Chapter 147: Winter Leisure
Yudong returned home and told him about someone moving across the river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the other side of the river, there was a piece of fertile land, and in the past, there were three or four Zhuangzi, all of which were owned by large families in the prefecture and county. The owners of these villages did not come to live, and left their subordinates or village heads to be responsible for guarding the grange and the tenants of the fields.
When Yuxiu was a child, they all thought that those Zhuangzi were very mysterious, with high whitewashed walls and exposed green tile cornices, and when they were naughty, they wanted to climb the wall to see what kind of people lived in the whitewashed walls.
But this is also to think about it, I didn't dare to really climb the wall, I heard that I was caught and sent to the county government for spanking.
When Yudong talked about moving, except for Yuliang who ran to the river curiously and looked at it a few times, the others didn't care.
The next day it was even more gloomy, and it looked like it was going to snow, and several people didn't go out.
In the right wing of the hall, two charcoal basins were burned. Yan Qingjiang, Yudong and Yuliang each carried a fire cage.
The fire cage is a small round barrel made of iron, the height is the size of an adult's palm, and the bottom of the fire cage is filled with ash when the weather is cold. Furnace ash is the ashes of plants and trees burned in the stove.
After the ashes are installed, put a layer of black charcoal on top, then put one or two pieces of red-hot charcoal, and then cover the charcoal with a layer of plant ash, which can be carried in your hands to keep warm. The red-hot charcoal will gradually ignite all the other black charcoals, and the heat can last for a long time.
You can also take a branch in the fire cage to pull a hole, stuff the small sweet potato into it, and then cover it with ashes, and after a while, the sweet potatoes will be baked, take them out and throw them on the ground and pat them a few times, pat off the ashes, peel off the skin, and you can eat them.
If you can find iron sheets, you can also fry soybeans to eat, the beans are roasted to a black and crispy color, and they rattle when you bite into your mouth.
I just ate at noon, and my stomach is not hungry, but I will still be hungry.
Yuliang pestered Yudong, picked a few sweet potatoes and taro, and a small bowl of soybeans came out, planning to roast them in the house.
Yudong took a few large sweet potatoes and threw them into a charcoal basin to roast, and threw a few small ones to Yuliang for him to roast and play.
In the hall, two large tables of eight immortals were put together, and cloth and other things were piled on them, and Yuxiu and Yushu were busy making new clothes for everyone.
After the autumn, Yuxiu was busy, and the cotton clothes worn by several people in the family were still bought at the ready-to-wear store in the town, and they were not as warm as they had newly made.
Yushu is still young and can't tailor.
Now that the workshop is closed, Yuxiu is busy cutting clothes for everyone.
There is already kapok at home, and there is money in hand, Yuxiu specially bought a few pieces of fur, planning to make a cotton coat and a fur coat for each person this year.
Yuxiu felt that Uncle was quite handsome, so she picked a piece of gray rabbit skin, "Uncle, can you use this to make a wool vest?"
Yan Qingjiang glanced at it, and then looked at the fur piled on the bed, "This piece, I want this piece." ”
When Yuxiu looked at it, he picked a black one, and he dared to dislike the gray color and not look good, "Okay, I'll make this for my uncle." ”
Yan Qingjiang's previous new clothes were all made by the Wang family, and between uncles and sisters-in-law, there was no such closeness and casualness as Yuxiu, let alone let him choose a color or something by himself.
At the beginning of this picking, he became addicted, and he chose for himself to make cotton clothes with blue cotton, pants to make red, and shoes to tiger heads......
Put what he asked for together, Yuxiu's four faces are all black lines, these colorful put together, can you still see it?
"Uncle, go play with Xiao Si and pick up stones. Yushu couldn't bear to say that Yan Qingjiang was too ugly, so she tactfully took him away.
There is nothing to do when it's dark, and picking up stones is a game that children often play to pass the time, and there are two ways to play.
Like the five stones of Yuliang, they are all smooth and round of the same size, so they play with the toss.
Grab five in one hand and throw them to the ground, the stones roll on the ground and stop, pick up the stone that is farthest away from the other four among the five stones as a guide, throw it up gently, and then quickly grab the other four with one hand, and then turn up with the palm to catch the stone that is the guide.
If you don't drop five stones, you can pass the level.
Yuliang's hands are small, and every time he grabs four and then picks up the falling stones, he will always slip one or two.
Therefore, every time he plays toss, Yan Qingjiang is always very happy. He didn't know how to play, but Yuliang taught him for a while, and now he can play well. His hands are big, and he takes advantage of the stones.
Yuliang is bitter, because those who lose the game will have their noses scratched, he used to love to play with his uncle, because he can always scratch his uncle's nose, and now, six or seven times out of ten times he has to scratch his nose.
When Yuxiu heard Yushu's words, she blinked at the bitter-faced Yuliang Nunu on the ground, and Yushu couldn't help but laugh when she saw Xiaosi like that.
Yudong was holding the art of war given by Hong Tianxi to look there, and occasionally asked Yuxiu when he encountered a word he didn't know. After he told Yuxiu what Master Hong said, Yuxiu saw that he was dedicated to learning martial arts, not only did he not object, but also asked someone to prepare a bow and arrow for Yudong, and wanted to install an arrow target at home for Yudong to practice.
He heard the laughter of Yuxiu and Yushu, listened to the laughter of Yan Qinghong and Yuliang, and continued to bury his head in reading.
"Brother, do you want to take a charcoal basin to the East House?" Yuxiu was afraid that it would be too noisy here, which would affect Yudong's reading.
"No, both charcoal basins are placed here, warm. Yudong moved to the window, still preferring to stay in the house. First, everyone is in one room, and it is very warm in the house with two charcoal basins, and if it is divided into two places, it will still consume charcoal, and secondly, he feels that everyone is very relieved to stay together.
Yuxiu saw that he was unwilling and didn't care about him.
She first cut the fabric prepared for Yan Qingjiang, evenly bounded the kapok, and pressed the inner and outer fabrics together. Yushu held a needle and thread on the side, starting from the middle of the garment, sewing the needle little by little.
This is the core of the cotton clothes, and after it is done, it is sewn with interlining on the outside, and it is a cotton clothes. The boundary kapok is sewn from top to bottom one by one, evenly dividing the kapok and fixing it on the cloth.
The finer the stitches, the more the kapok will not run around, and the cotton clothes can be warm.
Yushu doesn't talk much, but she is ingenious and careful, and her stitches are fine and even, and she looks very meticulous.
Yuxiu watched it for a while, and saw that Yushu was doing a good job, so she concentrated on sewing the outer robe. Yan Qingjiang's robe, Yuxiu has already done most of it, on the navy blue fabric, she plans to embroider a circle of auspicious cloud patterns, wear it during the New Year, and then hang a red sachet, looking at it is festive.
When it was dark, the faint sound of a thunderbolt could be heard outside the house.
Yuliang pushed open the window, looked out, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's snowing, it's snowing." He said and stretched out his hand, and when he retracted it, there were a few Xiaoice grains in his hand.
This year, after the beginning of winter, there was no snow yet, and the snow began to fall, and all five people excitedly leaned down to the window to watch.
"We'll be able to build a snowman tomorrow, right?"