Chapter 187

Many people think that the winter without snow is nothing more than the biting cold wind and slippery roads.

The staff who shovel ice have increased working hours and wages. The wages are additionally increased by the number of households in the community. Each household has to pay an additional five yuan per month, which is the cost of deicing the road.

In the past, it was cleaned once in the morning and evening, but now it is cleaned three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, but even so, the road surface will soon be covered with a layer of frost after the cold wind passes.

However, because of the intensive cleaning, everyone’s travel is not too restricted. It’s okay to be a little careful when walking. After all, the cleaning fee of five yuan per household a month is not cheap, which is equivalent to a quarter of their rent. One, always make people feel that the money is worth spending.

For example, in some communities, due to the poor conditions, they can barely afford to eat and drink on their own every month. They really can’t afford the extra cleaning costs. The neighborhood committees in those communities are also very humane, and each household directly arranges a schedule , When it is the turn, I will be responsible for the ice shoveling and cleaning of an area according to the above arrangement. Because the cleaning is relatively intensive, a family will arrange at least two times a week.

But in this way, most people also agree that if they don’t have money, they can only pay their own labor, and they can’t just ignore everything. They don’t have the condition to avoid going out for the whole winter.

The travel problem has been solved for the time being, and the water problem is also trying to find a solution. It’s not that there is no water. Although the amount of water is not much, at least there is still some, but every water station is frozen. It has been winter for more than a month. The temperature has dropped to more than minus 30 degrees, and it is too cold for people to stay outside for a while, let alone the water station.

So the higher-ups came up with a way to sell the ice buckets directly, and bring the ice back to melt water for eating and drinking. The places where you buy ice are far and near, not as wide as the water stations. It took half an hour to walk on the road, and it was a lot of trouble to come and go, but for the sake of drinking water, you have to endure no matter how troublesome it is.

There are also some people who specially collect some ice cubes, such as those on the eaves. The dirty water of the building can be boiled and used for a bath, which saves a little money. This method is always more than a problem.

In order to live, the ancients could even grind stones into weapons, not to mention now, as long as they work hard to overcome it, they can still live on.

We have tried our best to overcome what can be overcome, but some things cannot be overcome with patience, such as clothes that can no longer keep warm in lower and lower temperatures.

The coldest winter here on their side did not reach minus ten degrees. Although the humidity is sometimes colder than the dry cold in the north, the temperature conditions are like this, so most of the winter clothes sold here are just ordinary duck down and goose down cotton. Wearing ordinary winter clothes and trying to survive the arctic temperatures, how is this possible.

In the winter of the previous year, most people in the entire residential area relied on the greenhouses to survive, but this year because of the preparations in advance, the greenhouses were also prepared separately. The conditions are naturally better, but not everyone can live It’s very normal in this environment, so Xu Ming, who has not returned to the farm on secondment until now, is busy again.

Frostbite, frostbite, freeze to death, too many.

If you don’t go into the hospital, you will have the illusion of a quiet time when you look at the deserted streets outside, the quiet neighborhood, the icy white road and the sun that is so warm that you can hardly feel the temperature on your body.

Once entering the hospital, the cruelty and helplessness of this world are vividly reflected.

Winter is not all a bad thing, at least people can enjoy the sun, even if it is not warm, but at least they can see the light, supplement calcium, and the temperature is so low, all mosquitoes are gone, finally don’t have to worry about being caught by mosquitoes outside Take a bite and accidentally get infected.

I don’t know if it’s because the government has sufficient preparations, or because this winter has always been sunny and there is no snow except for the low temperature and cold. The power supply is still available. Mu Nan also lamented that the charcoal fire prepared this year may not be used.

Of course, it’s best if you don’t need it. The floor heating is turned on throughout the house, and it’s warm wherever you go. You don’t need to build a greenhouse for the vegetable pots, rabbits and chickens at home. How easy it is, it’s just a day-to-day waste of electricity.

Every time Mu Nan watched the electricity meter keep turning, Mu Nan really wanted to take out the spare solar panels in the space. Although they could afford the electricity bill, it would be better if they saved the money to buy more rice noodles, but this is only Think about it, getting the solar panels is not troublesome, the trouble is how to make the solar panels brighter, Mu Nan is too lazy to bother, but fortunately his brother can make money and can afford the electricity bill.

Xu Ming said before that a batch of pork will be released soon. I don’t know if it’s because the sudden winter disrupted the plan. The pork that has been said has not been released. Mu Nan almost forgot about it. Well, anyway, his family has no shortage of meat, so he didn’t think too much about the pork. As a result, when he was watching a movie with Qin Huai, he received a deadly buckle from Jian Chu, telling him to go to the online shopping mall to refresh and grab pork.

Mu Nan quickly replied a message in the group, and then turned to the online shopping mall. Watching the countdown to the release of pork, she couldn’t help but pooh: “Aren’t you afraid of being scolded if you go online quietly?”

Qin Huai looked at it: “The purchase limit is two catties. It seems that the amount released this time is not too much, but it is not too small. Going online quietly can block some people who are unlucky and did not find it. Now there are millions of people in the entire residential area. The population of this population is of course trivial in the past, but now, the servers patched together by the government may be paralyzed in an instant, probably because of this, the news was not released in advance.”

Mu Nan stared at the countdown timer above and sighed: “Jian Chu and the others are so powerful, they can discover all of this.” Looking at the last three two one, Mu Nan also held his breath to grab it, maybe because not many people knew about it this time, so they all It was snatched up very smoothly. Mu Nan took the payment in ten seconds and exited to check again. There was still a part of stock, but just after refreshing it, a small round stamp of sold out was put on it.

“Not many people know that they didn’t resist for a minute. Thirty-five catties a catty, two catties is seventy. How much is our pork in the past? I forgot.”

Qin Huai: “In the past, it ranged from more than ten yuan to thirty or fifty yuan. Although they were all pork, the price was different for different meat sources, and frozen and chilled were also different.”

Mu Nan sighed: “Frozen pork is now more expensive than before.”

Because there are not too many people robbing, so almost all the ones that Jian Chu notified have been robbed. Jian Chu said in the group before that if someone wants to pay extra, give it to him. It is rare to buy meat, and he still wants to make it. Meat dumplings have been sold for a while, anyway, the weather is cold now, and the meat can be frozen for a long time, so I am not afraid of being consumed slowly and spoiling.

Mu Nan and the others only kept one catty, and transferred all the rest to Jian Chu, and they didn’t ask Jian Chu to give the money right away. Anyway, if they add an extra meaty noodles, the money will definitely be earned back quickly, and they will pay back slowly. that is.

Sure enough, as soon as a noodle shop launched the meaty noodles, the business, which was very good after the cold weather, suddenly became better. A little meat sauce, a bowl of noodles costs 8 yuan, but it is still too much for people to buy. , still in line.

Some people use a small bowl to hold meat sausages, and when they go home with oil and meat, they can be mixed for three days without eating.

Apart from the pork sausage noodles, the other best seller is kimchi meat pie, a palm-sized pie, oily, mixed with kimchi and minced meat, a piece of pie is more expensive than saozi noodles, nine yuan each, this Heavy oil and heavy ingredients, and flour are all real deals. If there are meat and vegetables, there is absolutely no way to be cheap, but even if it is expensive, many people bite their teeth and want to buy it.

I can’t help it, it’s so delicious. These years, almost everyone is short of oil and salt. How can I resist this temptation? When the oil cake is cooked, the sound of oil sizzling makes people drool, and there are many teenagers. Children, after school, will come over and squat at the door. There is a bit of heat next to the stove, so that it is not too cold, and you can still smell the fragrance. It feels like you haven’t eaten for a day if you don’t smell two sips of incense every day.

It gets dark early in winter, and it’s already dark at 7 or 8 o’clock. Now the road is icy and the temperature is lower at night, so the time to get off work is basically set earlier, and no later than 6 or 7 o’clock, unless it’s in Two shifts for indoor work.

Jian Chu and the others set the door to close at eight o’clock every day. Yu Zibai and Wu Zheng went directly to the store to help after get off work, and then the four of them walked home carefully on the icy road in the dark.

Seeing their group from a distance, Mu Nan lay on the balcony and turned on the large spotlight installed at the door. The night lights on the side of the road were very bright before, because everyone lived day and night, so for the convenience of life, the lights at night were as bright as daytime.

Now that winter is coming, everyone no longer needs to stay out at night. The illumination of the lights at night is naturally reduced a lot, and it is dim and yellow, barely able to illuminate.

As soon as Mu Nan’s light was turned on, the people who came back immediately looked up, Song Jia waved to Mu Nan, and Mu Nan waved back.

Qin Huai came out of the house, wrapped his arms around Mu Nan’s waist, and watched the people outside slowly walking in with a small tricycle. There were several empty buckets on the tricycle, and those empty buckets would be filled with water every morning. Take them out with freshly made noodles. If the food sells out quickly, they will come back early. If the food sells out slowly, it will be no later than eight or nine o’clock at the latest. If the food is not sold out, they will bring it back to eat by themselves.

Under the light, there are a group of tired but down-to-earth figures. The people standing beside them are smiling and chatting with the people downstairs, talking about the interesting things that happened in the store today and how the business is today. In the past, Qin Huai never I never thought that my life would be like this one day, but now that I have lived like this, I feel that maybe life should be like this.

Although life is difficult, but there are those friends, close lovers, and seemingly hopeless, but they can work hard towards a bright future.

Mu Nan didn’t turn off the headlights on the roof until the unloading downstairs was finished and they went home, then rubbed his arms and urged, “Hurry up and get inside, it’s so cold.”

Qin Huai smiled, followed behind Mu Nan, and stepped into the warm light inside the house.