Chapter 9 The First Grass Flower
Let's say that Yueying got the food box, so she took out the decoction and drank it first, and she ate the pastries by herself while urging Dian Cui to make a head flower.
I saw Diancui take out a bucket, which was half a bucket of red and thick water, which turned out to be secretly left by Diancui when he helped Qian Laosi's family dye red cloth a few days ago. Then Diancui put the grass slices cut into pieces and put them in the bucket, and put a small piece of alum, boiling water over there, and Diancui was busy stirring and heating the water a little bit.
Yueying began to watch it with relish, but after a while, she was impatient to watch it, and after eating the dim sum, she muttered a few sentences about how this dim sum was born day by day, and went out to find someone to play.
After Diancui did all this, he didn't care about it anymore, and just went to the stove to cook the meal. After eating in a sullen voice in the evening, he went back to the west room, because he was worried about dyeing the grass tablets, and he didn't notice the strangeness of Qian Laosi's family today.
At night, wait for everyone to fall asleep. Diancui listened to the drip and counted it silently in her heart. For four hours, Diancui Mo got up, and with the moonlight outside, the grass pieces were fished out one by one, and then dried on the bamboo slivers again, and the bamboo slivers were lined up layer by layer, and they were placed in the window to put sundries, and the ventilation was not easy to find.
After doing all this, Diancui was already sweating profusely, panting heavily, got on the cool kang, and covered the bed with a thick and heavy broken quilt that could not store a trace of heating.
Dian Cui thought in his heart, this leg is unbreakable in this life, and tomorrow he will make grass flowers, and then find a way to make some money.
Thinking of all this, Diancui's heart was satisfied.
Coincidentally, early in the morning of the second day, Qian Laosi's family hurriedly went out, brushed the pots and pans with a cane, and took a spoonful of insects, tore two juicy roots, and put them in the chicken cage. Then I went to the west room and started to make grass flowers.
The ventilated grass flakes have been completely colored, and because of the addition of alum to the madder juice, the dyed grass flakes are a pleasing color of pink and dudu.
The semi-dry grass pieces will be soft and hard, only to see the dot cui put in the hand, or pinch or knead or rub or cut, and finally glue them together one by one with paste, about half a day's work, a half-bloomed delicate moon flower will be formed in the hand of the dot cui.
Diancui put this grass flower under the north window to dry, just waiting for the paste at the bonding place to dry through, hey! If there is a paste made of glutinous rice to stick, it will be better and stronger, Diancui thought regretfully, and kneaded a few plum petals casually......
Unconsciously what is in the east hall is that Qian Laosi's family in the east hall has returned home as early as when she was making flowers carefully, and there are several neighbors' daughters-in-law who came with her, Qian Laosi's family shouted a few Xiaocui, but did not hear the movement, only said that she went out with Yueying to play secretly, scolded twice, and thought that it would save her to go out.
Worried that the little chicks in the yard were thirsty, Diancui got up and walked out of the West House, but heard Qian Laosi's family talking and laughing with several aunts in the neighborhood, revealing that they would pass through the door in three days and cut new clothes.
Diancui immediately broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this, and said in her heart that she was going to sell herself, it turned out that the water red clothes dyed that day were actually prepared for herself.
Several neighbors hugged the red cloth and walked out of the door, Diancui quickly flashed into the West House, a careless crutch fell to the ground, and when Qian Laosi's family came back, he caught a glimpse of the crutch, so he gave a look to Brother Dong who was fighting with the little chicks on the side, and let Brother Dong watch Diancui at home these days. She hurriedly packed up and went to work at Rich Liu's house.
Here Dian Cui Muran sat on the head of the bed, some of the six gods had no master, according to her cowardly nature, she should have already burst into tears, but at this time she couldn't squeeze out a single tear, and her brain was even more mush, and the idea she learned in her previous life was useless at this time.
Yueying came in from outside and asked if the head flower could be made?
Nodded and pointed to the window, Yueying ran over to take down the moon-shaped grass flower, and couldn't put it down, and she went out of the house with another gust of wind.
ran to the door, paused, and told Brother Dong, don't run around, but you have to guard it, my mother said not to let her out of this house.