Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Chapter 120 The temperature drops suddenly

Zhang Guoming asked Gu Tongwan to go into the house quickly. As soon as he entered, he saw a small brazier with charcoal fire burning in the bedroom. It was not very big, and the temperature inside was only about ten degrees lower than that outside. In other words, the temperature inside was at least minus ten degrees Celsius. This could not go on. I'm afraid everyone would gradually become hypothermic in a short while.

Gu Tongwan hurried over and poured a cup of hot ginger tea for Yangmei and the child, "Sister-in-law, you and Xiaobao should drink it quickly, it will warm your body a little." Then he handed the thermos cup to Liu Jinhua beside him.

Fortunately, the thermos she brought was big enough to hold almost one liter of water.

Then he turned to Zhang Mingguo and said, "Brother Zhang, we have a few charcoal basins at home. Add another one and put it in the corner. Just open the window by five centimeters to let in some air."

Seeing the clothes scattered on the bed, she picked out two sweaters that were probably made of cashmere or rabbit fur, and said seriously, "Cashmere sweaters are the warmest in this kind of weather. If you don't have any, rabbit fur or ordinary cotton sweaters will also work. Put a few more quilts on the bed, and be careful not to catch a cold."

Liu Jinhua's teeth were chattering from the cold. She felt her toes and fingers gradually losing feeling and her face turned pale. "Why has the weather become like this? Wasn't it over 50 degrees yesterday? And today it's snowing. It's never snowed in our Jiangcheng." Her eyes gradually turned red as she spoke, but she was persuaded by Gu Tongwan.

"Aunt, don't cry in this weather. It would be terrible if your tears turned into ice and stuck to your eyelashes."

Liu Jinhua was stunned and quickly wiped her tears with her sleeve. She dared not cry anymore, for she was afraid that her eyes would become blurry and she couldn't open them.

At this time, Zhang Mingguo had already prepared the second pot of charcoal and placed it in the corner as Gu Tongwan had instructed, while Zhang Youfan risked his life to run to the kitchen next door to boil a pot of hot water. He found several hot water bags that were stored under the bed at home, filled them with boiling hot water, and then threw them into Yangmei's hands.

"Cover the child up so he won't be so cold."

Yangmei put the hot water bottle in the mattress and let Xiaobao lie down and sleep with the hot water bottle in his arms. She was cold herself, but she didn't care about that for the sake of her child.

Only after she saw the child's previously pale face gradually return to normal color did she finally breathe a sigh of relief and begin to look for a cashmere sweater she had bought in the city two years ago.

She still remembered that it was March and the mall was having a sale. A cashmere sweater that originally cost 1299 yuan was reduced to 399 yuan, and if you spent 2000 yuan or more in the mall, you could participate in a lottery. So she simply bought the same brand of cashmere sweaters for everyone in the family at once, and luckily she got the shopping coupon to win two goose down quilts.

I still remember that Zhang Guoming felt painful when he spent the money, but now he thinks that the two thousand yuan was totally worth it!

Gu Tongwan took out a thermometer from his pocket. The temperature in the bedroom showed minus six degrees Celsius, which meant the heating in the stove was on.

Although Xiaoxi Village is located on the border of Jiangcheng, it is close to the mountains and the temperature is still two or three degrees during the coldest winter every year, which is much lower than the perceived temperature in the city. There were even some winters when the vegetation on the mountain was covered with a thin layer of frost. The higher the terrain, the whiter it was.

A small number of villagers in Xiaoxi Village occasionally install heated kangs at home, but very few people use them. When the old grandmother of the Zhang family was still alive, she had poor legs and feet, especially her knees would hurt in winter. Zhang Youfan was filial, and when building this house, he specially asked the decoration master to install a heated kang like the houses in the north. However, the old grandmother passed away after only a few uses.

Gu Tongwan put on four pieces of clothing in total, two cashmere sweaters, a lambskin vest, and a thick down jacket with a hot pack stuck inside, so he felt okay at the moment and not that cold.

In contrast, the Zhang family members were so cold that their teeth were chattering, and even putting on clothes seemed to be a struggle.

Gu Tongwan sighed, and finally volunteered to go to the kitchen to make ginger tea. Zhang Youfan and Zhang Guoming didn't get to drink it just now, and both gave it to their frail daughter-in-law.

When I came back, I saw Yangmei picking out thick clothes for the house. She was a woman who was very efficient at doing housework. Zhang Mingguo fell in love with her because of her straightforwardness and efficiency.

After finding all the cold-resistant clothes for the whole family, we took out the thick shoes. In the end, we found that most of the clothes and shoes were only suitable for the winter in the south, so we had to wear them in layers. We even had to wear three pairs of socks so that our toes would not feel like they were going to freeze off.

Zhang Youfan held the ginger tea in his hand, took a sip, and white smoke came out of his mouth. He listened to the whistling wind outside the window, and his face was tightly frowned.

“I don’t know what happened to the other villagers.”

As the village chief, he naturally did not want any casualties in Xiaoxi Village due to this sudden natural disaster.

But Zhang Youfan's hope did not come true. In the extreme cold of that day, two elderly people over 70 years old in Xiaoxi Village were frozen to death in their beds, and a dozen villagers began to suffer from hypothermia.

Gu Tongwan did not plan to stay in the Zhang family for long. This time she was simply worried that the Zhang family would freeze to death at home. After all, this family had helped her a lot, and she knew the principle of repaying kindness.

It was only eleven o'clock in the morning when we returned. In just a few hours, the snow on the road was already an inch high. Looking into the distance, there was snow all over the place, sparkling white frost on the roof tiles, and ice spindles hanging from the eaves were already as long as fingers.

The down jacket she was wearing was a high-end item she had bought at the mall. It was very wind and cold resistant, but because she was wearing too many clothes, it was a little difficult for her to walk. The cold wind made it difficult for her to open her eyes, so she muttered to herself that she would have to wear a pair of sunglasses next time she went out.

He lowered his eyes and glanced at Tuotu who was following closely behind him. His white fur seemed to blend into this white world. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was snow or something else. The flamboyant silver fur was blown into wild arcs by the wind.

A man and a dog walked in the snow, leaving footprints of varying depths. But at this time, she was more like a quail, walking unsteadily and swaying under her feet. In contrast, Tu Tu held his head high and chest puffed out, not affected by the wind and snow at all. He was unrestrained and dignified, walking in his own style.

Gu Tongwan: “…”

Well, humans and dogs cannot be compared from the same perspective.

As soon as I got home, I saw a black shadow flying towards me with dissatisfaction. Aoao was very dissatisfied with not taking it out today, and even barked at his brother Tuotu for a long time.

Tutu ignored Aoao's temper, walked gracefully into the hall, and took a nap on the carpeted floor.

Gu Tongwan smiled helplessly and took out some dried meat from the space to coax Aoao.

Aoao, a foodie, forgets all unhappiness when he sees something to eat and happily chews on the jerky.

Gu Tongwan simply boiled a big pot of wolfberry ginger tea and planned to put it in the space so that he could drink a bowl of it every day when he woke up or before going to bed to warm his body.

The snow lasted for three days and three nights before it stopped. On the fourth day, the temperature had stabilized and the outdoor temperature was minus 52 degrees Celsius. It is basically possible to turn a basin of hot water on your head and it will turn into ice chips in an instant. If the skin is exposed for a long time without any protection, the ears or other parts of the body can really be frozen off.

In the previous life, it was said that the temperature in some areas once reached minus sixty degrees Celsius, even breaking the lowest sub-zero temperature ever recorded in a certain place in China.

Gu Tongwan took out a shovel from the space when it stopped snowing. He spent more than an hour working hard to pile up the snow in the yard that was almost as high as his calves, and then put it directly into a corner of the space.

This snow can be used when the next extreme heat comes, so it cannot be wasted.

Not only that, she simply took out a batch of disposable plastic ice cube bags that she had stockpiled at gas station convenience stores at home, filled the room with warm water, about a hundred bags, and then threw them into the yard. When she went out half an hour later, the water in the ice cubes had already turned into natural ice cubes, and then she put them back into the space.

In fact, she was not the only one cleaning the yard. Most people in the village were "sweeping the snow in front of their own doorsteps" and trying their best to clean the snow in the yard and outside the gate. Otherwise, the thick snow would cover the threshold, making it inconvenient to enter and exit, and it would be easy to slip.

Late in the evening, someone knocked on the gate outside the yard.