AWB Chapter 347 Cold Wave
Chapter 347 Cold Wave
Lu Qingqing went to the door to check and found out the reason why the door could not be opened.
Due to the temperature difference between inside and outside the house, water droplets formed at the door gap and then froze, causing the entire door and door frame to be frozen together.
At this moment, the gaps in the door were full of ice.
In desperation, Lu Qingqing had to scoop hot water from the pot, bring it to the door, and pour the hot water on it with a ladle.
After being poured, the water gradually turned into ice as it flowed down the door frame to the ground.
Qin Lang took a shovel and a broom, sweeping from time to time and scraping off the thin layer of ice that had just formed on the door.
The two of them worked for a while before they finally opened the door.
After trying and finding that the entire door could be pushed open, Lu Qingqing quickly made way.
Qin Lang took a shovel and shoveled away the ice on the ground that had not yet frozen solid.
Seeing that the door was clean, Lu Qingqing slowly pushed it open.
Even though she was prepared, when she opened the door, she still felt the cold wind blowing in like a knife, cutting her face.
In just a moment, she quickly closed the door and pushed Qin Lang behind her back into the house.
The moment she opened the door, she saw that the snow outside had stopped, but the temperature was even lower, and the snow in the entire yard seemed to be frozen.
Lu Qingqing decided not to go out for the time being. She could empty the urine bucket anytime.
Besides, their urine buckets are just for show.
The two of them actually went to the toilet in the space. They built a toilet at the foot of the mountain in the space.
After Lu Qingqing straightened the mattress that served as the door curtain, the two of them retreated back to the kang.
After she felt warm for a while, Lu Qingqing looked at Qin Lang and asked:
"What do you want for breakfast?"
Qin Lang listened to Lu Qingqing's question and gave the answer without hesitation.
“Baked sweet potatoes!”
This answer was within Lu Qingqing's expectations. Ever since Qin Lang first ate roasted sweet potatoes, he had an inexplicable love for it.
In addition, the kang needs to be heated in winter, so Qin Lang likes to put a few sweet potatoes in the kang to roast when he has nothing to do.
After many experiments, I have gained some experience in factors such as the placement, size of the sweet potatoes, and baking temperature.
It’s been winter for so long, and there are already two large buckets of roasted sweet potatoes on the shelf.
Lu Qingqing's mind moved, and a large bowl appeared in her hand. In it were two roasted sweet potatoes with golden brown skin and mottled sugar stains.
Two roasted sweet potatoes were steaming hot, and Lu Qingqing handed the bigger one to Qin Lang.
Each of them had a roasted sweet potato. After peeling the skin, the golden and soft potato flesh inside was revealed.
When I took a bite, the crispy potato flesh was a little hot.
The two of them ate while blowing out hot air.
After eating a hot roasted sweet potato, I felt warm all over, except for my hands which were dirty and stained with sugar.
Just as I was about to go into the space to wash my hands, I heard a noise coming from the yard.
After listening carefully, it seemed that the door of the village chief's house could not be opened.
Soon, the noise at the village chief's door attracted several households nearby to get up.
Then, everyone found themselves in the same situation, the door was frozen.
The old village chief shouted from inside the house, "The door frame is frozen. Everyone, pour hot water from the pot on the door frame to thaw it!"
Upon hearing this, each family began to scald their doors with hot water.
Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang flashed into the space and began to wash up.
When I came out of the space again, I heard Lu Tianfu's exclamation outside.
"Hiss! It's too cold! Xiu'er, Xiao Shitou, go back quickly and don't go out!"
Then, there was the sound of a door closing.
Every household heard Lu Tianfu's voice, and even though they opened their doors, few people went out.
It was almost noon when the Yao family, who were in charge of sweeping the snow today, finally left the house.
The three sons of the Yao family were dressed in very bulky clothes and carefully climbed up the ladder to sweep the roof.
When we got to the roof, we found that some of the tiles were frozen and broken.
Among them, the houses on the west side of the yard had more broken roof tiles.
When they got down, Yao Bowen told several families about the matter, and everyone was a little worried.
But there were no extra tiles to replace them at the time, so a few families who were really worried dressed warmly and climbed onto their roofs to adjust the position of the broken tiles to ensure that there would not be large areas exposed.
Like most people, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang did not go out.
The two of them were not on duty today, so they went back into the space after dinner.
These days, the two of them were peeling the pile of corn in the space.
Several animals loved to eat the freshly peeled corn husks and corn silk, so Lu Qingqing threw some into the livestock pens.
Even a big turtle came over and took a few bites of the corn leaves.
Unfortunately, it didn't have teeth suitable for chewing leaves, and in the end it only ate a few bites of corn silk.
The little wolf cub followed behind it and took a bite of the corn silk when he saw this.
As soon as you eat it, a mask of pain appears.
It stretched its claws into its mouth, trying to pull out the corn silk.
But corn silk is similar to hair, thin and long.
The little wolf cub chewed it and some of them got stuck in his teeth.
Seeing that it was in so much pain, Lu Qingqing lifted it by the scruff of the neck and placed it on her knees.
Then I opened its mouth and cleaned it manually.
The little wolf cub was forced to see a dentist. When he was free again, he hummed and moaned, as if he was cursing.
Lu Qingqing found it funny and pretended to catch it again, which scared it so much that it hid behind the big turtle's shell.
This action made the two of them laugh out loud.
Lu Qingqing accidentally glanced outside the space, and the joyful atmosphere disappeared in an instant.
At this time, a layer of frost slowly climbed up the walls of the house.
At the same time, there was a whistling sound of wind and intermittent sounds of tiles breaking outside the house.
Lu Qingqing's heart trembled, she put on her cotton jacket and quickly slipped out of the space.
All I could hear was the whistling of the wind outside, accompanied by the "clang, clang, clang" sound of gongs, which was quick and urgent.
The moment she heard the sound of the gong, Lu Qingqing felt a little relieved.
At this time, she felt that her hands and face exposed to the air were frozen and painful.
She was in a hurry to come out, so she only wore a cotton jacket, without any hat or scarf.
It’s so cold in the room right now!
Seeing the frost in the house gradually climbing up the walls and roof and attacking her, Lu Qingqing instantly flashed back to the space.
The space still had that familiar scene. When the little wolf saw her come in, he forgot his previous awkwardness and ran towards her happily.
Lu Qingqing took a deep breath, rubbed her face with her hands, and calmed herself down.
When she looked up again, she saw Qin Lang looking at her with a worried look on his face, which showed worry and confusion.
Lu Qingqing's face was ugly, and she said softly:
"It's a cold snap!"
When Qin Lang heard the word "cold wave", the expression on his face became more solemn.
He still remembered the scene last year. When the cold wave came, they barely managed to survive by relying on a circle of fire.
Thinking of the situation outside, he was a little worried about the other people in the team.
At this time, in Lu Tianming's room.
The three women huddled at the entrance of the tent. When they saw that the fire in one of the bonfires was getting smaller, they would quickly reach out and put some firewood there to ensure that the fire would always remain burning vigorously.
Lu Tianming and Lu Shuhe were dragging the firewood from the stove towards the tent. They didn't know how cold the cold wave would be, so dragging it closer would make it easier to get and more reassuring.
Lu Tianming dragged the firewood back to the tent with an anxious look on his face. He took the blanket Cui handed over and put it on himself, shouting:
"Shuhe, you look at the fire in the east, and I look at the west!
Mother, take the women and hide inside under the covers!"
As he spoke, frost had already crawled over the stove, and the flames in the stove were suppressed to an extremely low level.