Lu Zhanguo directed Cheng Qijia and Shen Heng to venture into the forest on the mountain to find a few dried pine tree trunks around the thickness of a bowl. Yuan Tan made a circuit before following Shen Heng into the mountains. Li Fengmei and Qin Li took the four children with them to gather firewood.
"What should I do?" Gu Xiaobei figured that this would be a marvelous picnic and asked with curiosity.
"You could go pick up some cow dung," Lu Zhanguo responded, grinning cheekily at Xiaobei's curious little face.
"Cow dung?" Gu Xiaobei grimaced with disgust. She thought Lu Zhanguo must be teasing her.
Lu Zhanguo didn't want to force her, so he offered, "Or how about this, when Shen Heng is back, you can go with me to the river bank to cut some branches. Let's have Chen Gang go pick up cow dung."
"We actually need cow dung?" Gu Xiaobei was curious.
"Hmm, you'll see soon." Saying this, Lu Zhanguo dug two holes about two meters apart on the flat ground with his folding shovel.
