Chapter 187 Cement Board Wall
Mu Xi nodded, washed his hands and walked back, taking the kitchen knife, "I'll do the cutting, you go take a rest."
He first saved some beef and cut it into slices, then boiled water in a pot to make beef soup, and added a handful of noodles. "If you want to eat cilantro, just pick two stalks."
When Zhao Yeqing pulled back the not-so-thick coriander, the beef noodles were already out of the pot.
They sprinkled washed coriander on top and ate while chatting.
After finishing the meal, Mu Xi was washing the dishes when he suddenly said, "You asked me to remind you that the Chaga is still there. Don't forget it."
Zhao Yeqing was serving the butter. "Yeah, I'll remember that."
Mu Xi first chopped the beef filling, and then made the mold before nightfall.
The two of them had lunch late and didn't feel hungry afterwards. It was only after they washed up and went to bed that Zhao Yeqing felt the sudden hunger.
She turned her head and blinked twice at Mu Xi.
Mu Xi laughed, "Are you hungry?"
She nodded rapidly.
I got up, dressed, and walked out of the room. The remaining fresh meat in the house was now placed in a wooden box outside. After the temperature rose, it could no longer be stored in the snow.
He took out the freshly made beef sausage from inside.
Most of the beef sausages were hung on top of the kitchen fire pit to smoke, and some were pierced with small holes and cooked and stored in boxes.
This part is made relatively small, about the length of a palm. It is cooked in advance and when you want to eat it, you just need to take it out and fry it in oil, just like the grilled sausage you usually buy.
It cooked quickly. It only took about ten minutes to light the fire and fry the sausages.
Mu Xi fried five in total, put them on a plate, and put chili powder on the edge of the plate as a dipping sauce.
When it was brought into the room, Zhao Yeqing was playing with his dog. He got off the rocking chair when he smelled the fragrance.
Mu Xi handed her the chopsticks and said, "I'm not very hungry. You eat three and I'll eat two."
Zhao Yeqing nodded and took the chopsticks. He didn't dip the food in chili powder for the first bite. He ate the original flavor first to know whether it tasted good or not.
Butter is added to the beef filling, and broth is added when it is stirred. When it is fried and you take a bite, the juice inside explodes in your mouth, and the delicious taste fills your entire mouth.
Delicious! It tastes even better when dipped in chili powder. She ignored the dogs nearby who were attracted by the grilled sausages and refused to share a single bite.
A dog was given a piece of beef jerky.
After eating three pure meat sausages, although the portion may not seem like much, they are very filling.
After eating, Mu Xi handed her a glass of iced whey.
It's not useful for making cookies, but it's good as a beverage when chilled. It has a light milky flavor that's not greasy, and it's very refreshing when chilled.
Eat well and sleep well.
But once I started to give up the midnight snack habit, I couldn’t stop.
At the same time the next day, she was hungry again, and her midnight snack habit continued until the cement board was finished.
Zhao Yeqing said confidently, "After working hard during the day, it is reasonable to eat something when you are hungry at night."
Mu Xi complied with all the requests until the cement slabs were finished. Instead of losing weight from the work, she gained weight.
But this time she was not anxious at all, because she knew that the next step was to prepare for the spring.
The two men first dug a circle around the original yard wall, put the cement base in, erected cement pillars, and then embedded the cement slabs in them.
In order to save time when making the cement board, a thin wooden board is poured in the middle. This can not only ensure the thickness of the cement board, but also make the cement board dry faster.
The disadvantage is that it is too heavy. The two of them couldn't finish it even after a whole day. It took three days to assemble the walls in the four directions of the entire yard.
You cannot rest after assembling. You have to quickly backfill the excavated circle with soil to reinforce it so that the concrete wall will not collapse.
In order to better bear the weight, wooden sticks are inserted into the ground in the middle of each cement slab on the inner side of the fence for support, so that even if a medium-sized animal hits it from the outside, it will not fall down.
Zhao Yeqing felt very relieved as her whole body ached as if she had been beaten, because she could clearly feel that she had lost weight in just a few days.
Now, as soon as I walk out of the room, I can see that the yard is surrounded by gray cement slabs. Although the scenery is deprived, it makes people feel very safe.
After resting for two days, the two began to prepare to cultivate land for a large vegetable garden.
“You don’t need to plant too many, but you can have more varieties.”
Zhao Yeqing stood at the planned location and measured the length and width with his feet.
"All are planted in ridges. For some, one ridge is enough, while for those with wider spacing, two ridges are enough."
When we were in Meishan before, we planted too many crops, which resulted in both of us being extremely exhausted when it came time to harvest.
Growing vegetables is secondary this year; what is more important is growing rice and wheat.
Once the location is planned, start excavating.
The vegetable garden is quite large, and potatoes and sweet potatoes are also planted in it. This time she didn't plant so many, just two or three ridges, and would plant more in the fall after eating them.
First determine the size range and then dig a circle around the edge.
There is still some snow on the ground that has not completely melted. After melting, this snow can kill the insects in the soil and increase fertility.
Zhao Yeqing didn't plan to shovel the snow, but just build a fence around it first.
The snow is not thick now and it will melt in a short while.
Salt cannot be spread in the planting area to melt snow, otherwise salt will be left on the land and it will be impossible to grow anything.
The area was dug quickly, and Mu Xi looked around. "Potatoes are planted early, usually in early February. Now the temperature will rise a few degrees and it will be enough. Will it be too late to turn the soil after the snow melts?"
The potatoes at home were already processed seeds when they were brought back. The villagers at the foot of the mountain put seed dressing agents in them before storage to prevent them from sprouting and rotting. Some of the potatoes were not processed, but had sprouted, so she also brought them back and stored them.
After bringing them back, they have been kept underground until now. The weather is too cold and not many of them survived. It is another matter whether they can be grown.
Many of them were frostbitten and some had become soft and shriveled.
Zhao Yeqing, "Let's go back and see how much we can plant."
The potato seeds were also placed in the original owner's small cellar, there was only a small bag, with hay spread on the ground and covered on top to keep warm.
There is also a bottle of water in the small cellar, which is used to detect the temperature of the cellar. If you find that the water in the bottle has formed a thin layer of ice, it means that the temperature of the cellar has become low, and you need to cover it with more hay or soil to keep it warm and avoid frostbite.
But the temperature this winter is really bad and frostbite is inevitable.
As long as they are not rotten, they can be used for seedling cultivation. I also took out two sweet potatoes from the room.
Sweet potatoes require a relatively high temperature to be preserved, so Zhao Yeqing kept them in the room.
Potatoes won’t work because the temperature in a room with a fireplace is too high and they will sprout prematurely. They can only be kept at about one degree.
There is no need to rush to plant sweet potatoes. You can try to grow seedlings first. One is to experiment whether they can be grown, and the other is for the sweet potato vines.
Her previous method of planting sweet potatoes by cutting them into pieces was too inefficient. This year, she learned her lesson and decided to grow seedlings first and then use sweet potato vines for planting by cuttings.
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