I went to town and had a bowl of hot noodles, which warmed me up. However, the classroom was also cold, and it became even colder when I sat still. The windows were closed tightly, but the temperature was still low.
Wang Yu wrote and paused, rubbing his hands when they became stiff. Suddenly, he felt heat coming from his hands. He looked up and saw that it was a small copper hand warmer.
Chen Yanwen handed him the hand warmer and asked him to warm himself up. Wang Yu felt warm in his hands. Then he remembered that there was no heating here, but there were things to keep warm. He would go back and buy two later.
After holding it for a while, he gave it back to Chen Yanwen. After all, it was someone else's thing and he couldn't hold it all the time. Chen Yanwen handed it to Song Boyan, and the three of them passed the hand warmer back and forth.
Wang Yu rubbed his hands. He was wearing new cotton shoes so he wasn't cold. He thought it would be nice to have gloves on his hands. He would go back and ask Cheng Chen to sew a pair for him. He turned his head to look at Song Boyan who was standing still and concentrating on writing the article. He thought to himself that he was really amazing. Wang Yu let out a sigh and didn't think about it anymore. He just took it as an exercise of willpower and continued to write the article with his head down.
After Master Song finished teaching the students in the Tongsheng class, he also came to their classroom and took a look around. Maybe because Wang Yu and the others were older, they didn't rub their hands or stamp their feet like the students in the Tongsheng class. Master Song nodded with satisfaction.
After leaving the restaurant in the afternoon, I went to the grocery store to look at hand warmers. When I walked to the shelf where the hand warmers were placed, there were all kinds of hand warmers on the shelf. The most common ones had no patterns at all, while more of them had patterns, such as landscapes, flowers, birds, fish, insects, people, auspicious clouds, etc. Some were colored, some were not, and the shapes were round, oval, and diamond-shaped.
"What kind of food do you need, sir? I can introduce it to you." The shopkeeper looked at Wang Yu standing in front of the hand warmer for a long time and walked forward to ask.
"I need a hand warmer. How much is it?"
"Our most common ones are 200 wen each. Carved ones like this one are 300 to 400 wen each, and the ones with colors are 500 to 600 wen each."
Wang Yu took two painted ones and one unpainted carved one and handed them to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took it and said on the abacus, "The total is 1,500 wen. We have a set of hand warmer covers here. Of course, you can go home and ask your family to make a few covers to prevent burns."
Wang Yu thought that Cheng Chen would definitely make a stove cover, so he didn't buy it. He asked Cheng Chen to make it in the color he liked, so he didn't buy it.
When the shopkeeper heard that he didn't want a cover, he packed up the three hand warmers and handed them to Wang Yu. Wang Yu took them and handed him one or two ounces of silver and five cents of copper coins.
When Wang Yu returned home, he took out the hand warmer. Cheng Chen and Wang's mother were very surprised. They had never used this before, but had only seen it in the shops in the town. They knew that this thing was very expensive. The cheapest one cost several hundred coins, not to mention that this one was painted, which probably cost several hundred more coins.
The Queen Mother was pleased in her heart but she still kept muttering: "Come on, why did you spend money on this? You can just buy it for Achen. I have been here for so many years and it is useless."
In the past, the family's annual silver money was barely enough for Wang Yu to go to school, so there was no spare money to buy these things. But this time, since Wang Yu woke up, he seemed to have become much more sensible. Not only did he find a job in the town, he also went to work in the fields and brought things back from the town from time to time. Wang's mother attributed this to the fact that she had married him and started a family.
Wang Yu: "Mom, this is very useful. It can warm your hands when you do needlework during the day, and it can also warm the quilt in advance at night."
Since it was her son's filial piety, she would never say much, but seeing how much money was spent, she couldn't help but say a few more words.
The two of them burned some charcoal in the kitchen and put it in. It heated up in a moment. Cheng Chen felt the hand warmer and found it was a little hot. He said, "I'll sew a cover for it later so it won't get so hot."
"Achen is really smart. The store owner also told me this today. I'm going to buy some silver charcoal tomorrow. It's more durable."
Speaking of embroidering hand warmer covers, Wang Yu mentioned the idea of sewing gloves and roughly described to them what it was like. There are gloves here, used for keeping warm and for working, but Wang Yu wants the kind with five fingers exposed, so that it is convenient to hold a pen and write.
Wang Yu described it to them and then asked, "Can you do a triple-double?"
Cheng Chen nodded and said yes. There was nothing wrong with sewing gloves for her husband. The Queen Mother said that she could sew with Cheng Chen. Since her son wanted to use them, they should make them as soon as possible.
"Okay, thank you Achen and Mom, you've worked so hard!"
"Why are you so polite, kid?" Mother Wang looked at Wang Yu's expression of thanks and patted him jokingly.
It was still early for dinner, so Cheng Chen and Wang's mother found some cloth and cotton and started making gloves. They measured Wang Yu's hands and made a pair each before dinner. While waiting for Wang's mother to make dinner, Cheng Chen made the second pair. The gloves were filled with only a thin layer of cotton, which would not affect writing.
After dinner, Cheng Chen hurried to make him a stove cover. Although it was not very fine, it was usable. Tomorrow she would make two better ones for her husband, and even embroider them with patterns.
On the second day, Wang Yu brought freshly baked gloves and hand warmers to the academy, waited for Chen Yanwen to come, and gave them the gloves. The two of them looked through them for a long time.
Chen Yanwen: "How did you come up with this idea? I used to wear a wrist wrap, but it was inconvenient to write with, so I stopped using it. How did you know this was possible?"
"As long as it works!" Since it wasn't invented by him, he couldn't explain it in detail. He just said that it was made by his husband.
"Your husband has such skillful hands!" She put the gloves on her own hands and tried writing with a pen. She found that it was not affected at all and her hands were much warmer.
Today I have two stoves and three gloves. My hands are much warmer and I can write much faster.
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