Chapter 258: Freshness
Today's sunshine hours are significantly longer than yesterday's.
Looking at the 20:30 on the watch and the brightness in front of me that is almost as bright as day.
Both of them couldn't help but feel a little scared. The development of the situation was really beyond their understanding.
The alternation of day and night is a phenomenon caused by the rotation of the earth.
Under normal circumstances, the period from the vernal equinox to the autumnal equinox is one of long days and short nights.
In addition to time, there are also longitude and latitude. The lower the latitude, the longer the sunshine. It is also related to altitude. The higher the altitude, the longer the sunshine will be.
But their geographical location is not such that it is still broad daylight at eight or nine o'clock like now.
Zhao Yeqing thought of the related reports he had seen before, which showed that the length of sunshine time was related to environmental pollution.
But the more serious the air pollution is, the shorter the sunshine time will become, and it will not be as long as it is now.
Or could this be the greenhouse effect?
If that were true, wouldn't winter not have come this year?
When faced with a crisis, people tend to have all kinds of thoughts.
But the two of them couldn't figure it out, so they simply gave up thinking about it. Anyway, they had done all the preparations they could, and they didn't know what other measures they could take to deal with possible situations.
When in doubt, eat watermelon first.
Zhao Yeqing ran to get the watermelon and brought two spoons. She smiled and patted the watermelon rind, and you could tell by the "bang bang" sound that it was full of moisture.
"Anyway, at least after three years, I finally get to eat the watermelons I grew myself."
She has been planting these watermelons in Meishan since the first year, and now she can finally eat them.
The watermelon was more juicy than expected. Zhao Yeqing cut it with a knife and the rind cracked open on its own as soon as he broke it.
Zhao Yeqing broke it open along the gap and saw the crunchy pink flesh inside.
The color doesn’t look as red as the watermelons you buy, and the skin is relatively thicker, but the fragrance is just as good.
Of course, eating watermelon is more enjoyable if each person eats half. The two of them each held half of the watermelon and sat cross-legged in the rocking chair to watch the movie.
The watermelon doesn’t look red, but it’s quite sweet when you put it in your mouth. The watermelon flesh is cool and sandy. The moment you bite it, the juice fills your entire mouth, and even your nose is filled with the cool aroma of watermelon.
Zhao Yeqing was almost in tears. The temperature was over 50 degrees in the summer and she finally got to eat the standard iced watermelon.
With the combination of the coolness in my mouth and the air-conditioning fan filled with ice behind me blowing air, my body temperature felt probably only in the early 30s.
Zhao Yeqing felt drowsy as the cool air washed over his body. The half watermelon in his hand was gently taken away by Mu Xi and put back into the refrigerator.
When she woke up, it was five in the morning. She had no idea why she was lying in bed.
Mu Xi, who was beside her, was awakened by the noise of her getting up.
The weather is too hot. I can't sleep well and will wake up at the slightest noise.
After they got up, they took a shower as usual. In this weather, they wanted to take eight showers a day.
After breakfast, I thought about taking care of the livestock at home.
Because the weather is too hot during this period, the feeding method is silage plus concentrated feed and hay from the yard. Only if they eat well can the body withstand it.
The hay house was no longer able to hold hay, so the two men placed the remaining hay in the yard where it would not get damp in this weather.
There are now beehives in the hay house.
The temperature is too high right now and bees can no longer be kept outdoors.
As the temperature rises, bees will collect water more frequently, and fresh water is prepared for them in the hay house every day.
The windows were not closed and the hives were well ventilated.
Since this batch of bees came during the spring swarming, the colony was not very large, so the swarming that usually occurs to avoid overcrowding and overheating in high temperatures did not occur.
When the weather is too hot, bees will flap their wings desperately to cool down the hive.
The whole hay barn was buzzing all day and all night.
The freezer at home is really not enough, and there is not much extra ice to cool the beehive.
Zhao Yeqing froze some ice water in the refrigerator and placed it in the hay house to help cool the bees down.
Fortunately, before moving the beehives in some time ago, the two of them had harvested the honey from the honeycomb. Otherwise, given the current aggressiveness of the bees, if they went to harvest the honey again, the transparent plastic film on the bamboo hat would probably be pierced like a cactus.
Zhao Yeqing liked to chew honeycomb honey, so the two of them never separated the honey.
When I was looking for supplies in the tourist area before, I forgot to bring some extra plastic wrap. When Mu Xi was chilling watermelon last night, I found that the plastic wrap was gone.
Not wanting to go out in this weather, Zhao Yeqing decided to make beeswax cloth at home.
Beeswax cloth is used to replace plastic wrap. It can be recycled many times and the production method is also very simple.
She rummaged through her backpack and found the jojoba oil she had bought before the ground cracked. It was a shrub essential oil that was originally used for hair care, but later it was not used and had been left unused.
Mu Xi took the cloth he needed and walked into the kitchen. He washed it with boiling water and then placed it in the yard to dry.
In this weather, the clothes that were just washed and were wet were dry in just half an hour.
After drying, I went back to the kitchen and separated the beeswax.
Zhao Yeqing found rosin from the original owner's room. This is the resin of pine trees and is also a Chinese medicine. It is quite common in the mountains.
It was made from the pine oil she had cut when she was in Meishan. It was distilled, cooled and solidified into blocks of translucent amber crystals.
Some will directly crystallize on the surface of the pine tree, and you can just pick them and preserve them. However, the crystals are impure, so if they come into contact with food, you still have to use pure crystals that have been distilled.
Heat and melt beeswax and rosin together, add a few drops of jojoba oil and stir well.
The dried cloth was brought in. It was new clothes for children found in the village. They couldn’t be worn but fortunately they were new, so I took them back and cut them when needed.
Cut into squares, both large and small.
Gently brush the melted liquid on the surface of the cloth, and then heat it in the oven at a high temperature of about 100 degrees to fully blend the liquid and the cloth together.
In this weather, Zhao Yeqing probably won’t be able to use the oven.
"You don't need a very high temperature to bake this. Just put it in the sun and cover it with a tin bucket. I guess the temperature won't be much different."
Mu Xi did as he was told.
Although this method is convenient, it still takes longer.
What the two of them have the most right now is time.
While making the red bricks, I waited for the beeswax cloth to be finished.
When firing red bricks, the beeswax cloth covering the bricks is taken to the side of the brick kiln and continued to be used to heat the bricks.
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