Old Man Chen: "Da Ya, from now on, you should leave 100 stone spears and 50 stone hoes with Sha Niu. Take them out when you need them. Once you take them all out, you can't put them back in. Chen Nong's buns can't hold that many."
Daya: "Okay, by the way, there are also 16 stone axes and 20 stone shovels. Do you want to take them out and use them?"
Old Man Chen thought for a moment and said, "Take out the stone shovel. We'll be opening the kiln this afternoon, and we'll need it."
Then he said to the fourth brother, "Take out 50 stone spears, 50 hoes, and 5 pottery jars, and hand them over to the team so they can come and get them themselves."
As soon as Old Man Chen and his group came out, they heard that the team could collect water. Today, each family could collect half a ceramic jar of water, and the guards and patrols could collect an extra bamboo tube of water.
Seeing Old Man Chen and the others come out, the village chief immediately came up to them: "Where's the thing you promised me?"
Old Man Chen: "Ten stone spears, five stone hoes, and one pottery jar. Fifth Brother, take him inside to get them."
Village chief: "It was promised that we would also provide water, for my family and for the team."
Old Man Chen: "Go inside, they have everything."
Sanya ran back to the thatched hut first and asked Daya to bring out a block of ice.
The old man said, "Tell the village chief to come and get it later. There's too much stuff here, we can't fit it all."
Just as the sheep was being carried out, Wu Dahai was leading people to set up a scaffold.
The five wooden beds that Daya brought out later had their bedding piled onto one bed. The other four bed frames had to be moved out and dismantled, but the wooden planks were still useful.
The Chen family slaughtered another sheep, attracting many children to watch. The adults who came to watch the excitement saw the Chen family bring out four wooden bed frames and were immediately curious. Was this also a gift from their ancestors?
The second son is dismantling a wooden bed; he plans to use the planks to make a wheelbarrow, since his family managed to snag a wheel yesterday.
An older woman walked over and said, "Chen Lao Er, you have so many planks of wood, can you share a few with me? If you can't use them all, you'll just cut them down and burn them, what a waste!"
At this moment, an uncle who had come to the Chen family to collect the things to be handed over to the team came over. "After they finish using the things, they have to hand them over to the team first. The team still has two wheels, but they need planks to make wheelbarrows."
They don't have the tools now, and even if they have wood, they can't saw it into planks.
The woman said urgently, "After the team uses it, can you give me a few yuan? My family also has a wheelbarrow, and we need it urgently because we need it to travel tomorrow."
The village chief's wife approached Zhou, saying, "Do you have any more wooden planks? You must save some for me."
Zhou: "Don't worry, there's more, I'll give it to you later."
Zhou took out a bamboo mat and spread it on the ground.
Zhou borrowed two more bamboo mats and spread them out on the ground. The second son's wife also brought out bed sheets and quilt covers.
The village chief's wife laughed and said, "Did your family steal such good stuff yesterday?"
Zhou said, "It wasn't stolen; it was a gift from our ancestor."
After saying that, Zhou brought out a quilt insert with the thin gauze just cut open.
The village chief's wife was extremely excited when she saw the quilt insert, but then she saw that they had cut up the quilt cover and exclaimed in anguish, "You've taken the quilt apart?"
Zhou rolled her eyes. "If you're not going to take the quilts off, then give us cotton-padded jackets to wear!"
Seeing that Zhou had already started taking apart the quilt, the village chief's wife couldn't help but put down her needlework and go over.
"It's all cotton! This cotton is really good. It would be so warm to make a padded jacket. Can I have some?"
Zhou: "Could you lend me some of your fabric? Everyone saw you managed to snatch some last night."
The village chief's wife said, "I'll give you half a bolt of cloth, and you give me six pounds of cotton."
She saw it; there were several duvet covers, and there must have been quite a few duvet inserts.
Zhou ignored her completely. She wasn't stupid. This quilt only weighed about six or seven pounds. She thought she could exchange the fabric of a piece of clothing for her quilt? Dream on.
The second son's wife took the scissors and began cutting Zhou Zhu's clothes.
"Mother, should we make a double-layered or a single-layered one for my uncle?"
"Make double-layered underwear for my good son, Xiaotian, and Xiaobao, and then make them a single-layered set of undershirts and pants."
The village chief's wife was determined to get the cotton. "Then tell me, how much do you want!" Her family needed cotton to make cotton-padded clothes, otherwise how would they survive the winter?
Zhou didn't answer, but left it to air out for a while and went back to the thatched shed to get the curtain fabric.
The village chief and his team had already taken their things and left. Zhou looked at the dry grass that had just been covered with ice and was now wet, and called out, "Sanhua, come here for a moment and take this wet dry grass outside to dry."
After Sanhua came in, she said happily, "Da Ya, can we sleep in the bed tonight?"
Daya: "Yeah, let's put the beds together so more people can sleep in it. This bed is so comfortable, we won't be cold at night anymore."
Chen Kai suddenly remembered that he hadn't taken out the first aid kit to check. Everyone was so happy when they saw the wooden bed that they almost forgot about it.
Chen Kai walked into the thatched shed and said to Daya, "Daya, take out the first aid kit and take a look. I almost forgot."
Soon, a white first aid kit appeared on Daya's bed. Chen Kai opened it and found six rolls of bandages and some herbs inside.
Daya asked curiously, "Uncle, what's inside? Is it useful?"
Chen Kai said happily, "Very useful. There are herbs and bandages inside. Da Ya, take out nine more."
Chen Nong said happily, "There are bandages! That's great! Uncle Qi can get new bandages now!"
The seventh brother's external injuries were already quite severe, requiring frequent changes of dressings and bandages. Since they were robbed of everything, they had run out of cloth and other materials, and the bandages the seventh brother was using hadn't been changed. If he didn't constantly alternate between the front and back and move them around to apply, the bandages would have long since stuck to the wounds.
Chen Kai happily ran out and asked a boy who was watching the sheep slaughter to help him call the doctor over.
Chen Kai ran to the seventh brother, who was helping to make the wheelbarrow, and said happily, "Seventh brother, go and fill up the water. We'll clean the wound and change the dressing later. There are bandages."
Old Man Chen and his family soon received the news. The doctor looked at the herbs in the first aid kit and told them that the herbs were very suitable for treating external injuries.
Old Man Chen was very happy. He told everyone on his side who was still injured to have their dressings and bandages changed again. He also gave two first-aid kits to the doctor and handed over five more first-aid kits to the team.
When the village chief found out that the Chen family had obtained such good things, he shamelessly came to ask for them again, because his family was also short of bandages and herbs.
Old Man Chen had no choice but to give him one, and one was quite a lot, containing six rolls of bandages and some herbs.
When the village chief of Lotus Village saw that the Chen family was making clothes, he came up with an idea. He asked people to make several rectangular embroidery frames of different sizes out of bamboo strips. These frames could hold the fabric pieces taut, so that two or three people could sew the clothes together, which would be faster.
As soon as this good idea was proposed, Zhou immediately put it into practice. To thank the village chief of Lotus Village for providing the embroidery frame, he gave him 3 stone spears, 3 stone hoes, and 6 bundles of sugarcane roots.
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