Chapter 56: Preparing for a Snow Disaster
The building where our family lives has a total of 6 units, our house is 2 units, and Qu's father and Qu's mother's house are 4 units.
Hanhan saw that all the doors of the units were like the front of our units, and the doors were blocked by thick snow, so he said: "Dad, Mom, let's shovel away the snow in front of all the units, otherwise the beans of one unit and the fruits of five units will not be able to get out of the house." ”
We are very much in favor of Ham's approach, and no matter how the hearts of people change in the last days, we hope that Hamham will be a good person.
Jiang Zhi asked Hanhan again, do you want to clear the snow in front of all the unit doors in this building area, you must know that there must be hundreds of unit doors in this building area combined. Hanhan looked at Jiang Zhi and said, "Dad, do you know the uncles and aunts in those buildings?" ”
"I don't know."
"Then why do you want to help them work, the teacher said, you have to do your own things." Hanhan didn't understand his father's thoughts.
It turned out that it was because there were friends he knew in this building that he had to help others shovel snow.
I patted my chest with reassurance, although we want our child to be a good person, we don't want him to be a bad person.
After that, Hanhan led us to clear the snow in front of all the units in this building. Successfully rescued an old grandmother who wanted to get out of the unit door but couldn't get out by herself.
During the time we were shoveling snow, a father and son came out of Unit 6, the young man was carrying his elderly father, we didn't know each other, it should be a new family who moved in recently.
The young man's father was frozen and sick last night by the sudden drop in temperature, and this morning he had a fever of more than 39 degrees, and the young man wanted to take his father to the hospital.
After last night's heavy snowfall, the four wheels of the car were sunk in the snow, and the young man drove back and forth in the snow, the wheels were skidding on the snow, and no matter how he increased the accelerator, the car still couldn't get out.
Seeing this situation, Jiang Zhi took a shovel to help, dug a few shovels on the front wheel of the car, shoveled away the snow in front of the wheel, and there was some slope in front, and the car rushed out of the snow pit as soon as it refueled.
The young man gave us a thank you gesture in the car, and the car sped away without stopping.
I said sadly, "Well, this snow may have made a lot of weak people sick, and I hope they can survive this winter." ”
After that, we went to Qu's father and Qu's mother's house.
told Qu's father and Qu's mother that they couldn't leave now, and they had to wait to see the situation, and also told Jiang Zhi's guess and asked Qu's father and Qu's mother to save some water. Jiang Zhi took out the wooden box and soil from the space again, and planted some side dishes here.
Qu Dad's life experience is richer than ours, and after hearing us say that there may be a snow disaster that is worse than last year, he said: "If there will be a water and gas outage, then the natural gas pipeline is estimated to not be able to supply gas." We also have to do some preparation on the food. Let's make some food and put it in the ring now, and we can have a hot meal no matter what time of year. ”
Qu Dad was very right, we decided to start preparing after we went back.
In the following days, heavy snowfall fell a few more times, and snow clearers on the main roads worked around the clock to ensure the smooth flow of traffic in the city. However, highways and airports were closed and grounded due to heavy snow.
In order to facilitate the travel of residents, the neighborhood committee of our building organized the young and middle-aged people in the building to clean up the snow in the building area after the snow, and Jiang Zhi was also called to clear the snow several times.
Some young people don't have much food at home, and when the snow outside is almost cleared, they can't wait to go to the supermarket.
The government may have had some experience in dealing with these situations after last year's snowstorm, so it has been snowing for more than two weeks, and so far residents have been able to live a normal life, and there is no electricity, gas, or water at home, but the price of things in the supermarket has increased again.
We have been busy preparing for the snow storm at home for the past few days, cooking and storing water all the time.
Dad Jiang, who stored the water, was in charge, and he shared more than 30 buckets to fill the balcony. Dad Jiang also got the experience of storing water in practice, took out a plastic pipe from the faucet in the bathroom, and pulled it directly to the balcony, the faucet in the bathroom never had to be turned off (the water flow was not too big), and after filling the buckets on the balcony in turn, the water in the first bucket was basically frozen, and then Dad Jiang put away the frozen ice cubes in the first bucket and filled it with water. This creates a cycle that saves time and effort.
I supervised the work for a while, and it took about 40 minutes to see Dad Jiang do a cycle, so I asked Dad Jiang: "Dad, the water in the bucket didn't freeze in 40 minutes, right?" ”
Dad Jiang sat on the balcony and watched the water and ice cubes, "It's okay, you don't have to freeze it honestly, as long as it's frozen outside, it can't melt after we put it away, when you use it, there will be some fire left." "I pondered on the side, and what Dad Jiang said was right.
Jiang's mother is responsible for cooking, steaming steamed buns, buns, and dumplings. Jiang's mother is very good at making pasta, the steamed steamed buns are very soft and white, and the baked oil cakes are golden and crispy. She also wrapped a lot of mutton and carrot filling, beef filling, pork stuffed dumplings, and buns.
Jiang Zhi is responsible for cooking, all kinds of meat dishes, vegetarian dishes. Of course, it is not enough to cook during the day, and we don't dare to make dishes that are too tasteful, so at night in the space, Jiang Zhi uses the big iron pot in the space to make stews, and it is a big pot when it is made. If there are only 5 people in our family, we can eat 5 or 6 meals in one pot.
I'm in charge of helping you. Occasionally call Jiang's father as a substitute, look at the faucet for him, let him come into the house to warm up, and drink hot water. Help Jiang's mother run errands, bring buns and dumplings to the veranda for quick freezing. Help Jiang Zhi pick vegetables, wash vegetables or something. When I was busy, I rushed with Hanhan to water the side dishes. Hanhan often sues me with Jiang Zhi. Said I can't always water the seedlings, or they will drown.
Later, Jiang Zhi got bored, so he assigned me a task to make air-dried sausages. That is, what southerners call sausages.
Jiang Zhi, as the leader, encouraged me before I did the air-dried intestines, saying that the time to test me had come, and to give me such an important thing to do at such an important moment, this is the trust of the people in me, and I must try my best to complete the work with quality and quantity.
I'm speechless, am I so untrustworthy? You said that you have cut the meat and mixed the ingredients, and the job left for me is to take a loophole and stuff the meat into the casing, can I not do it well, and also ensure the quality and quantity, and cut.
In the end, I gave full play to the ideological consciousness of my good comrade, sat down in front of the small bench and stuffed several large pots of diced pork into the casing, and hung the ropes in the kitchen full of ropes, one by one.
I still felt that filling sausages alone was a waste of my high-quality labor, so I took out a large electric crockpot (the kind used in restaurants) from the ring, and boiled all kinds of porridge and soup while filling the sausages.