Restarting life in Siheyuan

Chapter 192 The valley is cool in winter
We walked ten miles of mountainous roads in the dark, carrying a small square stool, and arrived at the main square of the brigade headquarters. This was a concentrated viewing of two movies, "Defending the Country and Protecting the Home" and "Iron Warrior."

"Let's get together and lean on each other. I'm so sleepy. I've watched these two movies so many times."

There were quite a few classmates who had seen it, so everyone huddled together to keep warm. The training during the day and the ten-mile mountain road exhausted everyone's energy. Now they are all exhausted. Basically, they work in groups of several people. After sleeping two games back to back, I walked ten miles in the dark back to the camp.

The emergency assembly has been held several times again. After many exercises, the students have made great progress. When they meet again in an emergency, they dress up and pack their backpacks quietly and extremely skillfully.

The biggest trouble was that there was no place to bathe or wash clothes. There were two wells in the camp. One took a day to save some dishwashing water. The other was a hand-operated well with a sealed well head. It was not known how much water there was.

During the breaks in training, you can take advantage of the good sunshine at noon and take a bath in the open air with water from a well. In November, you can bathe in the open air. When the breeze blows, it is really sour and cold.

But often after applying soap, the water is gone. When the wind blows, the skin becomes tight. Zhu Xuefeng catches up once. This is not tap water. It will come later, so he can only wipe it dry and barely clean it up. He is embarrassed. There are quite a few classmates.

Every Sunday is a day off. You can take time off to go out and bathe in a valley outside the camp. It takes three hours to go back and forth. Only one group can leave the camp at a time. When they come back, it is the turn of the next group.

It's a bit cold today, and the temperature is obviously much lower than yesterday.

"Who wants to take a bath in the valley? Come together."

"You go ahead and cause trouble, Sixth. If you go to take a bath in the ravine at this temperature, you will freeze to death before you finish washing. I won't go. It's better to just stay in the dormitory."

"Who said that I'm almost like bacon? If I don't go there, it will be our turn."

Everyone shook their heads together. The temperature was probably close to zero. It was better to forget about taking a cold bath in the ravine. It felt cold just thinking about it.

"Brother Six, I'll go with you."

"Okay, guys from the south are not afraid of the cold. Hurry up. If you don't go this week, it will definitely be even colder next week."

After lunch, the two packed up their things and left the camp. The temperature was too low today, and no one lined up to take a shower.

When we came to the ravine, the water was also very shallow. It took us a while to find a puddle. A big stone blocked the light, making it a bit dark. There was actually a light layer of mist on the water.

"Take off your clothes, let's turn on the physical activity and then wash. Otherwise, something will happen. The temperature is too low."

Zhu Xuefeng was soaking in the water, leaving his head outside.

"Why don't you come down and take a bubble? Didn't you say it all stinks?"

"You can take a dip if you like, but you may get sick from such cold water."

Fang Jiaming shouted that he had been deceived. It was such a bad weather and there was no sun. He tested the water temperature with his feet and decided to forget it and went into the water. It was unimaginable that he could wipe it with a towel dipped in water.

Zhu Xuefeng didn't take it seriously, he knew his physical fitness.

"If you believe me, come down. It's really better to be under the water than to be above. After washing, I'll treat you to braised eggs. Come down."

Fang Jiaming got into the water with hesitation, his teeth were still chattering. After his whole body was soaked in water, he felt a little better, at least there was no breeze blowing.

"Brother Six, this is our first bath since we came here. No, you took a bath at the well at noon a few days ago, haha."

Zhu Xuefeng was speechless. Several people in the dormitory had been laughing about this for several days.

"At least I took a shower. You haven't even washed yourself once. You already stink. You still have the nerve to laugh at me."

It was a bit cold today. When we went ashore to wipe down, it was so cold that it felt like it was going to snow. Although the two of them moved very quickly, they were still shivering from the cold.

But after taking a bath, I still felt a lot more relaxed. Unfortunately, no fairies came to join in the fun. Fang Jiaming still kept thinking about it. Sure enough, the myths were all lies.Zhu Xuefeng took out a few braised eggs from his bag like magic.

"Two of them each, replenish some energy. If anyone tells them not to come, there will be no one who doesn't come."

"Brother Six, the winter here in the north is too cold. Where we are, we are still wearing single clothes. At most, add a thin coat."

Fang Jiaming sneezed. Don't they say that southerners can withstand the cold better than northerners? Sixth Brother is a weirdo.

"Damn, you kid sneezed. Go back to the cafeteria soon and order some ginger soup to ward off the cold. Don't be careless."

Most of the students have not washed once a month. Not everyone can muster the courage to jump into the cold mountain spring water. In all likelihood, they will catch a cold, which may lead to pneumonia.

Everyone's beige training clothes are all white and stained with salt. Although it is cold at night, you sweat a lot during training during the day. After being dried by body temperature, the training clothes can stand up day after day.

The two of them ran back to the camp shivering, hurried to the canteen, and drank a bowl of ginger soup. They really felt better.

Squad Leader Tian looked at the two of them in surprise.

"You two silly boys, you went to take a bath in the ravine when it was so cold. Why didn't you two freeze to death?"

Sure enough, there was a light snowfall in the evening, but it was too light and the training ground stopped before it turned white.

"This is the snow in the north. It can't even cover the grass roots. Aren't books describing heavy snowfall like goose feathers?"

Fang Jiaming saw snow for the first time, and he ran around with his mouth open, wanting to have a close contact with his tongue. Unfortunately, it was completely different from the continuous heavy snow in the book. What was this covered in snow? , leprosy.

"There is a lack of water vapor in the air now. When the cold wave really comes, you will know what the heavy snow in the north is."

Although it only snowed a little, the ground was frozen hard after a night of cooling. The tactical training was obviously more uncomfortable. I fell forward and my bones hurt.
It was even more difficult to crawl forward. I couldn't wear too much during training. The thin training clothes couldn't stop the loss of body temperature. On the contrary, I was freezing after training for a while. I had no choice but to change the training program and run directly.

Fortunately, the weather cleared up on the third day. Training in this kind of weather is really challenging for college students with poor physical fitness. They basically have several colds every day.

The cafeteria also prepares ginger soup for dinner every day. Otherwise, the staff will be reduced even more, and the sick will have to help in the kitchen and receive some care. Generally, they are only given two days to recover before they have to return to training.

You can't have a company with more than a dozen people helping cook. It doesn't look right. It's not like everyone can't stand it, so they all insist on it.

I don’t know how my younger brothers and sisters are doing at home, or whether the new heating method works well. Although I designed it myself, I forgot to try heating it at the time, so I tried it to see if it leaked.

"Second brother, it's too cold today. Can you light this stove?"

"My eldest brother said that when the weather gets cold, I can burn it at any time. When this stove burns, the house will be warm."

The three rooms in the west wing all had their kangs removed. There was a light snowfall last night, and the temperature dropped a lot. There was no crowd in the room. It was still very cold at night, so I could only wrap myself up in a new quilt and fall asleep early. I thought You can’t do it even if you study for a while.

"Let's burn it. The firewood that brother has prepared should be enough, but I don't know if his method really saves coal and firewood as he said."

Coal was supplied as planned and could not be burned open. According to Zhu Xuefeng's arrangement, briquettes would only be burned when people were sleeping, sealed and burned on a low fire until dawn.

Zhu Xuesong was cooking, so Zhu Xuemei lit the fire in the fireplace. The wood was very dry and the fire was burning fiercely. After a while, the water temperature of the heater rose, and the room became noticeably warmer.

"Second brother, this stove works so well. It's been warm in just a moment."

(End of this chapter)