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

There was a forest ahead, but no more than twenty meters away, the forest was cut off by a long, dark crack. A piece of the dense forest was swallowed up by darkness, and even the sunlight did not feel warm.

The crack is extremely long, extending from left to right until it connects with the next crack.

The entire mountain top seemed to be isolated by a thickened black line. This crack was extremely wide...

Tens of meters? Or a hundred meters?

Anyway, the person standing nearby looks as small as an ant.

The scene in front of him was so spectacular that Zhao Yeqing could only hear his own heartbeat for an instant, and even the sound of the wind around him became distant.

"No wonder...no wonder the man from the family with the oil press chose to commit suicide in the house without escaping."

There is no way to escape.

The entire mountaintop was separated, and their relatives became violent. There was no signal and no rescue. If the landslide hadn't built a slope leading here, they wouldn't have been able to get over here.

Mu Xi held her hand, "The crack here extends from the gas station, and the one on the right is the one at the intersection where we go up the mountain. They just fit together."

Zhao Yeqing hummed softly, and the saw in his hand repeatedly hit the stone beside the pool.

Not in the mood to look at the fish in the pond, the two walked to the edge of the forest and cut down the tree, sawing it into sections before moving it down the mountain.

I was busy until noon, and only half of the parts for the loom were finished.

Zhao Yeqing took the sandpaper and polished the wood carefully, "I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it today. I have to go home tomorrow no matter what. I only have a dog to look after the house. I still don't feel at ease."

She can only go home by herself first, and then come back to pick up Mu Xi, or Mu Xi will go with her, and then one person will stay at home, and the other person will bring more things and come to live by herself for a while, until Get things done.

If there is no one left at home, I will always feel uneasy.

Mu Xi sighed and said nothing, thinking that he would not worry about leaving a person at home. Instead of worrying about the cattle and sheep at home, he was more worried about Zhao Yeqing being alone.

Every time like this, the black bear incident always left him with lingering fears.

But he couldn't really just keep the person tied to him. He didn't say anything to refute, but silently adjusted the speed of the work on his hands to double speed.

Xiao Hei was having fun, running around in the mountains.

This hill was cut off by a crack. In addition, there have been human activities here before. It is not a protected area with rich natural species. There were no dangerous animals living here. After it was cut off, the animals could not get through. In addition to snakes, there are no other animals in the hill. I'm afraid there isn't even a single dangerous animal.

Needless to say, it is quite suitable for living, and the big houses are ready-made.

It's a bit unrealistic to live there permanently. Even if you don't need to move other things at home, they are already in the house, but the generator alone is difficult to move, but it is still no problem to come over occasionally for a short stay of two days to collect some supplies.

The two of them let Xiao Hei play outside with peace of mind. After a few minutes, they saw a dog and a snake standing in the middle of the road, facing each other. Zhao Yeqing felt his scalp numb. After calling Xiao Hei, he used a stone to The snake was beaten away.

It was just a small green snake as thick as a finger. It was most common in the fields in the village. Xiaohei was very courageous. Zhao Yeqing was afraid that it would bite the snake in one bite just like it did the grasshopper yesterday.

Xiao Hei was ordered not to eat snakes, but I don’t know if he understood.

Zhao Yeqing took Xiao Hei back to the house, rubbing his sore neck and planning to rest for a while.

When they saw the stairs from the second floor to the third floor, they didn't even think about going up there to take a look.

Mu Xi didn't raise his eyes or stop moving his hands, he just said: "I'm going, there's a silkworm house up there."

Zhao Yeqing stepped onto the stairs and saw many shelves above. There were many dead silkworm corpses in the dustpans on the shelves, which had completely dried up. There were also many moth corpses by the window.

Actually weaving silk?

Zhao Yeqing was a little surprised. It was rare to hear of people raising silkworms and weaving in nearby villages. There were some who raised silkworms, but most of them were selling cocoons. The scale of this family's silkworm raising didn't look big, and there was a loom downstairs. It is estimated that the silk was actually woven by oneself.

It's a pity that she can't even reel silk.

After finding the thread ends of the silkworm cocoon soaked in hot water, the cocoon peeler pulls out the silk and stirs it together, and then uses a spinning wheel to make a silk thread.

It is extremely hard work to draw silk with your hands soaked in water all the time, and silk products have always been in high demand.

She first learned about silk when she was in junior high school. At that time, she said she wanted to buy a silk dress for her grandma, but later she found out the price and could only take back her thoughts, thinking that she would definitely buy it when she grew up and made money.

Time waits for no one, and in the end, she didn’t have this opportunity before she could make money.

Zhao Yeqing was obsessed with squeezing the shriveled body of a silkworm, and did not regain consciousness until it was ground into powder. Mu Xi looked at the gloomy expressions of the people who came downstairs, and was a little confused as to why he was not happy after going up there.

If he wanted to ask, he asked directly. Zhao Yeqing didn't hide it, didn't let him guess, and just said what he had to say.

After hearing this, Mu Xi said: "Then let's do it now. When it's ready, we can burn it for her when we return to Meishan next time."

Zhao Yeqing choked and looked at him as if he were a fool. After such an interruption, the depressed mood just now dissipated a lot, so I sat down and continued to play with the unfinished parts.

A loom and a spinning machine have many and complicated parts. Until it was time to go home, many fine parts had failed several times and had not been made. It would probably take a long time to completely reproduce them. Take several days.

The two of them hadn't figured out how to go back. Mu Xi put down the things and decided directly: "Let's go back together. Don't rush to make it right away. Prepare more things before coming back. I can also go back and get some handy tools."

We still have to climb back up this slope, and I don’t know if it’s easy to climb it.

The two packed up their backpacks, rode a small tram halfway down the road, and returned to the bottom of the slope in less than ten minutes.

Mu Xi started the tram and went up. The power was still sufficient, but two people could not ride together, only one person could get on.

Zhao Yeqing grabbed the rope and walked up without any trouble. If it weren't for the long distance from the cliff to the meadow, there would be no need to get the electric car back. It would be more convenient to put it down the slope.

However, there are cars in the village. The European-style three-story house where they live has a car. The car is parked in the corner of the first floor. It is also a small three-wheeler, but this small three-wheeler is not rechargeable, but refueled. .

When people carry things up and down mountains in the village, they generally don't use electricity. Electric vehicles don't have the strength to refuel. A weak vehicle gets stuck halfway uphill after loading some heavy goods.

There is no gas in the car now, and Mu Xi plans to bring some gas next time he comes over, so that the little electric donkey won’t have to ride down.

It was just past noon when I got home.