Xiatian packed up and went to the kitchen to boil water and cook dumplings.
After Shen Nian washed her hands, she sat in the yard, poured herself a glass of water, and sipped it slowly.
The dumplings were cooked and placed on the table in the yard, and Xia Tian went to prepare the dipping sauce.
I didn’t cook anything today, I just mixed some shredded bamboo shoots and started eating.
"How is it? Is it delicious?" Xia Tian looked at Shen Nian with a smile in his eyes and full of anticipation.
Shen Nian nodded, “Delicious!”
“Ah, Brother Shen, you are finally no longer just a word ‘hmm’!” Xia Tian smiled and teased Shen Nian.
Silent and thoughtful.
"Hehe, I was just kidding, Brother Shen." Xia Tian quickly tried to make amends, fearing that Shen Nian would feel embarrassed.
Shen Nian picked up a dumpling stuffed with pickled cabbage and placed it in Xia Tian’s bowl, “This is delicious.”
Seeing Shen Nian's sudden action, Xia Tian was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth quickly rose, he picked up the dumplings in the bowl and stuffed them into his mouth, "Delicious!"
Brother Shen is becoming more and more considerate.
After dinner, Xiatian poured the scraps of cloth he brought back onto a bamboo sieve and picked out the larger pieces.
In the future, you can use it to sew purses, mend clothes, make shoe uppers, etc. For smaller ones, you can just stick the thousand-layer soles on them, so there won’t be any waste.
Nowadays, many elderly people like to wear this kind of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, saying that they are comfortable and do not cause foot odor.
In their previous life, when they were young, their mothers would make these kind of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles for them to wear.
Pack the scraps of cloth separately, take out the cloth bought today, and put away the two red pieces first, as they are intended to be given to the new sister-in-law and her sister Xia Yue.
After Xia Yang got married, Xia Yue would probably get married soon too, so let’s get ready first.
The piece of dark blue coarse cloth was intended to make a coat for Shen Nian.
But Xia Tian doesn’t know how to make clothes, and the original body doesn’t know how to make clothes either.
Farmers have been mending their clothes for three years. When they make a piece of clothing, it is basically worn by the older generation and then by the younger generation. They have very few opportunities to make new clothes.
The original body's clothes were all Xia Yue's old clothes, and none of them were without patches.
Wear it and you won’t have a chance to dislike it in the summer.
She only had one or two taels of silver on her, which she was planning to save as a start-up fund. Hua Chennian felt a bit unjustified, so she could only wait until she earned money in the future before making new clothes.
Speaking of making money, Xia Tian felt that after Xia Yang got married, she should put it on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise when would she be able to achieve freedom in food and clothing.
Xia Tian found an old piece of clothing that belonged to Shen Nian, and took the fabric to ask Sister Yao for help in cutting it.
"Mrs. Yao, are you home?" Xia Tian asked loudly while standing at the door of Mrs. Yao's house.
Yao's husband, Liu Dashan, was chopping wood in the yard. When he heard the voices at the door, he turned around and saw that it was the wife of the young man from the Shen family next door. He shouted into the house, "Meimei, the girl from the Xia family is looking for you."
Mrs. Yao's full name is Yao Mei.
"Hey, I'm coming." Mrs. Yao agreed from inside the house.
Liu Dashan greeted Xia Tian with a smile, "Xia family sister, come in, your sister-in-law is in the room!"
"Brother Liu, are you chopping wood?" Xia Tian looked around. "Where's my Aunt Liu?"
"Maybe he went to chat with someone under the big willow tree." Mrs. Yao lifted the door curtain and came out, waving to Xia Tian, "Xia Tian, come in quickly, I'm bored alone."
"Sister-in-law, I'm here to ask you for help." Xia Tian walked to the door of the house. "Is it okay to disturb you?"
"Come in quickly. I'm free and have nothing to do, so I'm mending shoe soles!" Mrs. Yao grabbed Xia Tian's hand and walked into the house.
Xia Tian took out the cloth and said, "Sister-in-law, please help me cut the clothes. I don't know how to do it."
"This is easy. Do you have the size?" Mrs. Yao picked up the cloth.
“No, I brought an old piece of clothing from my husband. Sister-in-law, can you see if you can cut it according to the pattern?” Xia Tian took out Shen Nian’s clothes and handed them to Sister-in-law Yao.
"Let me take a look, it should be fine." Mrs. Yao picked up the old clothes and checked them with her fingers, and she had an idea in her mind.
Then, spread the fabric on the table, use a ruler and chalk to mark the cutting lines and positions, pick up the scissors and cut it with a few "clicks".
"Sister-in-law, you are so amazing! You finished cutting it so quickly!" Xia Tian praised sincerely.
"That's right, sister-in-law, my needlework is excellent." Sister Yao raised her chin proudly, "If you don't know anything, just come to me."
"Thank you, sister-in-law. Please tell me how to sew. I have never sewed clothes before." Xia Tian was not polite to Sister-in-law Yao.
Mrs. Yao carefully explained to Xia Tian how to cut clothes, how to measure sizes, and how to sew. Xia Tian nodded repeatedly as he listened.
Xia Tian thought that he couldn't let Sister Yao help him for nothing, so he asked her, "Sister-in-law, I brought back a big bag of scraps from the cloth shop today. There are too many and I can't use them all. Can you come with me to pick some? They're great for shoe soles."
Mrs. Yao was also straightforward. "Okay, don't be picky. It's getting late today. If you're free tomorrow, let's go straight to your house to get dressed!"
"Okay, it's settled then."
Xia Tian returned home and took out the cut cloth to sew clothes, but she found that she had forgotten to buy needle and thread.
Since I can’t sew clothes anymore, I might as well tidy up the vegetable garden.
The bamboo that was cut down yesterday has not been cleaned up yet. Xiatian took out an axe, cut the bamboo into pieces of 1.5 meters in length, split it in half, and took it to the backyard to make a fence.
After dinner, Shen Nian rested in the room for a while. When she heard the sound in the yard, she opened the window and saw Xia Tian carrying a bundle of bamboo strips to the backyard.
Xia Tian was digging a ditch around the vegetable garden with a hoe. Seeing Shen Nian coming over, he greeted her with a smile, “Brother Shen, did I disturb you just now?”
"It's okay! What are you doing?" Shen Nian was a little confused when he saw Xia Tian digging a ditch around the vegetable field.
"This?" Xia Tian pointed at the ditch he had dug. "I'll put bamboo strips in there later and build a fence around the vegetable patch to keep chickens from getting in and destroying the vegetables."
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