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

Chapter 299 Darkness

The principle of this floor heating is to use the combustion smoke to be discharged from the channel and pass through the floor of the house to heat the room.

But now the smoke is pouring out from the passage, and it is also sucking the fire inside towards the entrance of the hole. Although it will not cause a fire to burn inside, the direction of the fire is going inward and not upward, and the pot placed above cannot boil water. .

Mu Xi had never encountered such a situation, so he quickly adjusted the direction of the fire, but it still didn't work.

Zhao Yeqing heard the sound of Mu Xi tinkering by the fireplace. He put down his cell phone and walked over. After seeing the situation clearly, he took out a piece of iron sheet from the materials nearby.

The iron sheet was an extra scrap from the previous work on the pipe below. She inserted the iron sheet into the stove smoke exhaust passage, blocking it right in the middle of the passage. There were also some gaps left on both sides for the smoke to escape, and the middle was blocked. takes up most of the suction power.

As soon as the iron sheet was inserted, the flame returned to normal and was no longer sucked into it.

Seeing that the fire had resumed, Mu Xi was about to put the pot on when he heard the noise outside.

"You cook the food first, and I'll go see if a few leopards have returned."

Zhao Yeqing nodded, and Mu Xi walked out.

It's late now, and the temperature is getting colder. A few leopards will go out to look for food recently, and will come back at night. They came back earlier today, maybe because it's snowing and too cold.

It was estimated that the temperature was only fifteen degrees below zero. Mu Xi could feel the coolness outside the house even as he lay on the window sill. It seemed that if he wanted to keep the house warmer, he would have to add a thicker layer in these areas.

Through the glass, he saw the leopards leaping in from the fence outside. Guohuo and Xuebing had already entered, and the last one was the male leopard.

Mu Xi sighed softly. The wall in their house really couldn't protect against any flexible animals. Having these three at home for the winter was a guarantee.

Three of them went straight to the brick wall, which meant that today was a fruitful day.

In the past, if he couldn't catch prey when he went out, he would open the door of their room and ask for some food when he came back. Today, he looked very satisfied with his meal.

Mu Xi returned to the fireplace with relief and saw that the soup in the pot had boiled and was bubbling.

Zhao Yeqing put the white radish in. She preferred to eat the lumpy white radish instead of the sliced ​​white radish. It was cooked soft and very sweet and juicy when bitten.

This means that it needs to be cooked for long enough, so she put the white radish first and cooked it for ten minutes before adding other vegetables.

Their stove was underground, and if you wanted to eat the soup pot around the fire, you had to sit on the floor.

The floor is warm now, and there is no need to lay any cushions. The original straw mat by the fireplace has been removed for fear of catching sparks and burning.

Zhao Yeqing directly pulled the straw mat on the floor next to him and put it on the ground. After asking Mu Xi to bring in the meat slices that were outside, the two of them sat down on the floor.

There is no need to go out to work in the fields in winter, which consumes less physical energy. There are a lot of vegetables and meat at home, so the two of them are too lazy to cook anymore and just eat meat and vegetables until they are full.

The thin slices of meat were cooked after being cooked in the pot for a few times. The two large plates were filled with heavy meat and were eaten up.

After Zhao Yeqing finished eating the meat, he poured a few spoonfuls of the bottom of the pot that had turned from clear soup into broth into a bowl, and then scalded the vegetables in it.

If you want to drink the soup base for shabu-shabu, you have to drink it before blanching the vegetables. The soup after blanching the vegetables will change its flavor.

Zhao Yeqing took small sips while drinking the rich broth, waiting for the chrysanthemum in the pot to be cooked.

The north wind outside the window suddenly picked up, and the glass began to tap against the window frame again.

Mu Xi: "Fix the window again tomorrow. Ding two nails on the side of the wooden window frame and it should stop making noise."

Zhao Yeqing put the cooked chrysanthemum in the pot into a bowl, "When the weather gets warmer, we will repair the windows again and see if they can be enlarged and replace the glass windows of the previous B&B in the tourist area."

The glass window over there may be to allow tourists to sleep better. It uses three layers of thickened glass, which is thick and soundproof.

It definitely can't be demolished now, and I don't know how long it will stop snowing outside.

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The time that followed seemed to confirm Zhao Yeqing's worries. The snow became heavier and heavier. Just like last year, it actually took a week before it gradually became lighter.

All the family's livestock have been driven to the basement. The temperature inside is neither cold nor warm, barely maintaining around three or four degrees below zero, and there is no need to light a fire for heating.

The snow in the yard has gradually thickened, and now it has reached the height of the middle of the calf.

"It seems like the snowfall isn't as heavy as last year?"

The two of them had finished feeding the livestock and were taking out the meat from the freezer in the yard to prepare today's meal.

Mu Xi stomped on the snow a few times and replied: "Indeed, not really, but the temperature hasn't gotten much warmer either."

Although the snow was lighter now, it had not stopped yet. The two of them speeded up to take the food into the house.

Zhao Yeqing returned to the house, put down his things, and went to the fireplace to warm his red hands from the cold.

"I don't know how long it will be cold this year. The snow seems to be lighter, but the weather doesn't look like it will be sunny."

Not only did it not look like it was going to be sunny, but it was actually getting darker.

At night, the snow gradually stopped, but it was already dark, making it difficult to see what was going on outside.

When the two woke up and looked out again, they both checked the time several times in disbelief.

Zhao Yeqing was stunned, and the uneasiness in her heart gradually expanded. She looked at the empty darkness outside the window without looking back, "Mu Xi... what time is it now?"

Mu Xi said in a deep voice, "9 o'clock."

"It's 9 o'clock in the morning, right?"

"Ah."

Zhao Yeqing closed his eyes and opened them again. It was still dark outside the window, without a trace of light.

Both of them felt hairy all over their bodies, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in their hearts as they stared at the darkness.

Suddenly there was a hurried scratching at the door. Zhao Yeqing was startled and his hair stood on end. Mu Xi hugged her hurriedly, "Don't be afraid, it might be the paste and snow cake. I'll go take a look."

The lights in the room were turned on, Mu Xi put on his shoes and got out of bed, and the light shone through the window in the yard.

The sudden light softened the sound of scratching at the door.

Mu Xi took a gun and looked out of the window next to the door. He saw three leopards outside the door, and then he opened the door, but he still held the gun tightly in his hand.

It wasn't until I saw that the three leopards who came in were in the same condition as usual that I felt relieved.

Maybe the darkness outside frightened a few leopards. When they came in and saw the brightness inside the house, Guomu and Xuebing walked to the bedside and acted coquettishly with Zhao Yeqing.

The two leopards still remembered the previous rule that they were not allowed to go to bed, so they waited obediently by the bed to be masturbated.

While stroking his smooth hair, Zhao Yeqing's mood was not as relieved as usual. His whole heart was high and he was not at ease at all.

"How is this going?"