Chapter 21: Cellar, 껗山
When Tang Yue woke up the next day, it was already past seven in the morning. She got up late today. After brushing her teeth and washing her face, she cooked a bowl of noodles for breakfast. After breakfast, she ran to the team headquarters to borrow a shovel. After borrowing the shovel, Tang Yue walked around the house and chose a more suitable place.
The living room and bedroom were not suitable places for people to come, so the storage room was finally chosen. Tang Yue planned to dig it into a place where people could live, so she had to do some research.
Suddenly, he thought again, if the cellar is dug like that, would people find him and think he is a spy? Finally, Tang Yue planned to dig a few meters down, and then dig about ten square meters along the private plot. Then he could put a ladder here to make it easier to go down.
After Tang Yue made a plan, she planned to dig a circle with a diameter of one meter, draw the lines, and knock off the cement floor on the outside. Fortunately, there was not a thick layer of it, and only a thin layer was applied on the surface. After knocking it off, Tang Yue took a shovel and started to shovel. After loosening the soil, he put it into the space, so that he would not spill the soil and the speed would be faster.
In less than two hours, they dug a meter-deep pit. When they reached the bottom, they found that there was no ladder yet. They hurried into the space, used two sticks to make a ladder, and left the space instantly after it was done.
Fortunately, no water was dug out below. The well in the yard had to be dug six meters before water came out. After digging 10 meters, they started digging toward the back of the wall. They planned to dig to a height of two meters in the cellar and began to dig diagonally downwards. When they had dug about one meter, they began to build steps leading down. The top of the head also had to be dug to a height where one could stand. When they were more than three meters above the ground, Tang Yue began to dig horizontally, leaving four supporting pillars in the middle.
At noon, Tang Yue came out of the cellar, took out the takeaway that she had ordered before, and fed the chickens some vegetable leaves. Tang Yue was ready to continue digging. At around six or seven in the evening, she had finished digging. She took out the oilcloth from the space, put it on the ground, and came out. She was going to go to Uncle Li to make a lid tomorrow.
I boiled some water, waited for a while until the water was ready, then went to the bathroom next door to take a shower. After washing the clothes, I hung them on the clothesline outside, then prepared to go back for dinner. I didn't want to cook for dinner, so I took out a pancake and ate it with some braised pig's trotters. I ate until I was full.
After entering the space, I saw that the rice and corn were ripe, and I harvested them with my mind. I planned to plant 200 acres of soybeans, 300 acres of cotton, 50 acres of onions, ginger, garlic and seasonings, and the remaining 200 acres of sesame. The fields are harvested about once every ten days or half a month. After feeding the pigs, I am ready to leave the space.
I left the space and returned to the kang, where I took out 12 kilograms of cotton. It looked like a lot, but the quilt I made was three meters by four meters, so it wouldn't be very thick if it was spread out. I planned to make it into a mattress to pad the kang. The quilts I had prepared before were no longer suitable.
Fortunately, the original owner had good skills and she could also embroider. Now that Tang Yue has inherited her memory, she also wants to try to inherit some of the original owner's skills.
Take out the sky blue fabric, measure the size, take out grandma's sewing machine, and start to pedal the sewing machine, aligning the two pieces of fabric on the front and sewing on the back.
This is to prepare for making a quilt cover. You don't need to wash the quilt often. If you wash it too much, it will not keep warm. After pulling the quilt cover, take out two pieces of black cloth, first step on the sewing machine, sew the threads on three sides, and leave one side for adding cotton. After sewing the threads, take out the needle and thread frame, sew a little bit, and add a little bit. Tang Yue plans to make this quilt tonight before going to bed. It was almost twelve o'clock when she finished making this quilt and put it on the quilt cover she just made. It looks good, but a little plain.
Tang Yue folded the mattress and put it into the innermost kang cabinet. The kang cabinet Tang Yue bought was the kind with small doors on the front and back that opened up. When you opened the inner layer, you could see the lower door, which was also a double-door door. There was a two-layer cabinet inside, and it could be locked from the outside. In the outer kang cabinet, the lower layer contained a lot of cloth, which the aunts were going to exchange for leather. They also took out all the rain boots except those in size 30 for women and size 43 for men, and exchanged them for other things.
Looking at the time, it’s very late, so I turn off the solar light. This kind of light is more convenient. When there is no electricity, I can just bask in the sun and get ready for bed.
The next morning, Tang Yue got up late as expected. She took out all the eggs in the space, lit a fire and cooked them in a pot. She wouldn't have to waste firewood in the future. She could eat them even when she didn't feel like cooking. She took some green leaves from the space and threw them directly into the chicken coop in the backyard. She swept the house and prepared to go find Aunt Guihua, leaving the eggs to cook.
Arriving at Captain 꺶's house, the door was unlocked, and Tang Yue called out at the door, "Aunt Guihua, are you home?"
"The door is not closed, please come in."
Tang Yue heard the sound coming from the bedroom. She walked closer and saw so many aunts sewing shoe soles on the kang. "There are so many aunts here. It's really lively."
Tang Yue greeted her as soon as she entered the room. Aunt Guihua saw that it was Tang Yue who came and said, "Girl Yue, what's up?"
"Auntie, I heard it's very cold here. I want you to ask someone to exchange leather for me. I need some soap and rain boots. I want to exchange them for some."
Aunt Guihua is still very reliable. The jar I bought last time was delivered two days ago. There are no secrets in the countryside. She knows everything about everyone's home, and those who are a little gossipy know everything.
When the aunties sitting in the room heard about this good news, they all rushed to say what kind of leather their family had, and then that family said what kind of leather their family had.
Tang Yue quickly said that she wanted to change to something that could be made into shoes, and the others had to be nicer looking. She also asked the aunts if there was anyone in the village who could make cowhide boots, sheepskin boots, or deerskin boots. These kinds of leathers would not get wet in the winter, and they were filled with thick rabbit fur, which was very warm.
No one in the village knows how to make it, but there is one person in the commune who can make it, but it's more expensive. However, the shoes he makes are of good quality, waterproof and warm. After asking for the address, Tang Yue plans to go and have a look next time.
After making an appointment with the aunts to go and see things, Tang Yue prepared to go back. The aunts also prepared to go home to look for leather. Even Aunt Guihua wanted to go and take a look.
Tang Yue returned home. She didn't plan to lock the door as the aunts were coming. She went into the kitchen to put away the eggs first, then went into the bedroom and packed out the things that needed to be replaced. She then took out three defective cloths and sorted them by color, putting the first two together.
After Tang Yue finished packing, the aunts arrived, including a few unfamiliar aunts. They were stunned when they saw the things on the bed. There were dozens of pairs of shoes. When had they ever seen so many rain boots? They also took out more than a dozen pairs of Liberation Shoes.
An aunt brought a whole piece of cowhide over. Tang Yue didn't know the price, so she asked Aunt Guihua to estimate it for her.
Finally, she exchanged for a pair of rain boots and a pair of Jiefang shoes. Judging from the size, they belonged to the man in the family. Tang Yue also gave her a few rubber bands with flowers on them. The one the aunt took was actually tiger skin. Although it was damaged, it did not affect its use. Finally, she took a pair of rain boots and two pairs of Jiefang shoes. She said that the tiger skin was made by her father-in-law.
Seeing that all the shoes she had exchanged were men's shoes, Tang Yue took out all the cloth in the closet. In the end, Tang Yue had exchanged for 1 wolf skin, 8 goat skins, 3 deer skins, 1 leopard skin, and more than 50 rabbit skins.
Tang Yue picked out the better ones, those that were kneaded very soft and washed very clean. In the end, everyone bought some of the cloth and divided them up. She didn't change all the shoes she had moved out. After the aunts left, Tang Yue packed all the things in snakeskin bags and placed them in the space warehouse.
Tang Yue went out and locked the door. Seeing that it was still early, she took out her backpack, some firewood and a wooden stick, changed into her mountain clothes, went out through the back door, locked the door and went straight into the mountain. Tang Yue planned to take advantage of the remaining four days of vacation. Except for a trip to the town on the last day, she planned to stay in the mountain for the rest of the time.
Tang Yue passed by the chestnut forest again, looked at the chestnuts that were not yet ripe, and then walked to the stream again.
Tang Yue prepared to walk along the stream to see if she could find the source. The wild vegetables beside the stream grew particularly well. She could pick a basket full of wild vegetables after walking about ten meters. There were also many small shrimps and fish in the water. After walking for two hours, she still hadn't walked as far as she had last time. Picking wild vegetables would have taken up too much time, but fortunately there was nothing important to do.
At noon, she ate a steamed bun and continued walking forward. Slowly, she began to see some animal footprints. Tang Yue decided not to pick wild vegetables anymore. The road she took was not a road that led directly to the mountains. It seemed like she walked in a semicircle. Maybe the end of the stream was in the mountains. Tang Yue looked around and tried to find a stick with high density so that it would not break easily when she applied force.
Tang Yue was walking and clearing the way when she suddenly saw a wild boar in front of her. The wild boar also spotted Tang Yue. It was true that when two brave men meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins.
Tang Yue put down the backpack, raised the stick and hit the wild boar's head with it. With a force of more than 100 kilograms, the head was flattened.
Tang Yue walked over to see that the wild boar was dead, then she put the wild boar into the space, put on her back and carried the basket, walked to the place where the wild boar's nose had just been pushed, and a section of yam was exposed. Although she didn't recognize the yam vine, she recognized the yam, which could be ground into powder and eaten as fine grain.
Tang Yue took the yam vine and looked at it carefully several times. After making sure she had memorized it, she threw it away.
Tang Yue looked at the vast field of yam. She decided to remember the location and come back to dig when the yam was ready for harvest in October. She continued walking along the stream.
I saw a bunch of wild onions in front of me, which is a kind that Tang Yue picked less often. I quickly stopped and dug them all out. The wild onions can be eaten with the roots. By the way, I also planted some in the space so that I can eat them whenever I want.
This time, Tang Yue picked almost two baskets of wild onions. After that, she continued to move forward. She came across many wild fruits on the way and picked some of the delicious ones.
Until Tang Yue came across a field of wild grapes, she was ready to pick all the ripe ones. There were really a lot of them, more than ten acres in total. When Tang Yue finished picking them, it was almost dark.
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