Er Dan turned his head for a glance at the characters "Jingdu Station" and thought to himself, the Capital City really is huge.
And he even saw skyscrapers.
"We should hail a taxi, no need to transfer buses."
Now with their group consisting of the elderly and frail.
They managed to flag down three taxis and headed towards the Courtyard House.
It was also Er Dan and Fang Meiyun’s first time in a taxi.
Through the window, they watched the trees, skyscrapers, and streets flash by outside.
Everything was shrouded in a vast expanse of white.
Er Dan finally understood why Da Bao said they had grown tired of playing in the snow.
The first time might feel novel.
But seeing it every day makes it less special.
The city was really too big.
Sitting in the taxi for quite a long time, they still hadn’t arrived.
Once they reached the area of the Courtyard House, the alley was accessible by car due to the amount of luggage, so the taxi drivers drove them right in.
After paying the fare, Zhao Tianlei quickly opened the gate.
"Come inside, come inside first."
The stove needed to be lit, and so did the kang bed-stove.
The house was quite spacious.
"Brother Shitou, go next door to the aunt’s house to exchange for a piece of honeycomb coal," said Zhao Tianlei, moving swiftly.
Zhao Tianhe got busy in the kitchen, preparing to light the stove.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao took Er Dan to their room.
"Er Dan, this is a kang bed-stove, it’s especially warm to sleep on."
Currently, there are only two kang bed-stoves at home, and Da Bao and Xiao Bao still didn’t know that they would have to share their bedding.
Grandma Fang was advanced in years, and surely she needed to sleep on the kang bed-stove.
When the time came, the kang bed-stove in Da Bao’s room would be for Zhao Xinxin, Fang Meiyun, and Grandma Fang to sleep on.
As for Er Dan, Zhao Tianhe, and Fang Chaoyang, the three of them would squeeze onto one of the big beds, which would suffice with an electric blanket.
"Grandma Fang, you’ll sleep in Da Bao and Xiao Bao’s bed temporarily, I’ll help you heat up the kang, you’ll be warm in no time," said Yun Xiaoxiao, as she and Chaoyang helped their grandmother to Da Bao’s room.
She quickly went to get firewood and began to heat up the kang.
"Da Bao, Xiao Bao, take Er Dan to mom’s room."
There were spare rooms in the house, but without a kang bed-stove or electric blanket in this cold weather, it would be unbearable.
Even after lying there for half a day, one wouldn’t feel warm and would feel like a block of ice.
"Grandma Fang, get on the kang."
Fang Chaoyang and Fang Meiyun didn’t know how to heat the kang and couldn’t help, so Da Li quickly came to assist, asking Zhang Lanhua to sit down and rest for a while.
"Sister-in-law, let me do it."
Zhao Tianlei, who’d gone to exchange the honeycomb coal, had returned and hurried to light the stove.
He immediately started to boil hot water, and Yun Xiaoxiao added cold medicine to the water, but she didn’t give it to Zhang Lanhua to drink.
"Lanhua, you’re pregnant, I’ve added some cold medicine to this water, so you can’t drink it. I’ll make you a separate cup of brown sugar water."
"Sister-in-law, I’m fine."
Having drunk the mixture, everyone eventually felt considerably warmer.
"Grandma Fang, I’ll make you some milk powder to drink and then you can rest awhile."
"Miss Yun, you’ve troubled yourself," said Grandma Fang, lying on the kang, now feeling her body much warmer, truly cozy.
"Grandma, we’ll go out for a meal first, you get some sleep."
"Okay." Having drunk the prepared milk powder, Grandma Fang couldn’t eat anything else.
The group dined at a small restaurant outside, and then Cao Dali took Zhang Lanhua back to their rental place.
Zhao Tianlei and Yun Xiaoxiao took the family, including Grandma Fang, to the bathhouse to bathe.