Chapter 45: Fighting Spirit
After lunch, everyone continued to be busy, weaving bamboo baskets to make cassava starch continued to do, peeling, cutting pieces, Ah Mei helped put it in the stone mortar, Chan followed Yu pestle, Mu Xiaohua wrapped the pestle cassava with the cloth cut from the clothes and rubbed it in the water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It took about two hours to process all the cassava, and finally the cassava slurry was filtered twice and left for one night.
"Xiaohua, what about this scum?" Yu asked with half a pot of cassava residue.
The cassava residue that has separated the starch has no edible value, but it can be used to fill the stomach in the case of food shortage, but because there are bitter cassava and sweet cassava in this cassava, Mu Xiaohua thought about it for a while: "Throw it away!" ”
"It's a shame to throw it down!" Yu looked at so many cassava residues, which can eat several meals.
"I can't eat it anymore." Mu Xiaohua is a pity to spread his hands.
"Okay!" Yu took the cassava residue to pour, and Mu Xiaohua asked Lie to move the cassava pulp water to the cave, put it in a cool place, clean up the front lawn, and clean up the follow-up that should be cleaned up, and make tapioca starch to complete.
When you're done with one thing, move on to another.
Mu Xiaohua made a pair of straw sandals for Lie, and Lie, Chan and Yu went up the mountain to cut wood and came back to make barrels, and Mu Xiaohua also asked them to find a small piece of wood to come back and prepare to make clogs.
"What are clogs?" After listening to Mu Xiaohua's explanation, Nuo asked first.
"It's also worn on the feet."
"Grass can be woven into straw shoes, but what should be done with wood? Carve? "Everybody was amazed.
Mu Xiaohua smiled, "Wood is only used for the bottom." Then I explained to them the way and the shape of the clogs, and they were amazed.
"Wood can still be used to make shoes to wear, Xiaohua is so powerful!"
"Xiaohua, why are you so smart? Can you come up with so many things? ”
Mu Xiaohua just laughed, and after listening to everyone's praise, she felt that it was almost over, and then said, "Okay, let's go get busy!" ”
Can they leave, Nuo learned to weave bamboo baskets, Ah Mei followed Mu Xiaohua's side, and when she knitted straw shoes for Lie, she also learned, originally she didn't want to learn, but seeing that everyone else was busy, she was not interested in playing alone and joined the ranks of weaving.
"Xiaohua, is the bamboo basket also woven like this? It's really hard to make up. Cheng Bian knitted the bamboo basket in his hand and chatted with Mu Xiaohua.
"The general technique is similar, but there are still big differences, this kind of bamboo basket weaving method is still relatively rough, and there are more delicate and more difficult to weave. By the way, we can also weave back baskets, baskets, and fish baskets to sell. ”
"Do you know how to make it up?" Cheng asked in surprise.
The others also looked at her with expressions of astonishment.
Mu Xiaohua coughed lightly and shook her head: "No, I can only weave bamboo baskets, and the others know the shape and general weaving, if you really want to weave, you have to study and study." ”
Mu Xiaohua feels that the use range is wider than other back baskets, and it is very necessary to study and make it up.
After weaving the strong straw sandals, Mu Xiaohua measured Ah Mei, and began to sew dresses for her after the measurement, Ah Mei was very excited, and kept sitting next to Mu Xiaohua watching her cut and sew.
"That's how the dress was sewn!" Ah Mei looked at it and sighed, "It's much easier than weaving straw shoes and making bamboo baskets." ”
"It's pretty simple, do you want to learn? Once you learn it, you can sew it yourself. Looking at Ah Mei's sparkling eyes, Mu Xiaohua asked.
In fact, sewing dresses, design and tailoring are very particular, but Mu Xiaohua is now limited in materials, and the sewing is the simplest, it can be said that there is nothing particular about it, it is natural and simple, anyway, under such conditions, it can almost be worn.
"Okay." Ah Mei nodded firmly, her eyes full of fighting spirit.
Mu Xiaohua taught her to sew and said: "Actually, this is just a style, you can also think of it yourself, and sew it yourself if you think of any beautiful style." ”
"What's the other style?" Ah Mei asked confusedly.
"For example, the strap of the dress can be sewn a few more, sewn on one side, or sew a flower, or a little longer or shorter, and the skirt can be sewn straight into a barrel, or sewn into other shapes, cut a lace, tassel or something."
Ah Mei listened carefully, nodding her head while listening, "What is a tassel?" ”
"Tassels are like that, one by one." The wooden lace gestured and explained.
"Oh!" Ah Mei suddenly said, "I know, it's like the ones hanging on the altar, right?" ”
"yes, yes." Mu Xiaohua smiled and nodded.
People's ideas and creativity are always infinite, Ah Mei soon had her own ideas, and excitedly told Mu Xiaohua, Mu Xiaohua listened carefully and gave her opinions from time to time, and the two communicated happily.
In the past, Ah Mei had nothing to do every day, she was bored, and she was thinking about finding something fun to play all day long, but now she finally found something interesting and happy.
"In the future, I can sew beautiful dresses for my grandmother and my aunt, and my sister-in-law is going to give birth to a baby, so I want to make small clothes for the baby to wear."
Ah Mei's sister-in-law called Ah Qiao is to stay at home and marry her two elder brothers, although they have failed to have children before, but they have never given up, and now Ah Qiao has been pregnant for more than nine months, they are very much looking forward to this child, if this time it fails, then Ah Qiao is estimated that he will not be able to give birth in the future.
I don't know why I heard Ah Mei mention this, Mu Xiaohua's heart "chuckled" and jumped, there is always a bad premonition, modern people know that close relatives cannot get married, not only is it an ethical issue, but more importantly, close relatives can not raise the next generation when they get married, because there will be various serious genetic diseases.
When Mu Xiaohua finished sewing a set of dresses, they came back, Ah Mei took the animal skin that could make two sets of dresses, Yu asked Mu Xiaohua to go out to see the wood that was brought back to make clogs, Ah Mei took over the work in her hands, Mu Xiaohua told her to "be careful" and walked out of the cave.
The wood that Yu brought back is not recognized, the wood is rougher than the bowl, smoother than the barrel, and it is just right to make clogs, and the size is about the same.
After confirming that the wood was available, Mu Xiaohua carefully depicted the style of the clogs with Yu, Yu began to cut the wooden blocks after taking a short break, and Chan and Lie also started to make wooden barrels after resting.
Although the barrel is not in a hurry, it is done when there is time, after all, it takes more time to make a barrel.
Just when everyone was busy, a woman hurriedly ran over, looking very anxious, her eyes were full of panic, and she ran outside the flat and saw Mu Xiaohua and asked eagerly: "Accept it?" What about them? ”