That evening, He Wan took out the quilt that Lao Yun had made for her this year, intending to move it to Zhang Cuicao and Su Ranran's room to sleep.

When Zhang Cuicao left, she gave her the key to the house.

I never expected it to come in handy here.

Zhou Ting'an said, "I'll stay there. There's a stove here, so you can stay warmer. It's cold over there."

He Wan shook her head: "It's not appropriate. This is the residence of two female comrades."

Zhou Ting'an didn't know what to say, so he helped her spread out the quilt, then heated the kang (a traditional heated brick bed) before leaving.

Zhang Cuicao and the others haven't had their kang (heated brick bed) heated for several days, so it's quite cold. But she can enter the space.

After closing the door, I quickly hugged Huahua and went into the space. I originally wanted to send a message to Lao Yun.

As a result, Zhou Ting'an knocked on the door again a little while later.

He came over and got her a military overcoat: "Cover yourself with this, it'll keep you warmer at night."

"OK."

Seeing that He Wan's room wasn't very hot, Zhou Ting'an asked her if she wanted to go to his house and wait for a while while he heated it up.

He Wan shook her head and said, "It's okay. It's quite warm on the kang right now. I'm very warm sitting in the quilt."

"Okay, then go to sleep quickly."

"Sleep? It's only seven o'clock, how can I fall asleep?" "Oh, I'll go back and get a book."

As He Wan spoke, she went back to her room and picked up her politics and English books.

Zhou Ting'an looked at the books on her desk and said, "You're reading high school books."

"Yeah, it seemed boring, so I picked it up and started learning. I actually graduated from junior high school. In the winter, when I had nothing to do, I bought a set of high school books. If I didn't understand something, I would ask the people at the educated youth settlement. Now I'm already studying up to the senior year of high school."

Brother Zhou, did you graduate from high school or junior high school?

"If there's anything you don't understand during high school, you can ask me, but... my English is not very good."

He Wan chuckled smugly, "English? I'm good at it." As she spoke, she pulled an English dictionary out of the desk for him, "Here, take this. You can read it if you can't sleep at night."

"OK."

There was nothing to do for entertainment in the evening, so Zhou Ting'an really couldn't sleep.

After returning to the next room, He Wan took Hua Hua into the space.

I sent Lao Yun a message, but he didn't reply. He's probably still filming at this hour.

I went to the basement level, sat at the desk, and actually studied.

Here are the study materials she prepared herself, as well as the exam papers from each province in her era that Bai Muyin prepared for her.

Algebraic geometry, physical chemistry.

Well, there are some points that still need to be memorized.

She had been working on the problems for two hours and was already yawning.

I took the flowers to my room to sleep.

The next day, around eight o'clock, I heard Zhou Ting'an knocking on the door, so I quickly picked up Hua Hua and left the room.

"Wanwan, dinner's ready."

"Get up." He Wan said, yawning as she started to get dressed.

While you're at it, heat up the kang (heated brick bed).

Zhang Deping, who was outside, saw He Wan's older brother getting up early to make breakfast.

He thought to himself that He Wan's older brother was quite nice, a grown man cooking breakfast so early in the morning.

The three people next door, Li Zheng and his family, are too lazy to cook. They use frozen ingredients, so cooking a meal every day is a real struggle for them.

Fortunately, they made a lot of steamed buns, and since they had nothing to do today, they planned to make dumplings.

I caught some game in the mountains a few days ago, but I didn't sell it. I'll process it, wrap it up, and then we'll make dumplings for it during the day.

Zhou Ting'an made rice porridge and soybean paste this morning. Seeing an egg in a small dish, she cooked one for He Wan.

Looking at the soybean paste Zhou Ting'an was making, He Wan smiled and said, "Your skills are pretty good. The sauce you made tastes better than mine."

“I used a lot of seasonings, so I’ll give you the seasonings from your kitchen. Another day, when there’s an oxcart going to the county town, I’ll buy you some more.”

"No need, those seasonings have been sitting for a long time, they're just the right amount to use. I have plenty of seasonings."