448, Winter Has Arrived 12

Yu Heng could understand why the research progress of the protective shield was so slow, but nature would not reason with you. The sky seemed to have a big hole that could not be blocked. The heavy snow poured down generously as if it came from another world of wind and snow. There was a thick layer of white snow everywhere, and it was rare to see other colors.

The ancestor worship activities at the end of the year were also blocked by the heavy snow. Laokang Village has the custom of going to the ancestral tomb mountain to worship ancestors at the end of the year, usually between the 28th and 30th. Last year, it was barely possible to go up the mountain, but this year it was completely impossible. There was no way, it could only be held in the village’s large ancestral hall. In order to make the sacrifice more solemn, each family tried their best to prepare sacrificial supplies, and Zhou Jianye’s family directly slaughtered a whole pig.

As for Pengzhou, Qing Province, bad news finally came back. Lu Yong said that the graves that were brought down were pressed under the mountain and could not be dug now. "Wait until the snow melts next spring, I will go to dig it immediately!"

Yu Heng burned paper for Zhou Qinghua at home, and could not do anything else.

After the sacrifice on the 28th, the atmosphere of the New Year in Laokang Village became stronger. No matter how strong the wind and snow outside, the New Year's Eve dinner must be prepared. If you eat well, the next year will be smooth, healthy and prosperous. On the 29th, the northwest wind blew. The wind was surprisingly strong, and it was mixed with the cold air of ice and snow. It could scrape people's flesh through several layers of clothes.

Cold! Too cold!

The wind swept the snow, and the whole world of ice and snow became even more chaotic. Going out at this time, you can't even see the road clearly, and there is a large area of ​​white everywhere.

Watching the local TV news, there have been several incidents of falling objects from high altitudes injuring people. The host reminded residents not to go out casually, and at the same time, they should put away the sundries on the windowsills and balconies, close the doors and windows, etc. Yu Heng and Zhou Qingrong moved all the vegetable planting boxes in the yard into the house, most of them were placed in the side rooms on both sides, and a small part was placed on the corridor, covered with rainproof boards.

The New Year's Eve dinner was also very sumptuous. Zhou Jianye originally wanted to have the two families eat together, but he didn't expect the wind and snow to be everywhere, so he had to give up. After the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, the Zhou family did not stay up to see the New Year, but went to bed early. It was really cold that day, and Yu Heng led the family to do some fitness exercises to warm up their bodies before going to bed.

Only on the first day of the New Year, something bad happened. The village had a power outage. It was windy and snowy outside, how to repair it? The Zhou family lit up the kang, and the whole family sat cross-legged on it to keep warm. There was nothing to hear except the sound of wind and snow.

"Mom, the wind is too strong." Zheng Han hugged Zhou Haojun, who was a little uneasy and scared, and looked worried. "Will our roof be blown off?"

"Don't worry, it won't." Yu Heng comforted her, "We used good materials at the time, and hired an outside engineering team. The foundation was also deep, and the house is very solid."

There are mountains on both sides of Laokang Village. After the wind passed through the mountains and the treetops and ran across the vast fields, the sound of the wind became shrill and terrifying, sounding almost like the howling of ghosts and wolves. Because it flapped against the doors and windows, no matter how strong the doors and windows were, they would produce some muffled sounds. It was clearly daytime, but the house was as dark as night. There were candles in the bedroom, and the wind seemed to be able to drill through the wall, shaking the candlelight left and right, and reflecting people's faces like ghosts.

The majestic power of nature brings a spectacular beauty that cannot be ignored, and humans are so small and vulnerable in it.

Such an environment cannot help but make people feel panic. All Zheng Han needed was a few words of comfort. She nodded to calm down, lowered her head and continued to coax Zhou Haojun, telling him not to be afraid.

Yu Heng closed her eyes and leaned on a soft pillow to rest. Seeing that the elders at home were so calm, Zheng Han and Zhou Qingrong were no longer afraid. They ate, drank and slept as usual at home, and only took good care of their own bodies.

The sixth day of the first lunar month came quickly, and the snow did not decrease at all. The entire row of houses of the Zhou family, which had been newly built a few years ago, was naturally solid, but not every household in the village lived in a new house. Those old houses and courtyards could not bear the torture of wind and snow, and many of them collapsed in the past few days, including the closer relatives of the Zhou family. As a last resort, those Zhou clan members whose houses collapsed dispersed to other people's homes to avoid the disaster.

Yu Heng's family also received a family. This family naturally also had the surname Zhou. According to seniority, they were the grandsons of the cousin of Zhou Jianjun's grandfather. Although this family is of the same generation as Zhou Jianjun, they are not much older than Zhou Qingrong. Their name is Zhou Jianan, who is only 36 years old. They live with their two sons, wife and mother, a family of five.

The family was placed in the vacant left bedroom, where there was no kang. Zhou Qingrong moved a coal stove and a brazier over there for Zhou Jianan's family to keep warm. This family is already distant from Zhou Qingrong's generation, and they rarely contact each other, but they are from the same ancestor, so they are close. The Zhou clan leader is also the village director. When he resettled the affected villagers this time, he focused on those families with newer houses in the village, and the new courtyard of the Zhou family was naturally included in his plan.

Such things can be helped if possible. Anyway, there is vacancy at home, and Yu Heng has no intention of objecting. He only told the village director that he should choose by himself. After choosing and choosing, he chose Zhou Jianan's family. After Zhou Jianan's family moved in, they really knew how to behave and had no conflicts with Yu Heng's family, and they lived in peace.

The collapse of the old house was only the first step. The most fatal thing was the collapse of the ancestral hall.

Zhou Qingrong and others were urgently called out to repair the ancestral hall in the heavy snow. After returning, he fell ill. It was minus twenty outside. Zhou Qingrong's physical fitness was better than that of ordinary people. He could fall ill, let alone others.

Yu Heng said: "The most important thing is to be alive. You are not allowed to go to the ancestral hall again." He pressed Zhou Qingrong to prevent him from going out. In such a blizzard and strong wind, going out would be a death sentence? !

"Ahem, where is Third Uncle?"

"He's at home. Close your eyes and go to sleep." Yu Heng poked Zhou Qingrong's acupuncture point angrily. Zhou Qingrong's hesitant expression receded and he slowly closed his eyes.

"Mom, you go to sleep, I will take care of Qingrong."

"I'll come, you go to sleep." Yu Heng refused. If his condition worsened at night, he could respond in time.

There were candles lit on the low table beside the kang. Yu Heng recalled the scene of Zhou Qingrong lying outside the door in the evening, and he still felt a little angry. The village director called one by one and asked each family to send one or two young adults to go to the ancestral hall. Of course, Zhou Qingrong from their family went. Clan belief is very important in this ordinary village, and he understands this. If he doesn't want to be excluded in the future, Zhou Qingrong must go.

Zhou Qingrong also packed everything, so it took him a whole day to go there. Originally, Yu Heng thought that the ancestral hall collapsed and could not be repaired in a short period of time, so he would just put away the important things such as the ranking incense burner in the ancestral hall. As a result, the clan leader was stunned and left the person in the ancestral hall for a day, saying that the ranking could not be moved and he must stay in the ancestral hall. But what if the ancestral hall collapses? build! Emergency repair!

God! Where to build an ancestral temple when it’s minus 20 degrees Celsius? !

Yu Heng is about to curse!

Zhou Qingrong was not stupid enough to come home, but his third uncle was there. Zhou Jianye and others all felt that what the clan leader said was reasonable. As a descendant, how could we let our ancestors have no place to live? The old one refused to leave, and the young one had no choice but to stay.

Too impulsive!

If Zhou Qingrong hadn't been ill and couldn't get up, Yu Heng would have beaten him up. Why was he so inflexible? Third uncle refuses to come back, won't you knock him out and carry him back? It really pissed him off to just build the temple in the ice and snow. It is not easy to recuperate the body, but it can be destroyed in an instant.

"Mom, Aunt Jian'an asked you to come over and take a look. She said that Uncle Jian'an is burning again."

Zheng Han whispered to Yu Heng that Yu Heng had just heard a knock on the door, so he guessed it could only be because something was wrong with Zhou Jianan. Zhou Jianan is more seriously ill than Zhou Qingrong. What do you think this is?

"Then I'll go take a look."

Going to the next door, the room was stuffy and cold. Zhou Jianan was lying on the bed, shaking and coughing loudly. Under the light of the flashlight, his face showed an abnormal blush.

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, please take a look quickly!" Zhou Jianan's wife said anxiously, "I just kept coughing, look at her face, it's so red!"

"Yes, niece-in-law, hurry up and see what's going on? Your face is so red but your body is cold!"

Yu Heng secretly thought that something was not right at the first sight. He sat by the bed and told Zhou Jianan's family to shine a light on Zhou Jianan. After careful inspection, he found that Zhou Jianan's limbs were so severely frostbitten that they were hard to the touch. "Have you wiped him with warm water?"

"Yes! I heard you already did it! It didn't work!"

"Go to the stove in the living room and get a basin of warm water." Yu Heng's men quickly pressed Zhou Jian'an's acupuncture points. Over there, Zhou Jian'an's mother had already brought the water. It was difficult for her to walk so steadily in the dark.

Yu Heng reached for the towel in the basin, but his tentacles almost jumped. "So hot? Didn't you add cold water?"

The old lady shook her head: "How long should warm water be applied before it warms up? Hot water is better."

"..." Yu Heng was helpless, "You can't use such hot water. I have repeatedly emphasized that you need warm water!" No wonder! When Zhou Jian'an entered the house, his condition was only slightly worse than that of Zhou Qingrong. After all, they were both young and strong young people. As long as he slowed down and allowed his limbs to warm up, the rest was just a minor problem. Just take care of it slowly. Who would have thought that Zhou Jian'an's family would directly use boiling hot water to apply it? Why were they so disobedient?

After working for most of the night, Zhou Jianan's vital signs stabilized. Yu Heng slept soundly. When he woke up, Zheng Han happily told him: "Qingrong is fine!" After Yu Heng got up, he checked Zhou Qingrong's body. , nodded: "Fortunately, you exercise regularly and are in good physical condition, otherwise you would have suffered a lot."

"Hehe." Zhou Qingrong had a stuffy nose and asked with a thick nasal voice when speaking, "How is Third Uncle?"

"Your third aunt called last night and said she had a fever. I'll ask again." Yesterday, Zhou Qingrong and Zhou Jianan came back together. He first took care of Zhou Qingrong, and then treated Zhou Jianan. He was so tired that he fell asleep without asking anyone over there. What about the situation.

When the phone was connected, the third aunt Xianglan said that Zhou Jianye was still having a fever. Yu Heng sighed, packed up and went out. In one night, the snow outside the courtyard gate had reached as high as the abdomen. Wearing snow glasses, Yu Heng touched the cold wall and moved to Zhou Jianye's home. Although he was a little annoyed that Zhou Jianye was so confused this time, secretly he still hoped that Zhou Jianye would be fine, so he came over to help.

The atmosphere at Zhou Jianye's house was a bit solemn. When Xianglan saw him coming over, she took his hand and said, "Why are you here? It's snowing so heavily!"

"Let me show it to Third Uncle. When I was in City C, I worked as a part-time nurse in a hospital and have a little experience. I also have some medicines on hand at home. Look -" He put the medicine box on the ground and patted it. snowflake.

Such an argument was unconvincing, but Xianglan's eyes lit up and she led him into the house. It was obvious that she had reached the stage of emergency treatment.

Zhou Jianye's son and daughter-in-law were all in the house, and Yu Heng asked them all to go out, leaving only Xianglan. Zhou Jianye's condition was even worse than Zhou Jianan's. Yu Heng stayed at Zhou Jianye's house all day, waiting for Zhou Jianye's condition to stabilize before going back. Declining to Xianglan's enthusiasm and asking his son Zhou Qingshui to send him off, Yu Heng touched the wall again and walked back.

Only one day later, the snow had become even thicker. Yu Heng stood still and looked into the distance. His vision was dim through the lens, and the howling of the wind and snow reduced the clarity of his vision. If this continued, it would be difficult for the houses to survive until the National Research Institute could mass-produce protective shields. He retracted his gaze and continued to move forward step by step, thinking about the idea of ​​taking out protective shields in advance to protect the village.