Chapter 243 One Person
The two grew up in the mountains, and because of their elders' occupations, they know more about the situation in the mountains than ordinary people.
But after all, I am not a professional scholar, so I don’t know how to explain this situation.
Zhao Yeqing suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and that feeling was just like when he saw the snow-covered mountain collapse in the distance.
She couldn't help but look up into the distance, looking across the lake that was still calm and looked like a sapphire mirror inlaid in the mountains.
The majestic mountain that stood tall last year has now been cut in half. The snow-capped tops have disappeared, leaving only the bare area below the halfway point.
The two of them had their minds full of thoughts, and they remained silent on the way back with their things.
Zhao Yeqing passed by the pasture and remembered that she hadn't come to water it for several days, so she quickly went around to take a look.
The sun is too strong now. It has not been there for three or four days, and the leaves of the grass are drooping. Fortunately, they are relatively durable. If it were the vegetables in the vegetable garden, they would have died long ago without watering or shade for so many days.
Seeing that the sun was about to rise, Mu Xi said, "I'll come back to water the plants later."
The pasture had to be watered by cows or horses pulling water. In the evening, when Mu Xi went to water the pasture, Zhao Yeqing walked into the mushroom house.
She came in wearing a mask and checked the growth of mushrooms on both sides.
The weather is too hot now, and the two have to sprinkle water several times a day and put several basins of cold well water in it, so that the mycelium can be at a temperature that allows it to spread. This is only enough to spread, and it is far from reaching the suitable temperature.
She pulled away the topmost layer of covering and saw that both the fungus strains under the rice husk bran and the fungus strains on the corn cobs had adapted well, with white mycelium crawling all over most of the culture substrates.
Some of the ones that grow faster have already sprouted white dots, which show signs of turning into oyster mushrooms.
Zhao Yeqing took a kettle and sprinkled water on it. The weather was still too hot now. If the environment could be like that in the basement, it would probably grow faster.
But digging a basement to grow mushrooms is not cost-effective. She would not work so hard to dig the ground just to eat mushrooms.
There's nothing in the freezer right now, only ice cream and ice cubes. When it gets warmer, I'll put some ice cubes in at noon to cool it down a little.
When she came out of the mushroom room, Mu Xi had not come back yet, so they had to eat yesterday's leftovers for dinner. It was hot and neither of them could eat too much. Now that there was electricity, the leftovers could be refrigerated so that they wouldn't be wasted.
After building the basement walls, there were still some red bricks left. Zhao Yeqing took the red bricks and walked in. Now was the time for supplementary lighting in the basement. When he opened the door, it was very bright inside.
After the crops were transplanted, the two of them had not come in to clean the gaps between the crops for walking. They were still covered with mud. She took red bricks and laid them on top so that after walking through the fields to work, their shoes would not be covered with mud.
Red bricks are paved next to each crop field, and they look very neat, as if they were outlined with thick lines.
The light in the basement was too bright. After she came out, her eyes were dazzled. She closed and opened her eyes several times but still saw double.
He walked with his eyes closed and almost bumped into the clothesline, but was stopped by Mu Xi in time.
"Are your eyes uncomfortable?"
"Well, I was shaken."
Mu Xi grabbed her hand that was about to rub her eyes and said, "Don't rub it. Go and rest for a while. I'll apply some compress on you."
After applying a hot towel to his eyes for a while, Zhao Yeqing recovered and said with a smile, "You have to wear sunglasses when growing vegetables from now on."
Then she thought of the luggage she brought back, "When I went back to Meishan before, I brought back two pairs of nice sunglasses, but they weren't the ones with black lenses. It would be nice if I could bring them over."
Mu Xi said, "The water level should have receded by now. I also want to get a chainsaw. While the temperature is high in the summer, I can cut down a few more trees and dry them in the sun. That way, we won't be short of firewood in the winter."
He had seen a chainsaw when he was in the tourist area before, but unfortunately there was no mixed oil to add. The mixed oil has to be mixed with gasoline and engine oil in proportion before it can be added. It would be fine if he could only add gasoline, as he had three large barrels at home. However, adding only gasoline would burn the machine.
The electric saw at home can be used with an electric plug or with a battery, but the plug-in one is easier to use than the charged one and has more horsepower.
Zhao Yeqing thought that the temperature would reach 40 degrees in a few days, so he said, "Let's go soon. It will be even hotter in a few days, and it will be hard to travel on the road."
After finalizing the plan, Mu Xi acted very efficiently. He connected the two fish ponds in the evening and packed up and set off the next day.
He did not bring Xiaohong with him this time because there were too many uncertainties on the road when the weather got hot. What if other animals became aggressive and attacked people? The horses would be frightened and run away before being attacked. It would be better not to bring Xiaohong with him.
To be on the safe side, Zhao Yeqing asked him to bring Dahuang and Xiaohei with him. These two are not afraid of wolves, and Dahuang has rich experience, so he will definitely be able to help if anything happens.
The weather is too hot now, so cattle and sheep are rarely let out to graze. Most of them eat feed at home to avoid heatstroke.
You also need to add some ice cubes to the water to slow down the rise in water temperature and cool down the cattle and sheep.
After Mu Xi comes back, the next batch of grass can be harvested.
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After sending Mu Xi away, Zhao Yeqing became a little busier at home in the mornings and evenings, as she had to water all the fields at home by herself.
The growth of rapeseed this season is not as good as last season, probably because it is too hot and it almost stops growing.
All she could do was water it on time to keep it alive and see if it could survive until the temperature dropped and then grow again.
I water the plants at night, and in the morning I have to deal with the basement in addition to watering.
Because the basement is at the back of the house, which is the west side.
To open the PC board above, you have to open it in the morning, when the sunlight is relatively mild. If you open it in the afternoon, it will become west sun, and the vegetables will not be able to bear it.
She scraped the soil off the board, lifted it up and waited for the sunlight to shine in.
Now the sunrise is at 6:30 in the morning, and the sun can only shine for an hour and a half. After 8 o'clock, the sun will obviously increase the heat. At this time, we have to put the boards back and then cover them with soil again.
The time after morning is the most leisurely. There is no fire in the kitchen to cook, so she can turn on the fan, cook some food in the kitchen and freeze it in the refrigerator, and then take it out and cook it when she wants to eat.
While cleaning the fish pond, the two threw out two fish and kept them in the clear water pond for two days to spit out the sand. Zhao Yeqing thought that Mu Xi would be back soon, so he killed the fish and made fish balls with the shaved fish meat.
As night fell, she finished her evening work and was about to cook a bowl of noodles to try the freshly made fish balls.
Suddenly, the barking of Xiao Huang and Xiao Hua was heard in the yard!
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