Volume 1 Chapter 94 After the Disaster
When I woke up in the morning, I should have made a good breakfast to compensate for myself, but I have been physically and mentally damaged for the past five days, and at the same time, I was able to regain my strength!
But when I saw everything outside, my stomach was full of fire, and I was so full of anger that I could not care about eating......
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to eat every day, and it is not very comfortable to be a little late, but when a more serious problem really occurs, I don't want to eat at all, but want to solve things as soon as possible!
I fed the chickens and sheep as fast as I could, and rushed to the field to rescue the corn, which was already in the afternoon, and finally the most important things were done, and my stomach was protesting strongly against me.
However, the problem of eating does not seem to be so simple, the firewood in the kitchen was transferred to the outside and saw that it was all soaked by rain, and at first I was lucky to think that some of the middle and lower classes should be able to keep dry, this is good, I really have to go to the cave to transport firewood!
After more than half an hour, I was finally able to cook after bringing firewood back from the cave, and I was so hungry that my chest was close to my back.
But the house leak happened to rain overnight, and then another problem arose, the kitchen was not safe!
Hundreds of tiles have been blown off the roof of the house, and some fixed wood has also been blown open, and some of the tiles are crumbling and will fall from the roof at any time and hit the head.
Minor illnesses and injuries can be solved hastily by themselves, and no matter how bad they are, they can get through, if they are smashed out of the head, the situation will be quite dangerous, especially the problem of infection!
For the sake of safety, I can only use a few bricks to build a temporary stove outside the house for emergency, it seems that the roof problem should be solved immediately, otherwise it will be scary to sleep at night!
I wanted to save time and I used to use two fried dried fish, I used to think that the dried fish was so unpalatable that I wanted to vomit when I ran out of oil, but now I think the fried dried fish tastes good, and sometimes I miss the taste very much.
After gobbling up the lunch, the next thing is mainly the problem of the roof, the house is scattered with broken tiles that have fallen to the ground, and the kitchen is piled up with broken tiles, which is very appropriate to describe as ruins.
At first, I thought about cleaning up the debris on the ground, but then I realized that it would keep falling when I went to the house for renovation, so I simply gave up and just picked up the few dozens of tiles on the ground that were not broken.
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With three or four hours left before dark, I climbed up to the roof with a ladder, and it would take at least two or three days for the roof to return to its original state, in case it rained.
Fortunately, there are still hundreds of pieces left in the kiln fired last time, which is more than enough to make up for the gap this time, otherwise you will have to numb claws, at least one room will have a huge gap, and you will have to wait for at least nearly a month for the next kiln to come out.
This also proves the correctness of my preparation in advance, if there is no idea and practice of being prepared for danger in times of peace, it is very likely to go crazy when encountering this situation!
The simple renovation is several times faster than the original tiling, because the most troublesome step is the frequent lifting of tiles up and down the roof, which can now be omitted.
I only need to keep renovating the roof, and then make up for the lack of a room after the renovation, and the tiles in the two large rooms are only a few dozen, which is quite convenient, and after three or four hours, the room where I live is almost half of the area.
At least every day, the main activity area in the room --- bed, no longer have to worry about rain, and finally the rain cloth can be removed......
The next day's work continued to focus on renovating the roofs, and the two main rooms were finally rebuilt, and the floors were cleaned at the same time.
It was a sight to see when the room was back in a tidy state again, and it was like living in a garbage heap when I recalled the days since the typhoon.
On the third day, the kitchen was renovated, and it was in a different condition than the other two rooms, except for about a third of the tiles that had been scraped off, and dozens of pieces of wood that were not very firmly fixed were blown open.
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The kitchen was much smaller, but the amount of work was much larger, and it took a day to re-fix the various structures of the beams, and this work continued until the afternoon of the fifth day, when the roof of the kitchen was finally restored to normal.
The bad news doesn't stop there, when I was cleaning the kitchen, I found that the clay pots and clay pots on the stove were also smashed, I didn't notice it a few days ago, and when I cleaned it carefully, I found that there were one or two cracks, and it was reimbursed!
The loss of three pieces of pottery at once is also quite heart-wrenching!
The kitchen stove had to be repaired with mud because it was soaked by rainwater, but after a few busy days, the direct impact of the typhoon on me was basically eliminated.
It's just that there are not many tiles left in the house after filling the gap in the kitchen, and it seems that there is time to make a batch of bricks and tiles for backup, and no one knows when this kind of natural disaster will happen again!
This experience made me realize the convenience of having enough materials, and without these hundreds of tiles prepared in advance, my busy time would have lasted intermittently until at least next month!
Today I went to the fish pond to catch two fish and stew, the fish did not run away is a great comfort to me, but the road that was originally quite easy to walk down was blocked by the fallen woods.
A few days ago, when I checked the condition of the fish pond, I could barely get through the cracks, and today I will definitely not be able to do the same as last time, but I am ready to open the old road again.
This busy time is half a day, and the road to the fish pond has finally been widened to the previous extent, and even exceeded.
The situation in the woods seems to be impossible to check in detail in a short period of time, and it is so blocked that there is no way to walk, and you can only wait for various branches and leaves to dry up before you can slowly clean up, but you don't have to worry about firewood in the next few years, there are ready-made firewood everywhere!
While I moved some of the wet items in the house to my room to dry, I continued to clean up the crops, and there were a lot of branches and leaves flying in there, which would also hinder the growth of crops.
After clearing them one by one, there is nothing to worry about in the field, even if the tender corn is edible now, I am not very reluctant, so I can only turn my attention to the seaside!
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I'm going to go to the beach to see if there are any new supplies, the last super typhoon destroyed my house, and I also sent a fishing boat, what will happen this time, it's quite worth looking forward to......
The way down the hill was unexpectedly difficult, the same as the way to the fishpond, and even though I knew before I went out I needed to take a long knife and an axe with me, I was blocked by the branches on the ground.
I set off at 8 o'clock in the morning and waited until about 11 o'clock to get down to the beach, and when I came down, I felt almost exhausted, but I didn't need much physical strength to walk on the beach!
The three-hour cleanup was still fruitful, and the road down the mountain before was restored to normal again, and it was much easier to go up and down the mountain in the future!
The seaside scene was the most unsightly time in the past few years on the island, and the beach used to be clean and refreshing, and it was covered with some relatively small branches and various leaves.
When walking, I was worried about tripping over tree branches, which also made the process of searching for supplies by the sea today not as easy as before, a bit like looking for wheat in a rice bowl.
A few hundred meters after the departure, I discovered a poisonous snake hidden under a tree branch, and was sent to see the Buddha, which made me more careful in the next journey!
Even if there are very few snakes on the island, if you are bitten, the consequences are unimaginable......
There isn't much garbage on the beach, unlike the fantasy in my mind that the ground should be full of garbage that has just been swept up by the waves, which is a little disappointing!
There is no case of a ship running aground this time, after all, modern technology is so advanced, ninety percent of ships can see the weather forecast in advance and enter the port to avoid the wind, even if some adventurers see that the situation is not right, they turn the bow of the ship to dodge.
Continue walking along the beach while checking the value of the garbage along the way, it took about six hours to get home, and the harvest was still there, but it wasn't too good.
In addition to the most common plastic bottles, there is also a half-new women's cotton suit, the size of which is completely unacceptable after cleaning, but it is not bad to change it into a vest.
There is also an older thermos pot, which is also a very practical tool, before going out is to fill the boiling water after cooling, and only drink cold boiled water in winter, and you can drink hot water when you go out in winter, and its discovery is satisfying.
In addition, there is a pound or two of scrap iron removed from some things, and there are no other valuable things in the rest, in general, there is nothing I expected, or maybe my expectations are too high!
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I spent the next week or so clearing the woods within two hundred meters of the surrounding area, which is a lot of money, mainly because I haven't had anything else going on lately.
I think it is still very necessary to clear the surrounding 200 meters of woods, in addition to collecting a lot of firewood and making it easy to walk, it can also provide me with a warning distance of 200 meters, once there is any wind and grass momentum in the range, I can quickly detect it.
At the same time, you can also take this opportunity to collect a large number of good timber that you usually need, and you can always need to build houses and sheepfolds, chicken pens and other projects.
This work continued until the corn matured in late October, and although there were only about 300 corn plants, it was very damaging to my mood and reminded me of the thousands of corn plants in the area before the typhoon.
But it took a lot of effort for me to harvest these 300 plants, and no grain and no harvest is the best reward for me!
This year's corn yield per plant is much worse than last year's, and it is estimated that the yield will be reduced by more than 10 percent.
Fortunately, there are close to 400 catties of corn at home, plus the amount of 200 catties, it is not a big problem to survive until the next season next year, after all, there are not many chickens now.
Compared with last year's busy corn harvest, this year is much more chic, and it only takes half a day to take back all the drying fields, and even a few drops of sweat have not been shed.
Think about it another way, the corn every year is always worrying, although there are not many this season, it is finally recovered, but it is a matter of heart!