Surviving the end of the world

The hastily built shed can only be said to barely accommodate people. In order to block the sun, the plastic tarpaulins have to be covered with straw or something, but obviously it is not very useful.During the day, everyone huddled in the shed, and even the most talkative people were in no mood to talk at the moment. Although many people were sleepy at the moment, no one dared to sleep and could only sit and wait.

Bai Jing, Chen Jin, and his aunt huddled together in a shed. The aunt was a little shocked by the previous earthquake. Chen Jin boiled a pot of rice soup with a small coal stove, and quietly added two grains of rock sugar to the aunt. I carried it over.My aunt was holding the bowl that had a gap in it because of being knocked down, and drank it slowly. It took a long time to recover and let out a soft sigh.

Chen Jin and Bai Jing also drank some rice soup, they were not sleepy, so they sat on the side, teasing Xinxin.

Li Lin walked in wearily, looking a little irritable. He squatted on the ground, not knowing what he was thinking, and he didn't even hear Xinxin calling him twice.

The aftershocks still came, and people in the countryside didn't understand the magnitude of the earthquake. Only the first aftershock caused some damage again, and several sheds collapsed, but the sheds were very light, and the wood used as support The bamboo pole is not a heavy thing, so there is nothing wrong with people.The next two aftershocks simply made those pots and bowls shake for a while, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The only benefit of the earthquake was that the groundwater recovered and the river slowly rose, but this did not reassure people.It won't be long before the grain in the field should start to be harvested. However, the houses in the village are almost completely destroyed. The first thing to do now is to quickly clean up the ruins and rebuild the houses.But in summer, the days are long and the nights are short. During the day, because of the poisonous sun, we can’t do anything. How much can we do in such a short time at night!

What's more, if it's a matter of one family or two, it's fine. Now the whole village has to build houses. Now it's not the time when we ate big pot meals. The house is set up.

Moreover, brick kilns, cement factories, floor slab factories, etc. have long since stopped working. How to build this house is still a problem.This matter can't be delayed, no matter what, before winter comes, it must be settled. Thinking of last year's cold winter, everyone can't help but shudder.

In the next few days, except for a few old people and children, they stayed on the threshing ground, cooking and delivering meals. People with a little strength, both men and women, seized all the time to clean up the ruins of their own homes.It can be seen that the building is not always in good condition. The building is tall, and the ruins left naturally are also large, and it takes more effort to clean up the floor.

Although Chen Jin and his family's house is big, it is only one floor after all. Naturally, it is not that troublesome. Although the two of them don't want to make people feel abnormal, they are both young men, and their work is almost endless. All the big things in the house were thrown into the space, which naturally saved a lot of trouble, and the ruins were quickly cleared out, and the useful ones were piled up at the door, and the useless ones were just thrown away, because it was dark, and everyone I was busy, so naturally I didn't notice that there was no furniture in the ruins of the Chen family.

After cleaning up their own house, Chen Jin and Bai Jing still had time to help Li Lin clean up. Li Lin’s parents went out to work a long time ago and made money early. They built a fake three-story building by themselves, but Li Lin Lin also knew that on his own, there was no way to clean up that place in a short period of time anyway, so he simply ignored it for the time being and started cleaning up the kitchen in front of him. , Small, small, build a bed in the kitchen, and sleep well.

It's just that the kitchen in his house is a one-story house. Although the cement board is a little broken, it can't be fixed by one person. Therefore, Li Lin was overjoyed to see Chen Jin and Bai Jing come to help.

Chen Jin and the others are not too polite, at least these days, it's my aunt who cooks and delivers meals to them every day. Although the food is not very good, but I have to accept it.

Many people plan to do this. Now the government obviously doesn’t need any approval documents to build a house. It can be built by finding an open space. Instead of cleaning up the mess, it’s better to build another one. Let's sleep out in the wild.

To build a house, the most important thing is the material. Bricks can be found from the ruins, but cement and lime cannot be found. There is no choice but to mix yellow mud instead. Well, even if the cement factory is still hundreds of miles away from here, I'm afraid that the inventory has already been taken away by others at this time.

Fortunately, the average house is only half collapsed, the foundation is still there, and it is not that troublesome to rebuild. Everyone hurried, and finally, before the busy farming season, most of the houses were roughly completed. The upper beam is tiled or the floor is installed.

Bricks are okay, most of the tiles are broken, and they probably have to fall down when they are put on. Of course, they can’t be used. There are many people who have encountered such a situation. Someone suddenly remembered that there used to be an earthen kiln in the village. , used to burn bricks and tiles, I ran over and saw that although half of it was collapsed by the earthquake, the molds and the like were still found, and after the earthen kiln was rested, bricks and tiles could still be fired. When Chu Feng was born, a meeting was held in the village. Those who needed tiles and bricks each provided firewood, and another manpower was sent to fire the needed bricks and tiles.

Chen Jin discussed with Bai Jing, and Bai Jing went to the brick kiln. People in the village also knew that he was strong, so they simply assigned him to make bricks, but Chen Jin started to hurry up to collect corn and dig sweet potatoes in the field.

Now except for some late-maturing varieties, everything in the field can be harvested, but now most of the people working in the field are women, the elderly cook at home, and half-grown children have to carry baskets to the field to deliver water Food delivery.

There is a reason why everyone is so urgent. Before that, everyone was busy building a house, but the children couldn't help them. They still ran around at night, and then found that many people sneaked into other people's houses with sacks Break corn in the corn field, regardless of whether it is old or tender, throw it into the bag. There are also people who secretly dig sweet potatoes and potatoes. Although the village is not small, everyone has a lot of contacts and generally knows each other. These people are obviously not from the village. When the children saw it, they immediately yelled, and the people who heard it were outraged. Even in good times, stealing food from other people's fields is a very abominable thing, not to mention that it is a bad year!

Although the group of people were driven away in the end, everyone took some time to look inside the land, and the loss was not small, especially the dozens of acres of land next to the road, which was almost stolen Empty.

Chen Jin's sweet potato field is only 30 meters away from the road, and nearly one-third of it was dug away by someone. Everything on the ground is taken away.

There are still a lot of sheds on the threshing ground, and there is no place to dry them. Chen Jin didn't put the corn in there to dry them. Instead, he spread a plastic sheet in his yard and put the corns in the sun. As for the sweet potatoes, the amount is a bit large , Chen Jin was thinking about picking some good ones and digging a cellar to put them away, and cutting up the other part to dry sweet potatoes. There are still people in the village who open workshops for making sweet potato flour. pink.Potatoes should also be put in the cellar to avoid spoilage.

These have not been played yet, the corn stalks in the field must be quickly cut back and dried for fire, the sweet potato vines must also be brought back, and sent to the space to feed pigs and sheep. Although the beans planted behind the house have been eaten a lot before , but there are still a lot left, and now that it is ripe, we must quickly pull it back to dry in the sun, lest the pods burst open. All the powerful families picked up a batch of tiles and bricks and began to tile the roof.

Chen Jin took the opportunity to change the house this time, the main room remained the same, and the storage room was also left, but the room that was originally used as a bedroom was divided into two halves, the back half sleeps, and the front half is ready to call people. Let's build the stove and put the kitchen here. Although it seems nondescript, it will be warmer in winter.

After everything has been dealt with properly, although the weather is still hot, according to the time in previous years, it is almost October now.