Chapter 145: In the Cave

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Tang Yun's children officially joined Bai Tang and his party. Although it would be troublesome and dangerous to carry a baby on the road, it was impossible for everyone to leave such a small life behind and let her fall into a mortal situation.

Although Tang Yun's child's surname is Tang, she is closer to Tian Yanran, and she likes to lie in Tian Yanran's arms the most, which makes the two men dissatisfied. Tang Minglang pinched the tender flesh on Tang Yun's little face and called her a little conscienceless, while Yuan Mingyi poked Tang Yun's two cheeks, since this little guy came, he had little time to make out with his fiancΓ©e.

The heat continued for another week, and just as everyone felt like they were about to be roasted, a gust of wind suddenly fell from the sky, blowing away the unbearable heat and bringing coolness. But just when everyone has not yet enjoyed this coolness, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and the snow is falling with the wind, and when everyone is amazed at how the snow can fall before autumn comes, the snow has covered the whole world, and it is white, not only covering all the buildings, but even the losers are frozen in the snow, unable to be safe.

The threat of zombies has decreased, but the danger faced by humans has not decreased, and the cold is also a huge threat. In the Ice Age, land overlords such as dinosaurs were frozen to extinction, and now the weather is comparable to the Ice Age, and human beings without thick skin and thick feathers have been dressed very thin because of the hot weather, and many people have frozen to death when the cold snap comes!

"Snow in June! How much of a grievance is this to make such a big snowfall? Tang Minglang wrapped the military coat tightly on his body, the weather was too cold, he was wearing a close-fitting down jacket inside, and a military coat on the outside, it was still uncomfortable. The wind is all frozen bones.

"Isn't it a great injustice that mankind has suffered a catastrophe?" Tian Yanran hugged Xiao Tang Yun close to the fire, this kind of weather, children and the elderly are the most unbearable. The four of them tried their best for the sake of the child, wrapped the child into a ball with various clothes that could keep him warm, and used a small glass bottle as a hand warmer, poured hot water into it to warm the child, and put the child into their own clothes to warm the child with body temperature.

Tang Yun's child is lucky, although she has no parents, but she meets Bai Tang's four capable and good people, otherwise it is inevitable that the child will not be able to survive in such bad weather. Nowadays, children are full of food and drink, nesting in the warm embrace and happily spitting bubbles, and the little faces with meat are extremely cute, which makes people can't help but smile and forget about the harsh environment outside the door.

Bai Tang poked the baby's bun face and said, "Although we found a shelter before the heavy snow fell, I think we should return to S Province as soon as possible!" ”

They are now in a cave, this cave is very old, but the interior is well decorated, and someone should live in it all year round. Cave is a cave or earthen house dug from the cliff of Tushan as a dwelling, which is an ancient form of residence for the inhabitants of the Loess Plateau in northwest China, and the history of this "cave-dwelling" dwelling can be traced back to more than 4,000 years ago. The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, comfortable to live in, energy-saving, and at the same time, the traditional space is permeated with harmony with nature, and the simple appearance is also unique in architectural aesthetics. Digging a cave is a university question, but it is not as simple as digging a hole in the mountain wall. The first is to dig the foundation, and the foundation referred to by the cave is to determine the type of cave to be dug first, and dig the general shape of the cave, which is a hard work. In modern times, it is good to say that mechanical construction can be urgently used, but in ancient times, people could only dig caves by manpower little by little, and use cages to carry up the soil one by one, which is very hard. After the general shape of the foundation is dug, the surface must be repaired and leveled, which is called "scraping the cliff face" by the locals. If the scraper's eyesight, skill, hand strength and strength are good, they can scrape a beautiful pattern on the mountain wall. After the cliff face is scraped, the kiln will begin. Kiln drilling is to dig out the shape of the cave and transport the soil away. You can't be in a hurry to build a cave, because there is a lot of moisture in the soil and it is easy to collapse. After the kiln is laid, it is followed by the kiln, or called "cutting kiln" and "milling kiln". Starting from the top of the kiln, the arch is removed, and the kiln is scraped and smoothed, so that the kiln is completed. After the cave is dried, the loess and crushed wheat straw and mud are used for the mud kiln. The mud of the mud kiln is made of dry soil and tendons, and the plane of the mud is smooth and smooth. Wet soil and muddy stickiness are not easy to use. The mud kiln has at least two layers of mud, one layer of coarse mud, one layer of fine mud, and some of which have three layers of mud. After living for a long time in the future, the kiln wall is blackened, and you can mud again. The third step is to tie gables and install doors and windows. After the kiln mud is finished, then use the soil pendant to tie the gable, install doors and windows, generally the high place on the door is a high window, and the door is parallel to a low window, one door and two windows. The inside of the door is against the window pan kang, and the chimney is set up against the wall outside the door, the kang is against the window to smoke quickly, which is conducive to the cave environment, and is good for the body. After these steps of excavation and repair, the cave was basically dug.

Up to the time of the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty, the earthen caves were all over the mountain valley. "Book of Songs" called "Tao Fu Tao Cave", in the Tang and Song dynasties, the types of caves increased, each cave has a clear division of labor, there are dark villages, Ming Zhuang and courtyard villages, there are small castles in the Ming and Qing dynasties, tall earth walls will enclose a group of caves or soil kangs, in order to defend against military famine and thieves, commonly known as forts. Cave generally has cliff type cave, sunken kiln cave, independent type and other forms, among which the mountain kiln is used more, it is built on the hillside, the edge of the soil plain, often according to the mountain upwards to present several steps of distribution, the lower kiln top is the upper vestibule, the field of vision is broad. The sunken cave is to dig a square pit on the spot, and then dig the cave on the inner wall to form an underground courtyard. The Loess Plateau is the deepest place in the world, and it is also the place with the most and densest caves for residents. The cave is dense and dense, row upon row, some people once said: such as hanging in the clouds and mist of the cave heaven god mansion, like the pearls inlaid on the Loess Plateau.

With the development of the economy, more and more caves are abandoned, few are excavated, and the excavation methods are less and less known, and in another one or two decades, the kiln digging method is likely to be lost. Nowadays, there are not many people living in caves, and most people would rather live in high-rise buildings, even rural residents are willing to build small western-style buildings with two or three floors to live in, rather than living in caves where "the soil has to be slag off". Only the old people who like nostalgia love to live in the cave, after all, the cave is warm in the east and cool in the summer, which is better than staying in an air-conditioned room all day.

Maybe it's the old man who lives there, but the four people of Baitang have built a kang in this cave, and after the fire is burned, it must be very warm to sit on the kang - at least the reason they don't burn the kang now is because they haven't collected enough firewood.

The door of the cave was closed tightly, and the temperature inside the cave was much higher than that outside the cave, which was acceptable to ordinary people. Hearing that Bai Tang was going to brave the cold weather to hurry, the other three hesitated for a moment. The weather outside is too bad, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find such a good place to live again.

"I agree with Bai Tang's suggestion, I want to hurry home, my grandparents and parents are still waiting for me at home. I will return to them safely, and I will not let them worry about it anymore!" Tang Minglang was the first to speak.

Yuan Mingyi thought of the master and uncle who raised him, and the second one agreed.

Tian Yanran hesitated: "We adults can stand the bad weather outside, but what about Xiaoyun?" ”

Sure enough, the child is a **annoyance! Bai Tang frowned, and suddenly he remembered something, and hurriedly concentrated on finding it in his backpack.

"Found it!" Bai Tang happily took out a thumb-sized jade from his bag and handed it to Tian Yanran, "Give this piece of jade to Xiaoyun to wear closely, she won't be cold." ”

"What kind of stone is this?" Tian Yanran asked in surprise, "It can't be the legendary warm jade, right?" ”

"Congratulations, you got it right." Bai Tang said with a smile. This warm jade was bought by her from the mall, it was originally a piece the size of a baby's fist, and after Bai Tang cut it, she made five pendants for Bai Dad, Bai Ma, Xing Xiaokang, Wu Xuemei and Ai Bangxi, and she put the rest of the materials into her backpack casually, and she didn't expect to use it now.

"Is it really Nuan Yu? You're not lying to us, are you? Tang Minglang asked in surprise.

"You can put the jade on your body, and then go outside and take a walk around to verify it."

"Tian Yanran, give me the jade, I'll go out and try it!" Tang Minglang was eager to try.

The milky white jade is as warm as fat, falling in the palm of the hand, and a warm current comes from the palm of the hand, which instantly travels all over the body, making people feel warm and comfortable. Tang Minglang rushed back less than two minutes after going out.

"Really, it's really Nuanyu. Although it can't completely resist the cold, it's much better than when you didn't wear jade, at least you won't have that freezing feeling from the bottom of your bones. Tang Minglang danced excitedly.

"The volume of the warm jade should be too small, and it can only play a little role for adults to wear, but it is just right for a child like Xiaoyun!" Yuan Mingyi speculated.

Bai Tang nodded and confirmed Yuan Mingyi's words. When she made pendants for her family, she assigned the size of warm jade according to each person's body shape.

"Bai Tang, do you have any other warm jade? It doesn't matter how big it is, I'll buy it with you! Tang Minglang returned the thumb-sized warm jade to Tian Yanran, and Tian Yanran stuffed it into Xiao Tang Yun's clothes and put it close to his chest.

"You don't have to buy it, it's all some leftovers, I'll give it to you!" Bai Tang said and grabbed a few warm jade remnants from his backpack, the largest one was no more than the size of a small thumb, and the smallest one was the same size as a mung bean, and its role was really limited.

"Bai Tang, you are such a good person!" Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi Tian Yanran were extremely happy, and each of them picked a piece of warm jade the size of a small thumb and wore it close to their bodies. Immediately they felt the warmth on their bodies, Yuan Mingyi took off his military coat, and he didn't feel cold when he was wearing only a down jacket.

The remaining warm jade scum Baitang was not taken back, and was cheekily put into his bag by Tang Minglang. The child wanted to take these warm jades home to his grandparents, although the two elders were in good health, but after all, they were old, and Tang Minglang was worried that they would not be able to withstand this cold weather.

Tian Yanran felt the warm temperature on her real body, and said with a smile: "Let's have a hearty meal tonight, let's set off tomorrow!" ”

"What do you want to eat?" Chef Bai Tang asked.

"Hot pot! You should eat hot pot on such a cold day, and it's easy to make! We can all help! ”

Bai Tang felt that this Jian yì was very good, and with a wave of his hand, he took out beef, vermicelli, potatoes, ham sausages, luncheon meat and hot pot base from his backpack and handed them to Tian Yanran. Tian Yanran put the small buns on the soil kang, boiled the water to boil the hot pot base, and by the way, instructed Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi, two big men, to peel potatoes and cut beef. Bai Tang does the most important one, preparing the dipping sauce. Whether the hot pot is delicious or not, the dipping sauce is the most important. Baitang is in a good mood and has made several kinds of dipping sauces, including sesame sauce base with fermented bean curd, garlic coriander, leek flowers, chili oil base with chili powder, sesame pepper powder, millet pepper and chopped coriander and green onion, sweet and sour sauce base with coriander horseradish, sesame oil base with sesame peanuts, crushed garlic, chili noodles, chopped green onions, sand tea sauce with minced mustard, garlic and pepper sauce, peanut butter base with seafood soy sauce, garlic searice coriander, fried peanuts...... Loved by the other three. However, Bai Tang likes the original flavor of hot pot, and simply uses sesame oil with garlic paste.

After eating a meal for nearly an hour, and after eating hot and sweating, the four of them fell asleep comfortably. The next day, a few people were ready to go, but they found a very important problem.

"The snow on the ground is more than a meter thick, and the car can't drive at all, how are we going to go?" Yuan Mingyi looked at the other three people blankly, and the three of them gave him the same blank looks.

"It's heaven to keep people! We're not leaving? Tian Yanran asked. She is the most indifferent of the few, there are no relatives in S province and D city, and she has no urgent desire to go home.

"No, you have to go! We've been delayed for a long time along the way, I don't want to delay any longer, I don't feel at ease not seeing my grandparents and parents! Tang Minglang gritted his teeth and looked at the white road ahead, determined and determined.

"Me too!" Bai Tang also expressed his firm determination to go.

"How to get there? If you use two legs, you can't go far, and your legs will freeze and be wasted! Tian Yanran frowned.

"Lin Hai Snow Plain!" Baitang Road.

"What?" The other three didn't understand what Bai Tang meant.

Bai Tang: "Have you seen Xu Ke's "Lin Hai Snow Plain"? ”

Tang Minglang and the three of them have all watched the movies directed by Xu Da and contributed to its box office. Hearing Bai Tang's words, Tang Minglang and Yuan Mingyi's eyes lit up at the same time: "Skiing!" ”

But what better way to get around than to ski and snow?

"But we don't know how to ski, do we?" Tian Yanran pointed out an important point.

"You can practice! Our comrades in the movie can't ski, won't they be able to do it after practice? We're better than them, so we'll be able to learn it quickly! Tang Minglang said optimistically. There was hope for going home, and the child was in a good mood. (My novel "The Life of Time and Space" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100 lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )R1152