Chapter 228 Monsoon
“Here I come.”
The grass slowly rolled into waves, and the wind gradually took shape on the meadow.
The dark clouds accumulated on the horizon had been blown over the meadow. From the moment the first raindrop was felt, without giving people any time to react, the rest of the raindrops began to fall down.
There was no process of light rain turning into moderate rain and then into heavy rain, but it went directly from 0 to 100.
The coolness brought by the rain instantly covered the entire meadow. Zhao Yeqing raised his watch and took a look.
It was 34 degrees yesterday, and now it's 28 degrees.
There was a roof on top of the beehive, but the rain was still a little too heavy, so Mu Xi quickly put on his hat and went out to move the beehive under the eaves in the backyard.
Even though he was wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, raindrops inevitably got on his body. Zhao Yeqing handed him a towel to wipe his face and then returned to the kitchen.
The two could only wait at home now, the dark clouds in the sky made the whole house dark.
But it did not affect Zhao Yeqing's mood at all. Instead, she was excited and looking forward to the light bulb being lit.
The solar power supply has been taken back by Mu Xi, but he was dealing with the house and picking peanuts yesterday. Today, he had just finished reinforcing the house and pulled the wires to the small brick house and the bathroom toilet when the rain started falling. He didn't have time to turn on the power and lights.
Zhao Yeqing took a look yesterday and found that the power bank was not fully charged. After fully charging her mobile phone and two power banks yesterday morning, she put the solar panels out to charge the power bank. Now it is fully charged.
"Now that there are no high-power appliances consuming electricity, if it is only used to supply the few light bulbs at home, even if there is no sun to provide electricity recently, the electricity in this power supply can be used for a long time."
Generally, a 5W light bulb will consume only one kilowatt-hour of electricity if it is turned on for 200 hours continuously. The power supply stores two kilowatt-hours of electricity. Even if the tiny consumption of charging a mobile phone is added, it is enough for two people to use until the rainy season brought by the summer monsoon is over.
It’s just that the light bulbs at home are a bit old, and I don’t know how many watts they are.
Mu Xi connected the wires and pulled the switch with a click.
The dim light bulb lit up, barely illuminating the kitchen, but the four corners at the edge were still dark.
Zhao Yeqing was stunned. "Ah, this?"
Mu Xi had not expected this to happen. He had not yet loosened his hand from the rope that pulled the switch, and he was stunned the moment the light came on.
He came back in a hurry and only brought wires and light bulbs to build circuits for the current small brick house and bathroom toilet, but did not bring any extra replacement bulbs.
There were no extra light bulbs in Meishan's house, so I had to remove the light bulbs originally installed in the second floor of Meishan for use in the small brick house and the bathroom. I thought that if a light bulb broke, I could just go to the village and remove a few and replace it.
Mu Xi pulled the switch a few more times in annoyance, trying to wake up the dim light bulb.
He should have thought about it earlier. How bright can the light be with this old-fashioned pull-cord switch?
Zhao Yeqing patted his shoulder and consoled him, "It's okay, let's go check out other rooms, what if we can find two bright ones?"
Looking at several houses one by one, only the light bulb in the original owner's house was slightly brighter, but only a little.
The light bulb in the hay room was even dimmer, and the light bulb in the tool room was simply broken. I didn't know if it was damaged after the last collapse, or if there was a problem from the beginning.
Looking at it this way, the dim little light bulb in the kitchen isn't so unacceptable after all.
Zhao Yeqing, "We rarely go to the original owner's house now, why don't we change the light bulb to the kitchen."
Mu Xi swapped the light bulbs in the two rooms, turned on the light in the kitchen, and lit a fire in the fire pit, so that the kitchen became bright.
The lights in the brick house and the bathroom had not been installed yet, so the two planned to wait until they were about to leave to install them, so as to avoid being caught in the rain again.
Zhao Yeqing gathered the peanuts on the ground into a pile. "That's right, I still have some work to do to pass the time."
Mu Xi pulled two small stools over, and each of them sat on one and started picking peanuts.
Some of the peanuts were stolen by field mice before, and since it was my first time growing peanuts, I didn’t have enough experience, so many of the peanuts had empty shells and relatively small kernels.
If all the peanuts are picked, including the shells, there will only be about 120 kilograms. The fresh peanuts will lose more than 20% of their weight after being shelled, so the total weight of peanuts will be about 100 kilograms.
The soil on the peanut shells is still attached to them. Put the shells and soil directly into an earthenware jar and store the jar in a cool and dry place.
As long as the outer shell and soil are not removed, it can be stored for more than two months if nothing goes wrong.
But Zhao Yeqing was afraid of accidents, so he planned to leave it like this for now, and take it out to dry when the rainy season is over and the sun comes out and it is not so humid.
The kitchen was already filled with the fragrance of potatoes. Mu Xi gathered the scattered dirt and peanut stalks on the ground together, then took the potatoes out of the steamer.
The new potatoes just harvested from the fields are the most fragrant. Zhao Yeqing said in the morning that he wanted to eat potato fritters, but Mu Xi didn't know what that was.
Zhao Yeqing, "In the place where I rented before, there was an aunt from Gansu Province selling potato pudding downstairs. She just kept pounding the steamed potatoes until they became sticky and stringy like rice cakes, and then added chili and leek salt. It was really delicious!"
It's just that it's quite tiring to pound. When she tried it herself at first, not only were her hands sore, but she also failed. She was too embarrassed to go downstairs to ask, and after searching the Internet for a long time, she found out that it was the potato variety that was not good.
She had to buy a special variety from Gansu Province, which had a particularly high starch content. Only after she bought those potatoes did she succeed in making the dish.
I just don't know if the organic potatoes grown with farmyard manure will work.
Mu Xi: "I'll try."
There was a small stone pestle in the kitchen. Mu Xi put the potatoes in and beat them with a rolling pin. Zhao Yeqing had experienced failure and success before. After ten minutes, he found that the potatoes still could not be pulled into threads, so he knew that he had failed this time.
But she had a remedy.
The potato starch made from the potatoes harvested in Meishan had not been used up, so she sprinkled some of it into the potatoes that had already turned into mud. Mu Xi stirred it evenly and continued to pound it. Within two minutes, the potatoes had become stringy rice cake-like shapes!
"It's done!"
Zhao Yeqing hurriedly brought the bowl over, and Mu Xi used a rolling pin to scoop the potato dough into the bowl.
Sprinkle with chili powder and chopped chives, then add a spoonful of salt.
Heat oil in a small pan and pour it over the leeks and chili peppers. After a sizzling sound, Zhao Yeqing uses chopsticks to mix the ingredients with the potatoes.
The texture is like rice cake mochi, and you have to pick it up and stretch it before you can break it.
Zhao Yeqing passed a piece of potato dough to Mu Xi's mouth with anticipation, "Those who work should eat first."
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