This drill is a whole week.

Day and night environments, a variety of terrain, repeated practice.

Finally the women were trained, rested, and then went back to the normal sailing schedule.

The sailboat entered the waters of Zhejiang, and the group traveled for half a month.

Li Zhi and I were in charge of the sails, and the women didn't want to be idle, they sat on the boat every day, bored and panicked, looking for something to do.

Shen Juan used to work as a garment, plus Sun Liqing, who is older, has experienced that difficult era, and knows some handicrafts very well.

The two of them made amend, and asked me to take two large fishing hooks, bake them straight, and make them into sewing needles for sewing clothes.

There weren't many clothes that everyone could distribute, but in fact, there were only two sets of security uniforms dug up, and one set that each originally wore.

Underwear and the like are even more in short supply. Because in the security uniform, these things are not provided.

So many women, in fact, have no bras to wear. When I wear a tight security uniform, the bulging part of my chest is even more obvious.

This reminds me of this girl, who lost her corset at the beginning and never had to wear it.

Without restraints, over the past year, a certain part has grown a lot.

Now that we have been in this world for more than a year, the only few sets of clothes we have are a little worn and tattered, so they need to be mended.

Especially for a person like me, who often drills into the mountains and walks the forest, the two sets of clothes are the most torn, and almost the key parts can't be covered.

Shen Juan and Sun Liqing are both skillful, so they used cotton and linen to roll into thin threads, and then made some rags to patch the broken clothes on everyone's clothes.

Sew and mend, will be able to wear again!

Not only can the two of them sew patches, but they can also make clothes and shoes out of animal skins. Using crocodile skin, he said he could make a pair of leather shoes for each of us. The fur can also be made into a set of clothes with special treatment.

A pair of scissors is needed though!

So I opened the hearth again, struck a small piece of iron, and punched out a pair of scissors.

Scissors are not a complicated tool, and they are quite easy to fight.

Although it doesn't feel very decent or good-looking, it can at least cut the skin and cut the cloth.

After having scissors, we immediately took our hair through it carefully.

For a man, it is really uncomfortable to have long hair, especially in a stuffy place like the wild, where the hair covers the ears and neck, and the itching is unbearable!

Over the course of the year, I sharpened a dagger and shaved my beard in a few days. However, hair is not easy to treat with a knife unless it is shaved bald.

When I was old enough to pick it up with my hands, I grabbed it one by one, grabbed the roots of my hair, and asked the woman to cut it with a knife for me. Think about the feeling of pulling a saw, just listening to the sound makes my heart hairy.

As a result, the cut is uneven, as if it has been gnawed by a cow, and it is so ugly that women want to laugh when they see me all day long.

What a handsome guy, let a hairstyle be ruined!

Now that you finally have scissors, it's convenient.

Cut directly into board inches, the same as when I was in the army, heroic and cool!

Li Zhi saw that I had a good cut, and he also cut the same hairstyle as me.

He was even lazier, he hadn't shaved a few times in the previous year, and as for his hair, he hadn't moved at all, but now he had grown to the point where he looked like an artist.

With long hair and shoulders, coupled with glasses, he has the depth and melancholy temperament of an artist, and of course, the sloppy temperament......

Late June.

The sailboat sailed into Hangzhou Bay.

It is not far from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

If the weather is cooperative, there will be seven or eight days to go at most.

We all breathed a long sigh of relief.

In the past few months, the sea route has finally been almost completed.

Next, I have to prepare for a whole year of settling down to raise my cousin and have a baby.

……

One night, when we went ashore to camp, we found a wild cotton field.

It is very beautiful with white flowers and dotted with several hills.

I don't know if it's because of the climate or because of the wild, these cotton spitting so early, at the end of June, less than July, since it has been opened.

I picked a few of them and researched them, and it was harvest time. And the quality is very good, and the condition is not inferior to the artificially grown cotton.

So Shen Juan and Sun Liqing, two women, suggested that Li Zhi and I stop here for a few days, pick cotton for a few days, and take it away with the boat.

It will be of great use to say that this will be in the future.

Cotton is very useful!

Since we have decided to settle down at the mouth of the Yangtze River, we have been preparing for the settlement for a long time.

It will take more than a year to settle down, and it will take more than a winter. The area north of the Tropic of Cancer is no better than Qiongzhou Island, which is quite cold in winter, and even snow is possible.

If you live in this area, if you only rely on the leather mattresses made of those animal skins, I am afraid that it will not be able to survive this winter.

Sun Liqing told me that she could use this cotton to make a few quilts and keep them for the winter.

Shen Juan also told me that cotton can also be kneaded into threads and used to weave clothes. Anyway, they have to stay for a whole year, and there is no other work to do except prepare three meals a day, and the women are skillful enough to teach them to weave clothes. Everyone will have new clothes to wear.

As soon as I heard it, since these two women are so capable.

Then they have to pick this cotton!

Must be picked!

After patrolling the surrounding environment, take two pairs of baskets and mobilize all the people who can be mobilized up the mountain.

Cotton picking!

Except for my cousin and a few others who were taken care of, plus one or two who were guarded by the camp.

A total of nine people went.

It was picked for three days.

The cabin of the big ship was cleaned again, and all the coal and charcoal that were not much left were piled in the middle. The back half of the cabin was filled with weightless cotton.

Then, loaded with a boatload of cotton, we set sail.

……

It took six days to bypass Hangzhou Bay and finally arrived at our destination, the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The sailboat slowly sailed along the Yangtze River estuary, looking to the left bank in search of a suitable habitat for us.

In the end, a beachhead near the mountain forest was selected and the boat stopped.

"What do you think of here, Brother Li?"

"Very good! Very good! The sea is close to the mountain, and drinking fresh water is definitely guaranteed. There are mountain goods by the mountain, and there is seafood by the sea, so we don't have to worry about eating and drinking. ”

"Then let's go ashore and see! Whether we can live or not depends on the environment." ”

It was noon.

Li Zhi and I, with guns and dogs, walked around the neighborhood and felt nothing.

When it was time to eat, I was hungry, so I beckoned the women to bring a coal stove down and warm up some lunch.

Unexpectedly, a great danger is quietly befalling us!

(End of chapter)