After sneaking around outside, Si Qing was in a very good mood, but she was still worried about the twenty people at home who were catching bamboo sticks. When she entered the yard, she took the lead and went to see how everyone was doing with their bamboo sticks.

In the room, the twenty people who were practicing catching bamboo sticks were all working hard. No one was lazy because Secretary Qing Li Daya was not around.

Everyone cherished this opportunity very much and refused to stop even if their hands were sore and their eyes were blurry.

I shook my sore hands and continued. I rubbed my eyes and continued.

When Si Qing entered the room, no one noticed at all. They were all staring at the bamboo sticks in their hands.

After several days of practice, twenty of them were basically able to catch bamboo sticks proficiently. Even the clumsy Liu Dali had mastered it.

So the day before yesterday afternoon, Si Qing made the first request. The bamboo sticks that everyone picked up should be in groups of two. When they are connected in ten groups, they must be firm. If they become loose and fall off, it will be doubled. It cannot be completed here during the day.

Go back in the evening and continue, and hand in your homework when you come back the next day.

Ten groups sounds like a small number, but not many people can actually complete it.

On the first day, only the Li family completed the task. One group of the Xiao He family was not fixed and scattered, and some of the others only completed half of it.

Liu Dali suffered the worst, with only three groups qualifying.

So they all went back to practice at night and handed in their homework the next day. Maybe they practiced more and everyone gradually mastered the skills. The number of people who completed the assignment the next day increased to five.

Si Qing's plan is to add new requirements tomorrow, so she still attaches great importance to how many people can complete the task today.

If nothing else happens, the next people who can take over the feathers should come from these people.

Si Qing walked around the room, looking at everyone's concentration, and nodded with satisfaction.

Apart from anything else, she was very satisfied with how obedient and hard-working the villagers were.

As dinner time approached, Si Qing took Li Daya to check everyone's results. Today there were two more qualified people than yesterday.

Si Qing nodded with satisfaction, praised the seven people who completed the task, and encouraged the remaining thirteen people to continue their efforts.

Although it is more likely that the seven people who have completed the task have mastered the skills of catching feathers, it is not impossible that a dark horse will appear among the remaining thirteen people.

Si Qing didn't ask them to give up training directly.

However, these thirteen people also worked very hard. After returning from Si's house, they continued to practice after eating. Liu Dali was even making bamboo stick movements with his hands in his sleep.

At night, Mrs. Liu heard Liu Dali talking in his sleep, so she got up and went to see him. Seeing her son working so hard, she felt sad in her heart.

On the second day, after accepting the bamboo sticks handed in by the thirteen people yesterday, Si Qing announced new requirements.

For Bamboo Stick Solitaire, everyone is asked to connect all the bamboo sticks at hand into one long bamboo stick. After completion, if there is no falling off, the skewed one is considered qualified.

When the twenty people heard this, their expressions suddenly changed. The difficulty suddenly doubled!

But everyone still said nothing and sat down to start a new round of picking up bamboo sticks.

Twenty people were busy in the next room, and Secretary Qing was certainly not idle either. She was walking towards Wang Laosan's house.

Qiongqi spent the past two days clearing roads in the mountains and killed a lot of prey. Unfortunately, he could only bring back one or two at a time. When he went to the mountains the next day, many of the prey were stolen by the shameless wild beasts in the mountains.

Qiongqi came back late last night and complained angrily to Si Qing.

Si Qing thought about it and felt that throwing those wild animals in the mountains would be cheaper for other wild animals. It would be more cost-effective to bring them back and distribute them to the villagers, or sell them.
Chapter completed!