Apocalyptic Tundra Age

"Why is Zeng Cheng here?"

Cheng Yuming: "Look at Chengcheng, and cry by the way. The villagers caught all the fish, and there is no way to catch the fish and send it over..."

Xu Zhonglei admired: "So fast? I thought these fish would freeze to death under the water, what a speed!"

He didn't want to compete with the villagers for food, but the calculator was crackling, and the final conclusion for the fish in the pond was:

Either they were all caught by the villagers and served as dinner, or they waited to be frozen, and they all turned into frozen fish and were frozen to death under the ice.

It seems that it is still a village society...

"Isn't there that kind of cold-water fish? I thought these fish would live under the ice, and they would jump out of a hole in winter?" Cheng Yuming asked curiously. He had done a lot of geography questions about fishing in winter. Isn't Xu Zhonglei talking nonsense?

"Before there was a severe drought, these two ponds were dried up. They are shallow, and the deepest part is less than two meters, so they can't hold much water. Brother, you are talking about lakes. They are at least ten meters deep, and they cannot be compared. It's..." Xu Zhonglei made a profound gesture.

"Call again, brother, I'll listen to you, everything you say is right..." Cheng Yuming smiled glibly.

"Really?" Xu Zhonglei asked suspiciously.

"It can't be fake, it's truer than pearls!"

"Then, brother~" Xu Zhonglei shouted sweetly with no expression on his face, "You can pour the vegetables..."

One of the dreaded problems of snowy days is that water pipes are very prone to freezing and bursting.In order to protect these precious consumables, Xu Zhonglei said that no one is allowed to use them, and all the faucets are removed.

So now they are all returning to the primitive times, turning ice into water, and then pouring vegetables.

Watering is a hard job, and Xu Zhonglei didn't want to do it for days. Cheng Yuming bumped into his pain point like this, even if he was called Dad, he was very happy.

"I didn't hear clearly, call again and let me hear."

"Brother, brother, brother, please?"

Satisfied, Cheng Yuming got up, dressed and went out. Before leaving, he hooked his finger at Xu Zhonglei, and said in a low voice, "Next time the price will increase, I'll call my husband."

"Hey, you bastard! Say it again if you have the guts?! Your guts have made you fat!"

Xu Zhonglei raised his voice suddenly, but his ears turned red quickly. Cheng Yuming liked to tease and hint. He was not a fool, how could he not know anything, besides, they were all men, so he could do anything.

but……

If Xiao Cheng could directly throw himself down, he would just lie flat and let him not resist!It's really exhausting to fight back and forth like this, but just don't move!

Xu Zhonglei looked at Cheng Yuming's fleeing back, and gritted his teeth: Why don't you take the initiative?

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The blizzard came without warning, and the sky was still clear in the morning, but when we had lunch at noon, a large group of dark clouds came from afar.

The wind died down and the sky darkened.

Suddenly, the cloud moved!

It came here with indestructible power, but in an instant, the thick and soft snow froze, the wind howled, and the snowflakes hit people's hands, making people feel real pain.

"Brother, a blizzard is coming! Close the door! Close the window!"

"I forgot the boiler room! The furnace hasn't been sealed yet!"

Cheng Yuming quickly opened the back door and said, "I'll go!"

He walked through a back door that was not covered by a roof, and with the sound of a blizzard hitting the door and window, he closed the door with a "bang", his face was flushed with cold.

"Drink some hot water, Xiao Cheng, you are too manly." Xu Zhonglei praised Cheng Yuming comfortably without hesitation.

Accompanied by the blizzard, the family had a hot lunch.

It was as dark as midnight in the afternoon, and the blades of the generator were whirring, but fortunately, there was no need to worry about the generated electricity blowing up the battery.

Xu Zhonglei has already expanded the batteries for the three engines on the roof - using solar batteries, and now there is no need to supply two freezers, so now the headlights at home can be used vigorously, and the electrical appliances do not have to worry about time. up.

Xu Cheng hugged the computer and watched cartoons, giggling. Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming sat in the small study separated from the living room, discussing the next thing.

Mainly Xu Zhonglei said and Cheng Yuming listened.

"There was a blizzard in August this year, so this winter will not be short. We must find a way to produce protein." Xu Zhonglei set the tone.

"The chickens at home can provide part of it, and the milk is still enough to drink. But there are about [-] chickens in our family, and there are only two eggs a day; the milk will always go bad, so we have enough supplies now, and there is still a chance of trial and error. , we must go out."

"The Jiuyi Mountains are rich in products. There are deer, roe deer, and wild boars, but we can't fight them...so the best way is to fish."

Xu Zhonglei recently read a few woodworking books, and tried to make a traditional waterwheel himself. He always felt that something was missing. Although it was almost impossible, the idea of ​​making a fishing waterwheel has always been rooted in his heart.

Going around, still wanting to catch fish.

"We have a tent outside. It is said that that thing can make people live at minus [-] degrees. After a few days, the temperature will be even lower. I'm going to live in the tent for a few days to test the water. If it still works , I think... next winter, I will put this thing on the riverside."

Xu Zhonglei said that he has not yet figured out the action steps:

"First of all, the two of us must learn to build snow houses, which can be built quickly and well. Second, I want to go to the town again when the temperature is very low to see if the river over there freezes in winter , I have to find the waterwheel that the old people said..."

Cheng Yuming tilted his head and listened carefully to Xu Zhonglei's speech. When he heard the town, he raised his hand obediently, indicating that he had something to say:

"In the town... the two of us have made a big deal over there, can we still go?"

"We must go." Xu Zhonglei calmed down and said, "Be careful when the time comes, let's go upstream or downstream and bypass them. Are you okay?"

Cheng Yuming shook his head, so Xu Zhonglei sorted out his thoughts, but when he was interrupted like this, he was gone.

"At present, I'm still planning here... the following things, just wait and see what happens, I don't know. There is no salt or oil in the village, and the old ones are old, and the young ones are young. If you go hunting, you may not know who will eat who, Xu Zhiping should be worrying about losing his hair now, worse than me, alas~"

Xu Zhonglei said that he was worried and submissive in his heart, which had nothing to do with jealousy.

The main reason is that people always have a strange mentality of "Although I am already miserable, but there are people who are worse than me hahahahaha I feel balanced".When Xu Zhonglei is in doubt, he likes to think about how miserable people are, and when he thinks about others, he feels at ease.

In the last snowy day, Xu Zhonglei had already felt the power of the blizzard, and he didn't dare to touch others' bad luck, so the three of them just squatted at home like this.

Nothing to do at home, the three of them ate nuts until their mouths became bald.Cheng Yuming also used boiled rice as an adhesive with special interest in life, and made a huge nut-skin Transformer, a melon seed hut of Xu Cheng and a pistachio puppy.

These two works were well framed by Cheng Yuming and placed on the display cabinet. When you smell them closely, you can smell the sweet smell of creamy pecans, which is really wonderful.

In addition to eating and drinking, the life of cats at home is not boring. The main pleasure of Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming is actually teaching Xu Cheng to learn—starting with Chinese Pinyin.

Xu Zhonglei was full of self-confidence at first, teaching Chinese to primary school students~ Isn't every Chinese person able to do it?Facts proved that he was wrong, he could still know six initials, but the finals felt completely wrong... Even the nursery rhyme "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven" became fragmented in his memory.He remembered only a few words, but they were not systematic at all.

After the tenth time he got stuck, he realized that he had made a terrible mistake - not preparing the textbook.

What is the crystallization of human civilization?If Xu Zhonglei could still answer this question, he would look up tactically and say without hesitation: It's a textbook, a textbook!

Finally, he found the solution to this problem in the pile of debris. After he stumbled and pieced together the elementary school books he had used more than ten years ago, Xu Zhonglei finally came up with something like a teaching syllabus. It's very simple: understand common sense, understand books, be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide...

Xu Zhonglei looked at the outline he worked so hard to make, and worried about the future of this world.

The qualified children in his family can only be educated to this extent. When the next generation, human beings will return to the age of illiteracy and the age of experience?

Xu Zhonglei didn't dare to think about it, but looking at it now, education is a luxury, an out-and-out luxury.

"Cheng Yuming, tell me, if the next generation of us is basically illiterate, educated in the fifth grade of elementary school, and those who can write their own names are all talents, what kind of social organization structure will it be like?"

"Well...it's really hard to say..."

Xu Zhonglei himself has come to a conclusion, quietly said: "It will be a society with basically no industry, no civil servants, no superiors, and everyone is struggling to survive, just like the prehistoric era."

"People are desperate for survival, how can they think about what kind of society they are in? Zi Feiyu, people at that time will actually become easily satisfied, and they will not feel pain."

"That's right... Let's just live our lives well, don't worry about others. I still want Chengcheng to learn some philosophy and history..."

Cheng Yuming made a grimace, and said with a smile: "I can't do it~ There are so many books in your study, and they are all placed by her bedside. When she grows up, let her read it by herself. It's good when you get to know it, and it won't fall down." .”

The discussion on education has been going on for a long time, even Xu Cheng can write 123, shouting ahhh every day, the weather finally cleared up.

The temperature soared to minus [-] to [-] degrees, and the snow piled up in the yard so high that even the Oroqen tents built before the snow were mostly buried.

Cheng Yuming looked at Xu Zhonglei, who was pulling sleeping bags, quilts, charcoal, and iron kettles, and was going to live in the tent without hesitation, feeling very helpless.

With the freezing temperature, the thin tent under the snow, and the bald and frail Xu Zhonglei, Cheng Yuming finally couldn't help worrying:

"Can you not hold back?"