Chapter eight hundred and first cold weather
Pei Xingjian nodded and his face was still full of doubts. He didn't know what Brother Wang and Daniu had experienced. I think his life was not easy.
Wang Xuance shaved the stubble with a knife and said, "This heavy snow will take a long time. According to the urinary nature of the weather here, heavy snow will take at least one month. After this month, the snow-capped mountains will be completely blocked. We will stay here for at least one month."
"One month..."
Pei Xingjian stopped the action of heating water in his hand, "So long?"
Wang Xuance nodded and said, "Don't worry, I brought a lot of food this time, enough for us to survive the heavy snow here."
As he said that, Wang Xuance pointed to the cars of things covered with black cloth.
Pei Xingjian walked forward and lifted the black cloth, and the cart of potatoes caught his eyes.
There are also two carts of beef and mutton, and the three carts in the back are a lot of millet.
They are all millet from Guanzhong.
Pei Xingjian looked at these and said in a daze: "That's how you did it."
Daniu smiled knowingly, "We have always kept in touch with Guanzhong. We know very well what teachers we need. We have known for a long time that it will be snow season when you come here to stay. We have been preparing to come before."
Wang Xuance said: "It's cold and cold. Cover the beef and mutton with snow. Now it's cold and cold, it won't break even if it's cold."
Pei Xingjian nodded vigorously.
After taking a hot shower and cleaning his beard, Wang Xuance changed into clean clothes and looked several years younger.
Daniu said to Pei Xingjian: "We will say it will take less than a month here. If you have nothing to do these days, you can work with me to study some knowledge."
Wang Xuance said lazily: "When we were in the snow-capped mountains, the big bull studied things day and night."
Pei Xingjian looked at Wang Xuance, "Where is Brother Wang?"
"Me, I've been sleeping for a month." Wang Xuance said while yawning. After taking a hot shower, he felt much more comfortable. He lay on the clean wooden shelf beside him and fell asleep.
Still curious, Pei Xingjian came to Wang Xuance and whispered: "Brother Wang, what did you do?"
Wang Xuance closed his eyes and said, "Do you know what I have experienced in the past two years?"
Pei Xingjian said, "I really want to know."
Wang Xuance whispered: "I have experienced a lot of things in the past two years and understood a lot of things. I have learned one thing. When you encounter something you cannot understand, don't think about anything, just close your eyes and sleep."
"What?" Pei Xingjian didn't come back to his senses for a while.
I want to ask again, Wang Xuance's snoring has already started.
Sitting by the bonfire, Pei Xingjian was full of doubts and looked at the big bull who was still marking the map.
By the way, I really can't do anything trapped in this snow-capped mountain.
It seems that there is only one thing to sleep.
After looking at Wang Xuance again, Pei Xingjian asked in confusion, "Brother Wang has really slept in the snow-capped mountains for a month?" How could he sleep?"
The heavy snow fell for seven days, and the entrance of the valley was completely blocked by the heavy snow.
The big cow sprinkled some salt on the potatoes and started eating.
"The weather here will always be very cold, and the snow may not melt until the beginning of next spring." Wang Xuance said while eating a potato.
"Prepare more firewood, keep burning day and night. Send people to keep an eye on the fire every day and don't let the fire go out." Daniu said to Pei Xingjian in a low voice.
Pei Xingjian held a notebook and recorded the words of Daniu and Wang Xuance.
Surviving on snow-capped mountains, we still have to ask these two experienced people.
Pei Xingjian wrote down his words and asked, "Why do you keep making fire?"
Wang Xuance glanced at Daniu and explained: "The snow is about to stop. When the snow stops, the weather will be very cold. There are no living creatures on the snowy mountain for thousands of miles, and many living creatures will be frozen to death, let alone humans."
Pei Xingjian also glanced at Daniu, "Really?"
Wang Xuance nodded and said, "That was the great cold wave after the snow stopped. At that moment, the wind stopped. Several Western Regions people who worked as hard laborers for us said they wanted to go out and relieve their hands. In less than a cup of tea, when we went out again, people were already frozen to death."
"The bonfire will be extinguished faster in this low temperature. It is the cold that can freeze people to death. We have never experienced this cold that dripping water into ice in Guanzhong. You can feel it in the past two days."
The big cow was still eating potatoes quietly and marked with a map.
The camp was also very quiet, and everyone was staying in the camp to keep warm.
It's already cold now, especially the ears and toes.
Pei Xingjian sat by the warm bonfire, and Xue Rengui found a lot of firewood from outside to burn.
There is an extra place in the camp to store firewood.
For the next two days, everyone was idle, and Daniu even began to teach the soldiers here how to do math problems.
"How little is there to do, so that these killings can calculate these boring mathematical problems." Xue Rengui whispered.
Pei Xingjian was calculating the geometric question in his hand. The question was made by a big shot. Everyone would discuss the question when they were idle. This is also one of the few ways to solve the problem on the boring snow mountain.
"Actually, it's quite interesting. Brother Xue wants to try it?" Pei Xingjian said.
After taking a look at the title written on the wooden board, there was also a headache-provoking figure. Xue Rengui shook his head and walked away sighing, then lay beside Wang Xuance to choose to sleep.
Finally, the heavy snow stopped the next day, and Wang Xuance walked out of the camp to explore the direction of the wind.
Pei Xingjian walked beside Wang Xuance in line with the cold here and said, "How is it?"
Wang Xuance took out a piece of wool and watched it swaying in the wind, "It should be coming soon."
Pei Xingjian looked up at the gloomy sky, and then looked at Wang Xuance's solemn expression.
Suddenly Pei Xingjian felt the wind stop.
"Stop?"
Wang Xuance picked up a handful of snow and showered the snowflakes high in the sky.
Pei Xingjian watched this scene and watched with his own eyes that the snow was not blown away by the wind.
"I'm coming, hurry up and go back." Wang Xuance walked towards the camp.
Pei Xingjian also hurried to the camp.
When he arrived at the camp, Wang Xuance shouted: "Rise the fire and never let it be put out."
As he said that, Wang Xuance used wooden boards to seal the valley entrance.
The Jingyang Guards, who had experienced this kind of thing, immediately understood what was going to happen.
He hurried forward and sealed the valley entrance, whether it was stone or wooden board.
When it was sealed outside, Wang Xuance checked several times whether there was a gap but not a solid seal.
Xue Rengui was still confused.
The big cow kept adding firewood to the bonfire.
After a few breaths, a sudden chill came, making people unconsciously approach the fire.
"Don't let the fire be put out." Wang Xuance shouted loudly again.
"Suddenly it's so cold." Pei Xingjian said tremblingly and spit out white mist with trembling.
The flames were weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and everyone continued to add wood.
A strange sound came from outside the camp, which sounded like the sound of the wind, but not the sound of the wind.
Chapter completed!