Chapter 252 Heating Up Again
The inner wall of the chicken gizzard must be peeled off immediately after the chicken is killed. After being washed and dried in the sun until there is no moisture left, it becomes a very good Chinese medicine for digestion.
Of all the medicinal herbs at home, this is the most effective one.
In fact, malt is more effective in digesting food. It is very effective in digesting food accumulation such as rice, flour, potatoes and taro. It does not harm the body and the ingredients are easy to prepare. It’s just that there is no time to wait for the wheat to sprout now.
Mu Xi ground the chicken gizzard lining and gave it to Zhao Yeqing to eat, and silently wrote down the medicinal ingredients he needed to prepare for digestion in his memo.
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The second-season rice is ready to be harvested, but Zhao Yeqing is injured and cannot help.
Mu Xi harvested all three fields by himself, threshed all the rice, blew away the dust and stored it.
Another half month has passed.
August 3036.
The dazzling sun was still high in the sky. Most of the grass on the meadow had turned yellow. Only in places where groundwater was still abundant did the grass still remain green.
The temperature was 50 degrees Celsius. I couldn't look outside without wearing glasses during the day. My eyes would sting with just one glance, and the scene outside was distorted by the heat.
The water level of the lake has also dropped a lot, and most of the small streams extending out have dried up.
During the rainy season, the two men dug a drainage ditch next to the pasture, which they later turned into an irrigation ditch, but now it has all dried up.
So the two pastures have now become almost completely dry and yellow, just like the grass on most meadows.
The two of them did not deal with it any further. They planned to leave it as it was and collect the dried hay and store it when they had time.
After all, there are so many things to do at home now.
Mu Xi only took the time to collect the grass seeds from the part of the pasture reserved for seeds, and the fennel could also be harvested.
Zhao Yeqing felt that his injury should have healed, and he didn't feel any pain when he moved around, so he was no longer willing to take Chinese medicine.
All medicines are poisonous to some extent. If you can recover on your own, it is okay not to take medicine.
But given the precedent of her indigestion last time, Mu Xi also prepared malt to aid digestion.
After soaking the wheat, cover it to germinate, just like making malt sugar, except that for malt sugar, the wheat needs to germinate into lush green seedlings, while for making medicine, it only needs to germinate into small white sprouts about 0.5 cm in diameter.
The weather is too hot now, and it will only take two days for the wheat to germinate if kept indoors.
Put the sprouted wheat into a pot and roast it, then put it away when it is dry.
Zhao Yeqing took out the iced jasmine tea from the refrigerator, and the two walked into the basement.
This tea contains honey and is a light amber scented tea. If you put your nose close to it you can smell the elegant jasmine aroma.
She poured a glass for Mu Xi and said, "Let's shave these dogs tonight."
We only had time to shave all the wool when the weather got hot. Fortunately, we shaved the wool in advance because there was still abundant water at that time and we could wash the wool in the stream. The stream was still flowing when we washed the wool, so we cleaned it in advance.
It’s no good now. Almost all the small streams have run out of water, and even the well in the backyard of my house has sunk halfway.
The dogs' hair needs to be shaved regularly. It's too hot now and I'm afraid they will get heatstroke.
Zhao Yeqing was also feeling extremely hot. She couldn't help but go out to turn on the air conditioner several times. However, if she turned on the air conditioner in the car, the consumption would be less than if she brought the air conditioner back from the tourist area.
When the car is not started, the loss and consumption of turning on the air conditioner are very high. The smallest air conditioner in the homestay in the tourist area is 1 horsepower, and the air conditioning consumption of this car is equivalent to 3 or 4 horsepower.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to try the air conditioner. "Do you think this board can provide enough power if we turn on the air conditioner for a while during the day?"
The two solar panels are 500W, which means that in one hour, the theoretical amount of electricity converted is 0.5 kWh. There will be some loss when it is converted into household electricity through the inverter, so it is less than 1 kWh in an hour.
The power of a one-horsepower air conditioner plus the power of the air conditioner outdoor unit consumes about one kilowatt-hour of electricity per hour. If you want to cool down in the current temperature, the compressor will probably work more difficultly and power consumption will have to increase.
Logically speaking, it cannot support the simultaneous operation of a plant light, a refrigerator and an air conditioner at home.
Unless it's only on for an hour or so.
That is, the power from the solar panels is used to supply the lights and refrigerator, and the power stored in the mobile power supply is used to supply the air conditioner, so it can be turned on for more than an hour a day.
She had thought of this plan before, but she was afraid that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Once the air conditioner is turned on, she is reluctant to turn it off. After using the air conditioner, she is afraid that she will not be able to accept the current temperature.
The two now stay in the basement during the day and have set up a small table and two small chairs.
Two more straw mats were spread on the ground so that the dogs could lie down on them to escape the heat.
When the temperature dropped a little at night, I returned to the room to rest.
The ice and fans in the basement never stopped for a moment because it was so hot.
There were two basins of ice cubes, and the temperature in this small basement of more than ten square meters was still over thirty degrees.
The strawberries have not grown fruit due to the recent heat, and the watermelons have also slowly stopped growing. Zhao Yeqing plans to pick the largest one tonight and freeze it to eat it tomorrow.
There is no natural wind or bees for pollination in the basement, so pollination has to be done manually every day.
The pepper flowers are blooming very vigorously. The 30-plus degrees temperature in the basement does not affect its fruiting. New flowers bloom every morning.
Mu Xi made a small brush out of chicken fluff. It was round and somewhat like the small brush used for ear cleaning. It was only the size of the little finger nail and was used to pollinate flowers.
Since transplanting them to the basement, the two of them have been manually pollinating the strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. The brush gently sweeps over the stamens, and after it is covered with yellow pollen, they go on to sweep the stamens of other flowers.
Now we can no longer open the PC board in the evening because the temperature is too high and the plants can't stand it.
After the sun had completely set, the two waited for a while before coming out of the basement. After the moon rose, the temperature seemed less unbearable.
After taking a shower, Zhao Yeqing was thinking that it was really unreasonable that it didn't rain after such a long period of high temperature.
Logically speaking, the continued high temperature causes water to evaporate and then turn into rain, not to mention the global high temperature.
Even if there was no news to watch now, she felt that with the temperature of the sun, she could not escape anywhere in the world.
After Mu Xi finished taking a shower, he heard her talking about this and said, "It's not that it won't rain. As long as the conditions are right for rain clouds to form, it will definitely rain. I just don't know where it will rain."
Zhao Yeqing thought about the place where it was raining even though the temperature was over 50 degrees Celsius, and he couldn't help but shiver in the hot weather.
"If it's a tropical area with a low altitude and the temperature is over 60 degrees and it's raining, wouldn't it just be steamed to death?"
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