When Ye Xiaoman returned home, it was already dark.

She wanted to dye some more cloth, but there was no lamp oil at home.

In the darkness, everyone rested early.

In the backyard, the Qi brothers and Tao Ran live in the same house.

Qi Shan fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed, but Qi Ye and Tao Ran had their own worries and had no sleep.

Tao Ran heard the sound of Qi Ye turning over, and said, "Brother Qi, you didn't sleep either?" ”

"Hmm."

Tao Ran rolled his eyes and said, "I heard from Xiaoman today that she wants to quit us." ”

What the? Qi Ye was startled, and asked in a suppressed voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Tao Ran told Qi Ye what Ye Xiaoman and Su Changqing said, as well as what Ye Xiaoman said to him.

"Brother Qi, Xiaoman really wants to quit his family with us, what should we do?"

When Qi Ye heard this, he was not as surprised as before.

"You also heard it, she said that she would not tell Father Ye and Aunt Ye for the time being."

"But she has this thought, isn't it a matter of time before she withdraws?" Tao Ran was anxious.

"Who said it was sooner or later." Qi Ye's tone was full of firmness: "People's hearts are made of flesh, if you are good to her, she won't feel it." When you have feelings, the matter of withdrawing from relatives will naturally be over. ”

"Brother Qi is right." Tao Ran's eyes lit up.

"Go to bed early, there is work in the field tomorrow."

The room was quiet and there was no word all night.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Ye Xiaoman said to her mother: "Mother, I still have to dye cloth today, can you let Qi Shan stay and help me, he has a lot of strength." ”

Aunt Ye nodded, and went to the ground with Father Ye and a few other people.

Before leaving, Tao Ran looked at Ye Xiaoman pitifully.

Ye Xiaoman pretended to concentrate on sorting out the acacia flowers, and Tao Ran left disappointed.

"Xiaoman Xiaoman, what can I do for you?" Qi Shan was eager to try.

"Grind the grass, and if it's done well, I'll make something for you to eat at night."

Last night, Ye Xiaoman quietly took out the Spiritual Restoration Grass in the space and put it in the bamboo basket.

Qi Shan replied crisply: "Okay." Then he didn't ask anything, and went straight to grinding the grass with the bamboo basket.

Ye Xiaoman smiled, Qi Shan, this kid is really good at everything, the best thing is that he lacks heart and eyes, and he is easy to coax, unlike Tao Ran, who has a lot of thoughts.

Qi Shan grinds grass, and Ye Xiaoman is not idle.

She washed the sorted acacia flowers and put them in a pot to boil. After boiling half a column of incense, the soup turns bright yellow, filter out the fragments of the petals with gauze, and then boil a stick of incense for a while, the soup becomes reddish yellow, exuding a strong aroma, dipping a little with a cloth, it shows a very bright goose yellow.

The cloth dyed yesterday didn't have any flower heads, and Ye Xiaoman planned to try tie-dye today.

Tie the boiled white cloth with thread, and it is very particular when tying, because after dyeing, there will be patterns in the place where it is tied, and this technique is called tie-dyeing.

The pattern of Ye Xiaomanzha is a six-petal butterfly flower, and six flowers are tied on each piece of cloth, which means that everything is smooth.

The boiled dye is divided into two pots, one of which is filled with the blue dye left over from yesterday, and when stirred, the reddish-yellow dye turns dark green.

Put the tied cloth into two pots of dyeing solution, stir constantly, and then put the cloth into the boiling salt water to fix the color, and finally take it out and put it on the shelf in the backyard to dry.

"It's so pretty!" Qi Shan, who was grinding, praised sincerely.

Looking at the beautiful fabrics of goose yellow, official green, and white six-petal butterfly flowers on the shelves, Ye Xiaoman was also very happy.

Soon, however, she was no longer happy.

"Knock knock" Someone is knocking on the door.

Ye Xiaoman opened the courtyard door, and there was an apologetic answer at the door.

"Little girl, I'm sorry, the owner said that the dyed cloth is only accepted from the big dyeing workshop in the town, and we don't accept the cloth dyed by your family. Do you have a white cloth? I took the white cloth. ”

Ye Xiaoman thought of the white cloth that was all dyed by her, and wanted to cry without tears.