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

"coming."

The grass slowly rolled into waves, and the wind gradually took shape on the meadow.

The dark clouds accumulated in the sky have been blown to the head of the meadow. From the moment they felt the first raindrop, without giving people any time to react, the rest of the raindrops fell down.

There is no process of light rain turning to moderate rain and then heavy rain, but directly from 0 to 100.

The coolness brought by the rain instantly covered the entire meadow. Zhao Yeqing raised his watch and took a look——

Yesterday it was 34 degrees, and now it's 28 degrees.

A roof was built over the beehive, but the rain was still a bit too strong. Mu Xi quickly put on his bamboo hat and went out to move the beehive under the eaves of the backyard.

Wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, it was inevitable that he would be stained by raindrops. Zhao Yeqing handed him a towel to wipe his face and returned to the kitchen.

The two of them could only wait at home. The dark clouds on the horizon made the whole house dark.

But it didn't affect Zhao Yeqing's mood at all. Instead, she was excited and looking forward to the light bulb that was about to be lit.

The solar power supply has been brought back by Mu Xi. He was just cleaning the house and pulling out peanuts yesterday. Today he just finished reinforcing the house and pulled the wires to the small brick house and the bathroom and toilet. The rain started falling and he didn't even have time to turn on the power. lamp.

Zhao Yeqing took a look yesterday and saw that the power supply was not full. After fully charging her mobile phone and two power banks yesterday morning, she put the solar panel out to charge the power supply. Now it is fully charged.

"Now there are no high-power appliances consuming electricity. If we only supply these light bulbs at home, the electricity in this power supply can be used for a long time even if the sun has not been able to supply power recently."

Generally, a 5W light bulb will only consume one kilowatt-hour of electricity if it is turned on for 200 hours continuously. Two kilowatt-hours of electricity are stored in the power supply. Even if the negligible consumption of mobile phone charging is included, it is enough for two people to use it until the rainy season brought by the summer monsoon is over.

It's just that the light bulbs at home are a bit old, and I don't know how many watts they have.

Mu Xi connected the wires and pulled the switch with a click.

The dim light bulb came on, barely illuminating the kitchen, but the outermost corners were still dim.

Zhao Yeqing was stunned, "Ah this?"

Mu Xi didn't expect this to be the case. He hadn't let go of the rope that pulled the switch, and he was stunned when the light came on.

He came back in a hurry and only brought the wires and light bulbs used to build the circuits for the current small brick house and bathroom and toilet, but not the extra light bulbs for replacement.

There are no extra light bulbs in Meishan's house. The light bulbs that were originally installed in the second floor of Meishan's small brick house and bathroom and toilet were removed. I thought that if the light bulbs broke, I would go to the village and remove a few. Just come back and replace it.

Annoyed, Mu Xi pulled the switch a few more times, trying to wake up the dim light bulb.

He should have thought of it, how bright can a light like this old-fashioned pull-rope switch be?

Zhao Yeqing patted his shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay. Let's go check out other houses. What if we can find two bright ones?"

Looking at several houses one by one, only the light bulb in the original main house was slightly brighter, just a little.

The light bulb in the hay room is even dimmer, and the light bulb in the tool room is broken. I don't know if it was damaged after the last collapse, or if there was a problem in the first place.

Looking at it this way, this dim light bulb in the kitchen is not so unacceptable.

Zhao Yeqing said, "We don't go to the original main house very much now, so why don't we just change the light bulb into the kitchen."

Mu Xi exchanged the light bulbs in the two rooms. After turning on the lights in the kitchen, he lit a fire in the fire pit, and the kitchen became bright.

The lights in the brick house and toilet and bathroom have not been installed yet, and the two plan to wait until they leave to install them to avoid having to get wet again.

Zhao Yeqing gathered the peanuts on the ground into a pile, "Just in time, I still have some work left to kill time."

Mu Xi pulled two small benches over, sat down one at a time and started picking peanuts.

Some were stolen by voles before, and since I was inexperienced in growing peanuts for the first time, many peanuts had empty shells and small kernels inside.

If all the peanuts are picked, they will only weigh about 120 kilograms including the shells. If the fresh flowers are shelled, they will lose more than 20% of their weight. The total peanuts will weigh about 100 kilograms.

With the soil on the peanut shells still attached, put the shells and soil directly into the earthenware jar, and store the jar in a cool, dry place.

As long as the outer shell and soil are not removed, it can be stored for more than two months if nothing happens.

But Zhao Yeqing was afraid of an accident, so he planned to leave it like this for now, and then take it out to dry when the rainy season was over and the sun was out and it wasn't so humid.

The kitchen was filled with the fragrance of potatoes. After Mu Xi gathered the soil and peanut stalks scattered on the ground, he took out the potatoes from the steamer.

New potatoes just harvested from the fields are the most fragrant. Zhao Yeqing said in the morning that he wanted to eat potatoes to make dough balls, but Mu Xi didn't know what they were.

Zhao Yeqing, "Where I rented a house before, there was an aunt from Gansu province downstairs selling potato dumplings. They beat the steamed potatoes until they become thick and stringy, like rice cakes, and add chili and chive salt. , especially delicious!”

It's just that beating is more labor-intensive. When she first made it by herself, not only were her hands sore, but she also didn't succeed. She didn't have the nerve to go downstairs to ask. After searching online for a long time, she found out that it was the potato variety that didn't work.

She had to buy a special variety from Gansu Province. The starch content of that kind of potato was particularly high. It was only after she brought those potatoes back that she succeeded.

I just don’t know if organic potatoes grown with farm manure will work.

Mu Xi, "I'll try."

There was a small stone pounder in the kitchen. Mu Xi put the potatoes in and pounded them with a rolling pin. Zhao Yeqing had experience of failure and success. After waiting for ten minutes, he found that the potatoes were still not stringy, so he knew that this time it was. Failed.

But she had a remedy.

The potato starch she made from the potatoes harvested in Meishan had not been used up. She sprinkled some into the potatoes that had turned into puree. Mu Xi stirred them evenly and continued to beat them. Within two minutes, the potatoes became like stringy rice cakes!

"It's done!"

Zhao Yeqing quickly brought the bowl over, and Mu Xi used a rolling pin to mash the potatoes inside and scoop them into the bowl.

Sprinkle with chili powder and chopped leeks, and add a tablespoon of salt.

Heat oil in a small pot and pour the oil on the leek and chili noodles. After a while, Zhao Yeqing used chopsticks to mix the ingredients and potatoes until evenly mixed.

The texture is like rice cake mochi, you have to pinch it and stretch it before you can break it.

Zhao Yeqing handed a chopstick of potato dough to Mu Xi's mouth with an expectant look on his face, "Those who work eat first."