Chapter 41: The Neighborhood
"I won't get married, I will stay with my mother for the rest of my life. Xu Rujin lay on Hu Xianglan's shoulder and was coquettish.
Thinking of the sewing machine sent by Lin Chuan, Xu Rujin sat up straight, "Mom, wait a minute, I'll go get the leather rope and measure your size." ”
"It's almost autumn, and it's time for us to make two autumn clothes. Xu Rujin picked up the footbath, "All of our family is summer clothes." ”
In the evening, Hu Xianglan saw Lin Chuan coming to deliver the sewing machine, and guessed that Xu Rujin wanted to make autumn clothes for the family.
She put on her shoes and followed her to Xu Rujin's house.
Seeing Hu Xianglan coming, Xu Rujin simply measured Hu Xianglan in his own house.
Xu Rujin just took a few measurements, and saw Hu Xianglan coming over with a tape measure, "I'll measure it for you." ”
"Mom, you can also make clothes?" Xu Rujin looked at Hu Xianglan in surprise and measured herself very professionally.
Hu Xianglan nodded and said, "Your grandmother taught before, but I haven't done it for many years." ”
Xu Rujin knew this for the first time, after all, they hadn't even seen the shadow of the sewing machine in their previous home. She still hadn't figured out how to explain her self-taught craft to them.
Xu Rujin Hu Xianglan pulled her to the sewing machine table and pressed her down, "I'm afraid that I'm going to waste fabrics, Mom, can you teach me how to make clothes?"
"You don't know how to make clothes, you still buy so many materials and come back, and even borrow a sewing machine, I want to ask when you learned this craft. Hu Xianglan got up and went back to her room, found a piece of leftover material for sewing clothes, and then turned back.
After that, Hu Xianglan patiently pointed to the parts of the sewing machine in front of her and introduced them to Xu Rujin, and taught her how to use the sewing machine hand in hand, and she took out a rag to teach her the thread.
Xu Rujin would have known these a long time ago, but in order not to expose her skills, she still seriously followed Hu Xianglan to learn again.
After one night, Hu Xianglan taught Xu Rujin all the basic things.
Xu Rujin was even more impressed with Hu Xianglan, many of the masters invited by the Shen family in his previous life did not understand, Hu Xianglan said it clearly in three or two sentences.
It was already very late, Xu Rujin urged Hu Xianglan to go to bed quickly, saying that he was here to digest the train line he had just learned.
Hu Xianglan told her to rest early and go back to the house, Xu Rujin did not practice the train line, but went to the cabinet to take out the fragrant wine that had been soaked and expired.
She took out the cotton and spices, put the butter in the fragrant wine, and burned it over a high fire, boiling it and adding the butter one at a time.
After several times of boiling, remove the heat and fry slightly, at this time, slowly add the red pigment made with cinnabar, and then add the green oil, stir well.
After extinguishing the fire, pour the juice into a small box and wait for it to cool naturally, and it will be fine and bright tomorrow morning, and the aroma will contain the lipstick......
I made the lipstick too late last night, Xu Rujin didn't get up the next morning, and when she got up, Ye Chengwei had already made sweet potato porridge.
"I'm sorry I woke up late. Xu Rujin put her shoes on as she walked.
"I made sweet potato porridge for breakfast, and I just ate it with the kidney bean cake and loach sauce that I had stored at home. Ye Chengwei brought the cooked porridge to the table, "Let's only sell duck meat today, it should be too late to do it now." ”
Xu Rujin looked at the sky outside and nodded, it was indeed too late, and the twins who had always been in bed got up at this time.
As soon as the family had finished eating, Lin Chuan came over, and Xu Rujin told Lin Chuan that Hu Xianglan promised to teach the children in the tunzi to read and write. Lin Chuan thought that there was no play, but he didn't expect it to be true, so he hurriedly said that he would bring the children over in the evening.
In the evening, Xu Rujin's family stood at the door, looking at the seven or eight children brought by Lin Chuan, and shrunk behind the adults in the family with ignorant eyes one by one.
Parents are grateful to Hu Xianglan, in this era, children have to help the adults in the family during the day, and most of them go out in groups to play when they come home at night. Now there are people who can teach children to read and write, how can they not be grateful.
For the sake of their children's future, they cheekily asked Xu Rujin to ask Xu Rujin, but fortunately they agreed. The children in the family have learned to read and write from other people's children, and they have benefited, how can they not show it.
One by one, they brought their own radish and cabbage, and they didn't say a few for a long time. Now that every family is living a tight life, how can there be anything that can be handled, radish and cabbage are already considered a good thing.
Hu Xianglan was not used to them like this, she felt that it was just seven or eight more children, and at most she would hold a small branch and gesture on the ground, so what was the problem.
Ye Youran and Ye Nanshan taught them whatever they learned, but his family's conditions were limited, and paper and pen could not be provided.
In the end, Xu Rujin couldn't stand it, so he asked everyone to bring everything back, saying that if they really didn't want to go, just help them do something when they were busy farming.
After all, among the five people in this family, there are really few who can contribute.
In this era, the most valuable thing is labor, and the neighbors naturally knew that the Ye family didn't want to accept their things, so they found such an excuse.
Thinking that it was not easy for Hu Xianglan, a widow with a child, they discussed that everyone would work together every day, first help the Ye family do the tasks assigned by the production team, and then take care of their own work.
There are many people on the left and right, and the Ye family's work was done in less than half an hour, so Xu Rujin was relaxed, and he had a lot of time to make clothes and eat.
At the beginning of August, Xu Rujin took out the jar of grapes that had been fermented for seven or eight days.
I found another jar, and then cleaned it and wiped it dry.
Prepare a piece of gauze, strain the skins, strain the juice into a cleaned jar, ferment for another seven or eight days, and then strain once, so that the wine is basically ready.
The wine is made very simply, and the only ingredients used are grapes and sugar, and the cost is very low.
And the taste of the wine I make is very good, and it is definitely not worse than the wine I bought outside. Whether you keep it for yourself or sell it for money, it's a good deal.
Outside is the sound of Ye Youran and Ye Nanshan cooperating with the sound of giving lectures to children of the same age, is it mixed with Hu Xianglan's corrective voice.
Xu Rujin took the jar of wine to the shade of the kitchen and put it away, wiped his hands and sat down next to the sewing machine, and began to sew and continue the autumn clothes.
Ye Chengwei has a large body, and the fabric is better than a whole piece, so his clothes are the first to be made.
Xu Rujin cut off the threads of the clothes, folded them neatly, and took the clothes to Ye Chengwei's room.
Ye Chengwei was reading a book at this time, and when he saw Xu Rujin coming in, he put down the book and asked, "Do you want to make a new dish?"
During this period of time, Xu Rujin would call him whenever he made a new dish.