Little Landlord in the End of the World (MTL)

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There was a white sky of ice and snow all around, and the blizzard was still blowing outside the window.

　　"Oh, it's been snowing for almost a month, why hasn't it stopped?" Sitting by the window, Zhao Xingguo's daughter-in-law Zhang Cuifen, wearing a cotton coat and her own thick bedding, huddled up, even though she was in the whole room. Five pots of charcoal fire were burned, and dozens of people were crowded in, but the temperature in the room could barely stay at five or six degrees.

　　"Who says it's not the case? It used to be rare to see two snowfalls every year. If the thickness of the snow could exceed ten centimeters, the kids in my family would have been so happy... Look at the monkeys in my house now. , all frozen and withered, huddled in the room. If I hadn't been able to play in the room with other children in the village every day, I would have been suffocated long ago." The aunt of the Gao family also wrapped herself in the quilt and sighed.

　These days, everyone puts on the warmest clothes at home, and those who can't put them on, wrap themselves up in quilts and come here together to keep warm. Anyway, everyone is like this, there is nothing to say that the image is not impressive, the most important thing is to be comfortable.

　　In the past, many people wore cotton-padded clothes and trousers to keep warm in order to take care of their own image, but as a result, they all caught a cold. There were not many cold medicines in He Guiping's place, and they couldn't waste it at this time. What if the children and elders at home got sick? Medicine, wouldn't that be bad? So everyone might as well wear more clothes and wrap more clothes.

　According to Zhao Xingguo's original plan, everyone in the village would stay at Zhao Zhengde's house to keep warm every day during the day. When it was time for dinner, everyone would go home to eat and sleep. Everyone would only need one or two kilograms of coal per household per day.

　　But when it was later discovered that there was no room for so many villagers in one house, everyone had no choice but to go to three houses on average. The other two were He Guiping and Zhu Dahai.

　　Each household will hand over coal and firewood to the other party based on the number of people. Each person will be given two kilograms of coal or three kilograms of firewood. For children under ten years old, the amount will be halved.

　　When everyone saw this, it didn't mean much.

　　No matter how you calculate it, this will save you much more than burning a fire at home to keep warm.

　　In order to save charcoal, many people are too lazy to go home to cook every time, so they prepare all the meals for the whole day in the morning and bring them directly here. Anyway, in such a cold weather, the food will not be bad, as long as Just heat it up on the brazier and you can enjoy it without the hassle of running back and forth.

　　Zhao Xingguo and several other village cadres, in order to make it easier for everyone to have hot water and heat rice, they specially made several pots that can be placed on the brazier.

　　It is precisely because several cadres in the village care about everyone that the whole village is particularly united.

　　Cao Shufen's family can still afford six kilograms of coal a day, but as a family of three, they always feel a thorn in their backs when they stay with everyone every day. Cao Shufen always feels like there are countless people pointing fingers at her. She had already discussed it with her husband, and after the snow melted, the three of them would go to the temporary base to avoid looking at other people in the village and causing embarrassment.

　　Whenever this happens, Cao Shufen sometimes wonders, did she have a broken brain at that time? That's why she did such a thing. Otherwise, wouldn't it be good to go directly to other people's houses to buy coal? Folks in the countryside, what are you talking about? I will also sell some to her.