Chapter 248: I Don't Want to Sacrifice Myself
Because the weather is getting colder and colder, Wu Guifang can only hide herself in the quilt every day.
She wanted to make a fire.
But Wu Hongsheng said that the firewood at home must be used sparingly. Because after the weather gets colder and colder, it is particularly dangerous for their men to go outside to chop wood.
When Wu Guifang thought of those wolves and all kinds of beasts, she also felt that he was right.
The place where they are now is in a mountain nest.
The environment here is completely different from what she experienced back then.
At that time, Wu Guifang had always lived in a densely populated and lively urban area.
Moreover, the place where she lives is still plain.
Densely populated, flat, developed business and convenient transportation are a major feature of many modern cities.
In densely populated areas, wildlife is generally scarce.
Especially the ferocious animals that are particularly lethal. For example, wolves, leopards, tigers, black bears, elephants, lions......
How could they be in a downtown area under normal circumstances?
If they don't show up, they can't hurt people.
Compared with modern society, the environment of ancient society is more dangerous.
Deep in the mountains and old forests, there are man-eating beasts everywhere. It is easy for people who have no hunting experience to get lost in the mountains.
As a big man, Wu Hongsheng is sometimes inconvenient and tells his daughter-in-law about his difficulties.
Every time he goes out, especially when he takes the children out hunting or looking for other food, he has a sense of vanity in his heart.
A sense of uncertainty.
Every time he had to go far away, he didn't know if he would be able to go home safely.
He felt that as the head of the family, as the pillar of the family, he would never fall. He can't talk about the bitterness of the people around him, and the hatred in his heart.
Even if he sometimes can't hold on, he can only clench his back molars and hold on.
It's only now the end of the second heavy snowfall. Every morning when he gets up, he has to take the children with him and shovel the snow off the roof.
Otherwise, the snow will easily crush the house.
"Daughter-in-law, don't get up, you can go back to sleep."
"I'll do the cooking."
After Wu Hongsheng simply heated five hot cakes, he gave Wu Guifang two. Eat three on your own.
After eating a half-full, Wu Hongsheng tidied up the clothes on his body again, and after his clothes, he opened the door lightly, and then quickly went out and flew out, closing the door tightly.
I don't know what's going on today, but it's really windy outside.
Wu Hong has lived to this age, and it is the first time he has seen such a violent cold wind.
This cold wind, once he saw it for decades, Wu Hongsheng unconsciously raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky outside.
Looking at this posture, this god is about to have a snowstorm again.
Wu Hongsheng used to live in the north, and he still has a concept of blizzards.
When it snowed heavily, he wasn't an ordinary person, and he really couldn't bear it.
The snowflakes are fluttering, and some poets who have eaten and drunk enough will think it is beautiful.
I feel that the scenery is beautiful, and it is a good time to warm wine and meet friends.
But for the peasants living at the bottom, when the snow is falling, they will freeze to death. and starvation.
When a snowstorm falls, many people who lack food and drink will be frozen to death at home. Even leaning against the fire, they couldn't resist the strange cold.
Wu Hongsheng really felt that this kind of coldness was very strange.
Especially in this place, the weather is cold, as if it is cold to the bones of people. Ordinary people really can't do anything about him.
All of them can only suffer.
Wu Hongsheng took the wooden plank and led the men of the whole family to sweep the heavy snow.
Seeing the heavy snow on the ground, it was almost more than 5 inches high in a few days. Wu Hongsheng couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart.
Fortunately, when they were repairing the fence some time ago, he carefully followed his daughter-in-law's advice.
Outside the wall, a ditch was built around the wall.
The trench is almost 1.5 meters deep.
It's almost two meters wide.
Under such a deep trench, even if it snowed heavily every day, the fierce bears, fierce tigers, and wild wolves sent out in groups, they were extremely hungry, they could not directly cross this deep trench, and then climb over the fence that was almost 4 meters and 5 meters high.
As long as they can't get over, the safety of their family is guaranteed.
Wu Hongsheng put the children at home, and after clearing the snow in the yard in a corner, he ordered them seriously.
"After that, there will be snow, and it will all be piled up in this direction."
The place where Wu Hongsheng piled up the snow is actually the northwest of the house.
Wu Hongsheng thinks so.
The snow was piled up behind this place, and high behind it. It was just right to withstand the cold winds coming from the northwest.
The cold wind from the northwest is really terrible.
As it blew through the woods that covered the hills, all the trees made a trembling whimper. The current Wu family will hear such a sound before going to bed at night.
They're not really lucky right now. Because they have a good night, warm and comfortable bed to sleep in. Although they can't eat three meals a day, they at least ensure that they have one meal a day.
If you eat one meal a day, you will not starve to death.
They can live such a life, which is something that many people envy.
After all, the Duan family and the Niu family are really embarrassed now.
Although they had already repaired the fire wall and the fire kang in the previous time.
However, the wall of fire and the ondol were roofs made of planks and branches.
When it's snowing heavily, there will be a crackling sound on the roof of the house.
Many people are particularly worried every day, will the roof of this house be crushed?
However, if some people told them to go out and climb onto the roof and sweep the snow from the roof to the ground, they would not agree.
After all, the northwest wind outside is so strong. How did they climb onto the roof?
If they climb onto the roof and accidentally fall to the ground, won't they be ruined for the rest of their lives?
If you're unlucky, you might be blown to the ground by a strong wind and lose your life.
People are greedy for life and afraid of death.
There is no one in this place, and it really has that kind of self-sacrificing spirit.
They all want to keep themselves alive. Each of them was lucky, and always felt that this roof, under certain circumstances, would definitely not be crushed.
Because they had such a fluke mentality, it wasn't long before their house really went wrong.