They also saw various strange and unknown trees, without knowing their uses.
'Monkey' indicated that there were wild grains nearby, but in summer, they had harvested all the grain heads and eaten them.
Ma Lin said, "Do you know that by planting the grains, you can harvest more next year?"
'Squirrel' replied, "We know. But we are hungry."
They said that they had collected many grain heads during the summer.
Ma Lin asked how many exactly.
'Squirrel' said, "We carried the grain heads home in animal skins. There were twenty people in total, each with their skins full. That was it."
Ma Lin estimated and thought they had at least two acres of grains.
He expressed his desire to take a look right away.
So, two of them took him there.
After walking for about an hour, they passed through a patch of reeds halfway, and both were pulling hard at the reed tufts.
Hoping to weave them together, wrap around the body, covering it with a burlap sack might be as warm as animal skin.
