simple life

In the morning, Tang Guolai lay on the bed and refused to get up.Muster up the courage to reach out and swish the phone on the bedside table.

The mobile phone is very cold, as usual, put it under the quilt to cover it for a while.The cold mobile phone absorbed heat inside, making Tang Guo feel the coolness on the part of his stomach next to it.

After a while, I felt that it should be ok, so I took it out.When the cold air is heated, it forms water vapor that covers the entire screen.

Tang Guo directly wiped the outside quilt rudely, and wiped off the moisture.He frowned and said, "I do this every morning. I think the quilt is dirty by the phone before it gets dirty from sleeping."

They have been without water for many days, and they have always used the water they saved before.But that water is used for living, and there is not much water, so it would be too wasteful to use it for washing clothes.

Therefore, they wash some clothes with snow water, although it is more troublesome.With that in mind, when they were participating in snow removal across the city, they didn't shovel snow all at once.Instead, delineate a place outside the yard. When everyone is removing snow, it will be more troublesome to move all the clean snow from each place there and store it there.Afterwards, deep snow removal is carried out in each place.

It's a bit of a hassle, but it's still useful.At least they can guarantee another part of the water source.

However, because melting snow is not so easy, it is a luxury to use it all for laundry.We mainly use it to wash some personal clothes.How much snow does it take to wash large pieces of clothing or even sheets and quilts?Just thinking about it feels like a huge project.

That's how it is in winter, if it's dirty, no one needs to laugh at anyone.In fact, there are still a lot of winter clothes prepared by everyone.But because of the water, it is inevitable to wear the same set of clothes two or three times more.It doesn't matter if you don't wash them, you can leave them first and wash them when the water comes.

Yan Ting couldn't help but find it funny to see him holding his mobile phone every morning as if he was on the battlefield.But after thinking about it, it was still because the weather and the indoor temperature were too low.He said: "I think we should install heating equipment next year. It's so cold now, and the winter in the future will definitely be better than now."

Tang Guo: "Isn't that a lot of power consumption? It's not that I don't care about the electricity bill, but after experiencing this kind of weather, I believe that heating installations in the south will spring up like mushrooms after rain. The power supply is already tight in winter, and I'm afraid of the wires at home. Can't move."

Yan Ting said with a smile: "Actually, because we are from the south, we don't pay much attention to this aspect. I checked some time ago, and now there are new heating methods besides traditional heating methods. Although traditional heating still occupies a large market That's all. But I think the new electric heating is still very good. It is designed to be energy-saving, and it can be turned off when not in use. If you need to use it, turn it on for one or two 10 minutes, and the room can be warmed up."

Tang Guo was pleasantly surprised: "Really? There are still such energy-saving devices."

Yan Ting laughed and said, "No matter how energy-efficient it is, it's also heating, but it's better than the traditional one. But it doesn't matter. When the weather gets warmer, we'll install some solar panels on the roof of the warehouse. The electricity is enough. And we don’t use it all day. We only install it in the four bedrooms, and we only use it at night. The living room still burns the stove, so that even if there is a sudden power outage in the city one day, we don’t have to be afraid .”

Tang Guo: "Well! Let's install these devices when the weather gets warmer."

Continuing to lie under the blanket, Tang Guo turned on the phone.At this time, a weather warning was pushed to his mobile phone.

Tang Guo pulled down the news and read, "Yan Ting, I found that the weather is worse than snowfall..." After reading the news, he felt as if he had drunk a glass of bitter melon juice, and his whole body was limp.

Yan Ting took the phone and looked at it, and it turned out that there was a super serious freeze in a large area of ​​the country.In addition to this, the above is mainly to remind people to do a good job of protection and not to fall.

Tang Guo made a bitter face: "This reminds me of the freezing disaster in 08. I'm not afraid of your jokes. At that time, I was miserable by freezing. Not to mention, I just fell down several times. Green for a month."

As soon as Yan Ting imagined that scene, he was both funny and distressed: "Why are you so stupid! Does it hurt?"

Tang Guo: "If you say it hurts, it doesn't hurt much. It just caused me a serious psychological shadow. It's okay if you say that I was unprepared. I fell and fell, but I am always careful and careful every time. , I fell so badly that I couldn’t even walk.”

Tang Guo continued: "The water pipes were completely frozen at that time. I didn't know there would be freezing at that time, and everyone didn't make any preparations, such as storing more water. There was only one tank at home, and even though the water was used very much I have to pick water every two days. By the way, we need two loads of water to fill the earth tank. It takes at least 5 minutes from the door of the house to the well, and there is no one in this section of the road. It’s a place where you can get your feet down. It took 5 minutes to walk in good weather, let alone the whole section of the road was icy.”

Yan Ting: "Who carried the water then?"

Tang Guo: "Do you still need to ask? Of course it is my dad." He continued: "At that time, the roads there were all dirt roads with potholes. There was a particularly twisted slope to the well. We I used straw to tie the soles of the feet, hoping to increase the friction, but it was useless, and it was all loose after two steps. My dad just removed all the straws and carried the bucket uphill. Now that I think about it, his guts And the balance is not so good..."

"There is also the Chinese New Year. There are a lot of things to prepare for the New Year, and there is little water in the house. We walked directly on the icy road and went to the river to wash. The road was slippery, and the water was so cold that rubber gloves couldn't stop it. We directly I used the straw piled up on the ridges of other people’s fields by the river and lit it there. If it doesn’t work, I go up to the fire and come back..."

In short, Tang Guo didn't have a good impression of Ning Dong.

Yan Ting laughed and said, "That was really miserable. Compared with this, it's okay now, at least I don't need to carry water, and I don't need to go to the river to wash vegetables in cold water..."

Tang Guo covered himself under the blanket for a while, then got up resolutely.

Yan Ting: "Why do you wake up so early? Is there anything to do..."

Tang Guo put on the clothes on the side, and said, "I have to go and see if it's freezing outside. Anyway, I can't sleep anymore, it's more comfortable to warm up by the stove."

Together with Tang Guo, Yan Ting didn't have the mood to lie down on the bed anymore.He also got up and put on his clothes.

Tang Guo put on his cotton slippers, walked out and looked, fortunately, there were only some sporadic ice flakes on the ground in the yard, not all of them were frozen, and there was some drizzle floating in the sky, which probably would happen in the next two days. effect.

Go to the place where several large glue buckets are placed, and open one with a lid first, well, this one is not frozen.Then he walked to the one where the snow water was stored without a cover. When he saw it, Tang Guo's eyes were round.I wipe it fast enough, it didn't freeze yesterday, but it's there today.

Just by looking at it, one can clearly know that this is not just a thin layer of meaning.

Tang Guo poked the ice with his hand, but it didn't break, and his finger still hurt.It seems that relying on hands alone is not enough. At this time, he saw a small shovel in a flower pot.He went to get it, turned it upside down, and tapped it with the wooden handle, hehe, there was no response.It seemed that it would be impossible without some effort, so Tang used to exert more strength on the top, knocking once, twice, and finally knocked out the hole in the ice surface.

He stretched out his hand to touch the ice, heh, it was really thick, it was as wide as half his thumb.

Yan Ting came over: "Is it frozen?"

"Yeah!" Tang Guo slammed on the ice again, breaking the ice.He took out one of the pieces: "Look, it's only been one night, and it's already this thick. It's really..."

Yan Ting: "Then it looks like the freezing is coming! The road was not dry at first, and now there is such a light drizzle, which provides good conditions for the freezing. I don't think this freezing will be easy."

Tang Guo nodded: "I think so too. Let's not talk about it, let's just say that people in the city, without snow to stop them, will continue to walk even if the road is icy and sprinkled with salt. In 08, on the road where salt was sprinkled, Haven’t there been several accidents? I don’t know what will happen this year…”

This winter's disasters are really not low-key at all. When that one is gone, this one will come, and people will not be able to live.