Chapter 824: Chapter 824 Cool Day_1
Fan Linong took the postal relay to Capital City to deliver the message, and he arrived swiftly.
Then Emperor Yongan replied quickly: “Feasible.”
However, the little carriage was left behind and not returned.
Faced with this situation, Qiao Xiaomai had nothing to say. If Emperor Yongan wanted it, she could only give it.
Next came a busy time. Every part of the little carriage was meticulously crafted, and the specifications had to be uniform, as if they were produced on an assembly line. If a part broke, it had to be replaced with a part of the exact same specifications.
With this, the guards, who were somewhat lackadaisical before, suddenly became earnest.
Different parts were priced according to their difficulty, and Qiao Xiaomai’s inspections were strict. If the specifications weren’t correct, there would be no payment.
Qiao Xiaomai was generous with her payments. As Imperial Guards, they had to make sure the money reached their pockets; otherwise, it would damage the prestige of the Imperial Guards.
The guard team worked with fiery enthusiasm. The days when they were bored out of their minds during their downtime were gone. The most expensive part was the wheel, twenty coins each! With quick hands, one could make ten in a day—that was two hundred coins!
With the guards being quick, Tong Sanlang, Qiao Xiaomai, and Qiao Changshun got busy. They were responsible for assembling all the different parts together.
They couldn’t afford to be careless, as these children’s carriages were sold to noble families. Should any quality issues arise while a noble child was riding one, he and Tong Sanlang wouldn’t be able to bear the consequences.
However busy they were, Tong Sanlang still found time to teach Qiao Dami martial arts.
This self-defense technique was essential to learn.
He also set a task for Qiao Dami: practice the fist sequence ten times a day and run five laps around the manor walls to build physical strength first.
Days slipped by in the bustle, and after a rain, the weather completely cooled down.
The refreshing days of autumn were gone, and winter was on its way.
With the rain, the bustling days paused.
Qiao Xiaomai got a small iron pot and had Tong Sanlang set up a simple stove. She placed the iron pot on it and poured in the sheep’s milk that Tong Sanlang had squeezed from the Tong Family’s new residence the day before, along with almonds, and started to cook them together.
The small kitchen in the Warehouse was just covered with a shed and wasn’t fitted with doors or windows. Now a chill wind blew through the fabric, piercing their skin thread by thread.
She couldn’t help but shiver.
“Are you cold?” Tong Sanlang had been sitting in front of the window reading but glanced over to see her shivering and quickly set aside his book.
“A bit,” Qiao Xiaomai tightened her clothes around her.
Despite the fire, it was still cold. She couldn’t help but ask Tong Sanlang, “How cold does winter get?” Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs novel·fıre·net
In the original host’s memory, because of poverty and lack of warm clothing, winter was as harsh as hell.
But the original host’s memories weren’t reliable; she had to ask Tong Sanlang.
Tong Sanlang took out a coat and draped it over her, saying, “Well… it’s quite cold.”
The Tong Family wasn’t poor, and they could afford to wear fur in winter, but in his memory, winter was still cold.
The houses weren’t airtight, and wind would leak through the door cracks. As Zhu Hongyun would say, there was a draft everywhere, and apart from huddling around the fire or hiding under the quilts, there was no escape.
“Sometimes it snows so much that the snow piles up to the thigh, but normally it reaches the knee.”
Drawing from the original host’s memories of winter days, she shivered involuntarily again.
“We can start researching the heated brick bed,” she grabbed onto Tong Sanlang’s arm.
The cold was everywhere, no place to hide—the thought was too terrifying.
[Not feeling well today, only updating six chapters. I will make up for it depending on how I feel in the next few days. Goodnight everyone!]