Chapter 48 Honey
When I came down from the shower, the food was already on the table.
Scrambled eggs with leeks, salt and pepper snake steak, and Chinese cabbage fried egg soup.
We have now achieved egg freedom at home. Since we don’t have a refrigerator to keep eggs refrigerated, we try to use up the eggs of the day every day.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't wait to pick up a piece of snake steak. The snake steak was fried until golden brown. After the snake scales were scraped off, the snake skin was gelatinous, and after being fried in oil it felt like eating lard.
Snake meat is tough and chewy, and tastes a bit like chicken, but it is more tender than chicken and you can taste the sweetness in it.
It's like something between chicken and fish.
A little chili is added for seasoning, and it goes very well with rice when paired with pepper and salt.
There were a lot of bones piled in front of Zhao Yeqing. He noticed that Mu Xi, who was sitting opposite him, had only eaten a piece of snake steak and didn't eat much leeks, so he just picked out some eggs to eat.
"You are so old, but you are still picky about food."
Zhao Yeqing put a large piece of chives into Mu Xi's bowl and said, "It's hot, we have to eat vegetables."
Mu Xi stared at the leeks for two seconds, said nothing, picked them up, opened his mouth and ate them.
After finishing his meal, Mu Xi washed the dishes and told Zhao Yeqing that he would be going out into the mountains tomorrow and that he needed to rest early today, and then he went back to take a shower and sleep.
She has been going out to do some work at this time recently, and she is a little uncomfortable with going to bed early all of a sudden.
She took the peaches into the kitchen and put them away. Seeing that the stove and sink were clean, she clicked her tongue twice.
After lying in bed, I couldn't sleep, so I took out my mobile phone and watched an episode of a TV series.
If you limit yourself to watching one episode a day, and watch several TV series with hundreds of episodes added up, it will last you a long time.
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Mu Xi packed up and was about to go out early in the morning. Zhao Yeqing was still dazed when he heard the sounds of Hu Hu and Xue Bing downstairs. He leaned out of the window with sleepy eyes.
"Where are you going? I'll go with you. Wait for me."
Mu Xi stopped Zhao Yeqing who was about to go wash up, "You don't have to go. The place I'm going to is not safe. You stay at home."
After hearing what he said, Zhao Yeqing didn't force it anymore. Most of the dangers in the forest were beyond her ability to handle, and she would just be a hindrance if she went there.
"Then you better be careful." After giving the instructions, he lay back on the bed and planned to take a nap.
Mu Xi went out, but Zhao Yeqing tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
He sat up and scratched his head, then resigned himself to his fate and got up to wash.
Huhu and Xuebing were not taken out. They lay in the living room with their heads down. When they saw Zhao Yeqing coming down, they ran over and stuck to her and acted coquettishly.
Zhao Yeqing had just woken up and had no appetite yet, so he sat on the sofa petting a leopard out of boredom.
In the past, they always lay on her legs and were jerked off, but now it was too hot, so both of them lay on the bench, one on her left and the other on her right.
The red alert on the radio was not broadcast again, perhaps because it was not continuing and there was no need to broadcast it anymore.
The sun was too strong and the little water in the fields almost evaporated in a day. Zhao Yeqing turned on the faucet and let the water flow into the fields along the bamboo waterways.
Rice fields need to be kept moist until harvest.
The amount of water needed now is relatively small, so just keep the soil moist. When the seedlings grow out, a higher water level will be needed.
Zhao Yeqing remembered that he had seen people raising fish in rice fields before, which was called rice-fish symbiosis. He wondered if the fish fry from the mountains could survive in the fields.
You can try it later when the water level is high.
After draining water into the rice field, Zhao Yeqing did not turn off the faucet. He picked up the water pipe, pinched half of the water outlet to increase the water pressure, and irrigated the vegetable garden at the same time.
It wasn't even nine o'clock yet and the sun was already getting hot.
Zhao Yeqing felt hot and wanted to go to the small pond to take a bath, but when she thought of the snake yesterday, she didn't dare to go alone.
I can only go home and wait for Mu Xi to come back.
It’s really not suitable to work during the day now, and there is not much work to do at home recently.
She stuffed plastic bottles filled with water into the gaps in the freezer. After they were frozen, she would take a few bottles out and place them in the chicken coop, goose coop and rabbit cage during the hottest time of the day at noon.
A bottle will also be placed in front of the fan so that the wind it blows out can be slightly cooler.
It’s just that the temperature was really too high, and the ice in a bottle of water melted after a short time.
Zhao Yeqing took a few peach gums that he had picked yesterday and put them in a bowl and soaked them in water. He lay on a bench and ate a popsicle. He glanced at the time and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and Mu Xi had not returned yet.
It has been six hours since he left home at seven in the morning. Given his speed, I don’t know where he went that took so long.
He went out with a gun, and Zhao Yeqing didn't hear any gunshots. The mountains were quiet and the sound of gunfire could be heard far away. If he didn't hear anything, it was likely that no gunshot was fired, so it was not very dangerous.
But by the evening, no one had returned yet. Zhao Yeqing became a little anxious and thought about going out to look for her. However, the forest was too big and dangerous. If Mu Xi came back when she was out, he would have to go out to look for her again.
This is just causing more trouble.
Thinking of this, she suppressed herself again and found something to do to calm herself down.
The smoked meat in the kitchen looked finished. The originally bright red wild boar meat had been turned dark red by the smoke. Mu Xi turned off the fire before going out in the morning.
She didn’t know how to make it delicious, so she would ask Mu Xi when he came back.
The peach gum soaked at noon has expanded. After a few pieces of peach gum expand, they will make a large bowl. Use water to wash off the impurities on the surface.
I don’t have any white fungus or soapberry rice at home, so I can only stew it with plain water and add a few red dates.
The stewing time of peach gum is neither long nor short, it takes forty minutes. When the peach gum is cooked, it becomes gelatinous and crystal clear. At this time, add milk and continue to stew for ten minutes. Then Zhao Yeqing takes out yellow rock sugar from the cupboard, adds it and melts it before serving.
At eight o'clock in the evening, she waited until the peach gum was almost cold. Her heart, which had originally calmed down, became tense again. When she was about to go out, Mu Xi finally pushed open the gate.
Zhao Yeqing stood up suddenly, and before he even got to the front, he spoke first, "Where have you been? Why are you so..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw three large honeycombs in the shape of plates, covered with small hexagonal grids, in the backpack that Mu Xi had put down.
Zhao Yeqing was stunned. "You destroyed their nest?"
There must be a lot of bees in such a large beehive. She could even see many broken stingers from bee stings on Mu Xi's clothes.
Mu Xi took the honeycomb out of the backpack and put it aside, revealing a stainless steel basin underneath, with another smaller basin placed upside down on top of it.
He took out the basin and felt that it was noticeably heavy.
The stainless steel basin was placed on the ground. Zhao Yeqing saw Mu Xi smiling and raising his chin to signal her to open it and take a look. There was a stinging bump on his chin. Zhao Yeqing hesitantly stepped forward and opened the lid.
Inside was a basin full of golden honeycomb honey.
She heard Mu Xi's voice.
"Now I don't have to worry about wasting sugar."
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