Putting on the umbrella surface is a delicate job, which requires gluing the cut cotton to the umbrella frame, trimming and shaping.

After about an hour, the paper umbrella that began to take shape was finally ready, but the whole umbrella was plain white, without dyeing or painting, which was really not good-looking.

But this does not prevent everyone from being happy, and it is also a small sense of accomplishment to be able to make an umbrella for the first time.

Yu Zhixing called Yu Qizhen to paint the umbrella surface, took the purchased fuel, Yu Qixing rolled up his sleeves, revealing his white and delicate wrists, dipped his pen in fuel, splashed ink, and only took a stick of incense to make a painting of red plum and snow on the plain white umbrella.

As soon as this painting was painted, the whole umbrella immediately became extraordinary, and it was particularly elegant and beautiful.

Women like good-looking and delicate objects the most, Wang Mengyan hugged the child and praised it, and Yu Astragalus couldn't stop saying that it was good-looking.

Most of the umbrellas used by people in the village are brown and green, so sometimes the umbrella is called the green oil umbrella, which is cheaper, and the umbrella with a painting is much more expensive, and most of them are made by wealthy people.

Although the craftsmanship of the oil paper umbrella made by Yu Qiaoshan is not exquisite enough, a few people have calculated that they do not plan to price it too high, only one price with ordinary green oil umbrellas, twenty wen a piece, which is also to sell the umbrella.

After the painting on the umbrella surface is dried, it will come to the last process, and the most important thing - brush oil, tung oil needs to be tightly and finely brushed on the umbrella surface, which is related to whether the umbrella is durable, whether the rain shelter is good or not, Yu Mengshanzi carefully put on the tung oil twice, and put it in the corner of the courtyard to dry.

It was not early, Yu Astragalus didn't stay any longer, she planned to let Meng Dafu try to go home to make it first, see if she could make an oil-paper umbrella, and then sell it with Yu Qiaoshan and them.

Yu Huangqi was pregnant and couldn't run around, so the two borrowed a donkey cart from the village, which made it convenient for Yu Jiao to go to Mengjia Village with them.

Yu Mengshan helped carry the purchased rice noodles to the car, Yu Zhou saw it, and didn't say anything, she specially asked Yu Hanshan to leave a five-pound piece of pork and a few pieces of pig bones for Yu Astragalus, all of which were loaded on the car for Yu Astragalus.

asked Yu Ruhai to take Yu Astragalus's pulse, and after making sure that the happy pulse was stable, he sent Yu Astragalus and his wife out of the hospital.

Yu Ruhai heard that Yu Jiao was going to follow back to Mengjia Village, but he was not very relieved, but he saw Yu Qiyu following, and Yu Jiao only went to visit Liu Sanniang's mother and son, and did not say anything after spending the night in Mengjia Village.

The donkey cart is not as comfortable as the carriage, but because Yu Astragalus is pregnant, her husband Meng Dafu is very careful and considerate, and she has a thick layer of mattress on the car board, and it is not so bumpy to sit up.

The four of them left Qingyu Village, Yu Huangqi was a good person to get along with, chatted with Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhen on the way, and also cared about Yu Qizhen's body for a few words, and said halfway.

Yu Jiao saw that she was uncomfortable sitting with such a big belly, so she took the initiative to let Yu Huangqi lean on her.

About half an hour, the donkey cart entered Mengjia Village, Yu Jiao looked at the unfamiliar scenery around her, although her face was indifferent, but her heart was not calm.

She didn't even know what attitude she should use to face Liu Sanniang's mother and son later.

Liu Sanniang didn't like her daughter in the first place, and she didn't know how she would react when she came back.

Without waiting for Yu Jiao to think about it, the donkey cart stopped outside the courtyard of Meng Dafu's house, Meng Dafu jumped off the donkey cart, turned around and carefully helped Yu Astragalus off the cart.

Yu Jiao and Yu Qiyu also jumped out of the car.

Meng Dafu pushed open the courtyard door, and Yu Huangqi greeted Yu Jiao and the others with a smile, "It's home, you haven't been to my sister-in-law's house yet, go in and take a sip of tea and rest." ”

Yu Jiao and Yu Qiyu followed Yu Astragalus into the courtyard gate, and the old lady of the Meng family, who was feeding the chickens in the yard, raised her eyes and saw that Yu Astragalus was back, and said with a kind smile, "Are you back?" He looked at Yu Jiao and Yu Qiyu behind Yu Huangqi, and said suspiciously, "This is ...... The girl in the Qingyun family? ”

Yu Huangqi smiled and nodded, "She followed me back to the village to see her mother, and my nephew's fifth brother also came over." ”

The old lady of the Meng family hurriedly put down the dustpan in her hand, wiped her hands, stepped forward, and greeted warmly, "Go and sit in the house." ”

Meng Dafu's father also walked out of the house when he heard the movement, smiled kindly at Yu Jiao and Yu Qiyu, beckoned the two into the house, and poured tea.

The small courtyard of the Meng family is not big, but the yard and the house are very clean, and Yu Astragalus's eldest girl snuggled up to Yu Astragalus, looking at Yu Jiao and Yu Qiyu curiously with big round eyes.

Yu Huangqi lowered her head and coaxed the big girl to shout, and the little girl shouted obediently, "Fifth brother, fifth sister-in-law." ”

Yu Jiao smiled and couldn't help touching her cuffs, well-behaved children are always very likable, but unfortunately she doesn't have anything on her that can give children to them.

The Meng family should have heard Yu Qiyu's name, out of respect for the scholar, the old man of the Meng family treated Yu Qiyu very kindly, took his hand and said a lot of words about his body and studies.

I have to say that Yu Huangqi's family business is really good, there is only one only son in the family, Meng Dafu, not to mention the simple personnel, the old lady and the old man of the Meng family are very kind people when they look at it.

"Sister-in-law, it's not early, and my fifth brother and I still have to return home, so we won't sit more." After drinking a cup of tea, Yu Jiao stood up and said to Yu Huangqi with a smile.

Yu Qiyu also stood up.

Knowing that they still had something to do, Yu Huangqi didn't pretend to be polite anymore, she was bulky, so she called Meng Dafu to accompany them to Liu Sanniang's house.

Meng Dafu is a good-tempered man, diligent and listens to Yu Astragalus's words, carrying rice and noodles, he didn't let Yu Qizhen help him at all, and led the two to Liu Sanniang's house.

The small courtyard was different from the appearance in Meng Yujiao's memory, and it looked particularly dilapidated and barren.

Yu Jiao raised her hand and knocked on the door, and after a long time, a woman's voice came from the courtyard, "Who?" ”

Yu Jiao took a deep breath before saying, "Mother, it's me." ”

The courtyard was silent for a moment, the wooden door creaked, Liu Sanniang was wearing a half-old but not new straight-necked placket with small sleeves, holding the wooden door, standing in the door frame, seeing Yu Jiao standing outside the door, her face was moved for a moment.

"Third aunt." Meng Dafu called out and said with a smile, "Your eldest girl and her husband's fifth brother have come to see you." ”

Liu Sanniang smiled at him, then looked at Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhen, the smile on her face stiffened a little, and she stepped away, as if she didn't know what to say, so she only said in a low and dry voice, "Come in." ”

Meng Dafu carried the rice noodles into the house, Yu Jiao thought about Liu Sanniang's attitude, but now that she is there, the uneasiness in her heart is gone, and she is not embarrassed by Liu Sanniang's unenthusiastic attitude.

She walked into the courtyard with Yu Qiyu.

A seven or eight-year-old child rushed out of the house, threw himself into Yu Jiao's arms, and called excitedly, "Sister, Sister, you are home, I miss you so much!" ”