Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

This is based on common sense. Although the current situation is special and disasters occur frequently, there are still traces of the signs before the earthquake.

Explaining these things is not completely divorced from cognition.

After calming down, the two of them increased their speed to harvest and transport the forage back.

Sure enough, in the evening, the clouds began to accumulate on the horizon, and the dark clouds moved towards them from a distance.

"It's going to rain."

Zhao Yeqing quickly lit charcoal pots in the sheep pen and chicken coop.

According to the current development pattern, this rain is the beginning of cooling.

But she forgot about the current weather conditions. Even if the temperature increased before the earthquake, the temperature was still more than ten degrees below zero.

When dark clouds appeared above her head, she realized that the rain had fallen, but when it fell on the ground, it turned into ice.

Although it was not as good as the big hailstorm before, but it was falling so densely that it was impossible to go out. Hearing the noise on the roof, both of them felt a little uneasy.

The falling ice ballast cannot be escaped by cooling down in a short period of time.

It was still dark the next day, and Zhao Yeqing was woken up by the cold. He didn't have the usual hesitation before going to bed, and he suddenly woke up.

The fire in the fireplace has been extinguished, Mu Xi is not beside him, and his watch is still on the bedside. He must have just gone out.

She stretched out her hand and took the watch from the bedside table. The temperature displayed on it was -21°.

And that's just the indoor temperature.

The door to the room was pushed open by Mu Xi. He was holding a bundle of firewood in his hand, with a little bit of ice falling on his head.

"Are you awake? Don't come down yet. It's too cold outside. Wait for me to raise the fire first."

Last night before the two of them went to bed, a fire was lit in the fireplace, but the firewood in it went out before it was completely burned.

Mu Xi put the firewood on the ground and said: "I checked everywhere yesterday, but I forgot to check the chimney on the fireplace. The chimney cap was knocked off. When I woke up in the morning, it was wet with ice."

He got up in the morning, climbed up to the roof, reinstalled the chimney, and brought in dry firewood.

Zhao Yeqing put on his coat and got out of bed before the fire started to rise.

Seeing Mu Xi open the lid, all the wet ashes in the fireplace fell into the ash pit below.

In a hurry to light a fire, I used pine wood, and piled two less flammable beech wood on top.

As the fire light rose, the room was gradually covered with warmth.

She huddled cross-legged on the rocking chair and covered herself with a soft rabbit fur blanket. She waited until the water on the fireplace boiled and poured the boiling water into a small kettle.

There are previously dried plum blossoms in a small kettle. Once they are soaked in water, you can still smell some unique fragrance.

The ice outside had stopped, and it wasn't raining or snowing. There was just a cold wind blowing, and the glass in the windows rattled.

When Mu Xi came in with breakfast, he was so blown away that he couldn't close the door. Zhao Yeqing hurried over to take the breakfast, and Mu Xi finally closed the door with his free hand.

"Drink a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up."

Mu Xi first extended his watch to her. It showed the outdoor temperature, showing -26°.

Then he picked up the tea cup and drank the tea.

Zhao Yeqing helped him rub his hands, which were red from the heat and cold, "Seeing as the temperature is about to rise, the temperature dropped again after it was said to be falling."

She rubbed it again to breathe out, and Mu Xi held her hand, "You eat first, and I'll just bake it."

Breakfast consists of steamed buns and a plate of braised beef. In this weather, you can't touch water. Even if you touch hot water, your hands will get cold in a minute, and it is easy to get frostbite if it is hot or cold.

After climbing up the roof to fix the chimney this morning, my hands felt a little itchy.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Zhao Yeqing suddenly grabbed his hand and frowned, "Why do you have frostbite?"

Mu Xi opened his fingers. There was some redness on his fingers, and they looked like blisters.

"Sit still and don't move. This frostbite is difficult to cure and is prone to recurrence. I'll get you some medicine."

There was no frostbite medicine at home, so Zhao Yeqing put on her coat and opened the door and went out. The wind outside was not as strong as in the morning, but it still blew her eyes hard.

I went to the original owner's house, took some dried hawthorn, and took a radish from the cellar back to the house.

I dug a small piece of ginger from the soil of the planting pot, mashed the ginger and hawthorn and applied it to Mu Xi's left hand.

Slice the radish, heat it over the fire and apply it on the frostbite on your right hand.

"Wait and see which one works better."

These methods were used by my grandma for my grandpa who suffered from chilblains when he was patrolling the mountains and forests in winter. They are only suitable for the early stages of chilblains and should not be used when they become serious.

The frostbite was itchy and painful, and she stared at Mu Xi, trying to stop him from scratching when he couldn't help it.

Mu Xi couldn't laugh or cry, "I won't catch him. He's not a child anymore. I can still bear it."

Because Mu Xi had a criminal record, when he was a child, there was frost on Meishan Mountain, and he was very skinny. When he ran out to play, he also developed chilblains on his hands. The chilblains were painful and itchy. Grandma Mu felt very distressed and asked him not to scratch them, but the blisters burst in the end. .

The pain in my hands didn't heal, and my butt was slapped twice by Grandpa Mu.

When he woke up the next day, Zhao Yeqing looked at his hands and found that they were not aggravated and were recovering well.

Ginger hawthorn seems to be more effective than radish slices.

Zhao Yeqing threw the remaining radish and beef brisket into the pot to make soup.

Too lazy to cook, it was too cold and the two of them didn't want to go out.

A pot of radish and beef brisket soup with noodles to eat all day long.

By the third day, the temperature had dropped to minus thirty-two degrees.

"It seems that after the earthquake, it not only caused a simple cooling, but also caused a cold wave."

The cooling after the earthquake was like a push to winter. A cold wave swept across the entire earth instantly, and the temperature continued to drop.

The walls in the room were all ice to the touch.

Within a week, the temperature dropped to minus forty.

Fortunately, the two of them hadn't been lazy some time ago and had chopped the firewood back. Otherwise, without the firewood now, the temperature would have made them shiver in bed.

Occasionally when I go out to use the restroom, the white air I breathe out instantly freezes into white frost on my eyelashes and eyebrows.

The cold wind hurt my face, and it turned red within a minute.

It was spicy and painful.

The skin care products she brought before were of little use except facial cleanser when the summer was too hot. Now every time she goes out to use the bathroom, she has to apply some facial cream when she comes back, otherwise her face will become red and painful.

Originally, in the house, as long as the fire was lit in the fireplace, the room was warm.

Now only the place close to the fireplace can feel the warmth.

If the temperature was just low, it wouldn't be so cold and uncomfortable, but it was also windy and the temperature felt like it had dropped several degrees.

After half a month passed, the wind and the cooling finally stopped.

The temperature settled at minus forty-five degrees.

Zhao Yeqing opened the door, and the snowy meadow changed its appearance again.