Chapter 44: Heavy Snow Seals the Mountain
Just after the Great Cold solar term, the temperature suddenly dropped in more than a week. Overnight, except for evergreen trees such as pine and cypress, all the leaves fell. Fang Ning's family had just dragged a truck of honeycomb coal from the town and put it neatly in the cellar.
Some people have begun to notice this abnormal weather. Smart people have begun to prepare to buy winter supplies in advance, while some people are still waiting and watching.
As the calendar turned page by page, there were no traces of animals in the old woods, birds flew across thousands of mountains, and people were destroyed in thousands of paths.
The temperature is also falling day by day, and people are already in panic.
On the 24th day of the lunar month, morning.
It started to snow at around 11 o'clock on the 23rd. Through the glass window, you can see the heavy snow like goose feathers falling outside, becoming denser and denser, and the ground is covered with snow marks. The white dog barked in the wind and snow, but the moon in the sky became brighter and brighter. The bright moonlight scattered on the snow. With the reflection of the moonlight, you can see clearly at night. With the sound of pushing the door, a figure in a raincoat broke in, and then the electric light illuminated the floor.
At this moment, the scene is really like a smell of dog barking in the middle of the woods and returning home on a windy and snowy night.
Fang Jiefang was wearing a raincoat and shook off all the snow marks. His eyebrows and beard were dyed white by the wind and snow, and his eyes were filled with fatigue that could not be concealed.
Fang Ning and Fang Wei quickly came out to open the door. He urged his sister to make brown sugar ginger soup to drive away the cold of grandpa. At the same time, he asked, "Grandpa, how is the situation in the village?"
Fang Jiefang untied the raincoat and hung it on his wall mountain. He put his hand into the hot water basin brought by his grandmother, let the hot water suck his cold air, then applied a hot towel to his face, and finally drank the ginger soup sent by his sister until his whole body was warmed up and said: "Hongjia Village, Wangpoling, Hengping, Dazhou, several nearby villages have been cut off from water and power. I just took a few people to check the power lines in our village, but fortunately it was not broken by thick snow."
He looked up at the heavy snow flying under the night sky, and felt extremely heavy, "But looking at this, I guess the water and electricity in our village will not last tomorrow at the latest!"
This is not a terrifying statement, but he led the electricians in the village to observe carefully. With such heavy snowfall, the wires can be crushed the next night. At the same time, the water supply in the village depends entirely on the two wells in front of the village gate. Because it is a live spring, it will steam in winter, so there is no need to worry about the freezing. As long as people like Fang Ning's family who live on the top of the mountain or in a slightly remote place are all pumped by pumping water. Under such extremely cold and low temperatures, the water in the water pipe will be frozen, and it will be a problem for the family to drink water.
Fang Ning said confidently, "Grandpa, don't worry, I can't guarantee other people's daily water, but our family's water is still fine."
At this time, my uncle came from the west room and told my grandfather that there was an old well next to the vegetable garden on the left. It was originally dry, but with the help of a few people, the spring was dug and unblocked again. After cleaning the silt at the bottom of the well, a sweet mountain spring flowed out, and no matter how cold the weather was, it would not freeze.
Besides, Fang Ning had already asked her grandmother to fill up water with three large plastic buckets, which was enough for the family of six or seven to spend more than a week.
Fortunately, all the black goats from Fang Ning's family were sold, so they didn't have to bear the problem of drinking water for so many livestock.
There was nothing to say at night, and Fang Ning and his sister were a little worried about their parents' safety. Grandpa called, but fortunately they called and they reported their safety to Fang Ning and the others in the mountains of Yuezhou.
Unfortunately, it snowed one day earlier than that, just like Ning. Now the mountains are covered with heavy snow, so I can't leave even if I want to, so I can only stay with my grandmother.
The next morning.
Before Fang Ning got up, she was stunned and suddenly woke up by Fang Wei's shouting, "Brother! Brother! Come out and watch the heavy snow!" She shouted Fang Ning outside.
Fang Ning instantly remembered the snowfall last night. The terrifying blizzard had not stopped all night. He was worried for a long time and couldn't hold on anymore, so he fell asleep in a daze. When he remembered it, he didn't care about not wearing his shoes. He jumped up from the bed with a "swoosh" sound and rushed out of the bedroom. He saw that the white bamboo forest and vegetable garden outside were covered with snow, and the whole world turned into an ice and snow world!
Ice cones were hung on the eaves of the old house.
Fang Wei wore a red cotton coat and stood in the yard rubbing his hands and exhaled the heat. The other party said, "Brother, look at the ice cone on the eaves of our house, it's so scary, as thick as his thighs!"
Fang Ning looked up and felt a little scary.
These ice cones are probably more than ten kilograms! Because their house has renovated the house, they can afford it. Like the west house of Xiaoye’s house, it was originally an old house, but it has not been renovated. After this snowfall, many walls fell off with the walls. If you accidentally smash the thing, you will probably die.
Fang Ning walked out wearing a cotton coat and shoes and stepped on the yard. Then he realized that the white white on the ground was not snow, but hard ice, like a smooth mirror.
Then Fang Ning found an extremely serious problem, and the water and power were out of stock at home!
Fang Wei rolled her eyes and didn't believe it. She ran to the bedroom and pulled the lights, screaming that the power was really out of power! Then she found that the tap water was also shut down.
"Brother, Big Mao, Xiao Mao! Come and see the village!" Fang Wei called them over.
"OMG!!"
They could see the village when standing on the hillside. Looking around, the land was white, the farmland and houses in the village were covered with thick white snow, the fish ponds were covered with thick frozen layers, and the roads were full of overturned telephone poles, high-voltage wires and cables crushed by snow, and a tricycle overturned on the side of the road.
There are only the chestnut trees on the mountain behind the village chief’s house, and the pear trees are left with only the tops of the tree, and the abrupt trunks point straight to the sky.
The thick snow bent all the bamboo forest beside Fang Ning's old house, and the cracked bamboo poles sucked the air conditioning, completely devastated by the storm.
"Woom!"
The white dog drove a few hens to run around the bamboo forest, and tossed like a scattered dog. The snow poured down.
"Wang..." The white dog wailed and was smashed into the snow and disappeared.
Fang Ning and a few children came over to help, but unexpectedly, the snow fell down in pieces, and three or four bamboo poles suddenly exploded, making crackling sounds, scaring them to tremble.
Chapter completed!