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

"It's snowing, do you want to come over and take a look?"

Zhao Yeqing pulled off the blanket that had just been placed on his legs, "I want to see it, I want to see it!"

She hurriedly put on her shoes, ran to the window and looked out. Unlike last year's heavy snowfall, this year's temperature drop was not so sudden. It had just reached around zero. The dark clouds that had accumulated in the sky for several days finally started to go to work, and the light rain mixed with them. The snow is falling.

This snow is not goose-feather snow, but more like the kind of sandy snow that used to be under Meishan Mountain. It is granular crystal smoothie.

Zhao Yeqing pulled the snow falling on the window sill into the palm of his hand, feeling the coldness. When Mu Xi saw her turn around, he closed the window.

The smoothie slowly melted in the palm of his hand, Zhao Yeqing said: "It will probably freeze outside tomorrow."

The disadvantage of sleet is that the weather will get very cold. The sleet that falls at night will turn into ice in the morning, so walk very carefully.

Seeing that the snow on her palms had completely turned into water, Mu Xi brought a towel over to dry her hands, "If the sleet stops tomorrow morning, I will clean up the yard to make it easier to walk."

Zhao Yeqing nodded, "But this year we moved the bathroom and toilet over, and built a brick wall on the outside, so we won't slip when going to the toilet."

Even when feeding cattle and sheep, you still have to walk into the yard. Although the weather has cooled down now, it is still within the tolerance range of the livestock, and there is no need to move underground yet.

The crops at home were harvested a year ago, and the cabbage and radishes were put into the cellar. The mustard greens that had been recovered were not yet processed, and were ready to be made into prunes and sauerkraut.

The two of them chatted about their plans for tomorrow until the countdown to twelve o'clock ended.

As if to coincide with the end of the year, it stopped raining and sleeting outside for less than two hours.

Zhao Yeqing smiled and said: "This year will definitely be a good year with good weather."

When farming, nothing is more important than good weather and good weather.

With the good omen of zero o'clock, Zhao Yeqing was planning what to plant when the weather got warmer in the new year while lying in bed.

When daybreak came, Mu Xi went out and saw that the rain yesterday had formed thin ice on the ground. The original dark clouds had also dissipated, revealing the clear blue sky again.

Zhao Yeqing took out the prepared feed and walked along the road that Mu Xi had cleared to the cattle and sheep pens. The pig food was cooked yesterday. Today, just heat it up and pour it directly into the trough.

Among all livestock and poultry, chickens are relatively the least tolerant to cold. Fortunately, the group is relatively large and can heat up when gathered together.

Zhao Yeqing took out a handful of straw from among the hay and spread it on the bottom of the pig pen and chicken coop.

The hollow part on the top of the pigsty has been filled with wood and made airtight. However, the smell is relatively strong, and it has to be cleaned from time to time before opening the door for ventilation.

The leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner are still the same, and it takes two or three days to finish them.

The two of them used the leftover soup from the pig-killing vegetables they made at noon yesterday to cook dumplings. The dumplings were also made yesterday, stuffed with pork, cabbage and pork and green onions.

As Zhao Yeqing ate the dumplings, he felt deeply that life was so affluent today. Compared with the chicken dumplings and fish dumplings last year, these pork dumplings were obviously much more delicious.

The fat is plump and not dry, and the soup inside is also very delicious.

Zhao Yeqing ate five or six boiled dumplings, then he put a thin layer of oil on the pot, put the chubby dumplings in, added a thin layer of water to the bottom of the pot and covered it with a lid.

Their fried dumplings don't use starch water. They use a thin layer of water to cook them, and then use a thin layer of oil to fry the bottom of the dumplings to create a golden brown layer.

When the bottom of the dumplings becomes crispy and the dumplings slide gently by shaking the pan, use chopsticks to turn the dumplings over one by one and fry the widest back side as well.

When the dumplings come out of the pan, they are golden and crispy on both sides, and when you bite into them, the soup still leaks out.

Zhao Yeqing had reached his limit after eating fifteen or six finger-long dumplings, while Mu Xi could eat more than twenty.

This is still the food intake after training, and they already eat more than before. They can eat several bowls more, but they can't eat pasta no matter how hard they try, the northerners can't eat it.

After having a full meal, Zhao Yeqing took advantage of the nice weather today to take the mustard greens to the yard and hang them to dry.

Both cabbage and mustard greens are taken back at the same time, and mustard greens that have been beaten by frost will also become sweet.

She saved some of the mustard greens for making sauerkraut, and most of them were taken out to the yard and hung one by one on a rope.

This job is relatively suitable for digestion after meals. There is no need to bend down and lower the head to work, and the work can be done standing up.

Because the mustard greens used to make prunes do not need to be washed when drying. They should be removed and washed when the water is 60 to 70% dry.

With the current weather, it is estimated that it will take a few days to dry out before it can be recovered.

Mu Xi's voice came from the intercom hanging at his waist, "Your strawberries are ripe, you pick them or I pick them for you."

The walkie-talkie was found in the team's equipment. The two of them had tested the distance before, but the longest distance had not yet been measured. What is known so far is that Mu Xi can communicate with her at home when he reaches the lake.

She pressed the intercom, "I'll come, I'll come."

Hang up the last mustard plant, collect the empty sacks on the ground, and put them back in the tool room for next time.

I walked directly around to the backyard and when I passed the kitchen window, I reached in and took down the basket hanging on the wall before heading to the planting basement.

The current temperature inside the planting basement is still close to 17 or 8 degrees Celsius. It is estimated that in another ten days or so, the temperature inside will gradually drop due to the influence of the ground temperature.

After the weather cooled down, the sweetness of strawberries increased, and the entire basement was filled with the aroma of strawberries.

Mu Xi has already thinned out and transplanted the green leafy vegetables that have sprouted out from the seeds some time ago.

After Zhao Yeqing cut off the ripe red strawberries one by one, he put them in a basket together with the ripe pepper tomatoes next to them and handed them to Mu Xi so that he could pick them up first.

Then he took out a small brush. This brush was originally used for makeup. The animal hair brush is very soft. Now that it is no longer needed, it is used to pollinate strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and the like.

Gently brush the stamens, and the yellow pollen will spread out. If you brush it among the blooming flowers, pollination is successful.

Nowadays, there are no bees for pollination, and each flower must be hand-pollinated to successfully bear fruit.

The two moved the original bee bucket to the mushroom room. Now there are no mushrooms in it to keep the bees out of the cold. They also put a lot of syrup as a honey source.

Before this year's cold winter comes, houses, food, clothes, heating equipment...

The two of them believed that they had done almost all the preparations they could do, and felt that they would be able to spend this winter safely.