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

Zhao Yeqing let go of his hand and carefully looked at Mu Xi's length.

If the bed is only 1.8 meters, it seems a bit unfair.

She wasn't sure, so she asked directly, "How tall are you?"

"One meter eighty-seven."

In order to avoid hitting the head, there must be one or two centimeters left between the head and the head of the bed. Add seven centimeters to make a bed of only 1.8 meters, and Mu Xi's entire feet from the ankles down must be suspended outside.

He doesn't care much about this, "I often can't straighten my legs when I stay in a hotel, so that's okay."

There is definitely a difference between staying in a hotel and staying at home. For her, she would not be able to accept it and would feel uncomfortable falling asleep in the bed at home.

Besides, this doesn’t happen overnight. Who knows how long this temperature will last.

"How about knocking down the wall and expanding it."

It would be too cramped if we didn't expand, and not to mention being unable to sleep, it was almost time to harvest the potatoes and sweet potatoes. When they were piled up in the cellar, it would be difficult to move, so it was better to expand as soon as possible.

Mu Xi saw that she was getting into trouble and reminded him, "Stupid, can't you dig an extra storage cellar?"

Zhao Yeqing slapped her forehead. She just wanted to start expanding the cellar, and her mind didn't turn around.

Dig a new cellar, and you don’t have to sleep with potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Zhao Yeqing went home and started taking measurements.

The original cellar is 4 meters above the ground, and the height inside is meters. The new extension does not need to be too high, so as to reduce the amount of work and complete it as soon as possible. I have collected sweet potatoes in the past few days, and the height is enough for her to bend down and get in.

She was unsure of the area and how much would be enough. This was also the first time she had grown so many sweet potatoes.

If something can't be solved now, don't solve it yet.

We'll discuss it later when Mu Xi comes back.

It was still dark at four o'clock, so she wanted to beat out the soybeans while the sun was out.

The sun has been so intense these days that the pods and stems of soybeans have long since dried out and turned light yellow, while the leaves crumbled into dregs when pinched.

Zhao Yeqing carried all the soybeans to the cement floor in the middle of the yard, spread them out a little, took a pole from the tool room, squatted on the ground and started beating on the soybean stalks.

The bamboo pole hit the soybeans that had become dry, making a crisp cracking sound. The pods were knocked open, and the soybeans inside rolled out one by one.

She beat for a while, then turned over the soybean stalks, and then continued beating, ensuring that every pod inside was struck and not a single bean was wasted.

The process of turning over and pounding lasts several times. After pounding one batch of soybeans, pile the stems aside and continue pounding another batch.

The pounded soybean stalks are also stored and are very useful for starting fires.

It took her an hour to knock them all out. She stood up and wiped her sweat. The moon was no longer visible in the sky, and a faint white light began to glow in the eastern sky.

The soybeans on the ground are swept together with a broom, and then put into a dustpan with your hands. The soybeans picked up in this way are inevitably mixed with a lot of broken stems and leaf residues.

She picked up the dustpan and tilted it slightly, so that the soybeans and residue were concentrated on one side, and then used her hands to throw up the soybeans and residue before falling down.

That's it

The soybeans are heavy and can fall back onto the dustpan steadily. The light dregs will be scattered during the flight, and will be blown to the ground by the wind brought by the dustpan.

She specially changed her clothes, and the waterproof fabric was also dust-proof. The garbage that fell on the clothes fell off with just a pat, and would not get into the gaps in the fibers of the clothes.

After cleaning the soybeans in this way, there is a final step of screening.

It is necessary to sort out the bad beans mixed in the golden soybeans. The bad beans are black and easy to identify.

She picked them one by one, but before she had finished choosing, Mu Xi had already returned with the wooden board in his arms.

If you want to dig a new cellar, don't fight for the bed first, and try to dig out the prototype of the cellar before the sun rises.

The two discussed it for a while and decided that the area inside would be three square meters first, and they would discuss it later if it was not enough.

The land in the south is not like the land in the north. The soil is relatively moist, so the probability of landslides is relatively higher.

So the new cellar is not dug in the small yard, but behind the house wall and between the wooden fence, next to the rabbit pen.

It is definitely more convenient to dig in a small yard. Considering the foundation of the house and the frequency of people walking on it, it is safer to choose outside to avoid landslides.

There are houses in front of this place and mountains behind it. The sun is mostly blocked, making it even cooler.

Zhao Yeqing measured the approximate size with his feet, used a shovel to mark out the size of the storage cellar on the ground, and then marked out the size of the cellar entrance.

Start with the first shovel at the cellar entrance.

The two of them dug a square hole alternately, one shovel at a time, and started digging downward from this hole position.

They planned to dig the storage cellar only two meters deep. When they could no longer reach it when standing on the ground, Mu Xi asked Zhao Yeqing to go back and rest for a while before jumping in and continuing to dig.

Zhao Yeqing nodded and waited until she had had enough rest before changing her shift and letting Mu Xi go back.

The sun hadn't come out yet, but the temperature was still there. Sweat flowed from her head to her neck and into her clothes, leaving a large patch of moisture on her chest and back.

When Zhao Yeqing returned home, he lit a fire first, boiled a pot of water, and put the eggs in to boil.

The earliest batch of chickens had already started laying eggs. In the past, the family could produce about ten eggs every day. It was too hot these two days and the egg production was halved, but there was no shortage.

Zhao Yeqing cooked five hard-boiled eggs and soaked them in cold water.

I also grabbed a few handfuls of the freshly beaten soybeans and soaked them in water.

She was worried that there was still moisture in the soybeans that she had previously dried with the pods attached, so after grabbing a few handfuls, she used a dustpan to put the rest in the yard to dry.

She took two bags of coffee and drank it. She hadn't drank it for a long time and said she wanted to look for tea leaves to replace the coffee. In the end, she met a wild boar and ended up without a problem.

There are ice cubes in the coffee, and breakfast is American style with hard-boiled eggs and ice.

She sat on a chair and finished her breakfast, poured the batter and snow cake milk on them, and threw a piece of dried wild boar meat into them, which served as a teething stick.

Before the rooster came out of the coop and wanted to crow, she sprinkled a handful of feed in an attempt to block its mouth, but failed in the end.

'Oh~oh~oh~~'

The sound of chirping seemed to awaken the silence of the forest. The insect chirping originally reserved for the night also disappeared, replaced by the chirping of awakened birds.

After the rooster finished crowing, he lowered his head to eat. The hen also walked out slowly with the chicks. Zhao Yeqing just turned his head and noticed three different-looking chicks among the chickens out of the corner of his eye.

She turned back instantly.

Among a group of yellow fur, three chicks with orange spots were mixed in.

"Mu Xi! Come quickly!"

It was the first time Zhao Yeqing saw a little pheasant, and she couldn't tell what kind it was.

When Mu Xi heard Zhao Yeqing's voice, he dropped the shovel, stepped out of the pit with both hands, and ran back to the yard, thinking something had happened to her.

But he saw her squatting on the ground, carefully holding a little chicken in her hand, raising it like a treasure, her eyes bright.

"Mu Xi, look!"