Chapter 229. Below Zero
On the first day of the extreme cold, the rain stopped, followed by a sharp drop in temperature.
Overnight, it reached the lowest winter temperature here, minus twenty-five degrees Celsius. At this temperature, as long as you wear more clothes and put on a cotton jacket, you can still withstand it.
Going out is not impossible, but it’s really cold.
Fortunately, the cave is warm enough, and the family has always been concerned about the problem of temperature dropping. Since the first frost, every tent has been equipped with two thick quilts, so even if you feel cold while sleeping at night, you can quickly grab a blanket to keep warm.
As the temperature kept dropping day by day, before the extreme cold arrived, the village chief had already reminded the women in the village to make warm, thick winter clothes and bedding, and to increase the daily hours of firewood gathering, so as to stockpile as much wood as possible.
Luckily, everyone habitually listened to the village chief’s words, believing them without a doubt. The temperature indeed kept getting lower, and they hurriedly made winter clothes, added cotton to old quilts, or made a few more new ones.
Firewood was the same; the two-hour daily cutting turned into four hours. Almost the entire day, except for meals, the men were outside chopping trees and accumulating firewood.
The cotton was harvested before the heavy rain, the last crop of the year. According to the village chief’s instructions, every household planted a few plots, and every family opened a few acres of wasteland behind the village, with one or two acres used for cotton planting.
It was only at this time that the people of Hua Village realized how wise and farsighted their village chief was, his vision was indeed keen.