Chapter 149 Killing Time
All in all, it has snowed for five or six days in a row.
Looking across the entire meadow, there was no trace of color, only white.
It's so white that it's dazzling.
Zhao Yeqing closed the window, rubbed his eyes, and blinked hard a few times before he felt a little better.
Mu Xi asked her, "What do you want to eat for breakfast?"
What to eat every day has become the most important issue that the two people need to consider.
There is nothing to do when it snows, so I just stay at home every day eating and drinking. If that doesn’t work, I just read and sleep.
After Mu Xi asked this question, Zhao Yeqing walked from the bedside to the rocking chair in front of the fireplace and sat down. His rocking body caused the rocking chair to squeak.
"Hmm... Let's eat some sweets. I should be able to eat today."
Last night she couldn't help but tear off the cotton wool that was used to keep her warm, and saw through the plastic wrap that translucent wine had seeped out.
"Poached eggs or egg drop eggs?"
"Only children make choices..."
He took out the jar and saw through the transparent plastic wrap that the sweet wine inside had been completely fermented, and the small hole in the middle was filled with translucent wine.
He walked into the kitchen with the jar in his hand, scooped out a large spoonful of wine and residue from it with a clean spoon without water or oil and put it into the bowl, then sealed the jar and put it aside, and took it into the room after breakfast was ready.
After another week of fermentation, the sweet wine will turn into rice wine, and the alcohol content will also increase.
Put a bowl of sweet wine into a small pot, light the fire, add some boiled water and a large piece of ginger.
While the water was boiling, Mu Xi went to the chicken coop and got a few eggs.
The weather has been cold recently and the chickens have laid fewer eggs. I found five eggs this morning.
Wait until the water boils again, add a small piece of brown sugar, turn down the heat, and let the brown sugar slowly melt.
I cracked the still warm eggs into the pot, two in total, then took another one and cracked it into a bowl, then stirred it with chopsticks.
When the eggs in the pot are almost cooked, pour the egg liquid in the bowl into the pot. The boiling bubbles will cook the egg liquid quickly.
Mu Xi took Zhao Yeqing's bowl, put an egg and a full bowl of brown sugar and sweet wine eggs in it.
The rest was his. He didn't like soft-boiled eggs, so he cooked them a little longer, until they were almost fully cooked before taking them away.
Mu Xi would bring the light-smelling meals to Zhao Yeqing's room to eat, so that she wouldn't have to put on her coat and change shoes and run out, and her hands and feet would become cold from going in and out.
When I entered the room, Zhao Yeqing was still swaying in the rocking chair, holding a pair of unfinished insoles in his hands.
When he was looking for supplies, he only saw her find a pile of wool. These two days, he saw her take out a dozen insoles that she had never sewed before and was stunned for a while.
Zhao Yeqing said as if it was a matter of course, "Have you ever seen an old lady in the countryside who didn't have insoles sewn in her plastic bag?"
That's true.
The insole in her hand was half sewn. Fortunately, she had this insole so that she would not be bored to death when there was no entertainment.
Mu Xi put the sweet wine egg on the table and said, "It's not hot anymore, eat first."
While he was cooking his own portion, he took Zhao Yeqing's portion to the window sill. By the time his was done, Zhao Yeqing's portion had just become warm.
She put down the insole and scooped a spoonful of sweet wine into her mouth. The glutinous rice that made the sweet wine became soft, and it had a crumbly texture when chewed carefully. She felt it was very special every time she ate it.
The sweet wine had a spicy ginger flavor. Before she finished a bowl, she began to sweat on her back. She took off the rabbit fur blanket covering her legs and hung it on the back of the chair before continuing to drink the rest.
I put the soft-boiled egg at the end to finish my breakfast. After finishing my breakfast with great satisfaction, I lay down in the rocking chair and relaxed.
Mu Xi noticed that she was daydreaming more and more frequently recently, "Are you too bored? Do you want to go out for a walk?"
Zhao Yeqing was indeed bored, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. "It's been snowing and windy lately, and the temperature has dropped by one or two degrees. The sun at noon is also blocked by clouds. I'd better not go. I'm likely to catch a cold."
After they both finished their breakfast, Mu Xi put the dishes into the kitchen, walked to the backyard, and picked up dozens of small stones in the corner.
The stones are all screened out from the sand or red soil brought back before. The stones by the lake are mostly rounded after being washed by the water.
After selecting the stones, he took a square wooden board, which was the leftover material that was sawed off when building the house. He then went to the tool room to get a carving knife and a chisel.
The carving knife was not bought on the market. It was an iron bar that the original owner had removed from somewhere. He polished it into a small knife himself, embedded it in a wooden handle, and wrapped it with hemp rope to prevent slipping.
It doesn’t look good, but it’s very convenient to use.
All the things were brought into the room. Zhao Yeqing was curious and asked, "What are you doing?"
Mu Xi started carving on the wooden board without even looking up, "I won't tell you."
mean.
Zhao Yeqing didn't even look at him after he finished complaining. He would know after he finished.
There was a straw mat on the ground. Mu Xi sat cross-legged on the ground, put a piece of plastic cloth in front of him, and placed the wood on it to carve.
Zhao Yeqing was sewing insoles, glancing at them from time to time, then looking away as if not caring.
Mu Xi said with a smile, "I'm making checkers. Don't look at me. I'll be done in a moment."
checkers?
She blinked. This was the thing she and Mu Xi played with most often when they were children.
There weren't many things to play with in the mountains, so the two of them would sit in front of the chessboard and "fight" when they were kids, and most of the time Mu Xi would lose and get angry out of shame.
"Haha." Mu Xi glanced at her. "I don't know who it is. When I was in elementary school, he took the checkers marbles to school to compete with others in marbles. After winning others' marbles, he took them back and used them as his own chess pieces. He was blatantly cheating."
She refused to admit something that had happened for so many years and there was no evidence.
After Mu Xi finished making the checkers, he polished the stones that were not round enough and painted them in different colors with ballpoint pen and water-based pen.
"Come on, don't cheat this time."
Zhao Yeqing arranged the chess pieces and waved his hand generously, "Let you go first."
Mu Xi asked, "What's the bet?"
Zhao Yeqing: "Whoever loses will finish cooking."
Seven o'clock in the evening.
After preparing the meal, Mu Xi took off her apron, walked into the room and "invited" the smug Zhao Yeqing to the kitchen for dinner.
Radish and lamb soup, smoked pork and cabbage stew.
She almost vomited after eating these two vegetables.
The first crop was harvested two days ago, and it will take several days for the second crop to grow.
The only vegetables that can be stockpiled and stored at home are radishes and cabbages.
The rest are dried vegetables.
She wants to eat leafy greens.
Mu Xi said: "When the snow stops, we will go out and see if we can find some wild vegetables."
The two waited for a few more days, and finally the snow stopped after falling for ten consecutive days.
When Zhao Yeqing woke up in the morning and saw that the snow had stopped, he was very surprised and pointed outside the window for Mu Xi to see, "It finally stopped!"
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