Yun Shishi continued, "Just like my mother, she loved coffee, but it was so expensive back then that she often made flower teas instead."
"Flower teas?"
"Yeah." It was rare for her to talk to him about her childhood. "I remember when I was young, we lived in a very small and simple one-bedroom apartment. It was a typical run-down neighborhood. It wasn't big. The rent of 300 yuan a month was very expensive for us at that time. Although it was a one-bedroom apartment and the room and living room were huge, because there were three of us, Mom arranged a small bed in the living room to train Xiao Jie to be independent. Mom and I slept in the bedroom. The kitchen and the bathroom were tiny. As a kid, I would squeeze into a bathtub with Xiao Jie to shower. At the time I had ill health and often caught colds. While the house was small, the garden was huge."
"The garden?"
