After the Earthquake of Rebirth

Time passed day by day, and the ducklings hatched one by one. With the experience of hatching chickens, on the expected day, Ning Xiaowen went to the nesting place every half hour to take a look, for fear of being like that. The two chicks who hadn't lived more than three days froze as soon as they were born.I don't know if it's because the duck eggs have been stored for too long or for other reasons. The birth rate of ducklings is much lower than that of chicks. Only 46 ducklings were hatched from six female ducks.However, compared to Ning Qiyan's disappointment, Ning Xiaowen is also very happy. After all, ordinary domestic ducks rarely hatch eggs. Very satisfied.

If you can hatch once, you can hatch a second time.As long as the ducks at home can hatch eggs.

After the ducklings were born, the house became more lively.After the first period of time passed, the chickens and ducklings did not need too high a temperature, so Ning Xiaowen moved the box off the kang and put it on the ground, and every day when there was nothing to do, he would take the chickens and ducklings out and put them on the ground Let them walk around the house.

The consequence is walking around the house every day, Ning Qiyan and the others have to be extra careful, lest one of them accidentally kick the piglet or step on the chickens and ducklings if they don't pay attention.

As for Du Dabao and the three of them, I can only feel embarrassed, let's make do with it in the living room.Although they won't open their mouths to nibble on chicks and ducklings, they might die if they poke their paws back and forth.

And when the three ewes gave birth to lambs, it was already past the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and it was already mid-February, and the temperature gradually began to warm up. During the day, the temperature outside the cave rose to around minus [-] degrees. The temperature also returned to above zero, and the second snowstorm arrived as scheduled according to the time Ning Qiyan remembered.

The wind of this snow was not as strong as the previous one that wished to blow people into the sky, but it lasted twice as long. After eight days of heavy snow, the patrol team said that the citizens who thought that winter had passed began to feel a little bit nervous again. Panic, I am afraid that this winter will take a long time to pass.

With the low temperature for nearly three months, there are not many households left with the coal they replaced before, and most of them still rely on the firewood they cut themselves in autumn for heating.

Compared to other people's worries, Ning Qiyan was not in a hurry.Worry and fear are only temporary. When the snow stops, the temperature will rise rapidly. Within a week, the lowest temperature in the mountains will rise to around minus ten degrees, and the panic will naturally disappear by then.

And things were exactly as Ning Qiyan thought, once the blizzard stopped, the government had already started to study whether to increase the distribution of coal, but the temperature rose at a speed of about 3-5 degrees a day for two consecutive days.The expected distribution was postponed until the beginning of March, when the minimum temperature rose to minus 3 degrees, and the highest temperature at noon had already exceeded zero. The government no longer had to worry about whether to distribute coal.

As the daily hours above zero slowly increase, the rate at which the snowpack melts begins to accelerate.

On the edge of the yard outside Ning Qiyan's cave, the snow wall that had been piled up for nearly two meters also melted to about 1.5 meters.However, every time the temperature drops after the snow melts, the melted snow in the yard will freeze, making it even more inconvenient to go out. After all, the ice layer is much more difficult to walk on than the snow.

Ever since Ning Xiaowen fell in the yard and almost fell to his waist, Ning Qiyan and the others didn't even go out of the cave and didn't sweep the yard. Anyway, after the temperature rose, the inspection team's inspections were delayed to once a week. It's up to them to be careful when they go.

Due to the sudden increase of so many domestic animals in the space, Hu Zi and Du Cheng had to reorganize the livestock sheds, and simply used branches to make fences to separate the walking areas in the yard, leaving the rest of the area for chickens and ducks to stroll back and forth.The sheepfold was also expanded outwards, and the four adult sheep, one male, three females, were not killed, and the seven newborn lambs also had a place to wander.

The chicken coop and duck coop were moved to the place where the hay was piled up. Although the space is small, they walk around the yard during the day and only return to the nest at night, as long as they can fit.

The original chicken coop and duck coop were cleaned up and changed into a pigsty, and the pigsty in a row against the wall could finally accommodate the seventeen little pigs.

Since the temperature has risen, Ning Qiyan's cat winter life has come to an end.After tidying up the livestock sheds, the plastic sheets and shelves above the greenhouses were removed, leaving only the low walls built around the edges. Now the temperature of the space is sufficient, and there is no need to rely on the greenhouses to grow vegetables.

After the space was taken care of, Huzi and Du Cheng fully devoted themselves to the construction of the shed on the platform.Just like the previous plan, first set up the main frame, and fix the exchanged headlights directly on the frame. When it needs to be covered with plastic cloth, it can be covered directly, and there is no need to change the position of the lamp back and forth.

When Huzi and Du Cheng were fighting on the platform, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen squatted on the platform to clean up the stones and grass roots.

The soil layer on the platform is not too thin. It would be no problem to grow corn, rice and other upward-growing crops, but Ning Qiyan considered that if the rice cultivation in the greenhouse could not survive, they might have to switch to potatoes and sweet potatoes that extend underground. For the growing crops, in this case, the existing soil layer is obviously not enough. After the snow has completely melted, they have to go into the mountains to find more fertile soil to spread here.

The reason why digging into the mountains instead of the nearby ones is that one is afraid that the loss of the soil layer will affect the mountains here, and the other is that now everyone knows that the spring will be planted, and everyone is staring at these lands on the mountain. At this moment, Ning Qiyan If they dared to blatantly dig the soil under the watchful eyes of everyone, they might cause public outrage.

The excavated rocks and grass roots are put in sacks and temporarily piled up on the side, and when they go into the mountain to dig the soil, they are taken out and brought back with new soil.

With the last load-bearing bracket fixed, all the brackets on the platform were finally finished. The brackets of the middle row of load-bearing main beams were completely made of cement stones. They originally planned to use solid wood for support. But the wood in hand is not enough. If you wait until you enter the mountain to cut suitable wood, at least you have to wait until the ice and snow melt. Even if you cut it back, you have to dry it and brush oil. It might not be possible to spare time to do this, so I simply used the last bit of cement and stones to directly build six cement pillars with the thickness of an arm and a half.

In this way, the remaining wood is enough whether it is used as a girder or as an auxiliary.

After the shelf was finished, Huzi and Du Cheng checked again to confirm that there were no omissions, and then laid the circuit according to Ning Qiyan's command.

When designing the circuit, Ning Qiyan divided it into two parts, one part is only connected to the lamps used as lighting, a total of [-] lamps are connected to [-] lamps.The remaining [-] lamps were divided into another circuit, and a few ports were left. Whether it was a cave or a two-story wooden building built on the platform along the mountain wall after a while, they could be connected to the circuit through the ports.

It took nearly four days of work, and the four talents fixed all the lights.The solar generator that was idle in the space was moved out, and Huzi and Du Cheng tied ropes to their bodies, and pressed the generator's solar panels on the cliff above their cave, so that they could directly absorb sunlight.

With the generator, after testing the circuits on both sides, there is no problem, and the electricity can be turned on normally. Ning Qiyan directly exchanged three household lights with credits, installed them in the cave, turned them on, and the white and bright lights turned on. Again relying on torches and rechargeable bulbs for lighting.

When picking up stones and grass roots, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen turned over the soil by the way, so that all the work before planting on the platform and up and down the platform could be done well, and when the ice and snow melted, they returned to the city and left Bring the solar generator at home, and then dig some soil and thicken the planting soil layer of the platform.

Seeing that the outdoor temperature is getting higher and higher, the remaining ice and snow are only the last layer close to the ground. Standing outside the cave, you can already see many soldiers in military uniforms measuring the land in the mountains.After tidying up the space and the platform, the four of Ning Qiyan took the time to rest.Ning Qiyan predicted that in half a month at most, that is, from April, the government will be able to divide the land for the citizens and allow the citizens to go down the mountain and leave the living area.

At that time, they will be busy again. Not only do they need to clean up the land assigned to them, but they also have to go into the mountains to dig soil, and they have to go back to the city to get the generator.And this busy work must not be finished until the end of spring plowing and planting.

Taking advantage of the short rest, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen not only spend their time making some delicious dishes every day to supplement the physical strength exhausted before, but also accumulate some nutrition for the super-intensive work in the near future.

Listening to the hooting pigs in the yard and the chickens and ducks walking around on the ground, Ning Qiyan sighed.The mutton stock at home has been eaten up, less than half of the pigs slaughtered a year ago are left, and there is not much beef left after sorting out before.But looking at the livestock in the yard and counting, there are not many that can only be cut, either they are nursing, or they are still reserved for breeding, and the rest are all cubs.

Ning Xiaowen, who was washing clothes, twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw Ning Qiyan's sad face.

As for? !It's not that I don't have to eat, the remaining beef is almost unbearable, and I can't take it if I don't hurry up and finish it. It's a pity to throw it away.When the beef and pork in the refrigerator are finished, the piglets will be weaned, and the two sows will be killed by then, so I'm afraid there won't be enough to eat? !

"Okay, tell me, what do you want to eat?" It's enough to rest for a few days and watch this inexplicable "sadness"!

Ning Qiyan shook his head, "There is no stock in the freezer."

Ning Xiaowen: "..."

He looked at the full yard silently.

This is out of stock?

Does it have to be in the fridge?

After shaking off the water from his hands, Ning Xiaowen got up and shook off the wrung clothes, dried them on the clothesline, and then went into the house with an empty basin.

He felt that there was no way to communicate normally with Ning Qiyan for the time being.

Just as everyone was waiting for the winter to pass and spring to arrive step by step, a strange thing happened to Ning Qiyan and his family.

For three consecutive mornings, their ducklings were wet.