Chapter 233 Headache in the South
Around 12 noon, Wen Xu also came back.
After his parents died, Wen Xu became much more mature and silent than before. In the past, Wen Jianfeng would only practice boxing if he was beaten with a stick. Now, without any urging, he would wrap a cloth strip around his hands and practice boxing at a certain time.
After lunch, Xia Xiaoman chatted with Li Yu'e about her recent situation. After chatting for about three hours, Zhou Qiuyang woke up from his sleep. She chatted with Zhou Qiuyang for a while, and when she saw that it was getting late, she said goodbye.
Before leaving, Li Yu'e asked someone to bring a bunch of supplies to Xia Xiaoman. Xia Xiaoman did not refuse and accepted them all.
After getting in the car, she asked Maodan to carry a bag of things and threw it at Li Yu'e's feet. When Li Yu'e opened it, she found that it was full of medicines. When she wanted to return it to Xia Xiaoman, Xia Xiaoman had already left with Maodan who had just got in the car.
She only had half a bottle of ether, and to be honest, she was reluctant to give it to Li Yu'e and the others. But she had a lot of other medicines, and she would not feel bad to give some to Li Yu'e and the others.
When Xia Xiaoman got home and just got off the car, Sun Haiyun next door shouted from the second-floor window: "Where did you go today? Four people came to your house just now and wanted to steal things from you."
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Where are the people?"
"They ran away. They stepped on a trap and screamed in pain. I heard the noise and opened the window to scare them away." Sun Haiyun said, and then reminded: "Next time you go out, leave Maodan at home! Let him stay at home to guard the door, otherwise you won't know if someone breaks into your house."
"Awoo!" Maodan barked in dissatisfaction. It was not a watchdog, so why should it be asked to guard the house.
Xia Xiaoman thanked him and checked the traps in the yard. He found that two animal traps were missing and there were some bloodstains where the traps were placed. It was estimated that two people stepped on the traps.
These two were also stupid. They stepped on the trap and didn't know how to untie it, so they took all her traps away. After muttering to herself for a long time, she put away some of the traps and cleared a path before driving the pickup truck into the garage.
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Knowing that someone wanted to steal things, Xia Xiaoman sped up the construction of the wall. He got up at six in the morning and built the wall with mud. After dinner, he continued to build the wall until 10 o'clock before going back to wash and sleep. Anyway, it was daytime all day long, so he could see clearly even at night.
At eight o'clock in the evening, after dinner, Xia Xiaoman went to the well with a bucket to fetch water. Before she reached the well, she saw a long line.
She walked closer and saw a wooden sign next to the line with a message on it saying that it was uncertain whether there would be extreme heat waves in the future, and in order to prevent citizens from wasting water, the previous water restriction policy would be restored from now on.
However, there is now sufficient water supply and the water limit is not as low as before. Each person can draw 25 liters of water a day, and more than that will be charged separately.
Xia Xiaoman rolled her eyes speechlessly when she saw the word "charge". Fortunately, she had stored a lot of snow and snow water, otherwise she didn't know how much supplies she would have to spend to buy enough water for building the wall.
There were two soldiers guarding the well, so Xia Xiaoman had no choice but to queue up obediently like everyone else.
"Hey, why is the sky so cloudy? Is it going to rain?" someone said, looking up at the sky.
An old lady heard the sound and looked up at the sky. "It's true. Oh, my quilt is still drying outside. Well, forget it. I won't fetch water. At worst I can just collect rainwater when it rains later." With that, the old lady hurried home to collect the quilts.
Xia Xiaoman looked up and saw dark clouds gathering in the sky. It looked like it would rain in half an hour. After thinking for a while, she picked up the bucket and went home.
Although the temperature is not as cold as before, she will still catch a cold if she gets caught in the rain, and she doesn't want to get sick.
As soon as I walked into the house, it started to rain outside. The rain was not heavy, just a drizzle like spring rain.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the half-built wall outside with some worry, wondering if the wall could withstand the rain.
The drizzle lasted for three whole days. On the day when the rain stopped, a south wind blew and water droplets appeared on the wall.
Xia Xiaoman got a headache when she saw the wet ground and walls. If you ask what weather the southerners hate the most, it must be the south windy day.
It was stuffy with the windows closed, but if the windows were open, everything in the house would get damp. Clothes, quilts, and furniture would all smell musty. Xia Xiaoman put everything in the house into the space, closed the doors and windows, and lit the kang and brazier to dry out the moisture in the house.
The weather outside is still cloudy, but it is not raining anymore. In such weather, the people in the planting area are most troubled.
When it is windy from the south and it is cloudy and rainy, the air humidity is high and germs multiply very quickly. Vegetables lack sunlight and it is difficult for them to photosynthesize, so their resistance is very low and they are prone to root rot.
They had just planted the seedlings when they encountered this kind of weather, which was really a headache. They could only pray silently that the rainy weather would end soon.
But unfortunately, God did not hear their inner call. For more than a month, it was either raining or cloudy, and there was not a single day when the sun could be seen.
Not to mention the staff in the planting area, even Xia Xiaoman, who hadn't started planting yet, was upset. It rained every day, and the half-built wall she had finally built became shaky. She just wanted to build a wall, why was it so difficult?
In addition, the warm and humid weather breeds a lot of mosquitoes. In one night, Xia Xiaoman was bitten by mosquitoes more than a dozen times.
These mosquitoes are particularly poisonous. After a bite, a big bump will appear on your hand within a few minutes, and it will take three or four days to go away.
Xia Xiaoman couldn't stand it any longer, so she took out five or six boxes of mosquito coils and placed a plate of mosquito coils in every corner of the house, determined to kill these damn mosquitoes. After lighting the mosquito coils, she took Maodan to the yard to continue mixing mud, smearing the mud on the crumbling wall to increase its stickiness.
It would be hard for passers-by to ignore such a big wolf wandering around in the yard.
After only being in the yard for an hour, Xia Xiaoman saw several people pointing at Maodan, their eyes full of greed.
Xia Xiaoman glanced at them and continued to paint the wall.
The news that she had an animal that looked like a wolf or a dog spread throughout the community in a short period of time. That afternoon, someone came to her and wanted to buy the hairy egg.
"Beauty, name your price. How much supplies do you want before you are willing to sell this dog to me?"
Maodan bared his teeth fiercely, "You are the dog, I am a wolf! A wolf that can bite you to death with one bite!"
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