The reeds on the river beach have begun to wither and yellow, large areas of snow-white reed flowers are swaying in the wind, and patches of thatch have also been cut down by the villagers and put on the river beach to dry.

Some of the leaves in the woods have begun to turn yellow and fall, and the leaves of the wild jujube tree have also fallen a lot, and there are still a lot of red wild jujubes the size of little fingers hanging on the treetops, and a thick layer has fallen on the ground around the jujube tree.

Although it is autumn, there are still some wild chrysanthemums in full bloom in the woods and on the river beaches, and there are still some wild bees flying around in the wind, but there are not many of them.

The three of them came to the tree, Chen Xu observed the environment around and then asked Niu Dashi to put the bamboo ladder on the jujube tree, put the beehive on a branch, and open the top cover, Chen Xu slowly climbed up with a small tube of honey, dipped the honey in a small brush and brushed it inside the beehive, and brushed it a few times under a branch outside the beehive, and then went down the ladder and said: "Let's go, go back first, come back after lunch!" ”

"What, this...... That's it? Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya both looked at each other.

"Nonsense, do tens of thousands of bees really use their hands to catch them one by one, this is called the seduction method in the thirty-six schemes!" Chen Xu covered the bamboo tube containing honey and said.

"Engong, how can the thirty-six schemes be used to seduce the law? Which art of war are you looking at? Yu Wuya asked with a puzzled face.

"If this method is not preached to the six ears, it can't be said!" Chen Xu pretended to point to the sky mysteriously, so Yu Wuya suddenly thought he understood, and nodded again and again as a sudden realization, "I see, Wuya understands!" ”

I don't understand a fart, I don't understand it myself!

Chen Xu muttered in his heart and walked outside the woods.

Collecting bees is not common, but Chen Xu saw it once when he was a child, there was a nest of bees that flew from nowhere and landed on the branch of a persimmon tree at the head of the village, densely packed together like a big gourd, and the bees flew around and watched the people were terrified.

This is because a second queen bee is born in a hive, and the bees break up, so there are swarms of bees flying out to build nests in the wild.

An uncle who keeps bees in the village then took a bamboo dustpan, sprayed a few mouthfuls of white sugar water on the dustpan and hung it on the branches, and got a handful of dried mugwort and lit it under the bee pile and slowly smoked it, so the bees slowly climbed into the bamboo dustpan, and finally took off the dustpan and put it into the beehive, shook it a few times and the bees were shaken in, and quickly closed the lid, and a box of bees was even in hand.

But at the moment, Chen Xu is facing bees with nests, not homeless wild bees, and there may not be a second queen bee, so it is much more difficult to catch the beehive, and if you want to collect a complete nest of bees, you must also get the queen bee in, otherwise the bees will fly away in two or three days if they don't have a leader, and the final outcome will be that the bamboo basket will be empty.

Therefore, although Chen Xu said that he was heroic, he actually didn't have much of a spectrum for this seduction, but now it is autumn, and the bees have nowhere to collect honey, so the possibility of using honey to seduce bees is still relatively large, as long as a large number of bees can be seduced out, and then all the hives in the tree hole are dug out to find the queen bee, there is still a possibility of success, so everything can only wait.

On the river beach, villagers with knives and poles are cutting thatch and reeds.

Chen Jiang's also brought Xing'er here, the two of them cut one by one, and hugged each other, although Xing'er was young, she worked very hard, her thin body kept running around, her little face was red, and her forehead was full of sweat.

As mentioned earlier, thatch drying is used to hang the outside of the thatched hut to keep warm from the wind, and the reeds are cut down mainly to collect reeds, which are used to fill in clothes and bedding to keep out the cold, but although the reeds are also very fluffy and soft, they are too far from cotton, and the warmth effect is also very poor, but even if it is not a warm thing, in this era, it is a life-saving thing in the cold winter.

"Brother, how many bees have you caught?" Apricot shouted loudly when she saw a few people.

"Don't worry, we'll know at noon!" Chen Xu and Yu Wuya also helped, pulling off the chopped reeds one by one and putting them in the rattan basket, and Niu Dashi also went back to work for his family.

Luhua is also used in later generations, but it is generally used as a pillow, because it is soft and fluffy enough, and the elasticity is good, so Chen Xu is a Luhua pillow in the health center, and his own pillow is also a Luhua pillow, and this Luhua pillow is also a Luhua pillow because it is good-looking and easy to use, only two or three feet of burlap plus a long Luhua on the river beach, which is easy to make and almost worthless, so it is very popular, and has now been accepted by all the villagers in Qinghe Town, and most of them have replaced the bamboo pillow with a Luhua pillow.

As for the quilt, well, the Qin Dynasty is not called a quilt, but called "衾" (qīn), 裯 or bedclothes, which is a single quilt, 衾 is a large quilt, similar to the quilt of later generations, but in ancient times, not all people can afford to cover the quilt and the quilt, the poor are generally called bedclothes, what is the bed, that is, the bedtime is the quilt, the time is the clothes, many poor people can not afford to buy bedding, so they can only use the thick clothes they wear as a quilt, and take it off at night to cover it on a very thin sheet to keep out the cold, and the habit of covering clothes on this quilt is still thousands of years later.

This habit is that the old customers themselves have, because they don't like to turn on the air conditioner, and they don't like to use electric blankets, so when they sleep in winter, they take off their coats and cover their feet, otherwise they will wake up from freezing when they sleep until their feet are cold in the middle of the night.

In ancient times, even if it was an emperor, it would still feel cold when covering the quilt, otherwise Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the great poet, would not have that famous poem that has been passed down through the ages.

"The rain is murmuring outside the curtain, and the spring is beautiful. Luo Ji is not tolerant of the five colds. In my dream, I didn't know that I was a guest, and I was greedy for joy. Alone without relying on the column, infinite rivers and mountains, it is easy to see when it is difficult to see. Flowing water and flowers go in spring, heaven and earth. ”

It can be seen that in ancient times, keeping out the cold was a difficult problem to solve, including Li Yu's cold heart after his death, and more of the big quilt covered with silk was indeed cold, an emperor was still like this, and ordinary people were even more conceivable, and they didn't even have thick clothes to keep out the cold in winter, and they didn't know how many froze to death every year.

Although Chen Xu knows what things keep out the cold, he doesn't know which corner these things are lying in, or that far water can't quench his thirst, at least this year can't solve this problem.

Cotton, produced in India, and so on to China was already the Song Dynasty.

Although wool is everywhere, ordinary wool is not good, sheep wool is obtained, and sheep Daqin does not have it, and it is still on the grassland controlled by the Xiongnu, so Chen Xu entrusted Zhao Qing to help him find fine and soft wool last time, but he didn't know if Zhao Qing would come to Qinghe Town before the cold winter, even if he came, according to the ethnic contradictions between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu Zhuhu, it was more difficult to get it.

The Xiongnu are not allowed to sell furs and cattle and horses to Daqin, Daqin is not allowed to sell copper and iron to the Xiongnu, the two sides are imposing economic sanctions on each other, but they are jealous of each other's products, so after a few years, they will just be each other, just win the natural elation and harvest, just lose to go back to exercise, and then prepare for the next turn, so the two sides have been fighting over and over again for hundreds of years, although there are mutual victories and defeats, but in general, the Central Plains loses more and wins less, the most important thing is that the Warring States Zhuxiong has been constantly infighting, otherwise Qin and Zhao will unite, the Huns have long been driven to Siberia and strung by tigers.

Luhua is indeed worthless by nature, and it looks fluffy, but in fact, the volume is very small after compression, so the four of them were busy all morning and picked several large baskets, but according to Chen Jiang's statement, it was almost enough to make two futons for three days, and the futon Chen Xu's family had not been added for seven or eight years, and Chen Hu's family became more and more difficult after the disappearance of Chen Hu as a soldier. The rags have not been brought out of the old thatched huts, and the mold has become even worse in the past few months, and if new thick quilts and thick clothes are not added this year, the family's winter situation can be imagined.

"Last year, we all used corn straw as a quilt, my mother and I had to wake up many times every night, and there were a lot of chilblains on our legs, and I heard my brother screaming in the middle of the night...... "Xing'er muttered while working, but Chen Xu couldn't remember whether he was screaming, but anyway, this year's situation must have changed a lot, at least there is no shortage of coarse linen at home, enough to buy seven or eight horses, more than enough to make clothes and bedding, but the problem of filling is not cold resistant is not easy to solve.

Therefore, Chen Xu made reeds while continuing yesterday's thoughts, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he decided to make a clay kang at home, which can not only solve the problem of sleeping at night, but also solve the problem of not being able to burn a fire in the room for heating.

Although he has never done it or seen it, he knows that the north is sleeping on the kang, and it is still the standard configuration of the hotel in later generations, and the southerners go to the northeast in winter just to sit on the kang and eat a meal of sauerkraut and pork stewed vermicelli and then post a few moments of friends, and it is not difficult to make the soil kang out, that is, make the earthen stove bigger, seal it well, do a good job of chimney smoke exhaust and pay attention to fireworks safety.

Therefore, as soon as this idea came out, Chen Xu was too lazy to make the reeds, and took Yu Wuya home and began to measure the room planning drawings to see how the kang in the room should be designed to be the most convenient and practical.