The stove can be used to cook food. The outside is made of iron sheet, and the heat around the iron sheet can quickly dry the wool.
Two more days passed, and Jiang Bai and his group had collected more than four pounds of yarn.
Most of them are cat hair.
Jiang Bai held a freshly sharpened bamboo stick in his hand and taught Jiang Lü how to knit a sweater.
With nothing else to do, Ji Yanwen started learning as well.
Jiang Bai moved swiftly, like a ruthless knitting machine, and had already knitted a sweater overnight.
Jiang Lu and Ji Yanwen had only finished weaving a quarter of the garment; it was still a long way from being finished.
"Sister, this is so warm."
Jiang Lu tried it on. Wearing the sweater inside, and only needing to add another layer of clothing on top, it felt just like wearing a cotton coat, very warm.
"Let's go for a walk in the village."
Jiang Bai smiled as he looked at her.
Jiang Lu's face immediately showed hesitation.
"But sister, didn't Grandpa forbid us from going to the village?"
The little girl still remembered the time when she and her siblings were separated from the village, and she felt a bit resentful about it.
"It's alright, go ahead."
Things are different now. Many people from the village come to Pingshan to help with the work, but they can't come because it's cold.
The Jiang sisters' status in the village had long been elevated.
"good."
Upon receiving Jiang Bai's words, Jiang Lu happily responded and skipped away.
Ping Shan's house was far from the village, a full two hours away.
But don't forget what Jiang Lu's current abilities are.
She ran into the mountains, and after a short while, an orange animal carried her out.
"Wait, call Big Orange over and brush its fur."
Jiang Bai spoke up to stop her, and Jiang Lu then commanded the tiger on her body to come in front of Jiang Bai.
The majestic tiger let out a low roar, and Jiang Songwen, who was standing next to it, couldn't help but shudder.
"Aww... Meow."
"Stop howling, or I'll skin you alive if you scare Awen."
Jiang Bai slapped Da Ju on the head, pulled it over, and pressed it to the ground to groom its fur.
That's why they say large animals have a lot of fur.
Compared to those small rabbits, tigers have much more fur.
Jiang Bai only let Jiang Lu and the other person leave after he had thoroughly robbed them.
Tigers can run at speeds of 60 to 70 kilometers per hour. The distance from Pingshan to Jiangjia Village is only about 20 kilometers. Riding the tiger, Jiang Lu quickly arrived at the outskirts of Pingshan.
"Big Orange, I'll go down by myself. You wait for me here."
The little girl landed on the tiger's back like a graceful swallow, and walked briskly down the mountain.
"Third Grandma, Third Grandma".
The Liu family was huddled together in the house sleeping, half-asleep, when they heard someone calling her.
"Old man, is someone calling me?"
"You're still half asleep. Who would be out walking around in the middle of winter?"
"Third Grandma, Third Grandma".
They heard shouts again from outside, and this time they both heard them clearly.
"Someone is calling."
Liu turned over and sat up; the icy temperature made her shiver violently.
"Old man, take off your clothes."
Before Jiang Minxiao could answer, Liu started tearing off his clothes and put them on herself.
"You old woman, you're so old, don't you have any shame?"
Jiang Minxiao was so cold that he kept burrowing into the quilt. After Liu left, the quilt got even colder.
"You know I'm already quite old, what's there to be ashamed of?"
As Liu spoke, she got up and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, a cold draft rushed in, making the room even colder.
Jiang Lu stood outside the door, listening to the sounds inside.
"Er Ya? What brings you here? It's so cold, come inside and sit down."
The members of the Liu family were all lying in their respective rooms.
It was precisely because she had bought cotton for her sons to sew quilts that she had no money to buy cotton for clothes.
This year, Nan'an County experienced a drought, and I heard that the cotton harvest in the north also failed.
Cotton that used to cost two taels of silver per pound has now risen to three or four taels of silver per pound.
Every household in the village had no spare money. The little money they had was reserved for buying more grain when they ran out of food, so they dared not spend it on cotton.
Anyway, the whole family can squeeze in, as long as one person can go out to work.
"Third Grandmother, I have something good to show you."
The little girl's face was red from the cold. As she entered the house, she quietly lifted her coat to reveal the sweater underneath.
"Look, this is a new sweater my older sister made for me, it's so warm."
Liu was wearing clothes made of cattail fluff, and even though she wore Jiang Minxiao's clothes as well, she was still freezing.
Upon seeing Jiang Lulu's sweater, she touched it and her eyes lit up instantly.
"What is this made of? Why is it so warm?"
Compared to clothes made of cattail fluff, this sweater is indeed quite warm.
"It's made of rabbit fur, cat fur, and wool."
"These can be made into clothes?"
"Why can't we make it? Didn't your aunt sell us some a while ago?"
"So it was you who collected this beast's hair."
Two days ago, it was Liu's eldest daughter-in-law's turn to go out to work. She remembered that when she came back, she said that she had sold one or two mao (a unit of currency) and received a hundred daqian (another unit of currency).
"Yes, my older sister said that if my aunt finds any more wool later, she can keep it for now and then go up the mountain with the villagers. My older sister will teach everyone how to spin yarn so they can weave clothes!"
Spinning and weaving are not popular in Jiangjia Village. People would rather use that time to do more work on the mountain and earn some money.
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