After soaking the hemp, the next thing is to rinse, scoop it up and dry it in the sun.

Then there is the yarn, the strand.

Before weaving, there is another sizing process.

Rice is ground into rice milk, brushed, and dried.

After such a treatment of the yarn, the woven cloth is smooth and flat.

From hemp picking to weaving, there are as many as 12 processes, Shen Juan and the women, before the Chinese New Year, can only do all the twisting into yarn, and the rest of the process can only be left until the New Year.

In order to weave the thick canvas, Shen Juan also remodified the spinning wheel, and used multiple strands of thread in the warp and weft.

The cloth woven in this way is thick and strong enough to withstand the wind.

……

It's still quite far from next year's departure.

But as soon as the big guys put it together, they all felt that the time was very urgent, and they couldn't delay it any longer, because there were too many things to prepare.

Therefore, everyone was mobilized, including Fei Fei's little girl, who sent her to help Shen Juan and help deliver tools or something.

The men were in charge of building the ship. The women were in charge of weaving the canvas.

There is also a pregnant woman, who is responsible for raising the baby.

Now everyone is waiting for this child to come into the world.

Only when he/she is born, healthy and able to endure the journey, can he or she consider departure.

……

In winter, the area north of the Tropic of Cancer suddenly became very cold.

The northwest wind whistled and blew like a scraper against a person's face.

Now, everyone has put on cotton sweaters, and fur coats, as well as leather shoes. Wrap the whole body up and down.

The room was also covered with a new quilt.

Under everyone's bed, a layer of dried and washed straw is first laid, which is soft and warm.

Then spread a leather blanket on top of the head.

Over the past year, I have hit a lot of wild things and all kinds of leather products, and I have not been willing to throw them along the way, so I am not worried.

Yu Le and Lu Lin's room was also carefully decorated for himself.

There were fifteen quilts in total, thirteen adults, one bed each, and two beds left.

This quilt is designed to be a single quilt, so it is only suitable for one person to cover.

Wu Yun took a small child, and she couldn't cover it a little, so she asked for an extra bed.

Yu Le also took the last remaining bed away and gave it to Lu Lin on the grounds that the pregnant woman needed it.

If two layers of quilt are added to Lu Lin, you can tuck it tightly and not be afraid of catching a cold.

Originally, Yu Le also planned to build a coal stove under the bed to keep warm, just like the northerners use a kang to heat up.

But when I think about it, I don't feel safe.

The space in this house is small, the air is not well circulated, and if you burn coal, it is easy to cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

This thing is not practical at all to use!

So later, Yu Le simply checked and filled in the gaps in the house, repaired some gaps that could enter the wind, and blocked them tightly with straw to isolate the cold wind blowing in at night to ensure the indoor temperature!

Of course, there is also a difficulty, that is, when I go to bed at night, the bed is cold and cold.

There is, of course, a solution.

Every night before going to bed, the quilt is moved to the brazier in the yard, baked once, baked warm, and then sent back to sleep.

So every night, there is a funny phenomenon.

Every night when everyone gathered around the brazier to chat about the mountains, there was always a person who silently held a quilt, squeezed in, occupied the position of two people, and baked there motionlessly.

"Oh, Yu Le, you are really competent as a man! Xiao Lu is so blessed to follow you, it makes people envious that they can't do it!"

Yu Le had a straight face: "Don't mention it, okay." I'm finally realizing now that being a father is so hard. Every night I warm the quilt, and I have to wake up three or four times at night to see if I have kicked the quilt, whether there is this or that, this woman has to be woken up by her at any time if she has a request, and then she has to pour tea and water. ”

When Lu Lin heard this, he came to pinch his ears: "Listening to your tone, you still look very unhappy?"

"If it weren't for your big belly, who would have served you like this?

Yu Le covered her ears with her hands, didn't pull off her ears, and said, "You see, this woman has been pregnant since she was pregnant, and her temper is still very big, and she wants to take out her anger at me." I didn't have two earlobes in these two ears, but now I have pulled out two long earlobes for her!"

Lu Lin sighed angrily: "Then what are you protecting, let me dig it again, you are the reincarnation of Uncle Liuhuang." ”

Yu Le was stunned: "What Uncle Liu Huang?"

Li Zhi said with a smile: "Xiao Lu is talking about Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms, who has the title of a big-eared thief. ”

Yu Le's face darkened, and he turned his head to bake his quilt.

Sun Liqing, the eldest, said: "Don't make a fuss, let's talk about it seriously, when is Xiao Lu's due date? We have to make a lot of preparations in advance." Don't be in a hurry when the time comes. ”

Speaking of this serious question, Yu Le turned his head again.

Said: "Yes, yes, this kind of thing, it's the first time for me and my cousin, I don't have any experience at all, Sister Sun, you guys who have come over, but you must help arrange it." ”

Sun Liqing said: "When exactly did Xiao Lu get pregnant, I'll count the days for her." ”

"This ......" Yu Le and his cousin glanced at each other, their faces were a little red, and said, "It should be the first day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar." ”

Sun Liqing chased: "Are you so sure?

"This ......" Yu Le coughed and nodded, "There should be no error." We have been very careful, that is, the accident that day. So the memory is great!"

"Hee-hee!"

"Hee-hee!"

Several young women, all of whom lowered their faces, covered their mouths and snickered.

Lu Lin blushed and was very dissatisfied, reached behind Yu Le's back and twisted him fiercely.

"Whew!" Yu Le screamed in pain.

On the other side, Sun Liqing was seriously calculating: "April 1st, May 1st, June 1st...... December 1st, January 1st...... Generally, the pregnancy is about nine and a half months, so it should be around the fifteenth day of the first month, and it will be born. And now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, it's time to prepare. ”

"I think it's past this year, and after the New Year, you have to pay special attention. When the time comes, Xiao Lu, don't move around, and Xiao Yu, you don't have to go out again, when Xiao Lu gives birth, you have to be by your side. ”

Yu Le and Lu Lin, who were all listening carefully about themselves, nodded together after listening.

Wu Yun also shared her experience: "In those days, you must pay special attention to observation, once you see red, it proves that you are about to give birth, at most within a day or two, you have to give birth!"

……

(End of chapter)