By the end of August, the peanut leaves turn yellow and the leaves below begin to fall off, which means that the peanuts have matured and can be harvested.


    Although the micro-tiller in Xia Qing''s garage was equipped with a harvester, she still carried a basket, a basin, a large bucket, and a shovel to the ground to collect peanuts.


    Because the peanut terraces are on high slopes, 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 useful as a shovel.


    Xia Qing first used a shovel to thunder the soil at the roots of the peanuts, then grabbed the peanut seedlings and lifted them up and shook them. The peanuts left the soil that 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 the two fruit needles had fallen off. She dug out the two peanuts from the soil and continued to count, "Six, seven, eight... twenty-five!"


    One peanut actually grew sixteen mature ephedra pods, six lighter-colored tender pods and three little pods, which were more than what she said in the agricultural product planting book she collected.


    Great harvest, absolutely bumper harvest!


    Xia Qing took off the peanut pods, put the mature ones in one basket, and put the tender ones in another basket. Put the peanut seedlings aside, and then dig the second plant.


    After harvesting one hundred and seventy yellow peanuts, Xia Qing took a shovel and turned to the sparsely growing in the fields, eating green peanuts.


    These thirty-five plants are all hard bones. Xia Qing is not afraid of leaf vein needles, she is afraid of annoying the peanut seedlings. They launch indiscriminate attacks and **** the peanuts that have finally produced into sieves.


    Xia Qing specifically asked Luo Pei about how to collect green light peanuts.


    If you do not leave seeds, you can burn the peanut seedlings directly on fire before harvesting them; if you need to keep seeds, you must first cut off the part above the ground of the peanut seedlings, and then quickly dig out the peanut roots from the soil, shake off the soil and soak them into high-concentration salt water.


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


    The time to compete for strength and speed has arrived.


    Xia Qing poured half a basin of purification water and a large handful of coarse salt into the washing basin, put clean water in the wash basin next to it, and then threw a bug to the peanut.


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


    The upper stems and leaves of the peanut seedlings gradually lost their vitality and let go of the insects. Just when the peanut roots were released and the thick leaf vein needles were drilled out from the fracture, Xia Qing quickly shoveled the peanut roots out of the soil with a large shovel, and then clamped the peanut roots with a specially made long iron pliers, shake off the soil and throw them into salt water.


    When I first put it in, the aggressive leaf vein needles growing from the peanut roots were still making an iron basin. After more than ten seconds, the peanut roots were ineffective.


    Xia Qing immediately picked the peanut pods on it, threw them into the clean water bucket next to it and 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 will be no danger when digging soil to find peanuts.


    After harvesting the first green light peanut, Xia Qing counted and found that it had twenty-six pods, and they were all full, so it really deservedly grown up by eating insects.


    Xia Qing shared the joy with her companions, "Look, she is so big."


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


    Xia Qing took 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 rekindling, and then began to harvest the second plant.


    Thirty-five green light peanuts were harvested, a total of 875 peanut pods were harvested, most of which had two peanut beans in them, and a few had three or one bean, and a total of 1,650 green light peanuts were harvested.


    Xia Qing plans to eat a few of these green light peanuts and taste them before drying them all for the rest. Most of the yellow-lantern peanuts are kept and half are eaten. This "little half" of course refers to a slightly tender half basket.


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


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


    Third brother, I have harvested my peanuts. Although the peanut skin is black, it tastes okay. Can you give you some yellow light peanuts to cook?


    The reason I told Zhang San was that last month, when Zhang Sanda got up in the middle of the night to perform surgery on the broken waist wolf, Xia Qing told him that after harvesting the yellow-lantern peanuts in his territory, he would give him half of them to fry for him to eat.


    Now that the peanuts are harvested, Xia Qing must of course keep her promise.


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


    The little guy is here to watch his peanuts?


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


    Obviously, the red squirrel recognizes this nut.


    Xia Qing''s head flashed: Could it be that the evolutionary peanuts and evolutionary soybeans in Territory No. 3 were brought in by this little guy?


    This possibility is really great.


    First, the red squirrel nests on the big pine trees in Area 3, and that one is not within the clearance last winter, so it did not move; second, although Xia Qing didn''t know how big the squirrel''s territory was, the terraces in Territory No. 3 are not far from the red squirrel''s nest and should belong to its territory; third, squirrels have the habit of storing nuts for the winter, and they will hide the nuts in different places to avoid being taken away by others.


    Therefore, peanuts and soybeans may be hidden on the hillside and not finished eating.


    Xia Qing took two peanuts, walked out of the greenhouse and placed them on the stone, greeting the red squirrel who had already escaped from afar, "Try it, it tastes okay, I''ll give you some more if you like it."


    After putting down the peanuts, Xia Qing received a call from Zhang San, "Do you say the peanut skin is black, which refers to the **** skin on the outside, or the thin skin wrapped in peanut kernels?"


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


    Zhang San was silent for a few seconds, "Before the natural disaster, have you eaten black-skin peanuts?"


    ? ? ?


    Xia Qing had a question mark on his face, "Was there any black-skinned peanuts before the natural disaster?"


    When the natural disaster occurred, Xia Qing was only fifteen years old. His daily life was to go to and from school and to and from interest classes with his schoolbag. Apart from that, he didn''t worry about everything, and he really didn''t know that there were black peanuts.


    Zhang San responded, "Black-skinned peanuts are also called selenium-rich peanuts. Our territory belongs to selenium-rich soil. It is not surprising that someone has planted selenium-rich peanuts before the natural disaster. How much have you harvested?"


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


    Although Zhang San is petty, he never takes other people''s things in vain. He wanted to buy selenium-rich peanuts and offered a price directly, "Two hundred green lights and four hundred yellow lights, I will exchange them for five kilograms of green light wheat seeds."