Let's say that Ye Zi's good friend E'er, who has not been out of the cabinet, has been working in the team since her mother passed away, busy with housework, and taking care of her little sister with hard work, she is really as big as a mother. But the male should get married, and the female should get married, no, E'er's mother-in-law's family, that is, the Jia family in Qingxi, couldn't hold their breath, and sent the matchmaker to Liuwan to urge the Sun family to hurry up and give the ceremony.

This stumped E'er's father, that is, Sun Renyi, didn't it? The wife died in childbirth, and the people who didn't cook at home didn't say that the youngest daughter Yanzi was still too young, and she was expecting the eldest daughter E'er to take it. But most of the people in the village are married at the age of one year, and it is not okay if E'er does not marry, but this little daughter is only more than a year old, so what can be done?

In this way, the Jia family is a little anxious. The Jia family's parents personally found Sun Qiming's house in Liuwan. It is said that Sun Renyi passed on to others, but Sun Qiming is Sun Renyi's brother after all, and the Jia family and his wife said to Qiming and his wife, entrusting them to be accommodating and accommodating, after all, the children are all older, and it is not easy to explain to grandpa Nainai if they don't get married, isn't it? Later, the Jia family and his wife also directly found Sun Renyi himself.

The eldest daughter of the Qiming family, Sun Yongfen, couldn't see it, and took the initiative to bring Xiaoyanzi for her uncle, which solved the difficulty of benevolence and righteousness, and E'er successfully held the wedding. But after all, Fen'er is just a cousin, she can't help for a while, she can't help for a lifetime, and she can't count on it all. So, half a year after E'er got married, she took her little sister to her home and brought her to school all the time, which was considered to be her duty as a daughter and a sister. That's for another time.

In fact, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. The year is not good, everyone has a little foundation, and it is better to make do with it, but the small family is also a poor family, so it is even more difficult. No, on the twenty-first night of the first lunar month, Ye Zi came to her mother-in-law's house with the baby in her arms. As soon as the curtain was lifted, she saw her mother-in-law and her husband muttering there with a sad face, and she stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" "Look at what you say, just say what you want, Sensei, Mom." "I'll tell you the truth, this house is borrowed from the Beixia Wang's family. "Oh. Ye Zi was stunned for a moment, before remarrying, he only knew that the Liang family was poor, but he didn't expect that even the nest was borrowed. "Nothing. ”

"Well, you don't know. In the second half of today, the old woman came over and said that her second child had just been engaged during the Spring Festival and planned to get married during the Spring Festival next year at the latest. "Oh. "This Xixia has been returned, where can we live?" Ye Zi looked at her mother-in-law with a sad face, and did not answer again.

The mother-in-law took a sip of water and continued to say to Yezi: "Yezi, now, I have to tell you about the situation in the house. "It's okay, Mom, let's enter the door, we're a family." If you have to have something, you have to bear it with your baby, and you will have this heart. Ye Zi replied.

"When I came to Yunling with my two babies that year, I lived in Kiln D on the west side of the village. "At that time, there was not even a door to block the wind, and our mother was very miserable, first asking for food, and then sewing and washing clothes for others. Guiwa C said. "It's all in the past, what do you say? The mother-in-law of the Liang family said something to her son.

"Later, after liberation, we got a good kiln D, which is on the edge of the ditch in the east ditch. …… When it's hot, I cook in the dining room outside, and when it's cold, I cook in the kiln. After more than ten years, the kiln has long been out of shape. "The mud on the wall has also fallen. Guiwa said again. "I know. The kiln dwellers are like this. Ye Zi replied.

"When the two of you were going to get married, there was no way to build a new house in the kiln, so I borrowed these three Xixia from the Wang family. "The walls were plastered, and the doors and windows were painted. Guiwa said. "Well, this is to tell the leaves, you have a lot of mouths. If it's not new, is it still a new house?" said the Liang family's mother again.

"I didn't expect that I had only lived there for a year, and people were urging me to ask for a house. "If people want to get married, they should return the house. Ye Zi said to her mother-in-law. "It should be returned, but where does our family live?" "You've been wronged, leaf." "Let's figure it out again. "I can't think of a good way. Guiwa said with a sad face. "You're a man, there's no way? There's no way to let the leaves live on the street?

Seeing that her mother-in-law and husband were worried there, Ye Zi didn't complain anything, and after saying a few words of comfort, she took the baby back to her house. She sat cross-legged on the kang and let the child lie on her lap, doing needlework while thinking about the house.

It's often said that plans don't keep up with change. In fact, when the village was rehearsing a few years ago, Ye Zi heard that the team was going to divide the homestead, so he went to the captain and told the captain about the difficulties of the Liang family and the Wang family sharing a courtyard. The captain naturally knew about this situation, but he didn't point out the matter of the Liang family borrowing the Wang family's house, but just agreed to help fight for it. Sure enough, on the eve of the Spring Festival, the Liang family got a piece of homestead. Originally, the leaves were going to bloom in the spring, so I asked my husband to ask someone to put a yard wall around the base first, and then plant a courtyard poplar, which grew quickly. When the tree grows, it will be good to build a house in the future. But who knew that now the Wang family was urging Xixia, and Ye Zi had to make another calculation.

At this time, the countryside around Persimmon Bay was still dominated by homespun cloth, and every household had a wooden spinning wheel and loom, and spinning flowers and weaving cloth were almost the most basic life skills necessary for women. The cotton picked from the flower field is called "seed cotton", and the seed cotton becomes "lint" after the cottonseed is removed from the "ginning" process, and the cottonseed can be squeezed for oil. After the lint goes through the "elastic" process, you can rub the cotton sliver.

Rubbing the tampon, is to pull an inch wide of cotton, put the "arrow pole" in the middle, grasp the arrow pole with one hand, stroke the cotton with the other hand, and rub it, it becomes a hollow and round cotton strip (the arrow pole is the slender and straight section of the straw close to the sorghum ear, like the arrow shaft on the bow). After kneading the slivers, you can spin the thread with a spinning wheel.

The peasant girl pinched the cotton sliver with her left hand and cranked the spinning wheel with her right hand, and spun a spindle of cotton thread. In the countryside, peasant girls spin flowers whenever they have time, and even in the dead of night, you can still hear the sound of "woo-woo-woo-bar, woo-woo-let" spinning cotton in the alley.

As for weaving homespun cloth, it is more complicated, generally it has to go through more than 70 processes such as threading, pulping line, dyeing line, stinging line, falling line, warp thread, brushing line, making a comprehensive, breaking through the expression, digging a heald, crane, tethering cloth, shuttle, machine, etc., in order to weave cotton thread into homespun cloth. Some processes require the cooperation of two or three people to complete.

Peasant women have been taught the process and skills of weaving homespun cloth from generation to generation, and can use several or more than a dozen colored threads to weave homespun cloth with white background color strips or color bottom squares. Homespun cloth, woven by pure cotton thread, is comfortable to wear on the body, anti-itching, friendly to the skin, does not ball, does not fade, feels mild, good sweat absorption, is the foundation of the Zhuang people to wear clothes and hats.

No matter day or night, walking in the alley, you can hear the weaving sound of "squeak-squeak-click-click" from time to time. Of course, after the homespun cloth is woven, it cannot be used immediately, it has to be sprayed with a little water, and then folded into layers and placed on the flat stone, picked up the mallet and evenly knocked it several times, and then unfolded, and can only be used when it is dry.

At this time, there were almost no sewing machines in the village, and the villagers wore clothes, shoes, socks, quilts, mattresses, kang sheets, mattresses, etc., all of which were made by hand by women.

To say that this is to make cloth shoes, but it is very laborious needlework. You have to make a lining first. Playing the lining, that is, using paste to paste the old cloth layer by layer onto the brick wall, generally three or four layers of paste, and remove it after drying, it is a large piece of lining.

After the lining is laid, you can make the sole and upper. When making soles, first put the paper cut soles on the lining, cut out the soles of single linings, each of which has to be wrapped in white cloth strips, and then layer by layer, layer by layer, sewn together with large stitches, and it takes seven, eight or even ten layers to be thick enough. Then, cover the surface with a white cloth and you can cover the sole of the shoe stitch by stitch.

As for making the upper, it is to put the upper cut out of paper on the lining, cut out a single-lining upper, cover it with cloth and brie, wrap it in a cloth edge, sew it according to the zigzag pattern, and the upper is ready.

Finally, put the finished upper on the soles of the shoes, and the cloth shoes are considered to be completed. A young man in the countryside can wear a pair of cloth shoes in a month, and you can imagine the hard work of the women and girls in the village.

Women in the countryside not only have to work in the fields, but also do needlework for the whole family to dress and hat, and even have to cook, do laundry, clean and other household chores. I often stay up late spinning and weaving, sewing clothes and making shoes, and there is always endless needlework. It is not too much to describe it as night and day, wearing stars and moons.

As for the men, they generally do very little housework, except for farm work in the production team and some heavy physical work at home. When work is finished or on a rainy day, they either play poker, chess, "C-side" (C-side, a local chess-like game), or get together to chat and brag.

At this time, in the countryside around Persimmon Bay, there is no electricity, let alone a TV, and open-air movies can only be watched once in a few months, and life on weekdays is also very monotonous. Therefore, when the kang is on at night, the men mostly hug their women for entertainment.

At this time, there was no family planning, and women in the countryside did not know how to use contraception, so the babies naturally had more, as few as two or three, as many as five or six, and even seven or eight, and it was not surprising that the little old man was younger than the eldest grandson. Although the rations are not enough to eat, and the clothes are all patches and patches, the baby still wants it. Poor to poor, more children and more blessings. That is, the dog baby is only going to look like in the second half of the year, and the leaves seem to be there again. The Wang family urged the Liang family to return to Xixia from time to time, seeing that the Guiwa family was about to live on the street. I really don't know how Ye Zi will live in the future.

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