Chapter 82 A Heavy Snow

After the two babies' first birthday celebrations, Su He discussed with Gu Jianhua and decided to pick a day off with good weather to go to the county to take some photos.

Take a photo with your grandparents.

The parents were very excited about the photography opportunity. They had never taken a photograph in their lives and didn't even know what a photo studio looked like.

Mother Gu said, "Let's do it this weekend. I'll pay for it and we can go and get it taken care of."

Su He waved her hands, "No need, Mom. You don't need to pay for it."

Regardless of who pays for it, everyone is looking forward to taking photos and wants the weekend to come soon.

But things don't always go as planned.

On Friday night, the sky was cloudy and windy outside, which meant it was going to snow.

Father Gu reinforced the cowshed to prevent it from collapsing. The cow is pregnant again. Last year's calf had been sold to the brigade, and this year it is pregnant with another one.

Born around May next year.

The calves are also an income for their family.

Besides selling eggs and roosters, Gu's mother's small treasury also has this calf. After raising it for a year, it can be sold for forty or fifty yuan.

It was about to snow, so Gu's mother moved all the firewood into the house and into the back room as well. She moved a lot of firewood.

Su He was a bit lazy, because it was Gu's mother who helped to heat the kang in the back room. The main problem was that she couldn't heat it well. For some reason, the whole room was filled with smoke when she did.

She felt that she had not found the technique.

Gu's mother said that she would burn it for her in the future and she didn't need to do it anymore.

Maybe because it was going to snow and she was afraid that they would catch a cold, Gu's mother heated the kang extra hot tonight. Su He even felt a little hot when he slept at night, so he took his legs out of the quilt to cool down.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, it started snowing heavily outside, snowing heavily like goose feathers.

When it's raining or snowing outside, people sleep soundly, and Su He is no exception.

I was just sleeping in the middle of the night when I suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Jianhua, wake up, someone is knocking on the door." Su He pushed Gu Jianhua.

Gu Jianhua woke up, took a flashlight and went out to open the door. It was Gu's father and mother.

Mother Gu was still horrified, "Jianhua, our house collapsed!"

Gu Jianhua, "Let's talk inside."

Su He also woke up. Seeing that the two treasures were still asleep, she quietly put on her clothes and came out.

Gu's mother was terrified. "It just exploded, and your father went out to see that the east room had collapsed!"

The house collapsed

Su He asked hurriedly, "Mom and Dad, are you all right?"

Father Gu said, "We are fine, but the east room collapsed. We were afraid that the west room would collapse as well, so we didn't dare to go to sleep."

If this collapses, it will either crush them to death or break their bones.

The front house is no longer habitable, so Gu's parents will live in the back house from now on. The mud house is not as good as the brick house. It leaks when it rains heavily, and it might collapse when it snows heavily.

The back house was built bigger than the front house, but the kang was only heated in one room, which was the room in the east where she, Gu Jianhua and their family of four lived.

The kang in the east room was smaller than the one in the west room, and it was warmer under the sun, so they lived in the east room.

The one who is taking care of his parents has to live in the west room.

Su He looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the morning.

Mother Gu said, "Why are you still sleeping at this hour? Xiaohe, you can watch the two children go to sleep while the three of us move the things."

Apart from anything else, the two new sets of bedding she made last year could not be buried by the snow.

How could Su He fall asleep in such a situation? And after this ordeal, he woke up in a daze.

The farmers had a lot of stuff, and it added up to a lot, so tonight they moved the important things to the back room.

For example, bedding, clothes, rice, flour and so on, the rest will be moved during the day tomorrow.

Gu's mother said that there was nothing important in the east room, just two stools and a kang mat, otherwise if the room collapsed and was buried in the snow, it would have been impossible to find it for a while.

Except for the two treasures, no one else got to sleep that night. After moving the things, Gu Jianhua went to check on the cows with a flashlight. The cowshed was fine and had not collapsed.

Gu Jianhua fed grass to Niu Niu.

Father Gu lit a fire to warm the kang, while Mother Gu lit candles and sorted things out.

After a busy day, I finally made it to dawn.

Su He fell asleep. She was sleepy.

When he woke up, it was already nine o'clock in the morning. The snow was falling heavily, as high as his knees. It blocked the door. Gu Jianhua could not go to work under such circumstances.

What's more, it's snowing outside.

All the things in the front room were moved to the back room, and the kang in the west room was heated. Mother Gu was sad, "If the snow continues, the remaining half of the room will probably collapse."

Su He said, "Mom and Dad, please live with us from now on. Your house is not safe to live in."

I guess Gu's mother wanted to wait until spring, repair the collapsed half of the house, and then move back in.

Su He guessed correctly, Gu's parents did think so. They felt that it was enough to live in the same courtyard and there was no need to live in the same room with their children.

It's not like I can't walk anymore.

Just go and help your children when they need help.

We've lived together for a long time and I'm afraid there will be conflicts.

Su He thought that there was nothing wrong with living with Gu's parents. After all, she and Gu Jianhua went to work during the day and came back at night, so they had little time together.

Besides, even if they don't live together, she eats with her parents, and her mother helps take care of the two children, so she thinks it's more convenient to live together.

Mother Gu sighed, "It's such a pity that the house your father and I have lived in for so many years has collapsed."

Su He, "It's old too, mom, let's just be thankful that it's only the east room that collapsed this time. If the west room had collapsed as well, it would have been very dangerous. It's a pity that no one lives in the east room."

It's really bizarre. She and Gu Jianhua lived in the east room before. Later they moved to a new house, and Gu's third sister and her daughter moved in. Later she married Team Leader Wang and moved to the county.

If Third Sister Gu had not divorced and moved in, then they would have lived in the east room, and they would have been the ones who were bullied last night. Similarly, if Third Sister Gu and her daughter had not gone to the county, they would have been the ones who were bullied last night.

Escape from the eyes of death!

Su He got goosebumps on her back. Since she already had a system, there shouldn't be any such thing as a fatal disaster!

No!

"There isn't a system," Su He felt a little uneasy.

[Host, don't worry too much. This was just an accident tonight.]

"Okay." That's good.

According to the content of the book, after all, she and Gu Jianhua are no longer in this world, and neither is Third Sister Gu. However, in the book, Third Sister Gu should have died a few years later.

So tonight was an accident!

Besides, if the system says it’s gone, then it should be gone.

She just worried too much.

The snow fell for three days and three nights. The sky cleared up on the fourth day. The snow on the road was as thick as thighs.

The next day, Gu Jianhua went to work at the bureau. The bureau leaders approved him to work only half a day for the next few days, and he could go to work after the weather cleared up.

You will receive your salary as usual.

After all, there was nothing we could do about the situation. The snow was as deep as our thighs, and we couldn't ride a bike. It would take several hours to go back and forth.

After all, Gu Jianhua's home is not in the county. It would be easier to get there if it were in the county, as it is relatively close.

However, after the snow stopped, the villagers shoveled the snow from their own fields and, under the leadership of the team leader, cleared the road.

It took about half a month to clear the road from the village to the county. It was very hard work, but there was nothing we could do. The end of the year was approaching and everyone had to go to the county to do things. If we didn't clear the snow, the carriages wouldn't be able to move.