Chapter 462 Qiu Yu
Generally speaking, the leaves will turn white after a few days, which means new buds will emerge.
The temperature has been relatively high recently, a little over 30 degrees. It can be kept lower if placed in a cooler place indoors. The suitable temperature for germination of this thing is below 25 degrees. It can still germinate if it is higher, but it will not be as healthy and will grow slower.
Zhao Yeqing put the remaining passion fruit in the refrigerator, leaving out three, one for seeds later, and the remaining two could be used to make a large pot of passion fruit honey water.
Zhao Yeqing dug out the flesh of the fruit for seeds, washed off the flesh and mucous membrane covering the black seeds underwater, revealing the black seeds inside that looked like watermelon seeds, and then took them outside to dry.
She was not sure if this would work, after all, she had never actually grown it. In the past, farmers in nearby villages did not grow their own passion fruit seedlings. Every year they would go to the Agricultural Bureau to purchase the seedlings to ensure quality and quantity, and there were official support policies.
The tea oil fruits that were brought back were placed in the hay house instead of being moved to the basement for storage. I plan to squeeze the tea oil out of them in the next few days to prevent it from being affected by humid weather in the future.
The two of them went to move the tea-oil fruits because they saw signs that it was going to rain. Sure enough, that night, drops of rain began to fall, bringing with it the first cold wave of autumn.
The two were sleeping soundly in bed. It was still a bit stuffy before the rain, so they turned on the air conditioner and switched it to sleep mode when they went to bed.
But the temperature suddenly dropped, and Zhao Yeqing was woken up by the cold in the middle of the night. He fell asleep again after turning off the air conditioner. Mu Xi was a little tired during the day and had a relatively high body temperature, so he slept very soundly and did not wake up at all.
When he got up the next morning, the rain outside the window had become lighter, and the small gutter in the yard was already gurgling with water. Mu Xi got up and opened the window. The cool air that came in made the remaining sleepiness disappear completely, and his half-closed eyes felt cool.
He closed the window, took out a long-sleeved thin shirt from the cupboard and put it on, then took out a set of women's autumn clothes and autumn pants from the cupboard and placed them next to Zhao Yeqing's pillow before going downstairs.
Last night before going to bed, the two of them took back all the things that were hung out to dry, but forgot to leave out two pieces of clothes hanging on the rope. Now they are completely wet, and water is dripping down with the rain.
I brought it in, rubbed it clean with my hands, put it in the washing machine, selected the dryer mode, and walked into the kitchen.
Before breakfast was ready, Zhao Yeqing came in rubbing his arms. He went straight to Mu Xi who was cooking, put his arms around his waist, and let out a comfortable sigh.
Mu Xi said with a smile: "What's wrong?"
Zhao Yeqing sniffed: "It's a bit cold."
"Have you put on your long underwear?"
"I'm wearing autumn clothes, but not autumn trousers... Oh, I didn't think it would be that cold." Who knew that I would feel like sneezing after washing up.
The coldness of this rain was somewhat different from ordinary cold. It brought a chill that penetrated into the bones, reminding Zhao Yeqing of the year when there was a heavy rain and strong wind and the two of them ran to the woods in the middle of the night to cut trees to support the house.
The rain that night was so cold that my legs felt like they weren’t my own and my knees were sore.
I couldn't help but shudder just thinking about it.
Mu Xi hugged Zhao Yeqing and warmed her up a little. "Go back to the room and put on some long johns. Then change and come down to have breakfast."
For breakfast, I made brown sugar, red dates and ginger soup with an egg and some cooked rice balls.
This method was what the elders in my family used to make. The only difference is adding some fermented glutinous rice in it. But the fermented glutinous rice at home has run out, and the glutinous rice that was just grown this year was pounded into glutinous rice flour, which was used to make today's dumplings.
You have to ferment the fermented glutinous rice while it is still relatively warm, and then do it after it cools down. It will take several more days to ferment.
The red dates are from the date tree that I saw in the village before. When I came back, I pulled all the dates down. I ate some that were still green, and dried and stored those that turned red.
The egg in the soup had a soft core. Zhao Yeqing put it into his mouth right away, biting through the egg white and chewing the rich-flavored yolk, feeling the aroma of the yolk filling his mouth. The egg was the most delicious part of the soup.
After breakfast, I filled the livestock's feed troughs. I couldn't let them out because it was raining today, and I also had to keep the newborn lambs warm.
It was getting close to noon and the rain didn't seem to be decreasing any more, so the two of them covered the greenhouse in the yard with plastic sheeting, otherwise the vegetables in the field would be soaked and spoiled. This period was the peak fruit-bearing season, and if they continued to harvest the fruits, they would rot on the branches.
It is not realistic to pick all of them if you can't finish them. It is also not a good idea to keep them in the refrigerator because they will go bad if you keep them for a few more days.
Mu Xi temporarily used long strips of firewood to nail a wooden frame, framed the dragon fruit planted in the backyard, and covered it with plastic sheeting.
The rain kept falling, and the two of them had been squeezing all the tea oil in the house for two days without stopping.
It was not a good thing to keep the field stuffy all the time. It had already been rained on, and if the moisture could not evaporate even if covered with plastic sheet, people would get sick. Zhao Yeqing lifted the plastic sheet around the field to allow air to flow in from all sides.
Mu Xi went to the basement again. Today's cocoons were still the same as before and had not hatched.
However, since it was estimated that the time for the silkworms to break out of the cocoon was approaching, they used bamboo strips to weave a dense bamboo net to cover the four sides of the square cluster, so that the silkworms would not fly around after hatching.
The silk moths have to wait inside until the male and female mate and lay eggs so that they can harvest enough cocoons next time.
When Zhao Yeqing came out of the greenhouse in the yard, he was holding a big tomato in his hand. It was bright red and fully ripe. He walked to the back of the kitchen, washed it under the faucet under the eaves, and started to bite it.
Tomatoes ripened naturally on the tree are delicious, sweet and sour, and full of juice when you bite into them.
Seeing Mu Xi coming up and handing him the half remaining tomato in her hand, Mu Xi did not raise his hand to take it without washing his hands. He took a bite from her hand, and the bright red juice flowed down his chin. Zhao Yeqing smiled and reached out to help him wipe it off.
When she handed it to him again, he just shook his head. After Zhao Yeqing finished a few bites, Mu Xi took him back to the kitchen. They washed their hands before taking off their raincoats.
The water drops from the raincoat made the tile floor a little damp, and the mud under Zhao Yeqing's feet made it even more of a mess.
"Go back to your room, it's too cold outside."
After Mu Xi chased Zhao Yeqing away, he mopped the kitchen before returning to the room.
The rain stopped after a week. Zhao Yeqing didn't know how many times he sighed. Finally, the rain stopped.
It has been like this in recent years. Usually it is just light rain at most, but if it rains heavily, it will last for at least three days, and ten days is considered normal.
It is not without benefits. When the sun comes out, the rain evaporates, and before it is completely evaporated, there is a harvest under the rice straw in the rice fields.
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