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

He dared not go out until he had put on his clothes. Once he came back, Mu Xi cleaned them and then struggled to take off his clothes again.

In short, I never put on any clothes once I enter the house.

It was like going to the toilet every time, making the two of them and the four dogs in a hurry.

However, Zhao Yeqing was a bit obsessed with the follow-up work after having sex with Gouzi. He would only help Gouzi get dressed when he was about to go out, and Mu Xi did everything after he came back.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the four dogs that had been brought back. They were so cold that they were shaking, and he felt a little funny.

She had previously ordered some of the dogs that had to be cleaned up to come into the house and warm themselves by the fire, but some of them were obedient and waited honestly for Mu Xi to finish taking care of them before coming over.

As soon as he sat by the fireplace, Dahuang sneezed. Zhao Yeqing held its face and observed: "Isn't it a cold?"

It looked like he had a runny nose and kept sneezing.

Mu Xi washed his hands, poured some ginger tea into Rhubarb's rice bowl, watched it walk over and drank it slowly, and affirmed: "It's definitely a cold."

Dogs with colds can drink ginger tea, but the taste is rather pungent, and generally they don’t like to drink it.

Naturally, rhubarb doesn't like drinking it, but whenever it gets sick, it is very obedient and realizes that it can cure itself. When it can't go out to find herbs, it will drink ginger tea honestly, which is very sensible. .

Every time he saw Rhubarb's obedient and sensible appearance, Zhao Yeqing could still think of the time when the two of them first arrived at the grassland, when they saw it running out of the back slope of the mountain with a group of sheep, with the golden sunshine behind it, standing on the top of the mountain against the light. appearance.

When Rhubarb came back from drinking the ginger tea and lay down next to the fireplace, Zhao Yeqing also sat on the ground, stroking its back and massaging it. After a while, he heard Rhubarb's small purr.

None of the dogs at home snore, and they can only hear the sound when they have a cold.

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The darkness outside the window continued, and the specific temperature could no longer be detected outside, but the two of them could still feel that the temperature was still dropping.

It wasn't until Mu Xi was in the breeding basement, burning three charcoal pots, that the temperature on his watch showed only twenty degrees below zero. Based on their past experiences, they guessed that the temperature outside was definitely more than minus seven. Ten degrees.

The family's cows, sheep, horses and pigs can all be carried. Only the newborn calves need extra warmth, and there is a large brood of chickens.

At this temperature, chickens are no longer good at laying eggs. There are dozens of them huddled in the corner all day long. Mu Xi has given them thick pads to keep them warm. There should be no trouble in the short term.

But it would be hard to say if the temperature continues to drop.

The weather has gotten colder and the milk production is slightly lower than before, but we can still squeeze out more than ten kilograms every day except for the calf's ration.

Mu Xi caught a chicken from the chicken coop. Today, the two of them wanted to drink some chicken soup to warm themselves up, so they plucking the feathers directly in the basement before carrying the killed chicken and half a bucket of milk back to the house.

After leaving the basement, it was just a few steps back to the house. The freshly killed chicken was already frozen solid. It was left in the house for a while and gradually softened before being chopped into pieces.

I chose an old hen that has been raised for more than two years. The quality of the meat must be stewed for at least two hours.

The chicken soup that the two like to drink does not add any other ingredients. It does not require mushrooms or medicinal materials. They just throw the chicken into the water, add ginger slices and start making the soup.

The self-raised grain chickens have almost no fishy smell when they are freshly slaughtered. You only need to put the ginger on the fire and bring it to a boil. Most of the chicken fat in the chicken belly is picked out. It is fragrant and nourishing and not greasy at all.

The meat at home was the last thing to be eaten sparingly, so the two of them steamed a little rice, ate the meat and soup, and then finished off a whole pot of soup.

In this season, you need to eat more meat to maintain body heat.

Because the temperature continues to drop.

Last time, after the two of them changed the curtains to thick canvas curtains, the temperature in the room could be kept above five degrees. But not long ago, even with the floor heating in the room, it was difficult to maintain the temperature above zero.

Minus 70 degrees or 80 degrees?

Zhao Yeqing didn't know either. The two of them tried not to think too much about it. They just did whatever they could now. When the floor heating was not warm enough, they burned the charcoal basin.

Bring the charcoal pot used for barbecue into the house and light it. When the charcoal fire is at its hottest, the house can barely maintain a temperature of two to three degrees above zero.

Mu Xi remembered that when Zhao Yeqing was little, his favorite game was Monopoly, but he was not very impressed by that thing anymore. It took him nearly half a month to combine the game he remembered with his own ideas. A set of homemade Monopoly.

He replaced the urban operation and purchase with farmland, pasture and livestock breeding, which is closer to the two people's current life.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't put it down and played with him every day.

After receiving the affirmation, Mu Xi was so inspired that he created various board games and card games one after another.

The long winter night gradually passed for half a year, accompanied by various small games.

The reserves of rice, flour and wood that the two made before the onset of winter have almost bottomed out so far.

Food can still be beaten into rice despite the severe cold, but the most important wood for heating can no longer be produced.

The heating in the basement cannot be stopped, and the two of them cannot burn the charcoal pot in the house now. They can only burn the floor heating. The temperature supply of the floor heating cannot reach above freezing, so they can only stay in the house wearing thick clothes.

When there was nothing else to do, they both sat on the floor near the fire and played games.

After the game ended, Zhao Yeqing threw away the chess pieces in his hand and put his slightly red hands on the stove to bake them. Seeing that the fire became smaller, he threw another piece of firewood in, "If you keep doing this, Should we go out and chop wood?"

It's still pitch black outside, and although it's not snowing, there's been a bit of cold wind blowing from time to time lately, which is also scary.

But you can’t burn without firewood, right? Don't die of cold without firewood.

You have to make a choice between waiting to die of cold inside the house or going outside to face the unknown and terrifying darkness.

It is really dangerous to go out in this temperature now, but when it comes to this time, it is impossible not to go out.

Or there is another way, which is to dismantle the kitchen at home. The dismantled wood can be used for burning fires for a period of time, and then it can be rebuilt when the weather gets warmer.

This was a last resort. After all, after the kitchen was demolished and burned down, we still had to go out without firewood.

The two of them just wanted to reduce the risk as much as possible. What if? What if I can survive until dawn...

Deep down in my heart, I can deliberately ignore the fear of darkness, but when the reality brought about by the darkness forces me to face it head-on, I feel a suffocation in my chest.

The two of them discussed dismantling the kitchen as soon as they woke up, but when they woke up, everything was different.