Chapter 23: The Last Days of the Ice Age(23)
The next day it was still snowing heavily, and the sky was still gray.
The outside temperature dropped again, and it was estimated to be almost minus 20 degrees.
It's the fourth day of the start of the blizzard, and Xingyun has compared the memory of the original owner, although the temperature here is low, it is much better than Jin'an City, at least you can go out to clear the snow.
Several men of the Su family were all fully armed, and the whole person was tightly wrapped, wrapped like a ball, and moved outside with difficulty to start the cleaning work.
The north wind was whistling, blowing on the naked/exposed face, as painful as a knife cut, and cold and biting.
Xing Yun followed behind as usual, and just a few days of exercise could not make much change in the original owner's body, but Xing Yun still felt that her movements were a lot more sensitive.
But in one night, the snow was knee-deep, and if you look like this, you will have to get up in the middle of the night to clear the snow.
At this time, I vaguely heard anxious shouts from outside the courtyard.
Father Su and the others glanced at each other, picked up the shovel in their hands and walked out.
When they arrived, it was a mess.
It turned out that the snow on the roof of the house next to it was not swept before going to bed last night, and the roof on one side was crushed by the snow, and the violent storm and snow instantly poured into the house.
Fortunately, the people in the house had already gotten up at this time, and there were no casualties.
The owner of the house had a very bad face, and last night his family lived in three families with a total of seven people, including three elderly people and one child.
Originally, he asked the three young people to be assigned to help sweep the snow, but he didn't expect them to be lazy and didn't sweep, causing half of the roof of his house to collapse.
The owner of the house pulled the village chief to discuss the explanation, and made it clear that he didn't want them to continue to live, and the children on the side were so frightened that they cried, and the whole house was in a mess.
It was only the first day that something happened, and the village chief only felt that his head was big.
Father Su understood the reason, so he pulled his family to leave quickly, for fear that this matter would fall on them in the end.
I don't know how the village chief solved it, and in the end, he didn't find Su's father and them, which also made them breathe a sigh of relief.
The weather was too bad to go out, so he could only nest at home, and the bored Uncle Su moved out the mahjong at home.
Aunt Su is usually a person who loves to play mahjong, but at this time she is not in the mood at all.
The adults played mahjong and used peanuts as bets, so Su Hao pulled Xingyun to play poker, and also pulled Su Ang in.
Something to do passed quickly, and it didn't take long for it to get dark.
Late at night, Xingyun shook her body and woke up.
She touched the electric blanket under her and found that there was no heat, and the bed was cold.
Xingyun pressed the switch on the bedside, and the room was still dark.
There was a power outage.
Xingyun got dressed and got up, she opened the curtains and looked out, and found that the snow had not stopped, and the windowsill outside had accumulated a thick layer of snow.
Xingyun, who was about to lower the curtains, stopped, wiped the mist from the window from her breathing, and looked down carefully.
In the snow against the wall below the house, the footprints of a man were clearly reflected.
Xingyun's gaze froze, she narrowed, and carefully examined the string of footprints.
She was very sure that the footprints were not from any one of the Su family, and they would not go out at this point in time.
So, whose footprint is it?
At this moment, there was a soft knock on the door.
When she opened the door, Su Mu was standing outside the door with a flashlight.
"Xiaoxue, are you up? Did you wake up from freezing? There's a power outage, your dad and your uncle are working on the generator, you just wait. ”
Because it will take some time to get the generator, Su's mother has to go to the kitchen to boil some hot water and fill hot water bottles for several elderly people in the family.
The temperature was too low at night, and I was afraid that they would freeze at such a time.
Xingyun followed Su Mu into the kitchen, and when Su Mu lit the firewood, Xing Yun walked to the kitchen window and looked out through the window.
There were also a series of footprints in the snow outside, and judging from the depth of the footprints and the heavy snow, it seemed that the other party had just left this place not long ago.
"Xiaoxue, what are you looking at?"
"Mom, come and see, there are footprints here."
Listening to Xingyun's words, Su Mu stepped forward suspiciously, stood beside Xingyun and looked out the window.
"Huh? Are they really footprints? Did your dad just go out for a walk? ”
Xingyun was silent for a while, and had to remind: "No, if you look at the location of the footprints, someone should have circled around our house." ”
"I don't sleep most of the night to come to our house...... It's not a thief! ”
Seeing that Su Mu finally reacted, Xing Yun shook her head: "I don't know." ”
Su's mother is nervous, the old and young in the family, if there are many people who come in the middle of the night, they may still suffer!
"Xiaoxue, you go to the house first, lock the door, I'll go find your father."
Xingyun didn't go back to the room alone, but followed Su's mother to find Su's father and Uncle Su, who were fiddling with the generator, and told them the footprints in the snow.
Father Su and Uncle Su glanced at each other, and the two of them invariably remembered the store that was stolen on the first day of snowfall.
"You take Xiaoxue into the room first, and my eldest brother and I will go out to have a look."
Su Mu pulled Xingyun into the room, walked around the room nervously with her hands, and looked out of the window from time to time, as if to see if she could find something.
Xingyun was not nervous at all, the other party should have come over to step on the spot today, but he didn't expect a sudden power outage, and Father Su and they all got up.
Judging by the footprints she observed, the other party should have left.
Sure enough, Father Su and the others walked around the outside, but they didn't see anyone, but found a series of different footprints, and it seemed that the other party should be two people.
Father Su patted the snow on his body, "I should have run away, but I can't let my guard down, I won't sleep tonight, keep vigil." ”
Since it was okay, Su Mu went to the kitchen again, and the hot water was still boiling on the stove.
After the hot water was boiled, Su Mu poured several hot water bottles, and then sent the hot water bottles into the rooms of several elderly people in the family.
And Su's father and Uncle Su continued to make the generator by the light of the flashlight, and they worked for more than half an hour to get it ready, and when the house was re-energized, the whole person was also relieved.
How can you live without electricity on such a cold day?
Father Su said to Uncle Su, "Big brother, go to sleep first, I will keep vigil tonight." ”
"Well, you be careful, it's best to go to Su Hao's kid's house and pull the teeth out."
Maybe it was because Yaya stayed in Su Hao's room, and there were people outside who were close to the room, but he didn't find it.
Nothing happened overnight.
After the day dawned, there was another mournful cry not far from the Su family.
Uncle Su went out to find out, and came back to tell everyone that the house where the roof collapsed yesterday didn't have an old man at home, and now several families are making trouble!
Uncle Su didn't expect it, originally they just wanted everyone to live together to take care of each other, but they didn't expect so many things to happen.
In the afternoon, the village committee had a new measure.