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 children to live 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, and she and her wife originally lived in her son's house, after all, the old couple had such a son.

It was only later that Wang Xiujuan's wife accidentally slipped in the bathroom, because she was found too late, and she was not rescued in the end.

Afterwards, Wang Xiujuan always blamed herself, and she didn't want to touch the scene, so she insisted on moving out and lived alone in the Champs family.

"Xiao Zheng, Mom has bought milk powder."

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

Wang Xiujuan put the milk powder on the sofa, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and then replied:

"Aunt Zhang who introduced you before, do you remember? It's the old Zhang who has triplets at home! ”

As soon as she talked about triplets, Zheng Yan suddenly realized: "I remember, do their families live in the courtyard next to them?" ”

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

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

"Their family is not short of money, isn't it normal to drink some imported milk powder?"

"Mom, I didn't mean that, foreign milk powder is not all good, and some milk powder formulas are not suitable for us Daxia people." Zheng Yan patiently explained.

Wang Xiujuan was suddenly unhappy, the milk powder she worked so hard to find was actually disliked, so she asked with a straight face:

"Then what do you say you should do, 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 find someone to inquire first?" ”

Wang Xiujuan felt that there was no need to make a fuss, but since her daughter-in-law insisted, she was not easy to object, so she proposed:

"Upstairs in our house, your aunt's son, I heard that he is a manager in a big supermarket, he must know this brand, let's go to his house and ask."

"Good!" 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 smug face:

"I told you a long time ago, people are not bad at home, how can they give their children problematic milk powder."

Zheng Yan laughed while rushing at the milk powder.

After all, she is at a loss, the milk powder is a good milk powder, and the brand is also a big brand, but it has always taken the 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 outdoor lights that had been fully charged, and when he pressed the switch, it really broke.

I could only give up the luck mentality and obediently lit the candle.

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

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

There were at least a thousand candles hoarded in the underground warehouse, and Xu Dong didn't feel distressed at all when he lit them.

"That's enough, Mom's eyes are good!"

After Xu Ma finished speaking, she waved the spatula, thinking that Xu Dong was in the way, and kicked 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 catties, and prepared 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, and not only built a fireplace in the living room, but also built a fire kang in one of the bedrooms.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

The twins, who were playing, soon noticed their father's movements and surrounded them all of a sudden, and even Xu's father was holding Dabao to watch the excitement.

"Daddy's lighting the fire, you two stay away, it's not fun." Xu Dong reminded.

The twins took two steps back when they heard this, and the teachers at the school had taught them not to play with fire.

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

"I bought it a year ago, and I was going to have a family BBQ, but I didn't have time. It just so happens that the air conditioner can't be turned on tonight, so this will come in handy. Xu Dong explained.

February in Yanjing is still very cold, and 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, is it resistant to burning, and is it big fire?" Dad Xu asked again.

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

Xu Dong stacked several sticks 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 flame ignited with a "bang".

In less than ten minutes, a raging fire was burning in the fireplace, and the temperature in the hall rose all at once.

The Coco sisters took off their gloves one after another, and the two of them squatted side by side in front of the fireplace to roast the fire, their comfortable eyes narrowing.

Dad Xu praised with a smile: "This fireplace is well designed, and I am not afraid of freezing in the future when the power goes out." ”

Dinner was served in the living room, which was much warmer than the dining room.

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

"Flooring? Okay, don't catch a cold. ”

Mother Xu is a little worried, in the traditional concept of Daxia, sleeping on the ground is easy to be eroded by the cold, which is not good for the body.

"Okay, why not?"

Xu Dong then explained: "If you are worried that the floor is too cold, you can spread a sponge mat on the floor, and if it doesn't work, put a few more layers of quilts, how to warm it, it is impossible to freeze." ”

"Mom, what Dongzi said is reasonable, besides, Dabao and they are too small to be frozen, so you don't have to worry about putting them alone in the living room, right?"

Yang Lina also agrees to sleep in the living room, their whole family is southerner, and they really can't stand the night without air conditioning.

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

"Okay then, I'll sleep in the living room tonight." Xu's mother finally agreed, mainly because she was not worried about the triplets.

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

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

Next is the quilt, a total of four layers of padding, a sponge pad, a blanket, and two quilts.

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

The crib of the triplets was placed in the middle of the bunk, just to separate the bed of Xu Dong and his wife and Xu's father and mother, so as not to be embarrassed.

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

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

Keke put his hand on the bed.

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

"Got it......"

In this way, Xu Dong's family survived the first night of the blackout.