Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Taking his hand back from the window, Zhao Yeqing stared blankly at the snowflakes in his hand.

Really hexagonal.

She quickly walked over and stretched out her hand in front of Mu Xi before the snowflakes melted, "Look! Hexagon!"

Most of the snow in Meishan is sandy and granular. In their memories, there has never been heavy snowfall. This is the first time they have seen this kind of snowflakes.

The window was not closed, and the temperature in the room slowly dropped. Zhao Yeqing watched the snowflakes on his hands melt slowly before he remembered to close the window.

After a while, her nose felt a little itchy, and she rubbed her nose subconsciously.

Mu Xi held her hand, which was already cold, "Come up quickly, don't catch a cold soon."

After that, he moved to the side where Zhao Yeqing was sleeping and tucked her into his warm bed.

The quilt was pulled up to her chin, and Mu Xi covered her hands and feet to keep them warm before getting out of bed.

The damper of the fireplace was opened, and a fire started inside.

There was a small basket in the room for firewood, and it was almost empty.

Mu Xi put on his coat, put on his shoes and went out to get firewood.

As soon as I stepped into the yard, the snow had reached my ankles. When I stepped on my feet, there was a crisp squeezing sound and there was a slight slip.

Everything as far as the eye could see was covered with a layer of white snow. Fortunately, the light snowfall two days ago reminded the two of them that the cow pens, sheep pens, chicken coops and stables were all tightly closed.

After Mu Xi brought the firewood into the room, Zhao Yeqing also got up. After the fireplace was raised, the room became much warmer. She put on her coat and walked to the side.

"Is it cold outside?"

As he spoke, he stood up on tiptoes and patted the snowflakes off Mu Xi's head.

Mu Xi added two more logs to the fireplace, "It's cold, but not as cold as I imagined. It's better than when there was heavy sand and snow in the past."

It's really cold when there's sand and snow, especially when there's sleet and snow, it's freezing to the core.

Zhao Yeqing had a rough idea and took out the cotton pants from the closet and put them on.

They are the kind of cotton trousers worn by Hunan Province, and a pair of thick socks.

There is a hook in the fireplace, and the kettle can be hung on it to boil hot water. Before the two go out, they boil the hot water in it so that they can drink it when they come back.

There was still hot water in the thermos kettle in the kitchen. After pouring it out and washing up, Mu Xi went to clean the cattle and sheep pens while Zhao Yeqing made breakfast.

Make some hot soup for breakfast and eat it to warm yourself up.

The two had eaten mutton pot the night before, and the remaining mutton soup had frozen into jelly.

After the mutton soup is heated and melted in the pot, the noodles are cooked in another pot. After the noodles are cooked, the kettle must be set up immediately. Nowadays, hot water is used for washing everything at home.

Cut the mutton into thin slices, use chopsticks to put it into the hot mutton soup and it will be cooked.

Put the cooked noodles into a bowl, pour in the hot mutton soup and meat slices together, and sprinkle with coriander and white pepper on the noodles.

This weather is the most suitable for eating pepper, which can cure coldness in the five internal organs and is perfect for warming up.

Mu Xi walked into the kitchen to get a thermos, which contained hot water that Zhao Yeqing had just added.

"Come here after I finish feeding them grass and water. You eat first."

Sheep and cattle cannot drink normal temperature water in this weather. They have to mix hot water into the water to make it warm before feeding.

But the water is not always kept warm, so the cattle and sheep can only drink water less frequently. Mu Xi sprinkled some chopped hay on the water in the tank to prevent the cattle and sheep from having diarrhea after drinking too much water.

After the two had breakfast, Mu Xi went to the yard to clear the snow. The snow in the sky hadn't stopped yet, so he just roughly cleared a path that could be walked.

The kettle in the room was already making a beeping sound. Zhao Yeqing took off the kettle's handle wrapped in a rag and placed it by the fire to warm.

Small sprouts have sprouted from the tips of the peas by the windowsill. In this weather, watering once every two days is enough, and the first crop will be ready in a week.

The room was quite warm, but the temperature outside had already reached minus six degrees. Zhao Yeqing was holding a cup of hot water and suddenly remembered that in the winter when he was a child, his grandma would add a piece of sweet maltose to her in the hot water.

I don’t know if I can still grow live malt in this weather.

Zhao Yeqing put on his coat and took out the unfinished wheat seeds. The wheat seeds had to be soaked in water for a day.

Fearing that it would freeze outside, Zhao Yeqing brought the basin filled with wheat seeds indoors and placed it next to the fireplace.

The kitchen water pipes were afraid of freezing, so Mu Xi wrapped strips of cloth on them after sweeping away the snow. The water in the well became warmer and warmer when pumped out.

Zhao Yeqing took the hay to the rabbit pen. The snow collapsed the hay covering it. She cleared the snow and found wooden branches to support the hole before continuing to cover it with hay.

Lowering his head, he saw that the little rabbits inside were all close together to keep each other warm.

The rabbits moved away from the crowded bodies after putting in the dry grass. Rabbits don't drink much water. The crude fiber in the dry grass is most suitable for feeding rabbits.

Back in the room, Mu Xi was already adding firewood to the fireplace. When he saw her coming in, he refilled her water glass with hot water.

"Want to make maltose?" Mu Xi obviously saw the wheat seeds placed next to him.

"Well, I want to drink some maltose water, but I don't know if I can farm in this weather."

Mu Xi glanced at the watch on his hand. He was now indoors, and the temperature above showed six degrees.

"Cover it with film to keep it warm, and there should be no problem."

The sudden heavy snow made the two of them feel at ease.

Zhao Yeqing was sitting in a rocking chair knitting a scarf. She didn't know how to do complicated patterns and could only knit flat stitches from beginning to end, just to pass the time.

Mu Xi took out the furs collected yesterday and inspected them.

The sheepskins and wolf skins from the past two days have been washed, and the fat and meat on the inner layer have been shaved off with a knife. Laundry detergent and dishwashing liquid have been added to the water and soaked for a day and night before taking them out and scrubbing them.

Yesterday, it was almost dry after one day of drying. I thought I could put it away after another day of drying. Who would have thought that it would snow so heavily overnight?

It wasn't until noon that the snow slowly stopped.

The clouds in the sky sometimes cover the sun, and sometimes the sun peeks out. The sun is slightly warm, but I don't know if it can be dried in the afternoon.

There was quite a lot of rabbit fur that had been hoarded during this period. Mu Xi took out all the rabbit fur. Last time he made a carpet, he only used eight or nine pieces of rabbit fur, and most of them were defective ones. Now the remaining intact fur can be used just right. To make a rabbit fur blanket.

The fur used to make rabbit fur rugs was tanned when he had not had much experience before. He used the sun-drying method, which is simple to operate, but the inner skin is prone to stiffening and cracking.

Just enough to make a rug.

The latter ones are salted. After the fresh rabbit skin is salted, the leather inside is still soft and elastic, and it is comfortable to touch when used as a blanket.

Mu Xi picked out the ones with average coat colors to sew blankets, and saved the ones with good coat colors to make scarves.