Chapter 24: The First Snow

"A little higher, a little more west, you are really stupid, you can't lift an antenna."

Bai Ying sat in the courtyard and kept fiddling with the small box-like things in her hand, looking at Chen Xiaowu who was holding a wire on the top of the water tower.

"Eldest sister, I've been breaking buds for a day. I'm going to accompany you to work on this thing when I come back in the afternoon, and besides, you've been working on this thing for four or five days, and I can't hear anything except the sound of electricity. Chen Xiaowu stood on the water tower and responded helplessly.

Jiang Xiujing poured the water from the river into the iron bucket that had bottomed out. smiled and watched the two arguing.

Counting up, the white warbler has been waking up from the coma for half a month, and the weather is getting colder day by day. After solving the initial problem of water intake, the white warbler began to care about the problem of external communication.

Chen Xiaowu, on the other hand, began to carry grain into the sand factory like a rat with a clear purpose.

The little food he found from the office had already been eaten eight days ago, and fortunately, in the process of looking for food, Chen Xiaowu actually had a dense budding rice field on the edge of the river embankment not far from the sand factory.

This made Chen Xiaowu, who was still worried about the threshing of half a bag of rice on his back, overjoyed. Finally, I don't have to drink any more rice soup with rice husks floating on it.

So from that day on, the three of them had a clear division of labor. During the day, Jiang Xiujing stayed in the sand factory to distill and extract water, while Bai Ying recuperated from his injuries and studied the radio to contact the outside world.

And Chen Xiaowu was happy to go to the corn field to break corn for many days, Chen

Xiao Wu's corn cobs were already piled up in half of the shed.

The water distilled by Jiang Xiujing went out for daily use, and it also filled a large vat.

After many days of research by Bai Ying, the subject of the study successfully removed the microphone from a few copper wires and mobile phones, and upgraded it to an old radio found by Chen Xiaowu from a scrapped old forklift

The power supply was connected to the solar panel on Chen Xiaowu's rubber boat, and the radio began to sizzle with bursts of electricity.

I hope to hear from the outside world so that I can judge the current situation.

But for two days in a row, there was no other movement on the radio except for the sound of electricity, and then Bai Ying began to torture Chen Xiaowu.

Every day, after Chen Xiaowu went home after breaking corn, he asked Chen Xiaowu to pull a wire, run to the water tower, and find a signal for her.

In the first two days, Chen Xiaowu listened to her command seriously, trying to extend the antenna in various directions, so that he could really receive the radio signal sent by the state.

"You deserve to break corn all day long. What are you doing with so much corn? Are you really going to live here? The white warbler scoffed at his quibble.

Then he said angrily: "Forget it, I don't need you, you can hang the antenna on the water tower for me." ”

When Chen Xiaowu heard Bai Ying's words, he was like being amnestied.

After the two had been working together for several days, there was still no news on the radio, Chen Xiaowu began to be a little tired of this behavior of lifting the antenna, seeing that Bai Ying no longer asked him to lift the antenna, he hurriedly tied one end of the antenna to the ladder of the iron tower, and climbed down by himself.

"Xiujing, Xiujing, FOOD. eatfood”

Jiang Xiujing glanced at him, does this guy regard himself as a servant.

More than 20 days have passed, and her originally shaved hair has grown a thin layer of stubble. made her originally beautiful face add a little more color, and at this time, Chen Xiaowu was stunned when she saw it.

It is no wonder that Hu Chong can be fascinated by the little junior sister of the Hengshan faction, this bald woman is really amorous with a smile and a smile.

Seeing that Jiang Xiujing didn't move, she simply ran to the side of the pot, took out the corn cob that had been cooked at noon from the pot, and gnawed on it.

The white warbler is free and patient, slowly adjusting the frequency.

After more than ten days, the injury was almost healed, and she planned to start if she could wait for some news on the radio.

But after so many days, the radio has not received any news, not only Chen Xiaowu, but even she began to want to give up.

Chen Xiaowu walked to the duty room while nibbling corn, and since Bai Ying woke up from his coma, Chen Xiaowu built a large bed with wooden planks from the sand factory.

And Chen Xiaowu was driven to sleep in the duty room by the two.

Chen Xiaowu, who was about to push the door into the house, suddenly felt a drop of water fall on his face.

It's raining? He was in the depths of his doubt, and soon saw another drop of water fall on his hand.

"It's raining!" Chen Xiaowu hurriedly shouted to the two women in the courtyard.

Jiang Xiujing and Bai Ying in the courtyard heard his greeting, and subconsciously looked at the sky, and sure enough, thin raindrops began to fall.

Bai Ying hurriedly unplugged the radio. Holding the power supply and radio, he also ran into the duty room.

The rain outside began to trickle and drip. Poured over the lid and shed with a clattering sound.

"Sleet?" The attentive white warbler soon found that in addition to the raindrops, the water droplets that fell on the windowsill actually carried a trace of white spots.

"Huh? It's really sleet. Chen Xiaowu heard Bai Ying's words, looked carefully, and sure enough, he saw patches of white spots mixed with rain falling.

Bai Ying's face gradually became solemn.

An autumn rain and a cold, is it because of the decrease in human activities? How did this year's winter come a little earlier than usual?

It's still three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's starting to rain and sleet, and in the evening, I'm afraid the temperature will continue to drop, once it drops below freezing. I am afraid that the surface of the river will gradually freeze as well.

Now, if the three of them advance towards Binjiang City, they can still float down the river, but once the river freezes, the three of them can only trek through the road......

It seems that the plan is going to be carried out in advance.

She turned her head to look at Chen Xiaowu, Chen Xiaowu felt her gaze, and turned her head as well, seeing her serious face, he instantly reacted to what this sleet meant.

Although there is still temporary comfort and quiet here, but the temperature has plummeted, can the three of them really live in isolation in the sand factory compound by the river to survive the winter?

Warm clothes, adequate food, medicine. and Bai Ying's tasks have become the reason for them to leave, did he leave with them? Or hide alone in this sand factory?

Among the three, only Jiang Xiujing looked at the snowflakes outside the window that were getting bigger and bigger with excitement on her face. Expect heavy snow to cover the land.

Cover a pure silver-white world.

"Chen Xiaowu, you go out and come back with some corn cobs in a while, let's rub them into grains, so that it is easy to carry." Chen Xiaowu didn't say anything, and nodded silently.

"Xiujing, we may be leaving, you can go up and pack our things later." Jiang Xiujing was stunned when she heard Bai Ying's words, and her mood fell out of the joy just now.

"Shall we not go?" Jiang Xiujing asked softly in English.

Compared to the uncertain future. The life in this sand factory made her feel more down-to-earth, she had lost all her relatives, and being able to live in this sand factory safely was actually the choice she wanted the most.

As if she hadn't heard Jiang Xiujing's question, Bai Ying turned her head and looked at the growing snowflakes outside the window in a daze.