The old man, who was about fifty years old, dressed in shabby clothes, was leaning against the window of the infirmary to bask in the sun.

Since the opening of the medical hall, there are often people resting on the steps outside, Su Yuancheng is not surprised that he is here, but he is very interested in the old man's words, the young master said that the weather is abnormally bad, this old man said that there will be a catastrophe, and I don't know what the disaster is?

"Old man, what is the basis for you to say this?" He thought about it, simply walked a few steps over, sat beside the old man with his clothes on his clothes, and did the same as him, lazily leaning against the wall, looking at the sun in the sky.

When the old man saw him coming, he sat up straight, turned his head, and said, "That's a long story." Thirty years ago, there was such a time in Luoxiang Mansion, and it was also as warm as spring in winter, when everyone was happy, and God felt sorry for us poor people who had no thick clothes to wear, so they deliberately made the winter not cold. ”

Seeing him reply, Su Yuancheng sat up straight, and listened carefully to him, Wei Zhao also paced over at this time, squatting down on the steps on the other side of the old man.

"And then, what catastrophe happened?" Su Yuancheng couldn't wait to ask.

The old man put his hand in his sleeve, sighed and said: "It didn't take long for Luoxiang Mansion to suddenly cool down, the weather was cold and scary, and then it snowed heavily, and the heavy snow fell for seven days and seven nights, because everyone thought that this winter was not cold, so many people did not prepare thick clothes and dry firewood, and after the heavy snow, people went out to find that many people's houses were overwhelmed by snow, and there were not a few people who froze to death from frostbite. ”

"I was in my twenties at the time, and I had just married my wife, renovated my house, and prepared firewood to get through that winter." The old man stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, looked not far away, his eyes were scattered, his expression seemed to be reminiscing, and after a while, he put his hand back into his sleeve, and continued: "There were too many people who died that year. Fortunately, the New Year passed soon, spring began, the weather warmed up again, and the people who survived that winter finally eased up and began to prepare for farming. ”

Su Yuancheng nodded while listening, this is indeed a catastrophe, it seems that this abnormal weather is really not a good phenomenon.

He turned his head and wanted to say a few words to Wei Zhao, and asked him to prepare some firewood and thick clothes, but saw Wei Zhao's calm expression, waiting for the old man to continue, and the old man seemed to be still reminiscing about the past, so he shut up again.

Sure enough, after a while, the old man's voice came slowly: "Who knows, this disaster is far from over. ”

Su Yuancheng was taken aback, it's not over yet?

He looked at Wei Zhao, and when he saw that the young master had such an expression, he knew that he had already guessed that the matter was not over, and hurriedly asked, "Could it be that there is another heavy snowfall in the spring?" ”

The old man and Wei Zhao shook their heads together, and then the old man said, "No, it's moving!" ”

"Ground moving?!" Su Yuancheng's lazy expression was put away all of a sudden, he stood up, came down the steps, and stood opposite the old man, "The ground cow turned over?" ”

The old man nodded, "Yes, the earth cow turned over." ”

When Wei Zhao heard this, he also stood up, the ground moved, and the earth cow turned over, that is an earthquake, in modern times, earthquakes are disasters, and a city is gone at every turn, it is a world of steel and concrete, and if it is overturned, it will be overturned, not to mention the wooden adobe houses of this era.

He guessed that the old man had not finished speaking, but he was thinking about floods or plagues, and if people who freeze to death in winter are not properly buried and resettled, in the spring, after they are warmed up, the corpses will decompose and easily cause plagues.

In addition, the sudden warming of winters is likely to be the "El Niño phenomenon" in the geographical sense.

The main impact of this phenomenon on China is that there is a warm winter in the north and torrential rains in the south, and he remembers that the newspapers said that the floods in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in 1931, 1954 and 1998 all occurred in the year after the El Niño phenomenon.

So he thought the old man was saying that in the summer of the second year, the disaster in Luoxiang Mansion was a flood, but he didn't expect it to be an earthquake.

The old man didn't seem to feel anything unusual about the shock of the two of them, he leaned back against the wall, and said slowly: "Later, I heard from other old people in the village that there had been this kind of weather before, and then there was a catastrophe, or that winter, or the spring and summer of the following year, snow disasters, ground movements, floods, and natural fires, as long as there was such a sudden warming weather, this catastrophe would follow!" ”

Su Yuancheng asked again: "Tianhuo, what is that?" ”

Wei Zhao was also about to ask, is there a volcano here? Is a volcanic eruption called a heavenly fire?

I heard the old man say: "The fire in the sky is the rolling thunder on the ground, the fire starts on a sunny day, burns the mountains and destroys the village, people, you can't run!" ”

Ground rolling mines?

Wei Zhao suddenly realized that he had heard of this.

Su Yuancheng saw that he seemed to know what a rolling thunder was, and hurriedly asked him, "Young master, what is a rolling thunder." ”

Wei Zhao said: "I've heard of this, I haven't seen it, it is said that it is a kind of fireball that will appear when there is thunder before the rain, falling from the sky, and then igniting the grass and trees on the ground, it will cause a fire, but as far as I know, ground rolling mines are not common, and it only appears in some places, such as ravines or open flat land." ”

Su Yuancheng nodded again and again after hearing this, it is so powerful, then this warm winter is really terrible.

He turned his head and asked the old man: "Old man, since you know that there will be a catastrophe after the warm winter, why are you still basking in the sun here, hurry up and go home, prepare things!" ”

The old man stood up slowly and said: "My wives are all dead, coffins and shrouds, I am dead and no one will dress and bury me, there is nothing to prepare, I can live for a day, just a day!" ”

After saying that, he held his hands and walked slowly down the street, Su Yuancheng shouted at his back: "Who told you to prepare these, you old man..."

Wei Zhao grabbed him, "That's it, let him go, don't shout, it's not good to cause panic." ”

Su Yuancheng lowered his sleeves, a little depressed, this old man, after saying such a shocking news, he ran back and prepared to die, what a ......

"Young Master, do you think there will really be a catastrophe?" He suddenly shook his spirit again and grabbed Wei Zhao's sleeve.

Wei Zhao looked up at the sky, shook his head and said: "I don't know, natural disasters are the most difficult thing to predict, or they won't be called natural disasters, but this abnormal weather is really not a good thing, and it's always right to take precautions." ”

"So what are we going to do, what are we going to do?" He looked up at the medical hall and said, "Alas, if the snow is heavy, I will go back and prepare more clothes, shoes and socks, collect more firewood to prepare, and repair the house again. ”

Wei Zhao was wearing narrow-sleeved clothes in the medical hall for convenience, and at this moment he followed the old man's example, kicked his hand into his arms, and then walked to the medical hall, he still had to go back and think about it.