There is a little cute baby in the family, fleeing famine is not enough to get rich and busy

Chapter 131 I'm going to freeze to death today
In the darkness, a dozen or so swaying spots of light appeared from extremely far away.

The distance between the light spots is not too far, and the speed of movement is not fast.

"Qi Bo, let's meet them in the past!"

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family came to find Qi Zheng with an anxious expression on her face.

The daughters-in-law at home also looked at him, and Qi Zheng nodded: "If you are a grandma, you will stay to see your grandson, and the five of you, the second wealth, will also stay. Fourth daughter-in-law, you take your sister-in-law and siblings with you." Let's go over to greet him, and bring two more torches."

Following Qi Zheng's order, everyone got busy.

Even those who couldn't go out to greet each other were not idle.

Help with the rope, help light the torch.

Soon, Yi Meng led seven people to meet the light spot in the distance.

Each of them has a torch in their hands, which can not only illuminate themselves, but also mark their respective locations.

The wind became stronger and stronger, and the flame on the torch was blown and shook very violently.

But the eight of them trotted all the way without any hesitation.

With the eight people from Yi Meng taking the lead, there were also several other teams who sent people, holding torches, and heading for the distance.

Finally, Yi Meng saw the faces under the torch on the opposite side.

Among the dozen or so torches, only two or three of them were strangers they didn't know, and the rest were from their team.

"Brother Jin!"

Yi Meng greeted loudly, and soon heard the response.

Qi Quanjin shouted: "Daughter-in-law, don't come here, we will go there right away!"

Although the distance between the two parties was less than ten meters and eight meters, Qi Quanjin was still reluctant to let his wife take the extra distance.

But how could Yi Meng and others stop at the same place, ran over in a hurry, and directly helped to support the tall firewood pile.

Qi Erlang is only 14 years old this year, carrying dry firewood that is almost twice his height, and his entire back is bent.

Wang Daya hurried forward with distress, forcing Qi Erlang to put down the pile of firewood and put it on her body.

With the help of his wife, Qi Qijin and other men became more powerful, and even their walking speed improved a lot.

It's just that it's hard for those who follow them without a torch to illuminate them.

It was Quan Quanjin who noticed this and ordered everyone to slow down.

"Brother Jin?"

Yi Meng looked at Quan Jin in surprise, not understanding why he had to walk slowly in the cold weather.

Quan Qijin smiled, and pouted his mouth towards the back: "Those people behind are reluctant to light the torches, and come back with our torches all the way. They walk slowly. If there is no torch for light, if they fall, they will have to pick it up with great difficulty." Chai has to go away."

Hearing this, Yi Meng looked back and saw that other people were struggling to follow.

The firewood on their backs was actually not too much, but each of these people looked like they were not full and had no energy at all, so Yi Meng didn't say anything else.

Those people were different from them. They had stuffed with chicken feathers, rabbit fur and the like along the way, and their coats were thickened a lot to resist the wind and keep warm, so walking slowly for a while would not be a hindrance.

Finally returned to the team, and now everyone came up to help.

Put all the firewood you picked up together in a high pile, and you will feel safe just looking at it.

Qi Zheng frowned, and said, "You guys have gathered so much firewood, why are you bringing it into the city tomorrow?"

"Father, we can take as much as we can, and if we really can't take it, we can keep it, it doesn't matter."

Quan Quanjin smiled and wiped the sweat off his face.

There was really a lot of firewood, and even though there was a cold wind blowing on the way back, everyone was still sweating.

Yi Meng hurriedly said: "If you're sweating, hurry up and enjoy the fire, don't let the cool breeze blow."

"Hey!"

Quan Quanjin absolutely listened to his wife's advice, and hurriedly sat down by the fire to cool off his sweat.

Just leave the tidying up to other people. Those woodcutters just sit down and rest, drink some hot water to warm their bodies, and eat after rest.

The other fires were obviously burning brighter than before because of the addition of new firewood.

As midnight approached, the pedestrians at the base of the city wall fell asleep one after another.

Although it was cold, even if there was a fire, it was hopeful for everyone to be able to enter the city tomorrow.

There are also those who can’t see hope. After all, the money to enter the city and settle in the city is too much, and not everyone can afford it.

However, as long as he is still alive, it is always a kind of hope.

At night, the wind got stronger.

The cover on the carriage was blown loudly, Qi Ercai hurriedly led someone to press it on with a sack filled with chestnuts, so as not to be damaged by the wind.

It's just that the wind is still strong, there is no snowfall, only the temperature keeps dropping.

Ignoring the distress, all the people who stayed up by the fire hurriedly added more firewood to the fire.

Qi Ercai let out a sigh of relief, rubbed his face that was hard from the cold, and called the night watchman to light two more fires.

Their team is already considered good, there are horse-drawn carriages and cart boards on the side of the air vent, which reduces the cold wind a lot, and two more fires are lit. In fact, the temperature is already higher, but even so, everyone still Awoke from the cold.

"It can't go on like this!"

Qi Zheng pulled down the brim of the rabbit fur hat, and greeted Qi Ercai: "Set up the pot and boil the water."

After a pause, he looked at Yin Cheng who was not far away: "Mr. Yin, do you still have Jiang?"

"Yes, I asked Erlang to get it."

Yin Cheng also woke up from the cold, and couldn't help but tighten the quilt wrapped around his body.

Qi Erlang gasped, and took out the bundle containing turmeric from the basket of medicinal materials.

The turmeric is sliced ​​and then dried. After it is delivered now, it is simply sucked and put into the pot to boil ginger water.

"This day is going to freeze to death!"

Mr. Zhou sucked his nose, and his voice was obviously muffled.

Grandpa Sun also said: "Yes, it would be nice if there was a shelter from the wind, but now there is no shed, even if I wear a hat, my scalp still feels chilly."

Mr. Wang was so cold that he couldn't sit still, he stood up and paced around, glanced at other fires from time to time, and sighed: "Those people don't even have a place to shelter from the wind, so it's hard to survive tonight!"

After he said this, everyone looked in that direction.

Those people were all wearing quilts or clothes to block the wind. Some of them didn't have enough wind-blocking items, so they simply carried baskets on their backs, with branches and the like inserted in them, and used this method to block the wind.

"I don't know if it will snow tonight. If it snows heavily, the fire may be easily extinguished."

Qi Zheng also sighed.

Yi Meng was busy boiling ginger water at the moment, she glanced at the person on the other side, but she couldn't bear it either.

In such a cold night, the clothes on those people did not seem to be very heavy. I don't know if some people would really freeze to death.

At this moment, Yi Meng heard Qi Dalang ask Qi Zheng: "Master, do you want to share the ginger water we boiled later?"

(End of this chapter)