Hard times have room

Chapter 651
After another two days, the dark and heavy cloud in the sky finally revealed its trump card. It was like a hole was leaked that day, and the rain poured down.

The rain stopped a few days ago, as if it was prepared for today's heavy rain. For a time, it was obviously the afternoon, not long after lunch, but the sky was dark and it seemed that it was evening. Heart could not help sinking.

The Paulin family huddled in their own house, the doors and windows were closed, but there was still a feeling of trembling.

The heavy rain this time was accompanied by strong winds, which was somewhat similar to the initial rain more than 20 days ago, but the intensity was several times that of that day.

Outside the house, the dead fruit trees that were planted last year were bent by the wind, and they seemed to be broken. , This tree as thick as an adult's wrist is about to be blown off by this strong wind.

Trees are like this, not to mention those things like grass and bamboo, which are swaying with the wind, at the mercy of the wind, and they will fall wherever the wind blows.

What the Paulin family felt most deeply was the pervasive wind outside the house. The doors and windows of their kitchen were closed, but the fire inside couldn't burn well. The still red embers were blowing everywhere. Even if it was burning the branches, the flames were restless, and the flames were sometimes big and small, making people afraid to approach them, for fear that the fire would burn themselves.

There was too much firewood in the kitchen. I was afraid that the strong wind would blow some sparks on the pine needle leaves and set the house on fire. In the end, the fire that had already started was put out because it was not safe.

Sitting on the small bench in the kitchen, Pauline shrank her body and prayed secretly in her heart, hoping that the rain would not blow away the roof of her house. In her opinion, this possibility is still there, and I hope her family will not be like that. Bad luck.

It's a storm, and it's a whole night when the wind blows and rains. Anyway, Pauline slept very late, for fear that she would fall asleep. Then, the roof of the house was blown away, and her house was gone. It's the last He couldn't hold it any longer, and fell asleep in a drowsiness mixed with deep worry.

Came together the next day, Pauline shrank her shoulders directly, and the temperature dropped again. Yesterday, it was okay to wear a single shirt and a thin coat outside, but not today.

Pauline took off her thin coat and put on a autumn coat with a reed core. Although the material was poor, it was made of old cheesecloth, which was rough to the touch, and the dyeing was uneven. Palette, however, Pauline is very satisfied.

When the gathering in Chenjiazhuang was still very lively, Su Hongying bought a lot of this kind of cloth. It was very cheap. You could get a piece of cloth for a dollar, and there was no need for cloth tickets. It's okay, I made clothes for my family of three.

I used to be diligent, but now I take a car. Although my family's clothes are not very good, there is no shortage of fabrics, and they are sewed and mended. There are not a few pieces of clothes before, but they are still there, but I bring a few with me. patch.

Baolin wears clothes very cherishly. Even now, although her clothes are torn, they have been repaired in a large number. There are clothes in three grades of thin, medium and thick.

As soon as she went out, there was no one in the main room, so she went straight to the kitchen. Sure enough, her parents were here.

In the fire pond in the kitchen, the red flames were burning fiercely, making a crackling sound from time to time.

"Get up, I'll make something for breakfast, stewed wild vegetables with mushrooms, you go wash your face first, and I'll serve it for you."

She and Pauline's father got up early and were hungry, so they cooked the food by the way.

Paulin's bowl was placed in the lunch box and kept beside the fire, and a little charcoal was poked over, so when Paulin was eating with the lunch box, the breakfast in the lunch box was still hot.

"Mom and Dad, has the rain never stopped?" Listening to the incessant ticking sounds around her, she knew as soon as she woke up in the morning that the rain was continuing, but she didn't know if it had stopped in the middle.

"Don't mention it, I won't talk about it next night, and it hasn't stopped until now. I don't know how long this rain will last." Wang Jiandang added a thumb-sized branch to the fire pond, worried. said.

The weather this year is horrible!

Listening to the sound of the rain outside, he felt that his decision to chop firewood couldn't be more correct. Look, it's cooling down today!

After these days of unremitting efforts by him and Su Hongying, the kitchen at home was already full of firewood, and the kind that reached the roof, bundled with thatch, was very beautiful.

In addition to the kitchen, the two corners of the main room near the gate are also piled with firewood. The innermost is a rack with thick branches of the wrist, and the outer is a basket roughly made of bamboo, which is filled with pine cones. , One by one, all the flowers are blooming, and they can be burned directly. These pine cones have been kept by the kitchen fire pit, and the baked pine cones can be ignited with only a handful of pine branches.

The number of pine cones in the house is still considerable. There are four baskets on one side, and two baskets are stacked together. It does not occupy a lot of land and does not affect the movement. These pine cones are enough for the home to burn for a long time.

There are so many pine cones at home. The biggest contributor is Pauline, who is mainly responsible for the pine needles that set fire in the house and the pine cones that break the fire in the iron pot.

Of course, her parents thought that she was working hard, but in fact it mainly depends on space. With space as a backing, she can pick up and walk without hesitation at all. She is not afraid of walking far. After all, the forests of Shanghe Village are basically all pine trees, and each pine tree bears a lot of pine cones. Even if the annual growth is not good this year, it is the same. It seems that these pine trees have not been affected too much.

In addition to the firewood piled up in the kitchen and the main room, there are also some piles in the toilet, but not much, but the place where the grass and wood ashes were piled up before was cleared out, and the piles were full of firewood.

The rest of the branches were leaning against the wall and tied into bundles. Although they were covered with thatched mats, it was raining heavily, and they should have also seeped in one after another and got wet.

Even if it is not wet, it will not be wet, and if you want to burn it directly, it will not work.

Although it was pouring rain outside, it didn't have a big impact on the Paulin family.

Because of this heavy rain, the thick cotton-padded clothes and quilts that had been put back in the box were taken out again, and took turns to be placed on the stools next to the fire pond to bake the fire.

(End of this chapter)