happy apocalypse

Chapter 124 Frozen Ice

After the house was back, Aunt Liang and Qu Wen got busy.The house was too crowded, and they wanted to move out as soon as possible, so that the rest of them could relax, so we all started to help them find the house and yard.

Weiwei helped Qu Feng and Aunt Liang clean up the house on the west side (from now on, Qu Feng’s house) from the inside to the outside. I don’t know if the original occupants were too lazy, or Li Feng was too careless. In short, the house looks like it hasn't been cleaned in 800 years. They only used up a small bag of washing powder for washing the rags, which shows how dirty it is.

Originally, Aunt Liang saw that the walls in the house were so smoked that they couldn't see the whiteness, so she wanted to paint it before moving in.But the little uncle said that it is too cold in winter to paint the walls. If you want to paint, you can wait until the beginning of spring.

The eldest brother-in-law was right to think about it. Jiang Zhi also said that after the beginning of spring, all of us will help the eldest sister and second sister's house to change the kitchen and flue to what our house is now, and the house will also be repaired.Depending on the size of the backyard, a greenhouse can be built. In the future, we can focus on fresh vegetables in winter, and then we are looking for someone to help expand the cellar. In autumn, we will consume more energy to store autumn vegetables, and then dig an ice cellar under the cellar like ours. Keep it iced.

After listening to Jiang Zhi's words, Aunt Liang kept praising me for finding a good husband, and she missed her natal sisters so much.

That is, Jiang Zhi has no sisters, so he treats my sister like his own sister, and he will take care of him if he can. Besides, we still have this ability now. Talented (Lv Fang is a professional in this field), of course he said lavishly.

My second sister's house was cleaned by me and Qu's mother.

Her house is right next to ours, which should be regarded as a wall. This wall refers to the courtyard wall of my house. The current courtyard wall of her house is still a wooden fence. into a brick wall."

The second sister said, "Okay, that's up to you."

Let's go in and take a look, the house is really not good, the overall feeling is old and broken, the house is a very old-fashioned house structure, the entrance is the main room, there are two stoves on the left and right in the main room, driving two big black pots , The countertops are all black and greasy. This is the oil stain left by cooking all the year round.

There are two bedrooms on the left like ours, and only one on the right.This is because the courtyard as a whole has a long and narrow shape. It is a house sandwiched between our house and the old Guo’s house next door. The width is only enough to cover four houses.

That's it, there is only one walkway between the two sides of the house and the wooden fence, and the yard behind is also the same width, but it is very long.

Mother Qu said it was a little too small, and Second Sister Qu said, "It's not too small. We usually live together just three of us. That's enough. Even if you and my dad come to live, there is room to live."

I also said next to me: "Let's live here first. When spring comes, Jiang Zhi said that he would renovate these two houses, and change them according to the style we live in now. The second sister can add a floor. This house The kang is not very easy to burn, so next year we will have to do a full redesign. This year we can only deal with it first, at most we can spend some firewood and charcoal, and we can still heat up the house."

Mother Qu nodded after hearing this, and then led us to plan what to do in the backyard. After a while, she used branches to draw a plot in the snow, and said that she wanted to build a chicken coop. Just eat at home.Then he drew a piece of land elsewhere, saying that he would open a vegetable field, and in summer, he could grow some vegetables for his family to eat.

I don’t want to express my opinion. In fact, if the house can be remodeled this year, a greenhouse will definitely be built in the backyard, so that some side dishes can be grown in winter. At that time, a chicken rack can be built in the greenhouse to raise 10 chickens. Only a few chicks are enough to eat their own eggs.

The second sister later expressed her opinion that she wants to follow in my footsteps, and she wants to be like me.Does this mean that the second sister has seen the importance of me, and is ready to obey my command completely, and be on par with me?
Afterwards, we packed everything we could now, and then the eldest sister and second sister officially moved into their new home on March 2015, 3, the 11th day of the first lunar month, and began to live on their own.

On the night before leaving, I gave my elder sister and second sister 10 spirit-jutting fruits each, and told them the usefulness of this red fruit. After hearing this, they felt that the red fruit I gave was too little. That's a lot to say, really.

The spirit-gathering grass I planted in the space can produce up to 8 spirit-gathering fruits per plant, except that 4 are used to refine the leaves, and one is left as a seed, and each plant can have at most three spirit-gathering fruits.The spirit-gathering grass in my space has only been harvested once, so now I can only give 10 to each person.

I took out two more and asked them to try the method I thought of to see if it was feasible.Both the eldest sister and the second sister use light body charms. After using them, they all said that it was too exciting, as if they were about to float.This is so exaggerated, they are using it for the first time, and they can't grasp the balance of the body after the gravity is reduced, so they have the feeling of floating up, and this feeling will definitely disappear when they use it next time.

But I didn't tell them, so let them be happy, and I am also very happy, because Juling Fruit works well, which means that the safety of the sisters will be guaranteed again in the future.

I also told them that this fruit is not easy to come by, and I will use it when there is something important.

The sisters happily put away the Ju Lingguo, and took away a large pile of talismans from me.I really want to say to them: What's the use of you wanting more, without the fruit of gathering spirits, those talismans are just waste paper to you.But seeing their happy faces, I swallowed the words I wanted to say, forget it, as long as they are happy, I have plenty of these talismans.

After the elder sister's house and the second sister's house were settled, our whole family went out to make ice bricks.All the materials in the ice cellar have been moved out, and it would be not too old if there were ice cubes in the ice cellar of 11 square meters.And it's already mid-March now, and according to the annual temperature changes, it's starting to thaw at this time.Rice will start planting in a month.But the weather is still cold now, and we don’t know if the temperature will drop suddenly like last November, so we are short on time and heavy on tasks, and we must fill up the ice cellar before the snow melts.

Jiang Zhi, Li Cheng, Li Shanqing, and the eldest brother-in-law went to the stream to pull clean snow and came back. We lesbians melted the snow in a large pot at home, and then took it outside to freeze it into ice lumps.

We didn’t boil the snow water this time, but poured it into a bucket to freeze after turning into water.This will not only save some firewood, but also speed up the speed.Because I think that these ice cubes may not be drunk by us in the future, and they may be used to water the ground in the future, so there is no need to boil all the snow water.Even if people drink it at that time, they can wait until the ice turns into water and then boil it for drinking. At that time, boiling water will save firewood. In short, I don’t think it is necessary. Everyone listened to me and followed suit.

Burning a fire every day at home is a waste of firewood, and the stove in our kitchen is connected to the fire wall at home, so the kang upstairs and downstairs are too hot to sleep on at night.

Therefore, in order to avoid wasting ourselves and suffering, we distributed the firewood to the homes of my aunt, eldest sister and second sister, and asked them to boil snow water at home in the morning, make ice cakes, and let Jiang Zhi and the others use a tricycle to pull them return.

Before my aunt’s house, I didn’t dare to burn firewood too much, because I didn’t know when the snowy day would end, so I always wanted to save some time. This time our family asked them for help, but they agreed immediately. We gave I don’t want more firewood. I said that there is enough firewood at home, so I said to burn ours first. If there is not enough firewood, your family will give it to our family, and this aunt reluctantly accepts it.In this way, her family has been burning snow water for a whole morning, even if she helps us to do the work, the house can still be heated for a day, which should be considered a win-win situation.

Later, my aunt’s family didn’t need Jiang Zhi and the others to deliver the snow. The little uncle pushed the cart out and pulled it. The elder sister’s family also helped the elder brother-in-law to pull it. Only the second sister’s second brother-in-law couldn’t work, so the few of them Let my family and my second sister’s house send snow first, and if we have enough here, we will send another car or two to my aunt’s house and my elder sister’s house. Aunt Qin, the neighbor of my aunt’s house, and Aunt Guo, the neighbor of my second sister’s house, help from time to time. Our family boils a few pots of snow water, and we don’t need my firewood. They say that if you are idle, you are idle, and you have to light a fire to keep warm if you don’t drip. This is just a matter of course.Besides, Aunt Qin asked her son to help us go to pull the snow together when she saw that our family was so busy, saying that her son had strength and had been idle at home for several months, and this time he would move if he had the opportunity.

Although they don't care, I have made a note of this love, and I will pay it back when I have a chance in the future.

Aunt Qin's son is Qin Hanbin, who is also a veteran, so he and Jiang Zhi worshiped these men in our family in just one day.After that, everyone who had nothing to do would like to report to our house, and they brought a helper, Chen Ming.

Chen Ming was also very affectionate when he saw us. Brother Jiang and his sister-in-law called out, Jiang Zhi and the others went out to work, and he also took the initiative to help.

We move so frequently, people in the village talk about us, Aunt Qin and Aunt Guo also asked me, why do we need so many ice lumps?I didn't hide it either, I just said that I was afraid that the summer would be as dry as last year, so I put the ice cubes in the ice cellar and store them now. If the weather is really dry this summer, I can take them out to deal with emergencies. It can be taken out to relieve the summer heat for adults and children.

They listened to what I said and thought about it, and they thought it was very reasonable. It can be said that digging an ice cellar is beneficial without any harm, and there is a ready-made talent for digging an ice cellar, Lu Fang. They only need to pay some manual money and material money. So they also expressed that they will dig one at home this spring.

I saw that they were all tempted, so they said that if they want to dig, hurry up, otherwise there will be more people digging, and the money will be spent, and they may have to be ranked correctly, so I don’t know when they will be able to be ranked.

As soon as they heard what I said, they all went to Lu Fang, saying that they wanted to make an appointment in advance. When the weather is good this year, they will dig for their two families first. After getting Lu Fang's promise, they will dig for their house after digging their own house. , to leave with satisfaction.

I also talked to Lu Fang and told her that it is best not to ask for money when digging ice cellars for others this year, but to convert them into food.

Lu Fang now admires Jiang Zhi and me, so he agreed without asking anything else.I thought this kid was too naive, he had to be trained.

(End of this chapter)