Chapter 43
As winter approaches, the temperature gradually drops at night and in the early morning.
The next morning, white mist had climbed up the glass windows of Yu Sui's house, indicating the arrival of cold air.
There were several silvery-white balls rolling on the wide and warm kang, Hank was holding one in his arms, and there was also one lying on the ground.
He held Xiaochu in his arms and carefully identified the little cub on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief after recognizing it as the chubby Xiaoding.
It doesn’t matter, Xiao Ding won’t get hurt or frozen so easily. This little guy doesn’t sleep well. His kang is already so big, but he still fell to the ground.
Xiaochu didn't wake up even when he picked her up. She was still snoring with her eyes closed.
He lifted and lowered the baby gently, and Yu Sui smiled with satisfaction, thinking back to when he first came here, Xiaochu looked like a kitten due to long-term malnutrition.
At least he looks like a big cat now. No wonder he always compares Xiaochu to cats. Whether it's the fur color or the demeanor, he looks a lot like the orange cat back home, but that cat was fattened up by his grandmother.
He hugged Xiaochu and lay back down, rolling around comfortably.
He suddenly bumped into a wall of flesh behind him, and turned around in surprise to see Qi lying next to him.
On his handsome face with clear contours, a pair of sleepy eyes slowly opened.
Yu Sui sat up suddenly, stuttering, "Qi, Brother Qi."
Damn it, he has no recollection of this at all, why on earth is Qi here?
Seeing him at a loss, a smile appeared in Qi's dark eyes.
"Do you have a headache today?" He remembered the last time Yu Sui got drunk and said he had a headache with a bitter face the next day, and he also remembered that he said he would never drink again.
Yu Sui was also surprised that he felt so refreshed. It might be that his body had gradually adapted to the effects of drinking too much.
"It doesn't hurt, I'm fine." He responded mechanically.
A smile played on Qi's lips, and he reached out and pushed him down.
"It's still early. It's getting cold in the mornings lately. You should sleep a little longer."
Lying on the kang, Yu Sui's brain raced, trying to recall the events of last night. No matter how hard he tried, he could only remember falling asleep next to a warm fire, and next to him was Xu...
Oh, did he remember that Qi seemed very angry yesterday? He secretly glanced at Qi next to him. His expression was normal, just like before the rumors spread. There was no trace of unusual emotion.
No wonder people always say on the Internet that alcohol can corrode the brain. Yu Sui feels that his brain has been completely hollowed out and his memory is confused.
For the Nth time, he warned himself in his heart that he would never drink again. He cleared the chaotic memories in his mind. He drank so much last night that he probably remembered it wrongly.
But Qi lying next to him made him feel a little uncomfortable. Even if he closed his eyes and forced himself to rest, his eyes couldn't help trembling, and even his long eyelashes kept shaking.
Qi looked deeply at the cub beside him, and his usual fierceness turned into gentleness.
The cub only lay there quietly for a short while before suddenly sitting up again, as if remembering something important, and hurriedly ran to the yard.
Yu Sui pushed open the door, feeling annoyed. The glass windows were blurred by fog and dew, and he couldn't see the yard. He had forgotten that there were a lot of drunks lying in the yard yesterday.
The yard was not as messy as he had imagined. It seemed to have been cleaned up. The dwarves were not there either. They must have been carried home.
Fortunately, it was okay for the dwarf not to sleep outdoors in this temperature. Seeing Ashan sleeping soundly with his feet resting on Notting's face, he knew that Kalan and others must have come. They not only cleaned the yard for him, but also settled the dwarf back home.
The big stone in his heart fell to the ground. Yu Sui went back to the house and made a pot of honey juice for everyone. He waited for everyone to wake up and had a cup of it to refresh their minds.
He made this clay pot himself. After modifying it several times, the spout is still a little crooked, but it has a large enough capacity.
Yesterday's pheasant meat was eaten up by everyone, but he didn't throw away the chicken feathers. He piled them in the corner of the yard. Fortunately, they were not cleaned up by Karan and others.
The Xilen caravan only had finished products such as cotton cloth, and no cotton for him to make quilts. Later, Yu Sui was so excited about exchanging seeds that he forgot about exchanging cotton.
Alas, even if they haven't forgotten, it will be next spring when they come to exchange cotton, and the daylilies will be cold.
Although their tribe had a lot of furs, Yu Sui still missed the soft quilt. Finally, when he was plucking the chicken feathers yesterday, he remembered the down quilt.
Good quality down is made from duck down and goose down, but some unscrupulous merchants nowadays use chicken feathers to save costs.
He remembered seeing a video about cracking down on unscrupulous businesses. The workshop that was reported used chicken feathers. They weren't even fluff. Large, coarse pieces of chicken feathers were soaked in chemicals, crushed, and then stuffed into clothes.
Although it is something done by unscrupulous businessmen in modern times, it can be used as a reference in this place.
An adult pheasant is larger than an ostrich and naturally has more feathers.
It’s just that their hair is too coarse and hard, so it’s better to pick out the fluff when using it yourself.
Although I didn't count the pheasants we ate yesterday, I estimated there were about ten of them, and I saved a lot of chicken feathers.
Including the rabbits from the day before yesterday, the meat brought back from the cafeteria yesterday was not used at all. The food he prepared alone was enough to feed everyone.
Once he was busy, he was so focused that he didn't even notice Qi following him.
The feathers on the chicken's belly and chest were softer. He picked out the feathers, put them in a basin and boiled them with water. The unpleasant smell of chicken rushed into his nose.
Yu Sui couldn't help but frown, pinching his nose and continuing to deal with it.
A slender and muscular arm stretched out from behind him and took the iron pot of boiling water from his hand.
"Do you want to wash this fur?" Qi's low voice came.
He stood behind Yu Sui and was so absorbed in his work that Yu Sui forgot about him.
"But this smells terrible..."
I heard that the more powerful the orcs, the stronger their talents in all aspects, including sense of smell. Yu Sui hesitated and did not let go.
He took the iron pot without giving him any chance to refuse, used his other hand to lift him up from his waist, and easily moved him to the side.
Yu Sui only felt that the sky was spinning once, and then his feet landed on the ground and he was standing in another place.
Being strong is a great thing. He touched his nose and had an idea. He found a piece of linen, passed four thin threads through the four corners, and made a simple mask.
Yu Sui stood behind Qi with a smile on his face. In order to help him clean the chicken feathers, Qi was squatting on the ground, which made it easier for him to do so.
Reaching out, he put the mask over Qi's head, covering his nose and mouth, and tied it into a bow at the back.
Yu Sui looked at his work with satisfaction, tilted his head and looked at Qi, "How is it, is it much better?"
The thin linen cloth didn't have much effect, but Qi could only smell the unique scent of the cub, and the pungent smell of burnt chicken feathers had no effect on him at all.
His sharp eyebrows curved slightly, and he looked at Yu Sui with a doting look.
“The smell is much less.”
Yu Sui's heart skipped a beat when he was stared at. He stopped talking and stood aside watching his movements.
Awakened for a while by their movements, a group of snow werewolves sat cross-legged on the ground, their silver-white heads swaying in unison with their movements.
"I have a feeling I shouldn't speak..." Notting said in a low voice.
Xu tilted his head doubtfully and looked at the two of them, then responded quietly, "I feel like we haven't misunderstood them too much."
Ah Qing looked at his disappointing son, turned his head to face his old enemy Lu's proud and provocative smile, and snorted heavily.
"Auntie, you're awake now. I made some honey juice for you to moisten your throats."
Yu Sui heard a familiar cold snort and turned around to see a group of snow wolves who had just woken up from their hangover and were sitting cross-legged there as if they were sitting on a warm kang.
Aunts Lu and Aqing have been disliking each other like black-eyed chickens since early morning. No one knows who has offended them, but it seems that Aunt Lu has the upper hand.
It's just that the other people looked at him in a strange way... However, since he came here, these people haven't been normal for a few days, so Yu Sui was too lazy to think about it and took out the big teapot for them.
The juice in the teapot was still warm. After drinking the juice, everyone left one after another.
Ashan slept even later last night and was kicked by Notting while he was stretching.
This guy had been kicking his feet in his face all night yesterday, and Notting had wanted to beat him up for a long time.
While it's not snowing, the soldiers will go out and catch some more prey.
The warriors of the tribe are divided into teams and take turns patrolling and hunting. In the past, Chief Black Rock and Qi took the lead respectively. Now Black Rock also wants to let the younger generation gain experience, while he concentrates on managing the various miscellaneous affairs of the tribe.
Xu and Xiangcao are equally capable, and Qi takes turns with them leading the warriors on patrol or hunting.
Qi was supposed to lead the patrol today. Just as Notting was about to turn around and call him, Xu and Xiangcao pulled him away tacitly.
"Let him stay with Xiaoyu Sui to help. Vanilla and I are here."
Xu put his arm around his shoulder and said.
Although he was a little confused about what was going on between the two of them, but thinking of Qi's eyes before he fell asleep last night, he wisely thought it best not to disturb them.
Yu Sui waved goodbye to them. Behind him was Qi squatting and cleaning chicken feathers for him. His handsome face was half covered by the gray-yellow linen, which made him look a bit funny and destroyed his unapproachable temperament.
However, they did not see any surprise on his face, and they felt strange and quickened their pace to leave.
There is no special chemical deodorant, and Yu Sui doesn't want the quilt he covers himself with every day to be filled with the smell of chicken feathers. That would not be a warming tool, but a torture device.
After thinking about it, I decided to boil a large iron pot full of water. Boiling it a few times can remove the smell.
He would occasionally feel a stinging sensation when splashed with boiling water, but it was much less severe than when he was a human, and he would not cause blisters if boiling water dripped onto his skin.
Qi was even more powerful. He dipped his entire hand into boiling water and rubbed the chicken feathers, and they didn't turn red when he pulled them out. No wonder the magic couldn't penetrate them. This defense was too strong.
After washing the first basin of chicken feathers, Yu Sui spread them out in the sun to dry.
There is no wind today, so there is no need to put it indoors. It will dry faster outside.
The fine hairs are mostly white, with only some black and yellow at the tips. They are extremely soft after washing.
Yu Sui took out a piece of cotton cloth that he was reluctant to use and spread it out on the kang.
A group of cubs ran out to play as soon as they woke up, and they didn't forget to smell the honey water and drink it up.
It’s just right that no one is disturbing me, so I can work in peace.
The stitches of a down quilt must be dense, which really tests his skills, as he has never sewn clothes before.
The Black Rock Tribe used to use bone needles, but he thought they were too thick and even kept fish bones to make needles. However, after the dwarves came, he no longer had this worry, as iron needles were more useful.
He didn't have any special spools of thread at home, and the threads he used were all taken from linen. Yu Sui was not a careful person, and when the Xilen caravan was there, he didn't think of changing some spools of thread as a backup.
Now he could only continue to tear apart the linen. Fortunately, he had exchanged a lot last time, and there was also some linen left by the original owner's mother at home, which was enough to use.
He knew that making a quilt required fluffing the cotton, which was then spread out in layers to make the quilt core.
Down shouldn't be like this, so he tried to spread the dried fine fluff on it as flatly as possible, the flatter the better.
After the down is dried, it weighs very little and is piled up fluffy on the cut cotton cloth. It is quite difficult to flatten it.
Considering the size of the pheasants here, nearly a dozen of them could barely make a thick quilt. Yu Sui covered the down with a layer of cotton cloth.
He sat on the kang and threaded the needle, and Qi also helped him sew.
The two men's skills were comparable. After working hard for a long time, they still couldn't sew the fabric properly. It was very difficult to seal the quilt. They sewed a vertical line every centimeter in the middle to better prevent the down from moving off course.
Each of them was responsible for sewing one side slowly towards the middle, but the quilt Yu Sui made was the size of a double quilt, so it was easier to sew crookedly. While sewing, he almost hit his head and saw that the quilt had already been slanted together.
"I didn't expect that Brother Qi could sew, that's amazing." Yu Sui praised sincerely, he is really a man of both housework and work!
He smiled faintly and looked up, his eyes meeting Qi's. His eyes were clear and bright, with a hint of smile. For a moment, it seemed as if the sunlight was also immersed in his eyes.
Qi was stunned for a moment before he found his voice.
"The cloth bags we use to store things often break, so we fix them ourselves." He said in a slightly hoarse voice.
Yu Sui suddenly realized. He also said that the snow wolves didn't usually wear linen clothes, and they covered themselves with animal skins. How could the warrior Qi know needlework?
The quilt core, made with rough workmanship, was finally finished. Yu Sui made a quilt cover according to the size of the quilt. In the future, if it gets dirty, just wash the quilt cover, but don't wash the quilt core. Otherwise, with their sewing skills, it would be strange if the down didn't come out.
The quilt cover only needs to be sewn at the corners, which is easier than the quilt core. Yu Sui sewed it himself quickly.
Every time he was immersed in work, he would forget the time. When his stomach growled with hunger, he would realize that the sun had already moved to the west and it was already afternoon.
It took most of the day just to make a quilt. Time flies so fast in the world of pure handmade things.
Yu Sui felt very guilty when he thought about causing Qi to starve with him.
However, there was still a lot of barbecue sauce left from yesterday, and the meat I brought back hadn't been eaten, so I took out some of it for lunch.
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