If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Wen Xian’s answer is, of course, far. It’s only the beginning of December, and there are still two months until the Chinese New Year!
Living in a cave for the past two months would be boring to death. When she was in a daze on weekdays, she had already recalled all the books that she could remember in her mind.
He also recalled his past life experiences and the experiences of his original owner. However, it still only took half a month to complete the set.
Wen Xian raised her eyes and said, "I think we can make a bed out of time."
She had actually had this idea for a long time, but she had never implemented it.
She wanted to make a super-large bed, big enough to sleep eleven people.
In winter, sleeping together is the only way to stay warm.
With a bed, you don’t have to worry about the moisture returning to the ground and getting rheumatism in the future.
Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Listen to Madam."
As long as it's not a dangerous idea, that's fine. If you want to make a bed, just do it.
Just do it, Sheng Lian'er and Wu Junlan took the lead to go out to chop wood with axes and machetes.
A large bed that can accommodate eleven people, if each person is half a meter wide, must be at least five and a half meters long and two meters wide.
The load-bearing capacity must be strong enough, otherwise it will collapse if eleven people sleep on it.
Thinking of this, Wen Xian shook her head and decided to make a single bed about 1.3 meters wide for Jiang Jingwan.
She sleeps alone as a pregnant woman, and after the baby is born, they can sleep together on the bed to save the moisture on the floor.
In fact, the bed can be assembled directly using a mortise and tenon structure without using nails.
Split a thick piece of wood in half to serve as the bedside and headboard, and split a thick piece of wood in half to serve as the bed frame.
Then cut the ends of each piece of wood used as bed bones into elongated rectangles. Finally, cut a hole slightly larger than the rectangle in the large piece of wood that will serve as the bedside, and then install the bed frame into it.
This kind of bed with mortise and tenon structure will only get tighter as you sleep on it and will not fall off unless it breaks.
A single bed was completed in three days with the joint efforts of eleven people.
Make it early and enjoy it early. Wen Xian once again regretted that she had been running for survival in the past few months and did not take time to make bed earlier.
After the single bed was made, the bamboo mat was spread on the bed and a layer of hay was added. Then the quilt was laid out, half used as a mattress and the other half used as a cover.
The quilt is a two-meter-long double quilt, which is enough for Jiang Jingwan to do this.
Jiang Jingwan was moved in her heart and said: "Madam, this bed can sleep three people if squeezed."
Even if you don't sleep three, you can sleep two.
Wen Xian quickly waved her hand and said: "The bed is made so big just so that you can sleep more spaciously. The quilt can only be given to you on one bed. You can make your own decision and sleep how you want."
The bottom of the left and right beds are only ten centimeters from the ground, so it won't be a problem even if they collapse.
But in order to avoid accidents, everyone stayed in groups of two and took turns sleeping for five days. After proving that the quality of the bed was good, Jiang Jingwan was allowed to move to the bed to sleep.
And the big bed they built was completed by the end of mid-December.
The big bed can sleep ten people, but there are only four quilts. Therefore, there is no extra quilt to use as a mattress.
For a five-meter-long bed, you can only put a few single bamboo mats on the bed, put hay on it, and then put a layer of bamboo mats on it.
When sleeping at night, they can also take off their cotton-padded clothes and lay them on it according to their own needs, which can also be used as a mattress.
But soon, continuous snowy days came again. Burning a charcoal fire and covering yourself with a quilt at night was no longer enough to protect you from the cold, so you could only sleep in cotton-padded clothes.
Those who didn't mind, even hugged each other to keep each other warm.
Wen Xian was sleeping on the bedside, and next to her was Xia Zhi, who didn't mind but didn't mind.
I mind because Xia Zhi doesn't want to sleep with anyone else, but I don't mind because that person is Wen Xian.
Wen Xian: ...just, very helpless.
Among all the people, Xia Zhi has the best figure. Even wearing cotton clothes can't hide her good figure.
Therefore, it is not said that Wen Xian is not used to sleeping with others. Even if she was used to it, she didn't really want to sleep with Xia Zhi in her arms because she would easily feel inferior. No, it's autism.
Therefore, facing Xia Zhi's invitation, Wen Xian refused righteously because she liked to sleep by herself.
The snow this time has not stopped for half a month. In the past half month, except for going to the toilet, they had not gone out.
The pile of charcoal burned in the cave became larger and larger. In order to avoid carbon dioxide poisoning, Wen Xian doubled the size of the holes originally reserved for ventilation.
On the day of Laba, Wen Xian specially batched three kilograms of polished rice and made a big pot of Laba porridge with bacon, chestnuts, mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, dried abalone, dried sea cucumbers, dried oysters and shrimps.
Abalone and sea cucumbers were collected from the sea in the past, and there were not many, so they only ate a little bit, and dried the rest to wait for important days to eat, or to replenish Jiang Jingwan's health later.
Jiang Lingling drank the Laba porridge, squinted her eyes with satisfaction and said, "It's really delicious, better than the ones at home."
When it comes to home, everyone is silent for a moment. This is the first time they are preparing to celebrate the New Year outside.
Although they could not leave the palace easily, the emperor would allow their natal family to enter the palace to see them before the Chinese New Year every year.
It's a pity that things have changed and people have changed. They have become alone and have no home anymore.
However, when they tasted the Laba porridge, they all looked at Wen Xian with gratitude and attachment. Now they actually have a family and are not alone.
Wen Xian trembled and said angrily: "Look what I do, my mother-in-law's family is not in Great Qin. I haven't been home for almost three years!"
That's right, since the original owner got married, he has never seen his mother's family. Probably because she is not aware enough, sometimes she is really worthless for the original owner.
Laba porridge is cooked a lot, and it is eaten once a day.
Maybe she drank too much porridge. At night, Wen Xian rarely put on her cotton-padded clothes and got up to go to the hut outside the cave.
She did not light a torch, but relied on her good eyesight and the light reflected by the white snow to reach the hut.
However, as soon as he touched the door, he kicked a ball of furry stuff.
Wen Xian took a breath and didn't dare to say anything, and quickly stepped back into the cave.
"Madam?" Sheng Lian'er rubbed her eyes and wandered over, wondering, "Madam is back so soon?"
She had just thought of staying up at night, but when she saw the lady getting up, she planned to lie down for a while and wait for the lady to come back.
But she clearly remembered that Madam had just gone out, so why did she come back so soon? Could it be that she was asleep?
"Shh~" Wen Xian put her index finger to her mouth to signal Sheng Lian'er to stop talking, and then whispered, "Keep your voice down, there is an unknown animal outside, I don't know what it is. Go and light a torch, and then put the dagger bring here."
Sheng Lian'er's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide to say something, but she immediately raised her hand to cover her mouth. Then he nodded again and hurried back to light the torch.
(End of chapter)
