The return of natural disasters before the end of the world

While Yao Ziqing was sleeping in a daze, he felt some changes and wanted to struggle to wake up, but before he could make up his mind to open his eyes, he felt a gentle slap on his body.Under the rhythmic reassurance one after another, he obediently followed the intention of the slapper and fell asleep peacefully again.

Lei Xiao turned his body on his side and waited for Si'er to fall asleep again, then slowly got up and got out of bed.The cold air made him shiver unaccustomed, and he put on the down jacket at the end of the bed and walked to the window.The heavy curtains were opened, and it was still pitch black outside the house, only a little white appeared on the snow-covered ground, which was particularly obvious in the dark night.The goose-feather-like snow dances recklessly in the cold wind. Even if the doors and windows are closed, the whistling sound of hunting is even more piercing, making people feel cold even standing in the house.

Glancing at the unconscious man still sleeping on the bed, he opened the door and walked out lightly.

There was still half of the hot water in the boiling water bottle, Lei Xiao refilled it with water and plugged it in to heat it up quickly.Then I plugged in the hand warmer that I usually use for heating, searched for a flashlight, pulled the latch, and went around the house.

Their house is old. Although the materials used were not mixed with water when the house was built, the tiles on the roof have been in disrepair for a long time. Whenever it rains heavily, there will be water leakage.He was a little worried that too much snow would cause the roof to collapse, so he had to be more careful.But now it seems that the situation is not bad, not as serious as he thought.

When we got back to the house, the boiling water had just been boiled, and one bottle of boiling water could fill four hot water bottles. Lei Xiao took the filled two hot water bottles and hand warmers into grandma's room.The old man's sleep had always been light, and the sound of the door being pushed in woke her up.Even if the room is so dark that she can't see anything at all, she can recognize any of her four grandchildren in the dark. Seeing the second and third children getting up in the middle of the night, she thought something happened, and hurriedly wanted to get up

"Xiao Er, what's the matter? What happened?"

"fine"

Lei Xiao responded lightly without any emotional ups and downs, put a hot water bottle at grandma's feet, stuffed one into grandma's hand, and put the hand warmer behind grandma's back, turned around and took out a quilt from the cabinet on top

"It's cooling down, it's okay, I'm going to sleep." Without waiting for anyone to respond, he turned around and went out after finishing his own business.

Grandma moved in the thick quilt. After a while, the heat in the quilt rose significantly, and she smiled and whispered, "This kid..."

Lei Xiao took a hot water bottle and went into Lei Li's room.Lei Li and Lei Lang each covered themselves with their own quilts, and then built a thin quilt on top of them, and fell asleep without disturbing the water.Lei Xiao replaced their thin quilt with a thick one, put the hot water bottle between the two quilts, then turned and left without saying a word.

Lei Lang, who had always slept like a dead pig, woke up unexpectedly. There was an inexplicably extra hot water bottle under the quilt, which made him a little confused. "What's the matter? That was the second brother just now? Is the second brother sleepwalking?"

The corner of Lei Li's mouth twitched, a little uncertain, "Probably... I'm afraid we'll be frozen..."

Lei Lang muttered, "We're not the fourth son, we need someone to take care of us when we sleep, the second brother must be overrun by his father's love." He turned over, and soon started snoring again.

Returning to the room with the remaining hot water bottle, Yao Ziqing felt a chill as soon as he went to bed, and moved a bit in disgust, moving away a bit.Lei Xiao paused when he saw his small movements to go to bed, and after lying down, he put the hot water bottle on his side. Soon, someone found the heat source and posted it again.Lei Xiao put the hot water bottle on his chest in the slightest 'disregarding the past', and hugged the whole person in his arms, and then went to sleep peacefully.

There is no farm work in winter, and the dawn is very late. People in their village like to sleep late in winter.As a result, it was just after eight o'clock in the morning that the village radio rang the bell.Although the village is not big, it would be very troublesome for every household to call if something happened, so as long as the bell rang on the radio, it would call the heads of each family to the ancestral hall for a meeting or to announce something.

Since returning home, even Lei Xiao has objected to Yao Zi's early morning running, the road is slippery in snowy weather, and the woods are not easy to walk in the first place, if one falls, the loss outweighs the gain.However, exercise can still continue, such as indoor exercises such as sit-ups.Yao Ziqing's arm strength and abdominal strength are both weak points. He did sit-ups according to the normal standard movements, and his hands were shaking after less than twenty.Originally, he thought that his physical fitness had improved a lot, and he would enroll in a martial arts class such as Taekwondo after school started.

The second brother inadvertently hit him completely.

When the bell rang, Yao Ziqing was lying on the bed panting. Hearing the voice, he raised his head and looked at his second brother in doubt, "Ring the bell early in the morning, it must be a big deal, right?"

The head of their family is not so much Lei Li, but Lei Xiao.Stopping Lei Li who was about to go to the ancestral hall, Lei Xiao put on his gloves and took an umbrella and prepared to go there.Yao Ziqing quickly put on his scarf and ran out, "I'm going too." Lei Xiao didn't say much, went around the kitchen, and when he came out, he took a hot water bottle and stuffed it into his arms, and found a woolen hat for him. He put it on, and then walked towards the ancestral hall one step at a time with the umbrella in his hands.

The snow did not stop all night, and the wind continued to blow. The sky was dark and gloomy, which made people feel depressed for no reason.I met many acquaintances along the way, but Lei Xiao was quite difficult to deal with, whether in the eyes of his elders or his peers.Even if you know that his character is indifferent and uncommunicative, but if you don't get a response when you greet him, you will always feel a little embarrassed.Over time, even if they saw Lei Xiao, they would just smile and nod to him, basically not going to say hello.

But Yao Ziqing is different, since he was a child, he has been particularly related to the elders. Now he is dressed like a ball, his beautiful face is covered with only a pair of eyes, and he is huddled under Lei Xiao's umbrella, moving his steps with difficulty. funny

"In such a cold day, Si'er can't sleep well and lie on the bed and come here to join in the fun. You're not afraid of freezing."

Yao Ziqing looked at Uncle Gao Ming who was talking to him. Their new house was built a little behind Uncle Gao Ming's house, and the distance was quite close. They had troubled their family a lot during the building of the house, and responded with a smile.

"Morning, Uncle Gao Ming, you're well dressed, it's not cold, the bean shreds brought by Aunt Xiuxiu last time are really delicious, I can eat a big bowl full."

Lei Gaoming laughed loudly and said, "You little greedy cat, it's not easy to love food. There are a lot of Dousi at home. Let your aunt Xiuxiu bring you some more later. There are also glutinous rice cakes, fried with sugar, so delicious Don’t mention how exciting it is, I’ll keep you wanting to eat after eating.”

Yao Zi's eyes lit up, he loved to eat candied glutinous rice cakes since he was a child, but glutinous rice cakes tend to accumulate food, so the family seldom made them for him.Lei Xiao held an umbrella in one hand, and wrapped his arms around his shoulders to lead him to pay attention to the road under his feet. He listened to the two of them discussing various eating methods along the way.It wasn't a long journey, and it took a while to get there.

A charcoal stove was set up in the ancestral hall. This is a stove made by the village itself. There is a specially-made large iron pot. A square wooden shelf just puts the iron pot in the middle. Half of the iron sheet was wrapped around the frame from the inside to the outside, exposing the edge of the wooden frame about [-] to [-] centimeters, and the smokeless charcoal was burned in the iron pot to keep warm.You can put your feet on the wooden shelf, and you can also put the food that can be baked by the fire on the shelf. I don’t know how convenient it is.I don't know who made the first stove of this kind, but now almost every household has such a stove, and it becomes an indispensable thing in winter.

Winter means that the New Year's Day is here, and melon seeds and candies are indispensable. The village head has already prepared them. When Yao Ziqing and the others arrived, there were already many people sitting around the stove chatting.Although they are all in the same village, they are also divided into distant and distant relationships, and each has its own small group.Yao Ziqing and the others naturally followed Lei Gaoming into the group they were familiar with, and were riddled with laughter again, and some people curiously asked the price of the new car.While chatting and laughing, more and more people came, Lei Xiao has been sitting behind Yao Ziqing like a patron saint, quietly watching him chatting and laughing with others.Everyone knows his character and has long been used to it.

Soon the village chief also arrived, but his dignified expression made the happy atmosphere in the ancestral hall suddenly heavy.The village head, Lei Rongshi, is a dark and thin old man in his sixties. It is not accurate to say that he is an old man. Five or sixty years old is really not old at all, and he can even be said to be the mainstay of today's society.Looking at the people sitting in the ancestral hall, Lei Rongshi gave a low cough and said in a heavy tone.

"Last night, Mrs. Liu, who lived by the fish pond at the end of the village, disappeared."

Immediately, there was a lot of noise and booing in the ancestral hall.

Lei Rongshi beckoned everyone to calm down and continued, "There were two families connected to the fish pond that were crushed by snow last night. Fortunately, the two young people were at home, and the family members were resettled immediately. , no casualties, I called everyone here today to let you have a lesson from the past. Whether the snow on the roof is an old ancestral house or a newly built building, don’t be lazy. The cleaning must be done in place, and I received According to the notice from the town, there will probably be grain harvests in the next few days, and now the heavy snow is not stopping, and transportation in some places has been greatly hindered, so the price of harvested grains must have increased.”

"Where is there any surplus food, I sold it a few months ago, otherwise there is no money for the New Year!"

"If I knew it earlier, I would keep it and not sell it. It's a big loss."

Many people started clamoring, lamenting that if they had known earlier, they would have suppressed the sale, otherwise it would be great to make a small fortune now.

"Okay, I just want to inform you that whether you have surplus food to sell or not, each of you can decide for yourself, but I have to remind you that there are different degrees of snow disasters in various places now, and the snowstorm will continue. It’s been a while since I’ve had any confirmation, the so-called don’t panic if you have food in your hand, how to choose and choose is up to you.”

After Lei Rongshi finished speaking, he began to busy himself with other things. The old lady Liu who froze to death last night was a lonely family.

Mrs. Liu has always lived alone, making a living by raising chickens, ducks and selling eggs. She is relatively silent and doesn't like to socialize very much, so there are not many people in the village who are close to her.But no matter what, it is still a village, and it is still unbearable to sigh that it is gone like this.

Lei Gaoming shook his head and sighed, patted Lei Xiao on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "The situation in the town is not very good, and there have been looting of goods in many places. Although things have been suppressed, there are still some people who are uncertain. Take care of yourselves."

Lei Gaoming's reminder is nothing more than worrying that their family is building a house and buying a new car, and they have no money left. They want to sell some food to relax. The whole family is elderly and children, and the young man in his 20s is here. In his eyes, he was just a child, and he couldn't help but worry about them more.

Lei Xiao didn't say anything, just nodded to show he understood.

Yao Ziqing was silent on the way back, he really didn't know that such a thing had happened.But thinking about it, he only came back near the end of the new year in his last life. Who would tell him such unlucky things during the Chinese New Year? Every two or three days during the Chinese New Year, he would leave again. Don't understand at all.

"Second brother, did you feel the temperature drop last night? I remember you woke up"

He also felt it last night, but he was not that vigilant.Once you are at home, you will naturally relax unconsciously.Secondly, even though they knew that the end times had been foreshadowed, they still believed that the disaster would worsen overnight. Before that, it was still a peaceful age, so there were not many embankments.

Lei Xiao hummed, and didn't hear the sound for a long time. Looking back, Si'er lowered his head and walked step by step on the footprints he had stepped on. There was a wave of calm in his eyes.

Yao Ziqing pushed the umbrella held by the second brother above his head, "I'm wearing a hat, second brother, leave me alone, I think I need to wake up" and walked out of Lei Xiao's protective circle, walking slowly in the snowfall alone go home.

Lei Xiao stood behind him and looked at him silently. In the end, he didn't say anything, but kept following him with his umbrella open.