The incident of the Chen Family from West Village stealing children came to a temporary end.
However, the people of East Village started to look even more unfavorably at those from West Village, even a small sign of friendliness was rare.
A few women were more dramatic, when people weren't looking, they pried out the laundry stones near old Chen Laoshuan's house on the west bank of Chuanhe River, expressing their dissatisfaction and contempt.
West Village had become a nest of child thieves, all of them were troublemakers! They didn't deserve to wash clothes or rinse rice in the same river as the people of East Village!
Meanwhile, the Jiang Family worked day and night to remove all the cotton seeds, and the three Jiang brothers began to pluck the cotton with their longbows.
Surprisingly, this method worked quite well, the plucked cotton was softer and easier to turn into cotton coats and quilts.