The weather was already very cold, especially at night. Even dressed in thick, padded clothes and pants, wrapped tightly in layer upon layer, people still couldn't bear the freezing temperatures.
No kidding.
It was twenty or thirty degrees below zero.
He Peiyin didn't want her daughter-in-law to rush back after dark; it wasn't as if they didn't have room for them to stay. But she couldn't do anything about her brat of a son, who not only left himself but also dragged his wife along with him.
If they hadn't thankfully borrowed the team's horse-drawn sleigh to come into town, she would have chased him out right now and given that little rascal of hers a good thumping! And to think she had just assumed he was taking Grandpa Shen back to the salvage station.
'So it turns out he did take him back, he just wasn't planning on coming back here himself.'
