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"It may be too late to build it, so let's just buy the house next door." The house next door is only two meters away from the Xu family. It is the house of Li the Hunter.

The house was much better than the Xu family's mud house. It was made of blue bricks and tiles, had three rooms and a large kitchen, and could be converted into a living quarters for servants.

It’s close, so just make a small door in the middle wall.

"Master, you are right." Xu Ning almost forgot that Li the Hunter's house was next door.

"Master, it's windy outside, please go inside quickly, I'll take Xiaofeng to take a look!"

Xu Ning pulled Xu Feng over the wall and looked inside. They found that except for the yard being a little messy, the house could be lived in after being cleaned up.

The brother and sister asked some people to come and clean up without saying a word. As for buying it, they would talk about it tomorrow. Now Li the Hunter was still her subordinate, and he was on the other side of Daqing far away, so there was no rush at all.

It was already dark when Xu Ning finished arranging the servants' accommodation. He returned to the hall. Old Mrs. Gu had gone back before dark, and Old Mrs. Xu and Zhang had already prepared dinner, so they would be able to eat soon.

Xu Ning rubbed his hands and stamped his feet in front of the brazier, and rubbed his numb ears.

"Grandma, it's too cold here. I feel like I'm about to freeze to death." Xu Ning said cold because there was no kang or floor heating here. They had to rely on primitive braziers to keep warm, which was very inconvenient.

"Just drink some hot soup later." Old Mrs. Xu said perfunctorily.

Zhang glanced at her daughter and signaled her with her eyes to stop talking.

After receiving the signal, Xu Ning immediately shut his mouth, while frantically tagging the treasure chest in his mind.

"Baby, what happened while I was away? Why is my grandma unhappy?"

"Player, Old Lady Xu knows that your second uncle and his family are back."

"What? They're back too? Where are they?"

"She was staying at your second aunt's house. Old Lady Gu saw her and she told your grandmother."

"Then you keep an eye on it and don't let that family know we're back. If they find out, tell me immediately."

“Good player.”

After arranging the treasure chest, Xu Ning immediately found three guards and servants and asked them to keep an eye on Xu Er's family and not let them get close to Old Lady Xu and Old Man Xu.

But the news can’t be kept secret for long. There’s still half a month left until the Chinese New Year. By then, more people will go to the city, and we’ll know the news after a few conversations.

But it doesn't matter. After all, the treasure chest didn't include Xu Er's family in the mission, which means they are not important characters. If they are really annoying, just knock them out and send them away to avoid being an eyesore.

Xu Er was holding a piece of fat meat when he suddenly shivered and the meat fell on the table.

Seeing this, Xu Er's youngest son immediately grabbed the fat and put it into his mouth and ate it quickly, while at the same time staring at Xu Er for fear that his father would be angry.

As a result, Xu Er was distracted by the shivering and didn't notice the appearance of his youngest son at all.

"What's wrong?" Chen asked her husband. They finally got to eat meat today and everyone was happy. Only Xu Er looked particularly strange.

"I don't know. I suddenly felt panicked just now, as if something bad was going to happen." Xu Er said what was in his mind. Chen frowned after hearing it. Xu Er's words must be not groundless, because on the way to escape famine, it was thanks to Xu Er's sense that their family avoided danger again and again.

"Husband, what's the reason this time?" Chen was also a little flustered. The family finally came back, were they going to let them go again?

Xu Er shook his head and couldn't explain it clearly. For a moment, none of the adults had the appetite to eat, except for the youngest son who ate half a plate of meat happily.

In Xujia Village, the Xu family, after finishing their meal, washed up and went back to their rooms to rest.

The original Xu family house was a mud-brick house. After the renovation, there was not much change. There were only four rooms plus a hall and a kitchen.

There is a chicken coop and a woodshed in the backyard and nothing else.

Fortunately, the bed was big enough. Tonight, the first night, the two horses unloaded the carriage and squeezed into the chicken coop to rest.

Xu Ning and Xu Yuan slept in one room, the Xu brothers slept in one room, and the couple slept in another room.

The servants also slept in a crowded place and could barely fall asleep.

"Aunt Yuan, do you feel that the air you breathe is cold?" Xu Ning curled her whole body into the quilt, leaving only her head out. She tried to warm her feet with a hot water bottle for a long time but they still didn't warm up, so she tried to move closer to Xu Yuan.

"I'm fine. Ningning, just use your internal energy and you won't be cold anymore." Xu Ning didn't have much internal energy, and she was reluctant to use it for heating. She could only take out an electric blanket and sleep directly under the quilt.

"I wonder if my grandparents are cold over there." Xu Ning muttered.

"No, I tried it when I returned to my room, and Daddy and Mommy's beds were warm."

Xu Ning didn't need to worry too much about the other two rooms, especially the brothers Xu An and Xu Feng. Boys are like stoves and they are probably sweating by now.

Xu Ning thought, if the etiquette here did not allow it, she would ask Xu Feng to warm the bed for her before going back.

Because that's what she did when she was a child, and her younger brother, who was a few years younger than her, was her warm blanket every winter.

But actually you can use a lot of hot water bottles, but I'm tired after a long day and I don't have that much to prepare.

"Aunt Yuan, I think we can make a kang. It won't take long. Otherwise, if it gets colder, I'm worried that grandpa and grandma won't be able to bear it."

The drought over the past few years and the floods that killed so many people have resulted in less carbon dioxide and a temperature that is getting colder every year, so cold that Xu Ning feels a little numb.

I didn’t feel it before when I was in the valley, after all, it was in the south.

She didn't feel anything during those two years of running around because she stayed in the RV with heating.

Xujia Village is the northernmost part of Daqing. The temperature is probably much below zero. She went to pee just before going to bed, and her urine froze as soon as it came out. Her butt was numb from the cold.

The climate is cold and the environment is poor, so it's no wonder that Xu Ning started to grumble as soon as he arrived in Xujia Village.

Xu Yuan could only lean closer to Xu Ning to transfer the heat from his body to her, "Then I'll talk to my parents about the kang tomorrow."

"Hmm..." As his body warmed up, he felt sleepy. Xu Ning spoke a few more words to Xu Yuan in a daze and then fell into a deep sleep.

In the Xu brothers' room, Xu An finally couldn't stand Xu Feng moving around for seven or eight times and kicked him, "Xiao Bao, if you move again, I'll throw you out."

"I'm wrong, I'm wrong, brother. Don't I feel hot and cold and can't sleep?!" Xu Feng quickly admitted his mistake.

"If you don't lie down and move around, you will be hot and cold!?"

"No, brother, I just felt cold lying down, and I was still cold after lying down for a long time."

"Oh..." Xu An sighed. He knew what Xu Feng meant by "cold". It was that the bed was not warm enough and it was freezing.

"If you move around, it will take longer to warm up. Stop moving. We can find someone to build a kang tomorrow."