After entering the house, Tian Tian and Tian Yuan went straight to the stove in the kitchen. The fire in the stove was almost out, with only a few spots of light left, but there was still some residual heat.
Tian Tian and Tian Yuan took off their shoes and put their feet near the stove to keep warm. They felt like their feet were about to freeze off.
Lin Meiyu returned to the room and put Tian Zhuo, who had been sleeping all the way, on the kang.
"You two should stop warming yourself by the fire and change your clothes quickly. Didn't you just say that your clothes were all wet?" Tian Lisong said.
Tian Tian and the others sweated so much while walking that their long underwear and long johns were all soaked through, and they felt cold when the wind blew.
"Wait for me to warm up my feet." Tian Tian said.
"Why don't you stay over there tonight? You've been outside all day. Don't let yourself get frozen." Tian Lilin stirred the brazier, and the fire lit up again, so he brought it over to them.
Someone went to get a basin, poured the boiling water in the pot into the basin, and used it to soak their feet.
"I'll go change my clothes first!" Tian Tian put on her shoes and went back to the room to change clothes.
Even if they were not at home, Old Mrs. Tian would keep her house warm so that it would not be cold inside.
Tian Tian changed her clothes and went back to the kitchen. Old Mrs. Tian and Chen Guihua were also up and were lighting a fire to prepare some food for them.
"What happened to you?" The door of the hut was suddenly opened, and Tian Lijuan came out of the hut with a cotton-padded jacket on her body, looking sleepy. She was shocked to see Tian Tian standing in front of her, "Tian Tian? Didn't you go back to your grandma's house? Why are you back at this time?"
When Tian Tian saw Tian Lijuan, she remembered that Tian Lijuan should bring Fang Zhizhi and Fang Zhenzhen back to visit her parents' home today.
"Happy New Year, auntie!" Tian Tian did not forget to greet Tian Lijuan.
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year!" Tian Lijuan said perfunctorily and pulled Tian Tian into the kitchen. She was even more surprised to see that Tian Lisong's family had all returned.
"What happened? Why did you come back so late at night?"
She had been idle all day since she came back today, and was so tired at night that she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow. It was only when Tian Tian and the others came back and made too much noise that she was woken up.
"Tian Tian, come here. I've poured water for you. I've put two slices of ginger in it. Go and soak your feet to get rid of the cold!" Old Mrs. Tian called Tian Tian to soak her feet. When she saw Lin Meiyu coming over to talk to Tian Lijuan, Tian Tian went over.
Lin Meiyu didn't say much to Tian Lijuan. She just said a few simple words and pushed Tian Lijuan, who was wearing thin clothes, to go to bed.
Seeing that there were so many people in the fire house, Tian Juan knew that she was no shortage of people, so she went back to the fire house to sleep.
Tian Tian took off her shoes and put her feet in the basin, feeling extremely comfortable in the hot water.
"Have you all soaked your feet?"
"I'll light a fire here and it won't be cold. Your brother has already soaked his feet, so your mother and I can soak our feet before going to bed." Tian Lisong said as he helped Old Lady Tian light the fire.
"You guys are such idiots. What's wrong with staying at your mother's house for one night? You're running back and forth with your child in the middle of winter. What if the child gets frozen and gets hurt? You'll regret it then!"
While mumbling, Old Mrs. Tian poured a bowl of ginger soup for Tian Tian, and then scooped out two other bowls and put them aside. Then she sprinkled some cornmeal into the remaining ginger soup in the pot and stirred it into a paste.
"You two should wake up Tian Zhuo later and give him a bowl of ginger soup. Drink it before going to sleep. Otherwise, he will catch a cold easily if he sleeps outside all the way."
Tian Tian looked at the ginger soup and sighed. She really hated the taste of ginger. However, she was very cold outside today, so she drank the ginger soup in one breath.
Lin Meiyu brought the bowl of ginger soup that Old Lady Tian specially prepared for her and asked me to wake up Tian Zhuo.
Tian Zhuo was indeed tired today. After being woken up, he kept whimpering and trying to sleep. Tian Tian could hear Tian Zhuo crying in the west room even from the fire room.
Tian Tian sighed. It was no wonder that Tian Zhuo cried. He walked for eight hours without rest today. Even she, an adult, could not bear it, not to mention that Tian Zhuo was only eight years old this year.
If she fell asleep and someone woke her up, she would cry.
Cornmeal porridge is very quick to make and can be eaten as soon as it is rolled.
Old Mrs. Tian served them each a bowl and said, "Eat quickly, so you can go to bed after you finish eating."
Tian Tian finished the bowl of porridge and went back to her room to sleep.
She was confident that she would not get sick, because she had never been sick in her previous life. In this life, she was only sick for a few days when she first came here, and she has not been sick for three years.
As a result, Tian Tian slapped herself in the face in the middle of the night. She was sleeping on a warm kang and covered with a thick quilt, but she always felt hot and cold all over.
She even felt that someone opened her door at dawn, but Tian Tian locked her door tightly every night. The person just twitched a few times and left without opening it.
Tian Tian didn't know how long she slept there. She vaguely heard someone outside calling her and asking her to open the door.
Tian Tian had a very uncomfortable sleep, but when she heard the noise she still got up and opened the door for them.
It was only two steps from the kang to the door, but Tian Tian walked crookedly and almost fell to the ground several times.
As soon as the door was opened, a cold wind blew in her face. When she entered the room, Lin Meiyu saw Tian Tian standing at the door wearing only autumn clothes and autumn pants. She was anxious and angry, and pushed Tian Tian into the house, "Are you cold? You come to open the door so young? Go lie down in the quilt!"
As a result, when she touched Tian Tian's hand, she found something was wrong. Tian Tian's body was very hot, and Lin Meiyu felt that she could boil eggs in it.
"Don't you know that you have a fever? How dare you come out wearing so little when you are sick? Go under the quilt and sweat it out. I'll go get you a bowl of ginger soup!" Lin Meiyu felt very guilty. She hurriedly stuffed Tian Tian into the quilt and went out to get the ginger soup.
Last night she felt that Tian Zhuo's quilt was particularly hot. When she touched it, she found out that Tian Zhuo had a fever. Tian Yuan lived in the same room with them. As a soldier, he had good physique, so it was nothing serious after being outside in the cold all day. He was just tired and snoring loudly.
Lin Meiyu woke Tian Zhuo up and gave him a bowl of ginger soup. She put on her clothes and prepared to go to Tiantian's room to take a look.
As a result, Tian Tian slept soundly that night and did not hear her knocking on the door, and the door was locked tightly.
Lin Meiyu thought that Tian Tian hadn't been sick much in the past two years and she shouldn't have a fever this time, so she didn't pay much attention to it and went back to the room.
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