After the cloth was finished, Grandma opened up to make deep shoes for the three Youyou brothers and sisters. Deep shoes are single shoes worn in spring and autumn, because the upper is deeper, it is called deep shoes, and on the contrary, the shallower upper of single shoes worn in summer is called light shoes. Take out last year's shoes and compare them, and they are all small and can't be worn.

Grandma found out the torn clothes at home that could not be worn old, tore them into large and small pieces of cloth, washed them and dried them, stacked them together according to size, and rolled them into bundles of rags.

Take out a small bundle of hemp (pi), cut it into a foot length, comb it with a wooden comb little by little to form a hemp cake, and arrange it neatly in the dustpan. After combing, grandma found a good sunny day, called the second grandmother for help, and the two of them played in the yard.

Xian ballast (cha, meaning boiled) a pot of sorghum noodles (porridge), take off the two door panels, put the two ends on a stool to the sun, and wash the top with water. First smear the mush, spread a layer of flat with a large rag, spread the hemp on the cloth layer by layer, smear it with paste and stick it together, and the hemp jacket is ready.

Then make a cloth jacket, that is, the three layers of cloth are flattened and glued together to make the soles of shoes. I took out a board table and made a two-layer cloth jacket on the tabletop to make the upper.

Yoyo asked Grandma why she didn't use white flour, and Grandma told her that the stickiness of white flour was too great, and it took a lot of effort to make (zou) live suction needles, and the sorghum noodles were just right.

After school at noon, my mother cooked, let my grandfather and father watch the consignment point, and my grandmother took a few pieces of letter paper to my aunt's house to give my brother and sister Ti (ti) shoe samples, and Yoyo and Didi were heel dogs in the back.

The eldest aunt knew the intention of grandma, and hurriedly took out the "blessing book" in the drawer, and Youyou was immediately attracted.

"Fu Benzi" is covered with dark blue linen, with a linen patch painting of primary colors, simple and atmospheric, and the upper and lower covers are buckled with two pipa buckles. When I opened the cover, there was a stack of rice paper the size of A4, with a family's shoe sample sandwiched between the pages.

There is a woodcut print every few pages of blank paper, including: "Heavenly Official Blessing", "More than Years in a Row", "Rich and Rich", "Glory and Wealth", "Lotus Born Noble Son", "Lotus Boy", "Five Sons Dengke", "Harmony and Happiness", "Jiaguan Jinlu" and other traditional patterns, simple and handsome, bright and simple, rough and bold, different styles.

Yoyo used his mind to contact the brain, and soon found the relevant content of the "Fu Benzi". "Fu Benzi", also known as "book clip" and "book book", is a unique form of folk art. It is mainly bound into a book with a small folklore painting of a ruler length, and the outer part is made of a home-woven blue homespun cloth to make a wrapping cover, and the buttoned nose buttonhole is used as a connection.

In appearance, it looks like a beautiful thread-bound book, so the locals call it "book". The origin of the name may be related to the pronunciation of the dialect, the local people pronounce the sound of "book" is "Fu", so the "book" has become "Fu Book", according to the homonym also has the beautiful meaning of the book of happiness, is a necessary object for the daughter to marry.

The techniques of folk painting production in the Fu book are woodblock overprint, overprint and part of the hand-painted, pure hand-painted three, in the same book will generally mix the two of the techniques or only use hand-painted, the subject matter of the painting is generally the auspicious patterns that the countryside likes to see, local opera, cards, etc.

The composition of the paintings is generally fan-shaped, which is related to the local practical situation, and these workshops usually print and make fans in the summer, and order books in the winter or when there is no need to make fans.

Fu books are generally used to put shoe patterns, embroidery patterns, sewing embroidery threads and other women's red objects. In addition, as a practical tool for folk clipping female red, Fu Benzi has lasted for a long time, and it has been used from the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and even before the Cultural Revolution.

During the turmoil, Fubenzi was confiscated and burned down as the "four olds", and the workshop was closed. However, there are still many remnants of the blessed books scattered in thousands of households. With the change of people's lifestyle, Fu Benzi was slowly lost by people, and the surviving ones were quite rare, and they were gradually valued by collectors, entering the field of vision of researchers and collectors from the countryside, and being included in the cultural heritage, and the price was rising, and it also broke into the ranks of auctions.

Seeing this, Yoyo opened his brain, how to save the cultural heritage of Fubenzi into his own space.

Chapter The dwarf, the wheel, can't work, but also pleases

"Yoyo, do you still want flower shoes?" The eldest concubine's question disrupted Yoyo's deep thought, and his thoughts immediately switched to the beautiful embroidered shoes.

"Yes, yes. Yoyo replied in a loud voice.

"I want it too. "Dee Dee will always be my sister's henchman.

Grandma and aunt are looking for patterns in the blessing book again, and the shoes are smaller than the others, and the patterns prepared by the aunt for wisdom are too big and inappropriate.

"Don't compare, I'll find a little old mother to wring a few. "Grandma won't let my aunt rummage through it.

"Aunt, I'll cook, let's go after dinner. ”

"I'll hold the baby for you, you can cook, you don't have to do ours, your sister does it at home. Grandma picked up Zhiru and walked out.

A few steps away, I arrived at the little old mother's house, which turned out to be the second master's cousin Han Deku's house. "Grandma, what are you busy with?" asked Grandma in a loud voice as she entered the door.

"Xiuqin is here, what's the matter with you?" a woman in her forties came out of the hall.

Yoyo looked at her carefully, with a good face, petite, and definitely less than one and a half meters tall.

"Please twist two tricks, are you free?"

"When you're free, what do you want? ”

A few people entered the house, and the little old mother took a blessing book from the table and opened it for grandma to pick out tricks. He took the letter paper in his grandmother's hand again, spread the two sheets on the smooth wooden board, and skillfully poked the paper with the tips of scissors. A small hole with a large needle tip connects the two pieces of stationery together.

Yoyo's attention immediately focused on the Fu book, the illustration of this book is a comic book of the folk tale "The Mouse Marries a Daughter", the simple lines of the storyline are vividly expressed, and the bright and bright colors render the warm and festive scene.

Grandma and the little old mother discussed the pattern, and took out the yoyo shoe pattern and compared the size. The little old mother took the paper in her left hand and cut it with her right hand, and as her hands flew over, the shredded paper flew down, and in about a minute, a pattern was twisted.

Then I twisted a few more, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, begonia flowers, peony flowers, butterflies. The eyes are straight, and he is another folk master, comparable to the paper-cutting masters of later generations.

"Grandma, and mine. Didi jumped to his feet in a hurry.

"yes, get some cats for Didi. The little old mother said while flipping through the blessing book, one of which has more than a dozen cat head patterns, the pattern is cat-like tiger, simple and cute, meaning to avoid evil and eliminate disasters, auspicious and wealthy. I jumped out a few different ones and handed them to my grandmother.

"You can use these few, and I'll wring them when I'm free. ”

"Thank you, Grandma. ”

It only took about ten minutes before and after, and the trick was twisted. Grandma gave Zhiru to her aunt, and on the way home, she chatted about the "little old mother" family.

Han Deku was still a blind marriage when he got engaged, and the two parties were not interested in looking at each other directly, so his father asked an acquaintance in the woman's village to inquire. The man said, "My two families are far away, and my daughter doesn't go out much, so I'm not familiar with it." There was a funeral in the village that day, and I saw it from afar. The girl is handsome, standing on the mound, and she doesn't look short. ”

After marrying into the family, his father chuckled in his heart, this son was too short, not as tall as a half-grown child. I picked a hijab, but fortunately Jun is real.

His father complained to an acquaintance, and the acquaintance replied: "Didn't I tell you, standing on the mound looks not short." "Yes, be obedient and listen, you didn't hear who to blame.

Han Deku has a high seniority, she just married in and was young, and most of the village had to call grandma and grandma. Even if she has a hearty personality, she is often so ashamed that she doesn't even dare to go out, and she doesn't get better until she gives birth to a child.

Whoever calls her grandmother again, she answers: "Don't shout, let you call old." In the countryside, she didn't want to call her name directly, everyone got together and muttered, and gave her the official title "Little Old Mother". One is that she is long, the second is that she is young, and the third is that she is short.

Although she is ingenious, she can insert (embroider) and draw, and she is proficient in all household chores. But she is small and has little strength, and she can't do a lot of work in the field, and her mother-in-law often scolds Huai. Once, when talking about the neighbor's newly married tall daughter-in-law: "Standing tall in front of the gate, she looks good even if she doesn't know how to work." ”

She came up vigorously: "The dwarf, the car is wheeled, and it is gratifying if you can't work." ”

The conversation between the two has spread all over the village, becoming a joke and has always been talked about by people.