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Therefore, her real role is to protect the young lady's life.

Although she looks fair and tender, and has a gentle and gentle personality, when it comes to using a knife, few people can be as ruthless as her.

Although she has lived a good life these years, she still has two scars on her body that cannot be erased. They are the injuries she suffered for the young lady, otherwise the young lady would not be so kind to her.

She was grateful for the young lady's life-saving grace, and was willing to go through fire and water to protect her. Miss Liu was also kind to her and insisted on taking her away before getting married to prevent the second lady from doing anything to her.

Although her intention was good, her uncle's house was not a good place either, and she lost her innocence there.

The young lady asked for an explanation for her, but was humiliated by her uncle, and the two finally reconciled.

Shen Yue was very grateful that a young lady from our family could do this for her. If it weren't for the chaos in the north and she still had family to protect, she would definitely be willing to follow the young lady.

As for Xu Qi, she has been very strong since she was a child. Although she looks weak, she doesn't like to follow the rules of women at all.

She was extremely talented in medical skills, but after all, she was still young and usually lazy and cheating, fighting wits and courage with old doctor Xu. It was not until her grandfather passed away that she repented and devoted herself to learning medical skills, hoping to one day become a doctor like her grandfather.

The family each performed their duties. Shen Nan shaved off the branches and leaves of the bamboo, cut the bamboo with a hatchet, cut off the older part at the root, and split it into pieces.

"Sister, is it shaped like a wooden peg?" Sanwa saw the second sister chopping bamboo with quick movements, and curiously stepped forward and stretched her neck to ask.

"Well, it should be about the same, but it's still difficult to sharpen it." Shen Nan nodded, and then handed him the bamboo piece: "Come and try it."

Sanwa took it over in surprise and said in disbelief: "Sister, you actually agreed to my using the knife?"

Shen Nan rolled his eyes and said disgustedly: "You are not a popular person, why are you not even allowed to use a knife?"

Sanwa was very self-aware. He took the other notched hatchet and shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, I will work right away."

Shen Nan glanced at him sideways, handed the hatchet in his hand to Xiaoye, and told him to work as he did just now, "Sanwa, keep an eye on him, and I'll get some pairs of gloves."

"Okay, sister." Sanwa agreed to the job.

She nodded and walked towards the utility room. After entering the utility room, she spent [-] cents to buy six pairs of labor protection gloves. They were specially chosen in a gray and plain color so that they would not be too conspicuous when taken out.

Xiao Ye had just farted a few pieces of bamboo, and Shen Nan left and returned, handing out the gloves in his hands to everyone one by one.

Nian also got a pair. Shen Nan told Nian: "Mom, if you usually chop wood or do rough work, remember to wear these gloves. They can protect your hands."

Nian touched the soft and delicate gloves in his hands and was reluctant to wear them to do rough work.

Shen Yue caught Nian's subtle movements with her peripheral vision, and stuffed the gloves into her arms very roughly. "Mother, please accept it. If you are injured and bleeding, the smelly things outside will attack our yard."

Upon hearing this, Nian immediately put away her previous thoughts and repeatedly assured her two daughters: "Mom knows, I want to wear it, I want to wear it."

"That's pretty much it." Shen Yue smiled with satisfaction.

"Miss, where did you get these hands and gloves? Isn't the workmanship too detailed?" Xu Qi's eyes widened in surprise, looking at the gloves on his hands in disbelief.

"These gloves are a good thing. They can prevent wood thorns from puncturing your hands and are also anti-scalding. But don't put your hands in hot water. They are not waterproof." She explained, telling everyone the principles and precautions of the gloves.

Xu Qi praised her repeatedly, and everyone imitated her and put their gloves on their hands, looking like curious babies.

"Sister, I really don't want to prick my hand anymore." Sanwa touched the place where she had just cut with her hand.

"Yeah!" Shen Nan ignored him and asked Xiaoye to help Xu Qi chop firewood.

Ono heard that she asked him to work elsewhere, and looked at her aggrievedly, unwilling to leave.

"Second Miss, please let Mr. Ono stay with you. I can do it. If I really can't chop it, I'll put it aside. When I get free tomorrow, I can let Mr. Ono chop it easily."

Xu Qi said to a few people very considerately. Xiaoye nodded wildly when he heard this. Shen Nan was helpless, but thought it would be okay for them to get rid of these bamboos quickly.

Sanwa went to the main room to bring some small benches. Shen Yue was also tired and sat on the small benches to rest.

Not long after, Mr. Nian came out from the kitchen with a basin of fried sweet potatoes and invited everyone to come over and eat.

A few people just drank some water and took a rest.

For one afternoon, the whole village was eerily quiet, and the sounds of chickens, ducks and geese were rarely heard.

After working all afternoon, Xu Qi chopped half of the wall of firewood. Shen Yue was too tired and went to take a nap. Nian and Xiaoye were just bricks, moving them wherever they were needed.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the entire yard was cleaned up. Shen Nan cut out more than 40 bamboo arrows, and the remaining bamboo was woven into a small fence and surrounded by the well.

The sky was getting dark, so Sanwa swept up all the wood chips that fell from splitting firewood and bamboo, poured them to the stove, and burned them together when cooking dinner, which saved one or two sticks of firewood.

The wooden frame beside the courtyard wall was still standing there. Shen Nan climbed up on the wooden frame with hands and feet, took out a telescope from the cloth bag, focused it and looked at the village.

The village with dozens of households is extremely quiet. Only the smoke coming out of the chimneys of a few households indicates that there are indeed people in the village.

Although Shen Nan knew that everyone was well prepared and her family had prepared enough food, she was still worried that her enthusiastic uncles, aunts, grandparents were in danger.

"Second sister, what are you looking at?" Sanwa put down the shovel and broom in her hand and approached the wooden frame and asked curiously.

Shen Nan smiled: "I didn't see anything, I just looked at the situation in the village."

"How can you see it from so far away?" Sanwa didn't believe it and muttered as she walked towards Shen Nan.

Shen Nan patted the place next to him, "You'll know if you come up and take a look!"

"Come on, come on, I still don't believe it." Sanwa muttered, but still jumped up as he was told.

Shen Nan handed him the telescope, "Put your eyes on this and look towards the village to see if you can see it."

Sanwa took the thing he had never seen before from the second sister, carefully put his eyes on it, feeling the cool touch, and asked curiously: "Second sister, what is this? How do you follow it? It's like stone and ice cold?"

When Shen Nan was about to speak, Sanwa spoke again, "Where can I see anything? It's so dark that I can't see anything."

"Impossible!" She retorted subconsciously, and then she put her eyes in front of Sanwa's face, and saw that this naughty kid had his eyes closed, and his eyelids were pressed against the lenses of the telescope with a look of enjoyment on his face.