Chapter 49 Sewing quilts and growing vegetables
After returning home, Su Mo picked up the steamed mushroom-stuffed buns and put them in the living room. She also ate two of them, and dinner was ready.
Then she quickly washed the pot and heated water. While it was still light, she went to the well to fetch a few buckets of water and poured them into the water tank in the kitchen.
After the water was heated, Su Mo took a bath. After pouring out the bath water, she washed her clothes.
Then she went back to the house and lit the kerosene lamp. First, she closed the wooden window at the back, and then she found a thick curtain from the living room that she didn't know where she got it from before and hung it on the window next to the kang in the bedroom.
Then she took out a rechargeable desk lamp, turned it on, and went outside to see if it could let in light. After making sure that no light could penetrate, Su Mo returned to the house, closed the doors, took out a table lamp, turned it on, and in an instant, the room became bright.
Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief, finally no longer having to live in darkness.
After a short rest, Su Mo quickly took apart the quilt she had sewn before, took out the quilt inside, replaced it with the quilt she brought from the last days, and sewed it again.
The replaced quilt was then pieced together with coarse cloth and a quilt cover was sewn on.
Although it looked a bit ugly, it would not be eye-catching in the cowshed, as long as it was warm enough.
The mattress was also pieced together with coarse cloth and sewn on. In this way, the quilts used in the parents' cowshed were ready.
Then she took out a thinner quilt to replace the mattress.
However, the quilts of later generations are still very different from those of today. Su Mo also took the printed bed sheet she bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, mixed it with some coarse cloth, and sewed a cover for the mattress. This way, she wouldn't have to worry about anyone noticing that her mattress was different.
She had washed the printed bed sheet when she was at the educated youth center.
After she was done, Su Mo looked at the little coarse cloth left and smiled bitterly.
Lack of experience is troublesome. It seems that she has to buy another piece of coarse cloth, otherwise it won't be enough to make a cotton shirt for one person.
After putting the sewn quilt and coarse cloth into the space, Su Mo looked at the time and it was already past ten o'clock.
She lit the kerosene lamp, closed the table lamp, took down the curtains, put them back in the room, and then blew out the lights and went to sleep.
While Su Mo was sewing the quilt, the first and second rooms of the Lu family were not quiet either.
After dinner, Liu Yuzhi cut the two apples into pieces, giving half to each of the three children, and she and Lu Xingjun shared the remaining half.
The three children were so happy about the delicious apples that they almost swallowed the cores.
"This apple is so delicious, I don't know where the third child bought it." Liu Yuzhi said. It
's not like they haven't eaten apples from the supply and marketing cooperative before, and the taste is totally incomparable. Before, they thought the apples sold in the supply and marketing cooperative were delicious, but after eating this one, the ones sold in the supply and marketing cooperative were just so-so.
"Where else can you buy it? Either the commune supply and marketing cooperative or the county supply and marketing cooperative."
Lu Xingjun answered. "When have you ever seen such good things sold in the supply and marketing cooperative?" Liu Yuzhi didn't believe it.
"Sometimes, Xiaolan also brought back a lot of good things before."
"That's different. I think the third brother's family might have bought it in the market." Liu Yuzhi said in a low voice.
Lu Xingjun immediately sat up straight, "Don't talk nonsense, how can a woman from the third brother's family be so brave."
Liu Yuzhi curled her lips, "Just watch, although the third brother's family looks delicate and weak, she is definitely not an ordinary person."
Lu Xingjun smiled, "How
can you tell that she is not an ordinary person?" "If she were an ordinary person, the third brother would have such high standards and would be eager to marry her home after knowing her for a few days?"
"That's true." Lu Xingjun nodded, and then added, "The third brother is good to our family, don't find fault with the third brother's family."
Lu Xingjun got a watch today, and he was very happy.
"Nonsense, do you need to say that, do you think I'm the idiot of the second brother's family?"
Unlike the calmness of the first wife, the second wife seemed to have a bit of gunpowder.
Originally, the two apples were good enough for the family of four to share half each, but Lu Guihua wanted to keep one to take back to her parents' home.
The two boys could have eaten half each, but suddenly it became a quarter, so they naturally didn't want to eat it.
After a commotion, the two boys finally shared half each. The remaining apple was divided into two halves, with Lu Weiguo and Lu Guihua sharing half, and Lu Guihua taking the remaining half back to her parents' home.
Lu Weiguo looked at his wife who wanted to take half of the apple back to her parents' home, and suddenly he felt regretful.
Was he wrong to ignore his parents' advice and insist on marrying Lu Guihua?
It seems that his mother was right. If it weren't for her pressure, Lu Guihua would have emptied their house and moved to her parents' home long ago. Now that the family is divided and there is no one to take care of it, she wants to take even half of the apple back to her parents' home.
Lu Weiguo suddenly felt powerless.
But he already had two children, what else could he do? He could only be more careful in the future.
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The next day, Su Mo woke up before six o'clock.
After folding the bedding, Su Mo quickly took out the floral cotton cloth, measured and cut it into 4 feet, and put it together with the khaki cloth and 2 kilograms of cotton, so that it would be ready for use when Li Yue'e came over. After finishing
all this, she went out to wash and go to the toilet. After cleaning herself, she took two buns from the space and ate them for breakfast.
After eating, she began to pour out vegetable seeds from the space, preparing to plant the land in the yard.
Radishes and cabbages must be planted, and then Su Mo found seeds of spinach, lettuce, cabbage and leeks, preparing to plant them together. These kinds of green vegetables are relatively resistant to low temperatures, and they grow quickly, so they can be harvested before the snow falls.
The land in the yard was divided into 8 plots by Lu Changzheng. Su Mo chose 4 larger plots and sprinkled cabbage and radish seeds on them. Her method of planting is rough mining. When the seedlings grow out, she will just pull out the excess.
The other four plots were sprinkled with spinach, lettuce, leek and cabbage seeds.
When Li Yue'e came over, she saw Su Mo watering the land, and it seemed that some wood ash was also sprinkled on the land.
"Old Third, what are you doing?"
"Mom, I'm watering the field. I just sprinkled the vegetable seeds on it.
" "Oh, what vegetables are you planting?"
"I'm planting some radishes, cabbages, spinach, lettuce, and so on."
Li Yue'e looked at the square plots of land and felt something was wrong. "How did you plant it?"
"Just scatter the seeds on the ground and sprinkle some wood ash on it." Su Mo said.
Li Yue'e was shocked. "Did you plant radishes and cabbages like this?"
Su Mo nodded.
"Oh, you can't plant radishes and cabbages like this. You have to dig holes, put a few seeds in each hole, sprinkle a handful of wood ash, and cover with soil. That's how it works. If you scatter them like this, they may not grow. Even if they grow, they are too dense."
"It's okay, mother, they can grow. If they are too dense, I will pull out the excess." Others may not grow, but hers must.
Li Yue'e saw that what she said seemed to make some sense, so she didn't say anything.
If she has no vegetables to eat, her family will just give her some.