Hard times have room

Chapter 680 Lack of firewood

In the next few days, the snow will be reported on time every night, and in the daytime, it will be annoying.

On the third day of the snow, Pauline didn't go out to look for wild vegetables, and couldn't find them anymore. The snow was covered with a thick layer, and the wild vegetables were really hard to find. Even if they were found, they would be frozen. Bang hard, it is very time-consuming and laborious to get it home, so they give up, and they can last for a while with dry vegetables at home.

Now the green leafy vegetables in her house are the cabbage and radish seedlings that were sprinkled before. Of course, they were completely frozen to death. On the third day, they were all dug back and piled up in the corner of the kitchen. eat.

In the next few days, in addition to cooking at home, I went out to find someone to chat with. Su Hongying was the most positive about this. Maybe her home was too far away, or maybe their family was not very popular, and no one was there. When I came to her house to sit and sit, the wife of Wang Cheng from the next door would bring her family's young and old to visit from time to time.

I'll go over if people don't come. Su Hongying can't help but take the initiative to attack herself and go out for a walk. Today, staying at home with two boring gourds is almost boring her.

Pauline is not idle at home. Most of them are reading books while cooking. She is very bored now. That's all she does for pastime. That's right, she has taken reading and studying as a pastime. How boring is it.

Not to mention, in this cold weather, the efficiency is really good. She thinks that her head may be too cold, so she is very sober and calm, and the learning efficiency will rise slowly.

It was snowing all the time outside, so she didn't have the slightest interest in going out to play, because it was too cold. As for going to Dongmei's house to play with Dongmei, then forget it. She has too many family members and is not used to it.

Over the past few years, he has developed the habit of not going out much at night and in winter, usually staying at home.

Time passed in a flash, and another ten days passed, and the weather finally turned around.

In the past ten days, the snow has been falling outside, and the unsweeped road is covered with a thick layer of snow. It is difficult to lift your foot when you step on it with one foot.

Baolin's yard is not bad. Every day, the family of three will use tools to clean the snow in the yard, and try to keep the snow from affecting their family's travel. The road will always be swept out.

In addition, the road to the Wang Cheng's house next door has also been swept out. According to convention, this is the area that their family is responsible for. If they are not swept out, they will be gossiped and lazy if they are seen.

Another one is the roof of my house. Because I am afraid that the roof of my house will be crushed by the snow, I have to build a ladder every day and take the extended version of the rake at home to scrape the snow off the roof.

The same is true of the people in the village. Last year, two families in the village had their roof collapsed because they were not diligent in sweeping snow. It hasn’t been long since this happened. When it snowed this year, the old man in the village turned it over. Repeatedly tell the juniors, and then with such broken thoughts, the young people in the village are called diligent in sweeping snow.

After nearly 20 days of snow, it finally stopped, and it lasted for a whole day, and even at night, God didn’t snow again quietly. This matter is very different from the previous situation. Maybe, The snow really stopped.

On the second day after the snow stopped, the villagers went out one after another. One was that they had stayed at home long enough to go out for a walk, and the other was that some villagers’ firewood was consumed too quickly. Take the opportunity to store enough firewood, so now they have to go to the woods to get firewood.

Of course, there is no need to go to the forest to get firewood. Anyway, as long as it is something that can be burned, it will do. If you see it, you will drag it home, such as bamboo, dry grass, and wild bushes.

The firewood consumption of Baolin's house is not slow, because as long as anyone in her family wakes up, it will burn a fire. In such a cold day, if there is no fire, it will not survive. The fire will continue to burn until the family rests at night. when.

Although there were preparations before, but after so many days, more than half of the firewood prepared at home has been burned. I don’t know how long this winter will last. If it goes on like this, there may be no firewood burning in the future.

The day after the snow stopped, Pauline went out with a backpack. Her original plan was to pick up branches or pine cones, as long as they could be burned.

The imagination is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

When Paulin went out, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang were not idle. In fact, most of the people in the village went out.

Bao Lin went to the back mountain. Although it was a little farther, there was a lot of firewood in the woods, so she could get more firewood.

When I really got to the back mountain and saw the branches pressed down by the snow, I stretched out my warm hands covered by my pockets.

The branches on the ground were frozen, and the branches that were completely soaked in water were not light in weight. In addition, the layer of ice about one centimeter thick on the outside made it even heavier.

Mingming used to hold very light branches, but now they must weigh two or three pounds.

Of course, she also tried the weight, and it was impossible to bring it back like this. Thinking of this, Pauline directly threw the branch she was pulling on the ground again, and then stepped on it with one foot, and the layer of ice formed outside. It shattered directly, revealing the wet branches inside. The weight at this moment is much lighter than before.

Next, the branches that Pauline found were also cleaned up by her, and they were all put into the back basket.

She searched for more than an hour in the back mountain, and there was not a lot of firewood in the back basket, and it was very difficult to walk. In such a short time, her shoes were soaked in snow water, and her feet were too cold. I feel that my feet have been frozen, and my hands are frozen like braised pig's trotters, red and swollen, but the harvest is not good.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that when she entered the back mountain, someone walked by and walked around on a snowy road. You must know that the snow is not thick now. As thick as her knees, the snow hasn't melted yet, so naturally she can't go to places that no one has set foot in yet.

After wandering back and forth in the back mountain for a while, Paulin carried what seemed to be a basket full of twigs with a heart of disappointment. In fact, only a dozen twigs descended the mountain.

She still underestimated this winter. She didn't dare to go to the places where the snow was deep. There was nothing in the shallow places that had been explored. The pine cones were covered tightly by the snow, unless they were still attached to the branches. The ones that didn't fall from the top, but they were all frozen together. When the branch was knocked on, the snow on the whole tree fell down, and she was directly chilled by the snow.

　Well, it seems that I have been slack in the past few days. Today is my uncle's birthday. I spent a day in the past to celebrate his birthday. There is only one chapter today, and the third update will be tomorrow.

　　It's getting colder at home now, not to mention it rains every day, and tomorrow the weather will say sleet, that's weird, the sun was shining at home on the fifth and sixth day of the lunar new year last year, it was ten or twenty degrees, wear short sleeves and a A thin coat is enough. This year, I have to wear a large padded jacket. The thicker ones are not warm.

　　By the way, it should be a little ice lingering outside now. I heard the sound from outside the window. It was very loud.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)