Chapter 51 Pearl
The winter of the year my grandmother passed away was particularly cold, and many elderly people could not survive it.
Grandpa blamed himself a lot. He said that if he hadn't stayed in the mountains, grandma might not have died.
The lowest temperature that year was several degrees below zero, which is rare in the subtropical region. The temperature in the mountains was even worse, reaching minus eleven or twelve degrees Celsius.
In fact, even if grandma had come down the mountain, she might not have been saved. Her chronic illness had tormented her for many years, and she did not feel any pain when she passed away.
When my grandfather passed away, he left with a smile. He waited until Zhao Yeqing went to college, and he said that he could go and accompany her grandmother with peace of mind.
Mu Xi came back home at some point and handed the tissue to her.
"Grandpa Zhao has gotten what he wanted."
Zhao Yeqing took the tissue, wiped away her tears, and nodded.
There was also a jar of wine, which looked the oldest, and the red cloth on it had faded a little.
Zhao Yeqing rubbed his eyes, which were a little blurry due to tears, and saw the label clearly.
On December 30, 3007, a jar of daughter's red wine was buried, and a pearl was happily born, which was as precious as a pearl.
This is the day she was born.
All of a sudden, all the bitterness came up and Zhao Yeqing burst into tears while holding the jar.
This was buried by her grandfather when she was born, and he wanted to take it out after she got married.
But in the end, he and his grandmother didn't get to see that day.
Her birth was not what her parents expected. The two people who were together impulsively had increasing conflicts after she became pregnant. The moment she was taken out of the delivery room and handed over to her grandmother, she lost both her father and mother.
When she was a child, her grandparents acted as both father and mother to her and she received a lot of love. But people still asked her why she didn't have a father and a mother.
She knew from a young age that her birth was not expected, and she also felt that her birth was a burden to her grandparents, making them have to take care of her at their old age.
Until today, I saw it and was delighted to have a bright pearl.
It turns out that she has been a treasure in the hearts of her grandparents since the moment she was born.
She sat on the ground, holding onto the stall tightly, crying out of breath.
This was the first time she cried freely since her grandfather passed away, as if she wanted to vent all the accumulated emotions.
Her sadness, loneliness, helplessness, fear and longing.
Mu Xi didn't say anything, but just put his arm around her shoulders, let her lean on his arms, patted her back gently, and let her cry her heart out.
Huhu and Xuebing came running over upon hearing the sound, whining, circling around her anxiously, and rubbing her gently to comfort her.
After an emotional outburst, he calmed down quickly.
After crying for only a few minutes, she calmed down, sniffled and stood up, and saw that there was a large wet spot on Mu Xi's clothes.
Zhao Yeqing didn't feel embarrassed. He touched Huhu and Xuebing's heads to indicate that he was fine.
"After grandpa passed away, I rarely came back, so that I would feel that they were not dead and were still living in the mountains."
Mu Xi handed her another piece of paper, "I know."
She has always been positive towards herself and others since she was young, but she tends to escape and is unwilling to face her emotions. She hides herself like an ostrich, or simply prefers not to have them.
So he has to take it slow.
Zhao Yeqing took the paper, turned slightly, and blew his nose.
Her eyes and nose were red from crying. Mu Xi reached out and rubbed her head, "It's so ugly."
"It's none of your business."
Zhao Yeqing wrinkled his nose and rubbed his hands on the jar of daughter's red wine. "Bury it."
Four of the five jars of wine were buried again, and one jar given by my grandfather's old friend was left to make honey peach wine.
The wine jar was neither big nor small, containing about thirty pounds of wine, and was sealed with a clay lid wrapped in cloth.
Mu Xi blew away the dust on it, opened the lid and sniffed the jar. "It's sorghum wine, a light fragrance."
Mu Xi scooped out a spoonful of wine with a bamboo wine ladle commonly used in rural areas, and drank it in one gulp.
"How is it?" Zhao Yeqing could only smack her lips beside her. She didn't dare to drink it directly, for fear that the alcohol content was too high and she would fall asleep after taking a spoonful.
"About forty or fifty degrees, not bad."
Zhao Yeqing responded to the sorghum wine with awe, as the alcohol content was beyond her tolerance.
I dug out the wine jar and cried again. The peach flesh that I had cut before was a little oxidized.
Zhao Yeqing quickly put them into a glass jar, took out the honey he had brought back yesterday from the cupboard, and put enough into the jar, using three full spoonfuls of the kind used to serve soup.
Then add sorghum wine, seal the jar and place it under the stairs connecting the first and second floors, which is the coolest place.
This wine needs to be soaked for two or three months before it can be drunk.
After the dried fruits are pickled, a lot of water has come out from the bottom. Pour the peaches and the water into the pot and boil them.
In a few minutes, the house was filled with the aroma of peaches. When the water in the pot boiled, turn off the fire, cover the pot with the lid, and let the peach meat simmer in the pot for half an hour.
Mu Xi was feeding Huhu and Xuebing in the living room. Seeing Zhao Yeqing coming out of the kitchen, he suggested, "I think we can feed these two little ones some meat starting tomorrow."
Zhao Yeqing calculated that the two little leopards were almost three months old.
"Then I'll prepare some minced wild boar tomorrow morning."
Huhu and Xuebing are looking more and more like their mother, with long skulls, clear moire patterns on their fur, and round eyes.
Mu Xi opened their mouths to show her their teeth, two of which were very sharp and long.
Like the saber-toothed tiger she had seen in a documentary before.
The two cubs didn't make any noise even when their mouths were pried open; they were just quiet.
We were previously worried that Huhu might have problems with his brain development, but now it seems that there is no problem and he is jumping around very flexibly.
Leopards have large paws and are good at climbing, and clouded leopards are even better.
Zhao Yeqing took out the document and looked at the description above.
Recently I discovered that these two cats really like climbing. They can even climb up a distance on the bare walls of my house.
"Shouldn't we let them out to play on their own?"
Zhao Yeqing was a little worried. They had to adapt to life in the wild on their own. It was just that the weather was too hot right now, and they had no experience and would be easily hurt if they encountered wild beasts or poisonous snakes.
Mu Xi let the two leopards go and let them play by themselves. "It's okay. I'll take them out a couple more times and they'll learn it."
Speaking of going out, Zhao Yeqing immediately said, "Let's go to the small pond."
"OK."
Zhao Yeqing was a little impatient.
She turned back to the kitchen and took out the stewed peach flesh from the pot. The stewed peach flesh had become very soft, amber in color and somewhat transparent. She placed it neatly on a breathable bamboo winnowing basket and put it in the sun to dry.
I went back to the room to change clothes. Although the weather was hot, I couldn’t wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts when going into the mountains because there were too many snakes and insects.
Wear long-sleeved shirt and long pants, and short-sleeved shirt and shorts inside. When the time comes, just take off the outer clothes and go into the water. Just take a towel and you can set off.
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