Chapter 204 The Third Snowstorm - Extreme Temperature Drop
Maodan jumped into the fire pit, howling and screaming, almost speaking human language in an anxious manner.
Xia Xiaoman thought that some bad guys had come, so he put on his coat, took out his gun and planned to go to the second-floor balcony to check the situation.
When Maodan saw that she was about to go upstairs, he pounced at her feet and bit her shoes with his newly grown teeth to prevent her from going up.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Maodan, get out of the way, I'll go up and take a look!"
"Awoo~Awoo~Awoo~Awoo~" Maodan protested in a low voice, still standing in front of Xia Xiaoman.
The more Maodan tried to try to stop her, the more Xia Xiaoman wanted to go up and take a look. Without knowing the situation outside, she would not be able to prepare for the next step.
Xia Xiaoman grabbed Maodan by the scruff of the neck, lifted him up and restrained him, then quickly ran upstairs.
As soon as she opened the balcony door, a biting cold wind blew in her face. Xia Xiaoman immediately felt her body temperature rapidly decreasing, and the white air she exhaled instantly condensed into crystals in the air.
“Ahh, aahh, aahh!” I told you not to come up because it’s getting colder outside, but you wouldn’t listen!
Maodan twisted his body angrily and secretly kicked Xia Xiaoman a few times with his hind legs.
As the cold wind blew, Xia Xiaoman realized that a snowstorm had occurred. She immediately closed the door, trotted back to the living room, threw the eggs aside, quickly put on her clothes, grabbed her blanket, and planned to go to the basement to avoid the snowstorm.
"Maodan! Follow me, let's go to the basement."
After shouting twice and not hearing Maodan's footsteps, Xia Xiaoman looked back and found that Maodan had been hiding in the corner and digging the ground with his claws.
Xia Xiaoman walked over and gently kicked its butt with her toes, "What are you doing? I called you so many times but you didn't move."
"Ao, aowu~" Don't make a noise, the inherited memory tells it that the weather is getting cold and it needs to dig a hole and crawl into it to avoid the cold!
Maodan dug the hole without even raising his head. After digging for a long time, the hole he had grabbed was worn away and only a few scratches were left on the cement floor.
Seeing it digging so hard, Xia Xiaoman was too lazy to pay attention to it and went to clean up the basement first. There were chickens and rabbits in the basement, and the smell was a bit strong. If it wasn't cleaned up, it would be uninhabitable.
After making the bed, he sprinkled some wood ash on the ground under the cage where the animals were kept to cover up the smell. After tidying up the basement, Xia Xiaoman went upstairs to bring Maodan down.
When I returned to the living room again, the temperature was obviously much colder, and there were also the sounds of ghosts howling outside.
Xia Xiaoman pulled her coat together, holding Maodan in one hand and the big pillow that Maodan used to sleep in the other, and kicking Maodan's food bowl with her foot, kicking it to the basement.
The temperature outside dropped too quickly, and there was no time to nail up the doors and windows on the first and second floors. Xia Xiaoman had to take out two more wooden boards to reinforce the basement door to prevent it from being blown open by the wind.
Close the door, light up the kang and fireplace, and the temperature in the basement will gradually rise.
Maodan felt the warmth in the basement, and his anxiety gradually subsided. Seeing the rabbits and chickens locked in the corner, he became playful and ran to the cages to scare the animals inside.
After the kang was lit, Xia Xiaoman turned around and saw Maodan gnawing on the rabbit cage, trying to chew it apart and catch the rabbit inside.
She walked over and slapped Maodan on the head, "Don't bite the cage, these are your food. If you scare them so that they don't give birth, you'll starve!"
After seriously criticizing Maodan for five minutes, Xia Xiaoman let it go when he saw Maodan lying on the ground with his ears drooping, looking like he knew he was wrong.
Awakened in the middle of the night, Xia Xiaoman wrapped in a quilt and sat on the kang, completely unable to sleep.
It is now around 3am. Sun Qing and her group left for Yuancheng at around 9am. I don't know if they have returned yet. If they don't return to Yuancheng and run into this blizzard again...
The wind roared, and even if you hid in the basement, you could hear the deafening sound of the wind outside. Animals have a natural fear of nature. Maodan was frightened by the sound and curled up on the pillow, looking up at Xia Xiaoman from time to time, as if to confirm Xia Xiaoman's safety.
Heavy snow fluttered from the sky, and in just a few minutes, the ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow.
The temperature was dropping at an incredible speed, and the cold air penetrated the walls and seeped into the house. Xia Xiaoman, who was staying in the basement, could clearly feel a stream of cold air coming in. One could imagine how cold the temperature outside was.
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This snowstorm lasted for more than a month.
For more than a month, Xia Xiaoman's daily routine has been completely disrupted. Every two hours, she has to add honeycomb coal to the fireplace, the kang, and the brazier next to the rabbit cage and the chicken coop. If she forgets to add coal, the temperature in the basement will drop rapidly.
In order to block the pervasive cold air, Xia Xiaoman placed a brazier at the door of the basement, which burned 24 hours a day.
Even so, this small basement is still a bit cold. But compared to the ice and snow outside, the basement is as warm as spring.
After being locked up in the basement for more than a month, Maodan has gone from being excited at the beginning (playing with chickens and scaring rabbits every day) to being listless now. Apart from eating, he has no interest in anything.
The wolf cub was depressed because of being locked up, not to mention Xia Xiaoman, a living person.
The basement was small, and when she wanted to exercise, she had to be careful to avoid kicking over the brazier or kicking the eggs.
Since she couldn't exercise, she had to take out all the toys in the space and play with them. When there was nothing fun to play with, she found all kinds of ways to tease Maodan, and made Maodan hide aside and ignore her.
At noon on the 46th day of being forced to stay in the basement, Xia Xiaoman was eating hot pot. When she was boiling water to wash the dishes after eating the hot pot, she suddenly found that the wind outside seemed to have died down a lot.
By the next morning, the wind had completely died down, but Xia Xiaoman still didn't dare to open the door, planning to wait two days before going out to avoid freezing to death.
After staying in the basement for another two days, Xia Xiaoman went out wearing 5 pairs of pants, 8 pieces of clothes, 4 pairs of socks, two hats, a scarf, a mask, gloves and a pair of men's large cotton shoes.
She pried open the two wooden boards nailed to the basement door, then unlocked it and tried to pull it in. After two pulls, the door didn't budge.
Xia Xiaoman looked puzzled and took out a flashlight to shine on the door lock. The door lock was indeed opened, but there was a thin layer of frost on the edge of the door.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, kicked the door hard twice to loosen the frost stuck to the door gap, and then pulled the door open.
I opened the basement door and shone the flashlight outside. The next second, the light was reflected back by the white frost on the ground.
Xia Xiaoman stared at the living room outside in amazement. The doors and windows of the living room were all blown to the ground by the strong wind. The walls, the kang, the stove and the ground were all covered with a thick layer of frost. Even the handrails leading to the second floor were surrounded by ice.
The entire living room was like an ice cave, having lost its former warmth and vitality, filled only with the cold air emitted by frost.
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