Socially anxious people transmigrate to another world; living in seclusion is too difficult.

Lena stayed at the farm and enjoyed two meals. She ate a lot at each meal, and after eating and drinking her fill, she lay down on the armchair by the fireplace, hugged Xiao Ju, and warmed herself by the fire. Su Yang quietly cleaned up the leftovers.

Lin Anlan saw this and thought to herself that this young lady still couldn't shake her habit of expecting to be waited on hand and foot. She was determined to seek justice for Su Yang. Since he wouldn't do any work, she would just pay him some gold coins. So she picked up the little stone flower and walked over to sit opposite Lena. She said to the little stone flower in her arms, "Little stone flower, was it very cold last night?"

Little Stone Flower looked up at Lin Anlan in confusion, not understanding her meaning. Little Stone Flower had mastered both fire and earth elements at the same time, and magma flowed within her body, so she was not afraid of the cold at all.

"Sigh, it must be very cold. There's nothing we can do. Even though we've added a layer of cotton, the fireplace is the only thing that can keep us warm. The rooms upstairs must be very cold. I feel sorry for you." After saying that, she pretended to wipe away non-existent tears.

Lena was indeed drawn in by Lin Anlan's words. She sat up and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is it cold at night?" After saying that, she picked up Little Orange, looked it over, and then hugged it into her arms.

Lin Anlan nodded and said, "Sigh, there's nothing we can do. Su Yang and I are too poor. We don't have any extra money to hire someone to install a fire element heating array. We can only let Xiao Shihua and Xiao Ju suffer with us."

Su Yang had almost finished tidying up and was wiping his hands as he walked over when he heard Lin Anlan sighing. Curious, he walked over and asked, "What's wrong? What are you talking about that makes you sigh?"

"Su Yang, why didn't you say earlier that there was no heating array in the house?" Lena asked as she saw Su Yang approaching.

"Huh? There's no heating array, what's wrong?" Su Yang was puzzled, since there had never been a heating array.

"It's so cold in winter, you can stand it, but Little Orange and Little Stone Flower can't either. If you had told me sooner, I would have had someone come and install it." Lena complained, touching Little Orange in her arms with heartache.

"Uh..." Su Yang looked at Lin Anlan on the other side, who made a shushing gesture, indicating that Su Yang should not say anything more, so Su Yang shut up.

"Yes, Miss Lena, Little Stone Flower and Little Orange are really suffering." Lin Anlan echoed, feeling sorry for Little Orange and Little Stone Flower.

"Don't worry, I'll have someone come and install it tomorrow. The Qinggui Festival is coming soon, we should celebrate it properly."

The next morning, Lena left the farm without even having breakfast. When Su Yang got up and made breakfast, he couldn't find Lena anywhere. Lin Anlan went to her room and found out she had already left.

While Su Yang was tidying up the house after breakfast, there was a knock on the farm gate. He opened the gate and saw three people dressed as craftsmen standing there, each carrying a large backpack. After the gate was opened, they said to Su Yang, "Hello, we're here to install a fire element heating array."

Su Yang marveled at Lena's efficiency; she had arranged for someone to come and install it in such a short time. He invited the three of them into the house, where he placed many small stones in the corners of each room on the first floor, and then connected these stones together with a powdery substance.

Su Yang asked Lin Anlan in a low voice, "What are those stones? Can we use these stones to keep warm?"

"That should be a fiery stone, a low-level elemental crystal. I remember seeing it before. It's usually used to build heating arrays, so it's quite common."

"So those powders are Lithium Powder?"

"Yes, use powder to connect the stones together. After a while, elemental links will form between the stones. Then clean up the powder, and a heating array should be complete." Lin Anlan explained the principle of the heating array to Su Yang.

"Is it really that amazing? A link can be achieved using just powder. If that's the case, can't we make it ourselves?" Su Yang was a little puzzled. Lin Anlan's explanation seemed quite simple. Couldn't they make it themselves?

“Although Fiery Stone is a low-grade material, it is not something that ordinary people can obtain. Various countries strictly control the mining of elemental crystals, after all, elemental power is the foundation of survival in this world.” Lin Anlan shook his head and explained the reason.

The three of them quickly completed the installation of the fiery stones and the spreading of powder. After about ten minutes, they swept up all the fiery stone powder on the ground. Then they took out a small device and handed it to Su Yang, saying, "This is a device used to control the switch of the magic array. Input elemental power into it, and it will be converted into fire element, which will activate the magic array."

After finishing their conversation, the three left the farm, apparently having already paid the fee. After closing the gate, Su Yang looked at the activation device in his hand, which had a stone embedded in it, presumably an elemental stone capable of converting different elemental forces into fire element.

Back in his room, Su Yang decided to give it a try. He injected some elemental power and aimed the device at the elemental array. Soon, the fiery stones began to flash red. After a while, the temperature did indeed rise, and he no longer needed to wear heavy clothes in the room.

"This is quite convenient, a bit like underfloor heating or air conditioning," Su Yang muttered to himself.

"Air conditioning? What's that?" Lin Anlan also took off her heavy coat, tossed her hair, and asked.

"It's an appliance I have that can both lower and raise the temperature, but it uses electricity," Su Yang explained.

"Electricity? The element of electricity?"

"No, we don't have elemental power. As for electricity, you can think of it as a kind of fuel."

The two chatted for a while inside, then Su Yang put on his coat and went out. Going to the fields every day had almost become a habit. When he arrived at the fields, most of the other vegetables had already been harvested, except for a type of vegetable that could ripen in all four seasons, similar to cabbage, which was still growing. This made Su Yang's work much easier. After checking all the fields, Su Yang returned to the house.

"You finished so quickly?" Lin Anlan was a little surprised. In the past, Su Yang would be busy in the fields until noon at the earliest, but today he finished so early.

"Yes, it's too cold. Most other vegetables have stopped growing, but one type is still growing, so it's relatively easy."

"Then the days ahead will be relatively leisurely. By the way, do you have any fun things that can be made in this world? Like some toys, games, or something." Lin Anlan probably felt a bit bored staying at home every day, so she encouraged Su Yang to make some novel gadgets from his world.

"Let me think... Hey, are you interested in puzzle games?" The first thing that came to Su Yang's mind was chess, which was one of his hobbies.

"Puzzle game?"

"Oh, it's a test of wisdom."

"Hmm... Sure, I can give it a try."

Seeing that Lin Anlan was willing to try, Su Yang also became more motivated and said, "Then you'll have to wait a while. I need to spend some time making it."

First, you need to prepare the chess pieces. According to the types of chess pieces, there are five pawns, two chariots, two knights, two cannons, two bishops, and one general. Multiply the total by two, and you need to prepare a total of thirty-two chess pieces. Su Yang took two pieces of wood from the neatly stacked wood in the corner, put on his clothes, went to the shed outside, took a saw, and started sawing the wood. He quickly sawed out about thirty-two small squares, and then took out a file to polish these small squares.

It took quite a while to finally grind those thirty-two small squares into roughly the same size circles, and then engraved the corresponding chess piece characters on the surface. That was roughly it. Since I didn't have any paint, in order to distinguish the pieces of both sides, in addition to engraving the pawn, elephant, and advisor in different fonts, I also engraved different symbols on the chariot, horse, and cannon as markings. Now all that's left is the chessboard.

Making a chessboard is relatively easy. Take two pieces of wood, saw them to be roughly the same size, nail them together, then use a file to draw nine vertical lines and ten horizontal lines on it, and then draw the nine palaces for the general and marshal. That's how you make a chessboard.

Su Yang excitedly returned to his room with the chess pieces and board, placed the board on the tea table in the living room, and introduced it to Lin Anlan: "Look, this is Chinese chess."

Lin Anlan picked up a chess piece, examined it for a moment, and asked, "How do you play this?"

"I'll teach you, but before we play, I need to teach you the most basic rules of chess." When it came to playing chess, Su Yang enthusiastically began to teach Lin Anlan the rules.

“First, the pieces are arranged like this.” Su Yang arranged the pieces on both sides one by one for Lin Anlan to see, and then began to introduce the chessboard: “Look at both sides, aren’t the gaps between the lines relatively even? The wider gap in the middle is called the Chu River and Han Border on the chessboard, or simply the River, like the river in the Chinese word for river.” Then he picked up a piece representing a pawn and said: “Before crossing the river, a pawn can only move one square forward. But after crossing the river, it can not only move forward, but also move left or right, but still only one square. Also, a pawn cannot move backward, no matter what.”

Then Su Yang spent another ten minutes explaining to Lin Anlan in detail how to move the other types of pieces. Fortunately, the rules were simple and Lin Anlan was quick to learn, so he quickly mastered the basics. The two of them struck while the iron was hot and immediately started a game.

In the first few games, Lin Anlan naturally lost to Su Yang, getting completely thrashed in several rounds. But as he gradually became more proficient, Su Yang felt somewhat powerless. He hadn't expected Lin Anlan to be so intelligent, mastering the essence of chess in just a few games and playing the sacrifice-and-fight game with great skill.

Seeing Su Yang frowning and deep in thought, Lin Anlan leisurely picked up her water glass, sipped her tea like an old man, and admired Su Yang's appearance, occasionally urging, "Why isn't it coming down yet? I've been waiting for so long."

In the end, Su Yang conceded defeat, as he simply couldn't beat Lin Anlan. This delighted Lin Anlan, who insisted on continuing to play chess with Su Yang after lunch until evening.

The next morning, Su Yang got out of bed and went straight to his study on the first floor. He drew back the curtains and looked out at the heavy snow falling all around. Sure enough, winter here was somewhat like Northeast China in his original world; the ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow, and the branches in the distance were also laden with snow. The heating array he had installed yesterday was really working well; Su Yang didn't feel cold at all in his pajamas. He poured himself a cup of hot tea and sat by the window, enjoying the snowy scenery while sipping it.

There are two kinds of natural scenery that Su Yang likes the most: snow scenes and seascapes. Perhaps because he doesn't see them often enough, Su Yang always imagines these two kinds of scenery in his mind. While staring at the snow scene outside the house, he suddenly noticed something was wrong. He saw that there was a gap in the fence of the farm in the distance, and several plots of farmland had also been destroyed.

Su Yang hurriedly returned to his room, dressed, and rushed outside to check the situation. As he passed the farmland, he saw that it was in a mess, with mud scattered on the road and vegetables strewn everywhere. When he arrived at the wall, he saw two neatly cut marks on the damaged area.

Seeing these two perfectly smooth marks, Su Yang could basically conclude that the damage was man-made. Almost instantly, Su Yang guessed that it must have been done by Bo An, who was the only one who had recently become his enemy.

"Could it be that I slept too soundly last night and didn't notice anything unusual on the detection radar?" Su Yang's farm is 100 meters long and wide, forming a square. In theory, this area should be within the detection radar's range, but he didn't notice anything unusual last night. Could it be because he slept too soundly?

But there's no use thinking about that now. The most important thing is to repair the wall. Su Yang filled the gap with the relatively intact pieces of wood from the ground, then went into the shed and took out a few pieces of supporting wood, which he sandwiched into the gap. Finally, he filled the gap with some mud, and that was how the gap was filled. The weather is very cold now, and it is estimated that the mud will freeze soon.

Next, the damaged farmland was cleaned up, all the scattered soil was collected and put back, and the scattered vegetable leaves were picked up and buried in the soil as fertilizer.

After finishing all this, Su Yang returned to the house and started making breakfast. Perhaps because of the cold weather, Lin Anlan woke up later than usual, completely unaware of everything that had happened that morning. Su Yang didn't tell her anything either, and the ordinary day passed by just like that.

That night, Su Yang couldn't fall asleep for a long time, constantly sensing the detection radar, but there was no response until late at night. Finally, Su Yang couldn't bear the weight of the night and slowly fell asleep.

The next morning, Su Yang woke up and immediately went downstairs to check the situation outside the window. When he lifted the curtain, Su Yang's heart sank. The place that had been damaged yesterday was fine, but another section of the wall had been damaged, and the farmland was in even worse condition than yesterday.

"Sigh!" With a deep sigh, Su Yang could only get dressed and go out, repeating yesterday's steps: repairing the wall, tidying up the farmland, and then returning to the house to cook. After Lin Anlan went downstairs and finished breakfast, she stood by the window, gazing blankly at the snow scene, when she suddenly turned around and asked, "Su Yang, have you renovated the wall?"

"What's wrong? You found out?" Su Yang laughed it off.

"It's so obvious, you can definitely see it. The colors of the walls are even different. Why was it suddenly renovated?"

"Oh, those two places are a bit loose. I was thinking that since the Qinggui Festival is coming soon, I might as well renovate them." Su Yang forced out an excuse to get by.

"Oh, okay, but when did you renovate it? Weren't you at home all day yesterday?" But Lin Anlan was still observant and quickly noticed another point of doubt.

"You did it before you were fully awake. I got up early this morning and, having nothing better to do, went for a stroll outside and casually renovated it," Su Yang continued, making up excuses.

Lin Anlan glanced at Su Yang, and after a long while said, "Then remember to call me next time you need to renovate, and I'll help you with it."

"Okay, fine." Seeing that Lin Anlan didn't ask any more questions, Su Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't mean to hide it from Lin Anlan; he just didn't want her to worry. He would try to solve it himself if he could.

That night, Su Yang prepared to stay up all night, planning to stay up until dawn to see who was causing the trouble. However, he didn't find anything on the detection radar until dawn. Su Yang breathed a sigh of relief and decided not to sleep. He went downstairs to prepare breakfast and spent a peaceful day.