The reeds on the river beach have begun to wither and yellow, and large patches of snow-white reeds sway in the wind. The scattered thatch were cut down by the villagers and dried on the river beach. In a few days, we will start to rest the house and hang layers of thatch on the walls of the thatched hut to withstand the cold wind of autumn and winter.

Some of the leaves in the woods have begun to turn yellow and fall, and a lot of leaves of the wild jujube tree have also fallen. There are many red wild jujubes the size of a little finger hanging on the tops. A thick layer is still falling on the ground around the jujube tree. When a few people approach, a group of birds pecking at wild jujube trees were frightened and flew away in an instant.

Although it was already autumn, there were still some wild chrysanthemums blooming in the woods and on the river beach. In addition, the wind was sunny, and some wild bees were still flying around, but the number was not large.

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

"What, this...this is over?" Niu Dashi and Yu Wuya both looked at each other.

"Nonsense, do you really catch tens of thousands of bees with your hands one by one? Among the thirty-six strategies, this is called seduction method!" Chen Xu put the bamboo tube containing honey and said it.

"My benefactor, how can we seduce the thirty-six strategies? Are you reading the military tactic?" Yu Wuya asked with confusion on his face.

"This method cannot be said if it is not passed on to the six ears!" Chen Xu pretended to be mysterious and pointed to the sky. So Yu Wuya suddenly thought he understood it, and nodded repeatedly in a sudden realization, "So that's it, Wuya understands it!"

I understand, I don’t understand it myself!

Chen Xu muttered in his heart and walked out of the woods.

It is not common to collect bees, but Chen Xu saw it once when he was a child. A nest of bees flew from somewhere and landed on the branches of a persimmon tree at the entrance of the village. They were densely packed together like big gourds. The bees around him were so scared that they watched.

This is because a second queen bee was produced in a certain hive, and the bees were split up, so bees flew out in groups to build nests in the wild.

A beekeeper in the village took a bamboo dustpan and sprayed a few bites of sugar water on the dustpan and hung it on the tree branch. He also made a handful of dried mugwort and lit it under the pile of bees and slowly smoked it with smoke. So the bees slowly crawled into the bamboo dustpan, and finally took the dustpan down and put it into the beehive. After shaking it a few lightly, the bees were shaken in. He quickly covered the lid and got a box of bees.

But Chen Xu is facing bees with nests, not homeless wild bees, and may not have produced a second queen bee. Therefore, it is much more difficult to catch the beehive. In order to collect a complete nest of bees, the queen bee must also be brought in, otherwise the bees will fly away in two or three days without a leader, and the final outcome will be nothing.

Therefore, although Chen Xu said it was heroic, he actually didn't have much idea about the seduction method this time. However, it is already autumn and the bees have nowhere to collect honey. Therefore, the possibility of using honey to seduce bees is relatively high. As long as you can seduce a large number of bees and then dig out all the beehives in the tree hole to find the queen bees, I think there is still a little chance of success, so everything can only wait.

On the river beach, villagers took knives and shoulder poles to cut thatch and reeds.

Chen Jiang also brought Xing'er with him. The two of them cut and hugged each other. Although Xing'er was young, she worked very hard. Her thin body kept running around, her face was red and her forehead was covered in sweat.

As mentioned earlier, the dry thatch is used to hang it outside the hut to prevent wind and keep warm. The reeds are cut down to collect reeds, which are used to fill them in clothes and bedding to keep warm. However, although the reeds are also fluffy and soft, they are far from cotton, and the warming effect is also very poor. But even if it is something that is not warm, in this era, it is something that can save lives in the cold winter.

"Brother, how many bees have you caught?" Xing'er shouted when she saw a few people.

"No hurry, I'll know when I'm at noon!" Chen Xu and Yu Wuya also helped, pulling down the chopped reed flowers and putting them into the vine basket, and Niu Dashi also went back to work for his own home.

Reeds were also used in later generations, but they were usually used as pillows. Because they were soft and fluffy enough and elastic enough, Chen Xu put a reed pillow in the health center, and he usually pillows himself. Moreover, because this reed pillow is beautiful and easy to use, it only requires two or three feet of burlap and reeds on the river beach. It is easy to make and is almost worthless, so it is very popular. It has now been accepted by all the villagers in Qinghe Town, and most of them have replaced bamboo and wood pillows with reed pillows.

As for quilts, well, the Qin Dynasty was not called quilts, but "quilts" (qīn), quilts or bedding clothes. Among them, quilts are single quilts, and quilts are large quilts, similar to later quilts. However, in ancient times, not everyone could afford quilts and quilts. Poor families generally called beddings. What is beddings? They are quilts when they are bedding and clothes when they are raised. Many poor families cannot afford quilts, so they can only use the thick clothes they wear as quilts. They take them off at night and cover them on very thin quilts to keep the cold. The habit of covering clothes on this quilt will remain thousands of years later.

This habit is something that old customers themselves have. Because they don’t like to turn on the air conditioner and don’t like to use electric blankets, they take off their coats and cover them on their feet when they sleep in winter, otherwise they will be awakened by cold feet until the middle of the night.

In ancient times, even emperors would still feel cold when they covered themselves with quilts, otherwise Li Yu, the late emperor and great poet of the Southern Tang Dynasty, would not have the famous poem that has been passed down through the ages.

"The rain gurgles outside the curtain, and the spring is gone. The silk quilt cannot withstand the coldest moment. I don't know that I am a guest in my dream, and I am greedy for a while. Don't lean on the railing alone. It's infinitely different. It's easy to see it when you part. The flowing water falls and flowers are gone. It's heaven and earth."

It can be seen that in ancient times, keeping cold was a difficult problem. Among them, Li Yu was cold after his country's demise, and moreover, he was a big quilt covered with silk. Indeed, his body was cold. Even an emperor was like this, ordinary people could imagine that there were not even thick clothes for keeping cold in winter, and I don't know how many people were frozen to death every year.

Although Chen Xu knew what to keep warm, he didn't know where these things were lying in, or that distant water could not relieve near-thirst, at least this year could not solve this problem.

Cotton was produced in India and was already in the Song Dynasty when it spread to China.

Although there are wool everywhere, ordinary wool cannot be used, and sheep is not available. The Qin Dynasty does not have sheep and it is still on the grassland controlled by the Huns. Therefore, Chen Xu entrusted Zhao Qing to help him find fine and soft wool last time, but he didn't know whether Zhao Qing would come to Qinghe Town before the cold winter came. Even if he came, according to the ethnic conflicts between the Central Plains and the Huns, it would be difficult to get it.

The Huns were not allowed to sell furs and cattle and horses to the Qin Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty was not allowed to sell copper and iron to the Huns. Both sides were imposing economic sanctions on each other, but they were jealous of each other's products. So in the past few years, they would make each other's products. Those who just won were naturally very happy and gained a lot. Those who just lost would go back to exercise and then prepare for the next round of profits. Therefore, the two sides had been fighting for hundreds of years. Although they had wins and losses, the Central Plains lost more and won less. The most important thing was that the heroes of the Warring States Period were constantly fighting in the internal struggle. Otherwise, if the Qin and Zhao countries united, the Huns would have been driven to Siberia and were fucked by tigers.

Reeds are indeed worthless and look fluffy, but in fact, they are very small after compression. Therefore, the four of them have been busy all morning and picked several large baskets. However, according to Chen Jiang, they have to pick three days to make two beds. The bedding Chen Xu's family has not purchased them for seven or eight years. Moreover, after Chen Hu disappeared as a soldier, the family became more and more difficult. Several winter beddings had long decayed and had no effect of keeping cold. After the heavy rain a few months ago, the rags were not carried out from the old thatched hut, and they were even more moldy after a few months. If they did not buy new thick quilts and thick clothes this year, the situation of the family in winter can be imagined.

"Last year we used millet grass as quilts. My mother and I woke up many times every night, and there were a lot of frostbite on our legs. I also heard my brother crying in the middle of the night..." Xing'er muttered while working, but Chen Xu couldn't remember whether he was yelling. But no matter what, the situation this year must have improved a lot. At least there is no shortage of thick and thin linen at home. I bought seven or eight pieces of clothes and bedding. It was more than enough to make clothes and bedding, but the problem of fillings being not cold-resistant is difficult to solve.

Therefore, while Chen Xu was working on reed flowers, he continued yesterday's thoughts. After repeated thinking, he decided to make a earthen kang at home. This not only solved the problem of sleeping at night, but also solved the problem of not being able to burn fire in the room to keep warm. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone. With a kang, he could withstand even the colder days. If it doesn't work, then do two.

Although he had never made or seen a kang, he knew that the kang was sleeping in the north, and it was also the standard configuration for hotels in later generations. In winter, the Southern People's Congress went to the northeast to sit on the kang and eat a meal of sauerkraut, pork, stewed with vermicelli and then lay a few circles of friends. It is not difficult to make the earthen kang, just make the earthen stove bigger, seal it well, make the chimney smoke exhaust and pay attention to the safety of fireworks.
Chapter completed!