Chapter 371 Good Days
In the end, the skirt was dyed and the color did not fade, but a little accident still happened.
While the skirt was soaking in the boiled grape skin water, which would take an hour or two, the two of them stopped watching. Zhao Yeqing went back to her room to continue watching the vicious drama, while Mu Xi was cooking in the kitchen.
When the skirt was ready, Mu Xi came out and saw a small flower lying in the basin where her skirt was soaked.
The main group did not come back, and no one knew why Xiaohua, who had gone out to graze, appeared in the basin in the yard. Her fur had been soaked in the purple dye, and she had even turned herself over to get the dye evenly.
Its original fur color is very fancy, and now it is dyed purple, which makes it even more difficult to describe.
Zhao Yeqing also had a complicated expression when he saw it. In the past, he could barely say that the dog's fur color was meteorite, but now it looks tattered after being dyed.
She also never thought that one day she would use the word tattered to describe a dog's fur color.
The point is that it is just as Mu Xi said, it can no longer be washed off. After rinsing with clean water several times, the color is still firmly welded to the dog's hair.
But Xiaohua looked heartless and was very satisfied with her fur color, because after the other dogs came back, they surrounded her and kept sniffing her, making her the center of attention.
Zhao Yeqing didn't even bother to look at the smug dog who was holding his head high.
After making sure that the dog hair wouldn't dye the whole house purple, I stopped paying attention to it. After all, it was dyed by grape skins and wouldn't cause any harm.
The skirt was soaked to fix the color, and after drying, it changed from pure white to light purple, and the original blurred areas were hardly visible.
This skirt was not the only piece of clothing that was dyed. Unfortunately, there were limited grape skins that could be used for dyeing, and not many medicinal herbs at home for dyeing fur in winter. Zhao Yeqing began to look for plants that could be used for dyeing on the meadow.
There are quite a few wild flowers on the meadow now, and the colors are bright. Although the two cannot recognize what kind of flowers they are, they can roughly guess what family of plants they belong to by looking at the shape and structure of the leaves and flowers.
By avoiding those plant families that are easily poisonous and distinguishing them completely, there will be a lot of harvest left.
After Zhao Yeqing finished searching on the meadow near his home, he drove to the woods where he planned to explore the route. While looking for plants, he observed whether there were any signs of animals. He lowered his head and searched on the grass so that he could see the information on the ground more clearly.
This was also the last time they collected information around the forest before setting off.
While Mu Xi was looking for dyeing plants, she was cutting grass nearby. The family did not have enough dry grass for feed, so she cut some and took it home to dry and mix it with green fodder to feed the cattle and sheep.
Zhao Yeqing was puzzled: "Isn't the pasture at home almost ready for harvest? You have to pick out the potentially poisonous plants when you mow the grass here, how much effort it takes."
"I forgot to tell you that today I found that the half of the silage in the cellar that was not used up was moldy. When the time comes, the harvested grass will have to be made into silage, and hay will definitely not be made."
The weather is rainy and humid, and the silage will get moldy if you are not careful. However, in such weather, the fermentation speed of the cut and sealed silage is also greatly improved.
The grass grown at home has a higher moisture content and is sweeter. It also has less fiber than the grass grown on the meadow, making it more suitable for silage.
Pasture grass with a higher fiber content on the meadow is more suitable for drying and making into hay mixed silage feeding. High-fiber hay feed can provide more carbohydrates and is essential.
Thinking about how after harvesting the grass, she would have to cut it and move it to the silo for sealed fermentation, she felt aches all over.
It is imperative to find a gas station and realize semi-automated agriculture for human technological civilization.
A gas station, even the smallest third-level gas station, has a storage capacity of 60 cubic meters in the oil tank.
The data was quickly converted in my mind. One cubic meter is equal to 1,000 cubic decimeters, one cubic decimeter is equal to one liter of oil, and one cubic meter is equal to 1,000 liters of oil.
That is to say, a smallest third-level gas station can store nearly 60,000 liters of gasoline.
Even if there is only half or even one-third of the oil left in this gas station...even if it is only one-tenth, it can still generate nearly 40,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
As Zhao Yeqing calculated, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he couldn't help but tell out the data, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.
"After we found this gas station, our good life has come. We can turn on the air conditioner and use high-power electrical appliances whenever we want."
Mu Xi had already filled the trunk of the car with the grass he had cut. Looking at Zhao Yeqing's money-grubbing expression, he said, "You look like a boss who makes empty promises to his employees."
Zhao Yeqing put the cockscombs he found at the edge of the woods into the basket. This was also a good material for dyeing. He picked up the basket and stuffed it into Mu Xi's hand, saying, "When I find a gas station, I will be the big boss of this meadow."
Mu Xi put the basket into the car and sat in the driver's seat consciously. Seeing Zhao Yeqing sitting in the back seat with his seat belt fastened, he said with a smile:
"Okay, big boss, even if there's only one-tenth of the gas in the gas station, how are we going to get these 6,000 liters of gasoline back?"
Zhao Yeqing choked, but her mouth was the hardest part of her body.
"Comrade Xiao Mu's ideological awareness is not good enough. Mr. Wang Yangming said 'knowledge and action are one'. We can't just make preparations forever. People are never prepared. We have to do it before we know what to do...
Xiao Mu, as long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems..."
After being nagged by Boss Zhao all the way, Mu Xi put all the grass into the drying room to dry after returning home. While waiting, he went back to the room to prepare the luggage for departure.
After quickly packing his luggage, he went out to collect the remaining half of the corn in the cornfield.
This time the trip will not be short, and both of them are prepared for a long battle, just like finding the way back to Meishan before, they have to do it step by step.
Be sure to tidy up the house before going out. After collecting the corn cobs, tie them with leaves and hang them on the rope beside the eaves to dry. Collect them before going out tomorrow. If you don't collect them, most of them will probably have been eaten by birds by the time you come back.
Zhao Yeqing placed the collected flowers on the rack to dry. Fortunately, he finally found a dozen cockscombs that were blooming very luxuriantly, otherwise the quantity would definitely not be enough.
Cockscomb is as its name suggests, with purple-red flowers. Unlike normal flowers which have thin petals, this flower is very thick, like a wavy skirt edge, and feels furry to the touch.
There is a transparent plastic film on the drying rack that can block rain but not sun. You don't have to worry about getting things wet when you put them here to dry.
Everything is ready to go.
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