Chapter 302 Rain
Mu Xi did as he was told. Most of the chive flowers had just bloomed, and were fresh, tender and slightly spicy, perfect for making sauce.
It’s not that there was no blender at home. The two of them brought back a lot of small appliances at the time, but they never used them to save electricity.
Now Zhao Yeqing is reluctant to use it. If the polar night hadn't suddenly appeared, she would have used it. But now she has to save as much as possible. In case the day never gets bright again, the role of electricity will be too great.
Anyway, the two of them have nothing to do now. They are just sitting at home doing nothing, so they can just do some exercise.
Zhao Yeqing was afraid that Mu Xi would be bored, so he picked up the old novel and started reading it, to torture him mentally.
Each book was only as thick as a thumb. By the time Zhao Yeqing had finished reading it, Mu Xi had also finished hammering away at his leeks.
He breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What should we do next?"
Zhao Yeqing was not just sitting there reading, he also disinfected and prepared the glass jar that would hold the chive sauce.
"Just add some salt and oil, and put the chive sauce in a glass jar... Hey! Don't fill it so full, or it will explode when the time comes."
The chive sauce will ferment in the bottle, so you need to leave more space.
Make the chive sauce and wait for it to ferment for a few days before eating.
Zhao Yeqing has been craving for the belly-filled meat for a long time. He can see it every time he opens the freezer to take out the meat. Now he can finally eat it.
It was pitch black outside during this period, and the two were always worried that some animal would climb over the wall and steal the freezer in the yard.
The two of them watched for several days but found no traces of animals. Mu Xi even took a flashlight out of the yard and observed nearby, but did not see any signs of animals approaching. In addition, no animal sounds were heard on the meadow, so they felt relieved.
It was dark outside, making it hard to tell what time it was. After looking at the time several times, it was finally time to go to bed. Mu Xi asked Zhao Yeqing to wash up first while he went to the breeding basement.
The cow is already pregnant, and based on last year's experience, the two estimate that a calf will be born in a little over a month.
From now on, we have to prepare more feed for the cows to ensure smooth production.
Zhao Yeqing fetched some water to wash up first, and said to Mu Xi who was about to go out, "You can add some refined food so that it can eat better."
I feel happy thinking that I will be able to drink milk again after some time.
In fact, according to normal ranch operations, there will be no shortage of milk. Milking can be continued from the birth of the previous litter until two months before the birth of the current litter.
It’s just that the two men couldn’t bear to see the cow work so hard and take away all its nutrients, so as long as the cow was about to get pregnant, they would stop milking and let it recover.
After Zhao Yeqing finished washing up, she waited for Mu Xi to come back and wash up before going to bed. Although it was still warm at home, the bed was still cold. Every day, she would wait until Mu Xi got warm enough before going to bed.
Now, before going to bed every day, the two of them pray that there will be daybreak when they wake up.
But I am disappointed every morning when I wake up.
Not only is it still dark, but the temperature is also gradually dropping.
When the temperature dropped to minus twenty degrees Celsius, it suddenly started raining.
Generally speaking, at this temperature, rainfall is really unbelievable. Although water needs to be saturated with water vapor and needs condensation nuclei to turn into snow, it is rare for it to rain without snow at this temperature.
The raindrops falling on the ground turned into ice visibly.
Before the rain stopped, the two of them really didn't want to go out unless they needed to feed the livestock and meet their physiological needs.
It's really too cold.
The temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius on a rainy day and minus 20 degrees Celsius on a snowy day are completely different concepts.
In addition, the rain turned into ice on the ground, making every step very difficult.
Fortunately, the two of them had stored a lot of feed in the breeding basement before. They could just go out the back door and go down to the basement to feed the fish. The total distance was only a few steps.
When Zhao Yeqing went out to use the toilet, he regretted it very much. If he had known earlier, he should not have tried to save trouble. He should have made a door connecting the brick house of the bedroom and the newly built brick wall, so that he would not have to go out to go to the toilet.
It's not so bad that I have to doubt my life when I go to the toilet and get blown down by the cold wind.
There's also ice on the ground, which really tests the core strength of the waist and abdomen when walking on it. If you're not careful, you'll fall.
The switch for the yard light is on the wall of the tool shed. When going to the toilet, I can only use a flashlight to illuminate the road ahead. When I want to use the flashlight to check the situation in the yard, the light is blocked by the rain and I can't see anything clearly.
The most troublesome thing was the freezer outside. Fortunately, it was rescued in time. We quickly covered it with tree bark when it just started to rain. Otherwise, the whole freezer would probably have been stuck together.
Even though the rescue was timely, the lid of the freezer was still a little blocked by rain. The two used a knife to cut the relatively thin ice along the gap, then opened the lid, took out the meat that they were going to eat recently and put it in a basket, covered it with the lid and placed it at the door of the house.
As things have been going on these past few days, the three leopards at home are unable to go out to find food and have to rely on supplies from home.
There is not much fresh meat left at home, only a small amount of mutton and pork.
There were only about 30 to 40 kilograms of meat left from the pig that had just been killed. Apart from what the two people ate, most of it was made into bacon. In addition, after feeding two meals to the leopards and the dogs, these were all that was left.
It is probably enough to feed the leopard three or four meals.
However, there are still five pigs in the pigsty. We had said before that we would wait until they weighed 150 kilograms before slaughtering them, but now it seems we can do it earlier.
It has been more than a month since the Chinese New Year, and the pigs have grown to about 30 to 40 kilograms. It would not be a loss to slaughter them now, and we can also save some feed.
The two men discussed that if the rain did not stop for another three days, they would go to the basement to drag the pig out and slaughter it.
It seemed as if the rain knew what the two were thinking, and it lasted for three days in total.
It’s hard to say how heavy the rain was, but it was drizzling down, causing the temperature of the entire meadow to drop sharply, by five degrees in just three days.
When the temperature stopped at minus twenty-five degrees, the rain finally stopped.
The two put on their thickest coats, walked out the door, turned on the lights in the yard and tried to clear the ice off the ground.
Mu Xi slowly moved to the side of the tool room and turned on the switch.
The dark yard was illuminated by lights, and the two men were stunned and speechless when they saw the scene in front of them.
What words can be used to describe the scene before our eyes?
For the first time, Zhao Yeqing felt the limitation of his vocabulary.
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