Defeat natural disasters with farming

The sunny day seemed to be just a flash in the pan. Mother Ye had just finished washing the clothes she had accumulated for a long time to dry on the rope, when snowflakes the size of a bowl floated in the sky again. Seeing the thick layer of snow on the ground, Ye Yu couldn't help feeling worried Deputy Han and his party on the road.

But his worry didn't last long, and was interrupted by Ye Mu's voice telling him to put away his clothes.

Mother Ye touched the wet clothes with ice particles, sighed and said: "It's a waste of washing, I thought I could dry it in the sun."

"It's okay, it can be done by roasting it on the fire." It just makes the clothes smell of smoke.

"That's the only way to go." Mother Ye sighed again, she stood up and unfolded the clothes one by one and hung them on the racks. A fire was burning under the racks, and soon smoke came out, causing the whole woodshed to be filled with smoke.

At this time, Ye Yu was choked by the smoke and coughed twice. Seeing this, Mother Ye quickly said, "Go ask your father to come in and smoke your clothes, and you go out and bury some sweet potatoes for breakfast."

They started to smoke clothes early in the morning, and indeed they hadn’t had breakfast yet, so Ye Yu didn’t refuse, and after letting his father take over the job, he braved the snow and went to the kitchen, and took out three hand-sized pieces from the wooden frame. The sweet potatoes were stuffed under the stove.

After igniting the firewood, Ye Yu scooped a ladle of water into the pot, then closed the lid. While the water was boiling, he went to the two large vats at the door and took out some of the wontons that had been frozen earlier.

Because the outdoor is equivalent to a large natural refrigerator, the two large pottery jars in their yard are full of ready-made convenience food, including dumplings, buns, wontons and cut noodles. Choose one of them for breakfast.

Today Ye Yu chose wontons, which have three kinds of fillings, fresh shrimp, shepherd's purse pork, and mushroom chicken.

There were 35 wontons in one pot, Mother Ye and Ye Yu each ate ten, and the remaining fifteen were for Father Ye, plus one sweet potato for each of them, they would definitely be full.

Dig a small spoonful of lard into the pot and boil it. When the wontons float on the water, it means they are cooked. Ye Yu scoops out the wontons with a strainer. The skins of the wontons are slightly transparent. The stuffing inside came out.

After he brought three bowls of wontons and sweet potatoes to the table, Ye Yu called his parents over for dinner.

Shrimp stuffed wontons were filled with shredded carrots. For some reason, Ye Yu could taste a faint sweetness when eating it. He thought about it, it might be because the carrots had shrunk after being frozen for too long. Another kind of wonton filled with chicken is quite chewy. The chicken breast meat is relatively woody, but the soaked shiitake mushrooms just make up for this shortcoming, making the whole wonton taste very harmonious. It's delicious, and it belongs to the kind of people who don't like to eat wontons will eat two bites.

"It's a good thing when it's cold, and the food won't go bad if it's frozen outside for several months." Ye Mu said while eating.

"But don't freeze it for too long, the taste will change." Ye Yu took a sip of the fragrant wonton soup. Although the soup was sprinkled with green onions and coriander, he still felt that the taste was a bit bland, so he ate it from the table. I picked some chili oil from my chili can and scooped it into the bowl.

The spiciness of the chili oil was diluted by the vinegar and salt, making it less spicy. Ye Yu drank half a bowl of soup in one go, and the mild spiciness instantly awakened his appetite. He stopped eating wontons and started peeling the sweet potatoes with his hands. The flesh of the sweet potato is roasted like honey, it tastes sweet and not greasy at all, leaving only a lingering fragrance in the mouth.

"Eating a bowl of wontons in the morning will keep your body warm all day." Mother Ye put down the bowl and said.

Father Ye nodded and said, "No, it's really delicious and convenient."

They chatted a few words after eating, and they started to clean up the dishes. At this time, Ye Yu took the things in Ye Mu's hand and said, "Mother, go and pick up the clothes. Dad and I will wash the dishes."

Mother Ye straightened up and beat her waist, "I'll leave it to you, remember to wash with hot water, cold water won't remove the oil."

Hearing this, Ye Yu felt a little emotional. Now that they are willing to use oil for cooking, they have to ask his mother to give special instructions.

The boiling water can be used to wash the dishes after it cools down a bit, just put some saponin powder in it, because the bowls are not considered dirty, even if there is oil, it is only a little bit, and no oil stains have formed.

Ye Yu was halfway through washing the dishes, then turned to his father and said, "Don't wash it, father, go and make mother a cup of the herbal tea prescribed by Doctor Chen before."

Herbal tea recipes include motherwort, angelica, cinnamon and red dates, and now that the weather is cold, ginger slices are added to the cooked herbal tea. The herbal tea made in this way tastes a bit bitter, but it is very effective in treating dysmenorrhea good.

Mother Ye's dysmenorrhea came after giving birth to Ye Yu. It was premature and dystocia, so both adults and children felt uncomfortable. She has been carefully recuperating her body over the years, and the effect is remarkable. At least her stomach rarely hurts, at most It's just soreness in the limbs and back.

"Okay." Father Ye washed his hands and went to make tea.

After the cooking was done, Mother Ye held the cup and took a sip carefully, and then said pleasantly, "Why does it taste a little sweet today?"

Father Ye smiled and said, "I asked Dr. Hao that honey does not conflict with herbal tea, so I added some honey to it when cooking."

Mother Ye patted his arm upon hearing this.

While Mother Ye was drinking herbal tea, there was a "rumbling" sound outside, and at the same time the ground began to shake slightly.

This kind of movement startled the three of them immediately, and the pottery cup in Ye Yu's hand was scared away. Fortunately, the cup was hard and it was still intact when he picked it up.

"What happened?" Ye Mu muttered to herself.

"Go out and have a look." Ye Yu put the pottery cup on the table.

As soon as they went out, Ye Yu saw an ominous gray-brown smoke floating in the sky in the distance. When he saw it, the smoke was still slowly spreading towards them. People are drawn out.

Someone asked in panic, "What's the matter?"

"Could it be God's punishment?" An elderly man in the village knelt down and begged God.

Still muttering brokenly in his mouth: "I beg God to spare my life..."

Ye Yu frowned, and followed Father Ye to the tower in the village. Because the tower was at a high place, he saw billowing magma erupting on a high mountain a thousand meters away, and the dark red lava dyed the sky. The red-black, red-burning rock was ejected by the magma, drawing a track in the sky, and then fell to the ground, smashing out deep pits one after another, and the rumbling sound made people's ears ring.

The volcanic ash has drifted to their village, causing people to cough continuously.

This movement can be called earth-shattering.

"The volcano erupted." Ye Yu immediately said, "We can't stay in the village, we have to gather everyone to go to a higher place. I remember there is a rocky mountain nearby, so we will go there."

Although the erupting volcano was still far away from the village, Ye Yu remembered that the magma could even erupt thousands of miles away, and their village was still within this range.

After Father Ye heard his words, he took Ye Zhong and the others to inform everyone without even asking, and soon the sound of gongs and drums came from the village, accompanied by the hoarse and exhausted shouts of young and middle-aged men. "Everyone gather at the entrance of the village and go to Stone Mountain together."

Ye Yu didn't care about the chaos in the whole village. He first covered his mouth and nose with a torn white cloth, and then went to find Ye Mu and Chu Xufeng.

"Don't take anything else, just bring bedrolls and enough food for two or three days."

After two or three days, they can see whether the volcanic eruption will affect their village. If it does not affect their village, they can come back. It doesn't matter whether they bring anything with them. If it does, they will have no choice but to flee for their lives. , and you can’t run fast with your belongings, and these things will also be abandoned by then.

But Ye Yu seemed to be fine. After all, the lava didn't erupt in all directions, but flowed in the direction away from the village. Most of the buildings in their village were damaged by falling rocks, and they left this time just in case. .

Mother Ye immediately nodded and said, "Okay."

She soaked the remaining wheat bran and bean dregs in water and put them in the trough, hoping that the animals would be alive and well when they returned.

Other than that, she didn't touch anything in the cellar. She only picked up some sweet potatoes and jerky, as well as a small pot that was convenient for traveling.

Several bamboo baskets were carried by Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng, and then more than 400 people from the whole village gathered at the entrance of the village.

Father Ye frowned at this time and said: "Don't bring the livestock, hurry back, don't make any trouble."

Ye Yu also frowned and looked at the crowd. The clucking of chickens and the quacking of ducks mixed together, making the already noisy environment even more chaotic, making it difficult for people to hear Father Ye's words clearly.

These chickens and ducks were basically brought by people who merged into Yejia Village later, and most of them were older people. Just feed enough for two or three days, and they will come back after the feed is finished.

After the persuasive persuasion was over, Ye Yu's throat was about to smoke. He unscrewed the water bag and took a sip, and white gas came out when he spoke again.

"That's true."

Walking on the mountain road, Uncle Xing and Tang Youyan squeezed to his side, and asked, "Is this eruption the volcano in the valley we went to?"

Ye Yu shook her head, "No, it's far from Jingshan."

He muttered to himself, "It's probably the same mountain range?"

Uncle Xing said quite fortunately: "Fortunately, our village has moved out. If that volcano erupts, compared with the current situation of this volcano, the whole village may not be able to survive."

Ye Yu came back to his senses and said to him: "Jingshan Mountain is also very close to our village. Once it erupts, it will definitely affect here." But it should be an extinct volcano.

At this moment, Mother Ye said: "Okay, don't talk about it now, be careful that you have a stomachache after drinking the cold wind."

Hearing her words, the group fell silent and accelerated their progress.

This stone mountain is a relatively high mountain near the village, and there is no vegetation all over the mountain, it is full of stones. Normally, people in the village don’t like to come here when they have nothing to do. There are no wild fruits or firewood. Why do you come here? Correspondingly, this mountain will be much safer when the volcano erupts, at least it will not cause wildfires due to lava.

The snow-covered mountain road was really difficult to walk. Ye Yu slipped on the soles of his feet and almost fell to the ground while walking. Fortunately, Ye Mu was on the left and Chu Xufeng was on the right. Someone could help him.

This mountain looks inconspicuous everywhere, only a few big caves on the mountain are rare, which can fit the whole village.

Mother Ye brought her things to meet the people in the old house. While they were packing up, Ye Yu took Chu Xufeng's arm to the top of the mountain. It was a large protruding platform. When she stood there and looked down , People with a fear of heights may experience dizziness one after another.

At this moment, Father Ye and Ye Zhong were already there on the top of the mountain, and they were looking into the distance with serious faces.

Ye Yu followed their line of sight, and saw that the smoke formed by the volcanic ash shot straight into the sky, dyeing the whole sky black, and they seemed to be able to hear the roar of hot magma from a distance away.

There was a very choking sulfur smell in the air. From this, Ye Yu thought of the threat that volcanic ash could bring, so he decided to make a mask first.

Volcanic ash will cause very serious environmental pollution, and at the same time, it will cause diseases such as respiratory infections, and severe cases may even suffer from lung diseases.

Father Ye said solemnly: "I don't know how long it will last."

Ye Yu didn't know how to answer this question. The volcanic eruption might last for hours, months, or even years.

Snow mixed with volcanic ash fell from the sky, and when it landed on people, they could even feel a slight burning sensation. Ye Yu had no choice but to put on a hood to block the snowflakes.

"Okay, let's go back first." Ye Zhong said: "I ran all the way and didn't even eat lunch. I'm so hungry."

"It's no use worrying all the time, it's better to live the present moment first." He patted Father Ye on the shoulder and jumped off the platform first.

Chu Xufeng handed Ye Yu his arm so that he could use his strength to get down.

"Let's go."

When they returned to the cave, Mrs. Ye and her daughters-in-law had already packed it up. The cave was huge, with a particularly high ceiling, and it was also extremely empty, and even whispered words could echo.

The whole cave was a bit damp, but it was much better after the fire was lit. Ye Yu could feel the wind blowing after sitting down, so the cave was not closed.

"Are there bats deep in the cave?" Ye Yu asked.

"Probably not." Ye Mu replied: "After you left, Brother Hai and the others organized people to go in and said that it was empty and there was nothing there."

"That's good." Ye Yu leaned closer to the fire and put his hands on the flames to warm him up.

"Here." Mother Ye handed him a freshly baked potato, "This meal is lunch and dinner, you will eat it later."

"I'm not picky, some are good to eat." Ye Yu broke the roasted hot potatoes into two halves, and put the dried meat brought from home into it. The combination of potato meat and salty, slightly spicy jerky makes the taste more layered.

After Ye Yu finished eating a potato with meat, he said, "Let's stay in the cave for a few days. If nothing happens, we can send people back to the village. After they go back, they can feed the livestock and bring some food over."

"Okay." The surrounding villagers all responded after hearing what he said.