After doing all this, Ningxia piled all the clothes in the house and the ones they brought with them on the sofa, and also found a sewing box, which she had exchanged at a trading point at a very cheap price.

"Xia Xia, what are you doing?" Sangsang glared, took off his shoes and got on the sofa.

"I need to filter through the clothes and pick out everything you and your brother can wear. If I can alter them, I'll alter them. If I can't, I'll just wear them."

They now have two worn cotton jackets, both from Ningxia, two sets of thick, earthy pajamas in the house, a few slightly thicker coats, a few sweaters, and some thick jeans. Ningxia put them all away in a pocket and would take them out in winter.

I took out the remaining thin and small pieces of clothing and sewed the collars for Sangsang to wear. She used the only few pairs of pants in the children's room. She didn't know how to alter pants, so there was nothing I could do.

Lin Yi and she were casual about it, but Ningxia still divided it and gave Lin Yi's to him for safekeeping.

Anyway, the closet in the master bedroom is empty, and it is more than enough to hold clothes for three people. You can wear whatever you want, just don’t forget to wash it.

Ningxia also put away some of her unused clothes and trousers, tucking them away with scraps of fabric, waiting to use them when she had time. The small room next to the main house had books and materials, as well as a sewing machine, which she would use sparingly. However, she didn't have much fabric, and none of the material in that room was suitable for making clothes.

After Ningxia finished dealing with the clothes, she took the machete and went to sit in the yard. At this time, Lin Yi brought down the dirty sheets and a pile of stuffed toys from the attic.

"Sister Xia Xia, do we need to take these apart?" Lin Yi asked, holding a pile of stuffed toys.

Ningxia looked up at Sangsang and said, "Ask Sangsang which ones he likes, keep them, and tear down the rest."

Unexpectedly, Sangsang shook her head and said, "No! Take it all down, brother! Xia Xia said that cotton can be used to make clothes and quilts."

"Don't you want to stay and play?"

"I have a toy~" Sangsang smiled sweetly while holding the little dinosaur in his hand.

Ningxia felt that Sangsang's smile had healed all the fatigue of the day, so she smiled back. "Then tell your brother not to throw away the cover of the stuffed doll. I'll sew you a cotton-padded jacket for the doll in winter."

"Okay! Thank you Xia Xia!"

After frustratingly cutting away almost half of the bamboo, Ningxia finally succeeded in cutting out a pair of relatively smooth chopsticks. She had never done this before and always used broken branches as chopsticks.

Thinking that she was going to settle down here, she couldn't use tree branches for a long time. Not only were they dirty, but they would also easily scratch her mouth. So she came up with the idea of ​​making chopsticks.

By the time Ningxia had cut a small handful of chopsticks, there wasn't much bamboo left. Ningxia put down the knife, stretched, and said he would do the rest tomorrow because his waist wasn't feeling well.

The sharpened chopsticks have a strong bamboo fragrance. Ningxia hangs them in the yard with leaves underneath. They will be almost done in the sun in two days.

"Xia Xia, aren't you going to continue peeling?" Sangsang asked, pointing at the bamboo and bamboo branches on the ground.

Ningxia threw the bamboo leaves into the cart and spread out the bamboo branches to dry. "I won't peel them today. I'll finish them tomorrow when I have time. While you can still see them, come on, I'll teach you how to read."

Lin Yi, who was flipping cotton at the side, looked up when he heard this, his eyes full of anticipation.

The three of them went to the sofa in the living room. Ningxia put the book on the coffee table and went to the triangular side room to get a stack of A4 paper and a few pencils.

Lin Yi and Sangsang stared at the pen in Ningxia's hand.

Ningxia herself expressed some embarrassment. Before the disaster, she was a high school sophomore with average grades and had not touched a pen in more than six years.

She wrote nearly a hundred words on the paper before she gradually became familiar with it.

"Okay, I'm ready. I'll teach you pinyin first. Once you learn pinyin, you can read these books with phonetic notation on your own." Ningxia said as she wrote down the initials and finals on a piece of paper. "Today, let's learn..."

As the sky gradually darkened, as Ningxia put away her books, paper, and pen, Lin Yi felt a pang of reluctance. He especially cherished the time for learning that remained in this era. As for Sangsang, it was better not to mention him. It was obvious at a glance that he was Ningxia's biological child.

"You must put the books down as soon as it gets dark. You two are not allowed to read books secretly." Ningxia warned with some concern.

Lin Yi nodded, "Sister Xia Xia, I know, reading in the dark hurts your eyes."

Sangsang nodded, not quite understanding.

Ningxia reluctantly put her heart back in her chest and temporarily ignored the topic.

After going out, the three of them washed up casually while it was still light, and each of them went back to the bedroom while eating a big steamed bun.

"Sister Xia Xia, there's not much water left in the water tank. Let's go get some tomorrow."

"According to the time, your uncle Li Gang and the others should be back in the next two days." Ningxia thought about the people on the mountain, who probably hadn't had a full meal for several days.

Lin Yi said with some difficulty, "But, we are out of food..."

Ningxia chuckled, "Why are you worrying about this? Your uncle and the others will come empty-handed. Maybe they can't bear to eat the meat they caught these two days and are just waiting for me to cook it for them."

Lin Yi also smiled and said, "That's right, after all, your cooking is delicious."

"I agree! Xia Xia cooks the best!"

The three of them chatted for a while, and when Sangsang finally fell asleep, Ningxia asked, "By the way, Sangsang said earlier that she couldn't remember her grandfather's name. What's going on?"

Lin Yi pursed his lips in the darkness and spoke after a while, "After my mother died, I was adopted by Sangsang's grandfather. I don't even know his name, but I know the neighbors call him Lao Daodou."

Ningxia was silent. She had never heard Lin Yi mention his family before. "How long ago was this?"

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