Chapter 044 I made money!
After lunch, Lu Jiansen only rested for half an hour before leading the team out again.
Gu Xiaoxi continued his morning work, drying the rice.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky became gloomy again and it seemed like it was going to rain.
Gu Xiaoxi and the villagers quickly harvested the rice.
After the rice was harvested, she had nothing to do. She saw a man sitting under a tree weaving bamboo baskets. Having nothing to do, she sat over and watched him weave.
Seeing her interest, the master smiled and said, "If you want to learn, I can teach you."
"Okay! Thank you for being willing to teach me!" Gu Xiaoxi immediately asked humbly.
Seeing Gu Xiaoxi learning to weave a bamboo basket, Feng Xia smiled and shook her head, then went to chat with the women in the village.
However, when she turned around again, she saw that Gu Xiaoxi had already woven an exquisite bamboo basket, which looked even more beautiful than the one woven by the old man.
Feng Xia couldn't help but click her tongue, walked over and said with a smile: "Xiaoxi, you are so skillful!"
The eldest master also said: "This girl is very clever and deft, she can master anything she learns."
Gu Xiaoxi smiled modestly, "That's also because you taught me well. I understood it right away."
The master couldn't help but laugh. He had taught more than a dozen people, but this girl was the first one who learned so quickly, so well, and was able to apply what she had learned to other situations.
After weaving a bamboo basket and a bamboo basket, Gu Xiaoxi started weaving bamboo baskets under the guidance of the grandfather.
After the existing bamboo was used up, the grandfather took Gu Xiaoxi to cut bamboo.
In this way, Gu Xiaoxi actually learned the bamboo weaving craft from his grandfather.
Seeing that she was humble and eager to learn, the master taught her everything he knew and did his best.
In the evening, the rain started to fall again after a day's rest. Although it was not heavy, it was still a drizzle and quite annoying.
Gu Xiaoxi ate a steamed bun made of two pieces of flour that Sister Feng Xia brought to him, and then sat in the tent to rest.
It was raining outside and the ground was a little damp, so she quietly dried the ground, then carried a bundle of straw out of the new product showroom and spread it on the ground.
After listening to the sound of rain for a while, she felt a little bored, so she just used the straw as bamboo and weaved things for fun.
Just after she finished making a small straw basket, she discovered that the Skill Mall had updated her with a new skill.
Weaving Master (needs 2 merit points)
Gu Xiaoxi earned two merit points when he repaired the rice mill and tractor in the morning. After using them up now, the merit points returned to 0.
She thought that the trade-in system might not want her merits to last overnight!
However, she was free anyway, and Lu Jiansen and the others had not returned yet, so she just wrote some text to kill time.
Then, she turned on her weaving skills and suddenly weaved a straw mat that looked quite neat.
She spread the straw mat on the straw and wove herself a pair of straw sandals.
I found that they were not irritating to my feet and could be worn for a few days as a temporary change from slippers, so I started weaving men's straw sandals again.
She didn't know the size of Lu Jiansen's feet, so she estimated the size and made ten pairs of shoes in various sizes.
It was ten o'clock, and Lu Jiansen and the others had not returned yet, so she went to bed.
Lu Jiansen was busy until one o'clock in the morning before returning home in the rain.
Seeing that the little girl was already asleep, he slowed down his movements.
Because of the dampness and coldness on his body, he didn't dare to get too close to her.
When his eyes fell on the straw mat on the ground and a pile of straw sandals nearby, his heart softened instantly.
Finding that the straw sandals were of different sizes, he wisely picked a pair that he could wear and gave the others to others.
During this outing, many soldiers' clothes and shoes got wet, and after returning to the camp, many people were drying their clothes and shoes.
Everyone was surprised to see the battalion commander suddenly send out shoes.
But because they knew their sister-in-law was asleep, everyone spoke very quietly.
"Divide them among yourselves and take turns wearing them!" Lu Jiansen threw down his shoes and went back to the tent.
Because of the rain, the day was getting colder and colder, and he felt reluctant to let the little girl suffer and freeze outside.
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The next day.
The first battalion left the village and went to the next brigade.
Before he arrived at the destination, Gu Xiaoxi encountered a good thing. A lot of supplies that had been washed away from the village flowed into a valley.
Some early-rising villagers spontaneously organized themselves and were looking for useful things here.
Gu Xiaoxi naturally joined them.
The first thing she picked up was a small dress that was worn by two or three-year-olds. It was not new and was covered in mud, but it was not damaged in any way.
Seeing a puddle not far away, she walked over, washed the water, and put it into the straw basket in her hand.
When no one was paying attention, she threw it back into the junk storage and replaced it with a new one.
Afterwards, she picked up several pieces of clothing, trousers, and even a pair of men's cloth shoes.
She washed the items thoroughly, then put the oldest and most worn ones into a second-hand goods store to be exchanged for new ones, while those that could be worn after washing were just left there.
She originally wanted to put that single shoe in the new product showroom and take it out later when she found a matching pair.
Unexpectedly, the new product showroom gave her three magical choices.
1. A new pair of shoes for the child, exactly half the size of the adult shoe.
2. Two pairs of mini children's shoes, half the size of the previous pair.
3. Three pairs of even smaller toy shoes? The sizes are still half and half.
Gu Xiaoxi was amused by what she saw, and finally she chose the new pair of shoes, size 20, which could fit more people.
When the busy Lu Jiansen looked over from a distance, he saw the little girl smiling, and he couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.
The little girl seems to like picking things up!
After a while, Gu Xiaoxi dug out another tangled handkerchief from the mud.
She saw that the handkerchief was tied into many knots, as if it was wrapped with something. She tried to untie it but found it too strenuous, so she threw it into the junkyard.
Then, she saw a clean white handkerchief, two clear jade bracelets, seven pairs of exquisite old jade earrings, and two top-quality jade bracelets in the new product showroom.
Gu Xiaoxi feels that he is so lucky!
Now these things are not allowed to be worn, and it is still a crime to take them out. Naturally, they were picked by her, so they belong to her!
Perhaps it was good fortune that she found a large bag of money from a rag bag in the mud.
It was a very thick pile, rolled into a ball, and it felt like there were several hundred pieces.
Her expression was blank for a moment, then she squatted by the water and washed herself with the cleansing technique.
When she found that some of them were extremely rotten, she sighed, then quietly replaced them with new ones, wet them again, and called Lu Jiansen who was not too far away.
"Lu Jiansen, come here quickly! I have picked up money! It looks like a lot!"
She could keep the jewelry and jade, but she had no intention of keeping the money for herself.
There are so many villagers affected by the disaster and they are suffering so much. This money can give them some hope.
When she shouted, not only Lu Jiansen came over, but also the nearby warriors and villagers from afar came running over.
When they saw the big bag of wet money, everyone was stunned.
"Sister-in-law is so lucky!" a soldier exclaimed.