"It may be too late to build it, so let's just buy the house next door." The house next door is only two meters away from the Xu family. It is the house of Li the Hunter.
The house is much better than the Xu family's mud house. It is made of blue bricks and tiles, has three rooms and a large kitchen, and can be converted into a living quarters for servants.
It's close, so just make a small door in the middle wall.
"Master, you are right." Xu Ning almost forgot that Li the Hunter's house was next door.
"Master, it's windy outside, please come inside quickly, I'll take Xiaofeng to take a look!"
Xu Ning pulled Xu Feng over the wall and looked inside. He found that except for the mess in the yard, the house could be lived in after cleaning.
Without saying a word, the brother and sister asked some people to come and clean up. As for buying it, they would talk about it tomorrow. Now Li the Hunter was still her subordinate, and he was on the other side of Daqing far away, so there was no rush at all.
It was already dark when Xu Ning finished arranging the servants' accommodation. He returned to the hall. Old Mrs. Gu had gone back before dark. Old Mrs. Xu and Zhang had also prepared dinner, so they would be able to eat soon.
Xu Ning rubbed his hands and stamped his feet in front of the brazier, and rubbed his numb ears.
"Grandma, it's too cold here. I feel like I'm about to freeze to death." Xu Ning said it was cold because there was no kang or floor heating here. They had to rely on primitive braziers to keep warm, which was very inconvenient.
"Just drink some hot soup later." Old Mrs. Xu said perfunctorily.
Zhang glanced at her daughter and signaled her with her eyes to stop talking.
Xu Ning immediately shut his mouth after receiving the signal, and at the same time frantically tagged the treasure chest in his mind.
"Baby, what happened while I was away? Why is my grandma unhappy?"
"Player, Old Lady Xu knows that your second uncle and his family are back."
"What? They're back too? Where are they?"
"She was staying at your second aunt's house and was seen by Old Lady Gu. She told your grandmother."
"Then you keep an eye on it and don't let that family know we're back. If they find out, tell me immediately."
"Good player."
After arranging the treasure chest, Xu Ning immediately found three guards and servants and asked them to keep an eye on Xu Er's family and not let them get close to Old Lady Xu and Old Man Xu.
But the news can't be kept secret for long. It's still half a month away from the Chinese New Year. By then, more people will go to the city, and we'll know the news after a few conversations.
But these are not important. After all, the treasure chest did not include Xu Er's family in the mission, which means they are not important characters. If they are really annoying, just knock them out and send them away to avoid being an eyesore.
Xu Er was holding a piece of fat meat when he suddenly shivered and the fat meat fell on the table.
Seeing this, Xu Er's youngest son immediately grabbed the fat and put it into his mouth and ate it quickly, while at the same time staring at Xu Er for fear that his father would be angry.
As a result, Xu Er was distracted by the trembling and didn't notice the appearance of his youngest son at all.
"What's wrong?" Chen asked her husband. They finally got to eat meat today and everyone was happy. Only Xu Er looked particularly strange.
"I don't know. I suddenly felt panicked just now, as if something bad was going to happen." Xu Er said what he was thinking. Chen frowned after hearing it. Xu Er's words were definitely not groundless, because on the way to escape famine, it was thanks to Xu Er's intuition that their family avoided danger again and again.
"Husband, what's the reason this time?" Chen was also a little flustered. The family had finally come back, were they going to leave again?
Xu Er shook his head and couldn't explain it clearly. For a moment, none of the adults had any appetite, only the youngest son ate half a plate of meat happily.
At the Xu family in Xujia Village, after dinner, everyone washed up and went back to their rooms to rest.
The original Xu family house was a mud-brick house. After the renovation, there was not much change. It only had four rooms plus a hall and kitchen.
There's a chicken coop and a woodshed in the backyard, nothing else.
Fortunately, the bed was big enough. Tonight, the first night, the two horses unloaded the carriage and squeezed into the chicken coop to rest.
Xu Ning and Xu Yuan slept in one room, the Xu brothers slept in one room, and the couple slept in another room.
The servants also slept in a crowded place and could barely fall asleep.
"Aunt Yuan, do you feel that the air you breathe is cold?" Xu Ning curled up her whole body into the quilt, leaving only her head out. She tried to warm her feet with a hot water bottle for a long time but they still didn't warm up, so she tried to move closer to Xu Yuan.
"I'm fine. Ningning, just use your internal energy and you won't be cold anymore." Xu Ning didn't have much internal energy, and she was reluctant to use it for heating. She could only take out another electric blanket and put it directly under the quilt to sleep.
"I wonder if my grandparents are cold over there." Xu Ning muttered.
"No, I tried it when I returned to my room, and both Daddy and Mommy's beds were warm."
Xu Ning didn't need to worry too much about the other two rooms, especially the brothers Xu An and Xu Feng. Boys were like stoves, and they were probably sweating by now.
Xu Ning thought, if the etiquette here did not allow it, she would want Xu Feng to warm up the bed for her before going back.
Because that's what she did when she was a child, and her younger brother, who was a few years younger than her, was her warm blanket every winter.
But actually, you can also use a lot of hot water bottles. It’s just that I’m tired after a day today and I really don’t have that much to prepare.
"Aunt Yuan, I think we can build a kang. It won't take long. Otherwise, if it gets any colder, I'm worried that grandpa and grandma won't be able to bear it."
The drought over the past few years and the floods that killed so many people have resulted in less carbon dioxide and a temperature that is getting colder every year, so cold that Xu Ning feels a little numb.
I didn’t feel it before in the valley, after all, it was in the south.
She didn't notice it during the two years when she was running around because she stayed in the RV with heating.
Xujia Village is the northernmost part of Daqing. The temperature is probably much lower than zero degrees. She went to pee just before going to bed, and her urine froze as soon as it came out. Her buttocks were numb from the cold.
The climate is cold and the environment is poor, so it's no wonder that Xu Ning started to grumble as soon as he arrived in Xujia Village.
Xu Yuan could only lean closer to Xu Ning, letting the heat from his body transfer to her, "Then I'll talk to my parents about the kang tomorrow."
"Hmm..." As his body warmed up, he felt sleepy. Xu Ning said a few more words to Xu Yuan in a daze, and then fell into a deep sleep.
In the Xu brothers' room, Xu An finally couldn't stand it anymore after Xu Feng moved around seven or eight times and kicked him, "Xiao Bao, if you move again I'll throw you out."
"I'm wrong, I'm wrong, big brother. Don't I feel hot and cold and can't sleep?!" Xu Feng quickly admitted his mistake.
"If you don't lie down and move around, you'll be hot and cold!"
"No, brother, I just felt cold lying down, and I was still cold after lying down for a long time."
"Oh..." Xu An sighed. He knew what Xu Feng meant by "cold". It meant that the bed was not warm enough and it was freezing.
"If you move around, it will take longer for the heat to build up. Stop moving. We can find someone to build a kang tomorrow."
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