Chapter 65: Sweet Potato Harvest
Zhao Yeqing seemed to have not expected that Mu Xi was looking at her. This unexpected gaze made her stunned. She blinked and was about to say something, but the other party shifted his gaze and spoke first.
"How is it? Are you feeling unwell?"
Zhao Yeqing lay down and moved his body, feeling it. Apart from being hard, there was nothing wrong with it.
She just felt that the ceiling she was facing was made of dirt, which made her feel a little insecure, as if dirt would fall on her face.
She sat up and pointed above her head. "Can this be boarded up?"
Mu Xi shook his head, "It will get damp, use plastic wrap instead."
There were less than ten meters of plastic film left, and she really couldn't bear to throw it away.
Mu Xi found it funny. "This won't be consumed. If you really need it, you can just take it down."
That was not impossible. Zhao Yeqing volunteered to go up and get it, and asked, "Do you need anything else to fix it?"
The plastic film is thin in texture and is prone to cracking when fixed directly with nails.
Mu Xi thought for a while and said, "Let's use the plastic film as a waterproof layer and put a piece of bark underneath, so there's no need to fix it."
When I cut down the tree to make the bed just now, the bark was not useful and just left it unused. Now it comes in handy.
The bark should be flattened first. The freshly peeled bark still contains moisture, so it needs to be roasted over fire. After being roasted, it will not easily get moldy or infested with insects.
Fix the plastic film on the bark at the four corners with an air nail gun, and then insert the entire piece of bark between the top soil layer and the stone bricks of the wall from front to back and left to right.
The ceiling is finished.
The light-colored bark inside faces the cellar, adding a touch of brightness to the entire space and making it seem less depressing.
It was already 12 o'clock, when the sun was the hottest, Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to take the fan down and take the two cubs down with him.
She took a small stainless steel basin, filled it with water, put it in the freezer and froze it. She then placed it in the cellar to cool down when she went to bed at night.
I washed the cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers picked in the morning from the vegetable basket and put them in separate bowls. I took the remaining vegetables in the bowl and basket down to the cellar.
"I don't have much appetite this day, let's eat some vegetarian food."
Mu Xi had no objection and picked up a cucumber to eat.
Zhao Yeqing grabbed the tomatoes. She only washed one and saved the remaining two to make the scrambled eggs with tomatoes that she had been craving for.
The tomato was cut in half and one half was handed to Mu Xi.
The fully ripe tomatoes are juicy and tender, and the tomato flavor is very strong.
The tomatoes bought at the market are picked before they are ripe for easier transportation. They are still hard and crisp and very acidic when you bring them home.
The sandy tomatoes that are picked when they are fully ripe on the stem are sweet and sour and melt in your mouth, making them the best.
Her eyes narrowed as she ate. She finished it in just a few bites and continued to eat a bell pepper.
Huhu and Xuebing went down to the cellar for the first time. They curiously stretched out their paws to touch the walls and step on the floor.
The area in the cellar is too small, and the two cubs are very obedient and won’t climb onto the bed by themselves, so there is only a very small space for them to move around, but it doesn’t affect their mood at all.
There is some friction on the stone brick wall, and there are small stress points between the bricks.
The two little leopards climbed up the wall and reached the top in just a few steps.
Mu Xi looked at the two and said, "It's time to teach them to hunt on their own."
Zhao Yeqing's knowledge of leopard hunting was still based on fragments of the animal world, so he could only ask Mu Xi to teach him.
She hardly slept that night, so she said something to Mu Xi and started to catch up on her sleep.
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When she woke up again, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon and she was still half asleep.
It was a rare good sleep during this period.
Mu Xi was no longer in the cellar, and the other two were also carried out.
Zhao Yeqing climbed up, heard the sound of shoveling outside the yard, put on his coat and trousers and walked out.
The cellar has been dug to a depth of two meters, and we are starting to dig forward to the width of the cellar.
Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to come up and rest, and let her go down.
Mu Xi didn't agree, "I just came down."
She could only move the soil next to it into the woods, watch the sun set, and water the plants for the second time of the day.
The water flow is indeed smaller than before, and it is not ruled out that the water pipe was knocked crooked by an animal.
The weather is too hot, so I have to change two sets of clothes every day, and the laundry detergent at home is used up too quickly.
She has no habit of hoarding soap and uses laundry detergent to wash all her clothes. Washing clothes for two people consumes a lot of laundry detergent every day.
It is now early August. In another month, the soapberry trees in the mountains will bear fruit and drop their fruits. I will have to pick some to make laundry detergent.
She washed and hung out the clothes and thought about what to eat tonight.
Cooking in hot weather is definitely a torture. The kitchen is like a sauna. Zhao Yeqing only had some fruits for lunch. Now his stomach is rumbling but he has no appetite.
I'll probably have even less appetite after cooking in this kitchen.
When you are undecided, you should learn to hand the problem over to others.
Zhao Yeqing ran to ask Mu Xi what he wanted to eat in the evening.
He seemed to know what Zhao Yeqing was thinking. "Boil a kettle of water and make some noodles. I'll make you something delicious tomorrow. Just eat something for today."
With anticipation, my appetite has improved.
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Mu Xi was very efficient. After she finished her noodles and had just washed the dishes, she went over to see if she could help and found that the cellar had almost been dug.
Mu Xi leveled and compacted the soil inside before coming up.
The cellar door has not been made yet. This is easy. Zhao Yeqing took out the old wooden door that he had replaced before, cut it in half and placed it on top.
The size is just right.
She walked into the sweet potato field and pulled apart the vines.
The grown fruits have already poked their heads out of the ground. Zhao Yeqing dug up some soil with his hands and squeezed them.
The top of the fruit has become a little soft. It must be because the sun is too strong and it has wilted a little. It's time to harvest it.
Get the sickle from the kitchen and cut the vines first.
The sweet potato fields are clustered together. Three long bulges of land are no longer covered by the leaves of the sweet potato vines, and the light pink sweet potato fruits are showing their heads.
Digging sweet potatoes is a technical job. It is not easy to break them with a small shovel, but the efficiency is very low. Using a hoe is efficient, but the sweet potatoes may all be broken with one hoe. You have to find the right position before you start.
Based on the exposed tip of the sweet potato, judge the direction of the fruit underneath, dig down a few centimeters, and use force to push out the soil. As the soil rises, a series of sweet potatoes underground will be brought out.
This is the first plant harvested, and it’s a good start.
Zhao Yeqing shook off the dirt on the sweet potatoes, revealing the big, plump potatoes.
This plant produced eight sweet potatoes, all of which were round and plump. She shook them with her hand and estimated that they weighed about 4 kilograms.
She planted nearly one hundred sweet potato seedlings in total. If they grow at this rate, she can harvest nearly four hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao Yeqing's mouth never curled up.
For the first time, I truly felt the joy of harvest.
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