Chapter 175 Second Cooling
It sounds easy to raise the height of the wall by one meter, but it is somewhat difficult to do in practice.
Xia Xiaoman first needs to use a storage box to freeze a large ice brick, then carry the ice brick up the stairs and place the ice brick on the wall, then pour warm water on it, allowing the water to solidify the ice brick and the wall together.
If she wanted to raise the entire wall by one meter, she would need to repeat this action hundreds of times. Everything else was fine, except that it was more troublesome to carry the ice bricks up the stairs, and it was easy to slip if she wasn't careful.
Fortunately, Xia Xiaoman is very strong. If it were an ordinary person, he would need at least two helpers.
The wind has been quite strong these days, so Xia Xiaoman wore a bandit hat and a storm cap on the outside to ensure that his face would not get frostbite.
After removing the frozen ice bricks from the mold, Xia Xiaoman carried them to the wall. As soon as she climbed up the ladder, a strong wind blew over, and Xia Xiaoman and the ladder were blown to the ground.
At the moment of falling, Xia Xiaoman let go of the stepladder, threw the ice brick aside, and fell to the ground naturally while protecting his head.
The next second, the stepladder fell beside her, and the ice bricks fell beside her feet. Xia Xiaoman let go of the two objects in time and luckily was not hurt.
He stood up and just wanted to see what was going on, but the storm cap on his head was blown away by the strong wind. Xia Xiaoman felt a chill on his head and subconsciously pushed the cap back and tied it up.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and snowflakes hit my eyelids several times, which was cold and painful.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, guessing that another snowstorm might be coming. After putting the stepladder away, he ran home in the strong wind and closed the doors and windows.
Xia Xiaoman's prediction was correct. Less than 10 minutes after returning to the room, there was a sound of ghosts howling outside, as if thousands of ghosts were crying in his ears. The biting cold wind came in through the crack in the door, and Xia Xiaoman didn't dare to take off her coat.
The temperature inside the room was also dropping rapidly. The originally warm room gradually became colder, as if the blizzard outside had seeped in. The windows and doors were crackling in the wind, as if they would be blown apart at any time.
Xia Xiaoman pulled her collar closer, shrank her neck and muttered, "Why does it feel like the temperature has dropped even more sharply than last time? It got so much colder all of a sudden."
She took a few wooden strips and nailed the doors and windows shut like she did last time when the temperature dropped, and then nailed a layer of plastic film on them to block the wind. After doing all this, she was so cold that her face turned pale and her hands turned a little blue. Xia Xiaoman quickly took off her shoes and got into bed to keep warm.
Lying on the kang, her body gradually warmed up. Suddenly, with a snap, her forehead felt cold. Xia Xiaoman reached out and touched her forehead, feeling a little water stain. Puzzled, she took out a strong light and shone it on the ceiling, only to see that a thin layer of frost had formed on the ceiling.
The ceiling above her head was facing the kang, so the frost turned into water drops and fell down.
Xia Xiaoman was just thinking about whether to use tools to wipe the water off the ceiling when she saw the water droplets above her head freezing into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xia Xiaoman widened her eyes. Before she could react, she noticed that the temperature of the quilt on the kang was gradually dissipating. Only those who were close to the kang could feel a little warmth.
All the changes around her told Xia Xiaoman that the temperature drop was unusual. Without any hesitation, she gritted her teeth, put on her shoes, wrapped herself in a blanket and rushed into the basement to close the door.
In the basement, the rabbits and chickens all crowded towards the fireplace. If there were no cages separating them, Xia Xiaoman had no doubt that these little animals would crawl into the fireplace.
She turned on the fireplace, picked up a piece of red-hot honeycomb coal with a pair of fire tongs and put it into the kang in the basement, then added some dry firewood and honeycomb coal.
While waiting for the kang to heat up, Xia Xiaoman took out the plastic film and sealed the door of the basement to prevent the cold wind from blowing in through the cracks in the door. There are ventilation ducts in the basement, so there is no need to worry about carbon dioxide poisoning even if the door is sealed.
After sealing the door, Xia Xiaoman's face turned blue from the cold and he couldn't stop shaking all over.
She had never been so cold in her life. It was like being in the freezer. The cold penetrated her body and into her bones. Her limbs were so stiff that she felt like she would be frozen in place and become an ice man in the next second.
The kang could not be heated so quickly. Xia Xiaoman was so cold that she could not stand it. Her teeth kept chattering. She took out a few braziers from the space and lit them. She sat near the braziers and roasted them for a long time. Only then did her stiff body gradually soften.
Feeling that his hands could move normally again, Xia Xiaoman put a few more honeycomb coals into the fireplace.
Three braziers, a fireplace and a kang, five places where heat is emitted, and the coldness in the basement is gradually dispelled.
Xia Xiaoman didn't feel so cold anymore, so he removed the two braziers and left only one between the rabbit cage and the chicken coop.
Xia Xiaoman did not expect such cold weather, and she didn't know whether the people in the sewers could survive this horrific snowstorm.
Having just been frozen, Xia Xiaoman felt that she urgently needed to replenish calories and fat. There happened to be a rabbit that was frozen and in low spirits, so she caught the rabbit and prepared to eat it tonight.
It was not a good idea to kill a rabbit in front of other rabbits, so Xia Xiaoman turned his back to the rabbit cage and slit the rabbit's throat with a knife to let the rabbit bleed.
The weather is too cold, and hot pot is the best thing to eat at this time. Cut the rabbit into pieces and marinate it. Xia Xiaoman took out the iron rack and placed it on the brazier. Then he took out a pot from the space and put it on the iron rack to cook the hot pot. When the bottom of the pot boils, put the rabbit meat in and cook it until it is done.
The hotpot meal made her nose sweat, and she instantly felt better. She put on her coat and walked close to the basement door, trying to adapt to the cold weather outside.
As soon as I opened the door a crack, a gust of cold air hit me in the face.
Xia Xiaoman took the lamp and shone it into the living room. The fire on the kang in the living room had gone out. Near the stove, there was a thick layer of frost, probably because of the boiling water before.
Xia Xiaoman couldn't help but shiver. If there was no basement, she would be frozen to death sooner or later if she lived in the living room.
After standing at the door for two minutes in the cold wind, Xia Xiaoman decisively gave in. She didn't think she had the ability to fight against nature with her human body, so she decided to just hide in the basement!
The snowstorm intensified. Even though the doors and windows on the first and second floors were propped up with wooden bars, they were still crackling in the strong wind. Some of the larger windows and doors had their windproof plastic films nailed on them blown apart, making a constant rustling sound.
This terrible snowstorm lasted for a full half month.
Xia Xiaoman noticed that the wind outside was gradually getting weaker, so he put on thick clothes and carefully opened the door of the basement.
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