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

Zhao Yeqing seemed not to have expected that Mu Xi was looking at her. The unexpected gaze made her stunned. She blinked and was about to say something, but the other person shifted her gaze first and spoke.

"How are you doing? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Zhao Yeqing lay down and moved, feeling it, but there was nothing wrong with it except that it was hard.

She just felt that the ceiling she was facing was made of dirt, which made her a little insecure, and she always felt like dirt would fall on her face.

She sat up and pointed to her head, "Can this be boarded up?"

Mu Xi shook his head, "It will get damp, so use plastic wrap."

There were less than ten meters of plastic film left, and she really couldn't bear to part with it.

Mu Xi found it funny, "This won't be consumed. If you really need it, you can just dismantle it."

That's not impossible. Zhao Yeqing volunteered to get it and asked, "Do you need anything else to fix it?"

The plastic film is thin and easy to crack if fixed directly with nails.

Mu Xi thought for a while, "Plastic film cloth should be used as a waterproof layer, and a piece of bark should be placed underneath, so there is no need to fix it."

When we cut down the tree to make a bed, we didn't need the bark, so we just left it useless. This will come in handy.

The bark should be flattened first. The freshly peeled bark still contains water vapor and needs to be roasted over a fire. After the fire, it will not become moldy and wormy.

Use an air nail gun to fix the four corners of the plastic film sheet to the bark, and then insert the entire piece of bark into the space between the top soil layer and the stone bricks of the wall.

The ceiling is even finished.

The light-colored bark faces the inside of the cellar, giving the whole space a brighter color and making it less depressing.

It was already 12 o'clock, when the sun was at its hottest, Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to take down the fan and carry the two cubs down.

She took a small stainless steel basin, filled it with water, put it in the freezer, and put it in the cellar to cool down when she went to bed at night.

Wash the cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers that you picked in the morning from the vegetable basket and put them in separate bowls. Then take the remaining vegetables in the bowl and the vegetable basket down to the cellar.

"I don't have much appetite today. Let's eat something vegetarian."

Mu Xi had no objection and picked up a cucumber to chew on it.

Zhao Yeqing grabbed the tomatoes. She only washed one, leaving the remaining two to make the tomato scrambled eggs that she longed for.

Cut the tomato in two and hand half to Mu Xi.

The fully ripe tomatoes are juicy and juicy, and the fleshy texture melts in your mouth as soon as you take a sip. The tomato flavor is very rich.

Tomatoes bought at the vegetable market are picked before they are ripe for transportation. When they come home, they are still hard and crisp, with high acidity.

Tomatoes picked when they are fully ripe on the stem are sweet and sour and melt in your mouth. They are the best.

Her eyes narrowed as she ate, and she finished it in a few bites, then continued to pick up a colored pepper and gnaw on it.

Guohuo and Xuebing went down to the cellar for the first time and curiously stretched out their paws to touch the wall and stomp on the floor.

The area in the cellar is too small, and the two are very obedient and will not climb onto the bed by themselves, so there is only a little room for movement, but it does not affect their mood at all.

The stone brick wall has some friction, and there are small stress points between the bricks.

The two little leopards jumped up the wall and reached the top in a few steps.

Mu Xi looked at the two and said, "It's time to teach them to hunt on their own."

Zhao Yeqing's understanding of leopard hunting was still limited to fragments of the animal world, so he could only let Mu Xi teach him.

She barely slept at night, so she talked to Mu Xi and started to catch up on her sleep.

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When she woke up again, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and she was in a daze.

It was a rare good sleep during this period.

Mu Xi was no longer in the cellar, and the two were carried out.

Zhao Yeqing climbed up, heard the sound of shoveling outside the yard, put on his coat and trousers and went out.

The cellar has been dug two meters deep, and the width of the cellar is starting to be dug forward.

Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to come up to rest and let her go down instead.

Mu Xi did not agree, "I just came down here."

She could only move the soil next to it into the forest first, and then watered it for the second time today while watching the sun set.

The water flow is indeed smaller than before, and it is not ruled out that the water pipes were knocked out of shape by animals.

The weather is too hot, so I have to change two sets of clothes every day, and the laundry detergent at home is used up a bit quickly.

She doesn't have the habit of stocking soap, and washes all her clothes with laundry detergent. Washing the clothes for two people consumes a lot of laundry detergent every day.

It's early August now. In a month's time, the soapberry trees in the mountains will drop their fruits. I'll have to pick some back up and use them as laundry detergent.

She washed and hung the clothes and thought about what to eat tonight.

Cooking in hot weather is absolutely torture. The kitchen is like a sauna. Zhao Yeqing only ate some fruits at noon. Now his stomach is growling but he has no appetite.

After cooking in this kitchen, I will probably lose my appetite even more.

When you are in doubt, you must learn to leave the problem to others.

Zhao Yeqing ran to ask Mu Xi what he wanted to eat at night.

He seemed to already know what Zhao Yeqing was thinking, "Boil a pot of water and make some noodles. I'll make something delicious for you tomorrow. Eat something today."

With anticipation, my appetite feels better.

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Mu Xi was very efficient. After finishing the noodles, she had just washed the dishes and went over to see if she could help. She found that the cellar had almost been dug.

Mu Xi smoothed and compacted the soil inside before coming up.

The cellar door hasn't been built yet. It's simple. Zhao Yeqing took out the old wooden door that he had replaced before, cut half of it and put it on top.

The size is just right.

She walked to the sweet potato field and pulled back the vines.

The grown fruits had already poked their heads towards the ground. Zhao Yeqing used his hands to spread some of the soil and pinched it.

The tops of the fruits are already a little soft, probably because the sun is too strong and they are a little wilted. It’s time to harvest.

Get the sickle from the kitchen and cut the vines first.

The sweet potato fields are clustered together, and the three long bulging strips of land are no longer covered by the leaves of the sweet potato vines, and the light red sweet potato fruits are exposed.

Digging sweet potatoes is a technical job. It is not easy to break them with a small shovel, but the efficiency is very low. Using a hoe is more efficient, but as soon as the hoe is put down, all the sweet potatoes may be broken. You need to find the right position before starting.

Judging the direction of the fruit underneath based on the tips of the sweet potatoes exposed on the surface, he dug a few centimeters away and pushed out the soil. As the soil rose up, a series of sweet potatoes from the ground were brought out.

This is the first plant harvested, a good start.

Zhao Yeqing shook the soil off the sweet potatoes, revealing big fat potatoes.

This plant produced eight sweet potatoes, all of which were round and plump. She bumped them with her hands and estimated that they weighed about 4 kilograms.

She has planted nearly a hundred sweet potato seedlings in total. If they grow at this rate, they can harvest nearly 400 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao Yeqing's mouth didn't even curl up.

For the first time, I truly felt the joy of harvest.