A branch of the hot pot restaurant was put on the agenda. In fact, it was not much different from the one that was open now. It was just a bit difficult to find a vacant store. Most people in this town used it for their own purposes. Most of the shops facing the street had been occupied or closed down.

Lu Dalang had a wide network of contacts and agreed to find a store. Lujiang Restaurant’s operation were basically on the right track. There was no need for the two of them to watch in the restaurant, and Jiang Zhou was free.

It was also because he was free that he discovered Wen Yan had become more sensitive to the cold at some point.

When Jiang Zhou was still around, he was responsible for keeping Wen Yan warm every winter, watching over everything from the warmth of the heater to the charcoal fire in the house.

Therefore, although Wen Yan was sensitive to the cold, it was not as severe as it was now.

Because spring had already begun, it would be a bit hot to burn the kang again. Additionally, the weather was prone to dryness. Wen Yan often experienced allergies in spring, so the charcoal fire burned less. Wen Yan was afraid that the sparks might be too strong and cause a rash on his face and hands again.

Jiang Zhou didn’t notice at first; he was busy making plans for the branch. He only discovered this when he got up one morning and hugged him sideways out of habit.

When he usually got up, Wen Yan had likely already been up. On this particular day, Jiang Zhou found him still in bed and a bit groggy. He didn’t need to go to the restaurant that day, so he stayed in the bed for a while. However, as soon as his hand touched Wen Yan’s neck, he felt something was wrong.

When he took advantage of the skylight to look at it, he found a rash on the back of Wen Yan’s neck. When he touched the leg, sure enough, Wen Yan’s leg was also chapped.

Wen Yan had just woken up at that time and crawled into his arms with hazy eyes. He found a familiar position and was about to fall asleep when he was woken up: “Why didn’t you say anything when there was a rash here?”

Wen Yan hummed, “It’s okay, it’s just that I’ve been too close to the fire in the past two days.”

After hearing this, Jiang Zhou felt something was wrong. Jiang Zhou touched Wen Yan’s hand, then reached over and touched his feet. They were both cold.

Jiang Zhou’s body was naturally very warm, especially when sleeping; it was like a big stove. The heat could wake people up, so they didn’t burn the kang when they sleep in the spring. When it was cold, Jiang Zhou put people in his arms to keep them warm. When Wen Yan got up, his whole body was usually warm. How could he be so cold now?

He was afraid that Wen Yan might be sick, so he hurriedly woke him up: “Why are your hands and feet so cold now? Are you sick?”

Wen Yan was very sleepy, so he hummed for a long time without waking up, and then said after a while: “It’s okay, it’s just the same problem.”

Why was it the same problem? Jiang Zhou frowned. He took good care of Wen Yan, but suddenly he had an old problem. What was going on?

He vowed to find out and forcefully woke Wen Yan up.

“…” Wen Yan was a little annoyed when he got up, but he didn’t want to express it to Jiang Zhou, so he just calmed down for a while, “It’s nothing, it’s just the original problem that happened when Xiao Yi was born, but it’s nothing serious. I’m just afraid of the cold; I’ll just light the fire and warm up.”

Wen Yan didn’t take it to heart, turned around, and fell asleep again.

Jiang Zhou was still worried and went to ask Li Yue.

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Fortunately, Li Yue explained in detail: “A shuanger’s delivery is different from women. We, women have to wait one day to give birth to a child, which is fine. Shuanger’s birth is difficult. It can take as little as one day, as long as two or three days to give birth. The kang is too hot, and the shuanger can’t bear it, so they change their mattresses every once in a while.”

If people didn’t pay attention, they would easily catch a cold.

Normally, the husband would help take care of the shuanger, but Jiang Zhou was not around during that time, and the time traveler Lu Heng would not pay attention to it. Therefore, when Wen Yan gave birth, the only ones around him were Li Yue, Wen Yuanxing, and a midwife.

Wen Yan suffered a bit of cold due to a moment of carelessness, and he cut off the hot water for a period of time. Later, a doctor helped to nurse him back to health, and he was fine. However, his hands and feet tended to get cold when sleeping during the change of seasons.

Furthermore, he often traveled between Xiaohe Village and Banshan Village at that time. The cold wind and water in the river left some roots of the disease.

After hearing this, Jiang Zhou fell silent. He just wanted to rush to the inspector’s house and pull Lu Heng out and beat him up.

He simply controlled his breathing first.

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Once calmed down, he went to Liu Erlang’s house without saying a word and discussed smashing down the wall.

“Smash the wall?!” Liu Erlang was confused. “Isn’t that your newly built house? Why are you smashing it?”

Jiang Zhou explained: “Wen Yan is afraid of the cold, so I’m going to install a floor heater.”

He couldn’t stand the sparks. Instead of burning, it was better to use a floor heater. Anyway, the charcoal fires were burned outside the house, and the heat inside was only the heat emitted by the burning of these charcoal fires. There would be neither sparks nor the smell of firewood.

If Jiang Zhou could have a hot spring in the area, he would have wanted to cover a hilltop and bring the hot spring down to connect the hot water pipes.

Liu Erlang marveled: “You really have a lot of ideas.” It would be easy to demolish it. When Jiang Zhou’s house was built, the first floor was made of cement and covered with wooden boards. Jiang Zhou wanted to make a floor heating pipe, they just needed to dismantle the wooden board above it, lay it out, and cover it again.

It wasn’t a big project, so Liu Erlang agreed. And because of the cement incident, he consciously agreed with Jiang Zhou, he didn’t charge any fees except for the materials.