Chapter 534 Cotton Flower
This period is the flowering season of cotton. When you wake up in the morning, you can see small white flowers blooming among the fields.
Cotton flowers bloom at night. During the day, the white flowers are exposed to sunlight and the passage of time, and the chlorophyll in them will gradually increase until the white petals turn into pink or yellow.
The cotton flowers are quite pretty. They are in bloom during this period. The cotton field at the door looks like a specially planted flower field. It makes me feel good just looking at it while I am working.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the flowers that were growing more and more, so he opened the awning after spraying pesticides.
The sun was particularly hot at noon. Zhao Yeqing didn't want to do anything in this weather, so he just hid in the room and turned on the air conditioner.
The cool 26-degree temperature in the room made her drowsy. She set a timer to turn off the air conditioner after two hours and fell asleep as soon as she covered herself with the quilt.
But when two hours were almost up, she was woken up by a loud noise before the air conditioner was turned off.
I got up and opened the curtains. The outside, which was blindingly bright two hours ago, was now completely grey.
Dark clouds with lightning hovered in the sky, and the white and purple electric light was looming.
Big drops of rain fell from the sky, along with small grains of hail, which hit the concrete ground, bounced, and rolled into the gutter along with the rain.
it sleets.
After Zhao Yeqing turned off the air conditioner, she opened the window. A cool breeze that was even colder than the air conditioner blew in. She opened the closet and put on a small cardigan before going downstairs.
I changed into a pair of flip-flops when I went out. I went to the kitchen and didn't see anyone, so I took out the intercom and started calling.
Zhao Yeqing asked them what was going on over there and waited for two or three minutes before there was a response from the intercom.
Mu Xi: "Don't worry, we are almost done, but the saplings are too heavy. We are now in the last move and it will be home within an hour."
Zhao Yeqing replied that he understood, and then boiled a large pot of ginger soup and waited for them to come back.
When they came back, everyone was soaked. Each of them drank a large bowl of ginger soup before taking a shower, and then drank another bowl after the shower.
Zhao Yeqing used a hair dryer to blow dry Mu Xi's hair. The whirring sound was a bit noisy. He said loudly to Zhao Yeqing, "It took us three hours to dig out the saplings, and then we kept moving them. It was a long way from the bottom of the mountain, and the mountain road was not easy to walk on. Fortunately, it was the last trip, so we didn't get wet in the rain."
With a normal person's walking speed, it takes half an hour to walk from the meadow to the orchard. Mu Xi, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng can carry two saplings at a time, but Feng Lixuan can only carry one. It takes a little more than an hour to go back and forth to carry seven saplings.
Including the rest time in between, they were just able to move the more than 30 saplings they had dug out, load them on the pickup truck and pull them back.
Everyone was exhausted.
Zhao Yeqing knew that the tree was not light. When Mu Xi carried two trees back to plant, she tried to pick them up. It must have weighed at least several dozen kilograms.
She took out the medicated oil from the cupboard and rubbed it on Mu Xi's arm until it became warm, to prevent his arm from hurting tomorrow.
The remaining few people were not so lucky. It was not convenient for Zhao Yeqing to rub the several grown men, and they did not have the strength to rub it themselves. They could only apply it on their bodies and wait for the skin to absorb it slowly. It was better than nothing.
This collision of cold and warm air did not last long, and the rain and hail stopped before it was time to go to bed.
When I opened my eyes again, it was another sunny morning, and there was no delay in the plane coming to pick me up.
This time, in addition to the saplings, piglets were also on the plane. Feng Lixuan slapped his thigh and remembered, "Oh, I said I forgot something. I still didn't get to eat the roast suckling pig!"
"Next time, definitely next time."
The transport plane flew away, and Mu Xi also got on the helicopter. He told Zhao Yeqing to remember to close the doors and windows when he went to bed at night, and not to forget to close the windows like he did last night and be woken up by mosquitoes in the middle of the night.
Speaking of this, she had not yet dealt with the pile of insect corpses. After seeing Mu Xi off, she returned to the room, opened the balcony door, and saw that the windowsill outside was full of insect corpses, emitting a pungent odor.
This is the giant water ant that is common after rainy days. It has long wings and will appear in swarms after a hot rain. They will rush to any place with light.
Fortunately, there was only a tiny gap in the window last night, and the only things that flew in were blood-sucking mosquitoes. If I had been bitten by one of these things, I would have cried in pain.
Zhao Yeqing cleaned up the corpses of the giant water ants and filled a large shovel with the corpses of the giant water ants he found on the four windowsills upstairs and downstairs. He estimated the weight to be in kilograms.
This thing lays eggs in late spring and is most common in summer. It comes out as soon as it rains. It's the most annoying thing.
But it was not a waste. Zhao Yeqing opened the chicken coop, and the chickens slowly wandered out. Seeing the piles of dead giant water ants on the ground, they all flew over with their wings flashing to grab the food.
Zhao Yeqing had expected this scene to happen, so he opened the chicken coop and ran away, without getting blown into the face by the chicken feathers that were blown up by the flapping wings.
Yesterday's rain and hail did not cause much impact on the grain fields. At that time, the awning was open. The top of the awning was a roof-shaped triangle, and any hail that fell on it would slide into the gutter.
The land has become more fertile after being irrigated by the summer rain. The weeds on it were bent yesterday, but today they have straightened up after being soaked in the sun for half a day, and their leaves are even more shiny.
The house that was noisy yesterday has returned to peace today. Zhao Yeqing is a solitary person, and when he is alone he just feels that the air is a lot fresher.
Of course, Brother Mu is not considered a human being at certain times.
After Mu Xi arrived in the city, he first went to see Old Mrs. Feng and stayed at Feng's house for two hours before coming out. After coming out, he put a large bag of things on the helicopter and turned around to look for his assistant.
The assistant had already received the wild boar cub and thought Mu Xi was here to talk about this matter. Unexpectedly, he took out his mobile phone, opened the map, and talked to him for nearly an hour.
It was already past noon when Mu Xi came out again. He politely declined the assistant's offer to stay for lunch, walked to the helipad, and drove away from the city in a helicopter.
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Zhao Yeqing always turns on a night light when she sleeps alone at home. When she wakes up, the night light is turned off and the cardigan she placed on the back of the chair last night is nowhere to be seen.
I got up and went downstairs, and there was a burst of fragrance coming from the kitchen.
"Why are you back so early?"
Mu Xi brought breakfast to the table: "I'll be back after I finish my work."
Zhao Yeqing had just picked up the chopsticks when he noticed that the dark circles under someone's eyes were comparable to those of a national treasure.
"What were you doing last night? Didn't you sleep?"
Mu Xi, "...Well, I didn't sleep well."
"Are you used to your bed? No, you are not used to your bed either. Did you sleep in the dormitory last night? They were snoring, right?"
Mu Xi picked up the meatballs from his bowl and stuffed them into her mouth: "I'll go to sleep in a while, and take you somewhere tonight."
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