Chapter 477 Beginning of Winter
It was the first time for both of them to transplant mulberry trees from cuttings. There was no guarantee that they would take root and survive, so they just gave it a try. If it didn't work, they would go to the village as soon as possible to pull more.
The saplings were really heavy. Even with the soil balls, a larger mulberry tree would weigh several dozen kilograms. If they had to transplant so many, they would have to work all day long by digging them all up.
Logically speaking, the season for transplanting should be spring. If it were last year, the transplanted mulberry trees would definitely be able to adapt to the temperature. However, this year is much colder than last autumn. It is only autumn now, but the temperature is already one or two degrees colder than the coldest time of last winter.
It does look a bit like the past when the four seasons were distinct.
It's a good thing in the long run, but in the short term...the passion fruit planted by the two people was strangled in the cradle before it even grew up.
This plant, which is considered a tropical fruit, will stop growing when the temperature drops to around 10 degrees.
Since they can't survive anyway, just pull them out. Leaving them there may breed passion fruit pests. It doesn't matter if they are eaten, but I'm just worried that after being attracted, the pests will lay eggs in the soil, which will harm the new passion fruit seedlings when I plant them again next year.
But then again, if the temperature really drops this winter, we will have to prepare early.
The first thing is the storage of vegetables. Long-lasting vegetables such as cabbage and radish should be picked before winter and stored in the cellar.
The basement for growing crops also needs to be reused. When the ground temperature drops below 15 degrees, the temperature inside the basement is more suitable for growing crops.
The soil in the basement also needs to be re-arranged and then sterilized and fertilized.
All these tasks can only be carried out under good sunshine conditions, which means they must be done soon.
The planting basement is not large and the entrance is narrow, so it is not suitable for mechanical equipment to enter and can only be dug and fertilized by hand.
Zhao Yeqing was so busy that he drove away Mu Xi who wanted to help.
"I want to eat roast duck. Go get the roast duck oven."
Every time he said he wanted to build the stove, he was always delayed by other things. Mu Xi could only obediently build the stove, reluctantly.
It's not that he doesn't want to work. Zhao Yeqing found that since he really broke through the last step, Mu Xi became extremely clingy. He wanted to do everything together, and if the work was too tiring, he would let her watch him from the side.
It's even worse than when we first got together.
The consequence of getting addicted to sex was that from that day on, the number of accidental conflicts between the two increased. Mu Xi tried hard to endure it every time, and would only become a different person during the safest days of the next month.
Zhao Yeqing truly felt how rough their earliest carpentry work was.
The bed was in good condition, but one night more than a month later, the bed board made a crisp breaking sound.
It's not that there's something wrong with the wood, but the design. The load-bearing is not so evenly distributed. It's fine for normal sleeping, but it can't withstand any big movements.
That night, the cracked bed didn't stop someone from moving. He just picked her up and got out of bed and continued without any delay.
So, Mr. Mu, who was already old, discovered a new world.
"Next time, change the place, it doesn't necessarily have to be on that place."
After the beginning of winter, the weather really got colder and it was not so convenient to go around recklessly, so Mu Xi restrained himself a little.
But Zhao Yeqing no longer had the ability to look directly at every corner of the house.
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Zhao Yeqing stacked the firewood that Mu Xi had chopped neatly under the small firewood shed outside the yard. He thought he would be able to light the fireplace this winter.
Before winter, the two went to the mountains to chop a lot of wood. In addition to making firewood for the fireplace, they also made charcoal for barbecue.
According to Zhao Yeqing's idea when firing red bricks, the large brick kiln built before was sealed up and used to fire a large amount of charcoal. The carbonization effect should be better than that of the previous earth kiln.
Mu Xi lit the wood and threw it in, then sealed the hole when the time was right. While waiting for it to carbonize, he could prepare the roast duck for dinner.
In the fall, Zhao Yeqing said he wanted to eat it. The first roast duck he made at that time failed. This thing is quite difficult to make and it is easy to be heated unevenly, resulting in some places being cooked while others are still white.
Zhao Yeqing said that he is easy to feed and eats everything without being picky about food. But people like this are often the ones who love to eat the most, and the more they love to eat, the more delicious things they have eaten.
After the first roast duck was successfully baked, Zhao Yeqing was not very satisfied.
"It's delicious, but I prefer the roast duck with the crystal clear and crispy skin, which is best dipped in sugar."
That being said, she still ate most of the roast duck that she was 'not very satisfied with', and burped with oil in her mouth.
Zhao Yeqing found that he couldn't seem to gain weight anymore. After years of exercise and stable weight, even if he didn't exercise now and even if he ate a lot of oily food, he wouldn't gain weight as long as he didn't eat too much.
At most, the tight muscles will become looser.
Zhao Yeqing was so satisfied that this was what she had always dreamed of.
So researching all kinds of delicious food became Zhao Yeqing’s favorite thing to do in winter.
Mu Xi also planned to try roast duck tonight. Zhao Yeqing told him a recipe tutorial he had seen on the Internet.
"The duck skin needs to be puffed up, brushed with water and air-dried before being put in for roasting..."
When she first fell in love with this kind of roast duck, she went to the store to eat it several times, but her wallet as a worker couldn't bear it, so she went online to look for a tutorial to see if she could replicate it.
Not only is the preparation cumbersome, the final roasting requires the use of a special roast duck hanging oven.
It’s not that she couldn’t bear to buy a hanging stove because it was expensive, but mainly because the thing was too big. The space in the rented house was small, and even if she bought it and used it every month, it would still take up a lot of space.
Now she has no worries at all. She can make any size oven she wants. The whole meadow is hers.
After giving instructions to Mu Xi, Zhao Yeqing returned to the kitchen to make today's lunch.
After the beginning of winter, the temperature remained at around ten degrees. The weather was quite cool. She wore a base shirt and a sweater inside, and a thick coat outside. She couldn't wear them inside, and it was even hotter when cooking, so she had to take off the coat.
With her hair tied up and her sleeves rolled up, Zhao Yeqing opened the refrigerator door to see what she could cook for lunch.
When the weather gets cold, I want to eat something with hot soup. Recently, every day during the day I either have noodle soup, rice noodles, or wontons and dumplings.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to eat something different today, so he made some mixed noodles that he hadn't eaten for a long time. If he wanted to drink something hot, he made a separate soup.
Take out the noodles that have been prepared previously, put them directly into the water and cook them. After the pan is hot, put two handfuls of pork fat cut into small cubes in it. After frying until oil comes out, put minced garlic, chopped green onion and sesame seeds on the noodles, pour hot oil on them, and drizzle with soy sauce.
During the stirring process, the fragrance had already drifted into Mu Xi's nose through the window.
He quickened his movements, took a bamboo tube and inserted it into the duck's neck.
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