The patrol team knew about it, so Qiao Xuejun stopped asking questions and started doing her own thing.
After finishing her work in the greenhouse, she went to the stable.
The horse herder has already gone out with the horses.
Next to the stable, a craftsman from the Ministry of Construction was building a small snow house.
This was the order Qiao Xuejun placed for Zhao Xian yesterday.
"Teacher Qiao!" The master who built the snow house saw Qiao Xuejun coming and called her.
Qiao Xuejun looked at the small snow house that was not even as tall as herself. She walked around it and said, "It's so small."
Although he is short, he is fat, like a steamed bun in the snow.
The craftsman, wearing thick gloves, had already built the roof of the igloo. Hearing this, he laughed out loud: "It's better to be small. It won't be warm if it's too big."
The roof of the small snow house is already being finished. Qiao Xuejun asked, "How long did it take to build this? It feels like it went very quickly. I didn't even see it when I came to work just now, but now it's almost done when I get off work."
The master said, "It's like building blocks. Press the snow bricks in the morning, and then build them up in circles in the afternoon. It only takes an hour. It just takes time to press the snow bricks. The snow needs wind to warm it up. Snow that's too compacted won't keep you warm."
This is also what they have tried out during this period.
"It's really interesting." Qiao Xuejun stood by, turning around, eager to try it out.
The master smiled and pointed to the ground: "Okay, bring up that snow brick and embed it in the middle."
Qiao Xuejun immediately picked up the snow brick on the ground and placed it up according to the master's instructions to seal the roof.
"We need to leave a ventilation hole here." The master took his tools and worked on the roof for a while. "Okay, the igloo is done. Just add some more snow to fill the gaps between the bricks and make them level."
Qiao Xuejun followed the master and found some crushed snow to fill the gaps between the bricks.
A bulging snowball appeared in the snow between the stable and the experimental field.
Qiao Xuejun looked around the igloo and saw the door - it was a cave, lower than the ground.
"Want to crawl in from here?"
Master: “Yes, you try it.”
Qiao Xuejun followed his master's instructions and crawled in. The passage was lower than the ground, and after crawling in, there was a small slope that led to the snow house.
There are no windows in the igloo, but you can see the headlamp on the master's hat outside through the snow bricks.
Very light transmittance.
This is just the simplest little snow house. Qiao Xuejun can't even stand up straight in it. But the width is OK, so you can lie down straight.
In the middle of the igloo, there was a layer of dry corn stalks on the ground, separated by a layer of fish skin. On top of the fish skin was a quilt, and on top of that was a sleeping bag.
It's time to sleep.
Qiao Xuejun: "There is a lamp in here."
A blue oil lamp made from an iron kettle was placed in a small corner, burning a bluish-purple flame. It seemed to serve only as a lighting source.
The chef said, "A small oil lamp will help the temperature rise faster. Aren't you staying here tonight? The door curtain hasn't been put up yet. It would be best to find a piece of fish skin to put it on."
This is where Qiao Xuejun crawled in. The cold air sank and gathered, and a door curtain was needed to block it.
Master: "Check the temperature inside. The thermometer is on the sleeping bag."
Qiao Xuejun picked up the thermometer from the sleeping bag and looked at it: "-15 degrees Celsius."
Qiao Xuejun: "It warmed up pretty quickly."
It's about -38 degrees Celsius outside, almost 40 degrees. Because the stables and experimental fields are in a warm area on this mountain, it can be about 3 degrees Celsius higher.
It’s pretty good that the temperature in here can reach -15℃. This extreme cold sleeping bag is completely sufficient at -15℃.
The master said, "It can go up another degree. We've tried it, and it can go up to around 15 degrees Celsius."
Qiao Xuejun: "15℃? That high?"
Master: "Yes, we didn't expect it to be so high before. It lasted all night without melting."
Master: "They say the warmer the igloo, the stronger it is. But it can only reach 15 degrees Celsius. Any higher and it will melt and collapse."
Qiao Xuejun: "Then the temperature can still be raised a lot."
It's still minus 15 degrees Celsius.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
The sound of horse hooves hitting the snow was heard outside, and Qiao Xuejun came out of the snow house again.
The horse herder was introduced by Mr. An. Although he was not a professional horse herder, his family had bought and sold horses before and he had some contact with horses.
Now that the temperature is getting lower, the horses are brought back to the stable after they have eaten their fill outside.
The horse herder looked at the extra igloo and was stunned: "Teacher Qiao, you built an igloo?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Yes, I will stay here for the time being. I will go back after the mare gives birth."
The horse herder looked at Qiao Xuejun with admiration.
"Teacher Qiao, you're working too hard. This place is so close to the base, why not just live there?"
Qiao Xuejun shook her head: "It will take a while to get over there."
It has been at least 15 minutes since I came from Zhao Xian's room.
The herder locked the horses in the stable. Qiao Xuejun took the mare and locked her in a small room separated from the stable. This was the delivery room.
She also got some feed corn for the mares to eat.
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Qiao Xuejun's toiletries are all at the base, and today Wang Juanfeng brought them to Zhao Xian for her.
Qiao Xuejun looked at the time and it was already 7 o'clock in the evening.
The situation in the conference room has not ended yet and the negotiations are still going on.
After a quick wash, Qiao Xuejun went out and first went to the tailor's room to find a suitable piece of fish skin to make a door curtain for the snow house.
When Tailor Li heard that she was going to live in a snow house outside, he was shocked: "You want to live in a snow house outside? That's okay? Will it freeze you to death?"
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