Chapter 94:

Xu Ming and the others have no objection to taking the girls next door to pick up wood. They live in the same yard, and they can help a little if they can. Compared with men, the biggest weakness of girls lies in their physical fitness. The place may not be worse than that of men. Since people have said that they are responsible for themselves, they just hope that people will be more courageous, so they will not refuse so unkindly.

When the two of them were soaking their feet at night, Mu Nan mentioned this matter to Qin Huai, and after a little discussion in the small group, they agreed unanimously. Mu Nan stepped on Qin Huai's foot and tried to grab it with his toes. Qin Huai said, "I'm quite curious. They haven't been out of the house before. What do they eat? I don't want to say that I haven't seen them prepare any supplies. I thought they would be locked up like this for the whole winter." The door is open."

Qin Huai didn't have much interest in the affairs of those girls, and he didn't have the time to think about how other people survived the winter, but now that they asked for help, it doesn't matter if they can do it easily, but it's just that something goes wrong outside. Let Mu Nan warned: "Tell them first that all the wood that can be burned in the surrounding area has basically been found. We will go to a farther place tomorrow. If we want to go together, let them prepare themselves."

After Qin Huai finished speaking, Mu Nan chatted with one of the girls in the group chat of the firewood collecting team that was established later, and sent Qin Huai's words just now, and the other side quickly replied with an OK gesture, and soon Xu Ming told them in the group what precautions to take outside, especially now that the temperature is low and the wind and snow are still heavy. If you walk outside for a while, icicles will form on your eyelashes, even if you wear a lot, But if you don't keep moving, you may be frozen to death. This is really not an exaggeration, so don't think that going out to collect firewood is an easy task. A little carelessness can be fatal.

Mu Nan looked at Xu Ming giving them science popularization in the group, and couldn't help but said: "You said that before the weather was not cold, if we rummaged through the ruins of the business district to find some more wood and stocked it, wouldn't it be possible now? Stay safe from winter."

They actually hauled some wood back at that time. There was no power supply here at that time. Although they had solar energy and could use an induction cooker, he and Qin Huai asked Jian Chu and the others to prepare some energy-burning stoves in case the power was cut off. wood, but it is normal to store a little bit of wood. It would be a bit strange if they were asked to stockpile an entire garage. However, if the previous stockpile was used for heating and shelter from the cold, it might only be enough to burn for ten days and a half months at most. , but the cold lasted for more than half a year, and it's only been cold for more than a month. There's not enough in the future, so I can only continue to search outside at this moment.

Qin Huai clamped the messy feet in the foot bath bucket, and said: "It's actually good to be like this now. The reserves are not lacking, at least there are some things to guarantee the bottom line, but the quantity is not enough. In order to survive, you must adapt to the current climate. Only you can adapt yourself. Only then can we not be eliminated.”

This is why there is a lot of fuel in their space, even more than a way to survive the winter that is much easier than building a kang, but he still tosses with his neighbors, such as heaters, electric blankets, generators, fuel oil, no matter what Both can help them survive the cold winter of these months, but if they are too greedy for temporary stability, they will only fall behind others.

Mu Nan couldn't help sighing: "I feel that the four girls are not easy, but fortunately, the four of them are together, and they are not alone if they help each other."

Qin Huai smiled lightly: "You say that, do you want me to take care of them outside?"

Mu Nan hurriedly said: "No, I just sighed casually, you, you are not allowed to take care of them, just be like others." He was not so generous to let Qin Huai take care of others outside, Qin Huai's peach blossoms were already very prosperous up.

Qin Huai pinched Mu Nan's chin with a smile, and kissed him lightly on the lips: "Mmm, a little sour?"

Mu Nan slapped him on the back of the hand: "Sorry you big-headed ghost, let go, I'm done soaking, you pour the foot bath water!" After speaking, he picked up a towel to wipe his feet, and climbed directly onto the bed.

Qin Huai smiled and cleared the scene without complaint.

Burnable wood is not easy to find. The residential area has been cleaned up before. There used to be greenery here, but later even the land can be cracked by the sun. Where can those flowers and plants survive? People uprooted and threw them away, so the only places where logs can be found now are ruins that have collapsed but have not been bulldozed, and the biggest ruins in this area are the upturned business district.

The low temperature and wind and snow made their journey more difficult, but fortunately, the military department should know that many people want to rummage for things that can be burned, so they directly use a forklift to shovel the road leading to the business district every day After reading it again, they probably also hope to rely on the power of the people to find out all the valuable things there, so that it will save some effort to flatten and rebuild in the future.

It used to take less than an hour to go back and forth, but now because of the wind and snow, it takes nearly two hours to go back and forth. Not all the girls were dispatched, only three of them were there, because they were dressed thickly and well covered, and apart from being significantly shorter in height, it was hard to tell whether they were men or women. Although I said before that I am responsible for myself, but now that we are together, the boys still care about the three girls, but even if they accommodate their physical strength and ability, they are still exhausted after the first day Not light.

The girls obviously didn't work outside, and they probably didn't do special exercise when they stayed at home, so their physical fitness was really bad, but even so, Qin Huai and the others didn't soften their hearts and said they would take a day off before going back. They took a day off, The wood that can be retrieved there is less, and the time and the decreasing temperature are not waiting for anyone.

Among all the people, Qin Huai has the most complete items. Although compared with others, it may look like an extra windshield, but in fact, Qin Huai's clothes are covered with baby warmers all over the body, and even the shoes are electric shoes. , the kind that can charge and generate heat, it’s not that there are no such conditions at home, it’s better to be able to suffer less from the wind and cold outside, but even so, Mu Nan still feels sorry for Qin Huai who eats snow and blows outside every day, Therefore, the winter tonic food at home is to be eaten by the sky, and you can eat whatever you are passionate about. The consequence of eating this way is that the harmonious life becomes more frequent.

Jian Chu saw that Mu Nan had stopped rubbing his waist three times in a while, and couldn't help but said, "Young man, it's better to be more restrained."

Mu Nan blushed, because she couldn't refute, she turned around in embarrassment and covered it with water.

Song Jia, who was sweating on a pile of kang piles, said casually with a white face: "What is temperance?"

Jian Chu smiled and said nothing, while Song Jia wiped the sweat from her head, she glanced back, and it took three seconds to react, and a question mark appeared on her head: "Someone is out of order? Who is with whom?" For a period of time, I chopped firewood with them every day to make a kang, but I didn't notice it at all!

Mu Nan coughed lightly, and glared at Jian Chu: "Don't spoil the children!"

Jian Chu was overjoyed and said, "You are a few months younger than him."

Song Jia: "??? What's going on?"

Jian Chu said: "Qin Huai used to be Mu Nan's elder brother, but now he is his boyfriend."

Song Jia: "!!" Shocked!

Not to be outdone, Mu Nan said, "Yu Zibai used to be Jian Chu's senior, but now he is his boyfriend."

Song Jia: "..." He knows this. He has seen it all the way before and when he was working outside, but he really doesn't know about Qin Huai. He always thinks that they are very close brothers. .

Looking at the two of them, Song Jia was silent for a while and said, "My brother used to be my brother, and he will still be my brother in the future. He will not become a boyfriend."

Jian Chu laughed loudly, hugged Song Jia's shoulders and said, "If your brother is not your brother in the future, then this will be exciting."

The picked up wood does not thaw as fast as they chop firewood. When the wood is frozen hard and cannot be chopped, it is impossible to wait at home with nothing to do. The bricks and cement that happened to be bought were brought by the soldiers. Bringing Mu Nan and Song Jia to toss Kang, anyway, Qin Huai made a copy of the simple and complicated blueprints, so they figured it out by themselves.

Because Song Jia’s garage is the emptiest, Jian Chu’s garage and Mu Nan’s garage are full of firewood waiting to be thawed and chopped, so the bricks can only be stacked in Song Jia’s garage, and now Wu Zheng is still recovering from an injury. He was severely injured by the cold, and once the power is cut off, it will be even more detrimental to his recovery, so he simply made the kang in Song Jia’s house first, so that he can go to the kang immediately after the power is turned off, and the injured will not be frozen. with.

It is not difficult to make a kang, especially with the accumulated experience of the predecessors. There are two ways to do it, with or without a smoke pipe. Now they don’t have a smoke pipe to use, so they can only make a pipe by themselves. After finding a place that can protect against cold and wind, and can connect the stove with the shortest distance, they began to knock on the wall to make a stove.

While building the stove, Jian Chu sighed with emotion: "Who would have thought that the craftsmanship I acquired from this part-time job has become the ability to survive today. I only hope that all these things are superfluous now, and it is enough to keep the electricity running. "

Mu Nan said: "It's a bit difficult to keep the power on. My brother said that the greenhouse is going to be put into use now."

Song Jia turned around suspiciously: "A warm shed? Like the one used for cooling, heating?"

Mu Nan said: "Before you rushed to build a resettlement site, you only worked in this area, but near the army base, some people are building a greenhouse. The area is not small. It is said that they plan to do indoor planting. Build a sheltered brick house on the outside, and cover the inside with a plastic film that insulates the temperature. Whether it is hot or cold, the internal temperature can be adjusted, and there is no way to plant the land and eat what to eat.”

Jian Chu said: "Is that to be used as a shelter from the cold?"

Mu Nan nodded: "Probably, the site is very large, but because it is a planting area, it is impossible to change it into a compartment. It seems that it is also planned to be a boiler greenhouse, that is, there is a large boiler outside, and the heat will be heated after heating. It goes into the greenhouse, which means that if the power goes out, but if there is fuel, people can still have a shelter from the cold."

Song Jia said: "It should be like a cold room. Many people live together, and then it is airtight. There is no way to take a bath for a few months or even a whole winter. Maybe it will infect fleas. If one gets sick, it will be big." The area is transmitted from person to person, so there must be hundreds of people in a warm shed. In the past, there were only 30 people in a classroom. The feeling of closing the doors and windows in winter and summer is absolutely gone. This hundred people, or even more , Just thinking about it makes people suffocate.”

Mu Nan shook his head: "It's very big. Think about the size of an acre of land. A greenhouse is the area of ​​several acres of land. There are too few people in a hundred. A greenhouse can accommodate at least a thousand people."

Just thinking about it, Jian Chu felt uncomfortable: "We'd better build the kang by ourselves, find the fuel by ourselves, and wrap up a few more quilts at home, so that we can go and suffer that."

Song Jia said: "It's so troublesome to build a heat pipe like this. Why can't we just make the stove a bed, sleep on it and burn the fire on the bottom? At worst, the fire burns from the outside, and the inside only needs the temperature. Close the doors and windows like this, and the bed will be warm, too." Don’t worry about airtight carbon monoxide poisoning, wouldn’t it be more convenient?” What’s more, the stove was originally built outside, and it took a lot of trouble to build a heating channel to supply the kang.

Mu Nan and Jian Chu looked at him together. To be honest, they had thought about this kind of thinking, but it’s okay to try. Since the ancestors didn’t choose this way to keep warm in cold areas, it proved that there must be some disadvantages. , As for the disadvantages, they don't have the Internet to search, no experienced people to ask, and they don't have enough bricks and time to use actual verification, so let's just build a kang honestly.

Although it is not difficult to build a kang, for the three people who only have blueprints and have never seen the real scene, they can only figure out everything by themselves, so Song Jia and his family also used a kang before and after. It took many weeks to make it.

And in this half month, even if Qin Huai and others go out every day, the wood they can find is getting less and less, and the temperature is getting lower and lower, and it's almost minus 50 degrees. As for how long the recovered wood can be burned, we can only take one step at a time.

When the temperature exceeded minus 40 degrees before, the water pipes were frozen, and the water in the house had been cut off for a long time, but the impact of the water cut off now is completely different from that in summer. Just dig a few buckets of snow outside and turn it into water. Use, if you feel that the snow on the ground is not clean, then use the melted snow water on the roof that has not landed. Those who live in low-rise buildings like them in the villa area have a roof, so it is easy to get snow, but it is difficult for those who live in apartment buildings, so that now there is a new way of making a living, which is to sell clean snow As for whether the snow was on the roof, I don’t know. Some people are willing to spend this money to buy comfort, and some people are not willing to look for clean snow downstairs with a bucket every day.

But it soon became difficult for those apartment buildings to go downstairs to fetch snow, because the temperature was so low that there was no way to supply power normally. On the third day after Song Jia’s kang was ready, the entire residential area was completely destroyed. power off.

The consumption of electricity is within the plan, so there is an advance notice of the power outage time. At the same time, there is also the opening of the greenhouse. Of course, the greenhouse is not open for free. The free opening is for the elderly who have no ability to work. , and the young children who lost their parents and relatives after the earthquake. As for other people, it is natural to consume points. There are consumptions, and of course there are gains, such as sanitation cleaning, boiler guards, and even a few who have fallen In addition, cleaning the snow outside the greenhouse every day requires a lot of people. As long as you are willing to move, the above will arrange a job that can make a living for you.

For the living needs of the people after the power outage, the above has done everything possible to consider. Anyway, as long as you obey the arrangement, although it is difficult, at least you can still live, but many people are unwilling to go. Although that kind of environment can guarantee survival, survival The quality is worrying, and those who have a little bit of condition are reluctant, such as those who rebuilt their houses and built a kang, and some even built fireplaces in their houses. Those who live on high floors really have no choice. The living environment They are restricted, but those who live in the villa area have started to think of ways to renovate the environment early, and strive to ensure that they can still have heating conditions after water and electricity are cut off.

So not many people have left the villa area, at least half of them are still there. In order not to be destroyed by others, this hard-fought rebuilt living environment is also afraid that the cold winter will be too extreme, forcing some people to act beyond human nature. As for the bottom line, there are still daily inspections, which reassures those who choose to stay.

It took them more than a week to complete a kang before. It was really because everything had to be explored by themselves. They had never done it before and had no experience. The speed was much faster when they were the second one. Together, the six big men, after groping for experience, can build a kang in three or four days. As for the few days when there is no electricity and no kang, they can only wear thick clothes and rely on the brazier to keep warm.

But only Jian Chu and Xu Ming were the only ones who were so miserable. After going back to their homes at night, Mu Nan and Qin Huai climbed directly onto the bed covered with electric blankets. There was still a stove burning in the room. It is warm when under the quilt.

Mu Nan lay flat on the bed, turned on the electric blanket to the highest temperature, and shrank for a whole day, only now could he stretch his limbs comfortably.

Qin Huai was fine, not as afraid of the cold as Mu Nan, so he picked up the clothes on the floor and hung them up, tidied up the room a bit before going to bed, and watched Mu Nan look like a pancake, changing the back to the front after the heat was over, it was funny He patted his head: "Let it dry overnight today, and it will be burned tomorrow. When it gets hot, we will live on the first floor."

Mu Nan poked out half of his head from under the quilt and looked at Qin Huai: "Brother, I feel that the top of my head is chilly."

Qin Huai stretched out his hand and touched it: "You're so afraid of the cold, why don't you wear a hat to sleep?"

Mu Nan rubbed against Qin Huai: "How much temperature do you think the room is now?"

Qin Huai glanced at the wall: "It's more than twenty degrees below zero."

Mu Nan hissed. In the past, when it was the coldest time here, it was not even minus 20 degrees outside, but now the temperature in the room is at this temperature. No wonder he felt chilly on the top of his head: "Jian Chu and they only have a brazier. It's so cold, how can they Can you stand it?"

Qin Huai said: "Yes, wear thicker clothes, and sleep next to the brazier, so it won't be too cold. Tomorrow, the two kangs in their house only need to be covered, and they can be burned the day after tomorrow. No problem." of."

Mu Nan squeezed into Qin Huai's arms, and then he huddled around Qin Huai before stopping: "Is the wood we picked up enough to burn?"

Qin Huai shook his head: "It should not be enough for such a long winter. Let's see if we can buy some. Coal may be sold, but I'm afraid it will be very expensive." Their space must be enough, But the neighbor's may not be enough, but in the past few months, with a little saving, it should be able to support it.

Mu Nan thought about the neighbor next door, and said, "Those girls don't have kang at home, how are they going to live?"

Qin Huai squeezed his face, narrowed his eyes slightly: "You always care about what they do?"

Mu Nan put both hands on Qin Huai's body to warm him, and buried his face in his chest: "I'm just curious, I don't like anyone who has curiosity."

Qin Huai pinched his face: "No, on my bed, thinking about other girls?"

Mu Nan couldn't help laughing, and kicked Qin Huai with his foot: "Just don't mention it, just don't mention it, the strike is so heavy, it hurts me."

Qin Huai looked up at his face, it wasn't red at all, saw that his eyes were showing cunning, then his waist ached, the little paws that were placed on his body to keep warm, the lower paws were merciless, Qin Huai's tongue tinged with pain Threat: "Have you had enough rest?"

Mu Nan hastily withdrew his paws cowardly. Although there are some things, comfort is quite comfortable, but it is only comfortable during the process. Afterwards, even if the body adapts, there is still a little backache. It's going to move bricks to build a wall tomorrow, so Qin Huai can't be provoked.

Seeing that he admits cowardice, Qin Huai naturally let him go for the time being, moving bricks to make kang and building walls has been very hard these days, so he is not willing to torment Mu Nan, just to threaten like this.

When the alarm was lifted, Mu Nan lay in Qin Huai's arms and sighed: "When the kang can sleep, I think I can grow on it all winter."

Qin Huai reached out and touched his stomach: "Then I have to say goodbye to your little abdominal muscles. I don't know when I want to see them again after the winter has passed."

Mu Nan laughed out loud when Qin Huai touched him. He still couldn't stand Qin Huai's touch. He felt numb and itchy whenever he touched it, especially when his stomach was kissed, it would instantly soften into a puddle of water. Like an organ controlled by Qin Huai, he was afraid of being set ablaze by Qin Huai at this moment, so he naturally hid away, but fortunately, Qin Huai himself didn't have that intention, so he grabbed him back and hugged him: " Okay, stop making trouble, it's been a hard day, go to sleep."

Mu Nan glared at him: "Obviously you are making trouble!"

Qin Huai smiled and kissed his earlobe: "Yes, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have quarreled with you, go to sleep, we will be able to close the door and live a good life when we have another hard day tomorrow. Put up the heat insulation film and put two braziers inside to see if you can raise the temperature inside the film. If you can, the tomatoes and peppers you have grown so hard will not have to worry about being too cold and freezing to death. If it is feasible, we will I will also do the same at that time. I will ask Shi Yuanfei to see if I can get some thick film. Since they can build a greenhouse, they must have the supplies. When it’s freezing and snowy, I can’t go out, so I have to rely on Nan Nan to support me.”

Mu Nan giggled: "Don't worry, as long as you serve well, you'll be fine!"

Qin Huai's eyes were deep: "Since you said so, then I can only work hard and eat hard." After speaking, a hungry wolf rushed to eat, and took the meat that had been greedy for a long time into its mouth.