Daya opened the warehouse, looked at the pattern "28 ice cubes", and silently took out one.
In an instant, a large square block of ice, about 1 meter high, appeared out of thin air on the open ground next to Daya. As soon as the ice appeared, the temperature inside the thatched hut dropped several degrees, and Daya felt the cold.
Daya fell badly; even the slightest turn of her neck was excruciatingly painful. She could only catch a glimpse out of the corner of her eye, but she was too close to see the whole thing.
The one-meter-tall cube of ice stunned the children. They had never seen such a tall and large block of ice before; it was simply too big!
Er Ya exclaimed in amazement, "What a huge block of ice! How did you dig such a big block of ice, Sister Da Ya? You're amazing!"
Daya said with an unnatural expression, "It's just dug by hand. It's actually quite simple, but it's so slow!"
Er Ya: "No, Sister Daya, you're really amazing that you can dig such a big block of ice, and it's even square!"
Chen Kai's mind was filled with Da Ya's words: "Digging by hand is no wonder it's slow. If you want to get rich, start by cutting down trees. Get a tool first, it'll be much more efficient."
After her initial excitement subsided, Er Ya exclaimed, "Let's quickly grab the hammer and smash the ice to pieces, then pack it up!"
Just then, Old Man Chen and the others came in. When they saw such a large piece of ice, they were so excited that they almost screamed.
"Hurry up, get the tools and smash it!"
The eldest son's wife and the others moved Daya, Chen Nong, Zhou Kai, and Xiao Bao to the other side, afraid that the ice blocks would hurt them when they were broken later.
When Daya was moved, she was in excruciating pain, but she also saw the ice block she had just taken out.
It's unbelievable! When we dug it up, although it was a large piece, it wasn't this big. Also, when we saw it before, it was light blue, but now it looks just like the ice blocks here.
System: "Some things in the Mini World may seem abnormal to the host, but they will all be normal once they are brought to your world."
The blocks in Mini World would be 1 meter in scale if you took them from your world.
Daya: "Is 1 meter the same as just now?"
System: "Yes!"
Daya told everyone what Sha Niu had said. These ancient people finally had a concept of the unit 1 meter; they realized it was so tall and long! 1 meter is equivalent to more than 3 feet in their region.
The eldest son's wife wielded an axe with great force, as all the men in the family had gone to burn charcoal and watch the water, so they had to do the work themselves.
Old Man Chen was both happy and worried. "These jars aren't enough. Bring two water buckets over, cut them open, and make two holes on each side. We can then string straw ropes through them and use them as water buckets."
They only have four water barrels, and they need to keep two for easy water transport. The second son has already polished out wooden stoppers for the water barrels. Once the wooden stoppers are in place, the water won't spill.
After the eldest son's wife smashed a large hole, she stopped and put the fallen ice into a container first, otherwise it would melt into water and seep into the ground, and then they would have nowhere to cry.
Sanya happily picked up ice cubes, but after only a few, she filled her family's earthenware jar to the brim.
When Old Man Chen and the others heard Daya say that there were still 27 pieces of ice, Zhou waved her hand and said, "Bring out all your bamboo tubes, and each of you fill one tube to drink."
The children exclaimed excitedly, "Yay! We have water to drink!"
Er Ya was thirsty, so she quickly grabbed a large bamboo tube and put ice cubes inside.
"Ouch~ It's so cold!" Holding ice in your hands is really cold.
At this moment, Chen Kai came in carrying a bamboo basket of wooden sticks. "Use the sticks to hold the ice. Holding the ice for too long will freeze your hands."
Old Chen borrowed several earthenware jars from the team's supplies management office, and soon they were all filled.
The opening of the mineral water bottle is too small to easily put ice cubes in, and they are reluctant to cut off the bottle opening.
Zhou had no choice but to say, "Sanya, bring out all our bamboo tubes. Fatty, go and borrow bamboo tubes from the team. Borrow as many as you can."
It took the second son's wife and her husband a lot of effort to cut open the tops of the two water jugs.
Chen Xiaohua exclaimed, "This bucket is really sturdy; it took us so long to cut it open."
The second son's wife said with difficulty, "The knife is too dull."
Da Ya just wants to sleep or even faint right now. Being awake is too painful. Her whole body aches terribly. She really doesn't know how she's going to get through this. It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone!
"Chen family! Do you need a ceramic pot? I have one, but we don't need it. You can borrow it for now," an old woman called out from outside.
Zhou said, "Niu Niu, go and bring in the pottery jar, and also bring her bamboo tube while you're at it."
After Niu Niu came in carrying the jar, Grandma Liu picked up the bamboo tube that was in the jar and put two ice cubes that fit perfectly into the tube.
"Niu Niu, go and return it to her!"
This old woman was the one who told the children to get straw to cushion their fall when Daya and the others were about to fall.
After the Chen family's child had the accident, many people in the group helped. Yesterday, the Chen family borrowed a pottery jar, but no one else could lend one. Few families had pottery jars; some had already been requisitioned to brew medicine.
The earthenware jar at the old woman's house was something her daughter-in-law had just traded with the refugee team outside by exchanging a carrying pole and a basket. She had just brought it back and was planning to hand it over to the team for temporary use, but when she heard that the Chen family was short of earthenware jars and was borrowing them from various people, she took it from them.
The old woman took the bamboo tube, saw that it contained ice, and said gratefully, "Thank you, Chen family!"
Zhou shouted from inside, "My ancestors have appeared again! We need containers to hold ice. Bring all your bamboo tubes over so we can borrow them."
The old woman readily agreed, "Alright!"
After the ice blocks were filled, the eldest son's wife continued smashing them.
Er Ya and the others carried the earthenware jars filled with ice outside one by one. The sun was out, so the ice would melt quickly, allowing them to fill the mineral water buckets with the melted water as soon as possible.
Er Ya arranged the earthenware jars neatly in rows and said to San Ya, "San Ya, you watch the ice outside and don't let anyone touch it, understand?"
Sanya said, "Don't worry, I won't let anyone steal our ice!"
The eldest daughter-in-law smashed another big hole, and everyone continued pretending.
The two water buckets had been cut open, and everyone filled them with ice.
After the two large buckets of ice were filled, there was still a lot of ice left on the ground, so everyone used packing boxes and bamboo tubes to put it away.
Zhou was overjoyed and said with a smile, "Eldest daughter-in-law, keep smashing!"
Erniu closed each of the takeout boxes, then took them out and placed them in rows with the pottery jars.
Just then, Fatty returned, followed by two boys, each carrying a load of bamboo tubes.
After putting down the load, a boy said, "Last time, we didn't collect much bamboo. Each family only made four or five bamboo tubes. That's not much. We'll go borrow some more. We still have some left."
Erniu happily exclaimed, "Okay!"
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