It was cold, Xu and the eldest girl slept together, and when they heard Xu Ling's movement outside, they shouted in the house: "Ah Ling, it's snowing outside?" ”

"Let's go, mother, you and the big girl will sleep again, don't be in a hurry to get up, the snow is thick outside!"

Xu Ling first went outside the door to greet the Chen Sheng brothers, "Why did you get up so early?" ”

Last night, it was windy and snowy, Chen Sheng didn't have a thick quilt at home, and it was still cold for the mother to squeeze a house around the stove for heating, Xu Ling sent charcoal in the snow, he didn't feel anything, but in the eyes of Chen Sheng and the two brothers, it was no less than sending charcoal in the snow.

The two of them didn't have the heart to sleep, thinking about their mother's advice, they cleared the snow for Xu Ling's house early in the morning.

"Boss, why do you get up so early?"

It was still early, Chen Sheng was a little embarrassed, and thought that he had woken up Xu Ling by shoveling snow.

"It's not early, it's hard for you to help clear the snow, and we'll eat in a while."

The three of them shoveled snow while chatting, and they were in full swing.

Xu Ling found that when Chen Sheng and his brothers were in front of him, Chen Sheng always spoke, and his brother spoke less than him, but he was not lazy in his work, and his hands and feet were sharp.

In such a cold weather, the brothers still wore single cloth shoes, but they were not so cold when they started to work and moved their hands and feet.

Fan Shiqing wore a thick dress and walked out of the room. The puppy that Xu Ling brought back from He Dajia's house was placed in a bamboo basket in the aisle, covered with a cloth, and there were old clothes inside.

Fan Shiqing lifted the cloth and took the three puppies out, "It was so snowy last night. ”

"Yes, the snow is so thick as people's knees, I guess it won't go down for a while."

Xu Ling originally planned to take his family to the town to buy things, but he purchased them a few years ago, but who knew that the snow would not end.

Chen Sheng also said: "I heard people say early in the morning that the river is frozen, and everyone can walk on it. ”

"It's cold." Fan Shiqing shrunk his neck and stomped his feet, if it wasn't for eating, he really didn't want to get up.

It's so warm on the kang.

Xu Ling was glad that he had made money a few years ago and built a new room, otherwise it would be cold and the family would not have been able to bear it.

Chen Sheng and Chen Ze couldn't stop, and their hands and feet were cold as soon as they stopped.

Xu Ling told them to bring some firewood from their homes, and not to extinguish the charcoal stove, otherwise Widow Chen's illness would only get worse and worse.

Now that it is snowing and freezing, Xu Ling can't build a new house even if he wants to, so he can only wait for the snow to melt in spring, so Chen Sheng's family will have to live in the old house first.

The mattresses they brought from their family have been used for many years, and they don't keep warm at all, if it weren't for Xu Ling waking up in the middle of the night last night to look at it and send over two sheepskins, I don't know if they can carry this night.

The four of them were saying this at the door, when suddenly someone in the village ran this way, shouting as they ran: "Xu Ling! Do you have a shovel at home? Hurry up and bring a few people to help, Liu'er's house has collapsed! People are also buried in it! ”

When Xu Ling heard this, he hurriedly put down the work in his hand, went to the aisle to get a shovel and hoe, and took the two Chen Sheng brothers to the village.

He Liu's family was in the south of the village, and Xu Ling and a few people waded through the knee-deep snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and ran over to sweat.

The boots Xu Ling wore were coated with tung oil, which was waterproof and breathable, but he was still frozen and unconscious.

There was a sound of crying and shouting at the door of He Liu's house, and the east wall of the courtyard also collapsed, and I could see that more than half of the house inside had collapsed, the beams were lying horizontally, and the mud wall had collapsed, and I didn't know whether people were dead or alive.

"My son!"

He Liu's mother was crying and shouting at the door, and several old men were digging with shovels, and those who had no tools were digging with their hands, and the soil was frozen and hard, and their fingers were frozen, and they didn't feel much pain.

Xu Ling soon joined the battlefield, helped to start digging the soil, dug half a pillar of incense for half a time, and finally dug out He Liu and his daughter-in-law who had just married him for less than half a year.

He just glanced at it, and he couldn't bear it, not to mention He Liu's family, his mother fainted directly.

He Liu's family was not the only one affected in the village, Xu Ling didn't expect the situation to be so serious, he had only seen one heavy snow in his previous life, and the situation that year was not optimistic......

However, because of the modern society, it is certainly much better than it is now.

But at this time, most of the buildings are mud brick tile wood houses, no reinforced concrete, especially some poor people's houses, directly straw houses, yesterday the wind and snow were so big, some people's roofs were blown away, I don't know where to fly.

Fortunately, Gu Litian's family was fine, and he and Gu Daliang were also called to help early in the morning.

Some houses in the village collapsed, and it was fortunate that they didn't hit anyone, and it was lucky that they didn't die, but they hurt their bones, and the weather was so cold, and it was a disaster if they didn't protect them well.

Xu Ling's busy feet did not touch the ground, ran to this house and went to that house, and finally met with his father-in-law and uncle at the east end of the village.

Seven or eight families in the village were affected, three were killed and five were injured.

The news that Chen Sheng and his brothers were tenant farmers for Xu Ling also spread in the village, but compared to the losses caused by the snow disaster, the people in the village only said that Chen Sheng was lucky, and even when it came to the rent that Xu Ling wanted, no one said that they wanted too much.

On the contrary, he said that the two Chen Sheng brothers had a good life.

This heavy snow is so heavy, the river is frozen, if they don't follow Xu Ling back to the old house at night, I'm afraid that the mother and son will freeze to death in the canopy boat.

Xu Ling's first year passed quietly in this bleak atmosphere.

There are more than 100 households in Lianhuawanzi, as well as two villages downstream, one Fengjia Village and one Hejiazhuang, life is not good, many people have died, there are relatives, and relatives help, and those who are bleak are not so lucky.

There is a family in Fengjia Village, and there are only three fathers, mothers and children combined, and I heard that they are all dead, and the burials are all helped by the villagers.

The ground can't be dug in winter, and these people can't bury it underneath, so they are temporarily placed in Yizhuang in Hejiazhuang.

On the day of the New Year, Xu Ling's house was lively, he originally prepared a big hanging firecracker, but there were few families in the village to prepare these, Xu Ling only asked the children to play, and did not make a big noise.

There was food and firewood, meat and vegetables at home, Xu Ling simply closed the door and nested with his family, so as to close the troubles outside.

lest he look pitiful, and always want to be nosy.

His own ability is not so great, except for reaching out to do some physical work, he can't do anything he really wants.

Fan Shiqing taught Xu Ping and Xu An all day long, and even took the eldest girl to listen to it, so he became an early teacher.

The study was warm, and in order to save firewood, Xu and Gu Yi simply moved the sewing and mending work to the study, and the family stayed in one room, studying and studying, and working.

In the aisle ahead, Xu Ling used a curtain to block the wind and carried a stove over to keep Chen Sheng's mother and son warm, and to pick up the grain seeds to be used for planting next year in their spare time.

Xu Ling arranged the people in the family clearly, and he hid in the room by himself, locked the doors and windows, and ran around the space to frantically open up the wasteland and farm.

The situation in the nearby villages is so bad, let alone outside, Xu Ling is only afraid that the future will become more and more difficult.