Chapter 23

Gu Xingzhao was eating dumplings, and he caught a glimpse of Lin Ting tidying up his refrigerator and kitchen. His slender figure stood there, like an adult.

  She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, children grow up fast. She remembered that at the beginning of the year, Lin Ting was only up to her shoulders, right?

  Now it seems that he should be as tall as her.

  Lin Ting: "Sister, your refrigerator is full of frozen foods. You should eat more fresh food, which is good for your health."

  Gu Xingzhao smiled. The child was young, but he was quite caring. "Okay, listen to Xiao Ting, and eat fresh food in the future."

  Lin Ting didn't respond, but lowered his head to clean up the kitchen.

  Gu Xingzhao glanced at the time and was surprised to find that it was so late. She had been busy all day and hadn't visited Lu Qing yet. She didn't know how he was doing.

  She quickly turned on the TV.

  On the TV, the exile team had left the village. After a day's journey, they rested in the woods. The wind was cold, but the bonfire was burning, but it still made people feel cold. People who knew each other sat together to keep warm.

  The officials and the families of the prisoners who still had some valuables on them exchanged cotton clothes with the villagers before leaving. They were still able to hold on for now, but the other prisoners were not so lucky. Many of them were shivering and sneezing from the cold, and even caught a cold.

  The Lu family huddled around the extinguished fire, with their hands in their arms and breathing out white air. Lu Xingyan in particular had drunk the marrow washing solution and felt much better, but now he was catching a cold and sneezed again and again, his face turning pale.

  Lu Qing saw this and wanted to give his clothes to his youngest son, but was stopped by several juniors, and was worried.

  Gu Xingzhao then realized that Lu Qing and the others didn't know how to use the two packs of heat packs that she had hastily left behind.

  She quickly ate the dumplings, thinking about sending clothes to Lu Qing and the others and teaching them how to use the heat packs, otherwise they would all get frozen tomorrow.

  After Lin Ting finished cleaning up the kitchen and came out, he was a little surprised to see the TV screen, "Sister, are you still watching this drama?"

  He remembered that he started watching this drama when Gu Xingzhao returned to the town two years ago. How come it hasn't been finished yet?

  In the screen, men and women in prison uniforms sat together to keep warm.

  He remembered that Gu Xingzhao's favorite was the little old man with a beautiful beard. At that time, he praised him for a long time, saying that he could distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and was a gentleman and a man of elegance and romance.

  Gu Xingzhao explained: "I'm usually busy, so I watch it slowly."

  Lin Ting stared at the TV for a long time and found that the old man didn't shave off his beard even though he was down and out, but it looked thinner than before, and his hair was all white.

  He was about to sit down on the sofa, but Gu Xingzhao next to him had finished eating the dumplings and stuffed two bottles of Wa Xixi into his arms.

  Gu Xingzhao smiled and said in a coaxing tone, "Thank you for the dumplings. I've been busy for a few days. I want to go to bed early tonight. Can you come back tomorrow morning?"

  The order to leave had been issued, so Lin Ting had to leave. He nodded, "Well, go to bed early."

  When he went downstairs, he looked back frequently, but he didn't see Gu Xingzhao coming out to see him off. He felt empty in his heart, but when he saw the baby in his hand, his mouth curved up... After so many years, my sister still remembered what she loved to drink when she was a child.

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  After Lin Ting left, Gu Xingzhao didn't dare to delay. He wrapped himself tightly in a down jacket and brought a lot of things to the ancient times.

  Because of the previous habit, the Lu family always stayed away from the crowd when they rested.     She was holding a few sets of warm clothes, trying to stuff them into the bamboo basket quietly, but she found that Lu Xingyao's conspicuous bag was holding the bamboo basket all the time, yawning from time to time, and trying hard not to fall asleep.

  Gu Xingzhao couldn't help laughing when he guessed that he was waiting for him to deliver the things.

  When she laughed, Lu Qing suddenly opened his eyes: But the ancestors have arrived?

  Gu Xingzhao responded, "It's cold tonight, I'm afraid you will be cold, so I'll send you some clothes and other things, or put them in the box, you change quietly, don't let anyone find out."

  She stuffed the things into the bamboo basket, and because of the big movement, the bamboo basket shook a few times. Lu Xingyao immediately noticed it, loosened the bamboo basket, and saw that there were many more clothes in it. He was so excited that his eyes were shining and his ears were red.

  He desperately winked at his grandfather and pointed at the bamboo basket in front of him: Here they come! The old ancestor is here!

  Lu Qing gave him a calming look and sighed in his heart. His grandson was good in every way, but he was too excited when the ancestors came to give him gifts. He didn't learn his steadiness at all.

  Gu Xingzhao almost burst out laughing. The old man's perception of himself was really wrong.

  To be honest, among all his children and grandchildren, Lu Xingyao's temperament was the most like his when he was young.

  Seeing that the Lu family had changed into warm clothes one after another, she stuffed a few more warm life-saving blankets, "I also took a few blankets. I wrap them around my body to sleep at night to keep warm and prevent wind. During the day, I tie them up and hang them on my body, and they don't take up space."

  She specially picked the military green color, which is a must-have for survival in the wild. It is most suitable for use at this time.

  Lu Qing was surprised, "The ancestors also prepared blankets?" Lu

  Xingyao went to change clothes and was not at the bamboo basket at this time. Lu Qing was very curious. He didn't know what good things the ancestors had prepared. He immediately got up and searched over there, took out a blanket and unfolded it. It was thin and he couldn't tell what material it was made of. He had never seen it before.

  He couldn't help but question, can this really keep warm?

  Gu Xingzhao saw that although Lu Qing was skeptical, he had already wrapped the blanket around himself, and smiled, "Why didn't you give them the heating pads I told you about this morning?"

  Lu Qing was slightly stunned, "Heating pads?"

  He immediately flipped the bamboo basket again and took out two packages of things from it... Question in his heart: What are they?

  Gu Xingzhao: "..." Obviously, the old man was probably only concerned about the warm clothes at the time, and the heating pads were completely forgotten.

  She sighed slightly, "You open the things first, there are 24 patches in a pack, I will teach you how to use them."

  Lu Qing obediently tore open the outermost transparent package. Because he didn't know what it was, he moved very carefully, for fear of damaging it.

  Gu Xingzhao's voice rang out, "Then take out a sticker and tear it open along the corner. That's right. Then tear off the piece of paper that your finger touched from the corner and stick it inside your clothes..."

  Seeing Lu Qing about to stick it on his arm, Gu Xingzhao was startled, "Hey hey hey! Don't stick it on the flesh, it will burn you. Stick it on the clothes, with a layer of clothes in between."

  Lu Qing was a little embarrassed. After all, he had never seen this thing before, and he made a fool of himself by making fun of his ancestors. He obediently stuck the thing inside the prison uniform, with a layer of warm clothes in between.

  The thing was stuck, but he didn't feel the warmth that the ancestors said. He frowned. Could it be that the thing didn't work?

  At this time, Lu Xingyao had changed his clothes and came back. He was smiling like a fool, his eyes were curved like two moons, and his hand was touching the warm clothes on his body through the prison uniform, calling it magical!

  The things given by the ancestors are extraordinary!

  When you put it on, it will sweep away the cold and be yourself again!