Survive through the ancient apocalypse

In the middle of the night, Jiang Jingzhi fell asleep and felt a little cold, and leaned against the warm Ye Mingze.Suddenly he was jolted, and hurriedly pushed Ye Mingze to wake him up: "Mingze, get up, the kang doesn't seem to be warm enough."

After speaking, Jiang Jingzhi put on his clothes and lit the oil lamp on the kang.It's really cold, the temperature on the kang is estimated to be less than ten degrees.As a level five sentinel, Ye Mingze, this temperature has no effect on him at all, so he is not vigilant enough.Jiang Jingzhi's physique is weaker, his ability to keep out the cold is not as good as Ye Mingze's, and he is more sensitive to temperature.

He didn't care about himself, and hugged Jiahui Jiayao into the bed of the two of them.With the dim light, Jiang Jingzhi's hanging heart was finally relieved to see that the faces of the two sons were normal.He put his hand into the swaddling clothes and found that there was only a slight temperature. It seemed that the temperature on the kang had indeed dropped a lot.

"What's going on? Could it be that the kang road is blocked?" After hearing this, Ye Mingze touched the kang on Jiang Jingzhi's side with his hand, and it felt much cooler than his hands.

"I don't know either. I just woke up from the cold and it's too late to understand the situation. Go out and have a look."

At night, only the kang is burned, and the floor heating and fire walls are turned off. If the temperature of the kang is not enough, it is impossible to sleep at night.

This is a big deal, Ye Mingze quickly put on his clothes and pushed the door out.After a while, Ye Mingze returned to his room and started adding clothes.

"Why, it's cold outside?" Jiang Jingzhi seemed to have a bad feeling seeing Ye Mingze go and come back just to add clothes.

"Well, I reckon it should be the same for other kangs. The people who are on duty to burn the kangs probably haven't noticed this situation, and they still burn the kangs according to the amount of firewood used in the past, so that the temperature of the kangs will drop." Ye Mingze didn't say much. Said, put on a fur coat, put on thick gloves and a hat, and a scarf around his face, and went out again after being fully armed.

There are so many kangs in a yard, and one person must not be able to take care of them. There is a special small room for people on duty to rest. It will not be so boring if someone is with you, and it will be easier to stay up late.

Ye Mingze knocked on the door.

"Who? Why didn't you sleep in the middle of the night?"

"it's me."

When several people in the room heard Ye Mingze's voice, they hurriedly opened the door.

"Master, why are you here?"

"The temperature of the kang in my room is not enough, don't you think the kang is not hot enough?" Seeing that they were all sitting cross-legged on the kang, Ye Mingze expressed his incomprehension.

"It's okay!" Several people were very confused. They felt that although Kang Wen was not so warm, at least it was not cold.

The person in charge of burning the kang for Ye Mingze's house thought for a while, and when he figured it out, he said, "Master, you've been adding more firewood to the kang in your house for a while, and I'm planning to add more firewood later. It will be lower than when you first added firewood. Eldest young master, since your roof is not warm enough, I will add firewood now."

"You wait first. It's different. Don't you guys feel that the temperature outside is very low, lower than ever?" Ye Mingze knew that the temperature had dropped again because of his preconceived ideas. , Ye Mingze pointed to the kang in their house, and said, "When was this kang heated?"

"A quarter of an hour ago. I felt a little cold when I went out to add firewood, but I didn't think deeply about it." The speaker seemed to realize where the problem was.

"Sure, I have understood the general situation. You are good at burning the kang. As for whether you add more firewood at a time or several times, you can decide for yourself. My house is not warm enough, so you go to add fire first. As for the other yards, greenhouses and barns, you should notify them separately, remember to wear more clothes, I am not exaggerating, the temperature outside is really low." Ye Mingze turned and went back to the house after giving orders.

"How is it?" The sons woke up, and Jiang Jingzhi was warming the milk.

"There is no problem with the kang, but the temperature outside has dropped again, and the person who burned the kang didn't notice it for a while. Now someone has gone to add fire, and the temperature of the kang will be up in a while." The indoor temperature is very low, Ye Mingze asked Jiang Jing to go on the kang, and by He is in charge of warming the milk.

"Why is the temperature dropping again? Isn't the current temperature lower than last year's lowest temperature?" Jiang Jingzhi has to go to the greenhouse at least two or three times during the day. If the temperature is too low, it will be more difficult to go out.

"Maybe this is not the coldest time yet, maybe the temperature will continue to drop." Ye Mingze guessed that with God's urine, it is really very possible that the temperature will continue to drop.

"Our family has prepared so much firewood, should it be enough?" The temperature this year is already low, and the cat winter is a full month earlier than last year. It has just entered December, and the temperature is higher than ever before. But some toss.

"I hope. No one can be sure now." Ye Mingze handed Jiang Jingzhi a bottle of warm milk, and then he also got on the kang, picked up his youngest son and nursed him carefully.

The little ones are carefree, they only know that they eat and sleep when they are full, and they don't understand the world of adults.

After Jiahui Jiayao was full, he became energetic again, yelling "babbling" to attract the attention of his fathers.The sons seemed dissatisfied with the swaddling clothes that bound them, flailing their hands and feet trying to break free.

How could Ye Mingze and Jiang Jingzhi make them happy, now that the temperature of the kang is not enough, the little hands and feet can't be exposed outside.The two little guys were not happy anymore, and seeing signs of crying, the two had no choice but to hold each other in their arms and dangle slightly.Jiahui Jiayao felt comfortable being shaken, and he didn't insist anymore, he slowly closed his eyes amidst the soft humming of his fathers.

Seeing that their sons were fast asleep, Ye Mingze and Jiang Jingzhi stuffed them under the covers and put them on their laps, and put them back into the partition after the kang warmed up again.The people who are on duty to burn the kang already know that the temperature will drop, and they will pay attention to adding or subtracting firewood at any time. The two of them no longer need to worry about the kang being warm enough, and they can sleep well.

After tossing and tossing for so long, the two of them were a little tired and slowly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Ye Mingze and Jiang Jingzhi were woken up by the little guys.Although it was daytime, the house was still dark.Ye Mingze got up and opened the inner window, and there was light in the room.In order to keep warm, the windows were papered thickly, which made the light into the house not bright enough.Reading is not good, but eating a meal is still no problem.

After feeding his sons, Ye Mingze got up and went to the kitchen.Seeing Ye Mingze appearing in the kitchen, Zhang Sen* and his two brothers put the breakfast warm on the stove into food boxes, and carried them one by one into the master's house, and they took the food boxes back to the kitchen after they finished eating.

Breakfast was simple, a few spicy tofu buns and a bowl of corn porridge, but the two ate with gusto.Steamed stuffed buns are white flour, and porridge is white rice with crushed corn kernels. There are not many people who can afford these now.Of course, this is the treatment of the masters of the Ye family, and the servants will eat a little less.But even the servants eat better than most.Especially after having a warm house, the Ye family can also eat fresh vegetables in winter, but there are very few people outside who have this kind of treatment.

Lin Wenjue has been in Ye's house for a while, and he never thought about being able to eat fresh vegetables in Ye's house in winter.Before the Lin family began to decline, greenhouse vegetables could be eaten every year, but each person's daily share was very small. Unlike now, the masters can eat as much as they want, and the servants can eat as much as they want every day.

"Wen Jue, life here is really good. When you are in the imperial capital, you always have to look at people's faces. Although you don't have to worry about food and clothing, how can you compare with being comfortable in Ye's house?" Cai Jin sat on the kang, holding Lin Xiu in his arms.

"Although the food is not as refined as at home, there are many types of food here, and the original taste makes it comfortable to eat. Have you noticed that the Ye family has a lot of high-level ingredients, which is beneficial to those with abilities and sentinel guides?" Improve." Lin Wenjue has nothing to do for the time being, so he can only exercise his abilities when he has nothing to do.After the first batch of crops in the greenhouse were harvested, it was their turn for the earth-type supernatural beings to take action.

"Fortunately, we took the risk to find you, brother. Otherwise, if we were still staying in the Lin family, we might not know what the situation is now. Hehe, I would know if you didn't tell me. Since you decided to come here from a long distance, the Lin family must be in a daze. I can’t go on anymore, or you’re planning for Xiu’er and me, and you wouldn’t take the risk.” Although Lin Wenjue didn’t say anything about the situation of the three of them in the Lin family, Cai Jin understood it very well.

"Don't think about it, father and the others are probably not living as well as we are now. If we let them know about our current situation, they might be jealous." Lin Wenjue recalled the scene in his mind, and felt a lot more at ease.

"This is our future home, we must work hard." Cai Jin didn't intend to be idle, it would be best if he could help.

"That's for sure."

Ye Mingze asked people to count the firewood consumption from midnight last night to this morning, and found that it was not very optimistic.He made a decisive decision and asked people from each courtyard to live together in the three rooms with floor heating, fire walls and extended Kang.In this way, although the amount of firewood used for kang heating has increased sharply, overall, a lot can still be saved.Not only that, after the concentration of personnel, a lot of kang burners can be freed up.In this way, this behavior can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

The weather is getting colder every day, and the distance from the Ye family's main house to the greenhouse is less than 100 meters. Although Jiang Jingzhi is wearing layers of clothes, his hands and feet are cold when he arrives at the greenhouse.Despite this, he still insisted on going to the greenhouse every day to cast wood-type abilities.Jiang Jingzhi repeated such behavior day after day, Ye Mingze didn't stop him, he knew that if it was him, he would do the same.

On this day, it was finally time to harvest the crops that the wood-type supernatural being took care of.The growth cycle of crops is different. If the temperature is sufficient, the growth cycle will be shortened. After being taken care of by wood-type supernatural beings, the growth cycle will be reduced by half again.In this way, the maturity time of different crops is not different by a few days.

From the first day the crops are harvested, one or two crops will mature each day.The harvested wooden frames were turned over by the earth-type supernatural beings. The soil-type supernatural powers turned over the ground more thoroughly than plowing the land with oxen, and it was even worse than manually turning the ground with a hoe.

The yield per mu of the first batch of crops was very high, and with these additional harvests, the Ye family's granary became richer.

These straws, such as corn stalks, bean stalks, and wheat stalks, are brought to kitchens in various yards for cooking, which can also save some firewood.The burned plant ash was sprinkled into the dug up wooden box.From seeds to mature crops and then to burning plant ash to fertilize the land just forms a cycle, which is endless.

In order to reduce pests and diseases, crops are rotated.Last time I planted potatoes, this time I have to plant something else.After the crops in each wooden box are harvested, the field is plowed and fertilized immediately, and then the second batch of crops are planted without stopping.

The crops taken care of by wood-type supernatural beings are different from normal growth after all, so they cannot be used as a reference.If the yield per mu of normal crops is acceptable, then more greenhouses like this will be built in the future, and the food problem will be truly solved, and there will be no need to look at the face of God for food.

The dripping water outside turns into ice, and the sun doesn't feel the heat at all when it shines on the body. Naturally, it is impossible to dry the grain with it.Isn't there still a kang? It is still very efficient to use a kang to dry grain.At this point, the grain can be bagged into the granary.

With the current temperature, people can only stay outside for a while, and the cold will penetrate through their clothes after a long time.It didn't take long before my hands and feet started to get cold.If you stay any longer, you may get frostbite.The low temperature has put an end to all outdoor activities, and now it is nothing to do if you want to go into the mountains to cut firewood.The Ye family had prepared enough firewood before, but seeing the current situation, they did not dare to use it freely.

Now all the straws are used for cooking and cooking. After all, the output of heating houses is limited. After all, they go to the fields to pick up straws.

When the temperature is low to a certain level, it is difficult for people to notice the temperature drop.Due to the momentary negligence of the kang burners, the temperature of some kang beds was not enough. They learned a lesson and unified the time for adding firewood.The kang-burning masters have rich experience. Although the size and specifications of the kang are different, after several attempts, they already know how much firewood is needed for the size of the kang.In this way, they can adjust the amount of firewood consumption based on the temperature of the kang bed they rest on.

Judging by the firewood consumption these days, the temperature has been dropping.Seeing this momentum, the Ye family members were a little worried.No matter how much firewood they prepare, they cannot withstand such consumption for a long time.

There was a knock on the door. Ye Mingze opened the door and saw that it was his father. He hurriedly let him in and said, "Father, are you here now?"

"Mingze, look, the temperature is getting lower and lower every day. No matter how much firewood we prepare, I will use up the day. Who knows when the weather will warm up? It's a little bit less. I will discuss it with your mother, Lin Wenjue. A family of three will live with you, and the rest will share a room." Although Ye Zewu usually doesn't talk much, he never shirks when it's time for him to speak.

"Father, there are nearly ten of you, will it be a little crowded? Why don't you let Mingxi and Mingjiang come over to my side?" Ye Mingze calculated and found that their house was the least crowded, thinking that their parents were taking care of them.

"The kang is so big, how can it be crowded? Lin Wenjue and Jingzhi are more familiar, and Mingxi and the others will not come to join in the fun when they are together. Living on a kang, but just think about it."

"Okay, then do as daddy said, and I'll talk to Brother Lin." Ye Mingze went back to his room and dressed neatly, and knocked on the door of the guest room against the cold wind.

"Mingze, come here at this time, what's the matter?" Lin Wenjue hurriedly let people in in a thick cotton robe.

Ye Mingze was not embarrassed, and said straight to the point, "It's nothing serious, but the firewood consumption has been a little bit lately, and it's a luxury for two or three of us who are the masters to use one kang in each family. If we want to burn a few kangs less, we come to work with Brother Lin." Discuss, can you live with my family?"

"No problem, it's just a trivial matter. Let's pack up and go." Lin Wenjue had no objection to this, and after hearing this, he and Cai Jin sorted out the package together, and Ye Mingze also stepped forward to help.

Lin Wenjue's family of three didn't have much luggage, so they packed it up quickly.Ye Mingze walked in front with big bags and small bags, and as soon as he opened the door, Cai Jin rushed into the door with Lin Xiu, who was tightly wrapped in a small quilt, in his arms.As a parent, this is probably the case. The children are still young, so naturally they are given priority.

The kang where Ye Mingze and Jiang Jingzhi slept was also rebuilt later, so there is no problem sleeping more than ten people.When there were only four of them in their family, they only slept on the top of the kang.This time Lin Wenjue's family of three came over, they could no longer sleep upright, they had to lie sideways instead.The middle kang path was opened, so that two-thirds of the whole kang was warm.

In order to maintain a private space, the Kang bed is divided into two small spaces by detachable thin wooden boards and cloth curtains.The small partition where Jiahui and Jiayao used to sleep was dismantled and relocated on the kang head in a different direction.Lin Xiu is very quiet at such a young age, not as noisy as Ye Mingze's two sons.Fortunately, Jiahui Jiayao is still young and sleeps most of the time, otherwise, given the energetic appearance of the two little guys, it would take a lot of effort just to take care of them.

"Brother Lin, are you still used to living here?" Jiang Jingzhi put his two sons in the middle of the kang, and let Lin Xiu play with them.It is daytime now, and for the convenience of chatting, the thin wooden boards blocking the middle of the kang bed have long been removed.

"It's good. You know, my house and yours used to sleep in beds. In winter, we would light a brazier. If it was really cold, we would order a few more. Last year, when the temperature dropped so low, it was fine during the day, so we huddled next to the brazier If I can’t get cold, it will be troublesome to sleep at night. The bed is cold for a long time when the fire is not strong enough. Last year, the family suffered. You see, I will come to you to enjoy myself.” Lin Wenjue slept on the kang for the first time, and it felt very fresh.

Jiang Jingzhi said: "I'm used to staying here. At the beginning, I couldn't have fun outside for a few months, and I was really nervous."

"I feel the same way. But now even in the imperial capital, no matter whether it is winter or summer, there are very few people rushing out the door. Most of the restaurants and restaurants are closed, and only a very small number of them are still open. Antiques that were popular in the past are now unavailable. People care about it. It’s not bad like our family. Although it’s down, at least it’s easy to eat and drink. Those ordinary people have a hard life, and it’s getting more and more difficult when they encounter a famine.” Thinking of this, Lin Wenjue sighed.

"We were also lucky, and happened to run into a caravan passing by Yangshan County. But I am very puzzled, why did the caravan choose to set off at this time? They circled back, and they should be on the way at this time. The temperature is so low. If What should I do if I'm trapped?" Cai Jin was puzzled by this.

"Who knows? Since they dare to do this, they must have a countermeasure. I heard that there are sled dogs in the north that can walk freely in the snow, and there are warm clothes such as bear skins. It’s not bad.” Lin Wenjue was familiar with the caravan stewards, and knew some information that others didn’t.

"Businessmen are smart. I guess they have special ways to deal with the cold. They can burn firewood when camping, light charcoal pots when traveling, and put on clothes and hooves for horses. In addition, they have their own unique ways to keep out the cold. As long as they are not covered by heavy snow It is only a matter of time before we return to the imperial capital. There is another advantage of traveling in such weather, that is, there are no pedestrians on the road, let alone robbery." Ye Mingze was sure that more than a thousand people in the caravan could not be so reckless. If they were going on the road at this time, they must have mastered some special way to keep out the cold, but Ye Mingze and the others didn't know it.

Except for the necessary training during cat winter, the rest of the time is really boring. If you don’t think about something to do to pass the time, you will easily get bored.It doesn't mean that Jiang Jingzhi can read medical books to pass the time, what can Ye Mingze do, should he review the Four Books and Five Classics?Now that the imperial examination is out of the question, reading these books seems to be of no use, and reading them once in a while is okay. It is a waste of time to face these books all day long.At this time, it would be more practical to weave a basket.

Of course, people can't just focus on the present moment. A lot of knowledge is not very useful now, but it doesn't mean it won't be useful in the future.If one day the famine ends and a new order is formed, the more stable the social form is, the more important knowledge will be.

Taking advantage of his free time, Ye Mingze began to think about how to impart simple knowledge.The original body was a teacher before, and he had his own plan on how to enlighten himself, with a complete set of teaching plans.Ye Mingze is not the original owner, he only has the memory of the original owner, it is definitely not possible to copy it completely, and he has no intention of that.

Ye Mingze sorted out a complete set of enlightenment books, and consulted the views of the other three scholars present, and finally decided to teach based on past experience, appropriately changing the teaching content and teaching methods, so that teaching is entertaining.The Ye family only Ye Mingze, Jiang Jingzhi and Lin Wenjue and Cai Jin have the qualifications to teach and educate people. The rest of the Ye family, such as Ye Mingxi, are only literate. ?

Literature and art, which are used to cultivate sentiment and improve self-cultivation, are not very applicable at present, but it is good to kill time.Ye Mingze couldn't help but smile when he thought about it, he really wanted to run before he learned how to walk.There are more than 500 people in the Ye family, only a very few can read.Even for these people, most of them don't even know a lot of Chinese characters.As for the others, let alone, they couldn't even recognize their own names.

The four of Ye Mingze naturally started teaching them from the most basic "Thousand Character Classic" and "Three Character Classic". At the same time, they were taught to write numbers, from the simplest Arabic numerals, to simplified Chinese numerals, and to the most troublesome traditional Chinese numerals. They were all required to learn .

Ye Mingze is in charge of teaching 'skills', and the requirements are not high. Everyone must learn the simplest three types of numbers and the multiplication formula of nine to nine.Jiang Jingzhi is in charge of teaching "chess". Among the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, only chess can be easily produced by the Ye family. As for the other "books" and "paintings", even the four treasures of the study are lacking. For the piano, only a few masters have it, and it is difficult to buy it again. . There are many types of 'chess', not limited to go and chess. Ye Mingze also taught Jiang Jingzhi military chess, checkers, flying flags and backgammon, and then he taught others.

Lin Wenjue was in charge of teaching people to read and write. He didn't expect everyone to be able to read everything. At least the older people had to learn to write their own names and be able to understand written documents and deeds.For children, the requirements are stricter, and of course there is no pressure on those who are really untalented.Cai Jin is in charge of teaching "rituals". As the saying goes, there is no rule, no circle, the more chaotic the more uncertain the future, the more morality can't lose the bottom line.Once crossed, it is extremely difficult to turn back.

Teaching 'rituals' now will not require them to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic. They must first protect the Ye family, and secondly protect the Ye family village when they do not harm their own interests.Help if you can, and don't regret if you can't.Never be a bad person, and don't be an ungrateful person.Resolutely fight back against those who want to hurt themselves, Ye family, and Ye family village.

The Ye family school is opened in the main house of the Ye family, and it only opens for an hour in the afternoon. It teaches two classes every day, and the two gentlemen are in charge.In the Ye family, there are fifteen first-entry courtyards and one third-entry main house. There are only four masters, so it is impossible to directly teach hundreds of people.After the four of them discussed, they decided to select a young sentinel or guide of at least level [-] in each courtyard as a representative, and after they learned what was taught that day, they would go back to their own courtyard and teach others.

Due to the lack of the four treasures of the study, the best way to learn to read is to use a sand table.It's just that it's cold now, and it's more troublesome to go to the beach to fetch sand. For the time being, I use charcoal pencils to write and draw on thin wood chips instead.Ye Mingze originally wanted to add the two courses of 'shooting' and 'imperialism', but unfortunately there was no dedicated venue, so he had to give up and rebuild the house after the weather warmed up.

Since everyone started to learn 'chess', the family has become much more lively.Anyway, I have a lot of free time now. Except for Go, which is more complicated, other chess is not easy to learn, but it is very easy to learn.Not to mention checkers and the like, the rules are simpler and you can learn them easily.Novice? The Go board is mostly used to play backgammon.Don't underestimate backgammon, you can't even play it if you don't have any skills.

"Respect, play here, here." Jiang Jingzhi and Cai Jin are playing chess. Ye Mingze's chess is not like a few people who have been immersed in it for many years.

The remaining three were very speechless. They all said that watching chess without talking is a real gentleman. When it comes to Ye Mingze, this rule seems to not exist at all.

Even though Ye Mingze was directing blindly, Jiang Jingzhi just listened to it, it was just for entertainment, he and Cai Jin didn't care about winning or losing, and making people entertained was considered to be the best use of everything.

With Ye Mingze making trouble, the ending can be imagined, Jiang Jingzhi lost completely.Ye Mingze didn't feel guilty because Jiang Jingzhi lost a game because of his random pointers. At the beginning of the second set, he continued to act foolishly, and Jiang Jingzhi smiled good-naturedly.