In this era of lack of clothes and few clothes, it is good for everyone to have a cotton coat, and there is not even a replacement.

The cotton clothes worn in winter, even if you cherish them, they are not dirty, especially the neckline and cuffs, which are so dirty that they are shiny and shiny, and smell a pungent smell of brain oil.

The cloth is soaked in water for an hour, the rice melts, and after repeated beating and rinsing, the stains fall off with the rice seed, and the cloth is clean when the water is clear.

The shedding of the rice will not cause pollution to the water source, and the whole village is washing clothes in the big pit in the east of the village, and the water in the pit is still clear, and you can see small fish swimming not far from the edge of the pit.

After seeing the quilt at the second grandmother's house, Yoyo felt the hardships of people's lives in this era. The second grandmother set the quilt from the beginning of breakfast, just tidying up the quilt cover for a morning.

Put it flat and roll it up with a wooden stick to dry the quilt cover for two days, and the second grandmother spread it out from one end on the kang, carefully tearing apart and flattening the pieces of broken cotton, and then sewing the cotton pieces together with needles and threads.

If the cotton sleeve is broken, it will be bigger than a palm, and there will be no ruler-sized piece. Sanni Guixiang saw that his mother was so tired that she kept beating her waist, so she said, "Mother, you can rest on the kang and change mine." ”

The second grandmother glanced at her and said with a wry smile: "It's not that my mother thinks you can't do it, but you can't do this trick with a set." ”

"Mother, I won't teach me, the second sister is married, you are so old, your body is not good, I will have to do the work of our family in the future, and I won't be able to learn from me." ”

"Okay, if you want to learn from your mother, I will teach you, and we can hurry up by ourselves. You see, the pieces of cotton have to be torn apart, stacked on top of each other, and sewn together with needles.

Do this work carefully, try to tear the cotton as thick and thin as possible, and not pimples, especially the mattress, which is spread like that. ”

Guixiang was tired after working for a while, and she also learned from her mother, stood up and beat her waist, and she hadn't forgotten her mother, so she gave her mother a few beats.

The second grandmother smiled and said, "Tired, you still want Jingyun and them to embroider the door curtain." You don't have to learn, it's just a lot of work. ”

Guixiang then lowered her head to do the work, and discussed with her in her mouth: "Mother, let's put on this quilt, don't put on the mattress, the mattress is more torn than the quilt, and it will take a day to clean up the cover."

This year, our family's self-reserved land has planted cotton, and when the cotton is harvested after autumn, let's set up a new bed. ”

The second grandmother agreed: "I have to set a new mattress, but this broken one can't be thrown." Your father is too old to sleep in the barn of straw, so he has to add a bed to him and let him sleep on the kang. ”

"Mother, our family had half an acre of cotton at that time, I went to catch insects if I had nothing to do, and I could harvest seventy or eighty catties of cotton after I managed it, and we had one more bed.

You see, our mattress really can't be repaired. Mother, for as long as I can remember, it's been this bed, how many years have it been. It's time for a new one. ”

"From what you can remember, I don't know how many years this mattress has been. Mother's life is hard, there is no mother since she was a child, and she is still ruthless when she has a stepmother, and she is famous for her strength, or she is called 'God'.

When I got married, I didn't even make a new dress, and my mother married in a torn dress she carried.

You are also older, and you know that your father has no father and mother since he was a child, and he grew up with his grandmother asking for food, your second grandfather is more than ten years older than him, and your daughter-in-law is exchanged for food by the whole village.

Your uncle went to the army as a teenager in order to change the stuttering food for his family, for two silver dollars.

It's still your second grandmother who is kind-hearted, and no matter how difficult it is, she can buy a new quilt for the bed. The mattress is still your father's, and he can't tell when it was.

Guixiang, my mother's life is like this for a lifetime, you four sisters, no matter how difficult it is, I won't let you live like my mother.

Every year, when I tear down the bedding, I think that I have to give you sisters a new one, and I can't let you suffer my sin.

When your eldest sister got married, our family was poorer than it is now, and my mother also put a new bed and made two new clothes for her.

Your second sister has just gotten married, and you know her dowry, our family is poor compared to the people in the village, but your second sister's dowry is good. One is that her mother-in-law gave her a lot, and the other is what her mother has saved for her over the years.

When she went out to her mother-in-law's house, her mother put two new beds on her, and she wore two cotton clothes alone.

It's your turn in the future, our village is getting better and better, and our family's life wants to look up. Guixiang, no matter what kind of family you find, my mother will not let your dowry be worse than your second sister.

Although your second sister-in-law's family is doing well, my mother knows in her heart that the people in the village are talking about our family a lot, saying that we want other people's things and find a short roller for our daughter.

No matter what others say, fortunately, your second sister is happy. Seeing that your second sister is comfortable, my mother is not afraid of other people's jokes. You should also know in your heart that as long as your sister is doing well, what are you afraid of when your father and mother are wronged.

Child, you only know that you can see seventy or eighty catties of cotton in half an acre of land, but you don't know how much the family uses.

If nothing else, you need 20 catties of cotton just to wear it a year. A single piece of clothing has to be a hook cloth, two catties of good cotton is enough to weave a hook cloth, and two and a half catties of cotton are worth two and a half catties.

Cotton clothes even add a table, one piece has to be a hook, and one pound of cotton has to be set, and a cotton coat has to be at least three pounds of cotton.

The cost of wearing a single garment has to be made new every year. There are five people left in our family, and five hooks are ten catties of cotton.

You don't need to change the cotton clothes every year, you can pick up the second sister's, Gui Ping can pick you and Baojing's. But the appearance has to be changed, and the four of us just need to change the cotton clothes outside, and we have to have two hooks of cloth and four catties of cotton.

Bao Jing is a boy who grows fast and has to make new clothes every year. He is now about the same height as an adult, and he needs six catties of cotton for a new cotton coat.

Our family planted cotton this year, in addition to thinking about making a new set of bedding for your father, the rest has to prepare a dowry for you. The cloth and cotton that the family saved earlier have all accompanied your second sister.

You're not a big man, so it's time to talk about your in-laws. Mother has to prepare for you first, otherwise you will have to be blind when the time comes.

Do you know how much cotton is given for a set of covers? At least 14 or 5 catties. To make clothes, you have to use cotton well, and the thread spun is fine and strong. To make a cover, you have to use almost cotton, and a hook cloth needs at least two and a half catties of cotton.

You must know that even if you plant spring cotton, half of the first-class good cotton will be planted, and there will not be much left after handing it over to the state, and most of the distribution to the members will be third-class post-frost flowers.

There are three new quilts in a bed, and even the Riga table is two hooks of cloth, which is five catties of cotton. The set has to be at least three catties, and if it is less than a set, it has to be added with eight catties of cotton.

The cover of the mattress can be thinner, and it will also take two catties of cotton. A set of covers adds up to fifteen catties of cotton. ”

When Guixiang heard this, she asked his mother suspiciously: "Mother, didn't you say that the quilt is not more than a catty, why did you say that it is at least three catties." ”