Chapter 42 Home Essentials
The small door opened, revealing a snow cave so deep that you couldn't see the sky at all.
The snow in the yard was about two meters high, almost level with the yard wall.
Their neighbors were also clearing the snow.
Bai Tang and the others could only clear the snow little by little from the small gate, managing to clear a path into the yard.
After cleaning for a while, the gate was finally able to be pushed open. Once inside the yard, Bai Tang discovered that their RV had been buried in snow.
The group started clearing the snow to designated areas on the street. Luckily, they had borrowed Pingping's small cart; otherwise, they would have had to clear it slowly.
First, go up to the roof and clear the snow off it. If you clear the snow in the yard first, the snow on the roof will still slide off the roof and into the yard, making the whole process pointless.
After searching around, the group found a ladder to climb onto the roof.
Slowly climbing onto the roof, Gu Yanxu, Bai Jiyang, and Lin Fan began clearing the snow from the roof into the yard.
Bai Tang, while cleaning up, secretly collected some of the clean snow into her space, intending to use it to cool down when it gets extremely hot later.
It took them an hour to push all the snow off the roof into the yard.
Looking down, Lin Fan groaned, "When will this ever end? This is exhausting!"
Raymond Lam patted him on the shoulder and said, "Take it easy, bro."
The group slid down the snow as they climbed off the roof.
Despite their playful antics, the group worked quite efficiently, clearing away most of the snow in the yard and moving it to the designated spot on the street outside for another hour.
With the remaining snow, they built a huge snowman in their house, and it took five people working together to put the head on it.
Bai Tang tried opening the door of the RV, and found it was cold inside. She tried turning on the air conditioner to warm it up.
Soon the air conditioning in the RV was on, and Bai Tang told them to come in and rest for a while and have lunch. Before leaving, she told Pingping that the rest of them wouldn't be going home for lunch and that they and their sister should eat by themselves.
They take Pingping and An'an with them every day, and they always try to hide their meals from each other. It's not that they don't want to share good food with them, but they just don't know where the hot and fresh food comes from.
An'an is still young and can be easily fooled, but Pingping is already sensible and can't be fooled, so they can only eat lower-quality whole grains together, just to ensure a balanced and healthy diet.
Bai Tang took out a pot of hot braised prawns, a pot of hot mutton soup, and a pot of steaming rice from the space in the RV.
Anyone who wants to eat can get their own bowl and serve themselves; this is truly a special treat for his own brothers.
They finally managed to eat meat in the RV, even drinking some of the broth from the canned food.
Even in front of their two children, they didn't dare feed the canned food large pieces of meat, so the poor little canned food could only obediently eat cat food.
After eating, they got out of the car to air out the smell so that others wouldn't smell it. The wind outside was very cold, and after a while, the smell was gone. They then used mouthwash to clean the smell again when they got back into the RV.
Bai Jiyang said, "Sister, we can't keep sneaking around cooking for each other like this. When are we going to move into our new house?"
Lin Fan also said, "That's right, sister-in-law, my face has become sallow from drinking porridge every day."
Gu Yanxu said, "Go away, others are lucky to have porridge to drink, don't try to play the victim with my wife."
Bai Tang said, "Let's do it in the next few days. We'll talk about moving into the new house when the roads are open to traffic."
Bai Tang went to everyone's room and put the beds and various items that they had previously stored in the space into their respective rooms.
Let them go inside and remove all their belongings first.
Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu's bedroom also has the bed they used before, because Bai Tang is not a fan of certain types of beds.
When they rested at Pingping's house at night, Bai Tang would take Gu Yanxu and Guan Tou into the space to rest, leaving Mu Mu to watch over the situation outside.
As a spatial spirit, Mu Mu can see the outside world directly. It doesn't need to sleep, so for those few days it was Bai Tang's personal alarm clock, the kind that would wake Bai Tang up at dawn.
Mu Mu is also helping Bai Tang harvest crops and fruits in the space. Recently, Mu Mu has also learned how to grow crops, so now Bai Tang doesn't need to take care of the plants and animals in the space.
When the animals are hungry, Mumu will mix feed for them; when the plants are ripe, Mumu can easily pick and pack them.
Mumu is simply an essential household gadget for Baitang.
Having her own space was already incredibly fulfilling, but with Mu Mu managing it, Bai Tang was happy to be a carefree landlady, making her even happier.
After they finished tidying up the house, they carried their snow shovels back to Pingping's house.
On the way back, Bai Tang wondered when would be a good time to move out.
After all, it would seem a bit foolish of them to buy a house but not live in it.
They walked and walked until they arrived at Pingping's house. After returning the tools to Pingping, they found that they had arrived at her house.
Bai Tang said, "Once the snow has mostly melted, we'll move out and won't rent from you anymore."
After saying that, Bai Tang took out a vacuum-packed bag of five catties of rice, and then took out two catties of refined white flour, and handed these two items to Pingping.
Bai Tang said, "This is our rent for the past few days. You can take it."
When Li Ping saw that Bai Tang had given so much food, he quickly refused, saying, "Sister, you've given too much. We agreed on this amount beforehand. Please take the extra back."
Bai Tang said, "This extra amount is because you two helped us. Besides, didn't we agree to hire you two? How can you two, so thin and weak, help us with the work?"
Gu Yanxu also said, "Just take it if I give it to you."
Lin Fan jokingly added, "Yeah, take it. You still have a younger sister to support."
Bai Tang added, "It's not for you to take for free. When the extreme cold is over, we'll need to call you to help us plant the land on the back mountain."
Seeing this, Pingping had no choice but to accept the food given by Baitang, and secretly decided: I must do my best to help my sister with the work.
In reality, Bai Tang and the others could never truly let two children do the farming for them; this was just a way of saying they wanted them to accept the gifts.
After they returned to Pingping's house, the heavy snow started again, and their moving plans had to be put on hold. However, this time the snow was not as heavy as before, and it stopped after one night.
They helped clear the snow from Pingping's house, and then waited for the base to clear the snow from the road to make a path before they could move.
Two days later, snowplows cleared the snow off the road, making it passable for vehicles.
Bai Tang and the others said goodbye peacefully and quietly. They packed their bedding and other necessities for the next few days into two SUVs and drove to their new home.
When they arrived at their new home, they parked the car and opened the gate. This time, the gate opened easily, although there was still a layer of snow up to their calves in the yard.
The group exchanged glances; it was time to shovel snow again.
This time they used the snow shovels from Baitang Space, and soon they cleared the snow from the yard.
Then they drove the two SUVs into the yard, and the three cars were parked there, taking up two-thirds of the originally spacious yard.
Fortunately, the yard that Bai Tang bought is quite large, enough for them to park their car.