Since he couldn't convince Shen Siyue, Shitou thought it would be safer to keep the rabbit at home.
But unexpectedly, Shen Siyue rejected it.
Shen Siyue’s reason was: “The rabbit doesn’t make any noises, and there is only one. I secretly keep it in the house, so it won’t be discovered so easily.”
Now she lived in the small east room, and only Li Xiang would occasionally come to take a look when Shen Siyue was at home.
In view of Shen Siyue’s tough past, the other members of the Shen family generally would not take the initiative to provoke her.
But what Shitou said next made her feel troubled again: "Do you have a cage? This thing can't be kept directly on the ground."
Rabbits can dig holes, so the houses are compacted with earth.
If you keep a rabbit directly in the house, it will dig a hole underground and run away in a few days.
The Shen family did have an empty wooden cage for raising chickens.
But once Shen Siyue brings it into the house, the rest of the Shen family will definitely notice it.
Shen Siyue also understood what Shi Tou said at this time, and she scratched her head in annoyance.
Alas, living in the Shen family is really restricted in every way.
Shen Siyue thought for a moment, then handed the live rabbit to Shitou: “You help me raise it for two days, and I’ll bring it back the day after tomorrow at the latest.”
After that, no matter what Shitou said, Shen Siyue had made up her mind.
The two of them parted ways at the entrance of the village.
As usual, Shen Siyue climbed over the wall and entered the Shen family’s house. After hurriedly heating the kang, she simply washed up and prepared to go to bed.
The next day, after Shen Siyue finished breakfast, she started to dig in the firewood pile.
Li Xiaoqin came out to pour water and saw her picking out some wooden sticks as thick as an adult's wrist from the firewood pile. She couldn't help but stand at the door and take a few looks.
Shen Siyue didn’t want to be noticed by the Shen family, so she turned her head and stared at her: “What are you looking at? Are you afraid that I’ll take too much firewood?”
Li Xiaoqin felt uncomfortable under Shen Siyue's cold eyes, and she didn't dare to continue watching when she thought of the toughness of this guy who ignited the fire without saying a word.
He forced a smile on his face, turned around and hurried back to the house.
After Shen Siyue picked out the wood, she moved them all into the house.
Then he sat on a small stool and started chopping according to what he had imagined in his mind.
She had imagined only two sizes, the long one was about 1.2 meters, and the short one was about eighty or ninety centimeters.
Then start to split the thick hemp rope into small strands.
Then he started to tie him up.
Shen Siyue had no nails in her hand, so she planned to tie a cage out with hemp rope.
Tying knots is very easy for her, who has to go up the mountain to cut grass for pigs all year round.
In a short while, she had tied up a rectangular frame.
The next step is to seal each side with a stick.
This job is difficult, but it is also simple.
Shen Siyue only spent some time tying the wooden sticks on the first side, and she quickly found the trick on the remaining sides.
First fix the first stick to the frame, wrap the stick with a hemp rope, and then wrap it to the frame, with both sides going hand in hand, and then you can quickly seal one side like weaving a curtain.
She also deliberately left the gaps between the wooden sticks at the bottom a little larger to make it easier for the rabbit poop to fall down.
A small space is reserved on the top of the cage for a door, from which you can easily put the rabbit in and take it out, and you don't have to worry about the rabbit running out by itself.
The cage doesn't look very straight from the outside, with uneven wooden sticks protruding from each edge, but it looks pretty good from the inside.
Then Shen Siyue went out and searched for several stones that looked slightly flatter.
Move them back and place them in four directions in the innermost corner of the room.
Then he carried up the cage that he had just made by hand.
This way the rabbit's poop can fall directly to the ground and she can just sweep it up from underneath.
Shen Siyue patted the dirt off her hands, took two steps back and looked at the somewhat large cage, quite satisfied.
This cage took Shen Siyue a whole day.
At night, after it got dark, Shen Siyue quietly left the Shen family.
He walked all the way to the door of Shitou's house, looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he picked up a stone and threw it into the yard.
The stones fell to the ground with a clanging sound.
The stone that was working in the house was thought to be some naughty boy who didn't sleep at night and was throwing stones for fun!
He put down the work in his hands and went to the yard to scold.
Shen Siyue, who was standing outside the door, of course heard the sound of the door being pushed open.
She quickly leaned over the gate and shouted inside: "Open the door, it's me."
Shi Tou was stunned and frowned, wondering if he had heard it wrong.
Seeing that the courtyard door was still not opened, Shen Siyue couldn't help but yelled again.
It was this sound that made Shi Tou certain that the person outside the door was really her.
He walked quickly to the door, opened it, and sure enough, he saw Shen Siyue standing at the door.
His eyes were wide open, and their bright eyes looked like stars in the sky.
“You…why are you here?” Shitou was a little confused, wondering why Shen Siyue came to see him so late?
Shen Siyue smiled and whispered to him: “I’m here to pick up my little rabbit.”
"I made a cage myself so I could keep it."
At this point, Shen Siyue rubbed her hands excitedly: “While no one is around, quickly catch it so I can go home.”
"You made a cage by yourself?" Shi Tou looked at her in surprise.
The surprise in Shitou’s tone puzzled Shen Siyue: “Yeah, what’s wrong? It’s not very difficult, why can’t I make a cage myself?”
"No, no, that's not what I meant." Shitou saw that Chen Siyue had misunderstood what he meant, and quickly explained to her: "I was surprised that you made a cage so quickly, I..."
Shen Siyue waved at him: “Okay, okay, I know what you mean, no need to explain.”
"Give me the rabbit quickly. It's too cold. I don't want to stand here in the cold wind."
At Shen Siyue's urging, Shitou picked up the gray rabbit by its ears.
And taught her: "Hold its ears and don't let go, so it can't run away."
Shen Siyue excitedly took the rabbit and turned to leave.
Shitou quickly stopped her and said, "I've seen it, it's just a female rabbit, but if you want it to give birth, you have to catch a male one."
Shen Siyue waved her hand indifferently, she must know this common sense.
She is not in a hurry and will just catch as many as she can now and save them up slowly.
Shitou watched Shen Siyue slowly disappear into the night with the rabbit in her hand, then he turned back into the house.
At this time, his house was in a mess, and one area was filled with adobe bricks that were being dried in the sun.
In another area, there were a lot of wood piled up.
Next to it was a half-finished cage.
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