Chapter 44: I'm Sorry for You
"Got it?" Xiao Yan said with a straight face.
"Oh." Shen Xiaoxiao glanced at him, and said lightly, Xiao Yan couldn't hold back directly, "Oh, what do you mean?" Did you hear that? ”
Shen Xiaoxiao glanced at him, "Oh oh." ”
Xiao Yan pursed his lips slightly, and said with a pitiful expression, "You will bully me." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao couldn't help laughing and rubbed his head, "Why are you so cute." Then he said, "I don't have three heads and six arms, so what do I want so many males for?" ”
Xiao Yan immediately laughed, "I don't want other females, just Xiaoxiao alone." ”
Next.
Xiao Yan went up the mountain with the tribe's people who went hunting, while Shen Xiaoxiao stayed in the tribe, but he cut a bunch of reeds and put them for her in front of the cave before he went hunting.
After Shen Xiaoxiao ate some food, he pulled the reeds and spread them aside, and then sat on the reeds and beat the reeds with a wooden stick to soften them, and then Ah Xiang walked over, looking a little embarrassed, "Goddess." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao raised his head, and after seeing the person clearly, he pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed, "Aunt Xiang, is there something wrong?" ”
Ah Xiang hurriedly waved her hand, "Goddess, you still call me Ah Xiang." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao frowned slightly, and Ah Xiang continued, "I'm sorry for you, I didn't believe you yesterday." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao was silent, she couldn't say that what Ah Xiang did was wrong, or that she couldn't do it, it was human instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, plus she offended the anger of the public yesterday, even if she helped to speak, it didn't have much effect.
Again, the friendship between them is actually not very deep, and it is normal for Ah Xiang not to help her speak, after all, she will have to live in the tribe in the future, her family is in the tribe, it is impossible to abandon her family for her, and it is normal for people not to help her speak.
Shen Xiaoxiao had a smile on his face, "It's okay, I don't blame you, you were right to do this in that situation yesterday." ”
Ah Xiang still blamed herself a little, and Shen Xiaoxiao quietly changed the topic, "I'm going to make two baskets, do you want to learn?" ”
"What basket?" Ah Xiang asked puzzledly, is this something new from the goddess?
"It's for stuff." Shen Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "When you go to pick coconut fruits, you can bring them to pack wild fruits, so that you can pick more wild fruits when you pick them." ”
Ah Xiang's eyes lit up, "Is there really such a thing?" ”
"Of course, I'm going to do it now, if you want to learn it, you can learn it on the side." When she weaves the basket out and uses it, the people of the tribe will definitely be very curious when they see it, and there will definitely be people who want to learn at that time, and she will live in the tribe, so she will naturally not shirk and teach them, so the early and late teaching are the same, and now she is taught, if the people of the tribe want to learn, she can also relax.
"Yes." Ah Xiang immediately responded, squatting next to Shen Xiaoxiao with great interest, her eyes staring at her movements for a moment, for fear that she would miss a little.
"Let's beat these reeds soft." Shen Xiaoxiao pointed to the reeds that were placed aside, Ah Xiang did not hesitate to pick up the wooden stick and moved, and it was not until noon that the two of them prepared the reeds they needed.
As soon as she wanted to teach her, she saw Ah Xiang stand up and say loudly, "What's wrong?" Grandma is here."
Shen Xiaoxiao looked towards the voice, and saw a little girl about six or seven years old in an animal skin skirt staggering towards them, and then threw herself into Ah Xiang's arms, her voice was still a little hoarse, "Grandma." ”
Ah Xiang touched her forehead lovingly, "It's okay, Grandma is here." ”
After a while, the little girl looked at Shen Xiaoxiao embarrassedly, "Goddess." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao smiled, "You can call me Sister Xiaoxiao." The little girl shook her head, Shen Xiaoxiao was not reluctant, and instead asked Ah Xiang if she had a cold, she heard that there was something wrong with the child's voice, and her face was not very good.
"Well, it's been two days of fever, and the fever only subsided yesterday, and I came out when she fell asleep just now, and she came to me when she woke up and didn't see me."
"I've taken my medicine." Shen Xiaoxiao asked with concern, it is not a joke that children have a fever.
Ah Xiang shook her head, "The witch doctor's medicine is only medicine to heal the injuries of males when they go hunting, and the fever can only be overcome by themselves." ”
"Is it the same with cubs?"
"Hmm." Ah Xiang touched the little girl's hair, but fortunately they Ah Zhu survived.
Shen Xiaoxiao thought that their conditions were poor, but she didn't think that they would be so bad, she was sick and depended on boiling, and whether she could survive or not was left to fate, and she was a little panicked in her heart for a while.
"Look what I'm telling you to do, goddess, let's make the basket you said." Ah Xiang had a smile on her face, she wanted to know what that basket looked like.
"Okay." And he said, "What's her name?" "The child looks so well-behaved, and he doesn't cry or make trouble when he is sick and uncomfortable.
"Azhu."
Shen Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "Little Azhu has to hurry up." ”
Ah Zhu grinned weakly at Shen Xiaoxiao, "Thank you, goddess, Ah Zhu will be fine." ”
Shen Xiaoxiao smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Good." ”
Ah Xiang put Ah Zhu aside and followed Shen Xiaoxiao to learn to weave baskets.
At the beginning, it is to press the middle head with three feet first, then two and two to add, press one to one, weave to a certain width and then fold the reed up to the corner, and then continue to weave, and then add reeds to the inside, fold out four corners and then continue to weave, press two to one, or press one to one, slowly do not add reeds to the inside, weave to the required height and then wear the edge.
She had never learned to weave baskets with reeds before, but she had learned from an old man in a place to weave baskets, hats, and mats...... Straw weaving was prevalent in that place, and the mats they used to sleep on were made of straw, and any bags, mats, and fans could be woven out of straw.
She was shocked when she saw it, but she didn't expect that there would be so many people who could do this craft, especially sometimes when the market is good, almost every household will weave some small baskets, or similar to that kind of small storage basket to sell.
At that time, she found a family to follow them to dry the grass and scoop the grass, but now it is convenient for them to be run over by the cars on the road, and it saves a lot of effort when scooping the grass.
And they would dye the grass in other colors and weave all kinds of patterns or characters on it.
Using reeds is not as convenient as straw, but it can also be used, and when she comes back from cutting rattan, she is weaving some baskets with rattan, and there will be more things to bring with her, and she is not afraid that she and Xiao Yan will not be able to bring back persimmons when they go to pick persimmons.
Ah Xiang was a little stumbling at first, but she quickly mastered it, her fingers quickly shuttled back and forth on the reeds, and after a while, she made up a prototype, and Shen Xiaoxiao did not hesitate to praise it, after all, it took her a long time to learn at that time, and fortunately, they did not dislike her and taught her patiently.
"Grandma, it's good-looking." Xiao Azhu clapped his hands.
"Does little Azhu want to learn?" Shen Xiaoxiao asked softly.
"Yes." Ah Zhu said loudly.
"Then Xiao Azhu has to take care of his body, will my sister teach you when the time comes?"
"Okay." Azhu said in a milky voice, with a nasal voice in her voice.