After Qiao Xuejun finished drawing the blueprint, he showed it to his three teammates: "These places are inhabited. If you go to collect supplies nearby, be careful of others."
It is different now than before. Before, the town was very empty and there were almost no residents around them. But now it is different. There are people on every one of these mountains.
Many people came from the city, and some moved to the mountain from the old town like them. In short, the population density on the mountain is much denser than when they were at the foot of the mountain.
All three teammates took note.
Qiao Xuejun started growing mushrooms, but now that she doesn’t see the sun all day, she can only grow mushrooms.
The last time they went out, they picked up some plastic bottles. They were all big and thick beverage bottles, like big bottles of Coke and orange juice.
Qiao Xuejun and Wang Juanfeng picked up the bottles near the water level at the foot of the mountain. The bottles were washed very clean by the heavy rain.
The mushroom bag that Qiao Xuejun bought cheaply finally came in handy. She put it in a plastic bottle and waited for the mushrooms to grow and then eat them. The ones she bought were oyster mushrooms, which are easy to grow and have a growing period of less than a month.
They also put the earthworms they dug up into the ground. They usually put rabbit and chicken manure into the soil and waited for the earthworms to grow on their own.
After digging up the weeds, Qiao Xuejun also planted them in the ground, but now there is no sunlight, so it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to grow.
The weather is getting colder day by day. At the beginning, the temperature in the room could reach 20℃ when the stove was burning indoors, but now even with a very strong fire, the temperature can only reach 15 degrees.
At night, when the stove is turned off, the temperature can be reduced to 5 degrees. This is the temperature in the small compartment.
There is no heat source in the outer room and bedroom, the daily temperature is around zero degrees, and the air we breathe out is white mist.
It was too cold to sleep at night.
It was late that day, and the flame in the stove was slowly dying out. Kuang Qianli squatted in front of the stove, not wanting to leave at all: "It's too cold in the bedroom, damn, it's like a cloth quilt that has been cold for years, and it's like an iron cavalry in a dream, it's freezing."
Qiao Xuejun glanced at him and said, "The fire isn't even out yet, and you're already talking nonsense because you're so cold."
Kuang Qianli wanted to stick his whole body to the stove: "I can't sleep, I can't sleep at all!"
Wang Juanfeng yawned: "I'm sleepy, I'm going back to the house."
The weather was cold, but their quilts were not as cold as iron as Kuang Qianli said. On the contrary, they were made of thick and fluffy cotton.
This was all thanks to Qiao Xuejun's decision at the time. When they went to search the empty house, Qiao Xuejun was very fond of quilts, coats, down jackets and the like. Each of them even got a down quilt or a wool quilt.
When we searched the house, the temperature was extremely high and the sun was very strong every day, so these quilts were all exposed to the sun. They were very fluffy and soft, and would warm up after sleeping for a while.
But it is indeed very cold when you first get into bed.
Qiao Xuejun looked at the pot of water boiling on the stove: "Wait a moment."
Wang Juanfeng then sat down again: "What's wrong?"
Qiao Xuejun walked out of the cubicle and came back in a few moments later, holding four large plastic bottles in her arms. They were the large plastic bottles they had picked up earlier.
Qiao Xuejun unscrewed the plastic bottles one by one and put them on the table. The kettle on the stove was just boiling water.
Qiao Xuejun picked up the kettle with both hands, stood in front of the table, and slowly poured the water into the large plastic bottles, filling all four large plastic bottles.
There was not much water left in the kettle, so she put it down and carefully screwed the lid of the plastic bottle back on to prevent the hot water from spilling out.
She handed the first plastic water bottle to the young carpenter: "Use your sleeve to block it, be careful of getting burned."
This is all boiling water, you will get burned if you are not careful.
Qiao Xuejun distributed them one by one: "Take them back and put them in your bed. Warm your feet and hands as you like. It will get warm faster."
The young carpenter took the thermos and hugged it: "It's still possible. This bottle seems to have shrunk a lot."
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "It's boiling water after all."
These bottles were specially selected by her because it was boiling water. If they were thinner plastic bottles like those used to hold Coke, they would be damaged by the heat, but this kind of hard plastic would only shrink a circle due to the heat and would not be damaged.
Kuang Qianli was surprised and asked: "This plastic bottle can also keep things warm?"
"You'll know after you use it," Wang Juanfeng pressed the bottle against his face and shrank back at the heat. "Put it in your bed overnight, and in the morning you can use the water to wash your face and hands. It's warm."
Wang Juanfeng: "I almost forgot there is such a method. My grandfather also gave me this kind of thermos when I was a child. Our family was poor and we didn't have a hot water bottle or an electric blanket. So we would go to other people's banquet tables to pick up empty bottles of Orange Juice, go home to fill them with hot water, and stuff them into the quilt."
Kuang Qianli: “Never used it.”
Wang Juanfeng asked Qiao Xuejun: "Were you like this when you were a child?"
The Qiao family is actually quite well off in the village, unlike the Wang family, who can't even afford a hot water bottle.
Qiao Xuejun said: "I used it when I was a child."
After boiling a pot of water, the fire in the stove went out. Qiao Xuejun turned off the stove and returned to the bedroom with her thermos bottle. "Let's go. I don't know if it will rain tomorrow. If it doesn't rain, we'll go get the water tank."
There was good news during this period. Kuang Qianli and the carpenter made a distiller, and the distillation effect was quite good. Qiao Xuejun tried it and found no odor at all, and there was no reaction when an iron nail was put in.
However, due to limited conditions, there is no way to test the pH value more deeply.
To be on the safe side, Qiao Xuejun would throw water purification tablets into the rainwater to purify the water, and then distill it. The distilled pure water is fine to drink and smells clean.
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