Chapter 257: Rise Again
Zhao Yeqing was woken up by the heat before six o'clock.
This is the first time this has happened since we got air conditioning.
If you turn it on for an hour before going to bed at night, the temperature in the room will be lowered and will not rise until after seven in the morning.
She wiped the sweat off her neck in a daze, grabbed her cell phone and saw that it was just past five o'clock.
Mu Xi's body temperature was high, and if it weren't for the recent basement digging, he would have woken up from the heat long ago.
Now that he could feel the movement of people around him, he didn't want to sleep anymore, so he opened his eyes, took out his watch and checked the time.
5:48 minutes.
Look at the temperature again.
47 degrees Celsius.
It's 47 degrees indoors!
Both of them were startled and hurriedly pushed the door open and ran out. As soon as the door was opened, a wave of heat hit them in the face, making them dizzy in an instant.
The two men thought something was wrong and hurried to the cowshed and sheepfold to take a look.
The cattle and sheep were all sticking out their tongues as if they were about to die.
Without even checking the outdoor temperature, they were immediately cooled down by watering them.
When Mu Xi ran to the backyard to fetch water, he found that the water level in the well had dropped again. If it continued like this, it would probably dry up soon.
But we can't just ignore the cattle and sheep. After fetching water, we have to deal with the problem of heatstroke for them first.
While Mu Xi was taking care of the cattle and sheep, Zhao Yeqing was busy checking on Xiaohong's condition.
Maybe it was because we used a large basin of ice before going to bed at night, so we didn't have the same problem as the cattle and sheep, but we were a little more wilted than before.
After cooling down Xiaohong, we quickly took it out and placed it in the breeding basement.
This is when the benefits of a basement come into play.
As soon as he entered the basement, Zhao Yeqing felt the obvious temperature difference and couldn't help but shiver.
It’s not that the basement is cold, but because the temperature difference is so big, I subconsciously get goose bumps.
She estimated that the temperature difference was nearly ten degrees, which had never been so high before.
The temperature difference in the basement is relative to the outdoor temperature. The higher the outdoor temperature, the more sudden the temperature rise. The ground temperature cannot drop for a while, so the temperature difference naturally occurs.
Xiaohong snorted as soon as she came in, and lay down safely in the space that belonged to her.
In order to prevent the livestock from scaring each other, the partitions in the middle are all up to the ceiling, so they will not get into each other's pens.
Mu Xi dealt with the cattle and sheep and moved them into the basement.
Goats and sheep are raised separately, and the cattle pen has the largest area.
After filling up their food tanks, the two of them went to deal with the chicken coop.
Last year, the chicken coop was rebuilt with red bricks to prevent animals from stealing food. Later, in the winter, an outer circle was added to place the brazier. Two small ice packs were also thrown inside before going to bed at night.
In this way, the chicken coop becomes the best place to escape the summer heat.
After opening the door of the chicken coop and finding only a few weak chickens inside, they put them into bamboo cages and locked them in the breeding basement. Only then did the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.
Sheep suffer from heatstroke most seriously, so further observation is needed.
At this time, the two finally remembered to check the temperature outside.
When they saw this, they were dumbfounded.
55 degrees.
Zhao Yeqing felt that his anger was rising faster than the temperature!
55 degrees! Why not just 100 degrees! Let's all get cooked together!
This is a development that is completely unbearable.
The weather has been hot recently, and Mu Xi often chills two pots of wild chrysanthemum tea or other heat-reducing teas in the refrigerator. He poured a cup for each of them, and after the icy liquid slid down his throat, Zhao Yeqing felt that his anger was mostly calmed down.
There was no other way. From the first day they started to survive in the mountains, they had tried to overcome all difficulties until now. However, the climate was getting worse day by day. If it continued like this, they would not be able to fight against nature no matter how hard they tried.
I am exhausted every day, but even survival is a problem, and the climate is getting worse. Who wouldn't be annoyed?
But no matter how annoying it is, life still has to go on.
See what food is in the refrigerator, take it out and eat a bite before considering other things.
After finishing his breakfast, Zhao Yeqing went to the planting basement to check on the condition of the crops.
After watering all the vegetables and fruits, she patted the largest watermelon, and when she felt it was almost done, she cut off the vine and carried the watermelon back to the kitchen.
Put about five pounds of watermelon in the refrigerator.
This variety is not special, it is just an ordinary black-skinned watermelon. The flesh should be delicious, but it has a lot of seeds. Zhao Yeqing usually buys the seedless ones because he doesn't want to bother.
Logically, this variety should have grown larger, but perhaps because it was subsequently moved underground, its size has not changed for some time, so I just picked it off to prevent it from going bad.
The weather was so hot that the strawberries no longer bore fruit.
Tomatoes and peppers are still blooming and bearing fruit. The leftover chili peppers can be stored directly in the freezer and will not go bad no matter how long they are stored.
Ordinary string peppers and screw peppers can only be refrigerated. If you can’t finish them, make them into chopped peppers or pickles.
Last year, Zhao Yeqing only used the simplest method of drying to store tomatoes. This year, her conditions are a little better, so she plans to can the tomatoes that she can't finish eating or make them into sauce. Before winter comes, she can also freeze the whole tomatoes.
Frozen tomatoes are not only easy to peel, but also easy to fry in a pan after being chopped up to make the juice come out in an instant.
This way you can eat slightly fresher tomatoes in the winter.
Luffa, bitter gourd, beans, eggplant and the like are easier to care for than tomatoes, and they produce more fruits. Once they are ripe, they must be picked quickly and stored in the refrigerator. I can't eat meat in this weather, so I have to rely on fruits and vegetables to survive.
It takes at least a day for a watermelon to be fully frozen, so Zhao Yeqing went to work first. He picked all the ripe fruits and vegetables and put them in the refrigerator. He also took ice cubes from the freezer and put them in a basin, and then took them to the planting basement.
When I came up, I saw Mu Xi picking three bunches of grapes from outside.
It doesn't look particularly good, but it is fully ripe, and the skin is purple to black.
Zhao Yeqing picked one up, put it to his mouth, squeezed out the flesh, and sucked it into his mouth.
Very sweet.
I don't know if it's because of the abundant sunshine, but the sugar content is very sufficient. Wild grapes are 70% sweet and 30% sour, which is already very sweet.
Now it is almost pure sweetness, and is not inferior to the grapes picked in season in Xinjiang Province.
This one also has the unique aroma of wild grapes.
It tasted good, but it was so sweet that it was choking. I couldn't eat any more after eating a dozen.
Zhao Yeqing put the rest in the refrigerator. "If it weren't so hot, the sugar yield of these grapes would be higher than that of the sweet grapes."
I don’t know how the chilled watermelon will taste, so I have to wait patiently until the evening to eat it.
It’s so hot today. I probably won’t be able to sleep at night. It’s just right to use some ice watermelon to cool down.
Zhao Yeqing had been looking forward to eating watermelon after dark, but when night came, the two found that something was more obviously wrong today.
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