This is a very dilapidated farmhouse courtyard. In a corner to the west of the courtyard were two dilapidated buildings, and in the attic of the rooms were two broken bamboo beds that were connected from end to end, and the bamboo on the edge of the beds had long been polished red and shiny.

The bamboo bed is simple, and the bed is only covered with a thick layer of straw scales, and a thin cotton wool can be seen on top of the straw scales, and on top of the cotton wool is a blue-blue futon.

The moonlight of the night was like a torch, and the wind began to shine obscenely. Through the cracks in the corrugated, the sound of the wind blowing through it was terrifying. The roof tiles seemed to be beginning to flow, the west wind was blowing through the roof tiles like a tight gust, and the temperature was dropping rapidly tonight.

The four boys of the Bao family, the eldest has just turned 14 years old, named Bao Zhoutong, he is in the first year of junior high school in Huanting Middle School, today he just came home from school with a desk board on his back, and quietly went upstairs in the dark night, and secretly hid it under the bamboo bed. The second child, Bao Zhouhe, is twelve years old, and has also entered Huanting Middle School to study in the fifth grade of primary school. The ten-year-old third child is named Bao Zhoulead, who is in the third grade of his village primary school; Bao Zhouyang, who is 10 years old, has just entered the first-grade classroom.

Father Bao Minggang, forty-one years old this year, some white hair appeared in his sideburns, his complexion was a little dark in bronz, his back was slightly crushed, and the traces of time were written on his face. Mother Zhang Yueping, about thirty-six or seventeen years old, is not tall, but she is also one meter six, she is shrewd and meticulous, her complexion is pale, there are some scattered freckles on her face, and her figure looks quite shapely. This family of six people is crammed into a broken wooden building of less than 72 square meters, and the wooden building has a crumbling feeling, which seems to be very struggling and strong.

The back wall of the wooden building is made of large blue bricks, and it is the only place where no wood is used. The rest of the building is a wooden structure, with more than a dozen wooden pillars tens of centimeters thick supporting the overall weight of the entire house. Due to its disrepair, the wooden building clearly has a crumbling feeling of leaning westward.

Bao Minggang's family occupies the middle two rooms of this terraced house, and there is an adjacent neighbor on the left and right. In addition to the four independent wooden pillars of his own house, which belong entirely to his family, the four pillars in the east are shared with the neighbors to the east, and the middle of the columns is covered with thick cedar planks as a wall separating them from the neighbors. The neighbors to the west are identical in the overall structure of the wooden building, and there is nothing special about it. Judong's neighbors demolished and renovated some new houses last year. Since Bao Minggang had no funds to renovate, and the eastern neighbor did not want to bear the cost of sharing the wall alone, he had to keep an old wooden building on the wall where Bao Minggang coexisted, and only demolished the other two old buildings that belonged to him and rebuilt them.

And the neighbor to the west is also in an embarrassing situation like Bao Minggang, and the opportunity to renovate is unknown until the Year of the Monkey. The two families usually organize manpower to cooperate with the house to repair the gaps, clean the dead branches and leaves, grass tips and sludge and bird droppings on the house. The cooperation between the two families is very tacit, and the neighborhood relationship is also very harmonious. They replaced the rotten rafters with new cedar sticks, which were divided equally between the two families and used for cooking.

The floor slabs in Bao Minggang's house are similar to the wooden planks on the walls of his house, and they are so rotten that they can almost be described as 'tofu dregs'. A third of the floor slabs in Bao Minggang's home have been replaced; Another third was made of reed poles cut on the bank of the river to make a 'mat' and spread it on the floor, and the remaining third of the old floor slabs were left intact, and the Bao family could no longer replace them with new plank materials.

Summer and winter are what Bao Minggang's family is most worried about. In summer, rainy and typhoon weather, the rainfall always exceeds the tolerance range of people; In winter, heavy snowstorms and snow are raging, and freezing disasters are common.

This year's rainy season typhoon days have finally been avoided without danger, and now the fear is that the storm and snow weather have just begun. The four sons, who grew up neatly like a square, are all vigorous and vigorous, showing that they do not need to worry too much about their health. Now that it has entered the cold spring and winter, the temperature is dropping day by day, and it is difficult to get wind and snow overnight, so worrying about the safety of the house has become the beginning of Bao Minggang's difficulty in sleeping.

Such an old wooden building could not stop the invasion and destruction of the blizzard. In particular, everyone who lives in it is constantly at risk for their lives. Every now and then, Bao Minggang can't care about doing other things, he must quickly organize his family to participate in the battle against the blizzard.

At this moment, the heavy snowstorm is the biggest threat to the Bao family, and Bao Minggang must remove this hidden danger as soon as possible. The main battlefield of the battle was on the rooftop. The roof is divided into two parts, north and south, with the central beam of the house as the dividing line, Bao Minggang first needs to evaluate this. Bao Minggang himself had to go to the roof of the north, the north side was shady, and the northwest wind roared and attacked head-on, slippery and cold; The roofs on the south side are relatively safe, warmer by the sun, the temperature is high, the wind is less, and the blood melts quickly.

Snow removal is a very dangerous drudgery, and the person who goes to the house must be very experienced and careful to ensure safety. Those who go to the roof must not only remove all the snow in a very short time, but also ensure their own personal safety; Personal safety is more important than clearing snow, and once safety is not guaranteed, clearing snow on the roof is meaningless. However, there is always a risk on the roof, and the freshly removed tiles are slippery and easy to freeze; No one can predict which rafter under their feet will not be able to bear the weight of a person. If the rafters could not bear the weight of the snow on it and broke apart, once a person stepped on it, it would collapse in minutes. There is also the unforeseen wind that occasionally blows in a gust of wind.

Bao Minggang has rich experience in both foreseeable and unforeseeable risks. But the eldest son Bao Zhoutong is different, the child is young and vigorous, his hands and feet are rough, and he has no experience in the upper room, and his risk awareness assessment is often insufficient, and he is most worried about the occurrence of a slip accident.

The two of them went to the room at the same time, and none of the other family members were allowed to be idle, so they had to come over to help: they guarded the ladder, passed tools up and down, and made early warning posts. They also have to assist their father and brother in their work, and their mother, including their mother, needs to join in the battle to 'remove the snow'.

They held the long bamboo ladder in pairs to prevent the heels of the bamboo ladder from slipping and drifting. The bamboo ladder is the only safe passage for the rooftop people to evacuate quickly before the danger comes, and it is the premise of saving time to save time. Sometimes the people above don't know that they are in danger, and the people below will immediately warn and inform the people above to evacuate immediately.

Sometimes, neighbors come to help, but it's rare for a neighbor to leave their dilapidated house empty. The situation of the neighbor's house is similar to theirs, they all need to protect the safety of their house first, and only when the neighbor has eliminated the safety hazards of their house, they will have time to come to help. Such a big risk is borne by the neighbors, and the average homeowner would not dare. If nothing happens, once there is a slip accident, the light person will have to bear a lot of medical expenses; In the event of a death, the matter cannot be solved by money alone. Therefore, even if a kind neighbor comes to help, he is generally not allowed to go to the house, unless he really does not have the manpower to do so, and the snow on the house has seriously threatened the safety of the house.

It takes a day or more to get to the house to remove the snow. If the weather is not particularly bad that day, then the owner of the house will definitely insist on clearing the snow that day, and will not leave it until tomorrow to continue the work. Anyone with experience knows that tomorrow's assignment will make the risk much higher. First of all, there is no guarantee that there will be no more snow at night, resulting in' Secondly, as the temperature drops at night, the removed tiles will freeze quickly, and most of the roof operation accidents are caused by the icy and slippery tiles; finally, the next day's house operation will form a kind of ideological baggage in people's psychology, which will cause people to have some negative emotions, resulting in the deformation and panic of the operation action, and the decline in the quality of the operation, and will seriously affect the attention of the operator, resulting in the occurrence of risks.

Therefore, unless forced to do so, snow removal from the roof is done quickly within a day, and neighbors are generally not asked to help.

Of course, these are all things of the past, and the things of the past are in the past and can be forgotten, but some lessons cannot be forgotten. These bloody lessons must always alert the owner of the house, and the roof snow removal operation must always be tightened and the string of safety must not be relaxed, otherwise, there will be no regret medicine.