Competition in your heart! [YiZhan/ZhanYi FF]✔️

-19- The strange challenges

-19- The strange challenges

I quickly turned my eyes away from the sparse furnishings of this wooden hut and turned my full attention to something much more important, my ZhanZhan.

Zhan stood in front of the open kitchen with his eyes wide open. Here, everything really seemed rustic. The kitchen cupboards looked as if they had been handmade a hundred or more years ago. Instead of a real sink with a tap, there was a recessed basin under a blue water pump. The stove with its oven are, at least that's what it looks like at first sight, operated by fire.

On the wall there is an antique showcase in which the dishes are lined up. On a shelf there are several pots with herbal plants and two chairs in the form of bar stools, standing by the sideboard, which is probably also the table.

The living area and kitchen look as if they have been taken us back in time and I wonder if one of the duos was here last week? If so, what were they thinking when they looked around here?

We went back to the living area and there we went to a staircase with twelve steps, of course like everything else, made of wood. At the top there are only two more doors waiting for us. One leads into the surprisingly modern bathroom, where there is even a big bathtub, and the other one leads into the bedroom.

The big bed, which looks like it was made of logs, looks very comfortable. It stands directly under a large double window. And a huge wardrobe that goes from one side of the room to the other is on the wall on the right side.

When we went downstairs to get our suitcases, we also saw a clue why it was so cold in the whole house. On a note taped to the wardrobe it says: "You must heat with the fireplace if you want to be warm and comfortable."

Zhan took off his jacket, hung it in the wardrobe and then went to the fireplace. He put in some logs and lit them. "Have you ever done this before?" I ask him as he opens the chimney.

"Yes, my grandmother had a fireplace and a kitchen like this. She lived in the country and my sister and I often went there on holiday. One day she showed me how to start a fireplace." Zhan explained to me and I was impressed, and grateful that at least he knew what to do.

It wasn't long until the fireplace was in full swing and the heat began to spread. Here in the mountains it is even colder than in the country where we were last week.

Because it was late at night and we were already very tired, we went upstairs to the bedroom after Zhan had secured the fireplace. I lay down in the bed as I was and Zhan lay down next to me, I hugged him and held him tightly in my arms and so we fell asleep.

When we woke up, Zhan was still cuddled in my arms, it was already ten o'clock in the morning and we went into the bathroom and freshened up a bit.

The fireplace had done a great job and the whole house was cozily warm. We went to the kitchen and hidden in a long cupboard was the fridge, as Zhan found out, we first made breakfast and looked at the new to-do list.