Doomsday Grain

"Dilong?" Lin Qian hadn't reacted yet.

He Yangxuan said: "It's geothermal heat. You forgot, I thought about doing it at first, but at that time I was in a hurry to install the house, and there is a basement on the first floor, so it's not easy to do it."

At the beginning, I thought that no matter how cold the winter was, it would be no problem if the heater was turned on, but the temperature has dropped too much in the past two years.

"I shouldn't be greedy in the first place. But it's troublesome to do it now, isn't it? Laying the floor heating pipe is really troublesome."

"It's not that troublesome." Grandpa said, "It's just like a heated kang. The living room can be raised, and a mezzanine can be built. When the time comes, it can be connected to a chimney, and it will be warm on the side of the stove."

"That must be ugly." Lin Qian just said that, at this time, no one cares whether it looks good or not.

"Or get a fireplace?" He Yangxuan suggested, "Just this living room, and put a chimney in each of the four corners. It doesn't need to be too big, the kind that goes straight to the roof of the second floor. In this way, the chimney on the second floor is also hot. We lived in the past. In the old house, you told me that as long as the chimney plug is plugged in, the heat in the kang will not dissipate, and it will be hot for a long time. This time we will also make a similar one, and the fire will be finished , Once the plugboard on the second floor is plugged in, the chimney can be heated inside the house for a long time. You don’t even need to burn coal, just light the fire every once in a while. And the chimney is connected to the outside, so you don’t have to worry about getting poisoned or something.”

If it was changed to before, grandpa would definitely say that it is troublesome, and it is a big project to renovate the house.But everything is worth it if it makes life easier.

Grandpa looked at the roof and said, "I remember that when this house was built, it was poured out with cement at once. It shouldn't be a small change to build that kind of fireplace chimney, can it be done?"

He Yangxuan said: "It shouldn't be a big problem. The walls are supported by reinforced concrete. As long as the load-bearing wall is still there, there is basically no problem. As long as it is done well, maybe the chimney can also function as a starting pillar. At the beginning, there was not enough time. Otherwise, let's build a villa."

In fact, what he thought at the beginning was to build a similar house and live a simple life in the future, He Yangxuan said this in other words.

"Why isn't this a villa?" Grandpa fell down on the sofa, looked around, and said with a smile, "There are so many rooms in such a big house."

The two grandsons laughed without saying a word.

Speaking of geothermal heat, He Yangxuan remembered that there were electric blankets in the space, but there were already quite a few electric machines at home.

In fact, the heating in the house is already very good, but the problem still lies in the insulation.Of course, there is no problem with this building. This building can be said to be the warmest house in the village, both in terms of materials and decoration.

But no matter how good the house is, it is powerless to face such an extreme environment. We can only thicken the wall thickness as much as possible to keep the inside of the house warm.

If the environment was so extreme for several months this year, Lin Qian would start thinking about adding a thicker wall to the outside of the wall to resist the severe cold, and it could also be used to resist the scorching heat in summer.

This is equivalent to building a big house on the outside of the floor to make a small trap and a big circle, but if you really want to do this, the requirements for sturdiness and load-bearing will be greater, and there is no way.

Lin Qian's family was well prepared, but it was still such a difficult life, let alone those who could not wait to enter the end of the world.

Lin Qian guessed right, this sudden drop in temperature caused many deaths.

Not only outside, many people died in the village.

Children going out to play.People who are worried about their children and risk the temperature to go out to find them.

People who had the fire extinguished in the middle of the night, but were sleepy due to the low temperature and did not get out of bed.

People who just want to go out to get some firewood to burn at home, just stand at the gate and look outside for a while.

The entire region experienced a world-like cooling.

Inside the greenhouse, He Yangxuan went over twice a day to check the temperature with a fire.

Lin Qian wanted to do it for him, but he didn't have the space.Since He Yangxuan has space, he basically doesn't need any preparations. He just ran into the greenhouse and took it directly from the space.

The good news is that the temperature stopped dropping on the second day of cooling down, and even started to warm up on the third day.

He Yangxuan records the temperature outside every day. For others, such a rise in temperature is not obvious, or even undetectable.

On average, it can rise by one degree every two days. Although it is slow, it is hopeful anyway.

It wasn't until minus [-] degrees, that is, nearly a month later, that Junka finally appeared in the village again.Every household has almost [-] pieces of warm baby, two catties of dried vegetables and ten candles.

Lin Qian didn't expect so many warm babies, he thought it would be coal or something.

"The transportation cost of coal is too high, and the fuel should not be a big problem for rural areas. After all, last year's harvest was good, and the rest is heating. The cost of this heating subsidy is not very high, and it is easy to carry. For some people who need to go out It is very useful." This is the explanation of the soldiers.

If it is a hot water bottle, it is not convenient to carry it when going out, and if it is holding firewood, it is even more in the way.There are only warming stickers like this, the hands, feet, waist and eyes are pasted, and the whole body is warm.

"Then will the energy production be sold in the next year?" Lin Qian asked.

Brother Bing thought about it: "I can't say for sure. I intend to produce a large amount every year, but it has been distributed as supplies, and the government can't afford to consume it. But there should be very few people who are willing to consume this. After all, in the current world, there is no People are willing to buy this kind of consumables that are used once and thrown away, so there are definitely not many sales. In this world, any raw materials and productivity are precious and cannot be wasted."

Sending warm babies is actually an experiment to see the effect. If possible, we can produce more in the coming year. Although this is more expensive than coal, the transportation cost is lower. Compared with food, it is easier for the government to afford this.

The warm babies sent by the government are supervised by the internal factory. Although the productivity has dropped, the quality has improved a lot.

Many of the warm babies saved by Lin Qian and the others were wholesaled from the Internet, and the quality was uneven.This time I experimented with the warm baby sent by the government. The temperature was lower than the one they bought, but the fever lasted for a long time, and I even felt that it would be fine to lie on the bed next to it.

Of course, the two of them couldn't do such a stupid thing.No matter how low or stable the temperature is, keeping one position still while sleeping can easily cause low-temperature burns.

Before going to bed at night, my grandfather lit two pieces of turpentine wood as lighting and tried it. The flame can reach four to five centimeters, and the area that can be illuminated is better than that of ordinary candles.

The next day, my grandfather suggested to the two of them that we should use less electric lights to waste electricity in the house. It is not easy to store electricity at home now. In fact, it is also a good choice to use some burning light sources instead.

Since then, the family has experimented with using candles, turpentine blocks, and the like instead of lighting.Except for places like kitchens and bathrooms that require higher visibility, the lighting of flames like bedrooms is basically sufficient.

After trying it for two days, I felt almost the same, so I reduced the use of electric lights.

When necessary, the mobile phone is at hand, and there is a hand-cranked flashlight in the bedside table, striving to reduce the consumption of electricity.

In fact, there is still a little advantage to using flame lighting. Although the visibility is low, people look better and better under such dim light.

There is a saying that when looking at a beautiful woman under the lamp, the more you look at it, the more energetic you become. The two little guys looked at each other under the candlelight, and often rolled away after looking at each other.

Since then, the couple's quality of life has improved significantly.

Another month has passed, and after New Year's Day has passed for a few days, the temperature rises faster. At this time, the temperature has reached more than minus 40 degrees. At this time, people in the village really dare to go out of their homes.

Unlike last year, even if it was minus [-] or [-] degrees last year, some people wore thick clothes and ventured out, but this year's sudden drop in temperature scared them.

After the temperature dropped, there was no more snow in the sky. Some people got dressed and went out to visit their neighbors.

As a result, many people opened the door of the neighbor's house, and inside was a large wardrobe that had been turned down.

Today, the villagers have equated the big wardrobe with the coffin.Because most of the dead have no time to open the coffin, they use the closet to store it temporarily. At this time, they saw this as soon as they entered the door. The reason could not be more obvious.

Many people have died at home, and those who can be resettled in this way are naturally the People's Liberation Army who just sent relief supplies not long ago.

In fact, they were the ones who collapsed the most.

When you walk into a village, what you see are often "ice sculptures" standing on the road.Because of the sudden drop in temperature, some people didn't even have time to go home, and they were always frozen in the action of running home.

The most unfortunate one even ran into the yard, and could enter the house in just two steps.

The first task for the army to enter the village is to determine the number of dead and make some arrangements for the dead. Putting them in their closets is one of them, and the rest will have to wait for the next spring.And delivering supplies is just an additional task.

There were originally more than 500 people in the village, but this winter has not yet passed, and now there are less than 300 people left.Only a dozen people died when the temperature was cooling down, and more people died in bed after cooling down.

Lin Qian went to Uncle Liu's house next door to take a look. Their family of five was fine.

At that time, the temperature drop was urgent, and Lin Qian didn't have time to prepare at home, so he didn't think to tell the neighbors.Uncle Liu's family was really caught off guard, but the advantage is that their house has a simple floor heater, which usually burns on the kang and on both sides of the floor, and the house is always warm. Although the temperature dropped suddenly, the family adapted quickly.It's just that the few chickens that were raised in the spring at home froze to death, and when it was warmer, they were brought in the house and plucked and ate them.

In spring this year, many people in the village bought chickens from Lin Qian's house, and now it seems that there may not be many left.

Although Uncle Liu's house was not as warm as Lin Qian's, their temperature requirements were not very high.Everyone wears thick clothes, keeps the temperature of the kang stove, fire, and geothermal heat, and keeps the room within ten degrees to survive.