After getting up early in the morning to clear the snow, they had to help the villagers repair the roofs of their houses during the day. Such a large amount of work made even Yang and Su Guangfu a little tired, so it was no surprise that they both overslept the next day.
Fortunately, it didn’t snow again the next day, so we didn’t have to continue plowing the snow.
Unexpectedly, the continuous snowfall was far from over. It would occasionally clear up for one day, but the next day it would be covered in heavy snow again.
This can go on and off for half a month.
During this half-month period, Su Guangfu initially took Yang and several familiar craftsmen to help repair the house, but later it became too busy, so he mobilized other young laborers who could come in handy to help.
But on such a snowy day, it is too dangerous when the snow falls, so of course we cannot go to work. And if a house is damaged after snowfall, several people will be busy for three or four days to repair the house and make it strong.
Su Qingluan said to her heart that it was fortunate that many prescriptions in the village had been renovated and reinforced in the name of "welfare", otherwise the heavy snowfall one after another would have caused many troubles.
But again, everyone's houses are old houses. Even if they are renovated, they will definitely be very different from newly built houses.
What's more, the materials required for new houses are also different, and those materials that are strong, durable, and warm enough are expensive.
To put it bluntly, if you want to live in a house of that level, it will cost a lot of money. Not to mention that other villagers in Huaxi Village cannot afford to live there, even the Su family, who currently have a small amount of savings at home, absolutely cannot afford the huge sum of money.
What's more, as the saying goes, "What goes up is what makes a friend lose." Even if Su Qingluan uses various names to provide benefits to the "employees" who help him, it cannot far exceed what they earn from their labor.
She believes in the bright side of human nature, but also understands that the darkness of human nature is unfathomable. So she watched other families pay cloth or exchange food according to the salary, and did not stop her - that was the income of her father's labor.
Because it has been snowing for days this time and the mountains have been closed due to heavy snow, it is strictly forbidden to go to the nearest Lefeng Town, even close to Panshan Road.
In fact, in the beginning, in order to make more money, there were always those who did not believe in evil and were not afraid of risks and tried their luck.
However, heavy snow has been piling up on the hillside for days. Although the hillside is not comparable to the famous mountain "standing on a wall with thousands of feet", the amount of snow accumulated on the steep slope, which is at least more than ten feet high, is also amazing.
The old people in the village tried their best to persuade the young people not to go out at this time. Even Sun Guixiang also advised Li Sanlang that although she still needed two doses of medicine, she should take good care of her body and drink more ingredients that can replenish qi and blood. Su When Qingluan went to town before, he brought a lot of jujube, longan and wolfberry to the Li family.
Li Sanlang listened to the advice, but not everyone listened to the advice. There were always those who did not believe in evil, or they just wanted to get more food for the family to chew. Even though the villagers tried their best to dissuade them, some people still gritted their teeth and took it to cook. For good handicrafts or skinned animal skins, go to the town in exchange for some food.
However, five of these young people left, and only two came back. The other three encountered an avalanche while crossing the mountain road, and were instantly buried under the vast snow, without even having time to escape.
Among the three people who died, two of them belonged to the same family, and the other one was the only son in the family. Now the whole family is about to collapse. The cold winter is already very difficult, but now the snowstorm has killed people, making it even worse.
This time, the avalanche caused three people to be buried alive in Huaxi Village, a small mountain village that was quiet and had no major disasters. It was a big deal. Some people sighed and sighed, some mourned and wailed, and some people didn't interact closely with each other and reacted indifferently.
But no matter what everyone's reaction is, one thing is for sure - before the snow on the mountain completely melts the next year, everyone will not dare to go to the town again and risk being buried alive.
This also made Su Qingluan understand very clearly why Huaxi Village does not have any difficult and dangerous road sections, but the mountain is often closed when it snows in winter - a very important reason is that there will be an avalanche on the slope at any time. happened, leaving pedestrians buried in the ice and snow.
The road to the town was blocked, so it was naturally impossible to buy some good quality wood. Therefore, the only way to repair the house is to use the scraps that everyone keeps in the warehouse.
But how strong can this material be? In addition, it takes a lot of effort to repair the room, and it is too easy to destroy a house in heavy snow. In the face of nature, there is always too little and too little that people can do.
All the available young laborers in the village, including young men aged thirteen or fifteen, were brought over and used, but they still couldn't keep up with the rate at which the houses were destroyed.
In the end, no matter what they were afraid of, the continuous wind and heavy snow finally became unbearable for one family's house. Most of the house was blown down, and the heated stove in the house was also damaged.
The neighbor next to him also fell ill. Although it was not serious, a corner of the house was also torn away, and a cold wind blew inside the house.
Therefore, although the damage to the second house was not particularly serious, it seemed uninhabitable.
We live next to each other, and when this situation first happened, the people around us would squeeze in as a family, leaving one or two beds available for our temporarily homeless neighbors to stay for a few nights— —It’s only temporary anyway.
The host family will also try their best to help the host family with more housework as "lodging fee".
However, everyone still underestimates the destructive power of these wind and snow. As the snowfall continues to increase, and the cold wind is still biting, houses that were originally not of particularly high quality have had quality problems.
It is easy to destroy a house, but difficult to build one.
But later, a person who surprised Su Qingluan solved the problem of "serious shortage of building materials".
"Songbo, what do you mean?" The man in the village was looking at Songbo who was smiling across from him.
"This is not what I mean, but what my boss means - instead of letting the bamboos in that yard be blown down in the cold wind, it is better to use them to build beams." Bamboo is tough and grows very fast. After processing, it is a very good simple building material.
Although it is definitely not as good as some heavy solid wood, at this point, it is still much better than filling the damaged areas with weeds.
So everyone planned to cheer up and thank Mr. Mu, but Songbo smiled very restrainedly and politely: "My boss has always been sick, especially in the cold weather. I'm afraid it's too cold. I will convey everyone's gratitude, but I won't Thank you all for going here to say thank you."
After saying that, he turned around and left. He didn't even look at the Su family. He didn't have the occasional off-line feeling when Mu Xingzhi was the only one left in private. He behaved more calmly than Su Qingluan thought, which made him feel more calm. She remembered the first time she met each other.
There is a saying that "a clever woman can make a meal without rice." With the building materials at hand, the work of repairing the house, especially the beams, can naturally continue.
