Chapter 95: Storm
The meadow is at a high altitude, and the surrounding area is open without many trees or mountains to block the wind, so the wind is much stronger than anywhere else.
After collecting the hay, the two men remembered that the freshly cut hay was still piled in the corner.
He ran out of the house again and carried the hay from the corner into the hay room.
The wind blew the grass debris on the meadow into the air. Mu Xi quickly blocked a small stone that was blown towards his face and shouted to Zhao Yeqing,
"You go in, I'll do the rest!"
The strong wind whistled past Zhao Yeqing's ears and she couldn't hear anything.
"I can't hear you! Let's talk inside!"
A handful of hay was carried into the house. Mu Xi stopped Zhao Yeqing and repeated, "Don't go. There's not much left. I'll go."
Zhao Yeqing was interrupted by this and suddenly remembered her vegetable garden. The shed above had no air vents and she was afraid that it would be blown away.
"You go get the hay, and I'll go check on the vegetable garden!"
After saying that, he ran out in a hurry.
The storm came suddenly, and naturally everyone was in chaos.
When she ran to the back of the house, she found that half of the bamboo frame of the greenhouse in the vegetable garden had been blown over. She hurried forward to fix the frame, lifted up the front and back shed cloths to let the wind pass through, and moved large rocks to the left and right sides to crush it.
As soon as I finished, I looked up from the window and saw the bottles and jars in the kitchen being blown over.
He quickly ran to the kitchen.
The kitchen door collapsed, the cans and bottles inside fell over, plastic bags were flying everywhere, and the ashes in the middle of the fire pit were blown up by the wind, causing Zhao Yeqing, who rushed in, to get a mouthful of ashes.
She didn't have time to pick up those things, she had to close the kitchen door first.
The door had fallen into disrepair after years of neglect. The hinges were rusty and the screws had been blown away long ago.
Zhao Yeqing lifted the door, used a piece of firewood to fix it to the door frame, and propped it up with a bench from behind.
The wind in the kitchen was blocked out, and it suddenly became quiet inside.
Zhao Yeqing picked up all the bottles and jars and placed them close together in the corner of the kitchen to prevent them from being blown over or away in case of any emergency.
He took out the broom from the corner and swept the ashes back into the fire pit.
Outside the window, Mu Xi had already collected all the hay into the hay room. The door could not be moved now, or it might fall down.
Zhao Yeqing opened the window on the side of the kitchen, climbed out, and then closed the window.
The wind outside had not yet stopped, and it was blowing so hard that it hurt my face.
Zhao Yeqing opened the door of the hay room a crack, and when he saw Mu Xi inside, he sideways walked in through the crack.
I don’t know when this strong wind will stop. Huhu and Xuebing are still outside and haven’t come back yet.
The two little ones usually like to wander around in the woods when they go out, which should be safer than the grassland.
The wind volume is so strong now that if you stand outside, you feel like you are about to be blown away.
The puppies in the house were a little uneasy. They huddled close to their mother and made whimpering sounds.
There was nothing they could do now, so they simply made silage from the freshly cut grass in the hay house.
By the time the two men finished processing the truckload of hay, the sky outside the window had gradually become darker.
There are no clouds, but it seems like the whole sky is full of clouds.
It was pitch black.
"Is it going to rain?"
Zhao Yeqing was in mixed mood.
Rain after a long drought is good news, but the drought has been so long and the weather has changed so suddenly.
I always feel that it is not a good thing.
The glass on the window was originally shaking due to the wind, but now it has gradually calmed down.
Zhao Yeqing opened the door, and only a gentle breeze was left outside.
She picked up a hoe and went out. It had been dry every day and she had never thought about digging drainage holes. Now she had to dig them quickly, otherwise the vegetable fields would be flooded when it rained.
Mu Xi also followed him out.
Not only the vegetable fields, they always felt that this rain was not that simple, and drainage ditches had to be dug around the houses as well.
The two of them divided the work and worked together to dig a drainage ditch in the vegetable field. Zhao Yeqing was a skilled worker and finished it in 20 minutes.
The drainage ditch around the house was still halfway done. It was clearly noon, but the sky was so dark that it seemed like night was about to fall.
She hurried over to help and dug the drainage around the house, connecting the drainage of the vegetable garden and the drainage of the house.
We dug about ten meters forward to a lower terrain to allow the water to drain out.
Huhu and Xuebing had not returned yet, and Zhao Yeqing was walking back and forth anxiously, wondering if the wind was too strong and broke the tree, scaring the two little leopards.
Mu Xi took out the remaining bark from the trees that were cut down when the toilet and bathroom were built, stepped on a bench, and climbed onto the roof with his hands.
There is a hole in the roof. When I was lying at home before, I could vaguely see some light coming through the board above my head.
The houses are all small wooden houses, not very large in size, and several of them are covered with pieces of tree bark, which are then held down with the original stones on the roof.
The bark of the tree will inevitably be arched, so it needs to be flattened and pressed down with stones to prevent rainwater from flowing everywhere.
The sky had already become completely dark, and Zhao Yeqing lit the oil lamp.
This oil lamp is a kerosene lamp. There is a glass bottle underneath. A hole is drilled in the metal cover of the glass bottle and a wick is stuffed inside.
There is a light bulb in this wooden house. After all, before the natural disaster, their country was very powerful. Even if there was a family living in a mountain valley, the country would help them get electricity.
But there was still a lot of kerosene and lamp wicks in the tool shed, which showed that the original owner was a very nostalgic person.
Since the two of them came here, they have been busy running around, working from sunrise to sunset, just pointing to one lamp and never thinking of making another one.
It was getting dark. Zhao Yeqing was at home having a rare chance to relax, but he felt anxious and wanted to find something to do to calm himself down.
I just finished a bottle of hot sauce that I brought back from the village.
She cleaned the hot sauce bottle and used a screwdriver to drill a hole in the metal lid.
The wick passed through the metal lid and was just long enough to touch the bottom of the bottle.
When the glass bottle is filled with kerosene, the capillary action of the wick will draw up the kerosene in the bottle.
Zhao Yeqing lit the newly made kerosene lamp, confirmed that it could be lit, and then turned off the lamp.
Mu Xi laid the bark on the roof and returned to the room. Looking at Zhao Yeqing who seemed a little worried, he tore off a wet tissue and wiped her face a few times.
"Those two are very smart, why worry about them?"
Zhao Yeqing's face was still covered in wood ash from the time in the kitchen, and was wiped dirty with a piece of paper towel.
She pulled another one off and cleaned it in front of the mirror.
It wasn't just because the two little leopards hadn't come back yet, but she suddenly felt inexplicably panicked when she saw the gloomy sky.
I am also worried that the sudden change will make the situation worse.
But when Zhao Yeqing looked up after wiping his face, he saw Mu Xi's face was full of indifference, as if it would be better to think about what to eat tonight than to worry about these things.
My heart was inexplicably calmed.
Anyway, it has been so long now, so just cover it up with earth when the water comes.
Seeing that the man seemed to have figured it out, Mu Xi turned around and left.
"I'm going to fix the kitchen door."
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