Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 210 Winter is coming, heavy snow falls

Time passed slowly, and during this period several people were constantly studying how to build a house.

It was certainly not smooth at the beginning because no one had ever done it before and there were a lot of jokes.

When they were building the wall for the first time, the Taoist priest and his colleagues were building it faster and faster. Then when Xu Han came to bring them water, they found that the wall was crooked, and it was crooked to an outrageous degree.

"Master, please stop and come and take a look at what you are doing!" Xu Han shouted loudly.

Hearing this, the Taoist priest stopped what he was doing, came over to take a look, and then stopped talking after just one look. Because when the Taoist priest saw his own work, he himself fell silent.

Finally, Xu Han made a line for everyone to measure the level. Before starting to build the wall, they should first pull the line and then start building the wall according to the position of the line.

They observed the position of the horizontal line while building the wall. After dismantling it several times, everyone gradually got the hang of it. Among them, Lu Chuan did the best because he had previous experience and mastered the technique quickly.

Grandpa Zhao was also very good, but the Taoist priest alone couldn't do the job. In the end, the Taoist priest withdrew from the wall-building team and started helping with some simple manual labor.

Since Xu Han had previous experience in manual labor, she was able to build the wall very quickly, and not only was it fast, but the quality was also very good.

After Xu Han tried to build the wall, the distribution of people in the house changed, and Xu Han and the Taoist priest swapped their positions.

Finally, a month later, in mid-November, all the walls were completed.

During this period, Xu Han and his team planned to slow down the progress of the house because the weather was getting colder and sometimes it would freeze, and they couldn't build a house when it was frozen, so they had to stop the progress temporarily.

But a house cannot live without a roof, so Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest covered the top with tarpaulin, which was also a good place to temporarily store some things.

Another very important reason for stopping the construction of the house is that the charcoal burned last year is almost used up, with only a little left. During this period, the four people need to burn the charcoal quickly, otherwise there will be no charcoal to use, and it will definitely be very cold in winter.

Although it is not raining now, it is winter after all, and the temperature in the mountains is still very low.

Early in the morning of that day, Lu Chuan led everyone to the mountains to cut trees, specifically those dead trees. The moisture in them had already dried up, so there was no need to dry them in the sun and they could be used directly as charcoal.

"There are so many dead trees in the mountains this year! You can find them just by walking a few steps. You don't have to bother looking for them." Xu Han said.

"Yes! It hasn't rained for a year, and some trees that are not drought-resistant have died long ago. There is nothing much on the mountain now except for a lot of dead trees. But fortunately, most of the trees are alive." Grandpa Zhao continued.

"Yes, these are good after all. They will grow again after it rains sometime. After all, it is impossible for all the trees to survive such a long drought." Lu Chuan also said.

"Okay, stop talking and cut down the tree quickly! Otherwise we will be cold at night." The Taoist priest said angrily.

"Don't we have a kang at night? You won't be cold anyway!" Grandpa Zhao retorted.

Upon hearing this, the Taoist priest did not respond, but started chopping down a big tree.

The four people were very fast. After a day of chopping, they had enough trees for making charcoal the next day, and the remaining trees could still be chopped during the charcoal making process.

After burning three kilns of charcoal in a row, we stopped. Because both rooms needed charcoal fire this year, we burned more charcoal than last year.

After burning the charcoal, the weather was still cold! It was already December, and they couldn't continue to build the house, so Lu Chuan took the Taoist priests to make doors and windows in the unfinished house.

The walls have now been built and the sizes of the doors and windows have also been reserved. It is just the right time to do these now without wasting the entire winter.

The construction of the backyard is exactly the same as the front yard, even the shape of the doors and windows are the same. Lu Chuan doesn't know how to do anything else, so he can only study the doors and windows of the front yard and try to make them exactly the same.

Fortunately, after trying to install it, it looks pretty good. Now we just need to brush a layer of tung oil on the doors and windows to prevent corrosion.

The days passed by so dully. There was something to do every day. There was nothing new, but I was busy with different things every day.

In the blink of an eye, it is already the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. When everyone got up early in the morning, they felt that the temperature was very different today.

"Why is it so cold today? Is the temperature going to drop again?" Xu Han asked.

"Why does the sky outside look so gloomy? Is it going to rain? We haven't seen weather like this in an entire year." Lu Chuan asked curiously.

Wasn't there a drought for three years? Could it rain in the middle of the drought? Both of them were very curious about what was going on.

Confused Lu Chuan and Xu Han got up and went to the main room, only to see the Taoist priest looking outside and calculating something with his fingers.

Both of them rarely saw the Taoist priest like this, and they didn't dare to disturb him, so they just stood behind him silently.

After a while, the Taoist priest suddenly turned around and said to the two of them, "It's going to snow heavily. It looks like the people will suffer again. Alas! It's really one problem after another!"

"Isn't it a drought? Why is it suddenly snowing heavily?" Xu Han asked in confusion.

"It's been a three-year drought, but it doesn't mean there won't be any rain! The drought will continue after this heavy snow. I don't know how many people this heavy snow will bring hope to, or how many lives it will take away."

"This kind of thing is not something we can control. Come and have dinner! I cooked rice porridge and salted duck eggs." Grandpa Zhao shouted to the three people in the kitchen.

Hearing this, the three of them put what had just happened behind them and started eating breakfast.

After breakfast, everyone went to the backyard to make furniture as usual. Before dinner, heavy snow began to fall from the sky, and then it snowed heavier and heavier.

At this time, the people living at the foot of the mountain were celebrating the arrival of this heavy snow.

"Oh my God! You finally opened your eyes. If the drought continues like this, we will really have no water to drink."

The situation at the foot of the mountain is getting worse and worse. The rivers are almost dry and the water levels in the wells are getting lower and lower. If this continues, we will really have no water to drink.

"Great, great, it's finally raining. Now we can survive and won't die of thirst."

"It's snowing, it's snowing." Even two or three-year-old children are very happy to see snow. They also know that life will be good after it snows.