Chapter 229 Strawberry

The 'rice cake' made of pure potatoes is full of potato aroma. It is seasoned with chili and salt, and then added with leeks to relieve the greasiness.

Everything is just right.

Mu Xi nodded, "It's delicious."

Zhao Yeqing also put a mouthful of it into his mouth and squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

When she ate it for the first time, she was a little hesitant. Potatoes with raw leeks didn't sound tasty.

But once she took a bite, not to mention the taste, the glutinous texture alone conquered her.

Four large potatoes were pounded into two bowls of potato fritters, and the two of them didn't feel hungry until the evening after eating them.

Since they didn't go out to work, they didn't consume much energy. They ate a little at dinner and then planned to take a shower and go to bed.

Mu Xi installed lights in the bathroom and toilet. The bulbs he brought from Meishan were much brighter. He had originally thought of replacing the bulbs in the kitchen. Zhao Ke and Zhao Yeqing were still frightened by the previous incident of a snake in the bathroom, and said that the bathroom and toilet must be bright enough.

After taking a shower, they returned to the room, installed the room light and turned it on. The whole room was illuminated by white light. The long-lost brightness made Zhao Yeqing a little dazed.

The feeling was no less than the first time she went to a big city after being admitted to university.

Several dogs were startled and stood up suddenly, barking a few times on the spot. After being comforted by Zhao Yeqing for a long time, they gradually adapted.

All of the original owner's light bulbs were yellow, and these dogs probably had never seen an incandescent bulb.

In fact, the brightness is not very bright, only 5W. The bulb is an energy-saving lamp, and the longer it is turned on, the brighter it becomes.

Now the cell phone is fully charged, and the bright light makes Zhao Yeqing unusually excited tonight, and he doesn't want to sleep at all.

He turned on his phone and placed it on the small round table in front of the fireplace. "Mu Xi, tell me a number."

Before Mu Xi walked out of the brick house, he answered, "5."

Zhao Yeqing counted down the download list in his hand to the fifth movie, which was a post-apocalyptic zombie disaster movie.

Quite appropriate.

The door of the room was pushed open and Mu Xi walked in with a plate of peanuts and a dish of beef jerky in his hands.

“Are you not afraid that there will be nothing left to watch after you finish it?”

Zhao Yeqing blinked and smiled a little proudly, "I am quite forgetful about movies and TV shows. After watching a good movie or TV series once, I basically don't remember much of the plot after half a year."

Mu Xi gave a thumbs up, "Awesome."

This is a good skill. A good drama can be enjoyed countless times.

When I was in Meishan before, I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough videos to watch. At that time, I had just started to get away from my mobile phone and the Internet. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to help myself, so I finished watching all the videos in my inventory at the usual rate of watching one drama every two or three days.

Now I have completely adapted to life without a mobile phone. After watching it, I can just wait until next year to watch it again.

So in the first three days when it started to rain, Zhao Yeqing watched three movies at the rate of one per day.

On the fourth day, I turned on another TV series.

Zhao Yeqing threw a peanut into his mouth. "Be economical and watch the TV series first. This TV series has 50 episodes. Each episode has 40 minutes after the opening and ending credits. If you watch three episodes a day, it will be almost as long as a movie."

"Eat less. Don't you already have an ulcer?"

“The last one.”

The rain outside had not let up yet, dark clouds were overhead, and the sky was still dark at noon.

Although the rain was not as heavy as a downpour, it was not light at all. The raindrops fell in lines, making the whole meadow wet.

Mu Xi went to the back with a wooden stick, intending to reinforce the small vegetable garden and provide some support for the greenhouse built with bamboo strips.

When you walk into the shed, the strawberries on the ground are particularly eye-catching.

Several plants already have red fruits.

The strawberries I grow myself are not as big as the ones I buy, but they have a very strong aroma.

After Mu Xi reinforced the shed, he picked the ripe strawberries, put them in his clothes, took them to the kitchen, washed them, and then brought them to the brick house.

Zhao Yeqing was watching with great interest when Mu Xi's hand suddenly flashed past his eyes.

She was watching intently and wanted him to stop making trouble, but she smelled a fragrance.

Zhao Yeqing quickly paused the video and twitched his nose again, "Strawberry?"

Mu Xi took out the strawberries behind him and said, "Eat this instead of the peanuts."

There was no way Zhao Yeqing would respond. He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and successfully got a plate of red strawberries.

She ate one without saying a word. The rich aroma of strawberry went straight from her mouth to her nasal cavity. The pure sweet strawberry had no sour taste at all and tasted better than the ones she bought.

Zhao Yeqing grabbed Mu Xi's arm and asked him to sit down. He sniffed his mouth with the tip of his nose, "You didn't taste it? Take a break first and try this strawberry. It's delicious. After I finish watching this episode, we'll go to work together."

The two planned to grind 20 kilograms of flour in the afternoon.

It's raining now, and many tools are covered with plastic sheets in the yard and cannot be used.

A small amount of wheat can be rubbed by hand. After frying the wheat in a pan slightly, rub off the skin with your hands and you can grind it into flour directly.

The stone mill is placed in the tool room. After rubbing, just take it in and grind it into powder.

Mu Xi brought a basket of wheat to the kitchen, and Zhao Yeqing rubbed it with his hands first. It had been dried in the sun before, so as long as it was dry enough, it could be rubbed directly without frying.

After rubbing a handful of wheat a few times and finding that the husk peeling rate was acceptable and there was no need to fry it again, the two sat in the kitchen and rubbed the wheat with their hands.

There was bran in the rubbed wheat, which had to be lifted up with a winnowing basket. Zhao Yeqing manually fanned the air next to it, letting the wind blow the bran in the wheat to the ground.

Twenty kilograms of flour were ground in no time, and the fennel dumplings that Zhao Yeqing had dreamed of could be made today.

"What kind of meat filling should be used?"

Mu Xi: "Use chicken."

After the temperature warmed up, the chickens at home have been laying eggs and three broods of chicks have been hatched. The chicken coop has been expanded. If we don’t feed them now, they will be too full to accommodate them.

There is no need to keep many roosters, as some of them are now less than three months old.

The meat of young chicken is the most tender.

The meat from one chicken is enough to make dumplings, but Zhao Yeqing wants to kill one more and have fried chicken in the evening.

Mu Xi glanced at her and said, "No, wait until your ulcer heals."

Zhao Yeqing angrily stuffed a strawberry into his mouth.

Only more than twenty strawberries were harvested from this batch. Zhao Yeqing was reluctant to eat them all. He searched for a while before he was willing to eat one.

After eating one, I went to work feeling satisfied, planning to reward myself with another one later.

After the potatoes were harvested, a lot of space was left in the vegetable garden. She thought of planting some pumpkins. When the pumpkins were harvested, not only the pumpkins could be eaten, but also the pumpkin vines, pumpkin flowers and pumpkin seeds.

Last time I found an old pumpkin in the vegetable garden at the foot of the mountain. I originally wanted to fry the seeds inside, but I couldn’t bear to do so, so I saved them for seeds this year.

The pots that she used to grow pea tips indoors during the winter are now empty, and she happens to be raising seedlings at home, and when the rain stops, the pumpkins will be ready for transplanting.

The soil in the planting pots had become a little hard after planting several crops of pea tips. Zhao Yeqing took the pots under the eaves, intending to mix fertilizer with them again before bringing them back into the house.