Chapter 481 Seeing
Even after the New Year, there was still no movement in the sky.
Zhao Yeqing took out the precious green leafy vegetables that he was going to eat today from the planting basement. Every year, the price of green leafy vegetables is the highest during the few days after the Chinese New Year.
Seeing Mu Xi coming back from outside, he shook his head at her, meaning that nothing happened today.
Zhao Yeqing washed the fresh green vegetables one by one and said, "Don't worry. If they don't find us, maybe they have given up on us. But it could also be because of this period of time. After all, the villains also have to celebrate the New Year."
Who would work overtime during the Chinese New Year? In the past, when we were social animals, we didn’t have to work like a slave. Now, there are no rules anymore. Even if we are small-time employees, we should have more than ten days of paid annual leave, right?
"That makes sense." Mu Xi was convinced, but he still couldn't feel truly at ease without being able to see him.
After entering the kitchen, the steam from the stewing pot made the temperature inside much higher than outside. He took off his coat and hung it on the back of a chair, rolled up the sleeves of his sweater and went to help.
Zhao Yeqing handed him the cleaned greens in his hand and said, "Put them in the basket. Wait until the soup is almost ready before cooking."
He grabbed the towel and wiped off the water droplets left on his hands after washing the vegetables, then glanced out the window.
The temperature is relatively low this year. Looking at the backyard from the kitchen, it is no longer as lush green as it was in the past two years. The weeds in the corners have turned yellow, and even the banana leaves have turned a light yellow.
The wisteria that has climbed all over the support is now bare, without any green leaves, and will not be awakened until the spring breeze blows.
Only the leaves of the two citrus trees were still glossy green, but a lot of them had fallen off, making them look rather sparse, like those of an early worker who has been working for five or six years.
It's a bit like her during those years.
The yard did not look as lively as it did in spring and summer. After the north wind blew, gusts of cold wind slipped in through the windows that were opened for ventilation, accompanied by the rustling sound of bamboo leaves outside, showing the unique bleakness of winter.
She turned her gaze back to Mu Xi. It seemed that she had not seen any hair loss since this man came back. Thinking of what he said at the beginning that he opened his own B&B, she suddenly understood.
It turns out that people who don’t work can still protect their hair.
When the weather is hot, Mu Xi always cuts his hair short, the kind with a buzz cut. His facial lines are clear and his features are three-dimensional, which suits him very well. The buzz cut looks refreshing and is easy to manage.
Now that the weather has gotten a little colder, he will let his hair grow a little longer. The longest hair on his forehead just reaches his eyebrows. With his forehead covered, the whole person looks softer.
She put her fingers into Mu Xi's hair. It is said that people with soft hair have good tempers. Mu Xi's hair was soft when she was a child. She scoffed at this saying at that time, but now she thinks it makes some sense.
Mu Xi felt Zhao Yeqing raising her hand to stroke his hair. Her hand, which was peeling a white radish, did not stop, but her head naturally turned towards her.
Well, he does have a good temper.
Originally, Zhao Yeqing planned to have beef brisket stewed with white radish in the evening, but he wanted to have a sweet and sour taste, so he changed it to beef brisket stewed with tomatoes.
There are no fresh tomatoes this season. I don’t know why, but the tomatoes transplanted to the basement for several years cannot bear fruit normally. Even if they are pollinated after flowering, the fruits are deformed or have navel rot.
Fortunately, before transplanting in winter, the two picked all the tomatoes on the branches, put some in the freezer, and made some into canned tomato sauce, which has been preserved until now and still tastes like fresh tomatoes.
What is stewed in the pot is tomato beef brisket. It is not cooked in a pressure cooker but in a casserole. It takes a long time and it is estimated that it will take another hour before the meal can be served.
The radish that was originally taken out of the cellar to be used to stew beef brisket became tonight's soup.
After cutting into slices, soak them in water. When the beef brisket is stewed, put it in water and cook it. Add a spoonful of salt and a handful of chopped green onions to make a sweet and delicious radish soup that removes oil and greasiness.
The fresh milk squeezed out today is still in the yard. There is too much milk to fit in the refrigerator. The temperature outside is about ten degrees during the day and about five or six degrees at night. It won't go bad if left outdoors for a day and a night.
Zhao Yeqing scooped out two scoops and boiled them, then put them back outside. He planned to make jelly into it later tonight. He would store the jelly in the refrigerator and eat it as a dessert for several days.
It is served in a square thick glass bowl, a full bowl, for two people to have as dessert after the meal, or boil a bowl of hot brown sugar water, scoop a large spoonful of jelly into the bowl, chop it into small pieces with a spoon, and then add a large spoonful of boiled sweetened red beans, it becomes a bowl of warming winter dessert.
It was already the seventh day of the first lunar month when we finished this big bowl of jelly.
Mu Xi and Zhao Yeqing tidied the cellar in the morning. They took out the sweet potatoes that were about to sprout, cut them into pieces and cooked them into pig feed. It was not until the afternoon that they remembered to go to the watchtower to check the situation.
Climbing up the small bamboo platform, Mu Xi's expression changed and his brows furrowed slightly. He still didn't see the helicopter, but he saw the abnormal shape of white clouds.
There was some fog this morning. The cloud pressure was low and the altitude nearby was high, so there were often clouds that seemed within reach. You couldn't touch them, but they felt very close.
The same situation occurred today, but the clouds above the Yunwu Mountain seemed to have been hit by something, and cracks appeared on the sides of the full white clouds, which looked very abrupt at first glance.
It was quite far away, even farther than Yunwu Mountain. Mu Xi saw it with a telescope. No wonder he didn't hear the sound of the helicopter.
He had been up there for half an hour and had not come down yet. It was already five o'clock. It gets dark early in winter. It would be dark in another hour. If the helicopter wanted to return, it would choose to go back now.
Sure enough, after waiting for another ten minutes, he saw through the telescope a small dot rising in the distance behind the Yunwu Mountain and flying straight to the right. Mu Xi adjusted the telescope to the highest magnification and estimated that the helicopter was more than two hundred kilometers away from the grassland.
I can't tell clearly whether it is the same helicopter that came last time. After all, it is just a handheld telescope. Even if the magnification is high enough, it will still become grainy and blurry.
The colors are similar, both are black.
Before Mu Xi came down from the watchtower, he pointed the surveillance camera in the direction where he saw the helicopter.
The helicopter is too far away, so the surveillance camera probably can't pick it up, but at least we can see if they are approaching this side.
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