Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 185

As the saying goes, get up early on the first day, get up early on the second day, and sleep until you are full on the third day.

On this day, everyone could have slept until they woke up naturally, but Jiang Xiaomi got up at three or four in the morning and turned on the lights. Every action required great courage.

"Mom, why do I feel like the temperature has dropped again?"

Jiang Xiaomi moved the stove towards the bed amid the howling wind, but felt that if it was too close there was a risk of burning the quilt, so she quickly moved it away and then quickly got into bed. She couldn't wait even a moment!

"Really?" Jiang Suying stretched a hand out from under the quilt and felt the cold air outside: "No, it's always been this cold!"

"No way, I can't be wrong, let me take a look first!"

Jiang Xiaomi took out a temperature and humidity meter from the space and waited for a while. When she saw the value on it, her eyes widened: "-12c!!"

"What?!" Jiang Suying was also shocked.

Since the winter temperature broke through -5c, the outside temperature has been hovering between -5c and -6c, but today, it broke through minus ten degrees, so the perceived temperature is no longer on the same level.

Especially the damp and cold in the south, it's so cold that it penetrates into the bones and you can't get over it by just shaking your legs.

"This night..." Jiang Suying was a little absent-minded, muttering: "Many people may freeze to death..."

Jiang Xiaomi was also silent. She leaned her head on Jiang Suying's shoulder: "There's nothing we can do..." No power!

Before she could finish the last two words, there was a knock on the door: "Wife? It's me! I saw the light on in your room, so I came over to say hello."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Suying got up and opened the door wrapped in a quilt, and saw Jiang Yipei, who was neatly dressed with a hat, mask, gloves, cloak and long boots.

But as soon as the door opened, a biting cold wind blew in. Jiang Suying's legs were unprotected, with only a pair of warm pajamas. She shivered from the cold, and her teeth began to chatter all of a sudden.

"Go in, go in." Jiang Yipei quickly pushed the person inside and closed the door. "I just wanted to tell you that I have to go to the county. The temperature suddenly dropped today and it snowed heavily. Alas - I was woken up by the cold. I was woken up by the cold even with our cotton quilt and down quilt. Those poor families only have thin quilts or even no quilts."

"Besides," Jiang Suying continued, "in the past, if it was cold in winter, we had charcoal to keep warm. How many families have charcoal now? We only have firewood. No, there is not much firewood. For families like mine, we don't think about storing much firewood. We use a lot of firewood to keep warm day and night. What should we do when the firewood is burned out? If we want to go to the mountains to chop firewood now, we have to see if we are strong enough."

"So." Jiang Yipei frowned in worry: "I still have to go find Chen Nuo."

"Excuse me!" Jiang Xiaomi raised her hand: "What can you do?" You're not going to spend your family wealth, are you? That's impossible!

"Then you are really presumptuous."

Jiang Xiaomi was about to say something when Jiang Yipei poked her forehead with a finger: "Don't worry, we won't touch our daily necessities!"

Then - Jiang Xiaomi has nothing to say.

She is truly selfish, without any pretense.

No matter when or where she is, the first thing she thinks of is her own family, and she will only think of others if she is extremely well-off.

If her parents wanted to become a boy and girl who gave away their wealth and sacrificed their small family for the sake of everyone else, that would be a shame, and Jiang Xiaomi would not agree.

If she really can't persuade them in the end, then she will have to use some coercive measures. After all, the three of them together are not enough for her to beat.

Jiang Xiaomi had already thought of beating her parents if necessary, while Jiang Yipei was still sighing, "I don't know how Chen Nuo will resettle the victims. Let's go see if there's anything we can do to help. After all, we just captured Governor Wen, and the potential safety hazard is about to be eliminated. We can't just watch them die."

Jiang Xiaomi had no objection, as long as the things in her space were not moved.

"Okay, go ahead." Jiang Suying had no objection and advised him from a doctor's perspective: "Let me tell you, if someone is frozen for too long, if conditions permit, immediately use a quilt or blanket to protect the frozen part, or use 40-42°C warm water to quickly rewarm the frozen part until the skin turns slightly red and feels warm."

"If conditions are not favorable, you can use your own body temperature to rewarm the affected area. If possible, you can place the affected area on the chest, armpits, abdomen or other warm areas to help rewarm the affected area."

"But there is one thing, don't just listen to one side and don't roast it with fire, rub it with snow, or soak it in cold water. This may backfire."

"As for the treatment of frostbite..." Jiang Suying said more and more, and finally lifted the quilt covering her body: "Forget it, I'll go with you."

No matter how much you say, his brain won't be able to remember it.

Jiang Xiaomi: “…”

She also went with...

When you first came here, didn’t you agree that you would only take care of your own family?

Later, he was in charge of a village, and now he is starting to take charge of a county. So, next time he will take charge of a state, and finally a country?

But what else can she do!

Her father and mother are gone, how can she still lie at home and sleep?

She is not Jiang Xiumian.

Jiang Xiumian, who was taking his time putting on his clothes, sneezed loudly: "Not wearing enough? Put on another set!"

Jiang Xiumian, who was already wearing two layers of thermal underwear, put on another set, moved his hands and feet, and felt that he didn't feel too restrained. Then he began to put on his sweater, down jacket, ancient coat, hat, mask and gloves one by one. He felt that he was fully prepared, so he opened the door. At that moment, he felt that he was still too naive.

He turned back and put some heat packs all over his body, even in his boots, and went out, running. When he saw the lights on in Jiang Suying's house and several figures, he rushed over: "It's so cold!"

"Scared me!"

Jiang Xiaomi felt sorry for her parents who had to go out in the snowstorm, so like Jiang Xiumian, she had already taken out her woolen sweaters and down vests, as well as a set of thick and fleece-lined thermal underwear, and of course a hot pack. Just as she was thinking about what else she hadn't taken, Jiang Xiumian suddenly rushed in. She was so scared that her little heart was beating fast.

"What's going? Are you going too?" Jiang Xiumian saw Jiang Xiaomi's clothes among the pile of clothes and couldn't help but ask.

"I was just about to ask you, are you going too?" It's not strange for her to go, but it would be strange for you to go, young master?

Jiang Xiumian pulled his coat closer. The warmers had already started working, and he felt warm all over. "What's wrong with me? It's my duty to contribute to Luoshui County!"

"Forget it!" Jiang Xiaomi didn't believe a word of it.

Jiang Xiumian was indeed not that great. Only three of the four members of his family had left. How could he stay alone at his grandmother's house?

As for returning to the Jiang family... Jiang Xiaomi didn't come back, and if he went back by himself, his grandmother would beat him to death!

"Little sister?"

Jiang Ji heard the noise and came over, shivering with cold. When he learned that they were going to the county, he thought for three seconds and said, "I'll go with you."

Jiang Xiaomi paused in hiding the wrapper of the hot pack and said, "Go ahead. I hope your uncle has a lot of warm clothes at home. She won't give you thermal underwear or hot packs for the time being."

But I didn’t expect that not only my uncle would go, but Jiang Xuan and Jiang Hu would also go.

There is no doubt that the county town is in need of manpower now, and the two Chinese medicine apprentices will definitely be of use. If they are willing to go, they can go. It is not good to disappoint the sincere hearts of children.

There were so many people that it took a long time to get dressed, put on shoes and wash. By the time we were fully prepared and went to lead the mule cart, it was already dawn.

"Today is Red Dog Day, where are you going? It's not customary to celebrate the New Year today!" Huang had just woken up and her mind was still a little unclear. Seeing a large group of people going out with a mule cart, she subconsciously thought that they were someone's New Year's greetings.

The third day of the first lunar month is called "Red Dog Day". According to legend, "Red Dog" is the "angry god" and anyone who encounters him will be unlucky. It is a very unlucky day and it is not advisable to go out.

Therefore, people do not visit relatives on this day. It is said that whoever you greet on the third day of the Lunar New Year will have a quarrel with that person.

Not sure if it was a prophecy or not, Jiang Yipei didn't know at this moment that he and Chen Nuo would quarrel with each other in the future and would want to fight every day.

Including the driver, there were eight people in total. The heavily overloaded mule cart was moving slower and slower in the snowstorm. Finally, it stopped in the knee-deep snow, spewing white air. If the mule could speak, it would probably say, "Damn it, I'm so tired."

In the end, Jiang Xiaomi had to hang a carrot in front of it to coax it to continue walking. But when it could see the city gate from a distance, it was completely exhausted. No matter how much threats or inducements were used, the mule's head flew up - it couldn't walk anymore, it really couldn't walk anymore!

In the end, the few people still walked into the city. It was difficult to walk in the snow and it took some effort.

"Lord Jiang?" The soldier guarding the city who was changing shifts on the city wall recognized Jiang Yipei.

"It's me!" Jiang Yipei was panting with exhaustion. He was too lazy to reiterate to them that he was no longer an official.

The soldier hurried to go downstairs, but was stopped by another colleague: "What are you doing?"

"Open the city gates and welcome Lord Jiang into the city!"

"You are dereliction of duty. Have you forgotten what the county magistrate ordered?"

"Given the relationship between Lord Jiang and my master... it's not necessary... right?!"

"What do you say?"

"All right!" The soldier shouted at Jiang Yipei, "Excuse me, I am just following orders. I wonder if you have brought your household registration pass?"

“Yes.” But not much.

None of the three Jiang family members had a father who was a village head. They had no documents in such a hurry. Finally, Jiang Yipei showed them the private seal that Chen Nuo had given him for emergency use. Only then were they able to bring everyone into the city gate and successfully borrow a horse to pull a cart - the mule was completely broken, and it went into someone's barn to eat grass.

There was only one mule in the shed, and no one knew how it managed to eat all the food.

After Jiang Yipei entered the city, he saw many collapsed houses and busy figures of county government officials everywhere. Most of them were checking to see if there were people trapped inside the houses that had collapsed due to the heavy snow. If so, they would immediately launch a rescue operation.

At this time, there were shouts from not far away: "Get out of the way!"

"Boss, hurry up! This guy is frozen, but still breathing. What should we do?"

Two people were carrying on a stretcher a person who had been rescued from a collapsed house nearby. The person was frozen solid, his limbs were stiff, and he was cold to the touch, but he was definitely not dead, and his chest was still heaving.

To be honest, what they fear most is encountering this kind of person, who can neither die nor live, but they have to save him!

How to save him at this time?

The “boss” is so worried.

Both clinics in the county are closed. Where can I find a doctor to help?

"Brother Wang." Jiang Ji shouted. The "boss" who was checking the wounded beside the stretcher turned his head and looked over with joy: "Doctor Jiang? You're back! Quick, quick, there's a patient here."

"Please help carry him to Baicaotang!" Jiang Ji said, "Tell everyone to send all patients to Baicaotang."

"Hey!" Brother Wang nodded vigorously and replied, "Thank you so much, Doctor Jiang. With you here, the brothers feel much more at ease."

How big is the difference between having a doctor and not having a doctor in the city?

Not big, just one life.

"Lao Jiang, send my brother and I back to Baicaotang first. Go find County Magistrate Chen and remind him to provide masks, gloves, scarves and other things to the people on duty outside as soon as possible. Otherwise, even if the people are rescued, you will also get frostbitten."

Jiang Suying observed that the skin on the faces and hands of the people carrying the stretcher and the Wang brothers had turned purple.

After being frozen for a long time, the blood vessels in the skin will be filled with a lot of oxygen-deficient hemoglobin. If you don't keep warm and don't relive the temperature in time, it is easy to get first-degree frostbite, damage the epidermis, cause redness, swelling, and stinging. If you continue to be frozen, the damage will reach the dermis and blisters are likely to appear.

Frostbite often occurs in the extremities of the body, mainly the extremities, with lower extremities being the most common, followed by hands and face. It often occurs symmetrically on both sides, and frostbite on the feet often occurs before other parts.

Like the patient on the stretcher now, Jiang Suying initially judged that he had at least third-degree frostbite and must be rewarmed immediately, otherwise his life would be in danger.

When everyone arrived at Baicao Hall, they originally thought they would need to clean up the place, but it was found to be spotless without any traces of the flood. Jiang Ji was puzzled at first, but Jiang Suying knew that this must have been done under the orders of County Magistrate Chen.

Baicaotang was filled with medicinal herbs. Those that had been soaked in water could no longer be used. If County Magistrate Chen lost them, they were lost. Besides, the good herbs had already been taken away when they evacuated the county. Now the most valuable thing in this clinic was this room.

"Wrap him up with a blanket and quilt." Jiang Suying said to Jiang Hu and then to Jiang Xuan, "Go to the kitchen and boil some water. Is there a bathtub in the clinic?"

"Yes!" Jiang Xuan said affirmatively, and then added: "There used to be! It was used for patients to take medicinal baths. Now I have to look for it."

County Magistrate Chen did not touch the clinic's infrastructure, he just cleaned it up and everything it should have was still there.

Jiang Suying said: "Hurry up and boil some water to save lives."