Got it!
The cousin's warning came too late.
They were all sitting at the dinner table right now, everyone listening in.
The grandparents, who'd just been sulking with jealousy a moment ago, instantly got nervous:
"Heatstroke? Is it serious? They didn't even do any work, how'd they get heatstroke?"
In their village, everyone's out in the fields scratching for food every day, and they still haven't heard of anyone getting heatstroke.
But then again, Song Tan actually wasn't surprised.
They may be scratching for food in the fields, but they run the AC at home; as for the eldest aunt's place…
The forecast says 39°, but that doesn't mean it's really only 39°. Plus, she's on the seventh floor—the top floor—of one of those old family housing blocks.
As for how come they didn't get heatstroke at noon, when it was even hotter…
Totally normal. In buildings like that, the insulation layer still does something.
