Chapter 255: Preparing for the Locust Plague
The people on the Niu family's side are all there thinking about those who have and don't. See if you can catch a few more fish to keep yourself fed.
And everyone in the Wu family is still at this time, insisting on Maodong.
They, young and old, eat only one meal a day.
Staying in bed every day, either eating or sleeping, Wu Guifang gradually felt that she had gained weight.
She found herself now, is really fat.
Glutinous rice persimmon cakes, wafer biscuits, instant noodles soaked in water, small twist flowers, dried vegetables and fruits,...... Wu Guifang eats every day.
Moreover, Wu Guifang insists on drinking a bowl of honey tea every day.
Ensuring that she eats and drinks well every day, Wu Guifang slowly raised milk-like skin.
Her current body is much whiter than before.
It's just that Wu Guifang feels that she has the biggest problem now. That's all four of her wisdom teeth, all of which have erupted.
Moreover, all the wisdom teeth behind her upper teeth were crooked.
They are always against the front teeth.
Therefore, when Wu Guifang sleeps at night, she can always clearly feel the soreness of normal teeth squeezed by wisdom teeth.
In addition, the two wisdom teeth that she grew underneath were all hidden in the flesh.
Moreover, they should be impacted wisdom teeth. And it's lying there.
Therefore, Wu Guifang can feel pain every day!
When the wisdom teeth didn't hurt, Wu Guifang didn't feel anything. But once they hurt, Wu Guifang felt that these 4 wisdom teeth were simply going to kill her.
When her teeth hurt, she can't sit or stand, and her whole body is uncomfortable. The head also felt pain.
When her teeth don't hurt, Wu Guifang always feels that her stomach hurts.
After all, her current body is almost 50 years old.
At such an age, she can still get pregnant during menopause, Wu Guifang is worried every day.
Because childbirth is a huge risk for every woman.
There are never fewer women who die because of giving birth.
When there is no accident, all women can be lucky and say that their luck should not be so bad.
However, once people encounter a bad situation, then they will definitely not have any regrets.
Because pregnant women who encounter emergencies will die directly within a few minutes.
Thinking of those bad things, Wu Guifang's head couldn't calm down. She felt like she couldn't calm down.
After all, she was going to give birth to her baby next summer.
The coming summer is not a good season.
Because a large number of locusts will fly from the northwest.
They fly from north to south and move all the way south. The vegetation along the way, especially the rice and wheat planted by farmers in some places, and other green vegetables, including the grass that humans do not like to eat, will be eaten by waves of locusts.
Thinking that there would be a locust plague in the future, Wu Guifang began to clean up the rags he had collected.
She remembered that there were a lot of tattered fishing nets in the rags.
These nets are not clean, dirty. It also smells of fishy fish.
Even so, Wu Guifang still used her spare time to use her butterfly brand sewing machine to sew those tattered fishing nets tightly and tightly, section by section.
It took about half a month for Wu Guifang to see the fruits of her labor.
The nets were made very dense by her.
Wu Guifang dared to pat his chest and promise that if the waves of locusts flying from the northwest encountered this fishing net, then they would basically not be able to escape.
At least for a short time, there is no escape.
In the following month, Wu Guifang endured stomach aches from time to time, endured toothaches caused by wisdom teeth, and sewed all the large fishing nets densely.
After she did what she was doing, Wu Guifang suddenly found that more than a month had passed.
Over the course of more than a month, the temperature outside has dropped and dropped.
Wu Guifang took the thermometer and measured it, and the temperature outside dropped by at least more than 10 degrees.
That is, the temperature is now minus seventeen or eighteen degrees.
The weather is minus 178 degrees, and it is really terrifying.
Especially when the snow outside is almost more than a meter deep.
After three days of heavy snowfall, everyone in the Wu family was already stunned.
Wang Jinlian, who thinks she is well-informed, once when Wu Dahu shoveled all the snow in the yard with his family and men, she couldn't help but open the crack in the door and secretly look outside.
Seeing the heavy snow outside, it was really a goose feather snow. It's like it never stops.
Wang Jinlian couldn't help but let out a few exclamations, "My little girl, it snows so hard every day, is there a snow disaster?" ”
For Wang Jinlian, the snow disaster in front of her is really rare in a century.
It's just too big.
Coupled with the extremely low temperature outside, Wang Jinlian felt that in this year's extremely cold winter, she didn't know how many people would freeze to death.
The men, women, and children of their family now don't go outside to go to the toilet.
They just made a bucket made of wood and put it in the house.
They can't do it if they don't!
Because if you take off your pants directly outside, shit and pee, your ass will not only be frozen hard. The and urine they pull out will be directly and accidentally frozen there.
Of course, they were also worried that after they took off their pants, they would also freeze there.
In such cold weather, people will freeze to death. Especially when they only eat one meal a day.
Wang Jinlian started that day, and all of a sudden, she had that sense of urgency again.
She thought about it for a while, and she put the old clothes that her mother-in-law gave her when they broke up.
No matter what, she had to take advantage of the fact that it was not the coldest time outside, and quickly changed these old clothes.
She wants to add a few more good clothes to her son, her man!
So, from that day on, Wang Jinlian took her three daughters-in-law and did needlework at home every day!
They sat by the fire, baking the fire while making cotton clothes for their men.
Soon, in less than half a month, they relied on their ingenuity to transform several sets of wide cotton clothes.
With these cotton clothes, men can wear them and use them as quilts.
It's better to use it all in one place.
The women on Wang Jinlian's side are busy from morning to night, and the mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in the other houses, they are much the same as them.
In short, except for the relatively tired life at the beginning, everyone is busy working every day.