GBP Chapter 120 I'm afraid of a severe cold
Chapter 120 I'm afraid of a severe cold
The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Shen Zhiqiu began to reschedule the tasks because the temperature continued to drop again last night.
What he meant was that after getting the kudzu root back, we should put it aside for a while, and we can also put the palm oil aside for a while,
When it snows, we can also do it in the cave.
The old ladies continued to weave the mattresses, trying to finish all the mattresses that day.
The old men have already made a lot of palm lines, which should be enough, so they can just collect more firewood and burn more charcoal.
Wang Fuxi and a few others were responsible for cutting bamboo and moving it to the cave.
The women went with Shen Youyou and the others to pick up pine nuts and collect pine candy, fearing that they would be gone once it snowed.
The strong laborers led the teenagers except Erhu and the other four to continue digging kudzu roots.
Li Quan was in charge of protecting the elderly and children in the cave. It was so cold, he couldn't take the kid out with him.
Everyone moved back what supplies they could to the cave before it snowed.
After the discussion and breakfast, everyone took water and dry food and set off with their own team.
Due to the sudden change in weather, Shen Youyou's opportunity to cut the pine bark and collect pine resin was ruined. Because the temperature was too low, the resin would not flow even if the bark was cut, so it was basically a waste of work.
However, Shen Youyou arranged for the women to collect resin from the lower parts of the pine trees and pick up pine nuts.
The four brothers and Shen Youyou continued to climb the tree to pick pine candy and collect the pine resin.
I also need to chop more pine branches and ask the old ladies, aunts and uncles downstairs to bundle them up and take them away when I leave.
Bring it back to the cave and work on it slowly. Time is tight and the task is urgent. There is nothing we can do about it.
The old men were near the cave, chopping dry branches and making bamboo charcoal.
However, everyone had a sad face, because after so many years of farming experience, they all knew how to observe weather changes.
Master Shen was crouching down to pick up the dry branches that Li Quan had cut down, but his face was full of worry: "Oh! I'm afraid it's going to snow heavily today."
Shen Changqing paused while chopping the tree, because the trunk of the tree he was chopping was dead. After everyone discussed it, they decided to just chop it down and use it as firewood.
"How heavy of a snowfall did Uncle Qi mention?"
Shen Changqing didn't know why, but he felt a little frightened when he heard what Master Shen said.
Father Shen was also worried: "It won't be just ordinary heavy snow. If it is heavy snow, it would be ok, it can also alleviate the drought. I'm afraid there will be a snowstorm!"
Master Shen nodded: "Within three days, there will be heavy snow!"
These words really gave everyone a fright, but the one who was best at predicting the weather was Master Shen.
What the old man said was still very accurate. In previous years, they would ask the old man to check the weather when they harvested and sowed.
Of course, humans are definitely not weather forecasters, and even weather forecasts are sometimes inaccurate.
But most old men can see it clearly.
However, some people still couldn't believe it and asked, "Seventh Uncle, are you sure you're not seeing things?"
Master Shen glared and said, "How many times have I said I was wrong in all these years?"
The other old men remained silent. It was true that he was very good at judging the weather and was rarely wrong.
"And don't forget the old saying, after a severe drought there will be an extreme cold! It's been dry here for more than two years, and the snow either doesn't come, or it's heavy snow."
After hearing what the old man said, everyone actually understood that it was almost certain.
When we woke up this morning, the sky was gloomy. Without saying anything more, we picked up machetes and swords and started chopping trees and branches. Some also picked up axes to chop firewood.
Two sheds should also be built on both sides of the cave, one on each side, to store more dry firewood. Even the area from the cave entrance to the bamboo partition would not be able to store enough firewood for a whole winter.
What I fear most is that this winter not only has heavy snow, but it also lasts a long time.
Shen Youyou and the others were even more terrified. It was so cold that their hands and feet were numb from the cold and could not move at all.
Several people were on the tree, stepped on the bald skin, and slid down from the tree. It was a blessing. Shen Zhiqiu was afraid of this happening. He had a lot of experience in climbing trees when he was a child.
Let Shen Youyou and the others bring out a brown rope, and put it around their waists when they climb up the tree, so that if something unexpected happens, they won't fall down directly.
Shen Youyou was responsible for telling everyone to tie the safety ropes in the same way as when rock climbing. It was really thanks to these ropes, otherwise if they fell from such a high tree, they would have at least broken their arms and legs.
Then they saw that the woman with pine seeds didn't want them to climb the tree anymore.
Li Jingshu said: It looks scary, you have already collected quite a few candies, don't get hurt just for these candies.
Shen Youyou's hands and feet were numb, and her movements were slow due to the cold. She stepped carefully on the tree branches, no longer using her hands to rub, and focused her one-meter-long knife to chop down the branches covered with white frost.
"Brothers and sisters, don't use your hands to rub it, use a knife to cut it. Take everything away after you look at it, and then we can do it slowly when we get back."
There were people hanging on the trees all around, all tied with ropes. They started chopping when they heard what Shen Youyou said.
Only cut branches with more frost on them, and after cutting one branch, slide down and climb to the next one.
But I would often slide down while climbing, but I would not give up and climb up again and again.
Shen Youyou was so tired that she hung halfway up a pine tree, gasping for breath. She was so tired.
The main thing was that her whole body was cold, and the tree she was hugging was very tall, probably as tall as the third or fourth floor of a building in her previous life.
But this tree is still considered short here. This is a deep mountain forest, and most of the trees are five or six stories high. There are even some towering trees so high that you can't see their tops.
But they don't have to think about climbing that kind of tree. You can't climb up at all. The trunk of that kind of tree is very old and thick, and no one can hug it.
The women were crouching down below, picking up intact pine nuts. They were all overripe, so there was no need to knock the pine cones; they would just fall down if they were shaken in a bamboo basket.
But the weather was really bad. Just as it was getting dark, snowflakes started falling from the sky.
Erhu shouted, "Get down from the tree, get down from the tree, pack up and go back, it's snowing.
Shen Youyou was covered in the "rustling" snowflakes that fell on her face and body. It was really like a gust of cold wind blowing.
"This sugar can't come into contact with water. Hurry up and pull some hay to cover the bamboo basket and the bundled pine branches."
The sudden heavy snow disrupted all plans, and everyone hurriedly packed up.
Shen Youyou wiped the snow off her face and said, "Hurry up, hurry up. It will snow heavily soon and the mountain road will be even harder to walk on. Take what you can pack and throw away what you can't. Don't be greedy. Safety first!"
Each woman and girl carried bamboo baskets, bundles of pine branches, and cloth bags of pine nuts on their backs. Each person could carry as much as they could, and the bags were half a meter higher than their heads.
Even people of Shen Youyou's age carry a bamboo basket with a bundle of pine branches tied on top and a layer of hay wrapped around it.
Even Shen Youyou, who is not very good at living, was reluctant to throw away the frost-covered pine branches that everyone had cut down after going through so much trouble, let alone others.