Seeing this scene, Ding was so anxious that she burst into tears. She didn't dare to come forward, so she only tried to dissuade her: "Mom, they went to work in the mountains after all. The weather was bad, so they came back late."
"Shut up, mom!" Zhou When the old woman heard Ding's words, her swear words became even more unpleasant, "You old hen that can't lay eggs is useless! You gave birth to a litter of losers to harm me, and you dare to talk back to me! Beat me to death if you don't see me." You!"
"Mom, this must be a son in my belly! I will give you a big fat grandson."
"You better give birth to me this time. Grandson, if there is another loser, I will let Dashan divorce you, and then get out of here with you bunch of losers."
As he said this, he took a mouthful of foul-smelling smoke. The phlegm spat on Ding's body.
Mrs. Ding's body trembled, but she did not dare to wipe the dirt on her body. She just responded solemnly: "Mom, don't worry, this time it will definitely be your son."
Mrs. Zhou He snorted coldly and continued to scold: "Humph, it's better to be like this, otherwise you will be able to look good. Go to work for me, don't stand here and be an eyesore."
Chen Wanrong and Chen Wanling hurried forward. Helping Mrs. Ding up, Mrs. Ding wiped the tears from her eyes and steeled herself to join her daughters.
When Mrs. Zhou saw them helping Ding, she didn’t know where they had offended her. While cursing, she hit them hard with the broom: "Get out of here, move slowly, and see if I don't break your legs!"
"Mom, you go in the house to do some sewing, I and I Sanya, go do the work," Chen Wanrong said softly to Ding.
Before the two of them came back, Ding must have been handling all the household chores alone. But she didn't dare to directly ask Ding to rest, so she could only suggest that she do some relatively easy work.
Usually at this time in the afternoon, it is time to prepare pig food, so the two of them turned around and went to the backyard.
They took out a basket of old wild vegetables and weeds from the corner, picked up their kitchen knives and started chopping pig food. The sound of "dong dong dong" echoed in the small courtyard, and the sisters' hands did not stop for a moment.
After the pig food was chopped, Chen Wanrong laboriously moved a large basket of good pig food to the stove, while Chen Wanrong was responsible for lighting the fire.
After the fire was lit, Chen Wanrong added water to the pot, poured in the chopped pig food, and started cooking. When the pig food was cooked, it was steaming hot, and the sisters' faces were covered with sweat.
Finally, the pig food was cooked. Chen Wanrong and Chen Wanling each carried a heavy bucket of pig food, walked to the pig pen step by step, and poured the pig food into the pig trough. Seeing the pig eating happily, the two sisters breathed a sigh of relief.
They stood outside the pigsty, wiping the sweat from their foreheads. On an autumn afternoon, even after the rain, the air is still humid and muggy.
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After sisters Chen Wanrong and Chen Wanling left, Chen Wanbai quietlyStanding at the door of the kitchen, looking at the non-stop autumn rain outside the house. The rain hit the eaves, making a pitter-pattering sound, which stirred a trace of boredom and loss in her heart.
She originally planned to go into the mountains this afternoon, hoping to collect more mushrooms and sell them for some money. She didn't sell the prey she caught in the trap recently, thinking of leaving it to Liu to replenish her health.
But now, the rain keeps coming, and her plan has come to nothing again. She couldn't help but sigh, feeling a little helpless and regretful in her heart.
Looking up at the gray sky, she thought about what to do next.
Remembering that when we were having dinner just now, there were only two chairs for the three of us, so we moved a large wooden pile for Chen Wanrong to sit on.
So she decided to make a bamboo stool.
Making a bamboo stool is not difficult. She had made it in her previous life. Although it didn’t look very pretty, it was functional.
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Chen Wanbai walked to the bamboo pile on the side of the house, picked out two even and tough bamboos, and dragged them into the main room.
Then, he went to the room and brought the carpentry tools that he had bought from Lao Zhengtou: digging knives, saws, rulers, chisels, wooden drills, etc.
Because you only need to make a bamboo stool for eating and sitting, without a backrest, it is relatively simple.
She first used a saw to cut off two 38-inch long bamboo joints to use as stool legs. Then saw two bamboo joints twelve inches long and use them as the sides of the stool. Then use a hatchet to peel off the outer skin of the bamboo pole to expose the smooth bamboo material inside.
In addition, saw several equal-length sections, and use a hatchet to carefully split them into bamboo strips of the same width, about nine minutes wide, and sharpened at both ends. You will need about fourteen strands for a length of about twelve inches and six cents, and two for a length of about 18 inches.
Then, she picked up a hatchet and carefully scraped off the burrs and ridges on the bamboo strips to make them smooth and flat. I also cut some bamboo nails for final fixing.
After the preparations were completed, Chen Wanbai sat on a wooden pile and began to make a bamboo stool. (Side length, height: 45cm)
She took out the bamboo section of the stool leg, used a hatchet to cut a groove at thirteen and a half inches, and then used a digging knife to dig the groove deeper. Dig a small hole about three inches up from the bottom of the stool leg, and do the same at the other end.
Then dig another hole about nine inches from the bottom for the side stool leg, and the same for the other end.
Dig the two stool legs in the same manner and set them aside for later use.
Then, she took out the two bamboo joints used as the edges of the stool, cut a slit vertically (but did not cut them off), polished off the burrs, and then polished the smooth and pointed ends. Arrange the bamboo strips horizontally one by one, put them into the bamboo joints and clamp them, turn it over, and insert two eighteen-inch long bamboo strips diagonally on the back of the stool. In this way, a stool surface is completed.
She took two stool legs, a stool surface and six bamboo strips togetherGo to the kitchen.
Chen Wanbai lit a fire and placed the four slots of the bamboo sections of the stool legs on the fire to heat.
When smoke emitted from the surface of the bamboo strips and made a slight crackling sound, she quickly took it out, bent it with her hands, and then inserted the edge of the stool into the groove.
After the two stool legs were bent, Chen Wanbai immediately tied them with ropes to fix them.
The other two stool legs are also operated in the same way.
Then six bamboo pieces were stuck in the previously dug holes to serve as supports for the stool.
Finally, use a wood drill to drill small holes at the intersection of the corners, drive the bamboo nails in, and saw off the excess. Bamboo nails are driven in to make the bamboo stool more stable.
After Chen Wanbai’s efforts, the bamboo stool was finally completed.
Chen Wanbai carefully inspected the bamboo stool she made to ensure that every connection point was firm and reliable. She trimmed the bamboo strips on the stool with a hatchet, making sure they were flat and had no protruding parts that would make sitting uncomfortable in the future. Then, she carefully polished the surface of the bamboo stool to make the bamboo material smoother.
After completing these tasks, Chen Wanbai stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead. She looked at the rain outside, but it still showed no sign of stopping.
Back in the main room, she looked at the remaining bamboo on the ground. She thought to herself, since she couldn't go out anyway, why not make other bamboo products.
Bamboo cups, bamboo bowls, and bamboo chopsticks are good choices whether they are for personal use or in exchange for some money.