Grandma is now catching four sets in ten days, and the market days of Zhangji and Shuikeng are coming again and again, riding a big golden deer, with a basket tied to the back, and buying wheat at a reasonable price. Farmers were allowed to trade a small amount of grain in the bazaar, and no one forbade one or two hundred catties.

The grain market is in front of the commune's grain station, and the grain station has set up a special place for weighing, and there is a special person responsible for weighing one penny at a time.

As soon as the new wheat came down, the people in the river beach would often sell the wheat in exchange for some miscellaneous grains to eat. The price of miscellaneous grains is relatively low, a pound of soybeans is two cents, sorghum is two cents, and a pound of wheat can be sold for three cents and one tael.

Grandma can buy more than three or four hundred catties of wheat in each episode, divide it into several bags and put it in the basket at the back. Yoyo took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, and put the bag into the space. After more than ten episodes in a row, they bought almost 5,000 catties of wheat, and there were fewer wheat sellers, so the two gave up.

Looking at the hoards of wheat at home, my grandmother said with satisfaction: "No wonder people often say that there is food at home, and they don't panic." Looking at these hoards of wheat, I am also bold in cooking. ”

After the wheat harvest, the temperature rises sharply, and the temperature at night exceeds 20 degrees. After the "three summers", the harvest was finished, the planting was completed, the spring crops were hoeed over the grass, and the work in the field was much looser.

The women did not have to go to work for the time being, and they hurried to dismantle and wash their cotton clothes and bedding. There is a saying here: if you don't have a quilt in June, no one sleeps in a quilt.

In June of the lunar calendar, it is the dog days, the air humidity is high, the quilt cover has a large water content, and it is covered with a special wet tide, which is very uncomfortable.

In the east of the village, there are large puddles of women washing things. On the bluestone slab on the side of the pit, the sound of beating cloth comes and goes. Everyone helped each other twist and pull, talking and laughing very lively.

On the trees beside the pit, ropes were tied horizontally, and the washed bedding and clothes were dried on them, and everyone watched and joked with each other.

The child's clothes are better, and the smaller ones are cut below. There are very few adult clothes that are not patched, and patches are not a color.

There are more patches on the bedding, the quilt surface is better, and it can be patched if it is broken. The cotton sleeves inside were even more rotten, and many of them couldn't be dried on a rope, so they built a rack on the ground and spread the cotton sleeves on it to dry. When the cotton sleeve is removed, it is rolled with a stick, and then rolled up after drying, otherwise it will become a pile of rotten cotton.

Everyone communicates with each other, their own quilts for a few years, and mattresses for a few years. A lot of them are the bedding when they got married, and they have never been changed, and they have more children, so they make new beds. Some old people's bedding has been covered for a lifetime, and the original color is no longer visible.

Don't talk about others, Uncle Yoyo's bedding was purchased when she got married, and she still uses it for more than 40 years. On the contrary, the cover of Yoyo's house is better, basically there is no patch, and it is newly purchased after grandma came.

Every time I talk about my own bed, my grandmother is moved: "This is all newly made for us by your uncle and grandmother, and she herself is not willing to change the bedding." ”

The sun-dried cotton clothes and futon noodles are washed and passed through in the rice dumplings, which are thin noodle soups made from white flour. The pieces of cloth must be spread out on a rack to dry, and when they are semi-dry, they are placed on a pounding cloth stone and hammered flat with a mallet.

After the pounded cloth is dried, it is crisp and flat, which is not only convenient for needlework, but also easy to disassemble and wash. You must know that there are basically no detergents in this era, and people are hammering with mallets.