Chapter 436 Methods of Chiseling Ice

The ice cave is only more than two meters away from the shore, more than half a person deep, so it is naturally impossible to defeat the female cloud leopard. But today the temperature is around zero degrees, so you can imagine what it feels like to fall into the cold ice water.

This guy tried to climb up the ice layer, but when his claws hit the edge of the hole, the thin layer of ice began to shatter.

The grass leopard caught off guard and fell back to the bottom of the water. After several times, it probably drank a lot of water, and its movements became slower and slower.

At this time, Liu Junhao finally woke up from his surprise and could not delay it. Otherwise, if he had to work for another two minutes, he would probably have drowned. He hurriedly ran to the opposite side of the water puddle.

Of course, Liu Junhao was not so stupid that he jumped into the ice water to save the cloud leopard, but grabbed a large stone on the shore and smashed it hard on the ice.

With a "crack" sound, all the thin ice within a radius of several meters was broken, and then he grabbed a branch next to it and stretched out. The cloud leopard was smart and immediately opened his mouth to bite the other end of the branch.

The survival of the ** makes it struggle in the water. After climbing ashore, it is already dying, its wet body is limp on the ground, looking exhausted.

Seeing Yunbao's belly bloated, he obviously drank a lot of ice water. Liu Junhao didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly asked everyone to set fire to bake the fur for it, otherwise this guy would have to freeze it even if he didn't die.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of firewood at the foot of the mountain, and everyone who reacted immediately went to the grass to pull out the artemisia. At this time, the roots of the artemisia were decayed and it was easy to pull out. It took almost no effort, and they had already pulled out a lot of them.

It had just rained heavily yesterday, and the wormwood was wet and could not be ignited at all. However, this did not end Liu Junhao. He lived in Liujiagou since he was a child, so he naturally knew where to find the firewood to attract fire. He turned his head and glanced a few times, and soon found a few dry stuttering grass under a few rocks.

After seeing the wind, Liu Junhao used a lighter to ignite the stutter grass. When the flames grew, he carefully stroked some wormwood leaves and added them.

When the fire was completely ignited, he asked everyone to cover the artemisia all over.

Soon, the surging smoke surged into the sky, leaving a clear column of smoke in the air.

Although the weather was gloomy at this time, the smoke was still discovered by the villagers. Liu Guangju thought the mountain was on fire, so he led his men and guys to come in a hurry.

After hearing what just happened here, Liu Guangju also exclaimed and said that the fox had become a spirit.

The grass leopard was a little afraid of fire and didn't dare to move forward... This guy should have drunk a lot of ice water, and the stimulating taste of hot and cold is naturally not good. He just stood up and vomited a lot on the ground.

After a long time of struggle, Yunbao almost didn't even have the strength to stand up, so naturally he couldn't take pictures.

Liu Junhao was also afraid that he would continue to stay in the wild, so he simply reached out to pick up the cloud leopard and let several little leopard cubs follow him home. The body of the female cloud leopard weighs only a few dozen kilograms, so it doesn't take much effort to pick it up.

"What's wrong with Yunbao?" Zhang Qian asked in surprise. He didn't expect that his husband would take Yunbao back after going out.

"It's nothing, I fell into the water just now." Liu Junhao sent Yunbao upstairs, and then briefly told his wife what had just happened.

"I knew that the cloud leopard could not fight the fox, so it was so cunning..." At this moment, Zhang Qian became aware of it, as if she had been optimistic about the grass raccoon for a long time ago.

Liu Junhao had no time to listen to his wife's show of her. He always paid attention to the movements of the grass leopard, for fear that this guy would suffer from sequelae.

Fortunately, the grass leopard's body was stronger than he thought. After a long day and night of rest, he led a few leopard cubs to appear in the yard early the next morning.

After three days of gloom, the weather finally cleared.

On the ground, under the eaves, the ice at the top of the tree began to melt rapidly. In half a day, a pool of water was left on the ground.

Liu Junhao was afraid that his wife would slip when walking in the yard, so he shoveled away the ice on the ground, so he didn't have many puddles in the yard. On the dirt road in front of the door, Liu Guangju specially asked someone to mat the sand. After the ice water melted, it was all soaked in the sand. In half a day, it had become half dry.

As soon as the ice on the ground melted, just when everyone thought the weather was about to warm up, the heavy snow fell.

The weather forecast was reported intermittently during heavy snow for a whole week, and heavy snow fell across the country, and this weather would last at least half a month.

It was even colder at night, and the temperature dropped to several degrees below zero. It was okay to say that the snow fell on the ground was quickly shoveled away by Liu Junhao, and then spread a layer of thin sand on the ground, so naturally it did not freeze. However, the thin ice in the ditch had not melted, and the snowflakes that had fallen on it for several days had not melted, and it quickly condensed into an ice layer. It was more than ten centimeters thick in a few days.

Now Liu Junhao is completely busy. Every day when he gets up, he has to go to the yard to sweep the snow, and then he has to go to the ditch to break the ice to facilitate the water birds to eat.

He once secretly looked at the stone lock, but he didn't expect that there was a thin layer of ice in the stone lock. Liu Junhao felt it was fresh and remembered that it was the first time he saw the stone lock freezing.

But thinking about it, it is understandable that the temperature in the stone lock is generally several degrees higher than the outside world. Now it is several degrees below zero outside, so of course the temperature inside the stone lock cannot be higher.

The pond where the spring is located is not frozen, but it still rises out continuously.

Liu Junhao deliberately touched the temperature in the pond with his hand. The side was cold, but the place close to the spring was a bit hot, which was no different from the geothermal hot spring.

He couldn't help but take off his clothes and soaked in it for half an hour. When he got up from the spring water, he felt very comfortable all over, and his skin was a little delicate.

There are so many benefits of this spring water, and it is a pity that I can't bring my wife in to take a hot spring together. However, Liu Junhao has a way. When his wife asked her to take a boiling water at night, he was lazy and took a lot of trouble, so he directly brought a few basins of spring water into the bathtub. After taking a shower, Zhang Qian also shouted comfortably, and even said that it was good to make a hot bath in winter.

In the morning, Liu Junhao had just finished cleaning the yard and was lifting the iron shovel to break the ice outside the yard. He found that Professor Zhao was standing by the pit and busy. The old man was idle all day long, and he came to help every time he broke the ice, just to exercise.

Liu Junhao shouted, grabbed the iron shovel and smashed it down, but only a white seal was printed on the ice, without even a crack.

"Damn, it's so thick." He didn't believe in evil, so he smashed it hard with a shovel. His arms were numb and the ice layer was still intact.

"Haha, I tried it just now. I guess today's Bingling is not easy to fight." Mr. Zhao smiled and shook his head.

"It's so thick, it should be able to occupy people, right?" Liu Junhao tentatively stood up on Bingling and stood his foot: he didn't hear the crackling sound of the ice, and then he boldly put his feet on. Sure enough, there was no problem.

Liu Junhao's childlike interest increased greatly. He used a shovel to pound the ice surface and slid his feet more than three meters away on the ice surface.

"It's really OK." Mr. Zhao was also a little moved and stepped onto the ice layer tentatively. He didn't dare to skate like Liu Junhao, but just walked carefully on it.

No matter how heavy the snow covered the ice, the surface of the ice was bare, and there were no objects to block it, which was very suitable for skating. Liu Junhao became more and more excited as he slid, and he didn't even know when his wife would walk out of the door.

"Squeak..." Wukong saw that his master was having fun, and couldn't help but jump onto the ice. The guy's claws shivered as soon as he touched the ice, and then hurriedly jumped to the shore, tightening the white scarf on his shoulders.

A few days ago, Zhang Qian made some wool and put on a new scarf for her husband when she saw it was cold. Unexpectedly, the monkey rushed to ask for it. Seeing that there was still a lot of wool left, she simply gave Wukong a pocket version. Unexpectedly, after wearing it on her neck, the guy immediately began to show off, and got in front of the mirror all day long. Zhang Qian also took a lot of photo albums for the monkey.

"Quagu..." The group of green villages were originally waiting on the shore for their owner to break the ice, but they didn't know that there was no movement for a long time, and they began to make noise in a hurry.

After hearing Qingzhuang croaking around them, Liu Junhao remembered the icebreaker.

"What should I do?" Professor Zhao tried to hold a stone and smash it down, but the ice surface was still motionless.

"It's useless. The ice is almost twenty centimeters deep. You must find an iron rod." Liu Junhao said after thinking about it.

"Iron Chin?" Professor Zhao didn't know what to look for Iron Chin.

"Use an iron chisel to punch the hole on the ice, and then insert the wooden stick to dig it out. The iron chisel is what we use when building a house and laying the foundation..."

This method of chiseling ice was common when Liu Junhao was a child, mainly used to crawl fish.

The scene was very big at that time. All men, women, young and old in the village were waiting by the pond to pick up fish. Before chiseling ice, a few door panels should be placed on the ice layer, which is mainly to prevent the ice layer from suddenly bursting and people fell into the water.

When the position is fixed, a few sticks on the door panel. One person holds the iron drill, and the others swing the hammer and smash it down until the ice is chiseled through.

He dug four or five holes in a row, and then everyone held down the iron drill and lifted the ice layer together.

Of course, there is another method to break ice by stone ramming. Stone ramming was also a tool used by people to build houses in the past. It was very simple to make. Grind the stone into a rectangular plaque, and then drill four holes at both ends to tie a well rope. Of course, the stone must be chosen to be a quake-resistant stone. Ordinary stones will be smashed after a few hits.

In the past, when building a house, you had to use stone tamps to build a porcelain foundation, which was somewhat similar to today's **. When building a tamp, you must shout slogans to adjust the rhythm, otherwise it will easily sprain your waist.

"We still have to go to the village to find iron rods?" Professor Zhao asked.

"What's the matter? Just use your brain a little bit," Liu Junhao pointed at his head and replied, "Let me give you a non-mainstream icebreaker."

"Nonsense, what can you do?" Although Professor Zhao didn't believe it, he was looking forward to his performance.

"Wait, I'll go back to the house to prepare." Liu Junhao said verbally and pulled his wife into the house.

He planned to use gunpowder to explode the ice... Liu Junhao also had a deep attainment in playing with gunpowder. The most proud thing back then was to successfully "develop" the little dragon cannon fish. However, this thing was too dangerous. Once he and Liu Qiyong almost exploded himself when they fry fish, but later they didn't dare to do it again.

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