Chapter 40: Livelihoods

The dirty girl pushed away the other children who were gathered around to look strange, and applauded wildly: "Brother is so amazing!" I really tied the fleas with my hair! Give me my ......."

Su You gave her the hair: "The hair loop will be loosened, and the fleas will run away after a while." ”

The dirty girl asked, "What then?" ”

Su You picked a small branch from the side of the road, tore the ends apart, and stuck his hair into it, turning it into a small bow: "Oh, that's it." ”

The little girl seemed to be very happy, and her little hand grasped the little bow of the branch like some great toy.

The eyes of a group of children looking at Su You were also full of admiration.

One child asked, "Brother, is this how you caught all the fleas?" ”

Su You smiled: "How is it possible! If you want to be free of fleas, you must live in a clean place, wear clean clothes, bathe frequently, and change clothes frequently. ”

Qi'er whispered, "We don't have any clothes to change ......"

Su You looked at a group of children dressed in tatters and nodded: "It's indeed a problem, but it will always be solved." We have to think of ways to always have clothes to change, a place to live, and something to eat. ”

The dirty girl listened to Su You's words, and was about to shame him for blowing the conch, just raised her hand, looked at the flea tied to her hair between the bows of the small branches, and stopped talking.

The Land Temple is dilapidated, and there is a ruined idol of the god inside.

It is said that this is also the masterpiece of Zhong Xiangong that year, the old man hated the demon god the most in his life, the land temple outside the city of Meishan is dedicated to this one General Mao, there are people who use the superstition of the villagers to cheat money, the villagers are also afraid of retribution, what the liar says is what, as a result, the old man got drunk one day and went crazy, and called more than 20 people in the village to come to the temple to destroy the mud statue of General Mao.

The more interesting thing is still to come, one day the old man went out to play, passed through a deep mountain, and found that there was also a temple of General Mao, and immediately became angry and scolded: "This demon god still dares to hide here?" Preparing to do it again, the temple master of this temple hurriedly ran out and said, "Is it Su Qijun?" Last night, the great god Tuomeng cried to me, saying that Su Qijun was coming tomorrow, he was so scared that he couldn't do it, begging me to tell you, he had hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, so please leave this small temple for him to stay, and he didn't dare to mess around again. ”

Coupled with the persuasion of his peers, the old man let go of this statue.

People love ghosts and gods, and the seven old men of the Su family have not lived in vain in this life!

Far away, the terrain of the land temple was pressing, and there were more than a dozen naked children messing around inside.

Qi'er glanced at it and said, "Big brother hasn't come back yet." ”

Su You frowned: "Why don't they have clothes?" ”

Qi'er said: "In addition to the girls, there are also those who go out every day, and the rest of the boys have no clothes. ”

Only then did Su You react, and he forgot the price of Da Song clothing again.

A set of clothes in a ready-to-wear shop costs three or four hundred yuan, even if the children's are halved, it will cost one or two hundred yuan, and fifty children want to do this, and the ten yuan they just got will be gone.

It can't be so.

After thinking about it, he threw the lo-mei to Qi'er and asked them to beckon the children to come over and eat.

He turned out a knife from his body, cut the bamboo, cut it into some thin pieces with bamboo green skin, sharpened the two ends, scraped it smooth, and put it together, and then cut a clip with a thick bamboo piece, melted the resin into the clip, and stuck the thin bamboo piece in the center.

Then press a piece of bamboo skin, pull a thread from the strap of the schoolbag and tie it at both ends, which becomes a grate.

I did several in a row before Su You stopped.

There are many fine bamboo forests by the Meishan River, all of which are ownerless, and Su You is divided into two groups when the children have eaten them, the boys go with him to cut bamboo, and the girls go to collect forage.

The children liked this clean newcomer very much, because he had a kind of adult temperament, and he also brought himself good things that he couldn't usually eat.

The folding knife is very small, and it can only cut thin bamboo branches, but this is enough, Su You only cares about cutting, and each pile of cut down is a bundle, and a child is carried out.

When it felt almost over, Su You asked a few children to break a few sticks and return to the Land Temple.

Then he used a knife to cut out the strips, cut the thin bamboo branches neatly, and beckoned the girl to learn to tie a broom with him.

Tie the broom head, take a wooden stick and sharpen it into it, and nail two wooden nails into it as dowels to get a long-handled broom.

He sharpened the other sticks and told the girls to do the same, and Su You went to see the boys work.

The boys had already been sent to bring out the clay statues in the temple, to find pebbles to smash, and to fetch water and mud from the incense burners that had been used by the children as pots.

The clay used for the idol was originally kneaded, but now the boys make a circle with wet mud, pour clay powder in the middle, and then draw water and step on the mud, which is a game to play.

Su You asked them to carry out the incense case in the land temple, wipe the broken mat on it, send the girls to clean the land temple with brooms, make mud chips on the incense table themselves, and then draw circles with two bamboo nails tied to a rattan, cut off the excess part, and turned it into three pot bottoms.

At the same time, the children were asked to dig out a simple fire tunnel on the slope, level the fire path, make a chimney with stones and mud at the end, and then light a fire.

The three clay cakes used as the bottom of the pot are spread on the plane above the fire path together with the broken mats, and while the clay cakes are baked, the children are asked to rub the clay sticks, and they themselves wrap the clay sticks on top of the round cakes, scraping and pressing them with bamboo chips on the side of the plate, gradually becoming the shape of a pot.

The boys were amazed by Su You's tricks, and they all came over to help rub the mud strips, but Su You was a little too busy.

One child was left to light the fire, two children were rubbing mud, and the rest were sent to help the girls clean up.

Soon, the three clay pots were ready and roasted to dry.

Su You said to the three children: "Have you seen it?" ”

The three boys nodded again and again, and Su You smiled: "Then you just do it and see who does it better." ”

He moved the mud basin to the front of the land temple, piled firewood and grass, and started a fire.

The boys were attracted by the fire and watched excitedly, and the eldest brother was not allowed to touch the fire on weekdays.

Seeing that the children were happy, Su You called a few older ones to take care of the children, added firewood by the way, and turned around to go back to make pottery.

Soon, the pottery bottles and pottery bowls all changed out under Su You's hands.

Clapped his hands, Su You laughed: "Country crafts, I really didn't learn in vain!" ”

Let the pottery continue to bake on the fire path, Su You adjusted out some thin mud, and asked the two children who made the mud strips to repair the gaps with thin mud when they saw them, and went to check the three mud pots that had been burned for more than half an hour.

Removing the fire and pushing three red-hot pottery out of the fire with a stick, Su You knew it was done.

Send the children to fetch the clay utensils they just made, and if there are more things, you have to be particular about stacking them, and you have to leave enough space for overheating.

The mud utensils are placed, and firewood is used to build a fire channel in the middle of the mud utensils, and firewood and grass are piled up, which is another big fire.

After that, Su You sat down and began to cut bamboo silk and weave a dustpan.

As soon as Su You's tricks passed, he had already become an idol in the hearts of children.

The land temple has been cleaned, the broken mud and curtain have been torn out, and a few girls are well-behaved, seeing that Su You is busy at a young age, they came over and said, "Brother, can you teach us to weave bamboo?" ”

Su You smiled: "Okay, it's actually very simple to make this up." ”

The light weaving is indeed simple, and the difficulty lies in the closure, but the work of closing Su You can do it yourself.

At this time, the clay pot had cooled down, and a boy tried to touch it with his hand, and found that it was no longer hot, and then reached out and flicked it, making a "dang" sound.

All the children jumped with joy, they all gave their strength, and now it is natural to be happy about their success.

Su You is also very happy, but under the nose of the old uncle in Longli, how can he have the opportunity to play like this!

Ten bamboo bottoms were braided, and Su You called the children over, and one by one began to wind the bamboo silk, leaving a large one to be responsible for the work of cutting the strips.

He went to inspect the situation inside the temple of the land.

The girls were careful, they had already cleaned the place, wiped the windows with broken curtains, and received the children's small bits and pieces of crockpots and other things on weekdays.

After turning around, Su You went to the glass river to check the sand.

Coming to a collapsed sandy bank, Su You inserted bamboo slices into the sand and opened a layer: "As expected." ”

The sand is divided into layers, a layer of fine mud, a layer of sand, and under the mud on the sand, there is a layer of black substance.

The iron sand layer, which contains extremely high manganese, can smelt the iron sand layer of Yungang!

The children's livelihood has been found!