Items purchased from the village general store including pots, pans, bowls, clay pots, soup ladles, frying spatulas, coarse porcelain bowls and plates, bamboo chopsticks, kerosene lamps, matches, candles, a new lock, insect and snake repellent powder, wooden buckets, carrying poles, hoes, and shovels. The shopkeeper also gave a coarse burlap sack as a gift.