Chapter 193: The Women Digging Bamboo Shoots
Chapter 193: The Women Digging Bamboo Shoots
Wang Yuan continues to build the house. The frame has been set up. Now the floor of the attic needs to be paved. Bamboo is arranged and fixed as the floor. However, bamboo is relatively flexible, so it needs to be supported by wood underneath.
Wang Yuan measured the length with a rope, then cut the wood, carried the wood to the floor, built two pieces of wood as supports, measured the height, adjusted the position, and fixed it with a rope.
Cut the bamboo to the width of the floor with a hacksaw. Only the lower ends of the nine bamboos can be used, and the upper ends are too thin and can only be used for walls.
After fixing the bamboo, I went up and stepped on it, and it was okay and very strong.
At this time, Dahei and Xiaosun came back with three bamboos each.
Wang Yuan asked, "Are those women picking mushrooms?"
"Well, it's all very exciting."
"Okay, you guys continue to cut bamboo. I'll be there in a while. We need a lot of bamboo."
"Okay." Dahei and Xiaosun went back to chop bamboo.
Wang Yuan sawed off six pieces of bamboo and fixed them up, and used the leftover bamboo to build a few shelves beside them for drying bedding.
I went to the stream to hang the washed quilts to dry, and then said to the two daughters: "Big sister Zhou, Mr. Jiang, I'm going to cut bamboo. Sister Fang and the others are picking mushrooms. You can go over to help after washing."
"Okay, are there a lot of mushrooms over there?" Jiang Yan asked.
"There are quite a lot, and there are bamboo shoots."
"Really. Then let's wash it quickly, so we can go and help." Zhou big sister said happily.
Wang Yuan turned around and left with the machete.
As soon as they arrived at the edge of the woods, they ran into Zhang Lanfang's three daughters. Ren Yuanyuan said happily, "Captain, there are so many mushrooms! Our backpacks are full."
"Then have you finished picking?"
"Only the little ones are left."
"Okay, send it back and put it away first, and call last week's big sister and the others to dig bamboo shoots together."
"Okay, okay!"
When they arrived at the bamboo forest, Dahei and Xiaosun each dragged three bamboos back to transport them.
Wang Yuan brandished the machete and chopped the bamboo vigorously.
After a while, everyone came together.
"Sister Fang, you girls, go dig bamboo shoots. Dahei and Xiaosun chop bamboo first, and at the end everyone will transport it back together."
"Okay." Everyone responded.
Then the bamboo fell down one by one. The three of them did not chop at one place, but specifically picked those thick
bamboo hands.
After four o'clock, all the girls' backpacks were full of bamboo shoots. When they came back together, Ren Yuanyuan shouted: "Captain, our backpacks are full."
"Okay, let's take a break and go back together in a while."
Everyone sat on the bamboo, and the girls put down their backpacks. Zhang Lanfang said, "Captain, this bamboo forest is so big that we can't even dig out all the bamboo shoots."
"It's okay, I'll dig it up after eating these, I guess new ones will grow by then." Wang Yuan picked up a bamboo shoot, peeled off the bamboo shoot, cut off a small piece with a dagger, tasted it, it was a sweet shoot .
Zheng Liwan asked curiously: "Captain, can bamboo shoots be eaten raw?"
"Hehe, no, there are sweet and bitter bamboo shoots, and the bitter ones need to be blanched and soaked in water a few times to remove the bitterness before they can be eaten. We just happen to have sweet ones."
"Oh."
Seeing that everyone had almost rested, he crushed out the cigarette butts, got up and said, "Okay, let's go back."
"Okay, let's go." Everyone got up one after another.
Wang Yuan picked up three bamboos and followed the two kings to open the way ahead, and everyone returned to the camp in a mighty manner.
"Well, Sister Fang, Mr. Jiang, you can cook, and the rest of you can go back to carry the bamboo with me. There are two more trips before dark."
"Okay, okay." Everyone responded.
Three men and three women got into the bamboo forest again, not a grove.
"Wow, it's so heavy!"
"Yes! This bamboo is thick and long, and it's too heavy."
"You girls can just move one tree, and if you can't carry it, you can drag it away."
"Oh."
At this time, Zhou's big sister dragged away with a bamboo in each hand.
Wang Yuan asked in surprise: "Yo ho! Zhou big sister, what did you do before?"
"I'm a farmer." The dialect came out.
"Then can you hit ten?"
"Pfft!" The bamboo that everyone had finally picked up fell down.
"Hahaha……"
The six people talked and laughed and moved the bamboo twice, and the sky gradually darkened.
The meal was ready and served, and everyone sat around the table to prepare to eat.
"Sister Fang, do you have any wine? Let's have a drink to relieve fatigue." Wang Yuan asked.
"Yes, I brought all the wine today, and there are still a few boxes of drinks in the shelter."
"All right, give me a bottle of Louis XIII."
Zhang Lanfang rolled her beautiful eyes, threw him a bottle of brandy, and said, "What do you want?"
Ren Yuanyuan raised her hand: "Red
liquor. "
"Okay, just the wine bar."
Stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots, stewed beef with potatoes, seafood ham and mushroom soup, and fed Erwang two large pieces of dried shark meat.
“This soup is so fresh!”
"good to eat!"
"Hua Guo..."
"Shut up!" the crowd yelled.
"Cough... woo..." Dahei looked aggrieved, and I haven't finished speaking yet.
When everyone was full, Wang Yuan asked, "Zhou big sister, is the bedding dry?"
"I checked, and it's still a little wet. Fortunately, we fished out a lot of quilts, and half of them haven't been washed."
"Okay then, take back the bedding and dry it tomorrow."
"Okay." The girls went to collect the bedding.
Wang Yuan gave Dahei a rope: "Dahei, cut off the lower part of the bamboo according to the length of the rope. Xiaosun, clean up the branches and leaves of the bamboo."
"ok."
Wang Yuan picked up a fire ax to chop wood for table legs, and prepared to make a table.
Cut the bamboo to a certain length, drill holes with a chisel, fix the bamboo and the table legs, and make a table frame about 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1 meter high.
The girls came over after collecting the quilts, and Zhang Lanfang asked, "Captain, are you going to make a table?"
"Well, if you have nothing to do, make one, we use it for dinner."
"Okay." All the girls worked together to make a low table.
Wang Yuan split the bamboo from the middle into bamboo slices, cut the bamboo slices according to the width of the tabletop and laid them on the table, tied them firmly with ropes, and a table was ready. Put the gas stove on it, put the seasoning in bottles and jars on the other side, and put the pots and pans under the table for the time being.
"Hehehe, the table we made is also very beautiful!"
"Yeah, it's still very strong." The girls also finished the low table.
"Tud chug..." At this moment, the roar of the helicopter engine came from a distance.
"No, hurry up! Spread out and hide!" Wang Yuan shouted.
The crowd blew out the oil lamps and scattered to the hillsides on both sides.
The sound of the engine was getting closer, but it did not appear over the camp. The two helicopters only flew over from north to south in the east.
It wasn't until the sound faded away that everyone returned to the shed.
"Okay, very good. In the future, if you encounter danger, you must disperse and dodge like this. Don't get together to prevent being caught in a pot." Wang Yuan found himself, Dahei, Xiaosun, and Jiang Yan running to the west hillside, while the other women ran away. Went to the east slope.
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