By the end of August, the peanut leaves turn yellow and the lower leaves begin to fall off, indicating that the peanuts are ripe and ready for harvest.

Although the micro-tiller in Xia Qing's garage is equipped with a harvester, she still carries baskets, water basins, and large buckets, and carries a shovel to harvest peanuts.

Because the peanut terraces are on a high slope, there are only more than 200 peanuts in the field, and the green light peanuts are still aggressive, in this case, the harvester is not as good as the shovel.

Xia Qing first used a shovel to loosen the soil at the root of the peanut, and then dragged the peanut seedling up and shook it, and the peanut left the soil where it had grown for five months, and the ephedra peanut pods hanging under the fruit needles were exposed.

"One, two, three, um......" Xia Qing, who counted the number of peanut pods, found that the peanuts on two fruit needles had fallen off. She dug the two peanuts out of the soil and continued counting, "Six, seven, eight...... Twenty-five! ”

One peanut plant actually grew sixteen ripe ephedra pods, six slightly lighter tender pods and three small pods that did not grow into small pods, more than the agricultural planting books she had collected.

Harvest, absolute harvest!

Xia Qing plucked the peanut pods, put the ripe ones in one basket, the tender ones and the small ones in another basket, put the peanut seedlings aside, and then dig the second plant.

After the one hundred and seventy yellow light peanuts were harvested, Xia Qing took a shovel and turned to the sparsely growing green light peanuts in the field.

These thirty-five plants are all hard bones. Xia Qing was not afraid of the leaf vein needles, she was afraid of provoking the peanut seedlings, and they launched indiscriminate attacks, stabbing the peanuts that had finally grown into a sieve.

Regarding how to harvest green light peanuts, Xia Qing specifically consulted Luo Pei.

If you don't keep seeds, you can directly burn the peanut seedlings with fire and then harvest them; If you need to keep the seeds, you have to cut off the part above the ground of the peanut seedlings, and then quickly dig the peanut roots out of the soil, shake off the soil and soak them in high-concentration brine.

After the peanut roots are killed in salt water, remove the peanut pods and rinse them with water.

It's time to fight for strength and speed.

Xia Qing poured half a basin of purified water and a large handful of coarse salt into the laundry basin, put water in the washbasin next to it, and then threw peanuts a bug.

When the peanuts ate the insects, Xia Qing waved the knife with his right hand and cut off the peanut seedlings that were harder than ordinary wood with a "click".

The upper stems and leaves of the peanut seedlings that were cut off gradually lost their vitality, and the insects were released from the soft stomach. Just as the peanut roots released their ability and drilled out the thick leaf vein needles from the fracture, Xia Qing quickly shoveled the peanut roots out of the soil with a big shovel, and then clamped the peanut roots with specially made long iron tongs, shook off the soil and threw them into the salt water.

When I first put it in, the aggressive leaf veins that grew from the peanut roots were still rattling in the iron basin. After more than ten seconds, the peanut root was unresponsive.

Xia Qing immediately picked off the peanut pods on the top, threw them into the clean water bucket next to them, washed off the salt water, and then put them in the basket.

Then, Xia Qing went to dig the peanut pods that fell into the soil. The roots and seedlings that can attack have been removed, and there is no danger in digging into the soil to find peanuts.

After harvesting the first green light peanut, Xia Qing counted it and found that it had grown twenty-six pods, and all of them were plump, which was really worthy of growing up eating insects.

Xia Qing shared her joy with her companions, "Look, it's really big. ”

The sheep boss and the sick wolf were not interested in the peanuts in Xia Qing's hand, and they both stared at the peanut roots in the water basin.

Xia Qing fished out the dead peanut roots from the salt water and put them in a sealed bag to prevent the peanut roots from touching the soil and resurrecting them, and then began to harvest the second plant.

A total of 875 peanut pods were harvested from 35 green light peanuts, most of which contained two peanut beans, and a few grew three or one bean, with a total of 1,650 green peanuts.

These green light peanuts, Xia Qing plans to eat a few and try them, and then dry all the rest to keep the seeds. Yellow light peanuts are also mostly left for planting, and half are eaten in small ones.

This "small half" of course refers to the slightly tender half basket.

Xia Qing took off his gloves and protective mask, wiped the sweat off his face, and drank a few sips of water, although there were not many peanuts, the harvesting process was still very physically demanding.

Xia Qing peeled a tender peanut, threw two plump peanut beans into his mouth, fed the pods to the sheep boss, and Mei Zizi sent a message to Zhang San:

Third brother, my peanuts have been harvested, although the peanut skin is black, but the taste is okay, I will send you some yellow peanuts to cook and eat?

The reason why I told Zhang San was because last month, when Zhang San got up in the middle of the night to operate on the broken waist wolf, Xia Qing told him that after the yellow light peanuts in his territory were harvested, he would send half of them to him to fry and eat.

Now that the peanuts have been harvested, Xia Qing must of course keep his promise.

While waiting for Zhang San's reply, Xia Qing habitually opened the positioning software and was surprised to find that the red squirrel actually stopped fifteen meters away from him.

Little guy is this, come to watch yourself harvest peanuts?

Xia Qing observed with the corner of his eye, and quickly caught the little guy hiding in the tree, staring at the peanut basket with his black round eyes.

It is clear that the red squirrel recognizes this nut.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Xia Qing's head: The evolutionary peanuts and evolutionary soybeans in the No. 3 territory could it be that this little guy got them in?

This possibility is really big.

First, the red squirrel's nest was in a large pine tree in Zone 3, which was not cleared last winter, so it did not move; Second, although Xia Qing didn't know how big the squirrel's territory was, the terraces in the No. 3 territory were not far from the red squirrel's nest and should belong to its territory; Third, squirrels have a habit of storing nuts for the winter, and they will hide nuts in different places to avoid being served in one pot.

So, peanuts and soybeans may be hidden on the hillside and never eaten.

Xia Qing took two peanuts, walked out of the shed and put them on the stones, and beckoned to the red squirrels who had fled far away, "Try it, it tastes okay, if you like it, I'll send you some more." ”

After putting down the peanuts, Xia Qing received a call from Zhang San, "You said that the peanut skin is black, do you mean the hemp skin on the outside, or the thin skin wrapped in the peanut kernel?" ”

Xia Qing replied, "It's a thin skin wrapped in peanut kernels." ”

Zhang San was silent for a few seconds, "Before the natural disaster, you didn't eat black-skinned peanuts?" ”

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Xia Qing's face was full of question marks, "There were black-skinned peanuts before the natural disaster?" ”

At the time of the natural disaster, Xia Qing was only fifteen years old, and his daily life was to carry his schoolbag to and from school and interest classes.

Zhang San responded, "Black-skinned peanuts are also called selenium-rich peanuts, our territory belongs to selenium-rich soil, and it is not surprising that some people planted selenium-rich peanuts before natural disasters." How much did you gain? ”

Selenium-rich peanuts? Xia Qing's eyes lit up, "Thirty-five green lights, one hundred and seventy yellow lights." I'm going to keep the green light peanuts and send you half of the yellow ones? ”

Although Zhang San is cautious, he will never take other people's things for nothing. He wanted selenium-rich peanuts, so he offered the price directly, "Two hundred grains of green light, four hundred grains of yellow light, and I exchanged five catties of green light wheat seeds." ”