Chapter 62 Cellar
Zhao Yeqing has been on alert for several days since he heard a bear roar near his home.
Mu Xi hardly ever went out. He only went to the small pond to collect the fish cages every other day and then returned quickly after that.
Both of them had dark circles under their eyes and could hardly sleep at night.
The weather was too hot, and the wind from the fan was hot. Putting ice cubes in front of the fan didn't help, as they melted into water in less than half an hour, and then I was woken up by the heat again.
Over and over again, I could hardly sleep for three hours a night.
Not to mention Mu Xi who didn't have a fan. Men's body temperature is originally higher. Now the temperature difference between day and night is not big, and it is very hot at night. She doesn't know how Mu Xi sleeps.
Unable to sleep at night, she simply got up and thought of a solution.
Even if Mu Xi and himself lived in the same room, the temperature in the room could not be lowered by this fan alone.
She couldn't think of any way to lower the temperature in the room without air conditioning.
The only solution is not to live here.
The temperature in the forest is much lower than at home, but if you move into the forest, you have to build a house, and defense is also a problem. If you encounter bears and wild boars, you can only fight head-on.
Moving into a cave would also make it easier to encounter wild beasts, and the animals in the mountains would also seek caves to escape the heat.
Zhao Yeqing could only think of one place that was both safe and relatively cool.
The cellar of the house.
She hardly ever went downstairs since she had eaten all the sweet potatoes, potatoes, cabbages and radishes in the cellar.
Zhao Yeqing used his cell phone as a flashlight and opened the cellar door.
The entrance to the cellar is in the yard, next to the kitchen. Due to the soil and pipes, the cellar was dug quite deep, at least four meters from the ground.
As soon as the door was opened, a cool breeze rushed out from the bottom to the top. There were pipes on the ground for ventilation in the cellar to avoid accidents. However, she waited for a while before going down, fearing that there would be a lack of oxygen inside.
Zhao Yeqing climbed down with a flashlight. The light in the cellar was not connected to a power source, so he could only use a flashlight for lighting.
After entering the cellar, she felt the long-lost coolness, and instantly felt that all the pores in her body relaxed.
Looking around with a flashlight, I saw that the entire cellar was covered with stone bricks and had not been leaked by groundwater for all these years. The area was neither big nor small, only about two or three square meters, and could barely accommodate two single beds.
The temperature difference between the cellar and the ground can be about ten degrees, or about thirty degrees.
In the past summers, I would rarely let the temperature of my room exceed 26 degrees. Every summer, the air conditioner would be kept at this temperature, never higher. The room was cool and covered with a thick quilt, which was the correct way to sleep in on weekends in summer.
So, many things are achieved through comparison.
Now she is very grateful that she can sleep in a temperature of about 30 degrees.
In order to maintain the temperature in the cellar, the cellar door above her head was closed when she came down.
Just as she was about to go up, the door was opened.
Mu Xi squatted at the entrance of the cellar, looked down at her and asked, "Why are you not sleeping so late?"
Zhao Yeqing climbed up and expressed his thoughts.
"Our beds definitely can't fit in there. They're too big. They can only hold two small dormitory beds, about 1.2 meters long."
When Mu Xi heard the word "we", the corner of his eyebrows raised.
He leaned slightly to the side, allowing himself to be shrouded by the shadow of the eaves, without revealing any expression on his face.
Zhao Yeqing saw that the person in front of him didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't look at him. He didn't reply for a long time, so he moved closer to ask, "What do you think?"
Mu Xi suppressed his emotions and began to carefully consider the feasibility.
The entrance to the cellar is not big, so if the bed is to be moved in, it has to be disassembled into pieces.
Zhao Yeqing's bed was a big bed bought by Grandpa Zhao later. It had a thick Simmons mattress and definitely could not fit into this small hole. His bed was not small either, at one and a half meters wide.
The only options now are to either sleep on the floor or make a new bed.
To remake the bed, you can first make the wooden boards, put them in the basement, and then start assembling them.
Sleeping on the floor is convenient, but it is uncomfortable and cramped.
Without a quilted mattress, there is still a big difference between sleeping on wooden boards and sleeping on red bricks. The wooden boards may at most make you feel hard, but the red brick floors are very uncomfortable. If you sleep deeply, you cannot turn over, and when you wake up, your body will be covered with bruises.
Mu Xi thought for a while and decided that it would be better to make a bed.
The cellar is already underground, it is cold and damp. If you sleep on the floor, you will probably get sick.
She was not afraid of his hot constitution. In the past, Zhao Yeqing's hands were cold in winter. There was no habit of heating kangs in the south, so she could only fall asleep at night with the help of a hot water bottle and an electric blanket.
If you catch a cold in the cellar, your body will not be able to bear it when the high temperature passes and the winter weather turns cold.
He checked the time. It was three in the morning.
At this time, the moon in the sky reflects the sunlight, like a large light ball emitting white light, and it can be seen clearly without turning on the light.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, Mu Xi took an axe and went into the nearby woods to chop trees.
Zhao Yeqing took a ruler and went down to the cellar to carefully measure the dimensions.
It’s less than three square meters, and there’s almost no space left to step on after placing two small beds.
If the beds are made one meter wide and one meter eighty long, there will be some space between the two beds, and there will also be room at the end of the beds to put some things.
By the time the sweet potatoes and potatoes are harvested, they can still be piled up.
Mu Xi’s legs might not be able to be straightened.
If the cellar was not sealed with stone bricks and had just earth walls, it would be fine and could be expanded by digging. But now that it is sealed with stone bricks, if you want to expand it again you can only dig out one wall. It is not known whether the stone bricks can still be used, and the workload is also very large.
Zhao Yeqing climbed up and walked into the woods to tell Mu Xi the measurements she had taken.
She was still wearing slippers. This was the first time since she came back that she went into the woods at this time without changing into protective clothes.
Mu Xi heard footsteps and turned around to see Zhao Yeqing with her long hair tied loosely behind her head. She was wearing a white cotton and linen pajamas. The short-sleeved shirt and pants were a bit loose, which made her already thin arms and legs look even more slender and long. She was wearing a pair of rabbit slippers on her feet.
Her skin, which was usually tightly protected by a sun-proof jacket, was still fair and flawless. The bright moonlight shone through the leaves and onto her body, making her look somewhat translucent. He was lost in thought for a moment.
The mud on the ground was dried by the sun and crumbled into pieces when stepped on. Zhao Yeqing was wearing slippers and the crushed soil went straight into her shoes.
She walked up to Mu Xi and saw that he was in a daze. She guessed that he might feel that the way he walked looked awkward, so she reached out to hold his shoulders, lifted one foot, pulled off his slippers and shook off the dirt inside.
Zhao Yeqing was shaking her hands to shake off the dirt, so much so that she ignored the fact that the shoulder she was resting her hands on was extremely stiff from beginning to end.
When Mu Xi heard her tell him the size of the cellar, he loosened his hand on his shoulder, lowered his eyelashes to hide the dark current in his eyes, turned around and picked up the axe with a calm expression.
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