Then I looked at my own daughter, at the shiny black sleeves of her little jacket, and her chapped little face from the cold.
I thought to myself that I should wash my child's face properly from now on, otherwise, if we put them together, her daughter will look like she was raised by a stepmother.
Less than five days after the bath, it started snowing. It was already December, and the Lunar New Year was just around the corner.
Ye Xiaoxiao now spends her days either cooking or sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) knitting sweaters.
"What are you doing?" Li Chenyang came in carrying something that looked like an iron tube.
"Set up the stove. It's getting cold. I'll go borrow a tricycle later and bring back two hundred coal briquettes."
From now on, we'll cook things indoors. We'll also make a big wire mesh to put over the stove; we can use that to dry diapers.
Ye Xiaoxiao looked at the coal stove, wondering if it would kill her family of three. What if they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning?
"Then see if you have any of those metal pipes. You can use them to vent the smoke outside. If you leave it like this inside the house, you'll get carbon monoxide poisoning."
That iron stove was brought from the old house. Ye Xiaoxiao mentally asked the system:
[System, how about you issue another mission and reward me with a heater, one with ventilation?]
[Host, your mission isn't complete yet. Let's talk about it after you finish this mission.]
"How much is one of those coal briquettes? Is there a limit?" There's definitely no ban on coal and charcoal now, so if we can buy more, we should.
"It should be three cents each. I'll go and get two hundred first." That's about all the tricycles can carry.
"Why don't you ask if they have that coal?"
Ye Xiaoxiao thought that if there was coal, she would ask the system to make her a whole charcoal stove. This coal stove wasn't warm enough.
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