Chapter 294: Ancient Novels
Now that we have a car, it is very convenient to travel to tourist areas.
Mu Xi watched Zhao Yeqing tinkering with the house, and also wanted to help come up with some ideas to decorate the house better.
I suggested driving to the tourist area to bring back whatever decorations we could to decorate our home.
The two of them had had this idea before, but there were no cars at that time, so all the things had to be brought back by Xiaohong and the cart. Not only did it take a long time, but the things they could bring were also very limited, and they didn't have the time or energy to do so.
Now that everything is ready, there is no reason not to do something to please yourself.
"Okay, go ahead. I'll do it at home. I have to pick the corn later. The sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."
The corn in the cornfield has grown and is now at its crispy and sweetest.
This batch is for my own consumption. There is no need to leave the corn on the stalks and wait until it reaches the waxy stage before picking it as before. Instead, I can pick the corn in the milky stage, peel the corn kernels, freeze them in the refrigerator, and then fry them directly when I want to eat them. The taste and texture are almost the same as fresh ones.
The temperature now can reach around zero degrees at night and five or six degrees during the day.
At this temperature, the corn has to be covered with film every morning and evening to ensure that the temperature inside is above 10 degrees so that it can fill and mature normally.
It has finally ripened now, but I tasted it and it’s still not as delicious as the ones I planted in spring.
It’s a pity that I didn’t think of getting a refrigerator at that time, otherwise I wouldn’t be taking the trouble to take care of these dozen corns now.
Due to the current temperature, foods that need to be refrigerated do not need to be put in the refrigerator, but they still need to be frozen in the refrigerator.
The electricity converted by the solar panels during the day is barely enough to support the day's electricity consumption. After all, the weather has been a bit bad recently.
It looks like there will be a rain before winter comes. There are not many thick dark clouds in the sky, but it looks gloomy and foggy.
Seeing that it was about to rain, Zhao Yeqing remembered that they had agreed to make two new raincoats. However, when they went to find the generator last time, there were already a lot of raincoats on those cars, almost every car had several.
The two of them picked out newer ones made of thicker materials and brought back about seven or eight sets, which saved them the trouble of making more raincoats.
She walked into the tool room, took out the raincoat that was somewhat moth-eaten, and placed it in the kitchen to use it to start a fire.
Zhao Yeqing had been annoyed by the insect infestation on it for a long time, but because he didn't have much equipment before, he had to make do with it. Now he can finally get rid of it.
When Mu Xi came back, Zhao Yeqing was peeling corn in the yard.
When I saw him coming back, I said to him, "Now that I have a raincoat, I took out my old straw raincoat and planned to burn it. I happened to see that this tool room has only been used for half a year and there are already some spider webs and small insects. I have to do a thorough cleaning before the New Year, so I'll leave the tool room to you."
Mu Xi placed the vase ornaments he brought back in front of Zhao Yeqing, "Okay, I'll get it done in a moment, you pick out these things and see how to make them... Oh, by the way..."
As he said this, he turned around and ran back to the car, and took out a large stack of books. "And this, I thought you would like it, so I brought them all back."
Zhao Yeqing didn't stop peeling corn, and looked up at the book cover in Mu Xi's hand...
"The Cold and Domineering President Prefers Me", "The Killer Princess", "That School Prince Is Really Bad"...
Zhao Yeqing looked at the cover of the novel with such an ancient literary style, and the corn in his hand unconsciously fell into the corn kernels.
With shining eyes, she held up the thick stack of books. These were the books she had read when she was a child. Although she had long forgotten what they were about, as soon as she saw the style of the book covers, the lost memories began to attack her.
Mu Xi was right, she was indeed interested.
He gave the task of peeling corn to Mu Xi, and sat next to Mu Xi with a book in his arms and started reading.
I used to think they were interesting, but now I find them very curious. I don’t know why I developed such admiration for these protagonists in the first place.
The more she watched, the more interesting it became. Even when Mu Xi had finished cooking, she was still immersed in the plot of four heroines with different identities and different eye and hair colors who were stunning everyone on campus.
Mu Xi had never read this kind of novel, so he asked, "It's so good? What's it about?"
This sentence made him extremely painful throughout the entire dinner process. He frowned and listened to Zhao Yeqing's story about four sixteen-year-old girls who had the inheritance of a killer, a hacker, a miracle doctor, and ancient martial arts, and who were in love on campus.
Zhao Yeqing placed several books on the desk. It must be said that these books were the spiritual food she needed most so far. Although they were not very healthy, they had a unique taste.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to read the book until the Chinese New Year.
There are so many places in the house that need cleaning. In addition to the inside of a few rooms, the spider webs under the eaves and the moss growing on the walls all need to be cleaned up.
Mu Xi swept the yard clean, put the leaves that had not been cleaned up for some time into Zhao Yeqing's compost bucket, and then picked up the broom and swept the cobwebs under the eaves.
Zhao Yeqing cleaned the house, wiped the windows and removed the dust, then placed all the ornaments on the table and cabinets for decoration.
In addition to ornaments, there are also some woven tapestries.
The place where Mu Xi got the tapestry was a milk tea bar. The decoration inside was very pastoral, and the tapestry and wooden walls matched very well.
After decorating the house, I made sachets out of dried osmanthus flowers and hung them in every corner of the house to let the fragrance spread slowly.
Zhao Yeqing walked around the spot, looked around the room, and nodded with satisfaction.
Finally it doesn't look like a matchbox anymore.
By the early morning of New Year's Eve, it seemed as if there was some kind of festive atmosphere calling for it. There was no need to set the alarm clock. The two of them woke up naturally just before seven in the morning.
After washing up, I can finally put up the couplets that I had prepared long ago.
There is safety in and out at the door, and abundance inside the door every year.
Zhao Yeqing also cut window decorations out of red paper and pasted them on the windows of all the rooms, making the scene look lively and festive.
Mu Xi went out and took all the fish in the fish pond into the lake and released them, leaving only two in the fish pond for cooking tonight.
The New Year's Eve dinner was prepared two days in advance, including fried sweet potatoes, fried meatballs... They had planned to kill a pig and fry some crispy meat, but they forgot to separate the pig and leave it hungry.
Pigs are basically not fed in the three days before slaughter. At most, they are given some rice soup to empty their stomachs.
But when the two of them remembered this, it had already happened two days ago. They had no choice but to isolate the pig and let it starve for two days. Today is exactly the third day. The pig has not eaten anything since last night, so that it would not have the strength to struggle today.
After decorating the house, the two men dragged the pig out.
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