The Tight Embrace of the End Times

Gu Leng put down everything these few days and devoted himself to preparing for Xiao Qiao's birthday.

Since the inside of the greenhouse is really not a very romantic place, and the layout is small, Gu Leng put the celebration place in the space.

The space is full of farmland, surrounded by fruit trees, and small hillsides. Gu Leng thought about setting aside a separate space for Xiao Qiao's birthday.

So I chose an open space with a radius of about 50 meters, sprinkled lawn seeds, and poured spring water carefully and evenly. After a while, the tender green grass gradually covered the black ground, leaving no gaps, and looked soft and comfortable.

In the middle of the lawn is a surprisingly selected canvas, on which Gu Leng plans to put some of Xiao Qiao's favorite fruits, such as grapes, mangoes, and watermelons, and then put some of Xiao Qiao's favorite dishes, such as the representative grilled Chicken, of course, Gu Leng's cooking skills are not as good as Xiao Qiao's. Xiao Qiao prepares all the dishes, while Gu Leng carefully prepares a longevity peach-style cake. The main ingredient is sweet and juicy peach meat. The longevity peaches made from the freshest and best ingredients look drool-worthy.

On the day of Xiao Qiao's birthday, the two greeted Yuan's family and Gu Hai's family, saying that they had something to do all day today and they were not at home, so they entered the space with peace of mind.

The space is still beautiful with mountains and rivers, which makes people feel refreshed and happy. The scenery alone is a unique enjoyment.

When Xiao Qiao saw the lawn, fruit, cake, fine wine, and large canvas prepared by Gu Leng, his heart was filled with excitement and joy.

Pulling Gu Leng to the canvas, the two ate and drank to their heart's content, chatting and laughing.Xiao Qiao ate and ate, but felt that her heart was soft and unbelievable, she was so full of love, her eyes were tender, she looked at Gu Leng who was smiling beside her, this was her family, the family she chose, and the love of her life she joined hands with. Xiao Qiao happily raised her head to the sky and howled, venting out her inner resentment, leaving only warm warmth, watching Gu Leng pick up food for him, watching Gu Leng touch wine with him, watching Gu Leng put candles on the cake , pulling him to make a wish, Xiao Qiao pushed Gu Leng to the ground and ate it too.

People are always very adaptable. It seems that the people in Gujia Village have fully adapted to the current life, and some of them even got married with their children. In order not to dilute the family's land property and communication interruption, etc. The reason is that people choose the right person to get married in their village.The Gu family village was bustling.

People quietly live this kind of life that is similar to being isolated from the world, content with the status quo, but they don't know that the peaceful life is about to be broken.

On that day, the weather looked better than usual, and it was not even freezing cold outside, so some adults invited a few people to chat at the door of their greenhouses to get some air.Quite a few children ran back and forth around the adults, yelling excitedly - let the wind go, let the wind go, I don't know who they learned from.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao are also taking a walk outside their shed. Since the last time they took a walk together, they have fallen in love with walking, and they like this feeling.

A touch of coldness fell on Gu Leng's eyelashes, Gu Leng blinked, and the coldness melted and slipped from the eye sockets, it looked like Gu Leng was crying silently.Xiao Qiao was taken aback, quickly wiped Gu Leng with her fingers, and asked anxiously: "Xiao Leng, what's the matter? What are you thinking? Why are you crying all of a sudden?"

Xiao Qiao, who cared about Gu Leng, had all her heart on Gu Leng, so she didn't care about other things.

Gu Leng grabbed Xiao Qiao's wiping hand, squeezed his palm comfortingly, and motioned him to look up—the feather-like snowflakes fluttered gently, falling on the hair, face, and body of the two of them. Everything within reach was surrounded by snowflakes, and people began to tell each other loudly, anxiously trying to find a way to solve all this—the hut that survived might collapse.

But in fact, there is really no good way to press the shed with heavy snow. Basically, it can be summarized into three points. The first point is to clear snow diligently and in a timely manner. The second point is to increase the load-bearing of the greenhouse and add a few more load-bearing columns in the greenhouse.The third point is to ignite the stove in the greenhouse and increase the temperature to melt the snow water on the roof as soon as possible.

Except for the meeting, which is rare, the whole village ran out.People shouted anxiously and wailed sadly, Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao stood by the shed, looking at each other.

After a while, Gu Leng found that although the snow was heavy, a layer of white snow had accumulated on the ground in a short period of time, while water was flowing down the slope on the greenhouse, and there was no snow.

Gu Leng realized, because there is always a stove in the shed to keep the temperature, the inside of the shed is so warm, the snow falls on the roof of the shed, and it will melt naturally, it seems that there is no need to worry about the heavy snow pressing the shed.

There is no need to spend a lot of manpower to sweep the snow. The most urgent thing is to add a few load-bearing columns to the greenhouse to strengthen the load-bearing of the greenhouse.

Sharp-eyed people also noticed this. Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao took the lead and went back to the big house to fetch some long logs. They were cut to a similar height according to the height of the greenhouse and placed under the greenhouse for support. People who saw it followed suit. If you have wood at home, you can take it directly from the house. If you don’t have wood at home, you will take tools and go to the nearby mountains to chop in twos and threes.

Be careful when you go out in Xuetian, you may slip and fall if you are not careful, Gu Leng told Gu Hai and Yuan Yushu, and said that he would come to help when he finished his work here, and told them not to worry.

By the time Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao had installed the load-bearing columns of their greenhouses and walked to the foot of the mountain, many people had already chopped the wood and walked back carrying it one after the other.

Gu Leng found Gu Hai and Yuan Yushu, they were chopping small trees in the same place.There is already a pile of small trees on the ground beside him. By visual inspection, there are about a dozen small trees. The two of them chose the small trees that died in summer and were about the size of holding hands together. It is enough for Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao to help cut a few. Carrying logs down the mountain, I met many people gathered at the foot of the mountain. From the gaps in the crowd, I could see a person lying in the middle. When I got closer, it was not the former village chief Gu Yong's family?

Lying on the ground was the wife of the former village head, Gu Yong's mother. People used to call her the village head's wife because her surname was Xue Minghui, but now people call her Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue used to rely on her old man as the village head and her son as a government servant. She always looked at people sideways, and she was arrogant, which offended many people in the village.

The last time the village head was re-elected, many people finally chose Gu Gang without hesitation. In fact, it had something to do with disliking Aunt Xue's personality.

The former village chief Gu Dezhi, the villagers still recognized him. Even if he threatened Gu Leng with Xiao Qiao's matter, Gu Leng would not generalize. He also recognized his previous contributions to the village. But it's just that he doesn't like him. Gu Leng hasn't been to his house for such a long time.

Gu Dezhi himself was old and could not continue to be the village head, nor could his son become the village head according to his plan. Gu Dezhi later gave up completely and worked and lived peacefully.The villagers have always respected him because he used to be the village head and now he is such an old man.But it's just a little respect for him, and it's not sensitive to Aunt Xue.

This Aunt Xue still likes to look at people with squinted eyes, and even yells and curses at people who don't like her slightly. Now it's not the past. Who still let her and tolerate her because of Gu Dezhi's face? Some women scolded back.Many women who had been irritated by her before deliberately provoked her, causing her to scold each other. In short, Aunt Xue's life is still lively.

Aunt Xue looked as if she accidentally slipped and fell to the ground when she was going down the mountain. They saw her slowly sitting up sideways, clutching her left leg and howling loudly. Only then did everyone realize that her left leg was not right, it was bent abnormally.

And next to her was her son Gu Yong, who seemed at a loss. He tried to pull Aunt Xue to stand up several times, but was pushed away by Aunt Xue screaming in pain. He tried to hug Aunt Xue again, but Aunt Xue With this tonnage, Gu Yong, a frail scholar, is destined not to be able to hold it.

Gu Yong didn't know whether he was holding back or was ashamed or tired, his face was flushed, he raised his eyes and scanned the surrounding people, and finally a young man from his cousin's family helped him carry Aunt Xue back.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, saying that Aunt Xue was going to be very sad now, that there was a lack of medical care and medicine, and that she couldn't move for three months, which was a great torture for people in itself.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao helped Gu Hai and Yuan Yushu carry the wood back to their greenhouse, and the rest of the two of them took care of it by themselves.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao stood at the entrance of the shed, looking at the fluttering snowflakes, so beautiful, crystal clear, so comfortable, carefree, but brought despair to people, I don't know how many people can't survive this winter.

In the greenhouse, the white wild chrysanthemums were blooming in full bloom, and the yellow lemons were round and round. Gu Leng leaned closer and smelled the fragrance of the flowers and fruits, looked around the whole greenhouse, and made a decision, so he said to Xiao Qiao: "You tell me, I'll go one by one." Let’s take a walk around the shed, so we can use this opportunity to sprinkle some spring water.”

Xiao Qiao smiled: "I'll cover for you."

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao started from Yuan's house on the far side and went door-to-door. People treated them well. Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao greeted the villagers one by one, and the other took the opportunity to sprinkle some spring water. They also cooperated closely.

It’s just that there was a little trouble at Gu Yong’s house. As soon as Aunt Xue saw Gu Leng, she scolded cats, crying mice, fake mercy, etc. Gu Dezhi and Gu Yong looked at Gu Leng in embarrassment. After walking around, he pulled Xiao Qiao straight away.

Gu Leng dragged Xiao Qiao around the greenhouse in the village, but still refused to go home, and dragged Xiao Qiao to the direction of the mountain.

Xiao Qiao looked at the hill with few trees in the distance. Some of them withered in summer, some were cut down for charcoal in winter, and now some were cut down for load-bearing pillars. The hill was already bare.Xiao Qiao guessed what Gu Leng was going to do.smile.

Gu Leng chose to sprinkle a large amount of spring water along the top of the mountain, hoping that the snow water would carry the surface soil and spring water to the foot of the mountain, and wherever it went, the trees would be in spring.

When going down the mountain, Gu Leng saw a red fox with thick and beautiful fur lying on the snow, whining and crying. Gu Leng walked over and saw that the red fox's feet were stuck in the dead branches under the snow and could not be pulled out. The fox in Gu Leng's arms struggled endlessly, and wanted to escape as soon as he was free. Gu Leng teased the red fox in a good mood, scratched its chin, and stroked its warm fur, which made the red fox frowned. , Gu Leng laughed out loud.

After some teasing, Gu Leng fed the red fox a small cup of spring water, and took out a few pieces of Xiao Qiao's chopped chicken for the fox to eat. The fox couldn't beat the hunger in the end, so he ate it hesitantly.

After the fox had eaten and drank enough, Gu Leng let go of the fox. After running for a while, the red fox turned back to look at Gu Leng frequently.

It's not that I'm sentimental, everything has animism, and trees have sentimentality.There was a faint sigh in the wind.