Chapter 41 This Year
We had to get up tonight, so we all went to bed early.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Xiao Qinyun got up, kissed his wife and Tangyuan, slowly got out of bed, put on his clothes, took the coal and money and went to the back room.
He knocked on the door of the bedroom on the left, where Feng Yuan and Ke Bin lived. The two of them were about to leave the room, and the three of them met up and left the courtyard.
When we arrived at the coal station, there was already a queue of more than ten people.
Feng Yuan lined up first, Xiao Qinyun and Ke Bin found a place to squat in the shelter from the wind. Half an hour later, Ke Bin lined up, and half an hour later, Xiao Qinyun lined up.
Several people took turns queuing up like this, and by the time the coal station opened at 8 o'clock, there were already more than a hundred people in the queue.
At 8:30, Xiao Qinyun and his two companions brought the coal back and piled it into a small hill in front of the west wing.
Qiao Qinglu had already gotten up. She came out holding some dumplings to greet them. Aunt Qiu and the others had not returned from buying cabbage yet.
Xiao Qinyun and the others were covered in coal dust. After saying something to Qiao Qinglu, they went to transport soil again.
After a while, Master Wang came with his apprentices, and Aunt Qiu and the others also brought back the cabbages.
Aunt Qiu led He Linqing, Zhou Xiaohai, Wang Xiaoying and Miao Jinfeng to dry cabbages in the inner courtyard. Master Wang and others started to break the ground and fix the pipes. Qiao Qinglu brought the three children into the space.
The three kids are still very young and rarely awake. They just eat and sleep, and then eat and sleep.
Qiao Qinglu prepared milk powder for Mantou and Doubao, fed Tangyuan breast milk, then burped them, changed their diapers, and talked to them for a while, and they fell asleep.
Seeing that it was still early, Qiao Qinglu set an alarm and continued to do exercises on her space while accompanying her child.
When you are immersed in something, time flies by. After feeding the baby again, it was already noon.
Qiao Qinglu brought the three babies out, changed their diapers, and then wrapped them high with quilts on both sides before opening the door.
The coal mountain in the inner courtyard had disappeared. It had all been made into honeycomb coal and piled against the wall near the west wing. The bluestone slabs had also been washed clean.
The hundreds of kilograms of cabbage bought are neatly stacked in the northwest, northeast and southeast corners of the inner courtyard. They will be dried for a few days before they can be put into the cellar for easy storage.
I went to see the two side rooms again. The floor pits had been dug out. All that was left was to connect the water pipes and do some repairs. Then I could customize the bathroom cabinets.
When Xiao Qinyun saw Qiao Qinglu coming out, he went up to her and asked about the babies' situation in the morning.
Qiao Qinglu told him that everything was fine, the babies were sleeping now, and there was a wall of quilts next to them, so he didn't need to worry.
For safety reasons, Xiao Qinyun stayed in the room to look after the children, while the others ate first and then replaced him later.
In the afternoon, Xiao Qinyun was preparing to go to the black market. He didn't plan to bring Feng Yuan and the others with him. He left them at home and went to find Brother Yong alone.
After a while, Xiao Qinyun led several of Yong Ge's brothers and brought back two carts of coal and several carts of vegetables such as cabbage, potatoes, radishes, onions, beans, etc. They also brought back 6 coal stoves, 6 bathtub-sized clay pots and some vegetable seeds.
They were divided into three groups. One group unloaded the coal first, then transported soil to make honeycomb coal; one group gathered the cabbages in the inner yard to the north, freeing up the southeast corner for unloading the cabbages; the remaining group hung other vegetables in the outer yard to dry.
I bought so many vegetables that I had to clean the area at the door, lay a layer of plastic film, and hang the vegetables at the door to dry.
At this time of year, every household in the north is buying vegetables for winter storage and drying them in the sun, so there are vegetables drying in front of everyone’s doorsteps. This is a rare sight to see.
After everything was done, Xiao Qinyun took out some orange soda and handed it to them to quench their thirst, and also gave each of them a pack of Daqianmen as a thank you.
Qiao Qinglu was also quite satisfied with the clay pots.
She asked Master Wang to drill a few holes, fill them with soil, and when no one was paying attention, she sneaked some space soil in and mixed it evenly. Then she buried the seeds. Finally, she asked a few young men to move the pots and coal stove into the empty room in the west wing.
After finishing these things, Qiao Qinglu asked Xiao Qinyun about his next research topic. Xiao Qinyun planned to study refrigerators and freezers.
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