Hard times have room

Chapter 677 Frost and Snow
After the time entered November, the cooling became more and more obvious. Before, it was enough to wear autumn clothes with interlayers, but in November, it was frosted, and it would not be cold in the morning and evening. Many elderly and children spent the winter by themselves. I took out the jacket I was wearing and put it on.

Paulin also put on the cotton coat early. It's not that she is not resistant to freezing, but it's too cold outside. In addition, the rain has not stopped these days. The weather is really wet and cold. As long as you go out, you will be guaranteed His face was flushed red, as if a small knife was scraping his face, it was cold, it was really cold.

Now Pauline doesn't like to go out anymore, unless she's digging for wild vegetables, otherwise she can stay at home and cook the fire at home, so she won't go out easily.

It had been raining all the time before, and even now, the rain has not stopped, but the villagers in Shanghe Village are busier than ever before.

For more than 20 days in a row, because of the wet and cold weather, the fire has not been cut off, which can be imagined for the consumption of firewood. This is still a pediatrics, and winter has not yet come!
Originally, the villagers of Shanghe Village wanted to wait a little longer. When the rain stopped, the road on the mountain was easy to walk, the branches were dry and ready to be chopped down, and then they went to collect firewood. We had to get firewood right away, because winter was coming, and it wouldn't take long for the snow to fall, covering the ground with a layer of snow-white color.

If I wait for the snow to fall before I go to get firewood, it will be even more uncomfortable after that.

I don’t know if it snows in other places, but they can’t run in a heavy snow every year in Shanghe Village, especially on the mountains. At that time, there will really be frozen icicles everywhere, a thick layer of ice. Everything is sealed, beautiful is beautiful, and frozen people are really frozen people, especially when the snow melts after the spring.

On a rainy day, many people had already used half or even more than half of the firewood in their homes because of the cooling and mushroom roasting. In addition, it had been raining for the past two months. Therefore, the preparation of firewood was naturally delayed. As a result, the firewood for winter is definitely not enough. In this big winter, without firewood, that day can't be lived.

Besides, this year's frost hits so early, the snow may fall earlier, and this year's "real winter" may take longer. Naturally, more firewood needs to be prepared, the more the better.

Therefore, even if it is still raining outside, there are quite a few people who go to Hecun to chop firewood in the woods. They often go out looking fresh, and when they come back, they are soaked all over. Of course, they must be carrying firewood on their shoulders by then. .

Those who go up the mountain to chop wood wear very thin clothes, because no matter how thin or thick the clothes are, they will most likely get wet in the end. , Everyone unanimously chose thin clothes that could cover the body.

Paulin's family of three watched other families go to the mountains to chop firewood vigorously, and they were also moved. Although their family had a lot of firewood, no one thought it was too much for their own firewood. Anyway, they just followed the crowd and others The firewood has been chopped, and they are going too.

However, they don't have the sense of urgency that other people have, so they are more casual, and only go to the woods to chop firewood when the rain is light or when the rain stops.

Except for the branches, pine needles, leaves and pine cones, as long as you see them, you can't let them go. Even if they are all wet, you can't burn them immediately. You can also pile them up against the wall and wait for the pine needles at the top. When the pine cones are not so wet, they are piled up in the kitchen and put aside at will. Slowly, they will be dried and can be burned at that time.

Of course, this is their idea, and how to implement it requires getting these things back first.

In the first two days, there were still people who didn't believe in evil and wanted to wait a little longer, thinking that God couldn't do such a thing, they didn't give them any time to prepare, but when they woke up on the fifth day, the water tank on the surface was frozen. It was clearly telling them that time was running out, and it was going to snow soon, so no matter how uncomfortable they were, they had to go up the mountain to chop wood.

Because the time was delayed before, it was a few days less than other families. Therefore, in the next few days, these people basically spent the whole day soaking in the woods, and the whole family worked hard, all working hard for this family to spend the winter. make your own contribution.

The Baolin family didn't get much firewood, and they were all piled up a little past the kitchen door. They didn't expect to rely on these firewood for the winter.

Maybe someone has been thinking that on the No. 12 day when there was frost, that is, at the end of November, it snowed.

It was a small ice jelly like transparent millet. It fell for more than two hours in a row, from three or four in the afternoon until it was dark in the evening. It was also at this time that the snow stopped.

After two hours of snowfall, it finally stopped. Pauline went out to take a look. Stepping on the snow, she would make a crunching sound, which was very clear and pleasant, at least she didn't hate it.

Of course, the snow, combined with the icy cold wind, was not so appealing after she froze her hands back into her pockets.

A snow fell, and everywhere you saw it was white. When you woke up tomorrow morning, you would see ice crystals that were connected together.

After the snow fell, the day became colder and colder. Anyway, Pauline didn't want to leave the fire pit at all times. Her face was also frozen, and only when she went to the kitchen and sat by the fire pit did Pauline feel better after covering her face for almost two months.

The sun has not been out for the first two months. The originally white-skinned Paulin finally covered her face a little bit. I don't know if it was because of her pale face, which made her face particularly resistant to freezing. Paulin wanted to be a face mask. , to cover his face, so that he can resist the invasion of some cold winds.

Sitting on the edge of the fire pond, listening to the crackling sound of the flame attached to the firewood stick, Pauline's quivering teeth and hands finally returned to their former appearance, at least no other strange sounds were made.

That night, Paulin and his family all slept very early. That's right, just to save firewood, go to bed earlier and turn off the fire earlier.

When Pauline finished washing her feet and tucked into her bed, her whole body was shaking and she was cold.

After a while, her body radiated heat, and the quilt slowly warmed up, but it was still warm, but there was one place that was still so cold, and that was her feet.

In the end, I put on thick socks, shrunk into a ball, motionless, and slowly, my feet finally warmed up.

(End of this chapter)