Chapter 36: Fist-sized Hail
It turns out that you just can't expect too much from some people.
Every day from then on, Mu Xi would order what he would eat in the evening in the morning.
After Zhao Yeqing got up, he saw a note on the table in the living room.
'Sweet potato with candied sugar, fried egg with white ginseng mushroom, fried small fish with sour sauce.'
The white ginseng mushrooms were brought back by Mu Xi last night.
She thought about protesting and asking him to cook, but since he came back and went out to find food, the food was indeed much better than before.
Zhao Yeqing planned to paint the shed black while the sun was not too strong today. This matter had been delayed for several days.
In the past, all the couplets in our house were handwritten by my grandmother, and several bottles of ink are still left in the cabinet.
Zhao Yeqing found the ink from the cabinet under his grandmother's table. Considering the large area of their home, he needed at least two bottles.
Fill a small basin with ink, take a wall brush, dip it in the ink and brush it on the greenhouse.
She had seen people use this method before, but when she tried it herself she found that the film cloth she bought seemed to be different from others, and the ink could only leave a shallow mark on it.
Mu Xi returned home with a basket of pine cones on his back. When he saw what Zhao Yeqing had done, he was a little speechless.
"Your material is not the same as others, so it can't be colored."
Zhao Yeqing also knew that this path of hers was not feasible, but she still had a backup plan.
In addition to ink, there are also a lot of papers in the cabinet. They are the leftovers from my grandmother's calligraphy practice. They are one meter long and wide and have never been cut. The paper is rough and has rough edges when cut.
There is another large bundle in the cupboard.
Zhao Yeqing took them out, pulled out one, slightly soaked it with ink, opened it, and put it in the sun. It dried in a short while and the dried paper was blue-gray.
Zhao Yeqing used glue to stick the paper on the inside of the greenhouse.
The light in the pasted area is weakened a lot, but it is not so light-free that the vegetables will not grow too tall.
Zhao Yeqing clapped his hands and said proudly, "How is it?"
Mu Xi gave a thumbs up and said perfunctorily, "Great, great."
After the two of them dried all the paper, Zhao Yeqing started to paste it from the small vegetable garden, and Mu Xi walked out with a stack of paper.
Zhao Yeqing shouted, "You put this on and you're not going out?"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to have dinner by the time you're done."
very good.
Mu Xi moved quickly. After Zhao Yeqing finished pasting the small vegetable garden, he had already finished pasting the large vegetable garden and packed up his things and came in.
Zhao Yeqing took out two homemade popsicles made with milk and kiwi from the refrigerator and handed one to Mu Xi.
"Are you going out later?"
Mu Xi took it and took a bite, "Out."
Zhao Yeqing didn't know why he had to go out every day. The weather was getting hotter recently, and there was no shortage of food at home.
But she didn't want to ask everything, as it would seem like she was controlling him.
Zhao Yeqing nodded, "Be careful."
Mu Xi finished the popsicle in a few bites, washed the stick and put it in a bowl, which could be reused.
The wind suddenly started blowing outside the window.
It instantly dispelled the heat in the air and brought a hint of coolness.
Mu Xi brought in the clothes that were drying outside.
Zhao Yeqing stood at the door and felt the cool breeze. Before she could enjoy it, the wind blew stronger and stronger.
Mu Xi walked to the door and looked at the sky. "It doesn't feel right. It might hail."
Zhao Yeqing looked at the shed next to him that was rustling in the wind and asked anxiously, "What should we do?"
Mu Xi strode to the tool room and took out nails and a hammer, "I can only patch up the old with new."
Her handmade shed would definitely not be able to withstand the hail. Mu Xi told her his plan, which was to first dismantle the wooden fence next to it, attach legs to it, and support it on the top of the shed.
Zhao Yeqing agreed without thinking twice. She felt like she was losing out if one of the vegetable seedlings she had worked so hard to grow ended up in her mouth.
I found a few thick wood sticks from the firewood pile and spliced them together with nails.
Zhao Yeqing was not very strong, and the depth to which he knocked the wall into the soil was not particularly deep.
Mu Xi calculated the length, pulled out the nails at the places that needed to be disconnected, and pulled a small row of wooden fences out of the ground.
Zhao Yeqing was fortunate enough to see the muscles on his arms.
They are so big that I can’t see them because they are usually covered under my short-sleeved shirt.
One third of the wall was demolished, and the tops of the two vegetable gardens were finally secured.
Just a few minutes after the work was completed, with a few rumbling thunders, raindrops as big as beans fell on the dry ground and were absorbed by it.
Zhao Yeqing stood under the eaves and watched. She had never seen hail before.
I was just about to ask Mu Xi if my estimate was wrong, as there was no hail.
Before she could open her mouth, a huge lump of ice as big as a fist fell from the sky and shattered in front of her.
Zhao Yeqing was stunned. After a while, he pointed at the hail and turned to ask Mu Xi beside him, "Hail, are they all like this?"
This will kill someone, right?
Mu Xi frowned, "Normal hail is only one tenth of this size."
The tiles on the roof were smashed into pieces, but fortunately the tiles are only for warmth and insulation, and are sealed underneath, so they will not fall into the house.
The sky outside seemed to be getting darker and darker. The trees in the surrounding woods were blown to one side by the strong wind, revealing the sky that was blocked around them. The dark clouds mixed with lightning covered the entire Meishan.
Zhao Yeqing suddenly thought of Rabbit who was about to give birth. She saw milk overflowing yesterday, so she probably would give birth today. She stood up and ran out, but was pulled back by Mu Xi.
"Have you had enough of living?"
Zhao Yeqing was a little anxious, "I carried the basin and forgot about the rabbit in the backyard."
Mu Xi picked up two basins and rushed out, holding them above his head, leaving behind a sentence, "Stay here and don't move."
The rabbit shed is made of bamboo strips and certainly cannot withstand hailstones as big as fists.
Mu Xi held a basin on his head with one hand and held another basin with the other. Inside the basin were two trembling rabbits and the remains of a rabbit with its head broken and bleeding.
"Your shoddy rabbit cage collapsed. The female rabbits are fine, but this male rabbit was crushed to death under the cage."
Zhao Yeqing saw that the rabbits in the basin did not jump out, probably because they were scared. He found a cardboard box and put the two rabbits in it, and also put a few vegetable leaves that he had originally planned to cook noodles with.
Huhu and Xuebing were meowing at the door, and seemed very excited about the heavy rain with lightning and thunder outside.
Zhao Yeqing was afraid that they would get too excited and run away, so he called the two of them over.
"How long will this hail last?"
Mu Xi folded the clothes he had collected, threw a thin coat to Zhao Yeqing, and looked at the gloomy sky. "It's hard to say."
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The hail fell from morning to evening, but the rain never stopped.
Zhao Yeqing was afraid that there would be hail in the rain, so he didn't let Mu Xi go out again.
She gradually calmed down from the initial fear. Looking at Mu Xi who was fiddling with the radio beside her, she asked, "Is there no signal in the city?"
"Most places are gone. There are cracks everywhere. Some places even extend outward from the center of the city. Almost the entire city is trapped."
"What about the electricity? Is it gone too?"
Mu Xi put down the radio and sat back in his chair. "Well, many river basins have been cut off. Now people from major cities are almost all concentrated at the rescue points."
"How about you? How did you get back?"
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