Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 134

Chunqiu didn't care about her mother's explanation at the time. After all, the ancient times are different from the later generations. The reinforced concrete of the later generations is not afraid of heavy snow, but the mud tiles in ancient homes will melt when exposed to water. It is normal for Yang Li to think of cleaning the roof.

Because of the heavy snow, Chunqiu went to bed early that night, and when she got up the next day, she found that the heavy snow outside the door hadn't stopped, Chunqiu felt a little bit in her heart, thinking, this is broken, you know They belong to the southern region in Spring and Autumn, and there is very little snow in winter. Now it’s a miracle that such a heavy snow falls, but don’t forget, the heavy snow comes, it’s the mountains and the mountains. Roads, no human habitation, the most obvious example is the snow disaster in later generations.

However, although the snow in front of me is heavy, it has only fallen for two days, and it has not yet reached the level of snow disasters in later generations. However, looking at the depth of the snow, it is already below Chunqiu's knees. Of course, this is because of Chunqiu's short stature. , the current snow area should not exceed Yang Weibai's ankle.

Waking up early in the morning, Mrs. Yang and Li asked the three sons to sweep the snow on the roof. After a night of accumulation, the snow on the roof returned to its original thickness. The three quickly cleaned the roof. He wanted to enter the house, but was stopped by Mrs. Yang and Li again.

"By the way, is the cattle shed at our house okay? It's cold today, so don't let the cattle freeze." Yang's dry land is all planted with the cattle at home. Now it has been snowing all day and night, Yang Li When Shi thought of the cowshed in the backyard with air leaks on all sides, she felt uneasy. She was thinking about something, so she didn't let her third son enter the house.

"Mother, why don't we use the remaining rice stalks to block up the surrounding area of ​​the cowshed?" Yang Weimin thought of the bundles of rice stalks left at home when the late rice was harvested, thinking that it would be useless to put them at home. It's like going directly to block the leaky cowshed.

Mrs. Yang Li was still worried after hearing this, "Will this work? How about cleaning up the pile of dilapidated houses in the back room and taking the family's scalper in to avoid it?" A scalper is worth more than ten taels of silver, especially in ancient times. It is not allowed to kill cattle, and the labor value of scalpers is very high.

"No, the remaining rice stalks in our family are enough"

"That's okay, you take the second and third child to work quickly." Yang Lishi heard that this method is feasible, and directly urged Yang Weimin to go over quickly.

Seeing that his mother was really in a hurry, Yang Weimin waved at the two brothers behind him without delay, and then the three of them went around the front house and ran to the backyard.

The cowshed at home was built next to the backyard. As soon as the three Yang Weimin brothers entered the backyard, they immediately saw the cowshed with air leaks on all sides. Rice stalks were piled around the cowshed, which is also the main food for the cattle. The three of them After muttering for a while, they split up and acted separately.

Brother Yang Weimin was busy with work, and Mrs. Yang and Li were not idle in the yard. Mrs. Yang and Li first went back to the house and pulled up old man Yang on the side, asking him to help in the backyard, and then greeted Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Westinghouse from the opposite room. Mrs. Gu, the chickens in the chicken coop and the ducks in the duck coop have not been caught yet. Now that the heavy snow has piled up, the doors of the chicken coop have been blocked, and the chickens cannot get out of the coop. Going down, the chickens at home will freeze to death even if they don’t starve to death. Thinking that a cowshed is being built in the backyard, I thought about a place to go, and it would be good to drive the chickens and ducks directly.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, you two will catch all the chickens and ducks in a while, and we will take them all to the cowshed in the backyard." Yang Li told the two people on the side.

"Hey, mother, I know." The Gu family and the Yuan family nodded in unison.

"Okay, let's work quickly." With a wave of his hand, Yang Li opened the door of the chicken rack, then reached out and grabbed the frozen chicken inside.

The Gu family and the Yuan family learned well, and when Yang and Li got up, both of them bent down and grabbed each one accurately.

The three of them went back and forth a few times like this, and threw the chickens and ducks into the cowshed. Anyway, the cattle ate grass, and they were not afraid of the chickens and ducks being killed.

The four people piled up quickly in the backyard, and by the time Yang Li threw all the chickens and ducks in, the four had already blocked three sides of the cowshed, leaving only the stone trough for the cattle to drink water and eat. Yang Li was afraid The chickens and ducks were dishonest, and they asked Yang Weimin and the others to put an extra layer of rice stalks on the bottom to make the entire cowshed safer.

After the few people finished their work, Mrs. Yang and Li asked Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Gu to go to the kitchen to make a big pot full of ginger soup, and poured it for everyone in the family, including the few children who hadn't gone out in Chunqiu. It’s hard to go to the town. What to do if you accidentally catch a cold and have a headache or brain fever. Just in case, Yang Li asked his family to drink ginger soup as sugar water every day. All a little nauseated.

Mrs. Yang Li had the foresight, and starting from the next day, Mrs. Yang would ask the men in the family to sweep the roof every hour (two hours). Although this was a bit troublesome, the effect was still remarkable. At least when the heavy snow was still falling on the third day, her house was not crushed.

Chunqiu and the old Zhang family next door collapsed a side room, which happened on the second night. At that time, because the movement was loud enough, it directly woke up Chunqiu who was sleeping soundly. Chunleng heard a loud noise, and then Yuan Shi and Yang Weibo started to make a noise, Chunqiu was also clever, they sat in the dark room for a long while, and then heard the conversation between Yang Lishi and Yang Weimin at the door, the uncle said that the house next door collapsed , Chunqiu felt at ease, she was scared to death, she thought there was an earthquake.

Early in the morning of the third day, when Spring and Autumn woke up, I heard Yang Weibo, who was next to Yuan Shitong, muttering, saying that last night, there was a burst of snowflakes that fell very big, like a big face, and the houses in the village were not only the Zhang family that was crushed. Yes, there are quite a few more, but luckily no one was injured, all the houses that collapsed were side houses or warehouses for the other party’s sundries. It's not easy to go.

Because of the heavy snow, Chunqiu had nothing to do, especially when the yard was already piled up with snow that was as deep as her waist, Yuan didn't let her go out to play, and the kind feelings Chunqiu had for Xue before disappeared. Exhausted, squatting at the door, looking at those densely packed snowflakes, Chunqiu kept praying in his heart, please stop quickly.

I don't know if Spring and Autumn's prayers are useful. It snowed for seven consecutive days. On the morning of the eighth day, when the sun shone on the white land, Spring and Autumn felt as if it was a world away.

The snow finally stopped. This was Chunqiu's first thought. After collapsed many houses and froze many livestock to death, the belated snow finally left.

Early in the morning, Mrs. Yang and Li called out all the adults in the family to prepare to shovel the snow. Although the heavy snow in the next few days was not as heavy as before, the degree of accumulation was also scary. Take Chunqiu's height as an example. Well, if it is thrown into a snowdrift, no one will be found.

Her second brother, Yang Chunming, moved back to the main house early and lived with them. There was no other way, the snow was too heavy, and Yang Chunming's house could not be kept warm by relying on the brazier alone. On the second night when it snowed, Yang Chunming Chunming moved back. Of course, Yang Chunjun also moved back to Westinghouse. Now the whole family is Qingxue. Except for Chunqiu Chunhua, Xiao Shihuzi and other children who are not as tall as Xue, Yang and Li even have her two babies. Pimple didn't let him idle, picked up the shovel and piled snow in the corner.

In addition to the snow on the roof, everyone in the Yang family worked for a whole morning before clearing out a place to stay.

(End of this chapter)