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

When I go to bed at night, I sleep in the other half of the room that has no floor.

Due to the baking and the continuous wind blowing in with the windows open, and the dry weather, the floor dried relatively quickly, and it was almost completely dry in three days.

In these three days, in addition to re-firing the red bricks for winter, I also had to move the sweet potatoes to the storage cellar.

The chimney for the flue was also built and opened at the rear of the brick house, next to the outside wall next to the fireplace.

The temperature here will not be particularly high, so the two made the chimney pipes using previously melted aluminum molded pipes.

The pipe connecting the underground fire source is made of molten iron to ensure that it will not be melted or deformed by baking.

Zhao Yeqing pressed the floor a few times to make sure it was completely dry, and then the two of them moved the furniture back to its original position.

It's time to test the results after three or four days of busy work.

Mu Xi closed the damper of the fireplace chimney and opened the ash pit cover above the fireplace, revealing the ash pit underneath.

Iron pipes and a homemade square-cylindrical fire stove have been laid in the pit.

In winter, not only can the flue be heated, but pots and pans can be placed directly on it for cooking.

After cooking, you only need to cover the ash pit cover that originally covered the ash pit pit of the fireplace. The smoke will not rise from the bottom, but will only pass through half the room along the flue of the earth foundation, and finally exit from the chimney. Drain out.

Mu Xi lit the tinder and put it into the fire stove made of red bricks below. Then he threw small firewood and corn cobs into it. He waited until the fire was completely burned before adding more firewood. After making sure that the firewood had burned and the amount was sufficient, he put the firewood into the ash pit. The lid is closed.

All that's left is to wait for the smoke below to heat up the room.

The waiting time always seemed long. Zhao Yeqing was worried that the feeling would not be obvious if he stayed in the room for a long time. He planned to go outside to work for a while and then come back after two hours.

It happened to be a good time to take back the white radish from the field.

The white radish I planted this time has been eaten with mutton several times recently. Even the radishes are not hollow, they are full of water, heavy, and very sweet.

Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with the vegetables grown this year. Compared with when he first came back more than three years ago, the quality of the vegetables grown now has made a qualitative leap.

It can be placed in the organic vegetable section of the supermarket and sold for twice as much as normal radishes.

Pulling out radishes is also a laborious task. White radishes are very big and have many roots. When I was a kid, I used to pull out radishes. If I encountered some hard stubble while pulling out, I would use too much force and accidentally pull out radishes. Fuck you.

It is easier to hold the radish leaves on the top of the white radish with one hand, twist the radish tightly with the other hand, and shake it from side to side to pull it out.

The more roots a radish has, the more water it will eat and the sweeter it will be.

The two of them didn't grow much. They could probably weigh more than 300 kilograms if they were pulled out. They moved them to the yard and put them away. They could also make a batch of radishes before it snowed.

They dug the storage cellar a few days ago and thought that since they had already dug it, they might as well dig a bigger one and put all the winter vegetables they had stored in it.

You can't put it in yet. The temperature in the storage cellar is not low enough. Let's put it outside first and then move it in when the temperature inside can be controlled to two or three degrees.

According to the climate in the mountains in the past, the temperature in the south was high, so the radish and cabbage would not be very suitable for storage, and they would become moldy and rotten soon after being left there.

The current temperature is much drier than before. When the temperature reaches below zero for a while, the winter vegetables will be moved to the small cellar for storage. When the cold winter of dozens of degrees below zero comes, they will be moved to the storage cellar.

Zhao Yeqing held the radishes in his hand and weighed them a few times before choosing two that were moist enough. He planned to stew radish mutton and fry radish balls tonight.

After finishing all the carrots, the two of them thought about going into the room to see how the floor heating worked.

Mu Xi washed the dirt off his hands before going in, and handed her the towel to wipe her hands with. He was afraid that she would be disappointed if she didn't succeed, so he pretended to get the vaccination accidentally.

"I feel that floor heating is not as good as table heating. It shouldn't be difficult to do and it won't overheat."

Zhao Yeqing found it quite interesting. Seeing that sometimes he spoke straightforwardly and openly, and sometimes he clearly cared about people but was awkward, he deliberately nodded in agreement, "You're right."

Mu Xi walked in front and opened the door first. Zhao Yeqing stood behind him. As soon as the door was opened, a stream of warm air poured out from the door.

Zhao Yeqing hurriedly pushed Mu Xi in, "Quick, quick, go in and close the door, don't let all the heat escape!"

The wooden door closed with a bang, and the two stood in front of the room, feeling the completely different temperature in the whole room and outside.

Zhao Yeqing took off his shoes and walked slowly towards the half room with floor heating. He opened the curtain in the middle and felt the warmth of the floor when he stepped on it.

She hurriedly put on her slippers, but she could still feel the heat on the floor through the soles of her shoes. Within a minute of entering, her whole body felt warm.

Zhao Yeqing took off his coat and felt the temperature in the room. He found that he didn't feel cold even if he only wore an autumn coat and a thin sweater.

He turned back to Mu Xi happily and said, "Are we done?"

Mu Xi checked the surrounding floors and found no signs of cracking. The burning stove was also normal. He put his head out to see that the chimney was smooth and there were no traces of smoke leakage at the joints.

Then he nodded and smiled at Zhao Yeqing: "It should be done. If it takes a while, it will probably be even warmer."

When Zhao Yeqing heard this, he pinched his throat and teased: "Oh, what if this is successful? Then we won't be able to do the table-warming?"

Mu Xi laughed in anger, and took two steps over to pinch her ticklish flesh. Zhao Yeqing was very ticklish, so he hid while refusing to admit defeat and retorted, "You are so angry out of shame!"

Just when Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but beg for mercy, there was the sound of a dog returning with a flock of sheep outside the door.

The two stopped what they were doing, put on their coats again, opened the door, and saw another scene that had been happening frequently recently.

A leopard that had never seen so much meat drooled unsatisfactorily when faced with the mighty flock of sheep that was so close at hand.

The disgust on Zhao Yeqing's face was clear. Looking at the paste and snow cakes at her house, they had never been so worthless.

But when I saw the leopard being slapped by Snow Cake and pushing his head to the floor because of his drooling and overt desire, I suddenly felt a lot more balanced.

Okay, after all, the number of clouded leopards is scarce, so this one doesn't seem to be without merit.

Just make do.