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

Chapter 201

Finally, my tongue was stuck and couldn't be pulled off.

"If you force it, you'll only end up with blood on your hands."

Because it was too crowded, Jiang Yipei couldn't see the situation inside clearly, so he could only ask someone to come out first. He saw Jiang Yida's hand tightly stuck to the iron wall: "Don't move!"

He took out the thermos cup that he had wrapped in a cloth bag and poured water onto his palms little by little: "Be gentle now, don't force it."

"Okay!" Jiang Yida was a little anxious at first, but when he saw Jiang Yipei, he calmed down and followed Jiang Yipei's actions of pouring water, directing: "Pour, pour, pour more, it's done!"

The palm finally separated from the iron wall.

Jiang Yida shook his wet hands and breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother, what happened? They got stuck just after we touched each other? Isn't this too weird?"

"It's not weird, it's normal." Jiang Yipei covered the thermos cup: "The temperature difference between your hand and the iron wall is too big, and, were your hands wet at that time?"

"It's a little wet. It was too cold just now. Everyone took turns drinking hot water with water bags. When it was my turn, I was not careful and spilled some on my gloves. I just took them off and they touched me, and then they stuck to me."

That's it.

Because of the good thermal conductivity of metal, when low temperature and high temperature meet, heat will quickly transfer from the high temperature end to the low temperature end.

No matter how low the temperature of the palm is, it is still higher than the iron wall. When the two collide, the temperature of the palm drops sharply. In addition, there is water on the hand. At a temperature of -28°C, the water on the hand will quickly freeze - this process is much faster than the speed at which the body provides heat to the palm through blood circulation, so the palm is stuck to the metal surface.

Physics knowledge is easy to explain, but Jiang Yida might be confused after listening to it, so he didn't tell him much, but secretly gave him some more hot packs and asked him to share them with Liu, but did not let them go into the cab.

——In fact, there is still space for individuals in the cab even if you squeeze hard. But just now they had something to ask Jiang Xiaomi and Jiang Xiubai, so they didn't try to squeeze people in. Even Jiang Yiyu and Jiang Yitao didn't have this treatment. There would be no need to bring people to the cab now.

In fact, Jiang Yipei still feels a little guilty towards the couple Jiang Yida and Liu.

After all, many of their things were bought by Jiang Xiubai from the mall - of course, they also paid for it.

No matter what, Jiang Xiubai is their son, but when Jiang Yida and his wife use or eat the things he buys, there is a high probability that they will be excluded, or Jiang Xiubai will take a small portion back to them in the name of the money they gave.

Although there is a reason for doing this, but -

This feeling is hard to describe, but it’s never a good one.

Jiang Yipei distributed the remaining hot packs in his hand to everyone. After telling them some precautions, he went to distribute the hot packs to Liu Hai, Zhang Feng and others.

The carriage was very crowded, so crowded that you could hardly move. To put on the heat pads, you needed help from people in front, behind, and around you. Those who were close to the doors and windows had their backs exposed. Although the doors and windows had been blocked with quilts, wind still leaked in from time to time, making it feel like being in a granary.

By the time we arrived at the county, many people had frost on their eyebrows and their lips were cracked, bleeding. As soon as they opened their mouths, before they could even speak, a cloud of white air came out, and their legs were shaking when they got off the bus.

"Don't jump, take it easy." Seeing that their legs were numb but they still dared to jump, Jiang Yipei quickly picked up three stools that he had found from somewhere and placed one in front of the granary and the two cars respectively, and told them, "Put your feet on the stool and go down slowly."

It took us an hour and a half to get from the town to the county because of the cold weather and the mule went on strike several times. After being frozen for so long, if we jumped directly from the mountain, we would probably break bones under the pressure of gravity.

The scariest thing is that even if you have a broken bone, you won’t feel too much pain at this time. You will just think that you just sprained it and the situation is not serious, and then you can walk normally. But by the time your brain reacts, your broken bone may have suffered secondary damage.

But what Jiang Yipei didn't expect was that this simple action would directly cause Liu Hai and Zhang Feng to be in trouble.

Really.

In fact, their master, County Magistrate Chen, had treated them very well. Although the training was strict and the place was remote, they had good food and drink, no worries about food and clothing, and generous monthly wages and adequate benefits. However, it was impossible for him to personally bring them stools and let them step on them to get off the car.

This is not something a master would do.

It is not something an official appointed by the imperial court would do.

They are just subordinates, and there is no need for the master to do this to show favor. There are many ways to show favor, but this one is definitely not one of them.

But the Lord Jiang in front of them did it so smoothly and naturally that it even felt a little unreal when they stepped on the stool and walked down.

But there were naturally many people in Jiangjia Village, and they were talking as they rained -

"Thank you, brother."

"Thank you, uncle."

"Thank you, uncle."

In the months before and after the rainstorm, they all knew that Jiang Yipei hated people who procrastinated the most.

Just do what I tell you. After all, sometimes there are too many things to explain and I can't hurt you, right?

But if you insist on getting to the bottom of things before doing anything, then the Jiang Yipei you meet will not be the gentle Jiang Yipei he is now. He will allow you to ask later if you don't understand, but when he is rushing to make progress, if you still complain and affect others, then he will let you know that the decades of study he spent were not in vain, and the years of service he spent as an official were not in vain.

They have now trained themselves to obey Jiang Yipei's orders.

Except for the departure of County Magistrate Chen, the rest of the people in Luoshui County are almost the same, and they have already been reprimanded by County Magistrate Chen. When Jiang Yipei was not here, everyone was doing their own job.

The cold wave moved southward from Yangchun Town above the county seat of Luoshui County towards Nanxiangzi, so that the county seat of Luoshui County was severely affected.

There were no signs before the cold wave came, only a large amount of fog rushing in. Many people did not take it seriously, but by the time the cold wave arrived and they realized something was wrong, it was too late.

Extremely low temperatures can freeze people to death instantly.

During these few hours, County Magistrate Zhang and County Lieutenant, along with all the people in the county government, were very busy in the county, and half of the three shifts of yamen runners were collecting corpses.

After learning that Jiang Yipei had arrived, County Magistrate Zhang breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the harvester parked outside the county government office, took a deep breath, and ran towards Jiang Yipei: "Sir, you are finally here!"

His expression was excited and genuine.

Then, as soon as Jiang Yipei walked into the county government office, he was surrounded by a large group of workers.

The most urgent thing is to bury the deceased.

The cold wave was like the permafrost period in the north. Even if we wanted to dig a hole for burial, there was no hole to dig. The soil was so hard that two holes would appear when we dug with a hoe.

The only machine is a harvester, and it doesn’t even have the function to dig holes.

Jiang Yipei: “…”

So annoying! He doesn't know what to do?

But in ancient times, it was customary to keep the body for a certain period of time. The more "noble" the person, the longer the body would be kept, even for three months - if it was summer, it would have to be kept for that many days even if it was kept in ice.

Now, with our natural refrigerator, in this kind of weather, even if you stop for three years, the place will still be alive.

After hearing what Jiang Yipei said, County Magistrate Zhang thought for a moment and nodded, "Sir, it's not impossible to do this, but there are not enough coffins!"

You can't just let the deceased lie at home like that, right? That would be so scary!

You can't just dump the body of the deceased outside, right? If anyone dares to do that, their spine will be broken.

Moreover, some families even have more than one deceased person, so there must be a thin coffin to maintain dignity after death, right?

But the coffin shop owner can be found now, but the people who died in the flood have used up all the wooden boards in his shop. Even the boards that had been soaked in water for several months have been used up, and this is still not enough!

Now another batch of people have died. Even if we kill the coffin shop owner, he won’t be able to conjure up a coffin!

There's nothing wrong with his hands, but he needs a board!

Jiang Yipei: “…”

Really, he doesn't know.

He didn't know that officials even had to worry about the people not being able to buy coffins.

County Magistrate Zhang also sighed: "Normally we don't care much, but this year the situation is special! If more people make trouble, it will be our government's business. It's better to think about what the people think."

It was not wrong to think so. Jiang Yipei touched his throbbing temple, frowned and closed his eyes. County Magistrate Zhang did not dare to disturb him. After a while, Jiang Yipei opened his eyes and said to County Magistrate Zhang, "Have someone issue a notice now. Write the time tomorrow. The county town and the surrounding villages will have to perform labor service and go up the mountain to cut wood."

County Magistrate Zhang was stunned for a moment, hesitating: "Go up the mountain now?"

Jiang Yipei nodded: "Listen to me, if you are lucky, you can pick up some wild animals in the mountains!"

Yes!

County Magistrate Zhang’s eyes lit up.

The cold wave is coming, and people can’t escape it, and there must be many animals that can’t escape it either. It hasn’t been long now, no, even if it has been a few days, in this kind of weather, wild animals will not die!

It's also a way to generate income.

Jiang Yipei doesn't care whether it generates income or not. He has no shortage of meat, but the county lacks coffins. Not only coffins, but the demand for wood and charcoal has increased sharply as it is very cold now. It is impossible not to go up the mountain to cut trees.

Jiang Yipei rubbed his face vigorously. It was really a time of one problem after another.

I thought snow was the biggest punishment for the people in the south, but I didn't expect there would be a cold wave, which directly pushed the temperature down by several levels. If he guessed correctly, there is almost no possibility of the temperature rising again after this drop.

In other words, this winter will only get colder.

-28c!

If it gets even colder, will there be any way for ordinary people to survive?

Jiang Yipei's scalp tingled. The nature of this snow disaster was completely different from that of the rain disaster. In the case of a rain disaster, he could hide in high places. With food, he avoided the mudslide and missed the landslide. Although it was a little harder to survive, he was basically still alive.

But this snowstorm, this cold front? How to avoid it?

Ordinary people can’t even keep warm with their clothes. They don’t have thick enough clothes and must have an external heat source.

Fire is the simplest and most common source of heat.

However, the firewood stockpiled by households before the disaster was either washed away by the water or used up soon after returning home due to the sudden drop in temperature. A lot of firewood was used but there was almost no replenishment. Many families no longer burned firewood for heating and only kept the little firewood they had for cooking.

However, over time, there are only two outcomes - either freezing to death or starving to death.

"Notify all nearby families that you can notify. Each family must have two people go up the mountain. Because of the weather, you can go to the county government to get clothes. In other words, you don't need to bring your own dry food and clothes. The time is at least one month."

In ancient times, people had to perform labor service every year. Not only did they have to work, but they also had to prepare their own food and clothing. Jiang Yipei took into consideration that time was too tight and it would be too late even to prepare dry food.

"Ah?" County Magistrate Zhang looked embarrassed. Before his master left, he told him to obey Lord Jiang in everything. He obeyed the order!

He also wanted to obey the order! But where could the county government have so many warm clothes?

Why don’t you take off his clothes, see how many layers he has, and then divide them up!

There is also dry food. There are about 500 permanent households in the county and its surrounding areas. Although some people were killed in the rainstorm and some were taken away by the snowstorm, the population has indeed decreased a lot, but in terms of households, there is basically no decrease. If there are two people in one household, that means there are thousands of people.

Warm clothing for thousands of people and one month's worth of dry food is really not a small number.

And he wants it tomorrow, he can’t do it even if he performs magic tricks!

Lord Jiang’s request is so unreasonable!

Isn't this making things difficult for Old Zhang?

County Magistrate Zhang was so worried that he was thinking about how to tactfully tell his new superior, whose character he didn't know very well, about his difficulties, but he heard Jiang Yipei say again: "Just notify them to come, I have a way."

"Yes..." Since Jiang Yipei said so, he would just follow the orders, although he didn't know how Lord Jiang could come up with such a large quantity of winter clothes and food.

Little did he know that Jiang Yipei was extremely grateful at this moment. Tailor Jiang and his team had never stopped making cotton-padded clothes. He thought that they would definitely be useful in the county, it was just a matter of how much. So he asked Jiang Xiaomi to load a thousand sets into the space - one set of cotton-padded clothes, cotton pants, cotton shoes, gloves, hats and masks.

County Magistrate Zhang was very capable. Within two quarters of an hour, a new notice was posted on the tall stone wall at the side of the county government office. It read:

In the spring of the fifty-third year of Xiyou, from the ninth day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the second lunar month, a total of thirty days, two male adults from each household in Luoshui County, Tianji Village, Shangtang Village, Wanzai Village, and Liulin Village had to go up the mountain to cut wood, burn charcoal, and chop firewood. The county government would provide them with food and clothing, and there must be no mistakes.

County Magistrate Zhang has worked in the government office for so many years and has never issued a labor notice for "going up the mountain to chop wood", but this is an urgent task assigned by his superiors, so of course he has to complete it quickly.

Jiang Yipei was shocked by the efficiency. What was even more shocking was that it only took two hours from the time his order was issued to the time a large team of 900 people gathered. There was no need to wait until tomorrow.