Wen Xian stood outside the cave for a while. Seeing that the two were still talking, she had to turn around and leave first, and then go back in later.
She couldn't be satisfied with the moon in the sky, but she could think of other ways.
After thinking for a moment, she decided to make a chestnut cake for everyone to try.
To say what is most indispensable now, it must be chestnuts. After all, the entire chestnut tree was stripped bare by them.
In the past, there was no sugar, so I pointed to chestnuts to satisfy my hunger. Therefore, she did not think about making chestnut cake.
Now that I have the replaced sugar and some extra grain, I can make chestnut cake a few times without any problem.
He simply used the earthen stove outside to cook the chestnuts, then peeled them and put them in a basin. Then let Dali Sheng Lian'er use a homemade rolling pin to crush the chestnuts.
After crushing it, put sugar in it, then shape it, and the chestnut cake is ready.
Chestnut cake is quick to make and can be kept in cold weather. Wen Xian simply made enough at one time, and she made a hundred.
After the chestnut cakes were made, Wen Xian specially selected a few and arranged them on a plate with cut bamboo. Afterwards, he made a special trip to bring it to the cave for little Princess Jiang Lingling.
Seeing how pitiful she was crying and having her fingers broken, Wen Xian finally softened her heart.
After all, no matter what, Jiang Lingling is only fifteen years old. In my previous life, I was still in middle and high school at this age and was a serious kid.
Jiang Lingling fell asleep after crying. As soon as she opened her eyes, she smelled the fragrance of cakes. She turned her head and saw the chestnut cake placed next to her.
She thought it was an illusion, so she closed her eyes and opened them again, but the chestnut cake was still there.
Jiang Lingling suddenly sat up and looked at the three chestnut cakes beside her in disbelief. It was neither eating nor eating.
Fang Jiaren, who was heating the porridge, smiled at her and said, "Eat quickly, my wife has specially prepared this for you."
There were only two of them in the cave, everyone else was busy outside.
Jiang Lingling pointed back at herself and said in disbelief: "Did you make a special trip for me?"
Whether she was awake or in a dream, how could the madam make a special trip to make food for her.
Fang Jiaren said angrily: "Who is crying over there? It made Madam feel distressed for a while, so she made a special trip to make some chestnut cakes."
She pretended to be jealous and said, "It's because of you that we can eat this chestnut cake."
She sighed in her heart, Madam is really hard-spoken and soft-hearted.
Jiang Lingling's eyes filled with tears as she picked up the chestnut cake and took a bite. Well, it was sweet, sweeter than any pastry she had ever eaten before.
After eating the chestnut cake, she calmed down for a while, then mustered up the courage to run up to Wen Xian and apologize to her.
"Madam, I was wrong. I will never be willful again, I will always obey madam."
She stirred her clothes and lowered her head, fearing that Wen Xian would not forgive her.
However, Wen Xian smiled, raised her hand and rubbed Jiang Lingling's head and said, "Be good, just be obedient. When your sister Wan gives birth to the child safely next year, we will leave the island."
My child, may I be born in peace.
Jiang Lingling raised her head suddenly, and then nodded fiercely: "Yes, yes, it all depends on Madam."
She felt happy, but she didn't expect Madam to forgive her so easily.
No matter what Jiang Lingling and others were thinking, Wen Xian didn't care much and couldn't care less.
Because, at the end of October, Dead Island ushered in the first snow of this winter.
In just one night, ten centimeters of snow accumulated outside the cave.
Wen Xian and others put on cotton-padded clothes and shoes, and lit two large charcoal fires to keep warm. But even so, it was still cold.
They can only stay in bed and cover themselves with quilts to keep warm day and night. Even for meals, I simply bake something and eat it.
"Sneeze~" Hu Ke'er sneezed and couldn't help but rub her nose and said, "It's just the beginning of winter and it's so cold. What should we do in the future?"
Fortunately, they had burned three cellars of charcoal before, otherwise even if they had cotton-padded clothes and quilts, they would have died of cold in the cave.
Bai Qiangwei said weakly: "Fortunately, people came from Sun Island earlier, otherwise we wouldn't even have cotton-padded clothes and quilts."
In this weather, it's still cold even if you stay by the fire.
Speaking of Sun Island, Wen Xian, who had been staring at the gap above the cave in a daze, came back to her senses.
She suddenly remembered that she had changed tools with Zhu Qing before, and there were nails in them.
She immediately got out of bed and ran to dig out the nails.
"We have to find a way to seal the gap above, otherwise the cold wind will keep blowing in and the cave will never get warm."
Moreover, wind will also accelerate the burning of charcoal and waste charcoal.
Zheng Rou ran down and asked, "But what kind of seal should I get?"
They don't have any boards anymore.
There is still a one-and-a-half-meter-high gap on the wooden board. Such a big gap is really difficult to straighten.
Wen Xian walked around the cave and saw the big sunburner placed above the firewood pile, and got an idea.
She took down the two large sun-bricks and said, "Use this one. Nail the sun-blade on the hole. It can always withstand the cold wind."
However, although the two flats are woven according to the diameter of 1.8 meters, the flats are round, and there will be a gap between the two flats.
Wen Xian found two more coir raincoats and said, "Put the coir raincoat on top of the gap in the middle. They happen to be waterproof."
She is sunburned intensively and can be waterproof and windproof. She is really a clever little girl.
However, Xia Zhi looked at the high hole and asked, "How to nail it up?"
Wen Xian's face froze, yes, the hole is three meters high, how can we drive the nails in?
There is another question, even if it is nailed on, what if the soil loosens and falls off.
It was another difficult question. For a moment, Wen Xian didn't know what to do.
"How about making a wooden ladder first?" Wen Xian said, looking at a pile of firewood.
But she shook her head and said, "No, not even with a wooden ladder. The soil above the hole will loosen."
And with the accumulation of snow, it collapses even faster.
Sheng Lian'er suggested: "How about I drive the nail into the stone with a little more force?"
There can't be any mistakes when nailed into the stone.
Zheng Ju said: "If it is going to collapse, wouldn't it mean that even the rocks will collapse together?"
"When nailing a stone, I don't know which one breaks first, the stone or the nail." Wen Xian shook her head and said, "Nail it on the board, make it tighter. Also add two wooden sticks to support the hole. It shouldn’t be a problem if you wear it in the sun.”
In this case, nailing it to the wooden board is the simplest and most convenient way. I just hope the wind in winter can be lighter and not blow it down.
Wen Xian led people to flatten the two in the hole, tie them tightly together with strips of bamboo strips, and then tie the raincoat around the gap.
But there are two small holes underneath the coir raincoat for ventilation.
In order to avoid emergencies, she tied a rope to both ends of the flat. The rope falls down long and can be tied to the rocks on both sides.
But unless there are special circumstances, there is no need to use these two ropes to avoid inconvenience in getting in and out.
(End of chapter)
