Chapter 81: Snow Clearing
This time it took twice as long to dig through the ice cave than the previous one.
Fortunately, when the ice cave was chiseled, many purple shrimp who were still alive surrounded them, densely packed, which made Li Mu's heart feel a little calmer. However, those dead shrimp cannot be cleaned up for the time being.
"In winter, the temperature is low, and these dead shrimp should not cause major problems in a short time, but you still have to plan ahead." Xie Lingshan put away the kettle and walked to the shore.
Li Mu nodded, his hands were completely numb to the point that he was almost unconscious: "I hope the temperature will rise a little bit tomorrow." "He can't help it, how can such a cold day break through such a wide range and such a thick ice.
Qin Lao didn't stay long before he had already returned to the house to warm himself with the honeycomb coal stove, and when he saw Li Mu and them coming in, he asked, "Chiseled?" ”
Xie Lingshan said: "Well, it's a little bigger than the previous one, but it can only prevent the purple shrimp below from dying of lack of oxygen."
Old Qin nodded, he didn't say anything, these things had to be decided by Li Mu himself.
Qin Xin has already wiped all the snow on the car, and he started it just now, and there is no problem.
"Grandpa, it's getting late, let's get here today."
Qin Lao also said: "It's okay, it's not easy to walk when it's late." ”
It is true that although the snow is thick on the road now, it is not a big problem to drive carefully, but if the snow freezes into ice when it gets dark, it will be troublesome.
Li Mu originally wanted to keep them for dinner, but thinking about it, if they came back in the evening, I was afraid that they would all have to stay here and not be able to go back, so he simply said, "I'll send you." ”
Xiao Man was the most unhappy, he came in the morning, but he returned in the afternoon, and he didn't even eat the spicy purple shrimp, which was a pity.
Li Mu knew what she was thinking when he saw Xiao Man's expression, but considering that the dead shrimp in the fish pond were unlucky, he didn't put forward other ideas.
Outside the house, Qin Xin's car had already started, and the engine was being warmed at this time, Qin Lao and the others rolled down the window after they got into the car and went to Yu Li Mu said: "Xiao Mu, if you have any questions, call Xin'er directly." ”
Li Mu smiled and nodded, suddenly he remembered the welcome pine in the house, and hurriedly ran back to hug it out, Qin Lao's eyes widened when he saw it.
Li Mu opened the car door, Boss Qin smiled and stretched out his hands to take it, and praised Li Mu for his filial piety, as if this was the filial piety of his grandson-in-law.
The engine was almost warm, and Qin Xin said, "Li Mu, today's dinner is not counted, you have to invite us again next time." ”
"Of course, I'm always welcome if you have time." Li Mu responded happily, he wished that Qin Xin would come every day, how could he refuse.
It wasn't until he couldn't see the red car anymore that Li Mu retracted his gaze, and then turned around and ran towards the mountain.
"Mantou, keep up."
"Woohoo." A golden whirlwind blew out of the house, and it chased after Li Mu and followed closely.
The temperature in the mountains is even cooler than in the mountains, so the snow does not melt as quickly and does not freeze yet. Although my feet must be very uncomfortable, I didn't have to worry about falling, so I ran all the way to the waterhole behind the bamboo forest.
The black iron plates are now completely covered with white, and knee-deep snow has accumulated under the iron walls.
Li Mu used the key to open the iron door, dug through the deep snow that blocked it at will, and opened the iron door.
'Whoa'.
A layer of snow poured out as the iron door opened, and Li Mu didn't have time to worry about his shoes before he looked inside, and the scene in front of him made his heart sink.
The small pond with a radius of two meters had completely disappeared, replaced by a thick layer of snow.
The snow falls on the fish pond at the bottom of the mountain, because the fish pond is large, so the snow will slowly melt on it, and then turn into ice, but the waterhole on the mountain is so small that the snow falls and before it melts, it is covered with layers of snow, and finally it becomes the way it looks, and the snow completely buries the waterhole.
"It's a wave of trouble."
Li Mu took two steps back and pulled his legs out of the deep snow.
Without further ado, Li Mu didn't have time to rest and went down the mountain again, this time there was no heavy snow covering the sky, Li Mu went down the mountain very smoothly, drank a bowl of hot water, and carried the hoe up the mountain again.
The steamed bun still followed Li Mu silently, looking like a good daughter-in-law who worked hard.
Li Mu used a hoe to dig out all the snow in the ironwood house, and did not stop until the ground was level with the snow in the pool, and then Li Mu used the hoe to plunge into the snow, with little resistance, and when the hoe went deep into the water, it did not touch the hard object.
Now Li Mu was a little relieved, it seemed that the waterhole was not frozen.
So he hoeed the snow out of the pool again, and only stopped when he could faintly see the surface of the water.
Li Mu didn't know if the snow had any effect on the waterhole, but in any case, he could only passively accept it and wait and see what happened.
Then Li Mucai went to the back mountain to see the situation of the chickens.
Fortunately, although the snow was heavy before, the wind was average, and the snakeskin cloth was honestly tied to the tree. Because of the existence of this snakeskin cloth, most of the chickens below, especially the old hens, survived, and many chickens in the wood-made chicken coop still slept forever.
Li Mu cleared the snow from the snakeskin cloth a little, then dug a deep pit to disperse the hens and bury the dead chicks in the pit.
Li Mu carried a hoe down the mountain, and on the way, he cleared the snow in the sky, and the vegetable field at the foot of the mountain was the same.
The steamed buns were already hungry, and the two black and cute ones were also running around, screaming louder than one.
Knowing that they didn't have enough lunch, Li Mu didn't blame them, he simply washed his hands and face, changed into clean clothes, and began to cook.
The white rice in the kitchen is naturally enough, but the dishes are a little less, since the vegetables at the foot of the mountain are ripe, he no longer buys vegetables from outside, usually he is the only one, the dishes are naturally enough, but now there are more steamed buns and two black Meng Meng These big stomachs, the dishes are definitely not enough.
Li Mu wanted to send them to the mountains to find food by themselves, but he had just come down from the mountain, and there was nothing but snow on it, how could he find food?
"Looks like I'm going to buy some vegetables tomorrow for the winter."
Li Mu simply burned all the remaining dishes in the kitchen, although most of them were vegetarian dishes, and they didn't like to eat steamed buns and black, but they were very happy to drink soup, plus the purple shrimp soup left at noon, it was a fool's way through the night. The three of them also eat vegetarian dishes, especially the vegetables that grew up with black mud, and Meng Meng loves to eat them very much, which can't help but remind Li Mu of the pitiful appearance of Meng Meng when she was young, so hungry that she even gnawed the grass planted in black mud.
Of course, the current Meng Meng is definitely not pitiful, just looking at almost half of the dishes made by Li Mu today into his stomach, you can see it.
At ** o'clock in the evening, all kinds of communication equipment near Lin Yushan were repaired by the relevant staff, and Li Mu only learned about it later when he tried to use wireless Internet access. He searched for today's blizzard as soon as possible, but he didn't need to search because it was already a front-page headline.
'There are doomsday clouds in the sky over Tianmen City, and it is rare to encounter a blizzard in a hundred years to ravage the whole territory'.
'Under the heavy snowfall, the armed police force was dispatched to various remote villages and towns to save many people in need'.
'Doomsday Cloud Conjecture One or Two'.
'Tianmen Blizzard is a natural disaster or **'.
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Following the Xiaoheguo Panda incident, the Daomsday Blizzard of Huaguo Tianmen has once again become a hot topic of conversation on the Internet.