Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 58: Snow

The scenery of the north, thousands of miles of ice and snow...

It's snowing heavily in the north, and the cold air is moving south. The temperature in the south is also dropping sharply, and it feels like winter. In many places, people are taking out their long-lost sweaters.

The weather forecast also mentioned that there will be light snow in the next few days, with a small chance of heavy or blizzards in some local areas, but weather experts interpret that it may be short-lived and will not cover a wide area.

Li Xiang would occasionally mention it to people he met in the village, but unfortunately, no one believed him. He stopped talking.

Weather forecasts are not inaccurate, but they are timely. Today's weather forecasts are basically updated in real time. To be precise, they are updated three times a day, at 6 a.m., 11 a.m., and 4 p.m., and the weather displayed in many cases is different throughout the day.

For example, it may show heavy rain in the morning but cloudy at noon, or it may show typhoon but suddenly the typhoon does not come. These are all normal phenomena because “there are unexpected events”.

Yunnan Province, Coffee Resort Hotel, He Zhixiang put on one more piece of clothing than usual. After all, he was older and not as good as he was when he was young. He sat on the balcony of the most luxurious suite in the resort hotel, feeling the cool breeze and looking at the mountain view in the distance. Suddenly, he had a bad premonition.

"Brother Li Xiang, is what you said true?"

"No matter what, it's better to believe it than not to believe it. Brother Li Xiang should still be reliable."

He pondered for a moment, then resolutely picked up the phone and called his assistant: "Notify the supervisors and above to come to Conference Room 1 to discuss the wintering of coffee trees."

The people below looked at each other in bewilderment after receiving the notice, wondering what the boss was up to. It's spring all year round in Yunnan Province, so why should we protect ourselves from the cold? Do we need to dress the coffee trees in clothes?

It was a huge workload, but since the boss had notified them, they had no choice but to rush over. Although they didn't quite agree with it in their hearts, they still tried their best to offer suggestions and came up with many practical and effective plans.

For example, cover the ground with wood ash and film, apply fertilizer to increase cold resistance, wrap film and straw ropes around the trees, and build sturdy sheds for some seedlings.

Stack 3-5 smoke piles evenly per acre, press them firmly, and ignite them when needed, using the smoke method to raise the ground and ambient temperature.

and many more.

He Zhixiang is also a decisive person. He immediately assigned the tasks on the spot. What do you do? What do you do? Everyone took emergency action.

Three days later, the weather forecast indicated that this cold front was beyond expectations and that heavy to severe snowfall was likely to occur in the southern regions. Weather experts interpreted that this would most likely be a once-in-a-decade level event.

When the news came out, instead of being scared, everyone became even more excited.

Oh my god, it’s snowing heavily. It only happens once in ten years!

"Haha, my down jacket finally comes in handy!"

"look forward to."

"Snowball fights, snowmen, here I come!"

"It's a once-in-a-decade event, so rare. There may be a small amount of damage, and life may be affected, but it will only be a matter of two or three days. Compared to enjoying the rare snow scene, it's worth it!"

When reporters interviewed weather experts, the weather experts also comforted everyone and told them not to worry too much.

Li Xiang was burning charcoal in the backyard. Because cooking tea around the stove or using a small red clay stove to make a small hot pot on the table requires charcoal, and burning wood directly would produce more smoke and ash.

He makes bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal, especially fir charcoal, which is not only durable but also produces very little ash.

Charcoal burning is actually very simple and does not require any technical skills. Li Xiang is also very familiar with this. He chose an open and flat area in the backyard far away from the house, cleared the weeds and dead branches and leaves around it, and then used a shovel to dig a large circular pit about one meter deep. He used the excavated soil to build a windproof earth wall on the windward side.

I lit a small pile of dry wood at the bottom of the pit to keep the fire going, and then threw the sawn bamboo and fir strips in. When the bamboo and fir strips were almost carbonized, I simply poured water on them to extinguish them. Simple and crude.

But this is indeed the most economical way to make charcoal. When he was a child, Li Xiang often saw his grandmother doing this. At that time, his grandmother made less charcoal, and she didn't even dig a pit. She just took it out of the stove, threw it into the old bucket outside to drown it, and then took it out to dry.

Of course, there are many other ways to make charcoal, such as the carbonization furnace method, earth kiln method, iron can method, etc., which are all a bit troublesome.

Although Li Xiang's method caused some losses and some parts were not completely carbonized and needed to be chopped off, he prepared enough raw materials. After working for several hours and carefully selecting, he harvested about 200 kilograms of charcoal.

He will further wash these bamboo charcoal and wood charcoal with water to remove excess dust and impurities, and then store them in the woodshed after drying.

Seeing that heavy snow was approaching, Li Xiang went to the county town to do the last material shopping. As the weather was getting colder, many vegetables could be left outside without worrying about spoiling, so he bought more this time, including the fish that he had not bought before.

The cat at home can't live without this thing. In addition, he also plans to make fish balls.

Compared to meatballs, fish balls are lighter and have a more delicate taste.

Sichuan cuisine has a hundred flavors, not just spicy, but also sour, numbing, etc. These flavors combined together give rise to many wonderful flavors. Chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns alone can create more than ten kinds of complex spicy flavors: spicy, spicy, fragrant, sour and spicy, sweet and spicy, peppery and numbing...

The so-called "sweet, salty, sour, soft, crispy, spicy, bitter, fresh and fragrant, all ten flavors are present, this is the authentic Sichuan cuisine."

The reason why Sichuan cuisine has such diverse flavors is that sugar plays a very important role in it.

That’s right, Sichuan cuisine basically contains sugar, but not as much as in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

Therefore, Li Xiang's family still uses a lot of rock sugar and granulated sugar on a daily basis. This time, he purchased 20 kilograms of rock sugar and 30 kilograms of granulated sugar.

For some dishes, such as braised pork, the color and taste are better when stir-fried with rock sugar than with white sugar.

……

"Oh oh oh~"

The big rooster with a red crown and colorful feathers crows on time every day, never slacking off. Li Xiang was woken up by this naughty rooster and got up to open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, I saw piles of white snow pouring into the house.

Snow falling down the door.

It rained so heavily overnight.

Even though Li Xiang had already "known about it", he was still shocked.

In his previous life, he lived in a big city at this time. Due to the exhaust fumes from cars and various heat radiation, the temperature in the big city was actually higher than in the countryside, and the snow was not this heavy.

"The super heavy snow has really come, as expected, so the end of the world is inevitable." Li Xiang sighed, practiced breathing techniques, and began to clear the snow at the door.

So it makes sense for the door to open inwards.

If the door opens outwards, it probably won't be able to open today, and I'll have to climb out through the window.

There came the barking of Dahuang and Erhuang from the backyard. They seemed very anxious and the voices were muffled, which looked very strange. So Li Xiang walked towards the back door.

I opened the back door. Fortunately, because there was a corridor connecting it, only a small amount of snow drifted in. And not far away, in the backyard, there was no dog shed to be seen.

(End of this chapter)