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

Today's daylight hours are obviously longer than yesterday's.

Looking at 20:30 on the watch, it is almost as bright as daytime in front of me.

Both of them couldn't help but feel a little frightened. The development of this situation was beyond their comprehension.

The alternation of day and night is a phenomenon caused by the rotation of the earth.

Under normal circumstances, from the time after the spring equinox to before the autumnal equinox, the days are long and the nights are short.

In addition to time, there is also longitude and latitude. The lower the latitude, the longer the sunshine, which is also related to the altitude. The higher the altitude, the sunshine will increase accordingly.

But their geographical location would not allow the current situation where it is still broad daylight at eight or nine o'clock.

Zhao Yeqing remembered that he had seen relevant reports before, saying that the length of sunshine was related to environmental pollution.

But that is because the more serious the air pollution is, the shorter the sunshine time will become, and it will not be the ultra-long sunshine now.

Or is this the greenhouse effect?

If it were true, wouldn’t winter come this year?

When faced with a crisis, people tend to have random thoughts.

But the two of them couldn't think of a clue, so they simply gave up. Anyway, they had done all the preparations they could do, and they didn't know what else they could do to deal with possible situations.

When in doubt, eat watermelon first.

Zhao Yeqing ran to get the watermelon, and brought two spoons with her. She smiled and patted the skin of the melon, and just by hearing the sound of "bang bang", she knew it was full of water.

"Anyway, at least it took me three years to finally eat the watermelon I grew."

Her watermelon has been planted in Meishan since the first year, and now she can eat it immediately.

The watermelon was more hydrated than expected. Zhao Yeqing slashed the watermelon with his knife, and as soon as he cut the rind, the rind split open on its own.

Zhao Yeqing opened it along the gap and saw the rustling pink pulp inside.

The color doesn't look as red as the watermelon you buy, and the skin is relatively thick, but the aroma is quite good.

Of course, eating half a watermelon is enough for one person to enjoy it. Each of them holds half a melon and sits cross-legged on a rocking chair to watch a movie.

The watermelon doesn't look red, but there is no less sugar in your mouth when you eat it. It has cold sandy flesh. The moment you bite into it, the juice fills your entire mouth, and even your nose is filled with the cold watermelon aroma.

Zhao Yeqing was almost in tears. It was over 50 degrees this summer, and she finally had the standard iced watermelon.

Between the coldness in his mouth and the air-conditioning fan behind him that was filled with ice cubes and blew air, the body temperature was probably in his early thirties.

Zhao Yeqing felt drowsy as the coolness washed over his body. The half watermelon he was holding in his hand was gently taken away by Mu Xi and put back in the refrigerator.

It was five o'clock in the morning when she woke up. When she woke up, she had no memory of why she was lying in bed.

Mu Xi next to her was awakened by the sound of her getting up.

The weather is too hot, I can't sleep peacefully, and I will wake up if there is any disturbance.

After the two got up, they took a shower as usual. In this weather, they wanted to take a shower eight times a day.

After breakfast, I thought about taking care of the livestock at home.

Because the weather is too hot during this period, the feeding is silage plus concentrate and hay in the yard. Only by eating well can the body be able to bear it.

There was no room for hay in the hay house, so the two of them put the hay that couldn't be placed in the yard first, so they didn't have to worry about getting wet in this weather.

Now there are beehives in the hay house.

The current temperature is too high for bees to be kept outdoors.

When the temperature rises, bees will frequently collect water, and fresh water sources are prepared for them in the hay house every day.

The windows were not closed and the hives were ventilated.

Since this batch of bees came during spring bee swarming, the bee colony was not very strong, so the bee swarming situation that usually occurs during high temperatures to avoid overcrowding and overheating of bees did not occur.

When the weather is too hot, bees will flap their wings desperately to cool down their nests.

The whole hay house was buzzing all day and night.

The freezer at home is really not enough, and there is not much extra ice to cool down the hive.

Zhao Yeqing filled the refrigerator with ice water and put it in the hay room to help the bees cool down.

Fortunately, before moving the beehive in some time ago, the two of them had cut the honey from the hive. Otherwise, with how violent the bees are now, if they had to cut the honey again, the transparent plastic film on the hat would probably be tied into a cactus.

Zhao Yeqing liked to chew honeycomb honey, so the two of them never separated the honey.

When I was looking for supplies in the tourist area, I forgot to bring some extra plastic wrap. When Mu Xi was chilling the watermelon last night, he found that the plastic wrap was gone.

Now that the temperature is too hot and he doesn't want to go out anymore, Zhao Yeqing said he might as well make beeswax cloth at home.

Beeswax cloth is used to replace plastic wrap. It can be recycled multiple times and the production method is also very simple.

She rummaged through her backpack, which contained jojoba oil that she had bought before the ground cracked. It was a shrub essential oil that was originally used to maintain hair, but had been left unused since it was no longer needed.

Mu Xi walked into the kitchen with the cloth he needed, rinsed it with boiling water, and put it in the yard to dry.

In this weather, the clothes that were just washed were wet and dried in just half an hour.

After drying, go back to the kitchen and separate out the beeswax.

Zhao Yeqing found rosin from the original owner's room. This is the resin of pine trees and is also a traditional Chinese medicine. It is relatively common in the mountains.

It was made from the pine oil she had cut when she was in Meishan, distilled and then cooled and solidified into massive translucent amber crystals.

Some of them will crystallize directly on the surface of the pine tree. You can just pick them back and store them. However, those crystals are not pure. If they come into contact with food, you still have to use distilled pure crystals.

Heat the beeswax and rosin together and melt them. Add a few drops of jojoba oil and mix well.

I brought in the dried cloth. It was a child's new clothes that I found in the village. I couldn't wear them but luckily they were new, so I took them back and cut them when needed.

Cut into square shapes, large and small.

Gently brush the melted liquid on the surface of the cloth, and then heat it in an oven at a high temperature of about 100 degrees to fully integrate the liquid and cloth.

In this weather, Zhao Yeqing probably wouldn't be able to use the oven.

"You don't need a very high temperature to bake this. Just put it directly under the sun and cover it with an iron bucket. I guess the temperature won't be much different."

Mu Xi did as he was told.

Although this method is convenient, it still takes longer.

What the two of them lack most now is time.

While making the red bricks, I waited for the beeswax cloth to be ready.

When firing red bricks, take the covered beeswax cloth to the side of the brick kiln and continue to cover and heat it.