My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 22
On the other side, Aunt Wang hurried back home with two buckets of milk powder.

"Mom, you're back." It was Aunt Wang's daughter-in-law Zheng Yan who spoke.

Zheng Yan occasionally brings a pair of young children to stay with her mother-in-law for a period of time, so that the children can get closer to their grandmother, and at the same time pay attention to the physical condition of the elderly.

Aunt Wang's real name is Wang Xiujuan. Originally, she and her wife lived in her son's house. After all, the old couple was only such a son.

Only later, Wang Xiujuan's wife accidentally slipped in the bathroom. Because it was found too late, she was not rescued in the end.

Afterwards, Wang Xiujuan always blamed herself, and because she was unwilling to be hurt by the scene, she insisted on moving out and lived in the Champs Aristocratic Community by herself.

"Xiao Zheng, Mom bought milk powder."

When Zheng Yan heard this, she quickly stuck out her head from the kitchen and said in surprise, "Mom, where did you buy it?"

Wang Xiujuan put the milk powder on the sofa, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and replied:
"Aunt Zhang, who I introduced to you before, remember? It's the old Zhang who has triplets at home!"

As soon as the triplets were mentioned, Zheng Yan suddenly realized: "I remembered, does their family live in the courtyard next to them?"

"Yes, it's their house. I just came out of their house."

Zheng Yan wiped her hands, stepped forward, picked up a can of milk powder and looked at it, she said in surprise, "Hey, why is it still a foreign brand?"

"Isn't it normal for their family to drink imported milk powder?"

"Mom, that's not what I meant. Foreign milk powder is not always good, and some milk powder formulas are not suitable for us in Daxia." Zheng Yan explained patiently.

Wang Xiujuan was suddenly unhappy. The milk powder she had worked so hard to find was actually rejected, so she asked with a stern face:
"Then what do you say, do you want me to go back?"

"Mom, that's not what I meant."

Zheng Yan hurriedly denied it, and then said her thoughts: "We are not familiar with this milk powder brand, why don't we ask someone first?"

Wang Xiujuan felt that there was no need to make a fuss, but since her daughter-in-law insisted, she could not object, so she suggested:
"Upstairs in our house, the son of your auntie's house, I heard that he works as a manager in a big supermarket. He must know this brand. Let's go to his house and ask."

"Okay!" Zheng Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, Wang Xiujuan sat on the sofa with her little granddaughter in her arms, with a proud face:
"I told you earlier that if the family is not short of money, how could it be possible for the child to drink milk powder in question."

Zheng Yan smiled along with the milk powder.

After all, it was her who was at a loss. The milk powder is a good milk powder, and the brand is also a big name, but it has always been a boutique route in China, and it is not very famous.

……

In Yanjing in winter, it gets dark very early.

Just after six o'clock, Xu Dong took out the fully charged outdoor light, and it was broken when he pressed the switch.

I can only give up my luck and light a candle obediently.

Mother Xu is cooking dinner on the alcohol stove, one stove for cooking, the other for cooking, and the speed is not much slower than usual.

"Mom, is this brightness enough, not enough for me to order a few more."

At least a thousand candles were hoarded in the underground warehouse, and Xu Dong didn't feel distressed when he lit it.

"Enough, Mommy's eyes are fine!"

After Ma Xu waved the spatula, she thought Xu Dong was in the way and drove him out of the kitchen.

Idle is also idle, Xu Dong took out two boxes of charcoal from the warehouse, a total of nearly 100 pounds, ready to burn the fireplace in the living room in advance.

The fireplace is the original design of the house.

The original owner of the courtyard may have been influenced by a special era. Not only a fireplace was built in the living room, but also a heated kang was built in one of the bedrooms.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

The twins who were playing quickly noticed their father's movements and gathered around them all at once. Even Dad Xu was holding Dabao to watch the fun.

"Dad is lighting the fire, you two stay away, this is not fun." Xu Dong reminded.

The twins took two steps back when they heard this. The teachers in the school taught that children should not play with fire.

Dad Xu asked, "Where did you get the charcoal?"

"I bought it a few years ago. I originally planned to have a family BBQ, but I never had time. It just happened that the air conditioner couldn't be turned on tonight, so it didn't come in handy." Xu Dong explained.

February in Yanjing is still very cold, the temperature at night can reach as low as minus ten degrees, and the night without heating is really painful.

"What kind of charcoal is this, can it be resistant to burning, and how big is the fire?" Xu Dad asked again.

"Looking at the packaging, it is made of machine-made charcoal, which is characterized by a large fire and should be very resistant to burning."

Xu Dong stacked several pieces of charcoal on top of each other, then dug up a large spoonful of solid alcohol and placed it at the bottom, and finally lit it with a lighter.

The flames ignited with a bang.

In less than 10 minutes, a raging flame was ignited in the fireplace, and the temperature in the hall suddenly rose.

The two Coco sisters took off their gloves one after another, and they squatted side by side in front of the fireplace to bake the fire, their comfortable eyes almost narrowed.

Dad Xu smiled and praised: "This fireplace is well designed, and I won't be afraid of freezing in the future when the power goes out."

Dinner is eaten in the living room, after all, it is much warmer than the dining room.

Xu Dong fed Dabao a small piece of tofu, turned his head and suggested to Xu Ma, "Mom, let's make a floor in the living room at night, it's too cold in the room."

"Play the floor? Is it alright? Don't catch a cold."

Xu Ma was a little worried. In Daxia's traditional concept, sleeping on the ground is easily eroded by cold air, which is not good for your health.

"Okay, why not?"

Xu Dong went on to explain: "If you are worried that the floor is too cold, you can put a sponge mat on the floor. If it still doesn't work, put a few more layers of quilts on it. How to get warm, it's impossible to freeze."

"Mom, what Dongzi said is reasonable. Besides, Dabao and the others are too young to be frozen, so you don't worry about leaving them alone in the living room, right?"

Yang Lina also agrees with sleeping in the living room. Their whole family is from the South, and they really can't stand the night without air conditioning.

The temperature of minus ten degrees makes people shudder to think about it.

"Well, I'll sleep in the living room tonight." Xu Ma finally agreed, mainly because she was worried about the triplets.

After dinner, the family began to decorate the living room.

Mother Xu first scrubbed the entire floor again, and then wiped it with a dry towel.

Next is the bedding quilt, with a total of four layers, a layer of sponge pads, a layer of blankets, and two layers of quilts.

In addition, everyone is a separate quilt, covered with two quilts, and the quilts are also clamped with large clips to prevent air leakage.

The triplets' crib was placed in the middle of the floor, just to separate the quilts of Xu Dong and his wife and Xu's father and Xu's mother, so as to avoid embarrassment.

"Coco, Lele, are you two cold?" Yang Lina asked again before going to bed.

"It's not cold at all, but the quilt is too thick and a little heavy."

Cocoa supported the quilt with her hands.

"Don't move around, sleep well, you won't feel heavy when you fall asleep." Xu Ma coaxed.

"understood……"

In this way, the Xu Dong family spent the first night of the blackout.

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