another batch of giant pillar cacti around the farm. Those giant pillar cacti were cultivated by him from the seeds of the existing giant pillar cactus. The ability to resist cold should be stronger than the current giant pillar cactus. Now the farm is surrounded by giant pillar cacti, and the sharp thorns are daunting, and no one dares to climb in, which is also the original intention of Cai Hongming to plant giant pillar cacti.

Cacti usually bloom in hot weather, and in the northwest from May to November, the giant pillar cactus blooms.

It's now August, and a batch of cacti is ripe. The reddish fruit hangs high on the giant pillar cactus.

Cai Hongming looked up and saw that the hero owl was happily pecking at a red and blackened cactus fruit.

"Hero." Cai Hongming screamed.

Daxia Yuan stared at him and turned his head to look, and found that it was Cai Hongming calling him, so he flew down. Chu Chu, who was sitting on Cai Hongming's neck, babbled dissatisfiedly and waved his little arms to prevent it from coming. Cai Hongming glanced at his naughty daughter. I had to reach out and let the hero stop on his arm.

The hero is already one year old, and his body is fat and a little heavy, but it is still within Cai Hongming's bearing.

Cai Hongming touched its head, touched its chin again, tickled it and patted its ass, and asked it to help pick a few cactus fruits.

Don't look at Daxia is just an ordinary owl, but under the feeding of the gourd water and spring water containing vigorous vitality of the purple gourd in the Yuzhu space, it has been a little mutated, at least the ordinary owl is not as big and smart as it. After being fed the spring water containing aura by Cai Hongming, the intelligence of some animals on the farm is obviously very high, and they can understand people's words and recognize people, and the scorpion bones and big rooster Huahua who were originally fed by Cai Hongming are even more demonic, and those who don't know still think they are people?

The hero was very obedient, and after a while, he took five or six fruits.

Cai Hongming took a bite, it was sweet and silky, and it tasted very good.

Chu Chu's saliva was about to flow down when he saw it, and when he saw that his father was happy to eat alone, he didn't give himself a taste, so he suddenly screamed. She actually said the word "eat", but she forgot what to say in a hurry. Seeing the anxious appearance of this little glutton, Cai Hongming had no choice but to peel a cactus fruit for her. The little one was happy.

Children can't eat too much of this kind of thing, so after giving her one, Cai Hongming quickly eliminated the immortal fruit in his hand, and then continued to walk forward.

After Chu Chu finished eating, seeing that his father hadn't eaten, he didn't make any more trouble, and continued to sit on his father's head and watch around.

The heroic owl stood on the cactus above them, staring at them with wide eyes. Daytime has never been its home turf, only night is its world.

Walking out of the jungle of towering giant pillar cacti, a vast expanse of ground appeared in front of you. Crops are planted on the ground, including sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, soybeans, and so on. The sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field are growing very vigorously, and the sweet potato vines are crawling everywhere, and Pan Haimin is leading people to turn the sweet potato vines over there. If you don't turn it, let the sweet potato vine take root and sprout on the ground, it will absorb the nutrients from the roots, and the sweet potatoes that will grow will not be very large. On the side of the sweet potato is a large field of corn, and the corn stalks are high and the ears are large, so you can tell that this year is another bumper year.

This year, the farm land has expanded again, so Cai Hongming planted some chickpeas and soybeans.

Originally, Cai Hongming didn't want to grow soybeans, because chickpeas were enough. It was only later when I tried to make tofu with chickpeas that I realized that the tofu made with chickpeas had a taste, and the taste was like cinnamon, which was weird to eat. So he had to spend a lot of money to buy a batch of native soybeans, that is, non-GMO soybeans.

Nowadays, the domestic soybean market is almost occupied by foreign genetically modified soybean troops, so Cai Hongming does not dare to eat soy products, so he decided to grow it himself.

In addition to these, he also planted a peanut, which is endemic to southern Fujian, a red-skinned peanut.

Now the farm and family eat peanut oil produced on the farm, which is safe and healthy. Now the peanut oil produced on the farm has become a very popular commodity in the Xidu Shengjing Agricultural Products Store next to the Super Manniu Barbecue Shop.

Every year, Cai Hongming selects the largest, best and best varieties to preserve.

In this way, the best of the best from generation to generation must have grown a very good variety, and it will never be worse than those seeds that are full of messy genes outside.

To this end, Cai Hongming also hired someone to build a seed bank to store the seeds of the excellent varieties on his farm.

In this way, he can also rest assured, so as not to accidentally be mixed with genetically modified seeds when buying seeds in the future.

Opposite crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and peanuts are groups of yaks, ostriches, yellow sheep, sheep and other livestock enclosed in a fence.

Because sweet potatoes and other crops are growing so happily, the livestock on the other side are drooling. Sometimes some little ones can't resist the temptation, and they will try to sneak out of the fence and sneak into the opposite field to steal food. For this reason, Ji Dong and his family had to put a layer of barbed wire around the edge of the crops, so as not to spoil the crops by those little guys.

Now those little guys can't run over anymore, but they are still used to looking at the opposite field where agricultural products are grown, and they have a bit of a taste of plum to quench their thirst.

When Cai Hongming walked over, he saw a few little yaks drooling miserably as they looked at the green sweet potato vines on the opposite side. (To be continued.) )