From Wang Rui took the hare skin and said to make a winter vest for himself, Jin Wen remembered that winter is approaching, and in this small farm yard, it is not easy to spend winter, when the weather is good, Wang Yuanshan took the tiger to repair the fence, covered the roof with thatch, repaired and strengthened it, and checked the walls of several houses, now Wang Rui first followed his father to live in one, his room was for Jin Wen to live, the empty room was stacked with food and other things, and the house also had two baskets of coarse charcoal, which could be used to warm up when it was cold, but the winter clothes were not prepared.

Jin Wen looked through the clothes of his father and brother Huzi, there are few good clothes, this good means that there are no patches, but the clothes of the father and son are picked together, and the best clothes are also patched, and the cotton jacket is hard to the touch, the cotton wool is clumped, but a few pieces of animal skin have been turned out, and she asked if she can use it to make clothes at night, only to know that it costs five or six hundred yuan to buy a cotton clothes, and it is not suitable to use the leather to make clothes.

Although Wang's village is all of the same clan, but Wang Yuanshan's branch has been passed down for three generations, there are no really close brothers and cousins, and no one can help to do it, although Wang's family is married in a village, but her maiden brother didn't look down on Wang Yuanshan's family at the beginning, and then Wang's family passed away, Wang's parents have also died, her sister-in-law is a shrewd woman, and she thinks that her sister-in-law has married too many things, in fact, she is just marrying two pieces of good clothing and a pair of silver bracelets. If you can do it, you will be able to do it, so in the two years since Wang's death, the father and son have not added new clothes.

Jin Wen took out four pieces of leather and measured the size, and saw that it was enough to make two winter coats for the father and son. Among these four pieces, there is a roe deer skin and three hare skins.

On this day, a couple of people in the village came to play cotton, and there was no one in the village to grow cotton, so every year in late autumn and early winter, the couple would come to do a few businesses, make some money, just enough to have the New Year's money, and the village people have been busy for a year, but in winter it is the most abundant at hand, no matter how thrifty it is, it always needs a quilt winter coat, reluctant to buy new cotton, just take the old cotton to play it again, fluffy and soft, and like new, play a pound of cotton five big money, listen to Osmanthus Niang said that it has risen a lot of money compared to last year. Wang Yuanshan gave Jinwen twenty yuan, she opened the padded jackets of the two on the second day, and exposed them to the sun first, so it was good to weigh it in this way, and then it was weighed at home, speaking of which not every woman knows, she is also taught by Huzi to know how to see.

The next morning, I took the cloth bag and packed it, and took a few old clothes that I sewed, and asked the nearest sister-in-law Tian yesterday, she said that she didn't want to play two or three catties of cotton for an hour, but people had to guard the side, "You don't know, I heard that if you don't look at it, the cotton will take off one or two taels for you, and you don't know." ”

was told by Tian's sister-in-law, she deliberately kept the needlework, and planned to stay there and wait for the cotton to be bounced and taken home. In fact, the quilt at home should also be bounced, but a quilt is four catties at least, so let's save some first. The person who played cotton borrowed the house of the third aunt on the edge of the grain floor, and after living for such a period of time, she also knew that the third aunt was because of the seniority of the family, and she was Wang Yuanshan's third uncle, and she was called the third uncle in all seriousness. Their family in the village is already considered to be a good condition, there is an empty house to lend to people to live, but there is no need to charge any accommodation money, the husband and wife who play cotton set up a pot at the door to cook rice, for white to the third aunt to play two beds of old cotton, and then give one or two buckets of rice, like this kind of borrowing an empty house to live for two nights, no one will confiscate the money.

Some people who are anxious have already played it yesterday, and today she arrived early, and she actually came to the second in line, and the third aunt saw her and greeted her warmly: "Awen, you are also here to play cotton." Sit down here, there is the downwind, and the waddles are floating there. ”

"Well, thank you third uncle, I'll just sit at the door."

Jin Wen is still not used to chatting with people, sitting at the door of the third aunt, he can see the situation of cotton playing on the side of the barn, and greet several other women with a smile, "You are also here", then take out the clothes and sew them up, occasionally look up at the cotton, or listen to a few words of gossip between the third aunt and several other women.

A woman took one look at her stitches and was full of praise: "Arwen is so small, this stitch is so fine." ”

"Awen is not an ordinary country girl, needlework is good." The third aunt said, everyone also nodded, and looked at her with pity. There is nothing to do in the village every day, something like her is a big news, everyone knows that Wang Yuanshan's family took in a young lady who can't find relatives, but every time I hear Jinwen, I only smile, and it is her blessing to meet my father and Brother Huzi, and it is her blessing to know this blessing by herself, why bother to tell others.

The cotton was quickly played, and when it was fluffy, it was filled with two cloth bags, and she was thinking that it would be difficult to take it, so Wang Rui came to pick her up. Those sisters-in-law shouted "Huzi, I'm afraid that Awen won't be able to take it", while smiling ambiguously, the etiquette in the mountain village is not as strict as outside, especially if you are married, there is nothing to say that you don't see a foreign man, even if you are not married, you are not married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, so you don't play outside in the wild, so although Jinwen is a little shy, he still picked up something and followed Huzi, walked to the path, and exhaled softly.

"I caught a few more fish, and after they were washed, you can rest assured that you can cook the fish and eat them." Huzi laughed when she remembered the pot of fish soup she cooked.

Jin Wen couldn't help but glance at him: "Do you have anything to do when you go home?" “

"No, what do you want me to do?" "It's okay, write the words that the first few **** taught you, write them a few times, your words are too ugly, you have to practice."

"That's... Arvin... That one... I suddenly remembered that there was a wild boar trap on the side of the bamboo garden on the mountain, and I had to go and see it. I'll come back and practice again. ”

"Who are you fooling? In the morning, my father also said that he had gone to see the bamboo garden. You come back with me to practice calligraphy. You lied to me and punished you for writing that word ten times. ”

"Ten times? There are more than 20 words, too many! ”

"That's a lot, you have to practice it quickly, so I can teach you the rest."

"I don't go to the top exam, it's enough to know the name." Wang Rui muttered.

"Huh?" Jin Wen looked up and glared.

"I know, I know, I'll write when I go back," Wang Rui touched his nose, the cotton wool on the cotton bag in his hand slid over his nose, and he couldn't help sneezing, "It's so fierce, what should I do if I can't get married in the future." ”

"Hmph, if you say nonsense again, write it twenty times."

"Good sister, don't say it, don't say it, ten times is enough." Wang Rui begged for mercy while keeping up, what he was most afraid of was his father's slap before, but now he has one more, he is afraid that Jinwen will be angry.

A twelve-year-old and a nine-year-old, although they both encountered sad things, but the young man did not know the taste of sorrow, and on the country road, a string of laughter was sprinkled.

When he returned home, Jinwen asked Wang Rui to move the table in the hall to the door, and when he was seven years old, the nurse helped make a cloak for his father as a birthday gift, and his father happily wore it all the time, and now she is going to learn to make clothes, but his father can no longer wear it.

Afraid of wasting the fabric, she took the leaves to cut the sample size, and repeatedly asked Sister-in-law Tian and Osmanthus Niang how to make cotton clothes, but she was still afraid that she would not do it well, so she simply took the gray rabbit fur and measured it first.

Wang Rui moved the table, and resigned himself to take out a bluestone slab, this slate was still moved back by the stream in Xishan after his father heard that Awen wanted to teach him to read and learn words, he took a branch dipped in water and drew it on the slate. There are words written by Awen in charcoal on the ground, and he draws them one by one, and Jin Wen will pay attention to it after a few stitches, and say that his stroke order is not right, and the pen is not good, and he is more strict than the old master at a young age.