This trip brought back the large items, and there was no plan to go far in the future.

The two men first took a day to go to the island and take a look at the crops inside.

A few acres of upland rice have grown to more than half a person's height, growing well, and are ready to be headed.

However, it is still early before the day of harvest.

Then I stayed at home and spent my little days with the women every day.

was in a panic, Yu Le took Kexin and Fei Fei to the opposite Changxing Island, as well as the Chongming Island next to it, to beat rabbits, pick up seafood, and provide the family with three meals a day.

Occasionally sail out to sea, do some seafood, and store it for the winter.

In order to set sail smoothly next year, some things that can be prepared in advance are also discussed.

One of them is boiled sea salt.

Fourteen or fifteen people, the consumption of salt, that is quite large, usually have to marinate meat and wild vegetables or something.

When I went to Central China, I didn't know if I could find mineral salt, and it was estimated that it was not easy to find.

So now it's convenient, you have to prepare enough sea salt to take away.

After discussing it for a while, it was finally decided that it would take a few days to cook at least half a ton of salt.

This can't be boiled nearby, because the sea area around the mouth of the Yangtze River is diluted by the river, and the salt content of the seawater is not high.

Therefore, it is necessary to drive the boat and walk to the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary for half a day, and then set up a pot to get water, and find firewood to boil.

In the end, it was estimated that in order to boil this half ton of salt, at least fifteen tons of seawater were boiled!

And Shen Juan trumpeted her for a month, and sure enough, she also drummed out a set of textile machines.

Yu Le and Li Zhi visited for a long time, and in the end, they only had a stomach full of admiration, and asked Shen Juan: "You are not very old, only in your thirties, how can you still make such antique things?"

Shen Juan said with a smile: "This is not a lot of ancient objects, in the early years, there were still people in the countryside who used them." My family lives in the countryside, and when I was a child, I worked with my mother and grandmother to spin and weave cloth for several years, so I couldn't be more familiar with these objects. Later, when I grew up, I was familiar with this industry since I was a child, so I finally worked in a garment factory. ”

Yu Le suddenly realized: "I see! It seems that our team is really a Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger." Even if we don't go home, we can create a new world with more than a dozen of us. ”

The women laughed and scolded him together, and he made a new realm of sycophants.

Traditional textiles are essential for two major pieces.

Spinning machines and looms.

The spinning mechanism is relatively simple, just a frame, a big windmill wheel, and a spindle for winding yarn.

The cotton flowers are first pulled out of their shells.

I heard Shen Juan say that at this time, this is called seed cotton, because there are still seeds in the cotton heart.

Then the seeds are taken out again, and it becomes lint.

The lint is then cut into slivers, which can be used for spinning.

From the sliver, pull out a thread, wrap it around the spindle, and then shake the windmill by hand, and the windmill will drive the spindle to fly.

The spindles are drawn from the cotton slivers all the way and twisted into a circle.

Fill a spindle and remove it.

These fine threads are wrapped into rolls of yarn, which can be used to weave cloth.

As for the loom, it is both delicate and much more complex.

Frame, starting, transmission, braking structure, as well as weft insertion, beating, shuttle or something, Shen Juan said it, and others couldn't remember so many names at all.

It's also thanks to her that she remembers it so clearly, and she can still make it!

The small holes of those parts are densely packed, and they can make people's heads dizzy.

As for Shen Juan's detailed description of the weaving process, it made people even more confused.

Yu Le and Li Zhi, the two men, hurriedly found a place to escape before they finished listening.

Then Shen Juan organized several older women and taught them seriously.

Then take them with you.

The clearing of the clearing, the spinning of the spinning, the weaving of the weaving.

Eventually, pieces of cotton cloth were woven.

Its exquisiteness and delicacy make it look like two men staring at it!

In the end, Yu Le was cheeky and went to Shen Juan to help sew a few sets of clothes.

These people don't have much to change their clothes for.

In the past year and a half, the two sets of clothes on my body have been worn in the mountains and forests, grinding back and forth, and they have long been tattered and exposed. If it weren't for the women's skillful hands and hand-rubbing the cotton threads to mend them, they would have been unable to see people a long time ago.

Shen Juan smiled: "Yes, yes." Everybody has it! We've picked so much cotton and come back. I heard that the winter here is very cold, and it is difficult to endure without a quilt cover! As for the clothes, each person sews two or three sets for everyone to wear during the New Year. I calculated, even so, the cotton will not be used up, and it can be woven into cloth and kept for later use. ”

Yu Le echoed: "Yes, yes, this is at your disposal, Sister Shen." You are our master tailor, and what we wear is all up to you. ”

Ke Xin also came up and said mysteriously: "Then Sister Shen, do you know how to make a corset? I haven't worn a corset for a year and a half! At that time, I had just come ashore, and a dead octopus knocked my corset off." I haven't had to wear it since. It didn't matter at first, but now that I'm getting bigger and bigger, and there is no restraint on my chest, it feels weird and uncomfortable. ”

Yu Le was on the side, and his face darkened when he listened.

Shen Juan smiled: "I will do it." Not only for you, but for each of us women, we have to make two, otherwise we don't have to change them, and there are small pants and so on. ”

Unexpectedly, Fei Fei, who has always been inseparable from Kexin, also drilled out her head: "Then I want it too!"

Shen Juan smiled: "You haven't it yet, you can't wear it, let's make you two small vests." ”

Fei Fei didn't follow: "There is!

……

The rice fields on the island are 90 tasseled and filled in October.

Towards November, the rice is finally ripe and ready for harvest.

Yu Le organized the manpower, spent a few days, and went in to harvest.

These wild rices have a strong reproductive ability, and they grow better after being cared for.

The golden ears of rice, each plant is very full, and heavy, very weighty.

More than five acres of dry land were carefully cleaned up.

Finally, it is dried and put into storage, and it is estimated that there can be about one and a half tons.

In this way, rice and sorghum can be eaten until next year's sailing, and they will not be able to eat it all.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and my cousin Lu Lin's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she is about to give birth.

Yu Le became busy again.

Only then did he retract the rice, and then he was going out again.

According to the plan, I have to go and chop those giant dragon bamboos before the year, and prepare to build a new ship.

Otherwise, after the New Year, Lu Lin gave birth, and there would be no time to leave.

I plan to go for a total of four days.

One day to go, one day back, two more days to work.

There were five people on this trip.

Yu Le, Li Zhi, Tian Xiaxia, Kexin, and Guo Biyan.

The surplus people stayed at home to look after the house and dry the grain.

(End of chapter)