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

Taken together, it has snowed for five or six days in a row.

Looking at the entire meadow, there is no trace of variegated color, and everything is white.

The white ones dazzled my eyes.

Zhao Yeqing closed the window, rubbed his eyes, and blinked hard a few times before he felt better.

Mu Xi asked her, "What do you want to eat for breakfast?"

What to eat every day has become the most important issue for the two of them.

There is nothing to do even if it snows. I sit at home eating and drinking every day. If not, I read a book and sleep.

After Mu Xi asked this, Zhao Yeqing walked from the bedside to the rocking chair in front of the fireplace and sat down on it, shaking his body and making the rocking chair squeak.

"Well... let's eat sweet bar. I should be able to eat it today."

Last night, she couldn't help but tear open the warm cotton batting on top, and saw through the plastic wrap that translucent wine was leaking out of it.

“Poached egg or egg drop?”

"Only children make choices..."

He took the jar out and saw through the transparent plastic wrap that the sweet wine inside had completely fermented, and the small hole dug in the middle was filled with translucent wine.

He walked into the kitchen with the jar in hand, scooped out a large spoonful of wine and dregs from it with a clean, water-free and oil-free spoon, and put it into a bowl. The jar continued to be sealed and set aside. After breakfast was ready, he took it into the room. Put it in.

After another week of fermentation, the sweet wine will turn into rice wine, and the alcohol content will also become higher.

Put a bowl of sweet wine into a small pot and start the fire. Add some boiling water and a large piece of ginger into it.

While the water was boiling, Mu Xi went to the chicken coop and touched a few eggs.

The weather has been cold recently, and the chickens have laid fewer eggs. I found five eggs in the morning.

Wait until the water boils again, add a small piece of brown sugar to it, turn down the heat and let the brown sugar slowly melt inside.

Crack the eggs that were still warm to the touch into the pot. Crack two in total. Then take another one and crack it into the bowl and stir it up with chopsticks.

After the eggs in the pot are almost cooked, pour the egg liquid in the bowl into the pot, and the boiling bubbles will cook the egg liquid at once.

Mu Xi took the bowl that Zhao Yeqing was eating from and filled it with an egg and a bowl full of brown sugar liqueur eggs.

The rest was his. He didn't like soft-boiled eggs very much, so he cooked them for a while until they were almost fully cooked before serving them down.

Mu Xi would bring light meals to the room for Zhao Yeqing to eat, so that she would not have to put on a coat and change shoes to run out, and her hands and feet would become cold when she came in and out.

Entering the room, Zhao Yeqing was still swaying in the rocking chair, holding a pair of unfinished insoles in his hands.

When he was looking for supplies, he only saw her looking for a pile of wool. In the past two days, he was stunned for a while when he saw her take out a dozen unsewed insoles.

Zhao Yeqing, however, looked matter-of-factly, "Have you ever seen an old rural lady without insoles being sewn in a plastic bag?"

This is true.

The insole in her hand was half sewn. Fortunately, it kept her from dying of boredom when there was no entertainment.

Mu Xi put the mulled wine eggs on the table, "It's not hot anymore, let's eat first."

While he was cooking his portion, he took Zhao Yeqing's portion outside the window sill. When his portion was cooked, Zhao Yeqing's portion just became warm.

She put down her insoles, scooped a spoonful of sweet wine and put it into her mouth. The glutinous rice turned into sweet wine became soft and squishy. It had a chewy texture after chewing it carefully. It felt very special every time she ate it.

The sweet liqueur had a spicy ginger flavor. Before she finished the bowl, she was sweating on her back. She took off the rabbit fur blanket covering her legs and hung it on the back of the chair to dry before continuing to drink the rest. Down.

I put the soft-boiled eggs at the end, finished my breakfast with satisfaction, and lay down on the rocking chair to relax.

Mu Xi saw that she was dazed more and more frequently recently, "Are you too bored? Do you want to go out for a walk?"

Zhao Yeqing was indeed bored, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it, "It has been snowing and windy recently, the temperature has dropped by one or two degrees, and the sun at noon is also blocked by clouds. I still don't want to go, it's easy to catch a cold. "

Both of them finished breakfast. Mu Xi put the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, walked to the backyard, and picked out dozens of pebbles in the corner.

The stones are all sifted from the sand or red soil that was brought back before. Most of the stones by the lake are relatively rounded after being washed by the water.

After picking the stones, I took a square wooden board, which was the leftover material sawn from the previous construction of the house. I also went to the tool room to get a carving knife and a chisel.

The carving knife was not bought in the market. It was an iron bar that the original owner removed from somewhere. He polished it into a small knife, embedded it in a wooden handle, and wrapped it with hemp rope to prevent it from slipping.

It doesn’t look good, but it’s very easy to use.

After everything was brought into the room, Zhao Yeqing was a little curious when he saw this, "What are you doing?"

Mu Xi started carving on the wooden board without raising his head, "I won't tell you."

mean.

Zhao Yeqing didn't look at him even after he slandered him. He would know after he finished.

There was a straw mat on the ground. Mu Xi sat cross-legged on the ground, with a plastic sheet in front of him, and placed wood on top to carve.

Zhao Yeqing was sewing the insoles, glancing at them from the corner of his eye from time to time, then withdrawing his gaze as if he didn't care.

Mu Xi said with a smile, "I'm playing checkers. Don't look at it. It'll be done in a minute."

checkers?

She blinked, it was the thing she and Mu Xi played most when they were children.

There were not many things to play in the mountains. When the two were young, they would sit in front of the chessboard and "fight". Most of the time, Mu Xi would fail and become angry.

"Haha." Mu Xi glanced at her, "I don't know who it was. When I was in elementary school, I took the checkers marbles to school to compete with others. After winning other people's marbles, I took them back and used them as my own chess pieces. , blatantly cheating."

She didn't admit it after so many years and there was no evidence.

When Mu Xi finished the checkers, he polished the stones that were not round enough and painted them with different colors using ballpoint pens and water-based pens.

"Come on, no cheating this time."

Zhao Yeqing arranged the chess pieces and waved his hand very generously, "Let you go first."

Mu Xi asked, "What's the bet?"

Zhao Yeqing: "Whoever loses will finish cooking."

7 p.m.

Mu Xi, who had finished cooking, took off his apron, walked to the room and invited Zhao Yeqing, who looked angry, to the kitchen for dinner.

Radish and mutton soup, smoked pork and cabbage stew.

She almost vomited these two vegetables.

The first crop has been cut two days ago, and it will take several days for the second crop to grow.

The only vegetables that can be stocked and stored at home are radishes and Chinese cabbage.

The rest are dried vegetables.

She wants to eat green leafy vegetables.

Mu Xi said: "When the snow stops, we will go out for a walk and see if we can find some wild vegetables."

The two of them had been looking forward to it for several days, and the snow finally stopped after ten consecutive days.

Zhao Yeqing was very surprised when he saw Xue stopped when he woke up early in the morning. He pointed out the window to show Mu Xi, "It has finally stopped!"