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

Starting from the first month of the year, the temperature continued to drop. When the average temperature remained below zero, the two of them updated their winter equipment.

The winter clothes I prepared before were brought back from Meishan. The current temperature is enough, but if it takes a while, it will definitely still be cold when the temperature reaches minus ten degrees.

When Zhao Yeqing planned to return to the mountains, he only brought a down jacket. Considering the normal weather in Meishan, the coldest temperature was minus five or six degrees Celsius, so a down jacket and a base layer would be enough.

It's not enough to wear this now.

Last year, the two of them were wrapped tightly in three layers and three layers outside. After all, they are not from the north, and their frost resistance is relatively poor. It is difficult to move around when they are wrapped so thickly.

Zhao Yeqing brought Meishan's down jacket this year, just to optimize the base layer inside, taking advantage of the fact that the weather has been pretty good recently, and although the temperature has dropped, it hasn't rained or snowed anymore.

I used the animal skins from before to make clothing, including clothes, pants, hats, gloves, socks, etc. The furs that need to be dried can also be dried in the weather.

Last year, Mu Xi combined rabbit fur into his boots, which had an immediate effect of keeping warm. Last year, the two of them also made scarves and vests. This year, as they became more experienced, they thought of making everything else too.

Mu Xi went to deal with the large pieces of fur. He was the one who made last year's vest, and the large clothes were left to him.

Zhao Yeqing was ready to deal with the scarred bear skin that almost cost her her life.

The black bear that was attracted by the honey was first restrained on the back by two leopards, leaving scratches and bite marks on it, and then was hacked to pieces by Zhao Yeqing.

The entire bear hide was scarred, full of scratches and holes.

But after all, it is a large animal, and it is still possible to find a larger piece of complete fur to make things.

After removing the battle-scarred parts, the remaining leather can be used to make two hats or four pairs of gloves.

Both of these are relatively easy to make, and they can definitely be worn once they are made, but the aesthetics are not guaranteed.

In the end, Zhao Yeqing decided to make hats. After all, gloves require less leather. Mu Xi might be able to make two pairs of gloves with the leftovers from clothes making.

The hat is made of a round top and a long curved strip. Zhao Yeqing wanted to make it look better, so he sewed a layer of rabbit fur on the inside and wrapped the edges with rabbit fur.

For the remaining scraps of rabbit fur, Zhao Yeqing went to the original owner's house, took out the medicinal materials that Mu Xi had stored up, and dyed the rabbit fur.

Many medicinal materials are natural dyes. For example, safflower, which promotes blood circulation and dissipates blood stasis, can be dyed beautiful red, and Polygonum cuspidatum, which was used by many sleep aid bloggers before the earth was cracked.

The knotweed was chopped from top to bottom, and the cracking sound was very clear, which was very relaxing to watch.

The root system of Polygonum cuspidatum is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which can relieve cough and activate blood circulation. It is also a yellow natural dye.

In addition, there are also common Schisandra chinensis which is a black dye, Malan, Polygonum indica and Woad, both of which can be used to make blue dyes. In ancient times, Indigo Naturalis was a mixture of the powders of these three branches and leaves.

Winter was already dull, so Zhao Yeqing found things, soaked them, boiled them or ground them to mix dyes of different colors, and then put the furs in to dye and dry them.

The result was a small bag of small pieces of rabbit fur in various colors.

Then, according to the color matching, sew furs of different colors on the black bearskin hat.

The brim of the black hat is made of white rabbit fluff, and pieces of rabbit fur with jumping colors are sewn on it, making the originally dull black bear skin hat look a bit cuter.

Zhao Yeqing was very satisfied after trying it on and put another, more fancy one on Mu Xi's head.

Mu Xi accepted it calmly without any struggle. He had already discovered the bad taste of this woman in this regard, just like Xiangyun's big red cotton-padded jacket last year.

She seems to be very keen on dressing him in clothes that are very different from his usual style.

Apart from anything else, Zhao Yeqing was very talented in making this hat, and the shape is no worse than the one he bought.

Although the bear skin no longer smells after being treated, the leather is not as soft as the purchased ones. The rabbit fur she sewed inside and on the edges made up for this defect.

Not only is it soft on the inside, but the outer circle does not make the leather of the hat too stiff.

Mu Xi's progress in making clothes was relatively slow. By the time Zhao Yeqing's two hats were finished, he had only made half of the clothes he had cut.

The clothes this time were made very thick, so it was extra time-consuming.

Now, apart from eating, drinking and feeding the livestock, the two of them spend the rest of their time indoors.

The two estimated the amount of fuel needed throughout the winter and counted the amount of firewood and coal at home. Zhao Yeqing slowly shook his rocking chair and said:

"Except for the firewood needed for cooking, if we start burning floor heating now, the firewood will probably be enough for three months."

Coal is reserved for the family's breeding basement, but as long as the weather doesn't drop too much and the freezing period isn't too long, there's a high probability that the coal won't be used.

However, the planting basement may also need some heat sources to keep the temperature inside at least ten degrees, so that vegetables can grow normally.

Starting from the end of the year, the temperature has continued to drop for nearly a month. There has not been a single snowfall yet, and there are only waves of cold wind blowing. This is very different from last year when the snow suddenly dropped and the temperature dropped.

At noon, the temperature is only minus 5 degrees Celsius. Although the breath is not freezing, as soon as I go out and open my mouth to speak, there is a layer of white mist in front of me.

Zhao Yeqing wore a bearskin hat on his head, and the white mist he breathed floated onto the rabbit fur. It didn't take long for a layer of white frost to form on the rabbit fur.

Her tanned skin in the summer will turn white in the winter. Now when she was taking back the dustpan outside in the yard without gloves, her finger joints were red from the cold. She might not have been able to see it before, but now her skin is covered It looks particularly obvious when it's white.

Mu Xi is cooking in the kitchen. The temperature is not too low now, so the two of them are still cooking in the kitchen to reduce the fumes in the room.

After a while, I don’t want to go out to cook anymore, so I can’t eat anything that smells too strong when cooking in the room.

Mu Xi knew that she loved those heavier dishes, so while he could still cook in the kitchen, he used hot pot base ingredients, fried the butter, and put in the chopped chicken.

The overbearing smell of the hot pot base rushed straight into his nose, and Zhao Yeqing was choked and sneezed as soon as he walked into the kitchen.

Mu Xi looked up and wanted to ask her to come in later, but when he looked up he saw her hands that were red from the cold, and his brows immediately knitted together.

"Why don't you wear gloves?"

"I just used a dustpan, but I didn't expect the wind to be so cold."

In this weather, it is easy to get frostbite if you are not careful. Mu Xi put her hands on the hot water and slowly warmed them up with the steam.

It didn't look like he was getting frostbite, so he felt relieved. He remembered what Zhao Yeqing said just now and asked, "Which dustpan did you go to get just now?"