Fisherman

After the four people ate almost, there was still a lot of chicken soup left in the pot.

Zhao Qian looked at the eyes of everyone looking into the pot from time to time, and she knew it in her heart. After thinking for a while, she said, "If anyone wants to drink chicken soup, come and drink."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. In fact, they had been longing for him to say this for a long time, but because of face, no one was embarrassed.

After a while, someone still stood up impatiently, it was a woman: "Zhao Qian, I'll add a bowl for Da Zhu to drink."

Zhao Qian didn't say anything, just nodded.

With the woman taking the lead, the rest of the villagers were eager to try, and some people went to scoop up chicken soup to drink one after another.

The pot of chicken soup soon bottomed out, and everyone put bowls in their hands, and the expression of enjoying the soup was revealed from time to time. Zhao Qian felt that it was a lie to be indifferent to the previous indifference, but human nature is like this, And he couldn't let everyone go on like this. When everyone's soup was about to finish, he suddenly said loudly: "Fellow folks, we are all trapped on the mountain now. Seeing the weather getting colder every day, if everyone Sweeping the snow in front of the door, I'm afraid no one can survive."

Hearing this, after tasting the hot chicken soup, the villagers who were warming up couldn't help but have a meal, someone sighed faintly, and the air became very solemn.

Zhao Qian continued: "So now everyone must unite."

Everyone knows his reputation, so everyone naturally didn't think he was reliable, but after drinking other people's chicken soup, as the saying goes, it makes people soft-mouthed, and there was really nothing to do for a while, so they asked: "Then what should we do?" what to do?"

"I counted, and there are 22 people in our cave. Ten men, twelve children, women and girls. Now we divide the work into groups. The men are divided into two groups, and one group goes out to peel palm skins. Find something that can keep out the cold, and the other group will go out to find food." He said what he had been thinking about for a long time.

It was arranged and organized. Everyone's flustered hearts calmed down a little, and they all listened to his arrangement seriously.

"Then what are we doing?" a woman asked.

"The people who stay in the cave are responsible for cleaning up all the things in the cave, washing all the pots and pans that can be used, and taking some water for use to clean the cave. Since everyone lives here now, it is You have to tidy up here and take care of it as your own family." This job is indeed easier for women, but it is raining heavily outside, men's bodies can't resist it, women's bodies can't bear it, and when the time comes, they will have a fever and get sick But there is no medicine that can cure the disease.

"The weather will be fine by then, and you are going out to do things, do you have any comments?"

"No, no." When it came to cleaning, the women, brothers and girls who stayed in the cave were very confident and assured Zhao Qian that they could handle it well, and this arrangement was indeed right, considering the weak.

Zhao Qian nodded in satisfaction, and then asked the rest of the men, "Do you have any comments?"

"No, let's hurry up and start."

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In fact, Zhao Qian originally wanted the two teams to find food, and brother to peel the palm skin. After all, brother Zhou is much stronger than women, but Zhou brother's legs are not convenient. If we arrange this way at that time, Brother Zhou will definitely feel in his heart that he has not done his best for everyone, and feels uncomfortable in his heart. Although the two of them haven't been together for a long time, and he doesn't know Brother Zhou very well, but thinking of this possibility, he doesn't want it to happen.

Before leaving, he brought a group of people, and Hu San'er brought another pair of people. Everyone took all the tools they could bring, and packed up the things that should be packed.

Taking advantage of this time, he went to the granddaughter of the bullock cart master. The little girl was sitting alone in the corner, and the grandfather was about to go out with them to look for food again. It looked even more pitiful, so he squatted down gently.

Li Xiaoxiao, the granddaughter of the bullock cart master, shrank back, her grandfather was not by her side, and Zhao Qian was not as playful as before, looking a little vicious.

Seeing the little girl's movements, Zhao Qian felt helpless about his own face. He tried his best to make himself look amiable: "Can I ask you something?"

Li Xiaoxiao blinked his eyes, didn't expect him to say that, and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

Zhao Qian leaned closer to the little girl's ear, and said, "When I go out, can you watch Brother Shaoyu for me, please tell me if anyone bullies him."

"Brother Shaoyu?"

"Well, do you know me?"

The little girl glanced in Brother Zhou's direction: "I know him."

"Can you help me then?"

The little girl seemed to have a mission herself, and said solemnly: "Okay."

Zhao Qian's eyes became curved, she patted Xiaoxiao's head, and stood up again: "Then I'll leave it to you."

Brother Zhou looked at the two suspiciously, but he didn't know what he said. He just felt that Zhao Qian smiled gently at the little girl.

After packing up, the group left the cave separately.

Among the four men brought by Zhao Qian, one of them was Xiaoxiao's grandfather, old man Li.Everyone walked down the mountain in the rain, and Zhao Qian led the way: "I went up the mountain two days ago and saw chestnut trees. Let's pick some."

With a purpose, everyone walked quickly, and soon found the chestnut tree, which was washed by the strong wind and heavy rain. There were many chestnuts scraped off under the chestnut tree, many of which were scraped off together with the thorns. There are also some branches that have been blown off.

"I'll go up the tree and get some down. Which one of you will go up the tree with me?" He said while rolling up his trousers and taking off his cloth shoes to make it easier to go up the tree.

A man who followed said, "I'll come."

The two quickly tidied up. Zhao Qian first ran up the trunk holding the trunk. Trees in rainy days are much more difficult to climb than in sunny days. Not to mention that the trunk is wet and slippery, even if the rain hits your face with your head up, it is annoying. .

He went up, and another man followed closely. When climbing up with the tree trunk in his arms, he accidentally slipped, and the people under the tree were shocked. Old man Li said: "Be careful, hold on tight."

After all, they were people floating on the sea, so they were not repelled by this fright. After the two climbed up smoothly, they began to pick chestnuts and throw them to the ground together with thin branches.

"Go away, don't get hit." The two of them jumped up and down the tree like monkeys, and after picking all the places they could pick, Zhao Qian said: "Whoever of you is going to chop two sticks, you can only It's time to hit."

Old man Li has a knife: "I'll go."

The two waited on the tree, and the people under the tree picked up the chestnuts and piled them up. The thorns of the chestnuts were bound up, and there was no one to hold things. There was no way. A young man under the tree went to pull some grass and vines , Tie the chestnuts into several small bundles.

"We know how to weave baskets again in our cave. Is there anyone who carries them?" Zhao Qian asked, pawing at the tree.

"I will." As soon as the words fell, Old Man Li came back carrying two long wooden sticks.

"Yes, when Master Li drove the ox cart to the market, he would take the baskets we made at home and carry them to the market to sell." The two people under the tree agreed.

"Then I'll have to trouble Master Li to make up some baskets, otherwise it's really hard to put things in." Zhao Qian said.

Old man Li smiled kindly with a dark face: "Sure, I'll go and chop some materials back to the cave, and I'll teach the people in the cave to make up more."

As he said that, the old man handed the stick to the two people on the tree, turned around and went to cut the weaving materials again.

With a long wooden stick, it is much more convenient to hit chestnuts in the distance. After about half an hour of touching, the two of them started to hit all the places they could hit. The chestnuts in the basket seemed to be a lot, but there were more than [-] people in the cave, so I didn't know if this would be enough for a meal.

The man who went up the tree with Zhao Qian lifted up his long coat and pocketed the chestnuts. He carried a few bundles of other bundles, and Old Man Li carried his materials.

Everyone walked back together. They couldn't hold too many things in their hands, so they had to take them back and come out to find food.