Chapter 17

It didn't rain last night. Ji Jiu woke up and warmed up her food to eat and prepared provisions for the mountain. Today she was going to make a ladder to repair the roof, so she had to cut the bamboo again.

 She walked to the bamboo forest faster than any time she had ever been before. Maybe it was because her body had gotten a bit stronger so she wasn't as tired as before. Ji Jiu cut only three bamboo sticks, about two meters long, enough to fit on the roof. Then they tied them together and dragged them towards the Ton Sap Suea forest.

 Ji Jiu put down the bamboo and hurriedly collected the leaves until the basket was full. She forgot to weave more baskets to put them away to dry. Save that for next time. Now she had to hurry back and fix the roof first. Afraid that it would rain again, she expected it to continue raining for another month or so before winter arrives.

 Ji Jiu dragged the bamboo down to the house. It was already late in the afternoon. The supplies she had taken went uneaten. She put them away and sat down to eat until her stomach was full before continuing with her work.

 Ji Jiu cut two bamboo sticks down the middle, then cut them into pieces to use as steps, fearing that he would fall if the stairs were not strong. Ji Jiu used additional hammering and then tied hemp rope. By the time I got to the stairs it was almost evening. Ji Jiu hurriedly leaned over the stairs and picked up the grass roof that had been prepared and placed it on the roof until it was full.

 She finished and it was time for dinner. Ji Jiu put the stairs behind the house and hurriedly cooked a simple meal before taking a shower and resting.

 Late night the rain came down harder than before. It was a good thing that she repaired the roof quickly, otherwise her house would have been flooded with water. Her red reishi mushrooms were still in a pile. If it floods, we don't know if it will be damaged or not. Ji Jiu hurriedly went to sleep after hearing the sound of rain.

 In the morning it was still raining, but not as heavy as in the middle of the night. She hurriedly warmed up the food and made a rain hat from the grass from the previous day. Ji Jiu dragged a bamboo stick into the kitchen and hurriedly made a simple hat peg. She thought about making an umbrella but looked And it wasn't possible to do it, so I chose to make a hat instead. Once he had hammered a certain amount, Ji Jiu tried to weave it into a round shape. He tried a lot to get the shape of a distorted hat and it took almost no time. Ji Jiu was disappointed with the condition of her hat. So she hurriedly tied grass on top of the hat to hide its ugliness so that she could not see inside.

 Ji Jiu tries on the hat and it doesn't feel too heavy. So she went to feed the chickens in the coop and check their condition to see if any were dead. Fortunately, none of the chickens died. Ji Jiu could only tell the skinny chickens not to worry. She will try to give rice and water on time. And just asking for eggs to eat is enough. Finished muttering to the flock of skinny chickens. Ji Jiu walked into the house.

 She remembered that she had not made wheels for her wooden box yet. So she took the bamboo that was left from making the stairs and cut it into pieces. But she wouldn't be able to make the wheel turn if she didn't drill a hole to make a spindle. Now she only had one machete, so she could only make the wheel go forward and backward.

 Ji Jiu sat down and sharpened the bamboo to make it as smooth as possible to reduce resistance when pushing her wooden box cart. Then Ji Jiu carefully cut holes into the wooden box to drive the four side wheel axles into it. She looked at the size of the groove and adjusted the piece of wood that she had collected to make it a little larger than the groove and hammered it in. Then she sharpened the piece of wood that she had collected to make it round and the size of a bamboo wheel. Drill a hole in the center a little larger than the axle shaft and press the edges of the round wooden board onto both sides of the bamboo wheel. The four wheels were obtained and Ji Jiu was threaded onto the axles. When the hundred was finished, Ji Jiu made a bolt to prevent the wheel from coming loose from the axle. By the time I got the wooden cart, it was already evening.

 Ji Jiu hurriedly cooked food to eat, then dried himself and changed clothes and went to bed to rest quickly from his exhaustion.