Volume 1 Chapter 52 Counting the Losses
The long night is finally over, and I may only sleep for about two hours on and off for a night, not only did not play a role in getting enough rest for my body and mind, but I was more tired than before bed!
As soon as the morning dawns, instead of going on like this without sleep, it is better to get up and clear the house, build a new house a day earlier, and leave the dangerous cave a day earlier.
I returned to the collapsed house with the tortillas and axes I had made last night, and everything here was the same as when I left yesterday, and the idea that it was just a dream was frustrated!
There are not many greens left in the field from the previous season, and the seeds will definitely not be harvested, and the loss of the new season is smaller, because it is still relatively low.
The corn and peanuts have been harvested, and the ground is empty only more than ten square meters of sweet potatoes and more than half an acre of green vegetables, so the crops do not need to be worried.
Some of the smaller fish ran away from the fish pond, and the remaining rough estimate was forty or fifty catties, which already gave me a lot of face, and I was even worried that there would be no one left before I came.
Along the fish pond to the place where the water flow passed by the sea, I picked up about ten catties of fish that went down the river but could not escape, and half of them were still relatively fresh.
Fish ponds and crops are relatively not to worry about, then things are relatively simple, today in addition to mowing grass and feeding sheep is mainly to clean up the things in the house first, count the loss, and try to remedy.
Every bit of food left is more important to me, and it may be delayed in the post-disaster reconstruction work for a long time, if you don't have to worry about food, then the worries will be solved!
I had to pause the clean-up for two hours, I went back to the cave and stewed the fish into a pot, just after eating only two tortillas for breakfast, I didn't eat much, and a pot of fish soup and tortillas was enough food for the whole day.
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After eating and drinking, the remaining half pot of fish was moved outside the hilltop house along with the clay pots, and the next step was to start the official cleaning of the house......
What makes me sigh is that fortunately it is not a fire, if it is a fire, there is basically no need to clean it up, that is the real annihilation of the whole army!
Since the roofs of several rooms were blown off, the cleaning work was a lot of time-saving.
The rest is a wall made of wood, and you can directly carry it away by cutting the rope for binding with an axe, which is not too disorganized and indirectly speeds up.
The direction of the collapse of the house is from the kitchen to the toilet, so the cleaning sequence starts from the kitchen.
One by one, the loose timbers were carried to the open space more than ten meters away and piled together, and if they had been fixed with nails, the speed would have been reduced several times!
It is always easier to destroy than to destroy, and for three or four hours in the morning the entire kitchen wood has been cleared and piled up in the distance to form a small mountain, and I am ready to rest for lunch.
The intense work of the morning has left the body with a slight feeling of soreness, especially in the shoulders.
After the typhoon, the weather returned to normal today, and the clear sky was very incongruous with the rainy weather in my heart, but the fish in the morning did not need to be heated by fire under the high temperature, and the lunch was directly solved with corn.
At this time, the sound of the sheep caught my attention, perhaps because they felt unfair when they saw me eating lunch, regardless of them, and they really didn't pay much attention to them when they were busy, and they have indeed suffered a lot lately!
After filling his stomach, he could only temporarily stop working and go to the hillside to mow grass for the sheep, and the sweet potatoes were only more than ten square meters in total, and the limited Teng Man could not consume a few days at all.
More can only be replaced with weeds, and the recent food problems of the sheep have worried me!
The devastated woods were not as easy to move as usual, and a lot of grass was crushed by fallen branches, and it was not easy to walk in them, so it took a lot of effort to cut two large bundles of grass.
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This is basically a day's food for a few sheep, and I can't take another hour or two to mow the grass before dark, and I can only grieve them for a while in the future.
The area of several houses is not small, and less than half of the area will be cleaned in a day, which is still the result of a moment's rest, and it seems that it will be a long process to live close to a new house!
Most of the items that had been placed in the former kitchen and the second room before dark were cleaned up and piled aside, and I was going to take stock of the damage and salvage them after all the items were cleared.
After a busy day, he was already covered in stinky sweat and looked like a homeless man, so if he went back directly, he would definitely be itchy and unable to sleep at night.
The conditions are already very difficult, and with some influencing factors, it will be even more difficult to fall asleep.
Thanks to the replenishment of a large amount of water in one day, the position of the well water is about two-thirds again, and there is no need to worry about water shortage.
After taking off my clothes, I stood directly by the well and took a bath with a washed pottery bowl to scoop water, and a cold bath instantly removed most of the fatigue on my body!
There was still an hour or so before dark, and it was almost time to go back, so I fetched a few bottles of water in the well and went to the fish pond to catch fish on the way, and the day was almost over.
There will still be a fish of one or two catties for dinner, and now the labor intensity is very high, and the tortillas alone can't replenish enough energy for the body, but it's a pity that only these two foods are too monotonous recently!
While grilling the fish, I was not idle, and I also collected firewood not far away, and when it was completely dark, the fish was basically ready, and the firewood was collected enough to make two meals.
It's not over yet, after eating the grilled fish, I have to spend time mixing cornmeal to make tortillas, tomorrow's rations can only be prepared at night to ensure that the precious time of the day is not delayed, every minute and second of the day is very important to me!
Not only has the living conditions deteriorated, but the food has also deteriorated compared to before the typhoon.
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The only option is to work on the fish and cornmeal recipe, and the grilled fish in the evening is topped with a layer of oyster sauce, which is already a very delicious food for a few days.
Before I went to bed at night, I slapped myself so angrily that the mat and sheepskin were found in the ruins and put aside, which could have been cleaned and could definitely be used at night under today's heat.
But I just forgot about it, and it seems that I can only sleep on the ground at night.
After giving myself a long memory, I decided to wash them first tomorrow morning, so that I don't have to sleep on the floor tomorrow night, and only when I have a good sleep can I have a good mental state and work better......
Thinking about it, I fell asleep after a while, the arrears of the past few days and the high-intensity work during the day really made the body exhausted to the extreme, I thought I would lose sleep again tonight!
The next day's work went as scheduled, thanks to God's care, the weather was better these two days, if I were to be given a rainy day at this time, there would be no place to cry.
After coming in the morning, of course, I washed the straw mat and sheepskin first, they still have a very good effect on helping sleep, the main thing is that there are better options why not use it!
In the afternoon, only half of the area of the first room and the toilet were not cleaned, all the belongings were piled aside, and I could finally start cleaning up my losses, and there were not a few things that were smashed, and my heart was dripping blood at this time!
Counting the two clay pots that were brought to the cave, there are only 5 left, 15 pottery bowls and pottery plates, 4 pottery cups, and large clay jars filled with corn and fresh water are basically intact because they are relatively thick, which is a great luck in misfortune.
There are still 4 clay pots left, but fortunately the pot for mutton is fine, but the small clay pot for salt and the clay pot for making soup have been smashed.
The salt melts directly after the rain, so now there is no salt to eat, so we can only rely on the salt in the oyster sauce to temporarily meet the body's needs.
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Three bottles of oyster sauce were lost, one bottle was left, three of the fire folds were damaged by rainwater, and the plastic box was smashed, which made me very sorry, but its sealing effect was very large.
The corn in the large clay jar was wet, and the corn was sprinkled directly on the ground after the two clay pots containing corn were smashed, and the peanuts were basically unharmed because they were packed in the rainproof cloth, and only a small amount of rain went in to get a little wet, and they also needed to be dried again.
As a last resort, the large vat filled with fresh water was empty and filled with peanuts, and the rainproof cloth was released to dry the corn first, and only eighty percent of the two cans on the ground were picked up, and a small part was abandoned because it was mixed with the muddy soil.
Everything was wet, including dried corn and peanuts, but most of them had been dried in the sun yesterday, and they weren't food, so the only ones that needed to be dried most at the moment were corn and peanuts.
Wash all the corn picked up on the ground with clean water, and pour the corn in the vat into a rainproof cloth.
Don't worry about the dark and rain anymore, it's soaking wet anyway, broken jars!
More than half of the glass bottles of various sizes are lost, the small amount of straw paper itself is also wet and dried, the stove is broken, and other undamaged clothes are all stained and need to be cleaned.
Metal objects such as kitchen knives, daggers and hoes are well preserved.
Although it took a few days for the soaked corn and peanuts to dry again, most of them were rescued, which was a great comfort to me!
There are not many things in itself, so the speed of cleaning up is also very fast, and the damage is all counted in about an hour, and the next work is mainly to dry corn and peanuts and rebuild after the disaster!
In general, this typhoon almost made me lose my life and also suffered huge losses, especially in terms of houses, followed by all kinds of pottery and living materials, but things have happened and I can only find a way to remedy it, I won't think too much, because the more I think about it, the more angry I am!
The clay pot of mutton and a bottle of oyster sauce, as well as important items such as daggers and kitchen knives, were carried to the cave, and the other bottles and jars that were placed on the ground had to be stored in this way.
At night, I was finally able to sleep on straw mats and sheepskins, and I was able to catch up with the living conditions in the house, except for the uncomfortable narrow cave, and at least I would not be able to sleep all night.
The next day I was going to rebuild the grass hut near the cave that had been blown away, and although the top of the cave was blown away, several pillars were still strong, and the cave alone was still too crowded and worried about the trouble of rainy days, and the work of rebuilding it was relatively small!
Hurry up and hurry up and finally make the grass shed before it gets dark and move some things into it, for the time being, most of the belongings will be placed in this grass shed, and the heart will collapse a lot without being drenched in the rain!