Qiu Yuling's small vests and boots were very popular for a while, not only in the school, but also many people in their team came to learn from her and made clothes for their children when they returned.
The old men in the village wore sheepskin coats, and the little kids wore gray, yellow, and brown rabbit-skin vests. For a moment, their village looked like a hunter village, and it was very funny when they gathered together.
"Mom, why does my jacket smell so bad? I don't want to wear it." Wu Xiu's son Wang Qiang was disgusted and didn't want the fur jacket that his mother had sewn for him.
"Everyone wears it, but you have too much to do. Look at the kids outside, they are wearing it, they are windproof and look good." Wu Xiu insisted on letting him try it on.
"Other people's clothes look good and don't smell bad, but yours smells bad and looks ugly. I won't wear it. If you put it on, the dog trousers in the brigade will chase me!" Wang Qiang was still frightened when he thought of the experience of being chased. He would rather not have it than have this tattered leather coat sewn by his mother.
"Forget it, I'll give it to your father instead, so he doesn't have to suffer from the cold every year digging canals." Wu Xiu didn't want to spoil this idiot.
After the people left, she picked it up and sniffed it. It really had a stinky smell.
It's strange, she also washed it, using several basins of water. No, she has to go around the team to see how other families do it and why their children don't dislike it.
Wu Xiu was close to the eldest son's wife of the Qiu family, and she loved crickets from the second son's family. Thieves looked down on her family, and others went there to learn how to make leather. She only pulled the passing kids over to her, took a look at them, and then skinned the rabbit herself and fumbled around to make it.
Little do people know that the skill of leather making is a learning process.
She held the fur coat and thought for a long time. She was sure that the way she washed the leather was wrong, but she was too embarrassed to go to Qiu Laoer's house. After thinking about it, she took a shoe sole and went to Zhang Wanhua's house next door.
"Sister Hua, are you cleaning the cellar? I was thinking your family has too much work to do, so I asked you to mend the soles of your shoes and gossip with them."
"Well, hurry up and clean it up. We need to stock up on radishes, cabbages, potatoes and other things, otherwise we'll have to starve during the winter." Zhang Wanhua didn't stop working. Her husband was cleaning up in the cellar, and she was tidying up the top herself.
"That's okay. It won't delay your conversation. I'll sew the soles of the shoes while you work. We don't have to do it with our mouths." Wu Xiu thought that it was just a few words. Even if she really did it with her mouth, it wouldn't have much impact.
Zhang Wanhua washed the mud off her hands, went into the house and brought out a bowl of sand dates, "Here, have some."
Wu Xiu curled her lips. What good did she think it was? There were only a few of these things in every yard, and there were even more of them ownerless on the wasteland. Especially in the past two years, the sand dates had made it difficult for them to poop properly after eating them. She, Wang Qiang, had to pick them out with a stick. She didn't eat them.
If you don't want to eat, forget it. "Then you sit down. I'll go help the baby's father."
"Hey, well, you should sit down and take a break first. Your man is capable, so let him do more. Let's talk for a while, and then you can get back to work."
"Tell me, what's the matter?" This was the kind of person who would not come to the temple without a reason. Zhang Wanhua simply sat down and poured out her saliva. She had been working for the whole afternoon and it was a good time to take a break.
"That's right, how do you wash your leather? Why does mine still stink after washing?" Wu Xiu was extremely curious.
"Ah? Rabbit skin! Dashan's father washed and cooked it for me. He must have put a lot of effort into it. The work is really good. The fur is so soft and silky."
"Still soft? Give it to me and let me see it." Can it be made into a flower?
"Mu Tou wore it out, and I didn't feel comfortable asking someone to take all of them, so I made two and sewed a vest for Mu Tou, and the kid wore it out to play." Zhang Wanhua had already understood what was going on by now. It turned out that this was the reason.
That was unfortunate. She hadn't had time to learn how to do it herself. Qingmei had asked her husband to help her make it and gave it to her. She was thinking that after cleaning the cellar, she would take some cabbages to thank him and ask him how to do it in detail.
It's obvious that this is a troublesome job, so I asked for it myself. I can save some leather and make it myself later. I don't have the nerve to ask others for help all the time.
"Okay, go and learn it. When you've learned it, come and tell me. I won't go to her house. I'm too impatient to go to their place." Wu Xiu said it as a matter of course.
Zhang Wanhua: ...She is such a shameless person, just wait for her!
Seeing that she couldn't get to the bottom of the matter, Wu Xiu didn't want to waste time, so she said a few words casually and said she would not disturb her work and went back first.
"What is she doing here? She comes and goes." Wang Laosi crawled out of the cellar only after the others left. He washed the dust off his face and wiped his head with a towel. He threw the towel into the basin and the water turned black.
"What else can we do? We're just picking up ready-made bargains." Zhang Wanhua didn't want to mention her. The two of them planned carefully what to stockpile and what to sell.
Because they were afraid of being hungry in the past two years, they finally unanimously decided not to sell any of the vegetables, whether they were dry or wet, coarse grains or bran, and to store them for their own consumption. This would avoid making a few dollars now and then having to go out and find ways to buy expensive grain later.
"It'll work. I'll do as you say. Before the canal is built, we should quickly collect all the things and move them to the cellar..."
The two of them had almost finished their conversation when Zhang Wanhua picked up a basket with five large cabbages and five large radishes in it. She also slipped a few carrots in between the gaps and went to Qiu Yuling's house with the basket in her hands.
"Is Qingmei in the room?" The door was open. Zhang Wanhua stopped for a moment and asked. Only after Li Qingmei responded did she go in.
"Are you cleaning the cellar too? I just finished that too, and I've harvested all the winter vegetables at home, so I'll give you some."
"Oh, you store it for your own consumption during the winter. I have some here too. Aren't they the same saline-alkali land and the same vegetable seeds? Why did you make a special trip to deliver it to me?" Li Qingmei smiled and complained that she was doing something unnecessary.
"How can they be the same? The fertilizer I use is fermented at home, so it must be different, haha." The two people laughed because of the smell of manure.
"Please sit down. I'll serve you some freshly steamed saxaul buns. My Yuling loves them and always asks me to steam a pot for them." Li Qingmei took a few buns from the winnowing basket where the buns were dried and put them into the winnowing basket, then handed them to Zhang Wanhua.
"Oh, you buried the grape trellis? Very neat." Zhang Wanhua broke off a piece of steamed bun and looked around the yard while eating. Even the tree trunks were tied with a layer of wheat straw, like winter clothes.
"Aren't you taking care of it too meticulously?" Zhang Wanhua thought to herself that she had never taken care of the saxaul tree and elm tree at the door for so many years, so aren't they growing well?
"I, Yuling, did it. I was afraid her seedlings would freeze and get damaged. Every day, I would go home and do whatever the book said. Her father also spoiled her, so I just let them do it."
"You mixed white flour into the steamed bun, so it tastes very dense."
"Well, it's a mixture of cornmeal and white flour. Yuling likes to eat it this way."
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