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

Generally speaking, it will turn white in a few days, that is, sprouts will appear.

The recent weather temperature is still relatively high, a little over 30. If you put it indoors in a cooler place, it can be lower. The adapted temperature for germination of this thing is below 25 degrees. It can be sprouted at a higher temperature, but it is not that healthy. , also grows slowly.

Zhao Yeqing put the remaining passion fruits in the refrigerator, leaving three out, one for future use, and the remaining two can be used to make a large pot of passion fruit honey water.

Zhao Yeqing dug out the pulp of the fruit where the seeds were left, washed away the pulp and mucous membrane covering the black seeds under water, revealing the black seeds that looked like watermelon seeds inside, and then took them outside to dry in the sun.

She wasn't sure if this would work. After all, she had never grown it before. In the past, farmers in nearby villages who grew passion fruit didn't know how to raise their own seedlings. Every year, they would buy seedlings from the Agricultural Bureau to ensure quality and quantity, and there were official support policies.

The camellia oil fruits that were brought back were placed in the hay house instead of being moved to the basement for storage. I planned to squeeze out the camellia oil in the next few days to prevent it from being affected by wet weather later.

The two of them went to move the camellias because they saw signs of rain in the weather. Sure enough, that night, raindrops fell, bringing with them the first cold wave of autumn.

The two of them were sleeping soundly in bed, and it was still a little sultry before the rain. When they slept, they turned on the air conditioner and set it to sleep mode.

However, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply. Zhao Yeqing was woken up by the cold in the middle of the night. He turned off the air conditioner and fell asleep again. Mu Xi was a little tired during the day and his body temperature was relatively high, so he slept deeply and did not wake up at all.

When he got up the next morning, the rain outside the window had become lighter, and the small drainage ditch in the yard was already dripping with water. Mu Xi got up and pushed open the window. The air-conditioning that came in front of him made the remaining sleepiness disappear, and he half-squinted. My eyes felt cool.

He closed the window, took out a long-sleeved thin shirt from the cabinet and put it on. He also took out a set of women's autumn clothes and long trousers from the cabinet and placed it next to Zhao Yeqing's pillow before going downstairs.

Last night before going to bed, the two of them took back all the things they had hung to dry, leaving out two pieces of clothing hanging on the ropes. They were now completely wet, dripping with the rain.

Put it in, rub it clean with your hands, put it in the washing machine, choose drying only, and then go into the kitchen.

Before breakfast was ready, Zhao Yeqing walked in rubbing his arms. He walked over to Mu Xi who was cooking, put his hands around his waist, and let out a comfortable sigh.

Mu Xi said with a smile: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Yeqing sniffed: "It's a bit cold."

"Have you worn your autumn clothes or long trousers?"

"I'm wearing autumn clothes, but not autumn pants... Oops, I thought it wasn't that cold." Who knew that after washing, I felt like sneezing.

The coldness of this rain is a little different from the ordinary cold. It has a bit of coldness that penetrates into the bones. It reminds Zhao Yeqing of the heavy rain and wind that year. The two of them ran into the forest in the middle of the night to cut down trees to support the house.

The rain that night was so cold that my legs were so cold that they didn’t feel like my own, and my knees were sore and swollen.

I couldn't help but shudder just thinking about it.

Mu Xi hugged Zhao Yeqing and covered her body to keep her warm, "Go back to the room and put on some long johns. Once you've changed, come down and have breakfast."

For breakfast, I made brown sugar, red date and ginger soup with an egg in it and some boiled glutinous rice balls.

This recipe was often made by the elderly in the family. All they needed to do was put some more glutinous rice grains in it. We ran out of glutinous rice grains at home. After grinding the glutinous rice we just planted this year, we only ground it into glutinous rice flour and made today's glutinous rice balls.

You have to take advantage of this period of time when it is still relatively warm to ferment the fermented glutinous rice, and then do it after a period of time when it cools down. It will take several days to wait for fermentation.

The red dates were from the jujube tree I saw in the village before. When I came back, I pulled down all the dates. Some of them were still green and I ate them. The ones that turned red were dried and stored.

The eggs in the soup were filled with sugar. Zhao Yeqing put it into his mouth in one bite. He bit into the egg whites and chewed the rich yolks, feeling the aroma of the yolks fill his mouth. The eggs were the most delicious part here.

After breakfast, we filled the livestock feed troughs. Since it was raining today, we had to keep the newborn lambs warm.

It was approaching noon, and the rain stopped showing signs of decreasing. The two of them covered the greenhouse in the courtyard with a plastic sheet, otherwise the vegetables in the field would be soaked. This period is the season when most fruits are produced. If you hit it, the fruit will rot on the branches.

It's not practical to pick them all, you won't be able to eat them all, and it won't work if you keep them in the refrigerator. They will go bad if they are kept for a few days.

Mu Xi temporarily nailed a wooden frame with long strips of firewood, framed the dragon fruit growing in the backyard, and covered it with plastic sheeting.

It rained continuously, and the two of them squeezed out all the camellia oil in the house for two days.

It's not a problem that the ground is stuffy all the time. It's been raining inside, so if the water vapor can't evaporate out if it's covered with a plastic sheet, you'll get sick. Zhao Yeqing lifted up the surrounding plastic sheets to allow ventilation from all sides.

Mu Xi went to the basement again and found that the silkworm cocoon was still in its original state and had not been hatched.

However, I guessed that the time to break out of the cocoon was coming soon, so I used bamboo strips to weave a relatively dense bamboo net to cover all sides of the square cluster, so that the silkworm moths would not fly around after they hatched.

Silkworm moths have to wait inside until the male and female mate and lay eggs so that they can harvest enough cocoons next time.

When Zhao Yeqing emerged from the greenhouse in the courtyard, he held a large tomato in his hand. The red tomato was completely ripe. He went to the faucet under the eaves at the back of the kitchen to clean it and opened his mouth to bite it.

Natural tree-ripened tomatoes are delicious, sweet and sour, and full of juice when you bite them.

Seeing Mu Xi come up and hand him the half-left tomato, Mu Xi didn't wash his hands and didn't raise his hand to take it. He took a bite with her hand, and the bright red juice flowed down his chin. Zhao Yeqing smiled and stretched out his hand to help him. wipe.

He handed it to him again and saw him shaking his head. After Zhao Yeqing finished a few bites, he was led back to the kitchen by Mu Xi. The two of them washed their hands before taking off their raincoats.

The water droplets dripping from the raincoat made the tile floor a little damp, and the mud under Zhao Yeqing's feet was even more messy.

"Go back to your room, it's too cold outside."

After Mu Xi drove Zhao Yeqing away, he cleaned the kitchen before returning to the room.

It took a week for the rain to stop. Zhao Yeqing sighed so much that he finally looked forward to the rain stopping.

This has been the behavior in the past few years. Usually it rains lightly at most. As long as it rains heavier, it will start to rain for three days and ten days is considered normal.

It is not without its benefits. When the sun comes out, the rainwater evaporates. Before the evaporation is finished, there is another harvest under the straw that was originally placed in the rice field.