Chapter 27: Cooling down
It really rained in the middle of the night, and Pei Yao woke up from her sleep, wrapped in a sheet and shivering. She got up and put a thin straw curtain for drying vegetables on the top of the sheet, and she didn't care much, the last time it rained, there was still some summer heat, I didn't feel anything, at most it would be cooler sooner or later, and this time it was even colder when it rained.
I really couldn't stand it, I felt that it was still early before dawn when I looked at the time, so I couldn't help it, so I went down to the ground and raised the fire. He lit a firewood and set up a casserole on top of the fire, and put it in the water that had been stored in the large jar to boil water. After a while, the water in the casserole began to splash from the middle, and Pei Yao scooped boiling water with a water spoon and filled it into a bamboo cup and drank it slowly.
She sat next to the fire and held the hot bamboo tube with both hands, her body slowly eased up, and she felt warm from the heart. The fire was in the middle of the cave, and she moved the rattan stool back, leaning back on the corner of the rack of dried vegetables, and her posture was comfortable, and her mind, which had been a little energetic, began to be a little drowsy again, and watched the light of the fire in front of her reflect the billowing smoke rising upward.
Her eyes were a little divergent, and she was still thinking about it, this cave was well ventilated to light a fire like this, and in winter, the entrance of the cave must be blocked with a straw curtain or something, so how can this firewood smoke be dispersed? Just relying on those few ventilation holes in the cave will definitely not work.
Another is that I don't think about it well, it's cold in autumn, then in winter, there are cotton clothes and quilts, and the body temperature will drop when I fall asleep, and there is no heat source in the cave, even if the characteristics of the cave are warm in winter and cool in summer, I will freeze the quilt and freeze myself, right?
What to do? The quilt can't be too thick, the seven-pound quilt is heavy enough on the body, and in the previous life, I and my grandmother were covered with this kind of big quilt, and the heavy pressure was out of breath. The head is exposed to the cold outside the quilt, the breath is white mist, the dilapidated house does not know where to ventilate, and even the small coal stove under the kang can make the body hot at night. How many times in the morning she has woken up under the mattress, with heavy mattresses and quilts on her body, her stomach is attached to the heat source on the kang mat, and she doesn't like to get up and dress...
Heat! Ondol! Pei Yao's somewhat drowsy head suddenly had a bright light coming in, how about making a kang in the cave? Although I haven't been on the kang, but when the kang hole was blocked at home, my grandmother invited a neighbor to pick up the ashes of the kang, and when it was paved again, she was next to her to start the whole process, and she looked and asked curiously. The neighbor's uncle was not impatient, and when he teased her little girl, he would answer any questions.
Although I have no experience, I have experience in theory and assistants, I can try, I have to solve this matter tomorrow, it's too cold...
"Yawn!" Pei Yao couldn't break her eyelids, she was uncomfortable leaning on here, she always had to fall to one side, she didn't want to go back to the cold bed to lie down, she couldn't help it, she dragged a low shelf for putting things at the door, put it in a place where the fire could be baked, folded the straw curtain on the sheet three times, spread it on the shelf, she wrapped the sheet and lay down on it. Well, it's a little narrow, it's cold or not, and it's not honest to sleep by yourself, so you can't fall down...'yawn'...... Woo... Can't sleep too dead... Don't roll over............
… I didn't sleep well at night, I woke up early in the morning, I was always afraid of falling and didn't dare to sleep again, I got up and added a few sticks of firewood to the fire that had not been extinguished, and turned around and went out of the cave.
This autumn rain is very heavy and windy, the world outside the cave is even colder, even the birds are less calling, looking at the yard and the vegetable field, the wind in the night hangs the dead leaves, making a mess of the extreme place of the eye, and the mountains and forests in the distance are shrouded in fog, which seems mysterious and distant.
After taking a big breath of cold air, shivering, and her somewhat drowsy head was also a lot more sober, Pei Yao stretched her waist fiercely, and felt that the sore bones in her whole body rattled. What a night to behold!
After breakfast, Pei Yao was going to go to the market first, at least she had to take the quilt back and then think about the kang. It's been 4 days, I don't know how much Jiajia and her mother have done, otherwise it will take a few days to pan the kang, what should I do these nights? She didn't want to sleep on a bamboo shelf anymore.
On the back of the rattan basket, inside is the game that promised the second brother of the game Zhai in the last big set, and a bundle of dried cassia herbs on the back basket. Finally, I packed a small basket of dried red dates and prepared them for Aunt Chen, and the last time I saw Aunt Chen's bad complexion, I brought her to replenish her body. After all, after many years of modern education, it is not good to go to other people's homes empty-handed.
When you get your things ready, see how much food is in the rice pot under the bamboo shed, and there is enough water in the cage of the chicks. Then he blocked the rattan gate outside, touched the head of the fat dog Duoduo who was sitting at the door, and told him to take care of the house and pick up the small basket and walk to the path outside the courtyard.
Along the way, the muddy river in the ditch next to it attracted Pei Yao's attention, it rained heavily last night, and the water flow in the ditch rose, and there were many stones that were washed away by the river, which was good for building kang. It can also clear the river channel to prevent it from clogging the river when the water is heavy.