Chapter 318 Sweet Potion
Mu Xi nodded, his face a little solemn: "I saw it...but when I went out just now, the watch stopped moving."
"broken?"
Mu Xi shook his head: "No, when I bought it, they said that this watch can withstand the lowest temperature of minus 65 degrees."
Zhao Yeqing opened his mouth silently, and the two looked at each other without saying anything.
That means the temperature outside is definitely below minus 65 degrees Celsius.
In three days, the temperature dropped from minus 50 degrees to minus 65 degrees...
No wonder the floor heating doesn’t feel warm today. I have to wear a thick coat in the house.
"Is the watch still usable now? Is it just not usable outside, or is it damaged by the cold?"
This thing is very precious. If it gets frozen, you won’t even be able to tell the temperature.
Mu Xi raised his hand and took a look: "Fortunately, it seems that the watch just doesn't work outside. It's my fault. I didn't expect it when I went out. It's below zero inside now, and it must be much colder outside."
Zhao Yeqing shook his head: "No one could have expected such a low temperature. I don't think any southerner has any idea of what minus 60 degrees Celsius is like."
On second thought, the temperature in the south is over 60 degrees below zero, so the temperature in the north shouldn't reach 100 degrees below zero, right?
It’s scary to think about it.
Zhao Yeqing pulled his coat closer and pulled away the little black cat that was too close to the fire and whose tail was about to fall into the stove.
"Don't get so close, or your hair will be burned off and you'll be even colder."
Mu Xi looked around the room and said, "The curtains here are no good. There are gaps on them and they are not airtight enough. If we can make the room smaller, the floor heating will work."
It's not a built wall, so the sealing is definitely not enough, and there are bound to be gaps between the fabrics of the curtains.
If you want to prevent air from leaking in, you have to find some airtight materials to cover or fill the gaps.
But the material of curtains is soft after all. It is difficult to completely block and fill them with hard materials. There seems to be no other soft material at home that is not breathable except the plastic film.
The plastic film is really thin, but the thermal insulation effect is still good. The only problem is that if it is combined with curtains, it needs to be cut and trimmed into long strips and then connected to the top of the curtains.
Once it is cut, it cannot be recycled for secondary use. It will be a trouble if it is gone when the greenhouse is needed. This thing cannot be regenerated.
Mu Xi suddenly remembered the large canvas of the yurt. "Didn't we cut a small piece of the canvas from the collapsed yurt to shade the grapes? Half of such a large piece of cloth would be enough to divide the house into two."
If he hadn't said it, Zhao Yeqing would have almost forgotten about the cloth. This is actually a good idea. Canvas is waterproof, so keeping warm will definitely not be a problem, and the thickness is also sufficient.
“Will it be a bit heavy?”
The fabric that can be used as the outer building material of a house is definitely not thin and light. The accessories they use to support the current curtains are Roman rods, and the gap is between the top of the rod and the round hole through which the curtain passes.
Now if we directly replace the curtains with canvas and use Roman rods it will definitely not work. Not only will there still be gaps, but it will also break.
The best way is to nail it directly to the ceiling. They had wanted to do the same with the curtains before, but the length was not enough. The longest curtain in the entire tourist area was not long enough either. The two of them were lazy and could have cut another piece of curtain to lengthen it, but in the end they thought it was too troublesome and didn't do it.
Who could have expected the temperature to be so low?
The temperature in the house has dropped to more than ten degrees below zero, and this is even with the floor heating on.
Mu Xi put on two thick coats before walking out of the house. Zhao Yeqing stood by the window watching him, afraid that he would accidentally slip in the snow and be too cold to get up.
After getting the canvas back, the two measured the length and began to cut it. After Zhao Yeqing drew the cutting lines on the cloth, he put his hands together, blew on them, and then rubbed them quickly to generate heat.
Mu Xi took the scissors and cut along the marked part. Seeing that her hands were red from the cold, she said, "You don't need to help now. You go to the fire first and I will do it. My body temperature is relatively high and I am not that afraid of the cold."
The place where the canvas is cut is the front half of the house. There is no floor heating in this half. Fortunately, there is not much space for placing things, so the canvas can be spread out a little here.
Zhao Yeqing didn't bother to be polite. He threw the stone with the lines on the table and ran to the fire to warm himself.
In the current temperature, the gel pens at home didn't write ink, so Zhao Yeqing used two talc minerals that Mu Xi found when digging limestone to draw lines.
Zhao Yeqing removed the straw mat on the floor and sat directly on it. Only in this way could he feel a slight heat coming up.
Now I have to go out every day to feed the livestock, and then come back to warm myself by the fire. I haven’t caught a cold despite the sudden changes in temperature. I have to say that my physical fitness has really improved a lot.
When I worked in the city before, I would catch a cold after coming back from outside and using the air conditioner in the summer. But now, except for a little runny nose at the beginning of winter, the two of us have not been sick once.
Otherwise, why do we say that the environment trains people?
Zhao Yeqing was warming himself by the fire, thinking back to the news and documentaries he had watched before. Before the ground cracked, there were countries and regions where temperatures dropped extremely low in the winter. He remembered that there were two cities in Russia where the sun didn't shine for several months a year, and the temperature was as low as minus 70 degrees Celsius at the coldest time.
The temperature in the Xing'an Mountains in the north can reach over 50 degrees Celsius below zero in winter.
Not to mention the notoriously cold Siberia.
People there will still go out for activities even when the temperature drops to minus 60 or 70 degrees Celsius. They won't feel too cold as soon as they go out.
Zhao Yeqing comforted himself: It's okay, I can survive if I adapt.
Maybe after a while, if they continue to exercise in this weather, they will be able to swim in winter in temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero, just like the people of the fighting nation.
She kept giving hints to calm her anxious mood. She didn't want to be anxious, but the sun hadn't come out for a long time.
In areas that suffer from polar nights, many people there suffer from winter depression because they cannot see the sun.
Without sunlight, the body will lack vitamin D and suffer from endocrine disorders. Coupled with the long-term darkness and bleak scenery outside, the whole world seems cold and gloomy, and people gradually suffer from mental illness. The suicide rate during that period was also the highest.
But no matter what, there will be light in the polar night, there are stars and the moon, unlike here where it is so dark that there is no light at all.
In addition, the environment has changed drastically and there are ferocious beasts lurking outside. I can't even go out. I'm trapped in the house all day and I really can't survive without adjusting myself.
Fortunately, there is someone around to talk to, otherwise even the most cheerful person would become depressed during these winter months.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yeqing poured himself another cup of hot milk and added enough sugar to it.
At times like this, sweets are the best medicine.
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