It takes about a day for a cotton tire to finish from the spring. Fortunately, Master Liu also brought his eldest son as an assistant, and it was almost finished after two or three days of busyness.

Next is the "old renovation" project of Widow Xie's house. That is, the old quilt is removed, the cotton gauze that wraps the sliver is removed, and then the cotton tire that has been used for too long and knotted is re-elasticated into soft cotton wool.

Ji Yu originally planned to give half of the cotton to Widow Xie and let her family make a few new quilts, but Widow Xie refused, saying that the old quilt was not broken, and the re-playing was still the same as the new one, and she was pulled back and forth until she would not live.

Ji Yu hurriedly changed the topic and asked Master Liu, and it was really true after asking.

In the countryside, since the beginning of autumn, some people have successively dismantled the old cotton wool and re-bounced it into a fluffy and warm quilt to welcome the arrival of the cold winter wax moon. Their business is so good, most of it comes from this, but there are very few new quilts, after all, the price of cotton is there.

After calculating, Ji Yu bounced a total of six cotton tires. Two ten-pound winter quilts, two six-pound spring and autumn quilts, and two four-pound bottoms.

Widow Xie said that there was no kang in her shack, and asked her to change the winter quilt to twelve catties, Ji Yu did not agree, it was difficult to turn over ten catties, and twelve catties could not be crushed to death.

According to the different weights, the processing fee for each cotton tire fluctuates between 30 and 100 Wen, and her six beds are about 370 Wen, and the old and renovated Widow Xie's house is cheaper, and finally adds it together to give Master Liu nearly five dollars of silver.

These were agreed to by Ji Yu in private with Master Liu long before playing cotton, and Widow Xie was helpless.

The cotton tire is bounced, and the next step is to make the quilt.

Widow Xie called the new daughter-in-law of Uncle Fu's house next door to help, and asked Ji Yu to follow her to learn, saying that she would always be able to sew and mend when she got married in the future. was so frightened that Ji Yu didn't even dare to enter the hall, so she took Hu Ximei to the east house under the pretext of trying on new clothes.

Widow Xie had neat hands and feet, and in the few days she played cotton, she first made two sets of skirts for Ji Yu, and the cotton clothes were not in a hurry, so she waited and made them. couldn't bear Ji Yu's urging, and also made a set for Hu Ximei and Xiao'an Xiaohua.

In the East House, Mrs. Xie was still asleep, and Ji Yu lightly put on her new clothes.

The costumes of the Great Zhou Dynasty are close to the Ming system, take the jacket skirt as an example, a typical top and bottom. The cuffs of the jacket are sealed, with edges, and there are styles such as pipa sleeves and narrow sleeves; collar plus collar; The lower skirt is mostly equipped with horse-faced pleated skirts and ordinary pleated skirts.

The set that Widow Xie made for her was a bamboo green cross-collared and narrow-sleeved jacket, with a smoke-gray one-piece pleated skirt, and the other set was also of a similar style.

The inner lining made of muslin has a coarser outer layer of cloth and a less correct color, but it is already considered decent clothing in an ordinary peasant house.

Widow Xie still wanted to embroider for her, but Ji Yu didn't let her, but asked her to make two sets of Chinese clothes out of muslin, which happened to be worn inside the clothes.

I don't have a full-length mirror, and I don't know what the effect is, but it fits perfectly. Although Widow Xie said that she was not good at embroidery, she was not a problem in making clothes and shoes.

Hu Ximei had already put on her own set, but she was not yet old enough to wear a skirt, so it was in the form of tops and pants.

was circling around and smelly, and when she looked back and saw Ji Yu after changing her clothes, she was stunned.

"Sister Xiaoyu...... You look so good in this......"

The mother also said that the color that Sister Xiaoyu bought was too plain, and the young daughter's family should wear more fresh clothes. Hu Ximei thinks that Sister Xiaoyu is good-looking, and she doesn't need to engage in those bells and whistles, but this color is just right, and she looks very ...... Very temperamental.

Hu Ximei has never read a book, she can only think of the word good-looking, and the term "temperament" is still learned from Sister Xiaoyu.

Ji Yu knows that her body's facial features are good, but she hasn't taken care of it yet, and now she is thin and yellow, so she can see where she goes.

deliberately teased her: "Is it the clothes that look good, or the people look good?" ”

Hu Ximei made a difficulty: "...... Well...... Well...... It's all good-looking......"

Ji Yu flicked her head and said with a smile: "You are also beautiful." ”

"Really?" Hu Ximei looked forward to it, she is ten years old this year, which is the age when she just knew how to talk about beauty and ugliness.

Receiving Ji Yu's affirmative nod, she cheered and rushed to the hall, chatted with Widow Xie, and ran to the courtyard to show off her new clothes.

Hu Dacheng hadn't put on his new clothes yet, so he couldn't help but say that she was ugly.

Hu Ximei stuck out her tongue at him: "You say it's useless to be ugly, Sister Xiaoyu praises me for being beautiful!" ”

The two of them were chasing me in the courtyard again, and they were making a fuss.

At noon, I left my sister-in-law to eat, and naturally Ji Yu cooked it herself.

It was boiled sweet potato porridge and steamed steamed steamed noodles.

I stir-fried a plate of vegetables with lard residue and thickly cut winter melon slices, cut a few peppers and garlic sprouts, and put on a small piece of pork belly left over from the past few days, and made a small stir-fried back pot meat.

The Hu family has become accustomed to Ji Yu's craftsmanship, so they just bury their heads in eating and no one speaks. Instead, my sister-in-law took a bite and praised her, saying that Ji Yu has this cooking skill, even if she doesn't know how to work as a female worker, she is not afraid.

After eating, she was busy until the evening, and Ji Yu's six quilts were all set.

The dark jujube red coarse cloth quilt, the muslin quilt, and the newly elastic cotton tires all look warm, and people can't help but want to lie down and roll.

The two of them were busy until they lit the lamp at ten o'clock, and finished sewing Widow Xie's house.

After dinner and sending away Fu's sister-in-law, Ji Yu proposed to go back to the broken shack.

I discussed it with Widow Xie before I went back to live in the shack.

The reason why Widow Xie agreed, firstly, was that she really couldn't squeeze in, and secondly, she was the size of the old lady. If you don't pay attention to it, you get it on the kang, even if you change it frequently, there is always a strange smell in the house, and it's not good to stay Ji Yu.

Hu Liang and Hu Dacheng came out with a cart and put the quilt and the things she had bought before.

Ji Yu insisted on keeping half of the rice, noodles, oil, and salt, and bought double portions when she bought them.

She only needed a can of lard, and she didn't take the rest of the cotton and cloth with her, saying that she would make cotton clothes for Hu Liang and Hu Dacheng after she finished making her new clothes.

Where can Widow Xie not understand that she can use these to make cotton clothes? Ji Yu saw that she deliberately didn't make clothes for Hu Liang and Hu Dacheng, forcing her to do it.

This kid seems to be gentle and easy to talk, but in fact he is very stubborn. She doesn't care, you can do whatever you say. But whatever she decides, she must follow hers.

Widow Xie couldn't help it, so she could only accept it, and when she turned around, she explained to Hu Liang and them, and she must keep Ji Yu's good in mind. Ji Yu has no parents and brothers, and there is no man in the family, if she is bullied, she must be protected.

Hu Liang nodded spontaneously.

Widow Xie asked Hu Liang and Hu Dacheng to take advantage of the darkness to send the things to the shack first, so that the villagers would not see them. Otherwise, she is a girl's house, and suddenly adds so much, and those with long tongues in the village don't know how to talk nonsense, for fear that there will be those red eyes that will make it bad.

Ji Yu stayed to talk again, and went back with the oil lamp.

The broken shack is turned in the northeast, and Widow Xie's house is at the east end of the village, and the two families are outside. On that line, this area is not very populated and relatively remote.

As I passed by an even more dilapidated mud house, I suddenly heard a strange noise.

Ji Yu didn't take it to heart, and thought it was an autumn insect like a cricket.

After a few more steps, his footsteps suddenly stopped

Wait a minute! What does she think...... Like a child's voice?