Apocalyptic Tundra Age

The damn biological clock and all kinds of daily farm work urged Xu Zhonglei to struggle to get up at 06:30 in the morning, but Xu Zhonglei closed his eyes again and reflected on whether his posture of getting up today was not right.

He pushed aside the claws on his waist, counting down the limit of his patience.

one two Three……

Cheng Yuming still didn't seem to restrain himself at all, and even went too far!Unbearable, there is no need to bear it anymore, Xu Zhonglei whispered into Cheng Yuming's ear:

"Cheng Yuming! You fucking get up quickly! The door to the bathroom is wide open! Lay back to sleep after finishing it! What the hell are you! Here! I'm here!"

Cheng Yuming was soundly asleep, and when he was awakened by someone, his chaotic mind felt a little bit, what a disaster!Can't control it!

He thought "I'm going to die" in my heart, but I pretended to be innocent, opened my eyes, and asked in a dumb voice, "Brother? Hehe~"

"Fart! Open your eyes wide and see, where do you put the thing under you? If you don't put it away, I will go to the back mountain to dig a hole for you, and you can come in after you solve it yourself."

Xu Zhonglei pushed the person away, left a harsh word, and hurriedly hugged his clothes and went outside.Leave the big bed and bathroom, and give Xiao Cheng plenty of time to pretend.

It seems that Xiao Cheng is too late, Xu Zhonglei plans to make breakfast by himself today.

"Young people, they are full of energy..." Xu Zhonglei cracked an egg and sighed with emotion.

Violence is also a catalyst for desire. He understands that Xiao Cheng must have been irritated last night, so he is not angry, but he is a little bit out of his mind.

Since his little daughter-in-law has endless physical strength, Xu Zhonglei feels that there is a job that can be arranged.

"It's delicious, don't be too polite." Xu Zhonglei served Cheng Yuming graciously, "You can eat the meat, and drink more soy milk." After eating, you should work hard.

But there is no need to say the subtext of the latter sentence.

"What? Brother, don't be like this, I'm afraid." Cheng Yuming was trembling. He was very guilty of being caught doing bad things in the morning.Is this going to be fattened up and slaughtered?

Xu Zhonglei said with a smile: "Isn't our wall very big? There is still a lot of unused space, and we can develop our potential. Even the back room, the old house, and the bamboo forest should be cleaned up, especially the old ones. The house, after the earthquake collapsed, we haven’t tidied it up yet.”

"Ah?" Cheng Yuming's head twitched just thinking about the ruins of a two-story building.

Xu Zhonglei: "Xiao Cheng, you said that we finally built our own house. It's so messy, we can't stand it, right? Besides, there is a large open space in the old house, and it can be of great use if you plan it well.

So I plan to take advantage of the good weather to build an indoor planting house and a chicken house.Build a few more small sheds to shelter from the rain and wind, which can store sundries and stay people. When it snows next year, the two of us don’t have to be huddled in the house. We can drink tea and watch the snow. Think about it, how beautiful it is ! "

"Okay..." Cheng Yuming agreed after hearing that the plan was not bad.

Xu Zhonglei: "Then hurry up and eat, go out to work after eating, this task will be handed over to you first!"

Hearing Cheng Yuming's agreement, Xu Zhonglei quickly cleaned up his bowl, turned his head away from the table, and left a cold reminder.

Heh, man, throw it away when you're done using it.

Xu Zhonglei only slept for a few hours, but now time is precious and everything is very important.He forced himself to open his eyes wide, washed his face with cold water, and felt that he had come alive.

He is not the kind of uncle who orders others and lies on his own. He also has things to do.

There are not enough bricks in the house to build another house. He will go to the collapsed house in the village to see if he can't find enough bricks.He can only partner with the village head and open a kiln to burn out all the bricks and tiles.

To build sheds and houses, he had to go back to his old job and go to the back mountain to cut trees.Drying wood and brushing tung oil are time-consuming things, it is best to do more preparations from the beginning.

It's still early, I don't know if Xu Zhiping told the old village chief about the death of the two children, Xu Zhonglei didn't want to ask, and he didn't want to challenge an old man who might be angry now.

He took the saw and went up the mountain to cut trees.

A heavy snow day has passed, and it is already May, but the temperature has been hovering around 15 degrees recently.

Xu Zhonglei knew that at this temperature, except for the crops in the greenhouse, all plants would not grow well.In particular, the plants on the mountain are barely showing a little green buds now, and they don't have the barbaric and vigorous growth in May last year.

"I don't know... when will I be able to eat bamboo shoots." Xu Zhonglei expressed the saddest feeling among foodies.

The large expanse of fir trees planted by my grandfather still maintains the dark appearance in winter, only the tops of the leaves have small green shoots emerging from the buds, but the cruel Xu Zhonglei has no intention of pity For these new lives, he picked more than a dozen straight and strong trees, and after marking them, he saw them and began to dry them.

Only two-thirds of the wood was sawn, and Xu Zhonglei, who was left, turned to the back and kicked hard, and the tall fir tree fell forward in a daze, and fell into the gap between the fir forests.

Xu Zhonglei worked all day, and finally sawed off all the fir trees he had chosen.

Although these ten or so roots were not enough for his house renovation plan, Xu Zhonglei felt that this forest should not be wiped out, and some youngsters should be left behind.He has to go to other mountains to find wood.

Now there are too many unowned forests in this village and other villages. Xu Zhonglei is very fond of the large fir forest in Baiyang Village. After cleaning up the old houses, he will take Cheng Yuming to cut down a dozen or so.

The speed at which humans destroy nature is very impressive. Xu Zhonglei only spent a whole day, and now all he can see are bare wooden stakes.

But when he thought that the forest itself was a man-made forest, Xu Zhonglei let go of his unreasonable melancholy.

Chinese fir is a tree species that grows extremely fast. If the temperature is normal, it will become lush again in summer; if the temperature is not normal, these trees will be gradually eliminated under the unsuitable climate. There is a natural reason , humans don't have to worry in vain.

Cheng Yuming, who is still at home, is sweating profusely now. Cleaning up construction waste is really not an easy job, especially in the old house, where all the steel bars are mixed with cement. Go to the place where construction waste is piled up in the back mountain.

Cheng Yuming bowed his body and sent out one car after another. After work at noon, he took a look: Hey!After a busy morning, this pile of construction waste has not changed at all!

It was heavy and dirty, and it was exhausting to move without any sense of accomplishment. Cheng Yuming could only grit his teeth and continue working.

***

After Xu Zhonglei sawed the wood, he saw that Cheng Yuming was still busy, so he spent half an hour walking the whole village.

He couldn't help admiring from the bottom of his heart, almost all the bricks in the ruins had been pulled to the ground by the villagers, it really was hardworking, brave and hard-working people, even the broken bricks had to be pulled back to their homes... …

He cooked the rice, and then went over there to find the old village head, the spicy emperor who was in charge of the big kiln in the village.

There was a meeting in the village today, but Xu Zhonglei thought it was troublesome, so he said he would not come when he was sleeping yesterday morning, so Xu Zhonglei didn't know what Xu Zhiping said today.

But the effect is obvious. There is no one in the camp.Xu Zhonglei searched all over Dayao and the village chief's house, but he didn't see a single ghost.

When Xu Zhonglei walked near the big water pond, he saw that the villagers were all working in the fields. They hunched over and waved hoes to turn over the paddy fields that had been frozen for two months. It smells good.

After asking several people, Xu Zhonglei finally found the paddy field where the village head was busy.The old man seemed to have come out of the shadow of his nephew's death. When he saw him, the old man waved enthusiastically:

"Stone! Have you eaten yet?"

A common greeting sentence in the local area, the standard answer is: "I ate/didn't eat, where is your old man?"

Xu Zhonglei has always wanted to put this universal sentence pattern on the first page of the HSK standard textbook, so that this sentence pattern will be known all over the world like "Iamfine, thankyou, andyou?", so that he is not alone in embarrassment.

"I ate, where is your old man?" Xu Zhonglei asked back.

"Not yet, you are a busy person, you go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, what do you come to see me for?" The village chief put down his hoe, walked to the ridge of the field, Gululu took a big sip of water, and asked.

Xu Zhonglei: "I want to ask you, old man, about the burning of bricks and tiles, and the burning of lime. If there is any, I want some too."

"Oh, are you going to build a house again?" The old village chief sighed, "Where will it be built this time, and how big will it be?"

"It's just built in my house. I don't know how big it will be. First, it will cost 5000 yuan for bricks and [-] tiles. Then we will dig the soil ourselves. How about helping me burn it?"

The old village chief pondered for a while, then took a wooden stick and made gestures on the muddy floor, still muttering words, and finally concluded:

"In the past, a small brick factory could burn so many bricks in one furnace. But we old guys don't have the ability now. One furnace can cost up to two thousand five thousand. Counting the problematic and unusable bricks, it would take ten bricks to burn. It takes two or three times to burn well, and it takes at least forty days in total.

In this way, there are three of us, Guosheng, Xu Ganggang, and I will count you 45 catties of rice per batch.Or [-] catties of millet.But we only need to burn, and you have to get the wood and red clay yourself. "

This price is not expensive for Xu Zhonglei, but only one kiln is still too slow for Xu Zhonglei. He always feels that such good weather will not last long, so he suggested:

"Village chief, like this, a brick kiln is too slow to make. It takes more than 2 days to burn more than [-] bricks. I am afraid that something will happen later, and I want to hurry up."

"Impossible." The village chief denied it without even thinking about it, "We three old guys can't live on your rice, the brick kiln needs to rest before it can be used, and it has to burn charcoal and firewood. I'm a kiln Yes, I know, don't tell jokes."

Xu Zhonglei smiled, and quickly explained: "Xiao Cheng and I will help you build a big kiln first. Using the two together will definitely be faster. Anyway, the grain is calculated as [-] catties of rice per kiln. The reward will not be less, and you can earn more." With two laborers, there will be an extra brick kiln after the completion, which is definitely a good thing and cost-effective!"

"This..." The village head was a little moved. No matter how he counted, he was not at a loss, but he still said in the official language habitually: "This is not good. I can't make the decision alone. I have to ask Guosheng and you, Uncle Tie."

"That's fine. We're still preparing. You'll plant potatoes here before we start." Hearing that this is going to be a show, Xu Zhonglei said goodbye and went home. In twos and threes, they yelled and went home.

Xu Zhonglei couldn't help but look towards his house.There was already smoke from the cooking above the bamboo forest, and Xiao Cheng had already finished work and was making dinner.