Chapter 533 Bamboo Wall
They arrived at the orchard before afternoon the next day.
The efficiency is faster than expected. It was originally scheduled to take five days, but it’s only the second day now.
However, digging the saplings and carrying them back to the meadow would take at least a whole day.
So, in the next two days, everyone can have a good rest, and wait for the transport plane to come and pick them up in three days. They can then dig out the saplings one day in advance and move them back.
Feng Lixuan expressed his desire to follow Dahuang out to herd sheep. Last time he said he wanted to experience various projects. In the last few days, he followed the old lady in the house to watch TV series. He was so engrossed in the drama that he didn't have time to go out and play.
Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng were not very interested in grazing, so Mu Xi threw the car keys to them and asked them to drive to the meadow by themselves.
There were only the two of them left at home again. Mu Xi endured for two days and finally they could enjoy their own world.
Zhao Yeqing glared at him: "These are the things that are on your mind all day long."
Mu Xi was innocent, he just wanted the two of them to be alone together, there was really no such nonsense in his mind.
But Zhao Yeqing was very thin-skinned. Ever since the last TV drama incident, whenever Mu Xi approached her in front of them, she would be pushed away.
Mu Xi wrapped his two strong arms around her waist, holding her so that she wouldn't move. "Don't push me. You'll be embarrassed when they come back. I have to go to the city with them in two days. You pushed me when you were by my side, and you said you missed me when I wasn't around."
Zhao Yeqing frowned: "Going into the city again?"
"Well... Xiao Zhou and the others said when they came that the captain asked me to go and help. It's in the city and it's not dangerous."
"Busy man." Zhao Yeqing pinched his face and smeared the black ash from the fire on his hands on his face. "How long will you be gone?"
"I'll be back in one day."
Mu Xi seemed unaware of the marks on his face until Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng came back to remind him.
"What's on Brother Mu's face?"
Mu Xi raised his hand and wiped it, and his hands were all black. He said helplessly: "I was cooking silkworm cocoons over the fire, and I got them accidentally."
Xiao Zheng had to be more careful and he would have understood when he saw the slender handprint that did not belong to Brother Mu.
It's just a couple's trick, and they are just part of the play.
The two of them cooked most of the cocoons during the one afternoon they went out to play. Zhao Yeqing tried to spin the thread using the same method as last time, and now the silk thread on hand was as thick as his wrist.
Mu Xi made dinner. Zhao Yeqing became addicted to making silk thread, so he went to the basement to make it again after dinner.
Her hands kept going in and out of the water, and the skin on her fingers had become wrinkled and white. Mu Xi stopped her and took over to finish working on the remaining cocoons.
Since Zhao Yeqing couldn't make the thread, he took the silk thread to the spinning wheel and tried to figure out how to use it.
The descriptions on the books she brought back were half-clear, and there was little silk, so she didn't dare to mess around with it, as the cost of trial and error was too high.
The last time the old lady was here, she mentioned it, saying that she had done it when she was young, and she planned to do it again the next time the old lady came to live with her.
The current temperature is 35 degrees during the hottest day. Air conditioners are not allowed to be turned on during the day in residential areas of the city. In order to save electricity, they can only be turned on at night.
He didn't know if the old lady could stand this weather, so Zhao Yeqing wanted to bring her over to live with him during this period and turn on the air conditioner at home as he pleased.
They haven't told Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng about the freedom of electricity use. They are not that familiar with it and don't want the gas station's details to be exposed, so the air conditioner is only turned on at night.
They were very satisfied with this. "The dormitory has air conditioning, but recently most people have gone out to do construction work. We can't turn on the air conditioning at night because there are only a few of us. They say it's too wasteful. We can only use fans. Your place is better."
Big dormitory?
Zhao Yeqing glanced at Mu Xi, and Mu Xi explained: "It's the kind you think of, the kind of large dormitory with more than 10 or 20 people during the nap time in the first, second and third grade of elementary school."
hiss...
Zhao Yeqing felt a little suffocated just thinking about it. Twenty or so grown men were living in there, and the smell of sweat in the hot summer would probably be enough to suffocate people.
Looking at the miserable faces of Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng, I couldn't say any words of comfort against my conscience.
During the last day of the break on the meadow, Mu Xi asked the three of them to help cut bamboo.
Only Feng Lixuan looked reluctant and didn't want to leave the bed, while Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng were very active.
"I have to train every day in the city. I took a day off yesterday. I feel weak all over if I don't work today!"
After hearing what the two said, Zhao Yeqing wanted to keep the people at home for a few more days, but unfortunately it was not up to her to decide. It would be better if they could come during the busy farming season next time.
The soybeans can be harvested in a month. Now the sun is strong, so we have to open the automatic awning at noon.
Automated things are good. There was a plant in a small corner that was not covered by the sun. It was exposed to the sun for a month. Now it is a whole circle smaller than the plants in the shade, and it is a little withered and yellow.
It's time to water the plants in the morning and evening.
Four big men cut down the bamboo, trimmed it and dragged it back to the yard. They split it in half vertically with a hatchet and handed it to the next person to grind off the thorns on the broken surface. They then passed it to the next person to saw it into the appropriate length. The last person fixed the bamboo into a wall with nails.
A complete assembly line operation.
This is a bamboo wall used to divide the large room on the first floor into small rooms. Even after it is nailed, it is still a semi-finished product.
Mu Xi checked the size of each piece and said, "When I go to the city with them, I will look for some sliding rail parts. If I can find any, I can make the door of the small room slide and save space."
In fact, it can be done without a slide rail, but it will not be as smooth to pull. However, it would be too troublesome to DIY the slide rail, and Mu Xi has never done it.
Now Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng sleep in the bed that old man Zhang Zheng slept in last time, and Feng Lixuan sleeps in the old lady's bed. Both are two-meter beds, and if you partition the room, you can only have two beds at most, which is a bit crowded.
The two-meter bed can be divided into two halves, just like the one that two people slept on originally, a large bed made up of two small beds put together. However, the mattress on it was moved back from a tourist area and cannot be split, so it can only be put together to form a large bed.
Every morning you can hear Xiao Zheng complaining about how badly Xiao Zhou sleeps.
I couldn't hear any of them this morning. When Zhao Yeqing got up, the four of them had already set out to dig up saplings.
She muttered, "Leaving so early."
It's just dawn now. It gets light early in the summer, and it's not even eight o'clock yet.
Zhao Yeqing had soft buns for breakfast. He ate them in a few bites and then hurried to the fields to spray pesticides.
According to the climate here, the cotton boll-bearing period is the end of August. Now that the climate has returned to normal, the time for planting crops can finally be calculated according to common sense.
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