After the Earthquake of Rebirth

On December 12rd, the first batch of people who moved back from the city had already returned to their respective caves. The car that sent them back picked up the citizens who were going to spend the winter in the University City and returned to the University City on the same day.

Wang Yang and the others are the second group to come back.

At noon on the 4th, Ning Qiyan's cave gate was slapped.Guess Wang Yang and the others have come back in the past few days. During the day, Ning Qiyan basically stayed in the cave, keeping warm with an earthen stove, while following Ning Xiaowen to cut rabbit skins.

The temperature dropped faster and faster, and the saved rabbit skins had to be made into clothes at a faster rate to keep warm.

"Brother Qiyan? Brother Xiaowen? Brother Beard? Brother Du? Are you here? We're back!!"

Before Ning Qiyan could go over and open the door, Wang Yang's loud voice rang out.

"Yes! They are all here!" Ning Qiyan opened the door and responded with a funny voice.

As soon as the door opened, three air-conditioned figures rushed in.

"I'm freezing to death!" Wang Yang threw himself onto the earthen stove trembling, and Ning Xiaowen stopped him in fright.

Hot water is still burning on the clay stove!This is going to be spilled, and a layer of skin must not be scalded!

"Why are you still so frizzy! Take off your coat, and put on these first." Ning Xiaowen put away the scissors, put the leather aside, and handed three down vests to the three of them.

He took off his frozen coat, put on a warm vest, and held a cup of hot water each, and he warmed up in a short while.

"I knew brother Xiaowen that you guys are warm, so I came here without going home, and I will go back slowly." Wang Yang said with a smile on his red nose that was frozen.

Ning Xiaowen shook his head helplessly.

"Knowing that you've come back these few days, I've already warmed up the cave for you!" Ning Qiyan took out two pieces of ginger, threw them into the kettle half filled with Coke, and said.

Before Wang Yang and the others returned to the city, they left him a key to their cave in case they went back to the city and lost the key. From the 1st, Du Cheng and Hu Zi took turns going to Wang Yang's house to light the fire every day during the day .After not firing for such a long time, coupled with the continuous cooling, the cave will not be warm enough without burning for a few days.

"You guys are really my brothers~ are you~" Wang Yang pursed his lips and blew kisses wildly.

Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen instantly got goosebumps.

"All right, all right, don't disgust me! If you keep smoking like this, you won't have your share of Coke!" Ning Qiyan glared at him.

Wang Yang immediately made a gesture of closing the zipper with his mouth.

"Yang Yu and the others stayed in the University City?" Seeing that Wang Yang was no longer having convulsions, Ning Qiyan sat down and could finally talk properly.

Ke Chengwei nodded, "Yang Yu's injury is still not healed, and he can live in the inpatient department after the earthquake in the university city free of charge. Thanks to our original mentor, Liu Jia entered the inpatient department as an intern, and Wang Yuanyuan entered the welfare station as an intern. .”

"Then the usual credit points are still issued normally?" Ning Xiaowen asked.

"Well, one of the three of them is a sick patient, and two of them are public servants. Not only do they have the same credits as before, but they can also provide three meals a day, but they don't have the [-]-point exclusive winter credits like ours."

Ning Qiyan thought for a while, and then said: "Then the three of you are left with a total of [-] credit points, and the coal for the winter has to be used wisely. Burn the coals together."

Ke Chengwei nodded, "We also plan to save some firewood as soon as possible, but don't worry too much about credit. Yuanyuan and the others have the ID cards of Yuanyuan and Liu Jia, and Yang Yu's ID card will be used by the three of us first. There is no need to worry about three meals over there, and the credit points are not particularly lacking. This time we plan to exchange all the credit points of the four ID cards in our hands with coal, which should be at least one thousand and one hundred catties, so it should not be a big problem. For daily consumption, The three of us share the credit points of four people, which is enough."

Seeing that they had already made their own plans, Ning Qiyan nodded, feeling much relieved.

When Wang Yang and the others fully recovered, they went back to their own cave. Not only did the cave need to be taken care of, but they also wanted to exchange the coal they bought as soon as possible.

And Ning Qiyan and the others went down to recite some every day when the redemption point officially opened for coal redemption on December 12st.Du Cheng and Hu Zi carried three hundred catties on their backs. After four days, the four people's 1 winter credits had all been exchanged for coal and piled on the platform.

In fact, in terms of life, there is a relatively warm space and the coal that Ning Qiyan stored in the space before, they don't need that much at all, but if they change less, they may be suspicious, and if the space really cools down in winter, the yard If the greenhouse is built in the house, the consumption of firewood will be increased, in case the consumption is too large at that time, it is better to exchange coal for peace of mind.

Although Wang Yang and the others went back to live on the mountain, the two families usually do not communicate too frequently. First, Wang Yang and the others seized the time to save more firewood. Second, the weather was too cold, and everyone tried not to go out if they could hide in the cave without going out.

So Ning Qiyan and the others counted the time, went to the cave to handle the work at dawn, and returned to the space when it got dark.In this way, although there are alternating temperature differences, it also allows them to adapt to the winter temperature a little bit, so that their adaptability will not decrease because of the space, and they will widen the gap with others.After all, it is impossible to live in space for a lifetime, and one must adapt to the external environment in order to survive better.

"It's snowing." Du Cheng walked to the earthen stove with a bundle of dry firewood in his hand.

Hearing this, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen, who were sewing rabbit fur coats, raised their heads.

"It's snowing? Is the platform okay?"

Du Cheng shook his head, "There are no snowflakes on the platform so far. It's hard to say if the wind is strong, but our things are all inside, so it's fine."

In order to make room for lamps and wires, and to move freely in the usual space, the firewood and coal that the four of them had stored are all piled up on the platform at the corner of the cave, these things are not afraid of freezing, and even if the wind and snow get wet It doesn't matter much, at most it won't be burned in a cave.

"I don't know how far the temperature can drop." Ning Xiaowen put down his needle and thread, moved his sore wrist, and sighed.

Now the highest temperature during the day is minus ten degrees, and the lowest temperature is already minus twenty degrees. Even if there is no fire pit in the space, it will be difficult to survive at night.

Du Cheng put down the dry firewood, took out a few and stuffed them into the earthen stove, then sat next to Ning Qiyan, and took the needle and thread from his hand.

In terms of sewing clothes, Du Cheng and Ning Qiyan are both newbies, and the general clothes are fine, but the rabbit fur coat that is being made now will test the strength of Ning Qiyan's wrists, and some places that are particularly thick will cost Ning Qiyan a lot of money Only strength can penetrate, so if Du Cheng is idle, he will take over.But he doesn't have much free time, and the small greenhouse in the courtyard of the space hasn't been built yet. If Huzi hadn't said that the crabs had grown up early this morning, he should be building a greenhouse with Huzi now.

"How long will it take to build it?" Ning Qiyan turned his wrist, watched Du Cheng stitch by stitch and began to sew where he just now, and asked.

Knowing that he was referring to the greenhouse, Du Cheng said: "The shelf and the earthen stove are ready. After the beard finishes cleaning the crabs, we will build the outer perimeter together and put on the roof. It will be ready for use in three to five days at most. .”

Ning Qiyan nodded, and Ning Xiaowen next to him also began to think about whether the vegetables he had saved before could last until the end.

In order to make room for a greenhouse, the entire yard was cleared out of the places where vegetables had been grown before.Before the vegetable field was emptied, the vegetables in the field thought that the temperature would drop and the growth would not be good. The vegetables received in the end could only last for ten days and a half months. It has been seven or eight days so far. If you count the growth after planting No matter how much they calculate and eat, they will have no fresh vegetables for more than half a month.

When it was almost time, Ning Xiaowen packed his things, and Ning Qiyan put a layer of wet coal on the earthen stove, so that even if they were not in the cave at night, the earthen stove here would not go out too early, and come out from the space tomorrow At that time, the cave is not too cold.

Du Cheng went to the platform to take a look again, making sure there was nothing serious, the three of them returned to the space.

The temperature in the yard of the space is about five or six degrees above zero, which is similar to the temperature of the earthen stove in the cave. The kang in the house is always warm, so the temperature inside the house is higher, about [-] to [-] degrees, which can freeze people to death. In the outside world, the space is really too comfortable.

"What's the matter?" Du Cheng climbed onto the roof as soon as he entered the space.

Hu Zi flicked the water from his hands, "I don't know the growth of crabs in other places after the earthquake, but according to common sense, the growth of crabs in our house is a bit too slow, and even though the temperature in the yard is much warmer than outside, it still can't grow. The temperature is not suitable for the growth of river crabs, and the pond in our family can still grow, which is quite unexpected."

Du Cheng put his hand into the water, tested the water temperature, and said, "Don't you think the water temperature in the pool is higher than that in the well?"

Beard thought for a moment, then nodded.

Indeed, Beard spends the entire day in this pool, and has been in contact with the water. Although it is impossible to be warm, it is not to the extent of freezing hands.But now the newly dug well water in the yard can already feel cold to the hands.

"You mean because the pool is directly on the roof and connected to the house, so the temperature is higher?"

Du Cheng nodded.Since he and Hu Zi came back from the city, the kang in the house has been burning, so it cannot be ruled out that the crabs can continue to grow due to this reason.

Hu Zi thought for a while, then shrugged, "Maybe, okay, we don't have professional equipment, and we don't point to this life, why do we think so much, we eat when we can, and we don't if we can't." Then, Picking up the two baskets that were still soaking in the pond at the bottom, "Let's go, these two baskets are enough for us to eat. I will also divide the breeding ones, and hurry up to eat the rest. After a while , it’s not fat enough.”

Although Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen knew that they would definitely be able to eat it today when Hu Zi said that they were picking up the river crabs, but they couldn't help being surprised when they saw the two baskets full of crabs with teeth and claws.

Ning Qiyan went to find the ginger first, and started to make the sauce, then stewed the rice, scrambled eggs, and stewed a pot of ribs.

Du Cheng and the others washed the river crabs and prepared to cook them.

I don't know if it's because the river crabs steamed in the big pot taste so good, or because I haven't eaten fresh aquatic products for a long time, but Ning Qiyan feels that this meal is very satisfying.The four of them cleaned up two baskets of river crabs in one meal. After eating, Ning Xiaowen was a little worried that he would catch cold if he ate too much.