Chapter 118: Frozen Hands
"No need, Aunt Hua has already packed up the steamer basket. We’ll use it again tomorrow."
"I can handle all of this now. You’ve been helping for several days, I feel quite bad about it. You should go back to school and not delay your studies."
Alright, Qin Xiangnuan was originally going to help clean up, but Aunt Hua pulled her onto the tricycle, insisting that Aunt Hua’s eldest son take her back to the village, lest she returns too late and catch a cold. Qin Xiangnuan couldn’t argue with Aunt Hua. Sitting in the tricycle, facing the cold wind, she placed her hands over her mouth, exhaling a breath of white mist, only then did her fingers feel slightly warmer.
Nuannuan is back.
The moment Granny Lu saw Qin Xiangnuan, she quickly pulled her into the house, heated up some water for her to wash her hands and face. Placing her hands in the warm water, Qin Xiangnuan finally sighed, "It’s so comfortable." The chilblains on her hands still existed, but compared to last year, they were much better. She thought that next year might be lighter still, and perhaps the year after they might be healed.
In her previous life, her hands were always frostbitten until her twenties, never properly taken care of, never used any hand cream. The reason they eventually healed, she felt, might be due to the gradually warming global temperatures.
She took her hands out of the hot water, then Granny Lu carefully applied some ointment on her. This ointment was a product of its times, used for rubbing on hands though it left the hands greasy and not as refreshing as later hand creams, but it was very cheap; just a few cents each, one could last a whole winter.