Su Yan sat with the triplets at Lu's house for a while, and then used a rope to pull the three of them together and slowly walked back.
The aunts and uncles in the military compound all smiled like aunts, "Comrade Xiao Su, you're taking the triplets for a walk."
"Well, take them out for a walk."
"Or do you have an idea? Tie a colorful rope to each of their arms, and then the three little lambs will follow you obediently. Seeing how steady they are after being beaten, they should be able to walk a long time ago, right?"
"Well, he'll be gone in eleven months."
When the triplets were born, they were obviously much smaller than their older brother, but they learned to walk earlier than their older brother. The triplets could take a few steps by holding on to the coffee table at ten months old, and could walk alone at eleven months old. Her eldest baby did not learn to walk until he was one year and two months old.
Now they are fourteen months and eleven days old, and they can walk a few hundred meters slowly without any problem. It's not that multiple babies are born with a lighter birth weight than single babies, and that they will be weaker when they grow up.
It took Su Yan more than ten to twenty minutes to get home from her husband's house with her child, stopping and walking along the way.
When she got home, she gave each child a peeled egg and a bottle of milk powder, and there was also a plate of peeled apples on the coffee table.
"You three sit at the coffee table and eat. Mommy needs to clean up."
The three little babies nodded, sat obediently on the little stool, took a bite of egg and drank a sip of milk powder.
Su Yan first went to clean Lu Yiming's room, took off the sheets and mattress and threw them into the space fully automatic washing machine, and replaced them with a set of clean bedding.
Su Yan was busy when she heard a voice outside the house calling, "Xiao Su, the coal briquettes seller is here. Does your family need any coal briquettes?"
Su Yan came out of the room with a feather duster. Lu Yining, who was eating milk powder, looked up and was suddenly startled when he saw his mother holding a feather duster. "Mom, don't hit my brother."
Su Yan found it a little funny. The little guy thought she was hitting their eldest brother with a feather duster.
"Mom doesn't hit my brother."
Su Yan walked out of the house and said, "Auntie Wang, they brought a few carts of coal briquettes here."
"We've pulled several carts. How many coal briquettes do you want?"
The balcony is so small, and the big box for coal briquettes can only hold about 400 briquettes at most. There are still some left inside, so I might as well take 360 briquettes this time.
"Auntie Wang, I need to look after the child. Could you please bring me three hundred pieces of coal?"
"Two hundred briquettes are enough for our family. My son brings home a bundle of firewood every day. We save these briquettes for when it gets colder."
Aunt Wang went downstairs and asked someone to bring up coal briquettes. Su Yan asked them to put the coal briquettes in a large wooden box on the balcony.
A 25-kilogram coal briquette ticket only includes 45 coal briquettes, and each coal briquettes costs 3.5 cents. Su Yan took out eight coal briquette tickets from the notebook, took out 12.60 yuan and handed them to the coal briquette seller.
Then lock the big wooden box to prevent the coal briquettes from being stolen.
It seemed like it snowed heavily for ten days during the Spring Festival this year. Su Yan suddenly remembered that there were snow disasters in many places in the winter of 1969, and it snowed in Beijing for more than a month.
The coal briquettes at home were definitely not enough. She originally planned to buy a few hundred more, but there was no place to put them at home after she bought them, and she couldn't put the coal briquettes in the room in front of everyone.
It seems that the only option is to ask Lu Ting to buy more coal briquettes and send them to the Siheyuan. When the time comes, he can go to the Siheyuan to collect rent and then find a way to get the coal briquettes back into the space.
It is cold in winter, and it takes five or six coal balls to burn in a coal stove every day. If you want to cook something, you need at least seven or eight coal balls a day.
When it’s cold, she can take the triplets and Lu Ting into the space, but what about Lu Yiming?
She wanted to take her children back to live in the courtyard house. She had visited the house and found two rooms in the main courtyard with kangs, but she wondered if they could be used.
But if she goes back to live, Lu Ting can't go, and she has to take care of four children by herself, and cook for them and heat the kang. She will be even more tired without anyone to help.
At home, Lu Ting can help with cooking, washing dishes and cleaning. She just needs to throw the dirty clothes into the washing machine. There are washing machines in many rooms in the villa.
In the evening, Lu Ting brought Lu Yiming back. Su Yan brought the food to the table and placed three small bowls on the coffee table. She let the triplets sit at the coffee table and eat with spoons.
"Lu Ting, this winter will be very cold, and there might be a snowstorm. Let's store some coal briquettes!"
"Yan Yan, where did you hear this news?"
"Do you believe me when I say I'm dreaming?"
Lu Ting is not stupid. If something as magical as space exists, what Yanyan said must be true.
"My mother bought 600 coal briquettes today. I asked her to store more firewood tomorrow."
"Find someone to exchange some coal briquettes for tickets, and have them deliver 2,000 briquettes to the courtyard. Also, inform my parents to stock up on more briquettes and buy more firewood this year."
With such a large family, they definitely need to heat the kang when it gets cold in winter, so they definitely use a lot of firewood. They have to buy coal briquettes and firewood as well.
"Okay, I'll take care of all of this."
While eating, Su Yan looked at the three little guys on the coffee table. They actually grabbed the vegetables that they couldn't dig with their hands.
Well, it's good that the food can be eaten. At least she doesn't have to feed them one by one. She doesn't have the energy to chase after three children to feed them. Isn't it good for the children to eat on their own? It's just that the pocket clothes are a bit wasteful. Each person has to change two or three sets a day.
After the children fell asleep, Su Yan asked Lu Ting to go to the barren mountains to cut wood. It was always good to chop more firewood to have on hand.
Lu Ting cut down two chinaberry trees and a pine tree, and Su Yan used a sack to pick up three bags of dry pine needles for starting a fire.
"Let's chop down three trees today and a few more tomorrow at noon. Let's burn all this wood into charcoal! We can use it for warming ourselves on cold days, and we can use the coal stove for cooking. It's not very convenient to cook on the balcony when it's cold."
This winter will definitely be very cold. If it snows for a month, even though her balcony is semi-enclosed, snow will still fall on it. It will definitely not be very convenient to cook on the balcony on a snowy day. She can only cook in the living room using a coal stove.
Put charcoal in a basin and place it on the grill, then the whole family can gather around the grill and warm themselves by the fire.
The cafeteria did have dozens of boxes of smokeless barbecue charcoal left. She couldn't possibly use that charcoal for a fire! Every box of smokeless charcoal she used was one less, and it would be a waste to use it for a fire.
But she had no one at home to burn firewood. What if the open flames burned the bedding on the grill? She asked Lu Ting to chop down a few more trees in the space and bring them to the cafeteria to burn into charcoal.
The next day at work, Lu Ting told his father that this winter was particularly cold and asked him to prepare more coal briquettes and firewood.
Although Lu Fengnian didn't quite believe what Lu Ting said about the snowstorm this year, when he thought about the two new granddaughters in the family, he really needed to prepare more firewood, otherwise the diapers and clothes would not be able to dry.
He asked Lu Jin to go up the mountain to pick up a few more loads of firewood while he was resting, find someone to exchange them for coal briquettes tickets, and have someone deliver 500 coal briquettes.
He thought that with a thousand briquettes at home, he could get through the winter, no matter how cold it was. Of course, his son had to go to work and had no time to continue collecting firewood, so he went to the farm to borrow a cart, took his axe and went up the mountain to chop wood. He was busy all afternoon and brought back a cart full of firewood.
When the neighbors saw that Commander Lu brought back so much firewood, they followed his example and went up the mountain to collect firewood.
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