Sigh! How could her silly girl be so useless!
Daya continued picking wild vegetables, as they would have to continue their journey after eating.
The team's meals are also cooked around this time, as the sun is strong at noon and we have to keep moving and won't stop.
Therefore, the welfare meals were distributed before setting off in the morning so that everyone could eat and get on the road quickly.
"Da Ya, how about two bundles of green grass?" Bai Ji asked.
Da Ya glanced at him and said, "Say that again!"
Bai Ji said awkwardly, "I misspoke just now. One bundle is fine, one bundle will do."
Sigh! He's willing to risk everything for the sake of the team's donkeys; he's not afraid of this little girl at all.
"Take it and leave quickly!" Daya said impatiently.
"Alright!" Bai Ji picked up a bundle of lush green grass and ran off, afraid that Daya might change her mind and take away half a bundle of grass.
Fresh grass is nowhere to be found outside, only the Chen family has it. Their donkeys are fed sugarcane leaves, banana leaves, and fresh green grass, so they are very well cared for.
After the donkeys in the team got some hay, their spirits lifted.
The problem is that it's hard to get fodder from the Chen family. They have to use all their strength and effort every day just to get a little bit back.
The fresh green grass was taken out of the warehouse by Daya. She originally thought the grass was dry grass, since the pattern was a bundle of withered yellow grass.
The withered grass outside was sparse and scattered. Their donkey would take a long time to eat and only get half full each day. So, the day before yesterday, she took out the grass from the warehouse.
Unexpectedly, it wasn't hay, but lush green grass, with wild vegetables mixed in with the weeds—it was a wonderful surprise!
In Mini World, the grass they get from weeding is used to make torches, which she also used to exchange for energy points before.
Over there, a "bundle of grass" is a smaller bundle, not very big, but when you take it out, it becomes a large bundle, enough to fill a manure basket.
Everyone was happy to have fresh hay, and now the donkeys wouldn't have to worry about feeding them.
However, what made me happiest was that there were wild vegetables among the weeds, such as shepherd's purse, dandelion, purslane, and iris... all kinds of wild vegetables.
Wild vegetables make up a small portion of a bundle of grass, but they can always pick out two or three pounds of them, which is a great harvest for them.
Despite having Xiaobao's farm producing grain, they still have to deliver several hundred kilograms of vegetables to the farm every day, and then sell some of them. They don't even have enough left for their own consumption.
In addition, some medicinal herbs were mixed in with these wild grasses, which made the team's doctor extremely happy.
The Chen family would pick out the wild vegetables from the weeds, and then give the remaining weeds to the doctor to pick out the herbs, which would be made into medicine packets, and the profits would be split 50/50.
Some medicines cannot be used directly and need to be processed, which is why the two elders of the Chen family agreed to let the doctor process the medicinal materials.
Their family provides the medicinal herbs, and the doctor provides the labor; a 50/50 split is not unreasonable.
Chen's Little Shop removed the bottled water from its shelves yesterday.
Right now, all they have is a block of ice in Daya's warehouse and two barrels of bottled water. That's all they have. They don't know if it will last until Sha Niu finishes updating.
There was only one block of ice left in the group; it was not used for cooking food or decocting medicine.
Those who earned points and stockpiled food and water at the Chen family's place are the big winners; they have enough food and water to sustain their lives.
The temperature has been dropping again and again these past few days, even below zero. Water that is usually left outside freezes overnight.
Even plants containing water, like cacti, froze into popsicles.
In such cold weather, they still have to endure the elements and sleep outdoors every day, unable to find a decent place to rest.
The closer we got to Ma'ao Village, the more refugees there were, and even more miscellaneous groups. Several times I saw them fighting each other over a village to use as a resting place.
They can't even find a village to settle in. If they want to find a village to stay in, they either have to fight with others for territory or offer supplies to others to give it up.
Unfortunately, their team was poor, and they couldn't give away food and water, let alone warm clothing.
Fighting for territory? Don't be ridiculous, their team still has over a hundred injured players.
So their team had no choice but to find a sheltered hillside to rest.
They would borrow bamboo mats from Lotus Village to block the wind, or cut some thatch to build a makeshift triangular shed.
It's so cold, and there's a draft even when we sleep. The Chen family is already using two quilts.
Like the older generation, they would keep a hand warmer with a small piece of charcoal in their quilt to warm their feet.
The younger generation also wants to, but they dare not, and are not allowed to.
These things are causing a lot of trouble. What if someone accidentally kicks over a hand warmer and starts a fire, burning someone to death?
Three days ago, Chen Kai stopped growing cacti, as the children could no longer obtain food on their own.
Now, everyone can only rely on selling charcoal to earn points at the Chen family's place to exchange for food.
After lunch, the group had to continue their journey after only a short rest.
The eldest son's wife and the others had already laid out blankets on the cart and put in hand warmers to warm the bed.
When traveling, children would sit directly on the hand warmer, wrapped in blankets.
If an adult's hands and feet get frozen, they can sit on the fire to warm themselves up, and then get off and continue walking.
The second son's carpentry team can reliably produce eight handcarts every day.
They directly modified wooden beds, so even when they were in a hurry, their output was still quite good.
Some were handed over to the team, some were used for personal purposes, and the rest were rented out. One point is awarded for every half hour a vehicle is used.
They're also for sale, 120 points per vehicle, a very affordable price.
But most people still prefer to rent, with several families sharing a vehicle.
When they were tired, their hands and feet were frozen and they couldn't walk anymore, they would sit in the car, cover themselves with blankets, warm themselves by the fire, and continue their journey, just like the others.
The Chen family distributed many sets of quilts, but although they were supposed to be recycled, no one took them out to recycle.
Even if there are enough quilts, they don't take them out to recycle; they keep the ones for covering themselves and take apart the rest to make cotton-padded jackets.
Pillows, no one kept them; they were all taken apart and used to sew cotton-padded jackets from bed sheets.
As a result, more people in the team started wearing cotton-padded coats.
In addition, the hand warmers produced in Lotus Village provided a considerable supply, and the Chen family's handcarts helped them travel, so the team's travel speed was not slowed down by the cold.
And just like that, they left the other four teams far behind, finally feeling quite satisfied.
The three village elders had long wanted to get rid of them, but they were like leeches; if you stopped, they stopped; if you left, they left.
On the surface, they go their separate ways with everyone, but secretly they take advantage of everyone's absence to provoke conflict and try to extort food and warm clothing from them. It's really annoying.
At the same time, they were also worried. All they wanted to do was get to Ma'ao Village as soon as possible, buy some supplies, and find a place to spend the winter. Otherwise, they would really freeze to death if they continued on this way.
The three village chiefs stared at the two nearly identical maps and pondered for a long time.
Both maps are made of cloth, but the materials are different, yet the routes that can be drawn on them are exactly the same.
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