Chapter 168 Beech
When the weather is hot, it is autumn and winter, and when the weather is cold, it is spring and summer. Could it be that the hot and cold seasons will be reversed in the future?
When Mu Xi came back, Zhao Yeqing's small ditch had not been dug yet.
Because the road for clearing the snow is not wide, the small ditch next to it has to be dug smaller.
When he entered the yard, he saw Zhao Yeqing's back, squatting on the ground and digging the soil bit by bit with a small shovel.
In a trance, I seemed to see Zhao Yeqing as a child, playing house while digging the ground with a shovel.
Mu Xi put down the firewood rack behind him and walked over, squatting beside her, "How about it, today I will play the father and you will play the mother?"
Zhao Yeqing looked at him in confusion, and only reacted when she saw his eyes pointing at the small shovel in her hand and the soil she had dug out from the ground.
"No, I'll play the father and you'll play the son."
Maybe life is really boring. The battle between the father and the son lasted for half an hour without a winner.
Mu Xi had already washed his hands and was preparing to prepare the dishes that Zhao Yeqing ordered last night.
Last night she said she wanted to eat the steak that Tom and Jerry, the cat, the mouse and the dog fought over.
Mu Xi looked confused. Zhao Yeqing finally took out a pen and paper and drew the shape of the steak. Only then did he remember what it was.
That is, a large piece of beef tendon is split horizontally, and there is a round bone in the middle, which is the cross-section of the beef leg bone.
He got up in the morning and thawed the beef shank, but it was only slightly soft on the surface.
There was no choice but to find a new saw blade from the tool room, replace it with the saw, and directly saw off a large piece of steak.
The cross-section of the whole beef tendon is a large piece of meat about 40 cm long and 30 cm wide. Mu Xi placed the grill on the tripod.
This grill was made casually when roasting palm fruits. Later, it was reinforced and expanded a bit when roasting lamb chops, but it still couldn't accommodate a whole steak.
The edge of the steak was still slightly exposed.
Mu Xi adjusted the exposed part, leaving the edge with white fat exposed. This part drooped slightly and was roasted golden brown by the open flame.
This cow has not been fed any other medicine except for deworming medicine. The feed it eats every day is all natural and pollution-free. Mu Xi did not grill the steak to well-done, but took a knife and cut it into small pieces at about 70%.
The meat inside still has a hint of pink, so you can eat it directly. If you want it to be cooked a little longer, just cut it in half and flip it over the grill for a few minutes and it will be fully cooked.
Zhao Yeqing can't eat it too raw, but 70% done is fine by him.
Although it is grass-fed beef, it is not old. It is cooked to the perfect softness and firmness when cooked 70% done. Only pepper and salt are added to the beef, and you can taste a slight milky flavor in the meat.
"It would be even better with butter!"
After eating the steak, she went to inspect the pregnant cows and sheep.
The cow is still the same as before, with little change in just a few days.
The sheep did change. Its belly became more obvious and Ninie's breasts became plump. She remembered that the book said that sheep would start to secrete milk before giving birth after becoming pregnant.
But you can't milk the goats at this time. Milking too early may result in the lambs having no milk to drink after they are born.
For the pregnant sheep, Zhao Yeqing not only took special care to feed them grass, but also did not forget to supplement them with salt.
The water in the sink is changed several times a day to ensure that there is no ice in it.
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Leaving the birch tree alone, the two found another hardwood - beech - in the direction of going down the mountain.
The beech trees are tall and have a wide crown. I originally planned to cut down one tree, but now it is enough to just cut off part of the forked trunks of several trees.
The forked trunks are as thick as thighs, and hardwood takes a long time to burn, so the number needed will be much less than the previous pine trees.
Although beech is a hardwood, it is also easy to split.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the reddish wood and secretly complained about this kind of classification.
Cork is not necessarily soft, and hardwood is not necessarily hard. The division between soft and hard is based on density.
This hairy beech is very wear-resistant and can be split very easily.
The chopped down beech trees are sawed into sections and transported back home. They have to be placed by the fire and heated until all the moisture is dried up before they can be brought back to the room and burned in the fireplace.
The rooms are still made of pine wood, and small branches picked up are used for cooking.
A lot of beech trees were cut down. Those as thick as calves and arms were stored as firewood, and those as thick as thighs were placed in the yard.
Mu Xi had always been thinking about cutting down some trees and replacing the bamboo at the bottom of the sled with wood, which would be more stable.
The remaining wood can also be stored first and replenished when something is missing.
Originally, when bamboo was used to make the slide rails under the sled, it was roasted over fire and had a slight bend at the front.
But now we have to change to wood. The wood of beech is hard but has little elasticity. If we want to bend this wood, we need to use steam blasting.
That requires high-pressure steam to achieve, so he didn't bother with that and just made it straight and smooth.
It just enlarges the contact area of the slide rail a little bit, so that it can stay more stably on the snow.
Zhao Yeqing spoke highly of the improved version of the bobsleigh 2.0.
"I think this change is huge for us. It not only improves the aesthetics, but also enhances the durability. It is very suitable for you to ride out and pick some snow red."
As soon as Mu Xi finished making the sled, Zhao Yeqing pushed him out to dig wild vegetables.
There’s no way, the sauerkraut at home is almost finished.
Snow cabbage has a medium taste when eaten as a vegetable, but can be upgraded to a medium-to-high quality when made into sauerkraut.
There were still quite a lot of pea seeds. After Zhao Yeqing cut off the tips of countless waves of peas, he dug out the pea roots that had been pulled out and could no longer grow, added some fertilizer to the soil, and planted another wave of peas.
After watering the pot thoroughly, wait another seven days and the pot will be lush and green again.
She raised her head over the pea tip and looked out the window, which faced the rabbit pen and the woodshed.
Next to the woodshed is the tombstone of the original owner.
She suddenly remembered that they had killed the cow before and they had fished out a piece of braised beef and placed it in front of the original owner's grave as a memorial, but they seemed to have forgotten to bring it in.
Zhao Yeqing walked out of the room, put the pea tips in his hand in the kitchen, and walked to the back of the house.
Sure enough, the braised beef was not taken back.
Because the bowl containing the braised beef was still in front of the tomb, but the braised beef in the bowl was nowhere to be seen.
Zhao Yeqing's first reaction was to rule out the animals at home.
It is impossible for Dahuang and the others to eat things from the grave of their original owner, and Huhu and Xuebing don't like to eat cooked food with spices.
But there are no footprints nearby...
It was not until she squatted down that she saw that a round hole had been dug out by something on the side of the snow next to the grave!
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