It feels like I just put on my coat and winter is here in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, Xu Manman still has a space where it is spring all year round, otherwise she would be worried to death just having to get up early every day.
The only thing about living in a bungalow yard that is inferior to a dormitory is that there is no heating.
When renovating the yard, Xiao Jin had thought about getting a small boiler and installing radiators in all three yards, but the boiler had to be burned by someone and could not be left unattended all the time. Under the current circumstances, it was not possible to hire anyone, and the family could not always keep the boiler burning, so this plan was shelved by Xu Manman.
However, when Xiao Jin was building the yard, he reserved pipes in advance so that he could install them whenever the time was right.
But how do we survive the winter now? In fact, in every courtyard, there is a guest room on the left side of the main house, which has a kang. If it is cold in winter, you can move there.
When the temperature reached 0 degrees at night, the brother and sister discussed moving house. Xu Manman moved to the main house, and Chen Ming moved to the guest room next door. Since the farthest distance was only about ten blocks, there were not many things to move, mainly bedding and some daily necessities. They didn't even need to take clothes.
Since they need to heat the kang, the most important thing is firewood. They use it for cooking and boiling water on a daily basis. It was prepared in advance by Jin Zichu before they moved in. There is a lot of it in the kitchen, and the two of them have used most of it in the past few days. However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on it to heat the kang through the winter.
At this time, the benefits of Jin Zichu's friend came to the fore. Chen Ming came forward and asked him to get several thousand kilograms of firewood and some coal, and the storage room was full.
Chen Ming put his hands on his hips and looked at the room full of spoils with great satisfaction. "Now, we don't have to worry about firewood until the end of winter."
Xiao Jin's kang is well built and has very good heat-gathering and heat-insulating effects. When the kang is lit in the room, it becomes warm immediately. She only needs to wear light clothes when reading or knitting in the room. The kang is heated very evenly, and there is no situation where the head of the kang is particularly hot and the tail of the kang has no heat.
Chen Mingcai slept for a night, and when he got up early the next day, he boasted about this to Xu Manman. The kang in his previous room at the educated youth site was crude, did not retain heat and wasted firewood, but now he did not need to add extra firewood all night.
Now he sleeps comfortably, but Xiao Jin is a little depressed. Due to the limited space, the main room only has a bathroom and no large dressing room. Xu Manman usually doesn't let him enter the bathroom, which results in more than an hour less time to spend with the host every night.
In order to coax it, Xu Manman had to try to return to the space earlier every night. After all, it was cold now, so it was normal to go to bed early.
Now that sleeping is taken care of, there is still one more painful thing in winter, which is commuting.
When it is coldest in the morning and evening, the two of them have to ride their bicycles in the cold wind. The airflow generated during riding can penetrate directly into the bones through the outer clothes, and there is also the risk of freezing the faces facing the cold wind.
When they ride their bikes now, they both wear military coats, Lei Feng hats that cover their ears, and their mouths and noses are wrapped tightly with scarves pulled high. At the beginning, they wore woolen gloves knitted by Xu Manman. These things have a good warmth-keeping effect, but they are windy, and it is the same as not wearing anything when riding a bike.
Later, the two went to the department store and bought a pair of leather gloves each, which completely solved the problem of riding a bicycle.
The warmth-keeping effect was achieved in all aspects, but it was indeed not very beautiful. Every time Xu Manman put it on and looked in the mirror, she felt like a bear.
The dormitories at Peking University and Tsinghua University have heating, but the classrooms and libraries do not. Sitting in the classroom during class is like sitting in an ice cellar. The library is even worse, with drafts everywhere in the spacious space.
I don't know how Jin Zichu and Chen Ming discussed it, but Chen Ming told Xu Manman that day,
"Manman, from now on Mondays when you don't have evening classes, go back to Zichu's house."
Xu Manman blinked. She went there every week. Is it okay to show it openly now?
"In addition to the kang (kang), Zichu's main house also has an iron stove. If it works better than a radiator, I've told him that from now on, you can go over there on Monday nights. I'll pick you up after class."
Xu Manman certainly had no objection to this proposal, "I'll just listen to my cousin."
So from that day on, Xu Manman openly moved into Jin Zichu's Qingbei courtyard.
But the first time she walked in, she fell in love with the iron stove. "This thing is good. No wonder my cousin said your house is warm."
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