Chapter 356: Heat and Wetness
The pine forest became a restricted area for the two and they probably wouldn't go there again in the short term.
The two suddenly remembered that there were no signs of animal activity in the broad-leaved forest and birch forest where they had gone to look for stone snails.
They didn't know if there were animals like tigers occupying the entire forest. If so, they were really lucky. They didn't encounter any danger during their several attempts in and out.
In comparison, the safest place now is the path down the mountain where there are the most snakes and various rabbits and pheasants.
However, the direction going down the mountain is towards the south, and the entire mountain receives the most sunlight, and it is also the area where "rainforestization" is most obvious.
Another relatively safe place is the meadow.
The meadow was still the same, with rabbits, deer, foxes... a wide variety of species. I didn't know if it was due to the two of them, but there were no more jackals or wolves.
After Nighthawk moved into the house, the mosquito situation has indeed improved significantly, but there are still a lot more of them than before, and you can often see a gecko lying on the glass window.
Wooden houses are very humid and need to be dehumidified every few days, otherwise the wood will easily become moldy.
Zhao Yeqing took the fresh charcoal to the hay house and the original owner's house and placed it there. The charcoal could absorb some moisture, hoping to reduce the humidity in the room.
After all, these two rooms are the most important, as they store food, medicinal herbs, hay, and dry goods that are essential for life.
It is not enough to just place charcoal, you also have to light a brazier inside from time to time to heat away the moisture inside.
The two of them didn't take much care of the mushroom room. They didn't check it for a few days. When they opened the door and walked in, they found mushrooms growing even on the walls.
There are mushrooms not only on the walls, but also in the vegetable gardens and grain fields.
These mushrooms are not edible fungi. I don’t know where the mushroom spores were blown from and fell on the ground and took root and sprouted. They must be pulled out quickly, otherwise it will affect the health of the crops.
There were some mushrooms growing on the grass in the backyard. A stupid chicken went over and pecked at the mushrooms and was poisoned to death on the spot.
When Zhao Yeqing walked to the backyard, he smelled a bad odor. Following the smell, he saw a chicken lying on the ground with black flies flying around its body.
At first I didn't know how the chicken died. I thought it was bitten to death by some animal, but I didn't find any wound. It wasn't until I moved my eyes to the mushroom next to it that everything became clear.
Mu Xi took a shovel and shoveled the chicken carcass to the backyard, dug a hole and bury it. When he came back, Zhao Yeqing had already cleaned up all the mushrooms that had grown in the backyard.
Zhao Yeqing took off the gloves on his hands, rinsed them with water and hung them on the rope. The poisonous mushrooms must never be touched directly with bare hands. If one did not notice the small wound on his hand, he would get sick if he did not die if he touched the poisonous mushrooms again.
After I got up today, it didn't rain from morning to night, so I was finally able to dry the washed clothes properly, and I could also take out the quilt that I hadn't changed for a month and dry it in the sun.
In this weather, not only the wood is damp, but the quilt is also damp. If you sleep on it for a few days without taking it out to air, you can smell a stuffy odor.
My body is always sticky, unlike the sticky feeling of previous years when I was sweating all over. This time it feels like the return of the south wind in the south, and I feel uncomfortable all over my body. And it has been for several months in a row, and it feels like the return of the south wind every day.
But in comparison, Zhao Yeqing is more willing to accept the current situation.
Being uncomfortable is uncomfortable. If extreme heat and extreme cold are painful, then what is happening now is torture.
But extreme heat and extreme cold are unbearable, and there is no way to resist them after a certain point. Although this kind of damp heat is uncomfortable now, it does not affect her growing crops. The people and animals in the family can all eat enough, and there is no need to worry about food shortages and water shortages.
Just bear with it if it hurts. Maybe you will get used to it after a while.
The ground temperature is not that high this year, so the crops do not need to be moved to the planting basement to turn on the planting lights. The electricity saved can be used to run the air conditioner in the house for two hours a day for dehumidification.
At this moment, Zhao Yeqing missed the dehumidifier he bought when he was working very much. During the southern winter, it could produce a large basin of water in one night.
Now if you have a dehumidifier at home, the clothes in the closet will not feel damp to the touch. Before wearing clothes every day, you have to take them to the kitchen and dry them over the fire while making breakfast.
Otherwise, I always feel like I'm wearing clothes that have just been spun dry and haven't been hung out to dry.
Zhao Yeqing's summer clothes are all small. During breakfast, she would hold a small vest in front of the fire and dry it there, then dry it again. It would be dry in two minutes.
It would be fine if Mu Xi was wearing an old man's vest, but if he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, it would take a long time to bake each time.
If they both get up at the same time, Mu Xi usually makes breakfast, and Zhao Yeqing helps him dry his clothes. If she encounters short-sleeved shirts that are difficult to dry, she loses patience after a while.
I took a small chair from the side and put the clothes on the back to dry in front of the fire.
It's no wonder she did that. The temperature is now over 30 degrees Celsius, which is much better than the previous 40 or 50 degrees Celsius, but it's still hot. Squatting by the fire to dry clothes, the heat waves hitting my face one after another are really uncomfortable.
Before Mu Xi prepared breakfast and called him, Zhao Yeqing finished washing up and ran back to the room to check the surveillance video.
She had to see if the nighthawk in the yard had flown away last night, but she didn't dare to disturb it by its nest. Last time she got close, she accidentally scared the nighthawk and almost scared it away.
As soon as the computer was turned on and the surveillance camera footage was brought up, Zhao Yeqing was delighted to see two birds with intricate patterns nestled inside, sleeping with their heads leaning against each other.
"I actually found someone."
She originally planned to observe the birds for a while and then move the camera back outside the yard to continue monitoring, but now she is a little reluctant to do so. If she leaves the camera here, she might be able to see the birds laying eggs or the eggs hatching.
Mu Xi did not ask Zhao Yeqing to come for breakfast, but brought two bowls of prepared cold noodles to the room to eat.
A bowl of cold noodles with pumpkin shreds, carrot shreds, peanuts and braised pork was brought to Zhao Yeqing. Mu Xi said:
"The room can be turned on by the fan, but I didn't take the fan to the kitchen this morning."
Zhao Yeqing took a towel from the shelf next to him and wiped his sweat. Just cooking some noodles in the kitchen and then mixing them could make a person sweat all over his forehead.
It would be a great improvement if there was a fan blowing. You don't have to blow it at people, you just need to speed up the air circulation in the kitchen. After all, most of the sweat nowadays is not caused by heat, but by humidity and heat.
People don't have a good appetite in this kind of weather. After cooking the noodles, Mu Xi soaked them in ice water for a minute before taking them out. He added chili oil and aged vinegar to season them, and accompanied them with refreshing cucumber shreds. The sour and spicy taste was especially appetizing.
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