Chapter 303 Frozen
The entire yard, everything within sight was frozen!
The eaves, barns, walls, bricks in the corners, wood... were all covered with a thick layer of ice.
Long icicles hung from the eaves, and the ice on the floor was the thickest, just like the frozen lake they saw when they went ice fishing last year.
The house looked like a forbidden place in a fairy tale that was cursed and frozen. The surface of the building was covered with ice and icicles where the rain had splashed on it. It didn't look like anyone could live there.
No wonder when I pushed the door open just now, I felt that it was a little difficult to open, as if there was resistance.
Zhao Yeqing had just come to his senses and was about to go out to get tools to clean the floor in the yard when Mu Xi stopped him.
"Don't move. The icicles above your head are dangerous. Take care of them first. Otherwise, they might hit someone."
Zhao Yeqing thought it made sense, so he didn't move anymore. He just stood under the eaves obediently, picked up the hammer that Mu Xi threw at him, and started smashing it at the ice spikes.
These ice spikes are thick and long, hanging under the eaves one by one. Each one is as thick as an arm, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, looking like a row of teeth of a wild beast.
Zhao Yeqing smashed the icicles one by one onto the ground, and the falling icicles cracked the ice on the ground.
Perhaps hearing the noise made by the two people, the three clouded leopards in the room raised their paws, pushed open the door and walked out.
Seeing that it was no longer raining, I wanted to go out to find food.
He didn't notice anything unusual when walking in the yard, but when he was about to jump over the wall, he raised his leg and jumped, his back foot slipped and he fell on his face to the ground.
Zhao Yeqing turned his head away without watching. With the previous experience as a lesson, Xue Bing and the other leopard did not act rashly. They tried to raise their paws and rub them on the ground twice. It seemed that they found it was indeed slippery, so they turned their heads and moved their gaze to Mu Xi.
Mu Xi found it funny, "You two are quite smart."
Slowly moving to the door, he raised his hand and rubbed his fuzzy head, "You are still a little fool."
After saying that, he opened the gate and let the three leopards go out.
These three can find food for themselves, so as long as it stops raining, the slaughtering of the pigs can be postponed.
Now the two of them are mainly responsible for dealing with the icicles on the eaves and clearing a path to the courtyard gate, as well as a path from the bedroom to the toilet.
It is easier to shovel away the ice in front of the house after the icicles above your head break and crack it.
Both of them took hammers and started hammering.
Zhao Yeqing was a little bored. Looking at the darkness outside, he said, "You said it's still dark out today. Even if it's not snowing or windy, I don't dare go out. What if there are any animals? We won't be able to see them."
Mu Xi knocked off the last icicle on the eaves. "The snow didn't melt, and it rained on top. Even though it's bright outside now, we can't go out. I don't know how slippery it will be."
The raindrops fell on the snow, which was equivalent to covering the snow with a layer of ice shell. Zhao Yeqing took a look and found that it was quite thick, probably more than five or six centimeters.
"If we can get out here and ride on a sled, it's going to be much sturdier than last year."
Last year, the two of them started sledding after the snow had been falling for a long time and the sun had been out for a few days, so the surface became a little firmer. At that time, the snow was not very thick, so there was no fear of sinking.
Now that there is ice, it is more slippery. I am just worried that the dog may slip while running.
Mu Xi took a shovel and started to shovel the ice in the yard. "Don't even think about it now. I don't know when it will be light. It's too dark to go out."
Zhao Yeqing was a little discouraged. There was no wind at the moment, and he had just broken the ice and exercised his body, so he didn't feel that cold. He sat on the bench at the door of the house, staring at the sky and said in a trance:
"If it's really polar night here, then the other half is polar day, right?"
Asia is in the Eastern Hemisphere, and America is in the Western Hemisphere across from it. If it is really polar night now, it is probably 24 hours of daylight over there.
If it's snowing heavily over there too, with 24 hours of broad daylight and heavy snow, you'll probably go blind if you go out.
Now there are pros and cons. If the polar night here lasts for a long time, there will definitely be problems with the food chain.
In high-latitude areas, animals usually store up enough food to survive the polar night before it happens. But now the polar night comes suddenly, catching all creatures off guard.
Not only animals, but even plants cannot grow. Not only is the temperature extremely low, but even if the temperature could rise, they would not be able to carry out photosynthesis.
It is different from the ordinary polar night. The sky seems to be covered by a large black curtain, and even the moon and stars cannot be seen.
The more Zhao Yeqing thought about it, the more he sighed, and murmured, "How cruel..."
If the two hadn't worked diligently on the farm and stockpiled sufficient supplies, plus the grow lights in the basement and the generator they found, if they had survived purely by hunting in the mountains, their survival would probably be a problem now.
This natural disaster seems to be driving all living things to death.
She recalled the whole process from beginning to end. First, the virus broke out and eliminated a part of the human race. Then, the earth rift came and destroyed a large part of human civilization in the world. Then, there were various natural disasters that followed one after another...
By now, it’s not even daybreak.
That is to say, the two of them are now in the mountains, and they are lucky enough to find some supplies. They don't think about living off the land, but instead work honestly on farming, breeding, and infrastructure construction. This way, they don't have to worry about food and clothing, and their life can be considered fulfilling.
If this happened in the city, even though their officials will not give up on anyone, with so many mouths to feed, life would certainly be difficult and there would probably be a lot of unrest.
Just as what was said in the martial arts novel on the desk of the original owner of the wooden house: Wherever there are people, there are grudges.
Speaking of eating...
Zhao Yeqing started to think ten steps ahead before she took one step. She was worried what if the polar night lasted for half a year like the high-latitude areas, or even more seriously lasted for more than a year, or even more pessimistically, it would disappear completely in the future?
Although the planting basement can provide the two with fresh vegetables, the staple food still needs to be grown. The basement is too small, and the environment is definitely not as good as on the ground, and there is no normal sunlight.
She stretched out her hand and counted on her fingers. "Rice and wheat can last until the end of the year if we save them. We don't need rice to feed the chickens. The remaining highland barley can be used as a supplement for the livestock. Sweet potatoes can also make up for it... Tsk, if all else fails, we should just kill the pigs."
The main purpose of raising so many pigs is for breeding, otherwise defects and deformities will occur. That's why Mu Xi adopted two litters of piglets in the first place, in order to raise them for a long time.
It is estimated that the four pigs will be kept. One can be killed now, and the rest can just be fed less food. We can just keep them alive for now. There is still a lot of rice bran anyway.
This polar night shouldn’t last long...right?
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