mtl008 Chapter 151 Tiankeng Life
Chapter 151 Tiankeng Life
After they parted, Han Zhibai watched Xia Qingyue walk away in the dark. Even after her figure disappeared, he still looked in that direction for a long time.
"Let's go, Xiaobai, let's go home too."
It was a rainy day, and Xia Qingyue was afraid of slipping, so she found a thick wooden stick to lean on and walked for almost three hours before she got back to the tiankeng.
She put the fish cage in the stream yesterday morning and didn't know what happened to it.
When we came to the stream where the fish cages were placed, we heard a loud sound of rushing water. It had rained for a day and a night, and the water level in the lower reaches of the stream had more than doubled, and the current was rushing.
Fortunately, she usually put the fish cage on the shore, or propped it up with a stone or other heavy object, but the water was so strong that she didn't know if the fish cage was still intact.
She bent down and rolled up her trouser legs to prepare for a big job, but when she saw the bloated trousers, she was stunned.
She put on Han Zhibai's new clothes, and carried back the old clothes that she had taken off last night and thrown into the backpack.
"Wash it clean and give it back to him some other day."
She rolled up her trouser legs and went to look for the fish cages, one on the shore and one not far from the shore.
Pushing aside the wet plants, the fish cage underneath was tilted to one side and the stone wall surrounding it was broken and in danger. She pulled with all her strength, "It's OK. It's so heavy."
It seems that there are quite a lot of fresh river food in it.
After a lot of trouble, she finally pulled the fish cage up. Because she used too much force, she sat down on it and her pants got wet.
The spring rain was quite cold, and she was afraid of catching a cold, so she quickened her pace to collect the second fish cage, which was a little above the first one.
She walked over and took a look, but the fish cage was gone. All that was left was the rapidly flowing muddy yellow water. She reached into the water with the stick she was walking on and poked around, but it was empty.
She said disappointedly, "It seems to have been washed away by the stream water."
She picked up a heavy fish cage and returned to the tiankeng.
As expected, as soon as I got back, the chickens and ducks in the poultry room started clucking.
She turned a deaf ear to it and poured out the fish from the fish cage. The weight of the fish in her hand was about 30 kilograms. Once it was poured out, there was a loud splash, and there was so much river fish that it burst out of the basin.
There were several large fish weighing two or three pounds.
There are also quite a few large river shrimps.
All in all, the harvest was fruitful. “Wow, I made a fortune!”
After pouring out the river fish, she washed her hands and dried them, went back to the room to dry her wet body, changed into dry clothes, wiped Heihei's body, then lit the fire in the stove and boiled a pot of brown sugar ginger water.
It is already mid-to-late April and her period is about to come. During this period, the body's resistance is weaker than usual, so she needs to be careful.
Looking at the firewood piled about one meter high next to the stove, I felt inexplicably at ease.
While roasting by the fire, she drank two bowls of brown sugar ginger water to dispel the chill all over her body. Then she sorted the river fish into large, small and seeded ones.
After the distribution, she would chop up the goose intestines grass and wild vegetables she had cut from outside, mix them with some rice bran, small fish and shrimps to feed the chickens and ducks, while the rabbits would eat the wild grass.
There were several eggs lying on the dry straw nest in the chicken coop. She went in to pick them up. She found that the texture and shell color of four eggs were a little different. She smiled in surprise and said, "They are fertilized eggs. I can raise chicks again!"
The ducks also laid eggs in the pen, and we got five fertilized eggs and two ordinary eggs.
"Of course, but you still have to get enough nutrition."
Several rabbits in the rabbit pen have become thin, so she thought she would have to make some soybean powder for them to eat.
It was already noon. She had walked for a long time in the morning and was hungry after digesting her breakfast. She went to the utility room to cut some bacon to make stew.
The bacon was made last year and was hung on bamboo poles in the utility room, with only a few dozen kilograms left.
She stood on a stool and picked up a knife to choose which piece of meat to cut. As she was choosing, she was surprised to find white worms wriggling in the crevices of some pieces of meat.
He felt a chill and turned his head to the side, retching a few times. He quickly picked out the meat with worms and threw it next to the stove.
There were five pieces with insects and four pieces with green mold on the surface.
All the meat was ruined and could not be eaten, so she threw it all into the stove and burned it.
There were only a few intact pieces left on the bamboo poles. It was damp due to the rain, and I was afraid that they would get moldy and buggy, so I took them all out and placed them by the stove to dry.
"I hope it's of some use."
She picked out a cured pig's trotter and a piece of cured pork belly, washed them with warm water, chopped them into pieces, and put them in a pot to stew in the back stove.
Pour rice into the pot and cook it. After the water boils, cover it with a lid and pour out the rice soup.
After soaking the dried mushrooms in water, she put on a bamboo hat, picked up a vegetable basket, and went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and also checked the condition of the canal.
Xia Dasong had dug a hole in the canal and compacted the earthen steps for her to walk down.
The water in the canal was about one meter deep, and the total depth was about four meters. The watercress planted in the shallow water area was submerged and disappeared.
"It's not looking good. Once it stops raining, we'll start the renovation."
I went to the vegetable garden and picked some young Amaranth and stir-fried it into a vegetarian dish.
After lunch, the rain stopped and a thick white mist lingered above the mouth of the tiankeng. The plants inside were washed by the rain and became even greener and more pleasing to the eye.
"I hope it won't rain yet, so that the water in the drain can be drained out, and I can do it more easily."
There was nothing to do on a rainy day and she was very sleepy, so she took a shower, changed into her pajamas, and fell asleep.
After taking a nap for about an hour, she didn't rush to get up when she woke up. In her drowsy mind, she first thought about how Han Zhibai's injury was, and then she stared into the air in a daze.
She dawdled until about three o'clock, then she got up, and Heihei was still sleeping.
There was still no rain in the sky and the fog had dissipated a little, but the scene in the sky was still unclear.
The water in the canal has receded by one third.
"If it doesn't rain until the next day, we can only do it tomorrow."
There is one advantage to rainy days. Some water has gathered in the paddy fields. It is estimated to be as high as her ankles, which will make it much easier to divert water in the future.
In the evening, I heated up the leftover stew from lunch and fried some vegetables and had a simple meal.
Heihei ate steamed eggs and steamed fish.
After washing up, she went to bed and leaned against the headboard. There was an oil lamp on the bedside table and a pile of books in one corner.
She picked up a medical book and began to read it with great interest.
After watching for a while, she felt sleepy. She rubbed her eyes and muttered, "Let's go to sleep. Sleep is a blessing. I didn't sleep well last night."
Holding on to the last bit of willpower, he blew out the light, lay down and fell asleep.
She went to bed early and got up early. She got up at five in the morning. It had rained and it was a bit cold, so she put on a long-sleeved shirt.
She had to light a lamp and go to the toilet to solve personal problems, light a fire and boil water, cook breakfast, do archery exercises in the morning, and then feed the poultry. These were the things she had to do every morning, and none of them could be missed.
The water in the canal receded, revealing black mud at the bottom. It would be terrible if you stepped into it.
The open space under the sinkhole is dry, so it probably didn't rain last night.
After breakfast, when it was light, she clapped her hands, went to the utility room, got a newly bought hoe, a shoulder pole and two wooden buckets, and said, "Let's get to work and renovate the canal!"
According to conservative estimates, the total length of the canal is several hundred meters, running vertically through the tiankeng. It would be impossible for her to dig it one or two meters deeper on her own in the short term.