The mother puts her farming tool down and walks over to her husband and their daughters, she tells them that "there father needs to go and rest, he has been up seen yesterday night", the daughters then starts to complain, the mother then tell them "to get back to work, because your father has not even eating his dinner from last night", the oldest daughter kisses her father on his left cheek and tells him that "the second oldest daughter had made the dinner and that it was her first time".
The father then tells his" second oldest daughter while the first picks up her farming tool and goes back to work, that he knows that the food is going to be good, and that he will enjoy the food she has made".
The second daughter hugs her father and tells him "thank you" and goes back to. The other three daughters also go back to work, helping their mother. The father stands up and goes on walking back to their house.
The village head opens up the door and walks through the door, but as she's walking through the door she looks down at her feet and sees to the left side of her is a plate of food covered up by a piece of blue cloth.
The village head picks up the plate of food and takes the piece of cloth off the food and puts the blue cloth in her pocket and takes the plate back into the medical room with her. She then gives the food to Tem and tells him that "her daughter made this, so she will hope he enjoys it".
Tem takes the food with both hands and thanks the village head, she then tells him that "she is going to discuss this with the village, give him an answer to his question".
Tem then ask her "if he can start eating now", she says "yes" and tells him that "she will now take her leave". The village head leaves the medical room and makes her way to the village square where the town hall building stands. The town hall building which stands in the village square is where the villagers of the Tak hold their meetings.
The father opens up his door and sees the plate of food with a blue piece of cloth thrown over the food. The father takes out the chair which is by the table and sits down on the chair and takes the cloth of the plate of food and starts eating the food and with each bite of the food, the father gets more and more proud of his daughters.
After the father is done eating the food, he goes to the outside of the house, throws the back door and goes to the tree which is growing in their backyard. The backyard tree has at least twenty bottles hanging on the tree branches.
The father takes one of the bottles off and starts undoing the string of the around the bottle and starts drinking the water from the bottle, after he is done drinking the water the father close the bottle again by putting the sheep skin on top of the bottle and tying the string at the end of the sheeps skin around the bottle to close the top and to hold the water in.
After the father is done with the bottle , he takes the bottle with him and goes back into the house and as he is busy cleaning the the plate and spoon, the father hears a knock on the door and tells the person who is knocking on his door to "come in", The person comes in and it is the village head and she tells him that "she has something to tell him".
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