After the Earthquake of Rebirth

In the evening, the greenhouse was finally built.The not-so-big greenhouse occupies nearly half of the yard. The edge near the ground is about half the height of a person. It is built with scattered bricks and stones. The middle is a semi-hollow design. Earth stove, so that the temperature of the greenhouse can be maintained by burning a fire in the earth stove.On the brick wall is a frame made of wood, covered with a plastic film. Although it is not as transparent and insulated as glass, it is already considered good due to the limited conditions.

Ning Qiyan took a small stool and sat in front of the newly built earthen stove to light a fire.The newly built greenhouse has to wait until it is completely dry before it can be used, otherwise the seeds planted will easily rot.

Ning Xiaowen picked the seeds in the house and processed them in advance. After the earthen stove was continuously burned for a day, the seeds could be planted.

Ning Qiyan peeled the peanut shells while lighting the fire. He and Du Cheng bought these peanuts before the earthquake. Back then, they bought four sacks, which looked like a lot, but they didn't weigh much in total.

There is still a lot of rice and noodles at home, at least the four of them can eat it, and they can eat it until tomorrow autumn, but the environment after the earthquake is not suitable for the growth of wheat and rice. Similarly, living off better-grown crops like potatoes and corn, it is better to change the recipe a little bit than to change suddenly when the time comes.

So Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen sorted out the rest of the miscellaneous grains except for the seeds, and planned to slowly increase these miscellaneous grains as the staple food from now on.

The environment of the space is very good. The shells of the bag of peanuts turned out are crispy and can be peeled off with a light pinch.Ning Qiyan controlled his strength, trying not to damage the red skin on the outside of the peanut kernels. These red skins are pure natural blood-enriching food.

Just as Ning Qiyan was looking at the fire while peeling peanuts, a pungent smell wafted over.

Ning Qiyan wiped his hands, covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and stood up.

Because the yard is small, Ning Qiyan can see Du Cheng and Hu Zi are processing at a glance... Pure natural farmyard manure...

Ning Xiaowen, who was soaking seeds in the house, also smelled the smell in the air, and closed the door tightly when he came out.The whole house in the province is full of stench, and I can't eat at night.

"You haven't experienced this before, have you?" Seeing Ning Qiyan looking at Hu Zi and Du Cheng with a wooden face, Ning Xiaowen asked with a smile.

Ning Qiyan twitched the corners of his mouth, and it took him a while to stop his expression from being too stiff.Not to mention that he had retting farmyard manure by himself in his previous life, but just after the earthquake, the environment in the city smelled much worse than this. Now it's just that he was raised too comfortably by the environment in the mountains and in the space.

After waiting for a while, Ning Qiyan finally got used to it, put down the hand that was blocking his nose, squatted down and sent the shelled peanuts back to the house, and walked to Du Cheng's side with Ning Xiaowen.

"Are these enough?" Ning Xiaowen asked Hu Zi to straighten the crooked mask on his face.

Huzi put down his shovel and moved his sore shoulders: "This little land in our yard alone is definitely enough, but it would be a bit choking if we opened it on the platform in the spring."

Du Cheng also put down his shovel and pulled down the mask on his face. Ren Ning Qiyan helped him wipe the sweat off his brow, "It will take at least three or four months until spring begins. We have a lot of livestock, and we can increase them by then. These Use it tightly in the yard first."

After retting the saved manure and covering it, the smell in the yard dissipated a lot immediately. When the four of them got out of the shower, they basically couldn't smell the smell if they didn't smell it carefully.

Ning Qiyan steamed a pot of eight-treasure rice with soaked beans and dried fruits, then added a pot of seaweed egg drop soup with pickles and bacon, and it was a simple dinner.

After eating, Ning Xiaowen took out the finished fur coats of Du Cheng and Huzi and asked them to try.He and Ning Qiyan have already tried and repaired all the parts that should be repaired, only Du Cheng and Huzi are left.

Du Cheng put on his coat, moved his shoulders, and stretched his arms without hindrance.

Ning Qiyan looked at Du Cheng back and forth, and made sure there was no problem before letting him take it off.Before they could finish folding, Ning Xiaobao and Ning Xiaobei who came out of nowhere suddenly rushed up and rolled on the furry rabbit fur.

Ning Qiyan paused, felt movement around his legs, and looked down at Du Dabao who was grinning and sticking out his tongue.

"Why don't you give them a bath."

Hearing Ning Qiyan's words, Du Cheng and the others also looked down at the three under the bed.

Since moving into the space to live, these three little things have been having fun, and I can’t see the three of them until meal time every day. Obviously the space is so small, and I don’t know where they usually go to play.Sometimes when it's time to eat, they don't see them coming out, so every time Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen will prepare their food separately and put them in the food bowl at the door, Ning Xiaowen also sighed, these three are getting more and more It's like the cats and dogs that were raised free-range in the countryside.

But it is in the space, if it goes out of the space, Ning Qiyan dare not let them run around, who knows if they will go directly to someone else's table and become a dish.

After confirming that there was nothing to modify, Ning Xiaowen put the coat into the closet, turned around and stroked Du Dabao's hair.

According to Ning Qiyan's calculation, Du Dabao is almost one year old now, and his body shape is completely a full-grown adult dog. The height of his shoulders on all fours is about [-] to [-] centimeters, and his coat is very thick. It looks bigger than a rabbit fur coat. Still warm.So even if it likes to cling to people to sleep, it rarely climbs up the kang in space. After all, the kang is too hot, and with its fur, it can roll around four people on the kang at most before going to bed at night, until it is time to sleep , or lie down on the quilt specially laid for it under the kang to sleep.

Ning Xiaobao and Ning Xiaobei, two half-grown cats, nestled at the feet of the kang every day, sleeping sprawled on the hot kang.

"It just so happens that there is nothing to do at night, so let's wash them. We will start planting tomorrow, and we won't be able to take care of them for a few days." Seeing that Du Dabao's belly was exposed comfortably, Ning Xiaowen said with a smile.

"Okay then, I'll get the basin and wash it in the hall." Hu Zi put on his shoes, put on a coat and went out.

The toilet and bathroom in the space were built by Ning Qiyan and Du Cheng. It is not easy to walk through the pipes, so they were not built in the house, so every time I wash up, I have to go out through a short yard. Although the heating pipes were added later, the three There is only hair all over the body, and it cannot be dried immediately after washing, and the short distance before entering the house, the beard is worried that it will be frozen again.

"There is hot water on the clay stove in the yard, bring it in by the way." Ning Qiyan shouted.

"Understood." Beard replied.

After the water was put in, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen were in charge of the two little ones, and Du Dabao, who took a bath every time after winter, was non-violent and uncooperative, and Du Cheng and Huzi were in charge of suppressing it.

The two cats are easy to wash, and can be washed in a large plastic basin for laundry.Due to the size of Du Dabao, after the cold weather, he can only take a bath in a large wooden barrel specially picked up by Du Cheng after the earthquake.Originally, Ning Qiyan was still thinking, this time there is space, and it will be absolutely comfortable to take a bath when he has nothing to do in winter.Unexpectedly, before people use it, it will soon become Du Dabao's special bathtub, and what he thought was a leisurely life, only now has he realized that there are no big things, but small things, and there is no real time for leisure.

Ning Qiyan pressed Ning Xiaobei's neck with his left hand, and rubbed it with foam with his right hand, avoiding eyes, nose and ears, and carefully washed the rest.

"You press it first, I'll pour a basin of water." Ning Xiaowen put the washed Ning Xiaobao in Ning Qiyan's hand, turned around and adjusted the water in the empty basin beside him.

After adjusting the water, rinse the two cats in clean water again, then wrap them in bath towels and carry them into the house.

The two cats obediently let Ning Qiyan put them on the top of the kang, with their bellies stuck to the warm kang with a bath towel, lying comfortably on their stomachs, ignoring the wet fur on their bodies.

Ning Qiyan knew that these two little things were generally honest when Du Dabao was not around, so he let them lie on their stomachs and went out to help Du Cheng and the others wash Du Dabao together.

On Du Dabao's side, Huzi pressed his head with one hand and his buttocks with the other to suppress it, while Du Cheng watered it with a ladle.After Ning Qiyan finished washing both of them, the fur here was just wet.

Ning Xiaowen and Ning Qiyan came over, one took a comb and the other took a shower gel, the four of them worked together to wash Du Dabao clean inside and out with water splashing all over the floor.At the beginning, Du Dabao tried to resist in various ways, but later he found that he couldn't resist, so he just groaned at his ears and pretended to be pitiful, but everyone knew its virtues, and no one paid attention to it.I don't know if I was really angry or on purpose, but I changed my tone when I screamed, and finally I learned how to howl like a wolf. Fortunately, there is only their family in the space, otherwise the howling of wolves in the middle of the night is enough to penetrate people.

Hu Zi wrapped Du Dabao in a bath towel, and half hugged and half resisted, he put it on the kang.

"Taking a bath is like killing you! Next time you make such a fuss, I'll throw it into the river crab pond for you!" Hu Zi slapped Du Dabao's hind legs with a slap, and said.

Du Dabao tore off the bath towel on his body, shook his hair vigorously, then turned his head and bared his teeth at the beard, and when he found that the beard's expression was more fierce than it, he tucked his tail and hid in Ning Xiaobao, whose hair was almost dry Behind He Ning Xiaobei.

Huzi looked at it with black lines on his face, luckily, he turned around and went out to help Du Cheng and the others clean up the ground.

Most of the first wave of plants after drying in the greenhouse are green vegetables with a short growth cycle such as lettuce, spinach, and cabbage. Open, to prevent one piece of cooked, and then ten days and a half months of unripe vegetables can be eaten.

After Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen filled the greenhouse, Du Cheng and Hu Zi also covered the livestock sheds. Although there was no rain or snow in the space, the temperature continued to drop, and the livestock sheds had to be well insulated, let alone Frostbite and death from frostbite, even if they lost a catty of flesh, they would still feel distressed.

Ning Qiyan looked at the neat and tidy yard, and heaved a sigh of relief. He had done everything that needed to be done, and now he could finally have a good cat winter.

He was right, but obviously everyone's definition of ideal Maodong was different.