Chapter 42: Watering the Rice Fields
Turn off the heat and add the fried sweet potato cubes.
Let the sweet potato pieces be evenly coated with syrup and then you can serve them. Continue to heat the remaining syrup in the pot, use chopsticks to coat the pieces with syrup and then pull them back and forth on the sweet potatoes on the plate.
The golden sweet potatoes coated in syrup are covered with fine, crystal clear sugar threads.
Zhao Yeqing breathed a sigh of relief. It was easy to fail in pulling out the silk threads, but luckily he succeeded and did not embarrass himself.
In fact, even if she failed, she would let Mu Xi eat it all.
Dishes such as candied silk must be eaten while hot. It is best to wait by the pot and eat it as soon as it is served.
When the dishes were served on the table, Zhao Yeqing hurriedly urged, "Hurry, hurry, hurry."
The golden potato chunks were steaming hot, and when picked up they formed long strings.
Rinse with cold water before eating, the sugar coating on the outside becomes crispy and sweet.
Candied sweet potato is more like a dessert than a dish. Eating two pieces after a full meal can be considered a snack.
The farmer brother, who had been rewarded, cleared the dishes after dinner and went to wash them. Zhao Yeqing lay on the bench and looked at the rabbit in the cardboard box.
The mother rabbit had given birth to seven little rabbits, none of them were stillborn and all of them were healthy. Zhao Yeqing tried to poke them gently with his finger.
Hot and soft.
Zhao Yeqing fed the female rabbit some of the freshest cabbages in the vegetable garden, and the male rabbit was kept in isolation when the female rabbit was preparing to give birth.
It is not raining now, and it doesn't look like it will rain in the short term, so Zhao Yeqing moved the male rabbit back to the rabbit pen.
The collapsed rabbit cage had been repaired by Mu Xi at some point, and Zhao Yeqing filled it with soft straw again.
Just as she took the rabbit out and put some hay under it, her body temperature, which had been lowered by the electric fan while she was eating, rose again, and beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose.
She thought of Mu Xi's house. There was only a room and the living room light was connected to the power supply. There was no fan and she would wake up in the middle of the night due to the heat.
The power supply is not enough to support the operation of two fans. Excluding the power consumption of the mobile phone charging refrigerator and the lighting, there is less than one kilowatt-hour of power left every day. A fan consumes half a kilowatt-hour of electricity when it is turned on for ten hours. Excluding the seven or eight hours of sleeping, it can still be turned on for two or three hours after work and while eating.
The daily power consumption is strictly controlled. Unless there is strong sunshine, we can recharge it at noon, and the recharge is relatively slow. If we use the electric saw like today, the remaining power is only enough to barely support the freezer, and we dare not turn on the fan at night.
It's almost impossible to sleep in this weather without a fan.
Zhao Yeqing walked into the house, fanning himself with his hands. Mu Xi had already washed the dishes and was sitting on the bench eating porridge and snow cakes.
"What do you think the temperature is now?"
Mu Xi glanced at his watch, "30 degrees, 36 degrees during the day."
Zhao Yeqing came closer to take a look curiously, "Can your watch also tell the temperature?"
Mu Xi took off his watch and handed it to her. "Yes, there is a temperature sensor inside. It is not very accurate. Wearing it on your hand will be affected by the surface temperature. It will be more accurate if you take it off and leave it for a while."
Zhao Yeqing had never seen anything like this before. He looked around but didn't see a charging port. "Isn't it for charging?"
“Solar-powered.”
After gaining some experience, he returned the watch to Mu Xi.
"You said, it's 30 degrees in the mountains at night, how much is it in the city?"
Mu Xi looked up and thought for a moment, "When I came back, the temperature in the city was already 36 degrees during the day. It took me three days to drive around the rift from the city, and then I walked for ten days..."
Zhao Yeqing interrupted, "You walked for ten days? Where did you start?"
"From the foot of the mountain in H City."
Zhao Yeqing murmured, "The foot of the mountain in H City, the middle and rear section of Meishan Mountain, is nearly 400 kilometers away from our mountain..."
She looked up at Mu Xi and asked, "You walked 400 kilometers?"
Mu Xi snorted, "What do you think? If I hadn't had to bypass a lot of small crevices on the way, I should have arrived a few days earlier. It's a good thing I arrived here, but I met a fool who fought a wild boar alone."
Zhao Yeqing rarely refuted the other party when she heard him scolding her. She couldn't imagine what it meant to hike 400 kilometers through deep mountains and forests.
No wonder when she saw him, he had untidy beard and dark circles under his eyes, like a homeless person.
She suddenly no longer felt sorry for her little sweet potatoes that had not yet grown up, and her eyes were filled with tears.
Seeing this, Mu Xi hurriedly said, "Don't do that. Your tears are scarier than that wild boar."
This metaphor was indeed very effective in stopping her tears from falling.
It's totally unimpressive.
"You've been gone for half a month, and you've been back here for five or six days. Twenty days ago, it was at least five or six degrees cooler than it is now. You didn't even need to turn on the fan at night." Zhao Yeqing counted on his fingers, "So the temperature in the city right now shouldn't be 41 degrees during the day?"
this...
If we were all concentrated at the rescue site, using large motors to generate electricity and run air conditioners, it wouldn't be so difficult, but now reconstruction is going on everywhere, and we are working outdoors in 41-degree heat...
Zhao Yeqing felt a little panicked. "Do you think it will reach 40 degrees here?"
"It's hard to say." Mu Xi's eyes were not relaxed. "I see that the temperature is rising. It will slow down in the next two days, but it is still rising. I won't sleep tonight. I will dig the ground first while the temperature is low at night."
Zhao Yeqing thought it made sense. If the temperature in the mountains reached that level in the future, many plants would die from the heat. People would not be able to bear it either. Working in such high temperatures would easily lead to heat stroke.
The two men changed the reclamation of the fields into night work, starting from the time the sun set behind the mountain and working until the early morning.
After a week, the reclamation of the paddy fields was finally completed.
The corn field is still in the initial stage of cultivation. This is relatively simple and Zhao Yeqing can do it. It is similar to digging a vegetable field.
Mu Xi cut a few thick bamboos, split them in the middle, removed the thin part at the top and the internodes of the bamboo, and put several sections together to form a long bamboo waterway.
There is a long hose next to the faucet in the yard at home. It is used when Zhao Yeqing needs to water the large vegetable garden. Just connect it to the faucet and pull the hose out.
The hose was pulled into the vegetable garden, the outlet was placed on the bamboo waterway, the faucet was turned on, and the water flowed along the waterway into the rice field.
The sun is strong during the day, and the cultivated land is dark yellow at first, but turns white after being exposed to the sun. As soon as the water enters the field, it is immediately absorbed by the dry soil.
Zhao Yeqing stopped the reclamation work in his hands and watched the fields gradually fill with water. His anxious heart seemed to have more confidence in the future.
Now it usually gets dark around 8pm every day. After Mu Xi fills the paddy field, he turns off the faucet and goes down the mountain to harvest the rice.
The germination rate of direct sowing is not high, and they do not have much rice to waste, so they still adopt the method of raising seedlings first and then sowing.
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