Chapter 893: Being Serious is Quite Exciting

Wang An finished asking, only to hear Wang Xiaomei pout her little mouth and say

"Neither of us was home all afternoon, how could we have upset Sister-in-law."

Wang Xiaoli chimed in right after

"Hmph, stinky big pot, bad big pot, just spouting nonsense."

Wang An laughed heartily, then immediately squatted down, picked up his two younger sisters, one on each side, and gave each of them a big, loud kiss.

After kissing his two sisters, Wang An asked with a beaming smile

"Where did you two go play this afternoon?"

Wang Xiaomei wiped the drool off her face and said

"We went to find Little Lai Jie to play. Lai Jie's grandma has been sleeping all day lately, don't know why she's so sleepy."

Upon hearing this, the smile on Wang An's face couldn't help but freeze for a moment.

If it were an accidental death, Wang An could still intervene, but aging, sickness, and death—no one is capable of doing anything about that.

Wang An thought for a moment and said

"She didn't sleep well last night, so she slept a bit more today."

As he spoke, Wang An set his two sisters down on the ground, then said with a grin again

"You two are starting school soon, are you happy?"

Wang Xiaomei said very excitedly

"Happy, I'm happy."

Wang Xiaoli, however, said unhappily

"I don't want to go to school, I just want to stay home and play."

Wang An reached out and rubbed Wang Xiaoli's head, laughing

"If you don't go to school, you'll be illiterate for life, stuck in our little Kao Shan Tun. But if you do go to school, then in the future, whether it's Ice City or 8J, you can go see them all."

Wang An remembered that in his previous life, both younger sisters had stopped schooling after middle school. In this life, Wang An really wanted them to keep studying all the way through, at least until they graduated from university.

If they couldn't get in one year, they could repeat a few more years.

Anyway, in Wang An's view, more studying was never a bad thing, especially for kids in this era. As long as they could get into university, they were basically set for life.

After Wang An finished speaking, his youngest sister Wang Xiaoli nodded as if she half-understood, clearly having no real concept of what Wang An had said.

Wang An naturally knew the two little sisters couldn't quite understand these things, but he still wanted to instill this idea in them: only through studying could they have a better way out in the future.

At the very least, it would give them one more superior choice.

While instilling the importance of studying in his two little sisters, Wang An moved the things he'd bought on the sidecar basket into the house.

On the other side, Mu Xueqing, holding her own clothes, was asking Li Xiuyu about what had happened these past few days while leading her into the southernmost room of the west wing.

Because this room, as well as the southernmost room of the east wing, had both been converted into bathrooms by Wang An.

Naturally, the east one was mainly for Wang Dazhu and his wife, Wang Yi, and the two sisters, while this west one was mainly for Wang An and Mu Xueqing.

As a reincarnator, Wang An absolutely loathed not being able to bathe often.

Because in the past, summer was fine—you could wash in the river or a big water pit. In winter, you could only wipe your body with a wet towel.

Mainly because Hei Province's winters were too damn cold. Even in a room heated only by a kang, the temperature could only reach about ten degrees Celsius above zero at most.

Bathing in that temperature, never mind freezing to death, catching a cold was a piece of cake.

So from the start of building the house, Wang An decided he must build a room where people could bathe comfortably.

Actually, Wang An originally planned to convert one of the storage rooms behind the main house into a bathroom, but those storage rooms had too little light during the day, were damp and gloomy, and drainage and rising damp were also problems.

All things considered, Wang An felt it was more suitable to build a dedicated bathroom in the wing rooms.

Upon entering the bathroom, Mu Xueqing began teaching Li Xiuyu how to use hot water to bathe.

The reason the word "teach" was used was because the bathing device Wang An had rigged up was probably the first of its kind in the entire DJ County at this time.

Simply put, this thing was actually just a later-generation hot water bag, and it could only be used when the sun was high in the summer.

The principle was also very simple: a large oil drum cleaned thoroughly, painted black on the outside by Wang An, then a hole drilled in the bottom of the drum with a pipe connected.

Of course, a faucet had to be connected to that pipe as well.

Finally, fill the iron drum with water and leave it in the sun to bake.

The oil drum sat in the courtyard, the pipe running directly into the room.

When bathing, you could stand directly under the faucet and rinse off, or let the water out into the cement-and-brick water basin next to it.

Actually, in this bathroom, besides a stove for heating, there was also a large iron pot specifically for boiling water, but the stove and pot were only useful when the weather turned cool.

After teaching Li Xiuyu how to run the water and bathe, Mu Xueqing didn't rush to leave. Instead, she sat there sizing up Li Xiuyu.

Not to mention, although Li Xiuyu still looked a bit youthful, all the places that should have developed had developed quite nicely.

Whether the front or the back, they looked quite impressive and quite appealing.

Mu Xueqing walked over with a grin, personally pinched Li Xiuyu's milky-white front, and said

"Didn't expect Xiuyu has grown into a young lady, hee hee hee hee."

Mu Xueqing doing this wasn't because she had any special fetish, but to tease Li Xiuyu a bit, to help her relieve some of her current sadness and grief.

After all, for the 17-year-old Li Xiuyu, such a huge sudden change in her family was truly an incomparably heavy blow.

Faced with Mu Xueqing's teasing, Li Xiuyu didn't react, but asked Mu Xueqing with a face full of worry

"Xueqing Jie, your husband—my brother-in-law—said he can drive away those beasts who lend at usurious interest. Tell me, those beasts are so vicious, can Brother-in-law beat them?"

Mu Xueqing's heart stirred at these words, mainly because she didn't know about Wang An's decision.

As the person sharing his pillow, Mu Xueqing knew about Wang An's ruthlessness and past exploits.

Although Wang An never spoke of the details, Mu Xueqing knew Wang An had genuinely killed people.

But whether the usurers were more vicious, or her own man was more vicious, Mu Xueqing had no way to judge.

So, Mu Xueqing comforted Li Xiuyu

"You know what your brother-in-law used to do, haven't you heard? Besides, you know what happened to the two Ma brothers from Old Ma's family in our village, don't you?"

Thinking of Ma Jiang and Ma He, Li Xiuyu couldn't help but shiver.

(End of Chapter)