Chapter Eighty-Five: A Visitor on the Iceberg
When the weather is cold, then there is nothing to do to make money, and I can't help but be unable to help but have no road.
The clammy cold in the south is really terrible, maybe people who have been living in the south can't feel it, but how do northerners feel when they come to the south in winter?
The feet are stiff, no matter how thick they are, they are frozen, and then when they sleep at night, it is even more terrible, and northerners will feel that the quilt in the south is wet, which shows how big the moisture in the air in the south is.
For example, if there are several floors of the house, the people of the northerners like to live on the first floor, they feel grounded, but the south is different, in the south if you live in a brick house on the first floor, the ground is wet, easy to get rheumatism.
In the winter, the farm work basically ceases, and most of the day is spent around firewood and fires, and the women of the family begin to take out needlework and thread to mend clothes and trousers, or make pairs of cloth shoes out of twine.
If you go out, you will also hit pigweed, and the pigweed at this time is actually radish leaves and the like, of course, even if it is a vegetable leaf, there is a thick layer of ice on it, because it is drizzling in the sky, and the rain is frozen when it lands, which is freezing rain.
There is also a big pig at home, as well as five wild boar cubs, this wild boar cub is now half a year old, how can it be about 150 pounds.
What is the concept of six pigs? Six pigs means that you have to carry at least three pigweeds a day, and each pigweed must be more than 100 catties.
Guo Qu's father is still very weak, and this is not something that can be recuperated in a month or two, so he let him take the girl at home, while the old man, Guo Qu and his mother went to get pigweed.
The feeling of starting with the extreme cold can be described as very exciting, less than two minutes to feel the palm of the hand, withdraw the hand to cover the mouth and take a breath, let the hand feel a little warm, and then continue to pull the radish, after pulling it up, gently knock the radish with the back of the knife, and the ice cube slides to the ground.
When I got home with the pigweed on my back, I put down my back and walked quickly to the stove, and my hands were roasting on the stove, and the water vapor rose like mist, more and more.
At this time, I began to feel pain in my hand, and it turned out that my hand had been slightly frozen.
On such a cold day, the pigweed must be cooked before it can be fed to the pigs, otherwise it is estimated that the pigs will be thin and only skeletons in a few days.
As we all know, when the weather is cold, all creatures like to shiver, this is the body is producing heat, need to consume energy, where does the energy come from? Food, when the food is insufficient, it will decompose fat, protein and nucleic acid, this is the knowledge of high school.
Although there is not much work in winter, but the energy consumed is several times that of other times, just because the weather is cold, so how to reduce the consumption of energy? Drink hot water, roast the fire next to the fire, and maintain the balance of body temperature.
You can't carry the pig to the fire, can you?
So what to do?
Give them pig food to cook, so that they can consume less energy.
In addition to feeding the pigs, few people go out during the day, after all, it is only freezing rain, not snow.
The day passed like this, Guo Qu's uncle was still killing pigs, as for Guo Qu's uncle, because she was the only one at home, she felt bored and ran over to find Guo Qu's mother to set up a dragon gate array.
His aunt talked until dark, and then she was ready to go back to cooking, but when she opened the door, she froze in place.
"Little, Xiaoqing, how did you get here? It's freezing outside......
Guo Xiaoqing's face was red, not healthy red, but frozen red, "You are not at home, I screamed several times, huhu, let me go to the roasting fire, but I am frozen to death." ”
Then a cold air rushed towards Guo Qu, and even the people in the room couldn't help but shiver, not to mention Guo Qu's feelings.
Guo Xiaoqing roasted the fire without saying a word, and it took five or six minutes before he exhaled heavily, "But I was so cold that I almost didn't come back." ”
"How did you get here?" Guo was curious, his cousin was in the county seat.
"Don't mention it! The road is impassable, the car is afraid to go on the road, I don't have a fire in the city, it's cold, and there are few people on the street, yesterday I lay on the bed in the house for a day, and my whole body was covered in the quilt and I couldn't feel the warmth, and if I continued like that, I guess I was afraid that I would freeze to death, and then I would come back. ”
"So?" Guo went to look at his cousin in a daze.
"So I walked back, from morning to now, and luckily came back before dark. ”
"Awesome!" Guo went to give Guo Xiaoqing a thumbs up and couldn't help but say.
Sanyuan to Qixing is a full 42 kilometers, this winter, he walked back with two legs alone! Guo Qu was deeply admired, but he was not surprised, because he had also walked through, also in the winter, from dawn to dark, without stopping, when he was hungry, he would break an icicle and chew it, that was the memory of his previous life, too profound, completely unforgettable.
Guo went to his mother and hurriedly started cooking, but Guo went to his aunt and insisted on going back to cook, but the old man said, "What are you doing now, you don't have a fire in your house now, do you want Xiaoqing to go back and continue to be frozen?
No one dares to touch the authority of the old man, because he is a reasonable person, he easily does not speak, and when he speaks, he cannot not listen.
"Whew! It's so comfortable! It's still comfortable at home!" Guo Xiaoqing began to enjoy the warmth, at this time he was like a feather ascending immortal, his whole body was steaming, and the girl who saw it was excited, and then the girl reached out to grab the hot air that came out of Guo Xiaoqing's body, maybe it was boring, and it didn't take long for her to lose interest, and she lay obediently in Guo Qu's arms, holding in her hand what she had always refused to give to others, all five yuan for a dime.
"Go and change your clothes and pants, look at you, your clothes and pants are soaked!" Guo Xiaoqing said distressedly.
"I'll roast it for a while, it's so comfortable to have a fire. ”
She didn't say anything more, got up and went out, and in less than ten minutes, she came back with a set of clothes, "Oh! Go to your brother's house and change the clothes on your body, if you continue like this, I'm afraid I'm going to get sick." ”
Guo Xiaoqing left a little reluctantly, and it could be seen that he was scared.
After changing his clothes and coming out, he sat down on a stool again, and put his hands around the stove to make a fire.
"You've been following the road back?"
"No, the front section is to follow the road, but after the border of Sanyuan Township, I will take the small road, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to get home after dark. ”
"But the trail is not easy to walk, a big slope almost didn't climb me, and then I came to the top of the mountain and found that it was not good to go downhill, there was really no way, I sat on the ice and slid all the way down the hill. ”
Guo Qu stretched out his thumb again and said sincerely, "Amazing! You are a visitor on the iceberg!"