amaotonovel Chapter 242 The sun is out
Chapter 242 The sun is out
At the same time, Han Zhibai opened the other two bamboo tubes of soap and took them out. He imitated her and pulled the string in his hand to cut the orchid soap. With great strength, he cut it easily and quickly.
The surface of the cut soap is smooth without any debris. The fragrance is stronger than when it was made into a paste, but it doesn't smell stuffy.
Work together to cut the soaps, and each gets nine pieces of each.
"Soap is for bathing and washing hair, and soap is for washing clothes and hands."
Xia Qingyue picked up a piece of soap, filled half a basin with warm water, wet her hands, and rubbed the soap a few times. She rubbed her hands together, and immediately there was foam, which became denser and denser. "See, is it foaming like the tea dregs and soapberry?"
He stood by and watched, nodding with curiosity.
After washing her hands, she gave up her seat so that he could also experience the feeling of washing his hands with soap.
After the experience, he was amazed.
They started using soap that day and immediately felt that their washing experience had been greatly improved.
It snowed for three days. On the morning of the fourth day, Xia Qingyue woke up and Han Zhibai told her that the snow had stopped.
She ran to the door of the main room, looked out, and sure enough, he had stopped. The snow in front of the door was less than knee-high. She turned around happily and opened her arms to hug him.
"Great, the snow has stopped. Will the sun come out? If it does, can we go down the mountain?"
He put his arm around her waist, rested his chin lightly on top of her head, and said, "The sun should be out in the next few days. Let's see how the snow melts. If it melts well, we can go down the mountain."
"Wuhu, that's great!" She prayed in her heart that the sun would come out in the next few days and it wouldn't snow.
She hadn't had breakfast yet, so she went to wash up before eating, and he went outside to shovel snow.
After dinner, she packed up her tools and went out to shovel snow.
There wasn't much snow, so it didn't take long for the two of them to finish shoveling.
After shoveling, they warmed themselves by the kitchen stove and ate stewed sweet potatoes.
"I think the sausages are almost ready. How about cooking a few to try at noon?" She was eating the sweet sweet potatoes and thinking about the spicy sausages.
"I'll take a few sections of each and put them away after they're cooked. You can eat them slowly." He finished the sweet potato in his hand in a few bites, clapped his hands, stood on the stove, and took off the sausages easily with his tall height and long arms.
He also took a dried chicken, a rabbit and a duck, poured hot water into a large wooden basin, and rubbed them with a loofah naan.
After eating the sweet potatoes, she started to prepare lunch, washing rice and cooking it, boiling soup, cutting some radish slices and cabbage leaves, and soaking some dried black fungus, loofah, bamboo shoots and other vegetables.
The washed and dried chicken, duck, rabbit and sausages were cooked in a pot. Han Zhibai lit a fire and opened the small side door to see if it was snowing.
Although there was no snow outside, the cold was still oppressive. It was obvious that it was getting brighter outside. There was a dazzling sun in the sky, emitting a hint of warmth.
The fog dissipated a lot, and I could see the scenery more than a hundred meters away outside the courtyard gate, but the mountains were still shrouded in white fog.
He turned around and said happily, "Qingyue, the sun is out!"
Xia Qingyue, who was sitting by the stove, turned around and took a few quick steps forward. She looked outside and her eyes widened. "The sun is out!"
After noon, the sunlight was noticeably stronger. They put the boiled dishes into their bowls, moved their stools to the front yard, and ate in the sun, feeling extremely comfortable.
Xia Qingyue really likes the spicy sausage, and the Cantonese style tastes pretty good too. She thinks it would taste even better if fried.
They had a rare disagreement on the same food. Han Zhibai could not accept the taste of Cantonese sausages. He thought that spicy and salty sausages tasted better.
They respect each other's different preferences for sausages.
In such nice weather, they took the two kids outside in the afternoon and had a great time playing snowball fights.
Over the next few days, the sun rose every day and the fog in the mountains dissipated to the halfway point of the mountain. Above the halfway point, the area was so foggy that the mountain and the trees on it could not be seen at all.
The temperature is slightly higher during the sunny day, and the snow on the trees, grass and roofs slowly melts. The temperature drops at night, and when you wake up in the morning, long strings of icicles hang from the eaves.
In the middle of the month, early in the morning, Han Zhibai went out of the valley to take a look outside. The snow in most places had melted to the height of a person's calf. He went back to explain the situation to Xia Qingyue.
"It's possible to go down the mountain, but the road is not easy to walk on, and I'm afraid it will snow again in two days. If the snow is heavy, it will be difficult to go up the mountain."
"We have very little rice and flour left at home, and the wheat we harvested was not dried well and has not been threshed yet.
The duck down quilt is ready, and I need to go get it. I think we should go down and stay at the foot of the mountain for a night or two and then come back. What do you think?"
The quilt they are covering themselves with now is a duck down quilt that she made last year, plus a 13-pound quilt. It is warm when covered with it, but it is too heavy and not very comfortable.
If there is a new quilt, of course she would like to use a better one.
He nodded and said, "How about I move the honey out now, have brunch and then go down the mountain? This way we can save a day and go to Datong Town tomorrow morning."
"That would be very good. You get the honey, and I'll get the food for the poultry, and then make lunch."
After the agreement was reached, the two men went their separate ways. After Han Zhibai finished moving the honey, he tidied up the house, put away the things that needed to be put away, cooked meals, prepared vegetables, and packed up the leftovers that were ready for the near future and took them down the mountain.
In this way, they had a quick brunch, cleaned up the house, and took the two little ones and Xiao Hei down the mountain before noon.
The road was slippery due to the heavy snow, and it was difficult to walk with one foot deep and one foot shallow. It usually took more than two hours to reach the foot of the mountain, but today they walked for more than three hours and finally reached Xiushui Village at 3 p.m.
It was already getting dark and there were few people on the village road. It was desolate and lonely. They headed straight for Li's house.
The door of the Li family was closed. After a few knocks, Chen Yuzhen opened the door. She was so happy to see the two people that she turned around and shouted to the inside of the house:
"Xiaoyu, Qingyue and the others have come down the mountain, hurry up and make some brown sugar ginger tea."
There was no one in the room, and Fang Xiaoyu's happy voice came out: "Hey, Qingyue, come in and warm yourself by the fire!"
At the same time, Chen Yuzhen welcomed Xia Qingyue and others into her home.
When Fang Xiaoyu came out, she saw Xia Qingyue and the other girl had red noses from the cold and looked a little pale. She greeted them hurriedly and ran into the kitchen.
Xiao Hei's things needed to be taken off, so Xia Qingyue, Han Zhibai and Chen Yuzhen worked together to unload them. With more people around, the work went fast, and it took them more than a quarter of an hour to finish.
The Li family built a pigpen in the backyard, which was quite spacious. Pigs, chickens and rabbits were kept separately. Han Zhibai led Xiao Hei over and settled it in a corner.
It was a little crowded, but there was no wind or snow.
There was a pot of red-hot charcoal fire in the main room. Chen Yuzhen asked Xia Qingyue to sit down and warm herself by the fire. She went to the kitchen to get two bowls of boiling water and told her to drink them slowly.
As she was drinking, Han Zhibai came into the room. Chen Yuzhen handed him another bowl of hot water and asked him to drink it.
"The snow stopped a few days ago and the sun came out, but the snow didn't melt. We thought you wouldn't come down the mountain at this time. The way down must be difficult to walk on. Are you hurt anywhere?"
Chen Yuzhen looked them up and down, and when she saw that there were a few darker spots near the knees of Xia Qingyue's cloak, worry filled her eyes and she went forward to check.