Chapter 197: Cold Winter

I stood by the window, looked at the snow outside, and sighed, another year is about to pass, and next year will be the last year I predicted, and now I have a little hesitation in my heart, I don't know what the future will be?

As soon as Jiang Zhi arrived in the living room, he looked at me standing by the window and pondering the heavy snow outside, he knew what I was thinking, so he came over, put his arm around my shoulders, and said comfortingly: "Don't think about it, we are living very well now, and we can be regarded as worry-free in this village, even if there is any disaster that we can't predict in the future, I think we can find a way to get through." ”

I leaned back directly, leaned on Jiang Zhi's body, and said: "I know, our life is much better than that of people outside, no matter how you say it, you don't have to worry about it all day long, and after this year's construction, we will have more of the peach blossom paradise in the last days, I am just a little scared, afraid to face the unknown future." ”

People seem to be like this, after living in a stable environment for a while, they lose the courage to take risks.

"It's okay, and your husband, I'll always be by your side." Jiang Zhi rubbed the top of my head with his chin, and at this moment I was extremely glad that I chose Jiang Zhi in the first place.

As Jiang Zhi had a hunch, the weather this winter was very cold, and in previous years, when three stoves were lit at home, the living room was very warm, but not this year, everyone wanted to take the stove with them, and if they were a little farther away, they were all very cold.

This year's weather is also a bit weird, and in previous years, after a snowfall, there would be a period of rest. It seems to leave some time for people in the world to prepare, but this year, the snow has not stopped since the first snow fell. When it is dark and daytime, occasionally the snow stops during the day, so it is guaranteed that there will be a big snowstorm at night.

Some people are old houses to ventilate, although they can't reach a temperature inside and outside the house, but it's not much better, it's really not good that the family is hiding in a room, and the kang is hot. Then the family covered themselves with a large quilt and kept warm on the kang. Later, I gave you a main method, which is also the method I saw in it, to seal the doors and windows of the house with a thick old cotton quilt. This will keep the temperature in the house very good. After listening to my main story, everyone went home and moved, and the environment at home improved.

The snowy weather brings more than just a drop in temperature. This situation also brings a lot of trouble to everyone.

The first is the issue of snow plowing. In previous years, everyone finished learning in their yards. By the way, the snow on the road outside the yard will be cleared, but this year the villagers do not have so much energy, and now the snow on the main road in the village does not need to be cleaned, and the villagers can't sweep their own houses, so how can they have the time to work outside.

These days, day and night, you can see the villagers fully armed, braving the heavy snow to go up to the houses to clear the snow, but this side has just been cleared, and those have fallen a thick layer. People have to clean their houses every hour or two for the sake of safety.

The house of the village council is unoccupied. So no one goes to clean it all the time. Jiang Zhi and Li Cheng went to sweep it every morning, but they were afraid that the old house would not be able to bear the weight of the snow, so they took a strong talisman for the old house every day. I also finally started to go back to my old business, drawing a few pictures when the space was empty, and in the past year or so, I have drawn a lot less often, because I don't want to use too many things like this in the outside world, and we will never rely on them for things that we can solve manually, but now this situation is not going to work.

A few days ago in the village, there was an old house that was crushed by the snow, fortunately during the day, except for one who broke his leg, no one else was a big deal, but watching the family cry bitterly on the collapsed house, the man cried and said that he blamed himself for being lazy, and did not regularly clean up the snow, and always thought that the house had lasted for 3 years and would be fine this year, but his house did not stand up and was crushed by the snow. The family is considered homeless, thanks to the kindness of the neighbors, they have vacated a house for them to live in, and they will rebuild the house when the village opens next year, otherwise their family will not be able to survive even a day in such weather.

Jiang Zhi, as the only doctor in the village and a surgeon, took on the work of treating the wounded.

As for the home where their family was pressed under the house, with the help of the villagers, they also dug out some daily necessities, such as pots and pans, although they were a little deformed, but they could also deal with this, and they also dragged out a few quilts and cotton clothes, which are essential items in winter.

In the main granary, the grain in it has been rescued by everyone, and a lot of rice packed into bags has been scattered all over the ground, but fortunately, the rescued grain is enough for the family to eat until next autumn.

But the neighbor's house can make room for it, and the family is very crowded with people, and there is no place to put so much food. In the end, Jiang Zhi made the decision, put the grain in the village committee, gave their family a hut, they put a lock on themselves, and went to the village committee to get the food when they needed it, although it was a little troublesome, but the problem was finally solved.

This incident is also a reminder to all the villagers, especially those who are a little lazy and want to get by, in such a snowy weather every day, if the snow is not cleared regularly, then their houses may also collapse.

Since then, no one in Tashan Village dares to be lazy, I said to Jiang Zhi, only the lesson of blood can leave a deep impression, just like Jiang Zhi began to use a loudspeaker to remind the villagers when it just snowed, to clean the snow on the roof regularly on time, but those lazy people are not like they didn't hear, what should they do. This time, with a precedent in front of them, all the villagers are alert.

Jiang Zhi thought of another problem, he said that the old houses in the village must account for more than half, and after the spring of next year, we must organize people to repair these houses again, so that they can be safer in winter. I rolled my eyes at him, this village chief has really become a good official who cares about everything and serves the people every two days.

Jiang Zhi hugged me and said, isn't that also for this family, if in the end our family lives alone here, we will not be happy even if we are like the Peach Blossom Spring, Jiang Zhi said that I quite agree, people can't live out of the crowd, okay, I also see it, Jiang Zhi seems to have found his own fun after becoming the village head, and has been committed to building Tashan Village into a peach blossom source in the last days.

Of course, the problems in the village are not limited to those. In the village, Li Feng's daughter-in-law lives in a house alone, and her husband has long broken off relations with her, so it is impossible to take the initiative to stand up and help her at this time. She was a woman at first, like everyone else, going to clear the snow every day, but then she really couldn't do it, so she came to Jiang Zhi to find a way, Jiang Zhi thought about it, and found her the third son of Liu Laojiu's family next door to his house, a man in his 40s, since his daughter-in-law died 5 years ago, he has been single, living with his father and eldest brother's family. Jiang Zhi personally went to their house and told them about it, and also explained that it would not be done in vain, Li Feng's daughter-in-law would give a certain reward, and their family agreed very much, that is, they did not give food, they were all from the same village, and they couldn't look at difficulties if they were in trouble, and they had observed them these days, since Li Feng left, Li Feng's daughter-in-law seemed to have changed as a person, as long as she was capable, she would never ask for help, and the few acres of land in her family were all heavy for a woman, and she was a very self-reliant and self-reliant woman. This matter can be considered a satisfactory solution.

There is another thing, that is, the thirty big fat pigs in the village pig farm, must find a time to kill as soon as possible, since the weather has become cold, feeding the pig food is a troublesome matter, the hot pig food just poured into the trough is cold, not waiting for the pig to eat a few bites, the pig food in the trough will freeze, but also to heat again, little by little feeding, too troublesome, and if the time is long, the pig is not full, not to ensure that the little dart that has risen up with great effort has to fall.

So one day, when the snow finally stopped during the day, Jiang Zhi organized the whole village to take action, and more than a dozen people began to kill pigs together, striving to kill 30 pigs in one day, otherwise it would not be easy to wait for another sunny day.

There are many people with great strength, and everyone is motivated to do this thing, just in the morning, 30 pigs were all slaughtered, several women are busy washing the large intestine, to fill the blood sausage, after the pigs are killed, they have all passed the scale, the lightest is 160 catties, the heaviest has reached 200 catties.

In the afternoon, Chen Hao was responsible for distributing pork to each family, and the pork distributed by each family was different to the account book. People with a large population and are still diligent, some can get half a fan of pork, and those who are delicious and lazy will only get more than 10 catties.

Of course, if you feel that your pork is not enough to eat, you can also exchange it for food, and the price is the same as the price sold by Sun Jun's family last year.

The villagers looked at the family who carried half a fan of pork and went home happily, not envious, but they were really capable, the old people and children in the family got up early and went to the fields to mow the grass in the dark, and they took those are the result of people's hard work, and everyone secretly swore in their hearts that their families would be diligent next year, and strive to get more pork next winter.

In the evening, the blood sausage was ready, and Jiang Zhi asked people to send some blood sausage to the whole village, and the rest was his own family.

Because from digging a pit to cover the pigsty last year to hiring people to feed the pigs this year is our family's food, so although it was said that the pig farm is in the village, but this year it is still our family, and it can only be returned to the village after using the village's grain to pay for those expenses next year.

That night, the whole village had a pig-killing dish, ate fragrant pork, and then imagined a better future. (To be continued......)