"Looking at this situation, the hail won't fall for a while."
Zhao Xinqing said decisively:
"Let's go and add water to the paddy field!"
"The water level is too high and hybrid rice seedlings cannot be drowned even for a while."
"But it can buffer the damage caused by hail falling from the sky."
"You go release the water, and I will fill the flood outlet of the paddy field, and then spread the alfalfa thicker in the sweet potato field."
Su Bai nodded and immediately started to separate with Zhao Xinqing.
He lowered the aqueduct into the stream and then temporarily covered it with a layer of soil to strengthen the source of the aqueduct.
Because of yesterday's heavy rain, the water flow in this stream has also surged, and the amount of water entering the aqueduct has also increased a lot.
Looking at the amount of water introduced from the source of the aqueduct, Su Bai secretly estimated that at this flow rate, within an hour or two, the water level in the paddy field should be enough to submerge all the rice seedlings.
When she returned to the fields on the south side, Zhao Xinqing had already filled up all the flood outlets in the paddy fields to increase the water storage capacity inside the paddy fields.
She also spread all the alfalfa in the sweet potato field, three full layers!
The two of them finished protecting the crops in the field as much as they could, and it was already around five o'clock in the evening and almost six o'clock in the evening.
The sun behind the dark clouds has begun to set.
The sky has completely darkened.
The temperature dropped suddenly, like late autumn.
"Is there still time to collect the cement?" Zhao Xinqing asked in a low voice as she followed Su Bai back to the camp.
Su Bai nodded:
"It's too late, it won't take long to collect the cement."
"This hailstorm has created such a long window for us. If this wave of cement is not withdrawn, it will be unbearable."
With that said, Su Bai went directly to the bamboo shed, took out the coyote skin quilt, and hurried to the earthen kiln with Zhao Xinqing.
If hail suddenly fell on the way, this coyote skin quilt could be held above the two people's heads to provide temporary shelter, allowing them to crawl back into the bamboo shed despite the hail attack.
In the earth kiln, the charcoal that had been burning for half a day had basically been extinguished.
There is still some residual warmth, but under the attack of the cold wave, the heat dissipates very quickly.
People can now enter the earthen kiln.
Su Bai took a bamboo stick and swept out all the cement from the kiln, while Zhao Xinqing sealed it in a bamboo tube.
The cement in this kiln was cleaned up, and the two of them covered the top hole of the kiln before hurriedly returning to the camp.
After placing the cement in a suitable position in the bamboo shed, the two of them got under the snapping turtle's shell.
The space under the snapping turtle shell seemed a little cramped after two adults got in.
Su Bai hugged Zhao Xinqing, and Zhao Xinqing hugged Maomao.
The two of them huddled together, and each other could hear each other's breathing and heartbeat.
Feeling the delicate body in her arms trembling slightly, Su Bai gently pushed Maomao.
Zhao Xinqing let go of Maomao and turned around to hug Su Bai.
Su Bai was very satisfied, while Maomao looked resentful.
Zhao Xinqing said in a low voice:
"Su Bai..."
"I'm a little scared..."
At that time, the thunder roared again in the sky, the sound was so loud that it seemed to be very close to the ground, and the whole earth trembled slightly under the thunder.
Zhao Xinqing's delicate body trembled even more.
Su Bai hugged her tighter and gently stroked her back.
Feeling the heat coming from Su Bai's body, Zhao Xinqing gradually calmed down.
In a corner of the turtle shell, the cat opened its big eyes and looked at a man and a dog who were hugging each other very tightly.
Maybe it felt cold, so the cat unconsciously shrank its neck, hid in a corner, balled up, and puffed up its feathers to keep out the cold.
The audience saw the cat's shrinking head through the gap in the turtle shell's head, and couldn't help but burst into laughter:
[Cat: Don’t come over with dog food!!!]
[Mao Mao: Thank you, I don’t want to eat it. I really don’t want to eat it. I told you not to eat it. What are you doing! Hoho hoho hoho ho... don’t feed me any more... I’m going to die... ho ho ho ho ho...
...]
【Cat: lonely, lonely, cold.】
This hailstorm came slower than everyone expected.
Su Baizuo and Zhao Xinqing huddled in the turtle shell for an hour and a half before they heard thunder in the sky for a while.
Instead, there was a dense muffled sound of "bang bang bang bang".
The sound was continuous and cascading, coming from everywhere around. The most obvious source of the sound was the roof of the bamboo shed above the two people!
Huge white hailstones fell from the sky.
It is not as exaggerated as the "dynamic potential energy at an altitude of 10,000 meters", because the hailstone will be affected by the updraft during the falling process, which continuously reduces the dynamic potential energy on it, so it cannot reach the terrifying power of a free fall of 10,000 meters.
However, hail of this size will still cause considerable damage to objects on the ground.
The viewers in front of the screen clearly heard the groaning of the roof being overwhelmed from the live broadcast room.
The sound of falling hailstones varies in size.
Following several consecutive heavy sounds, a "click" sound of bamboo breaking came from the roof.
Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing's hearts skipped a beat.
A certain frame of the roof was broken!
"Hiss..." Su Bai took a breath of air: "The scale of this hail is bigger than we expected..."
"Even the frame was broken."
Zhao Xinqing nodded and said with lingering fear:
"Fortunately we reinforced the roof before, otherwise the roof would have been smashed to pieces now."
Su Bai said "hmm":
"The toughness of green oak is also very strong. There is a large amount of green oak as filling, so it is not critical to break one or two frames."
This hailstorm not only threatened to fall from the sky, but the strong winds blowing everywhere in the wilderness were also very violent.
The bamboo shed soon began to sway slightly under the hail and the strong wind.
As the roof of the roof continued to be broken by hail, the overall structural strength of the bamboo shed continued to decrease, and the amplitude of the shaking became larger and larger.
The comments from the Kingdom of China in the live broadcast room are getting more and more anxious:
[This shaking amplitude...]
[It’s over, it’s over, is it really going to collapse...]
[This bamboo shed is too big!!! If they were smaller, they would not be able to withstand so much hail and wind pressure. With the strength of bamboo and green wood, they can completely support it!]
…
In the program team office building, in the Office of the Minister of Finance.
Hikawa Kangsaka firmly held Wang Xianzong's arm next to him and said excitedly:
“It’s coming, it’s coming!!!”
"This abominable Chinese citizen is about to collapse!!!"
Wang Xianzong couldn't help but reveal a sinister smile, and said sullenly:
"Even if they still have turtle shells as a last layer of defense, they won't be directly killed by the hail."
"But once the bamboo shed completely collapses, their ability to keep warm will be greatly affected, and they may even be extinguished by the flames and freeze to death in the wilderness!"