The winter here is a bit warmer than in the Northeast, and Li Xue doesn't feel very cold here.
"Guodong, when you first arrived in our place, did you find it particularly hard to adapt?"
"Wasn't it? At that time, we were at the educated youth point, living together. When Aunt Jiang came to see us, she told us we must study and never drop our books.
And at that time, we were asked to live outside. We didn't get along well with those educated youth.
Because it was our first year there. We hadn't prepared much firewood, and it snowed heavily, so we couldn't go up the mountains.
Luckily, during the New Year, the three of us went to Aunt Jiang's home."
"Were the chilblains on your hands from that time?"
"Yes, we didn't have much to do and didn't want to interact with them, so we went to a small room at the educated youth point to study. It was really cold at that time.
Aunt Jiang saw our chilblains and found some dry eggplant stalks for us to wash our hands with, which worked.
