Duan Yingying's mother was ultimately living under someone else's roof, and not even a relative's. Although Xiao Yunying and everyone else treated her very kindly, she still lived cautiously, afraid of making a mistake that would annoy people and be kicked out again.
Xiao Yunying understood her mindset, but after several attempts to persuade her failed, she stopped trying to console her.
After staying for a few days, they felt that everyone in the family was very kind and gradually became less reserved.
She was eager to help with as much work as possible, but there wasn't much work to do at home, and since she was staying temporarily, she didn't dare to wander around and mess things up. So she could only work hard every day to shovel snow, move firewood, and do physical labor that wouldn't cause any mistakes.
Not only did he work hard during the day, but he also often came out to shovel snow at night, which Luo Sheng caught him doing several times. He was even more frequent than Luo Sheng himself.
Xiao Yunying still couldn't persuade her, so she let her be. After all, there was nothing to do during the day, and she could catch up on sleep in her room after dinner.
Five or six days later, the snow finally showed signs of stopping.
The sky began to clear up around noon that day, and it didn't snow again until the afternoon.
The wind wasn't strong that night, and Xiao Yunying couldn't hear the howling wind outside when she lay down, which made her feel a little uncomfortable for a while.
When she got up the next day, she first looked at the sky outside. It was a bit cloudy, but it wasn't snowing.
"Luo Sheng, do you think this snow is over?"
Luo Sheng finished dressing and said, "I'll go out and take a look."
"good."
After Luo Sheng left the room, Xiao Yunying found a set of undergarments to change into. It was hot inside, and she would sweat even when sleeping on the heated kang.
She had just taken off her clothes, wiped herself with a cloth, changed into a new undergarment, and was tying the straps behind her back when the door was suddenly flung open.
Xiao Yunying quickly turned her back and hugged herself: "Who is it? Why didn't you knock before coming in? Get out!"
Luo Sheng was stunned for a moment, and only reacted after hearing her urgent rebuke: "I...I'm sorry."
He stammered an apology, quickly closed the door, and left.
Xiao Yunying touched her arm; the cold wind that had blown in when the door was opened had given her goosebumps.
She quickly got dressed, opened the door, and saw Luo Sheng standing at the door with his head down, looking like a child who had done something wrong.
Upon seeing him like this, her anger subsided by half.
"Come in."
Luo Sheng came in and closed the door: "Sorry, I forgot to knock."
He didn't expect that Xiao Yunying would change her clothes in the room in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea after he left. He was usually very considerate and would always knock on the door when Xiao Yunying was alone in the room.
Xiao Yunying also felt that there was a high probability that he didn't do it on purpose: "It's also my fault for not locking the door... Let's not talk about this. Is there something you need that made you come back so urgently?"
Luo Sheng took out a piece of paper: "A letter has arrived from the border to thank you, and... take a look for yourself."
Xiao Yunying read the contents of the letter: "Grain and wine?"
She thought for a moment: "Could it be that Yuan Cheng sent someone to deliver this?"
"He was the only one who sent it along with the medicinal herbs." Luo Sheng's tone was slightly sour. "Besides the Chen family, who are so wealthy and powerful, no one else would be so kind."
Xiao Yunying sat in front of the dressing table, combing her hair: "This is a good thing, why do you look like that?"
Luo Sheng said, feigning reluctance, "No, I'm quite happy."
The border issue has been resolved by the higher authorities, and Xiao Yunying is now more concerned about the local weather conditions than that.
"How's the weather? Will it snow again?"
Luo Sheng said, "The dark clouds have mostly dispersed, so it's unlikely to rain again."
Xiao Yunying sighed, "It's finally stopped. This snow has been falling on and off for more than half a month. I've never seen such heavy snow before."
Luo Sheng said in a deep voice, "I have never seen this before either. I'm afraid someone might use this as an excuse to cause trouble and create more problems."
Xiao Yunying put down the comb and used a hairpin to tie her hair up: "It's just abnormal weather. I've seen hail in summer and thunder in winter. Nature is amazing and beyond human control. Although the chances of out-of-season weather phenomena are small, they do happen. Why always blame it on people?"
Luo Sheng was somewhat surprised: "Hail in the summer? I've never even heard of that. If it happened here, I wonder what kind of rumors would spread."
Xiao Yunying straightened her hair and turned to look at him: "The environment here is very good, without any pollution. Although the technology is advanced thousands of years later, the environmental pollution that followed has caused many animals and plants in this space to become extinct, and the ecological environment has been destroyed... Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I said so much."
Luo Sheng felt a little upset when the conversation stopped halfway through: "Please continue. If I don't understand, you can explain it to me."
"How long will that take? Let's go, let's go." She pushed Luo Sheng out of the house: "Let's go wash up together, and then go have breakfast."
Luo Sheng smiled helplessly and let her push him to fetch water to wash up.
After finishing her meal, Xiao Yunying took a few cloth bags back to her room and started emptying salt from the supermarket.
When Luo Sheng returned, she had already filled several cloth bags with salt: "Luo Sheng, you know how to use your lightness skill, so spread this salt around our house, the farmhands, and the greenhouse. The snow will melt faster that way."
Luo Sheng grabbed a handful of fine salt and exclaimed in shock, "Use fine salt to melt snow? Do you know how rare this fine salt is?"
"Don't be reluctant." Xiao Yunying gently tied a knot in the cloth bag: "I have already handed over the method for purifying refined salt. It will just take some time for it to be popularized. In the future, everyone will have refined salt to eat. Besides, the salt in my supermarket will be automatically replenished. It's not like we'll run out of salt after using this."
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