Chapter 8: The Era of Face-Slapping Reborn Woman
Snow came again early in the morning.
This time, the snow was heavy, with snowflakes dancing in the air. From a distance, everything was shrouded in bleak whiteness.
The dormitory stove had gone out by midnight, and Anning was awoken by the cold.
After waking up, she wanted to wash her face and pulled out the basin from under the bed, only to find that the water inside had turned into ice.
She put on her coat to get some firewood and relit the stove; she then heated up a kettle of water for washing her face. After checking her watch and seeing it was just past five o'clock and unable to fall back asleep, Anning decided not to try and instead sat by the stove reading with a flashlight.
Perhaps her fire-making had been a bit loud, as it woke two of her classmates.
A girl named Bai Jing got out of bed in her cotton-padded clothes: "Why are you up so early?"
Anning smiled: "The fire went out, so I just lit it."
Bai Jing approached the vigorously burning fire in the stove to warm her hands: "I was wondering why it was so cold last night, turns out the stove had gone out."
Due to the cold weather, coupled with the fact that no household had heating at this time and there was still so much work to be done, most people ended up with frostbitten hands and feet in winter, and some even frostbitten faces.
Bai Jing was one of them.