Chapter 439 Downhill
So hard...
She was talking about the arm that was tightly around her.
Zhao Yeqing's ears felt hot and itchy. He struggled slightly but failed to get free. His two arms seemed to be made of metal and were very hard.
Xin knew he was doing it on purpose, so she nudged his chest with her elbow in annoyance, "Stop it, aren't you tired after so many days?" Then she poured him a glass of grape juice and handed it to him, "Go drink yours."
The glass was filled with a drink, and on the wall of the glass were water droplets condensed from the cold drink when it met heat. The glass was stuffed into his arms, and it touched his skin directly, making him shiver with coldness.
Taking advantage of his moment of stunned silence, Zhao Yeqing slipped out from his arms and went outside to pick vegetables.
After several days of sleeping in the open air, Mu Xi drank a glass of ice drink without being distracted. He went upstairs and fell asleep as soon as he got on the bed. Besides him, even the two dogs were exhausted. They had to raise their heads and be alert at the slightest movement outside.
The small brick building was quiet. Two dogs were sleeping on the first floor, and Mu Xi on the second floor was also sleeping soundly.
It was noon in the yard, the sun was shining on the front yard. Zhao Yeqing was drying the threshed corn kernels again, and would grind them into cornmeal when he came back from the slope and had time.
It was not until the scorching sun at noon set that Zhao Yeqing left the house and went to the vegetable garden to weed and kill insects.
When she was planting in the basement, there were not many pests. Some insects did not need pesticides. Mu Xi would just crush them to death when she saw them. Now that she is planting more things, there are also many different small insects, and they are coveting her fresh and tender seedlings every day.
Some time ago, I transplanted tomato seedlings, pepper seedlings and other fruit and vegetable seedlings. After they were infested with aphids, I sprayed them with tobacco leaf water. I don’t know if it was because the young seedlings couldn’t withstand the excessive stimulation of the tobacco water, or if the proportion she mixed this time was not right and it was too concentrated.
After a few days, the leaves of two tomato seedlings began to burn at the edges, as if they had been burned. Zhao Yeqing knew at a glance that the seedlings were burned by the tobacco water.
I didn't dare spray when aphids grew later, so I could only flush them away with water or pick them off manually.
I replanted some garlic between the young seedlings, and waited until they grew out before seeing some effect.
Seeing that the sun was getting smaller, Zhao Yeqing went to the vegetable garden to check on the growth of the garlic. When he saw that the green garlic leaves had grown to the point next to the first true leaf of the tomato, he also saw that there were no aphids under the tomato leaves.
While the weather is good, it's time to clean the tomato leaves, as well as the peppers, eggplants, etc. Clean off the larger and yellowish ones below, and pinch off the leaves between the axils so that the next batch of flowers can be kept for pollination and fruiting.
All the nutrients must be saved for the fruit.
Lack of sleep could not be made up for, and Mu Xi finally woke up in the evening. The dark circles under his eyes were too heavy, even heavier than before he went to bed. The dark circles looked extremely scary in the dimly lit brick wall space.
When Zhao Yeqing came back from outside, Mu Xi had just walked out of the bathroom after washing up. After the bathroom light was turned off, only a little light was left coming in from the window. The light behind him was almost completely blocked by Mu Xi. Looking at his face with the backlight, one inexplicably felt like he was watching a suspense movie.
Zhao Yeqing was startled. Sometimes when she was frightened, she would not scream. It was as if someone was strangling her throat and she could not make any sound. She only felt her heart skip a beat.
"You scared me to death!"
After seeing clearly that it was Mu Xi, Zhao Yeqing was so angry that she slapped him on the arm. She regretted it immediately after that. It was as painful as if she had hit a stone.
Mu Xi looked a little innocent. He shook his still confused mind and regretted that he had slept too long. He was not as clear-headed as when he was not sleeping.
Seeing Zhao Yeqing rubbing her palms, he grabbed her hands with amusement and rubbed them gently in his own palms.
"This is also my fault."
There was no one else here, so Zhao Yeqing couldn't blame herself. The aftereffects of being scared had not yet dissipated, so she confidently asked Mu Xi to massage her palms. Seeing that he pressed higher and higher, Zhao Yeqing quickly pulled back her palm.
"I'm going to cook first."
After dinner, the two prepared things for tomorrow's trip down the slope, and also had to prepare feed for the three days they were expected to be away from home. This time they didn't bring Rhubarb with them, because if the two couldn't come back, it could take the cattle and sheep outside to graze.
If you only take Xiao Hei with you when you go out, the amount of food you need to prepare can be reduced accordingly.
When he returned to the edge of the slope again, Zhao Yeqing looked at the slope in front of him which was nearly forty-five degrees, and felt a little scared.
At the bottom of the slope was a high pile of soil that had been squeezed out, and some large trees that had been broken. The trunks had long since rotted away, but they still lay across the bottom of the slope.
You definitely won't ride the bike down the first time you go down. Someone has to go down first to take a look at the situation first.
The length of the slope was only over a hundred meters. Zhao Yeqing went down first to check the situation. Mu Xi tied a safety rope around her just in case.
Zhao Yeqing wore a pair of the most non-slip shoes and slowly walked down. It took him only two minutes to reach the bottom of the slope. He held a gun in his hand, fearing that he might encounter any animals once he got down there.
But before she actually reached the bottom of the slope, Xiao Hei had already gotten there, standing on a few rotten dead trees and wagging his tail at her.
The first feeling Zhao Yeqing had when he got down there was the quietness, so quiet that there was almost no sound of insects.
Like the gas station next to it, there was originally a forest under the cliff here. After the cliff broke, the mountain wall crushed the forest and slid down. The forest was destroyed, and the concrete road ahead was also destroyed.
This road is the same as the road before the gas station, separated by a crack in the ground. It is also a road between two mountains. The difference is that there is a small path extending upwards ahead.
This path was paved with gravel. Unlike the previous paths, it was not covered with weeds. Only a few small grasses occasionally grew out. It was estimated that the underground soil was very little and mostly stone.
The plants here were squeezed to death on the spot by the cliffs when the landslide occurred. Now only some shrubs and weeds and some small trees not even as thick as a wrist are growing.
Xiao Hei led the way in front, and after crossing weeds taller than a man, he stood at the intersection of the gravel road leading up the mountain.
The distance was so close that Zhao Yeqing didn't even need the intercom. He turned around and made an 'ok' gesture to Mu Xi.
After Mu Xi got down to the bottom of the slope, the two of them began to clear the road on this side so that the electric scooter could ride down.
As far as Zhao Yeqing could remember, he had heard several years ago that a road had been built here to the ethnic minority villages, but for some reason there was only a gravel path now.
However, it seems that this path can be climbed by bicycle. The slope is not very high. However, it may be a bit difficult for two people to sit on the bike. I don’t know if the horsepower is enough.
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