Chapter 205 Extreme Cooling 1
The cold air passes through the mask and is inhaled into the lungs.
Xia Xiaoman coughed twice, feeling a little uncomfortable, then walked carefully to the kang in the living room, took off his gloves and prepared to light a fire to heat the kang.
As soon as he took off half of the gloves, the biting cold immediately attached to the exposed half of his wrist, and his wrist was almost numb from the cold.
Xia Xiaoman immediately put on his gloves again, went back to the basement and used a shovel to carry two red-hot honeycomb coals. Before he even reached the kang, the honeycomb coals were almost completely cooled by the extreme cold.
The kang and stove were lit, and four braziers were lit. However, because the house was drafty, even with so many braziers, there was still no warmth in the house.
After Xia Xiaoman lit the brazier, she took out a few wooden boards from the space and roughly blocked the doors, windows and the second floor staircase. Then she took out a hammer and nails and nailed the doors and windows on the first floor back on. After nailing the doors and windows, she glued a layer of plastic film behind them to block the wind.
After blocking all the air leaks on the first floor, the indoor temperature began to rise slowly after a while.
Maodan had been hiding in the basement. When he felt the temperature on the first floor was tolerable, he followed Xia Xiaoman around.
"Ahem, don't run around. Go lie down over there on the kang. If you catch a cold, where can I find animal medicine for you?"
After pushing Maodan to the side of the kang, Xia Xiaoman wrapped his coat tightly, took a deep breath and went upstairs.
The second floor was even colder than the first. Looking at the thick layer of ice on the walls and the floor, Xia Xiaoman wondered if she had entered another planet.
After repairing one window, she was so cold that she quickly went back to the first floor to warm herself up. When her body temperature came back up, she ran upstairs to repair another window. After running back and forth more than ten times, all the doors and windows on the second floor were repaired.
The only thing left to be repaired was the attic, but it was too cold. Xia Xiaoman gave in and decided to give up on repairing the attic. She also didn't plan to clean up the snow outside for fear that she would freeze to death if she went out.
There were braziers on the first and second floors, and the frost in the house was gradually melting. Xia Xiaoman took advantage of the melting ice and shoveled all the ice off the ground.
When Maodan saw her shoveling ice, he started to shovel the ice with his claws as well. After shoveling for a long time, the ice only suffered some minor injuries, but his claws were severely frozen. He lay beside Xia Xiaoman, whimpering, and seeking comfort.
After burning the brazier for two days, the frost on the first and second floors was finally cleared completely.
Xia Xiaoman felt that he was fine again, so he dressed up like a bear and ran to the attic to replace the wooden boards that were blown away by the wind, and then lit a brazier to melt the frost in the attic.
After all the frost in the attic was cleared, Xia Xiaoman began to clean the snow in the yard.
Although the snowstorm lasted for more than a month, the snow was not much, and the snow in the yard was less than two meters high. She took only one day to deal with the snow in the yard.
The snow is easy to deal with, but the difficult thing is the thick layer of ice covering the outside of the house.
The whole house was covered with a thick layer of ice. Xia Xiaoman had to use an awl to knock the ice off bit by bit.
After thinking for a long time, Xia Xiaoman decided to clean the ice from top to bottom, which was relatively safer. If he cleaned it from bottom to top, if the ice above loosened and fell, it would be no joke.
Before clearing the ice, you need to sweep the snow off the roof.
The roof was all icy, and Xia Xiaoman was worried about slipping, so she tied a climbing rope around her body.
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound in the distance. Xia Xiaoman looked back and saw someone driving a snowplow in the community to shovel snow. Judging from the direction the snowplow was heading, it probably wouldn't reach her side so quickly.
After clearing the snow from the roof, Xia Xiaoman used an awl to knock off the ice cubes bit by bit. The process of knocking off the ice cubes was very relaxing, but in extremely cold weather, it was very painful.
“Ding ding ding!!”
The sound of car horns continued. Xia Xiaoman looked back and found that the snowplow had driven over at some point. The person in the car waved at her. From the gestures he made, it seemed that he wanted her to get out.
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled. Are there still such kind-hearted people nowadays? Seeing her climbing high, he was afraid that she was in danger and asked her to come down?
Xia Xiaoman ignored her and continued to smash the ice. Seeing that she was taking a long time to get off the snowplow, the driver kept honking the horn, as if he would keep honking it if she got off.
Maodan in the living room heard the horn and thought someone was provoking it, so he kept howling.
Xia Xiaoman was so annoyed by the noise that she had to stop what she was doing and go back to the living room, planning to wait until the snowplow left before breaking the ice.
"Ahem, Maodan, shut up." Xia Xiaoman scolded. But Maodan not only didn't listen, but he yelled even more fiercely and bared his teeth at the door.
Xia Xiaoman frowned. The snowplow horn stopped sounding after she went downstairs. Why was Maodan still so alert? Was someone coming?
After thinking for a while, she went up to the second-floor balcony. Sure enough, the snowplow driver drove his car to the side of her fence.
Just as she was about to ask the snowplow driver what he wanted to do, she saw him open the door and shout something at her. The other person was wearing a breathing mask, and Xia Xiaoman listened for a long time but couldn't hear what he was saying.
Seeing that the other person was in uniform, he should be a soldier. After thinking for a while, Xia Xiaoman went downstairs and climbed onto the wall, "Hey, what did you just say? Ahem, I didn't hear clearly."
The man shouted excitedly: "Don't go out, go back!"
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
She's already gone out...
"Ahem, why can't we go out? Are there any dangerous creatures outside?"
The man shouted, "The temperature is too low. You don't have a respirator with you. If you breathe directly, your blood vessel tension and fragility will be affected. In severe cases, you may suffer from pulmonary hemorrhage and coughing up blood. Don't go out unless you have something to do. Wait until the weather warms up before going out!"
Xia Xiaoman was shocked when she heard this. "What are the signs of pulmonary hemorrhage? Cough, do you know?"
"One of the most obvious symptoms of pulmonary hemorrhage is coughing... If you cough up blood, it's basically a diagnosis of pulmonary hemorrhage."
Xia Xiaoman: "..." She is coughing now...
"Thank you, ahem, thank you for the reminder. I'll go back now." Before he finished speaking, Xia Xiaoman had already jumped off the wall, returned to the house and closed the door.
The snowplow driver continued working only after seeing her return.
When Xia Xiaoman returned home, he immediately searched through the medicine in the space and found the medicine related to the treatment of pulmonary hemorrhage. He swallowed it all in one gulp without caring whether he had pulmonary hemorrhage or a common cough.
During this special period, if pulmonary hemorrhage is confirmed, it would basically be like having one foot at the gate of hell.
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