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Chapter 144 In the Cave Dwelling

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Little friend Tang Jun officially joined Baitang and his party.Although it would be troublesome to take a baby on the road and increase the risk factor, it is impossible for everyone to leave such a little life behind and let her fall into a situation where she must die.

Although Tang Yun's child's surname is Tang, she is closer to Tian Yanran and likes to lie in Tian Yanran's arms the most, which makes the two men dissatisfied.Tang Minglang pinched the tender flesh on Tang Jun's little face and called her heartless, while Yuan Mingyi poked and poked Tang Jun's cheeks. Since this little guy came, he had very little time to make out with his fiancée.

The hot weather continued for another week, and just when everyone felt like they were about to be roasted, a strong wind suddenly fell from the sky, blowing away the unbearable heat and bringing coolness.But before everyone enjoys the coolness, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and the snow is falling with the wind. When everyone is amazed how it will snow before autumn comes, the snow has covered the whole world, and the vast expanse of whiteness, not only All the buildings were covered, and even the losers were frozen in the snow, unable to be safe.

The threat of zombies has decreased, but the dangers faced by human beings have not decreased, and the cold is also a huge threat.In the Ice Age, land kings like dinosaurs were frozen to extinction. Today's weather is comparable to that of the Ice Age. Human beings without thick skin and thick feathers used to wear thin clothes because of the hot weather. When the cold snap comes, they freeze Many people died!

"Flying snow in June! What kind of grievance is there to cause such heavy snowfall?" Tang Minglang wrapped his military coat tightly around his body. The weather is too cold. He wore a close-fitting down jacket inside and a military coat on the outside. Still uncomfortably cold.That wind is bone-chilling.

"Isn't it a great injustice for human beings to be exterminated?" Tian Yanran hugged little Tang Yun and approached the fire. Children and the elderly couldn't stand this kind of weather.The four of them tried their best for the child, wrapped the child into a ball with various warm clothing materials, and used a small glass bottle as a hand warmer, poured hot water to keep the child warm, and put the child in their own Under the clothes, warm the child with body temperature.

Tang Yun's child had great luck. Although she lost her parents, she met four capable and kind people in Baitang. Otherwise, it was inevitable that the child would not survive in such bad weather.Today, the children are full of food and drink, nestled in the warm embrace and happily spitting bubbles. The little face with flesh is so cute that people can't help but smile when they look at it, forgetting the harsh environment outside the door.

Baitang poked the little baby's steamed bun face, and said, "Although we found a shelter before the heavy snow fell, I think it's better to go back to Province S as soon as possible!"

What they are currently in is a cave dwelling. This cave dwelling is quite old, but the interior decoration is good. Someone must live in it all year round.Cave dwellings are caves or earthen houses dug from the cliffs of earth mountains. They are the ancient living forms of residents on the Loess Plateau in Northwest China. The history of this "cave-dwelling" dwelling can be traced back to more than 4000 years ago.The cave dwellings are warm in winter and cool in summer, comfortable to live in, and energy-saving. At the same time, the traditional space permeates harmony with nature. The simple appearance is also unique in architectural aesthetics.Digging cave dwellings is a great science, but it is not as simple as digging a hole in the mountain wall.The first is to dig the foundation. The foundation of the cave dwelling refers to the first determination of the type of cave dwelling to be dug, and the general shape of the cave dwelling is dug out. This is a hard work.In modern times, it is good to say that machinery can be used urgently for construction, but in ancient times, people could only rely on manual labor to dig caves bit by bit, using cages and baskets to load up the soil one load at a time, which was very laborious.After the general shape of the foundation is dug, the surface must be repaired and leveled, which is called "scraping the cliff face" by the locals.Only when the scraper has good eyesight, skills, hand strength and strength can they scrape beautiful patterns on the mountain wall.After the surface of the cliff is scraped, the kiln is started.To dig a kiln is to dig out the shape of the cave dwelling and transport the soil away.Don't rush to build a cave, because the soil is too wet and easy to collapse.After the cave dwelling is completed, the arrowhead kiln, or "tick kiln" or "milling kiln" will follow.Cut out the arch from the top of the kiln, scrape off the side of the kiln, and scrape it evenly, so that the kiln is completed.After the cave dwellings are dried, loess and crushed wheat straw and mud are used for mud kilns.The mud of the mud kiln is made of dry soil and has only tendons, and the plane made of mud is smooth and smooth.Wet soil and muddy stickiness are not easy to use.Mud kilns have at least two layers of mud, one layer of coarse mud, one layer of fine mud, and sometimes three layers of mud.After living for a long time in the future, the kiln wall is blackened and can be re-muded.The third step is to tie gables and install doors and windows.After the kiln mud is finished, soil pendants are used to tie the gable and install doors and windows. Generally, high windows are installed on the upper part of the door, and low windows are installed side by side with the door, one door and two windows.Inside the door is a kang by the window, and outside the door is a chimney against the wall. The kang by the window is for quick smoke, which is good for the cave environment and good for the health. It is also good for women to do needlework on the hot kang.After these steps of excavation and repair, the cave dwelling was basically dug.

Up to the period of the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty, earthen cave dwellings were all over the mountains, plains and valleys. The "Book of Songs" is called "Taofu Taoxue". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the types of cave dwellings increased, and each cave dwelling had a clear division of labor, including Anzhuang, Mingzhuang and Siheyuanzhuang. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, small castles appeared. A group of cave dwellings or kangs are surrounded to defend against soldiers and thieves, commonly known as Baozi.Cave dwellings generally have cliff-like cave dwellings, sunken cave dwellings, and free-standing cave dwellings. Among them, mountain kilns are more widely used. They are built on hillsides and at the edge of the soil. They are often distributed in several steps up the mountain. The top of the lower kiln is Upper vestibule with great view.The sunken cave is to dig a square pit on the spot, and then dig the cave on the inner wall to form an underground courtyard.The Loess Plateau is the place with the deepest loess in the world, and it is also the place with the most densely populated cave dwellings.The cave dwellings are densely packed and row upon row. Some people once described it as: like the caves hanging in the clouds and mist, like pearls inlaid on the Loess Plateau.

With the development of the economy, more and more cave dwellings are abandoned, few are excavated, and the excavation methods are becoming less and less known. In another 20 years, the kiln digging method is likely to be lost.Nowadays, there are not many people living in cave dwellings, and most people prefer to live in high-rise buildings. Even rural residents are willing to build small second- and third-story western-style buildings to live in instead of living in cave dwellings that are "too scumbag".Only old people who like nostalgia like to live in cave dwellings. After all, cave dwellings are warm in the east and cool in summer, which is better than staying in an air-conditioned room all day long.

Maybe it’s because of the old people living there. The cave dwelling chosen by Bai Tang and the others also has a heated kang. After the fire is lit, it will definitely be very warm to sit on the kang. At least now, the reason why they haven’t burned the kang is because they haven’t collected enough firewood. .

The door of the cave was tightly closed, and the temperature inside the cave was much higher than that outside the cave, which was within the acceptable range for ordinary people.Hearing that Baitang was going to brave the cold weather, the other three hesitated for a moment.The weather outside is too bad, I'm afraid I can't find such a good place to live again.

"I agree with Baitang's proposal. I want to go home quickly. My grandparents and parents are still waiting for me at home. I want to return to them safely and not let them worry about it!" Tang Minglang was the first to express his opinion.

Yuan Mingyi thought of his master and uncle who raised him, and he expressed his approval for the second time.

Tian Yanran was hesitant: "We adults can bear the bad weather outside, but what about Xiaoyun?"

Sure enough, children are a big trouble!Bai Tang frowned. Suddenly he remembered something and hurriedly concentrated on looking for it in his backpack.

"I found it!" Baitang happily took out a thumb-sized jade stone from his bag, and handed it to Tian Yanran, "Put this jade stone next to Xiao Yun's body, so she won't be cold."

"What kind of stone is this?" Tian Yanran asked in surprise, "Isn't it the legendary Nuanyu?"

"Congratulations, you got the answer right." Baitang smiled.She bought this warm jade from the mall. It was the size of a baby's fist. Baitang cut it up and made five pendants for Bai's father, mother, Xing Xiaokang, Wu Xuemei and Ai Wanxi to wear. The rest of the material was handy for her. I put it in my backpack, but I didn't expect to use it now.

"It's really Nuanyu? You didn't lie to us, did you?" Tang Minglang asked in surprise.

"You can wear the jade on your body, and take a stroll outside to verify it."

"Tian Yanran, give me the jade, I'll go out and try it!" Tang Minglang was eager to try.

The milky white jade is as moist as fat, falling into the palm of the hand, a warm current flows from the palm of the hand, and instantly travels all over the body, making people feel warm and quite comfortable.Tang Minglang rushed back within 2 minutes after leaving the house.

"Really, it's really warm jade. Although it can't completely resist the cold, it's much better than when you didn't wear the jade. At least you won't have that frozen feeling in your bones." Tang Minglang danced excitedly.

"It should be that the warm jade is too small, and it can only be used for adults to wear it, but it is just right for a child like Xiaoyun!" Yuan Mingyi speculated.

Baitang nodded, confirming Yuan Mingyi's words.When she made pendants for her family, she assigned the size of Nuanyu according to each person's body shape.

"Baitang, do you have any other warm jade? The size doesn't matter, I'll buy it from you!" Tang Minglang returned the thumb-sized warm jade to Tian Yanran, and Tian Yanran stuffed it into Xiao Tangyun's clothes, and put it against his chest. good.

"You don't need to buy it, it's just leftovers, I'll give it to you!" Baitang said as he grabbed a few warm jade scraps from his backpack, the largest was no bigger than a pinky finger, and the smallest was the size of a mung bean. Really limited.

"Bai Tang, you are such a good person!" Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi and Tian Yanran were extremely happy. Each of them picked a piece of warm jade the size of a little finger and wore it close to their bodies.Immediately they felt the warmth on their bodies. Yuan Mingyi took off his military coat and didn't feel cold anymore wearing only a down jacket.

Tang Minglang shamelessly put the remaining Nuanyu scum into his own bag without taking it back.The child wanted to take these warm jade home to his grandparents. Although the two elders were in good health, they were old after all. Tang Minglang was worried that they would not be able to withstand the cold weather.

Tian Yanran felt the warmth of Zhenzhen's body, and said with a smile: "Let's have a hearty meal tonight, and leave tomorrow!"

"What do you want to eat?" Chef Baitang asked.

"Hot pot! You should eat hot pot in such a cold day, and it's easy to make! We can all help!"

Baitang felt that this suggestion was very good, and with a wave of his hand, he took out beef, vermicelli, potatoes, ham sausage, luncheon meat and hot pot bottom ingredients from the backpack and gave them to Tian Yanran and the three of them.Tian Yanran put the buns on the earthen kang, boiled water to cook the hot pot base, and directed Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi, two big men, to peel potatoes and cut beef.Baitang did the most important thing, making the dipping sauce.Whether the hot pot is good or not, the dipping sauce is the most important thing.Baitang was in a good mood and made several kinds of dipping sauces, including sesame sauce base with fermented bean curd, garlic, coriander and chive flowers, chili oil base with chili powder, pepper powder, millet pepper and coriander green onion, and sweet and sour sauce base with coriander The one with horseradish, the one with sesame oil base, crushed garlic, chili noodles with sesame and peanuts, the one with chopped green onion, the one with sand tea sauce with minced mustard garlic and sansho pepper sauce, the one with peanut sauce base, and the one with seafood and soy sauce, garlic, dried shrimps, coriander, fried peanuts... deeply loved by the other three people like.But Baitang likes the original flavor when eating hot pot, simply use sesame oil with garlic paste.

After eating a meal for nearly an hour, the four of them fell asleep comfortably after eating and sweating.The next day, several people were ready to set off, but found a very important problem.

"The snow on the ground is more than one meter thick, and the car can't be driven at all. How do we go?" Yuan Mingyi looked at the other three people blankly, and the three returned him the same blank look.

"This is God's intention to keep people! Are we going?" Tian Yanran asked.She is the most indifferent among the few people, neither province S nor city D has her relatives, and she has no urgent idea of ​​going home.

"No, we must go! We have been delayed for a long time along the way, and I don't want to delay any longer. I don't feel at ease if I don't see my grandparents and parents!" Tang Minglang gritted his teeth and looked at the white road ahead, with a firm will.

"Me too!" Baitang also expressed his firm determination to leave.

"How to walk? If you use two legs, you can't walk very far, and your legs will be frozen!" Tian Yanran frowned.

"Linhaixueyuan!" Baitang said.

"What?" The other three people didn't understand what Baitang meant.

Bai Tang: "Have you seen Xu Ke's "Lin Hai Xue Yuan"?"

The three of Tang Minglang have all watched the movie directed by Xu Da, and contributed to its box office.Hearing Baitang's words, the four eyes of Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi lit up at the same time: "Skiing!"

However, in such an environment, what could be a faster and more suitable means of transportation than sleds and snowboards?

"But none of us know how to ski?" Tian Yanran pointed out an important point.

"You can practice! Our comrades in the movie don't know how to ski, so after practice, we will be able to? We are better than them, and we will definitely be able to learn it quickly!" Tang Minglang said optimistically.There was hope at home, and the child recovered. (My novel "Life in Time and Space" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign on the upper right to "add friends", Search the official account "qdread" and pay attention, hurry up!)
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