Chapter 108: Learning to spin
Zhang Xiaoxue cleaned the dozen or so octopus monsters caught by Bao Bolt and Lian Duo, steamed them in the pot and changed color, took them out, chopped them into pieces, and stir-fried them with green onions and ginger to make the green onion fragrant octopus.
Because there is a little salt in it, it has a little salty taste, Zhang Xiaoxue tasted it, the taste is very delicious, and there is a fragrance of green onion and ginger, compared with the steamed octopus, it has changed a taste, this onion fragrant octopus, when it is time to eat, it also makes everyone unable to stop eating.
Bao Bolt ate the dish that Zhang Xiaoxue said, which is different from the steamed octopus, and sighed in his heart, it was really not in vain.
Not only that, but Zhang Xiaoxue's stir-fried smoked rabbit meat and beef stewed potatoes are also delicious, making people can't stop chopsticks.
Even the corn tortillas, Bao Bolt thinks the taste is much more delicious than that made by his mother.
This thought of the food cooked by her mother, compared with the food made by Zhang Xiaoxue, it was simply one in the sky and one in the ground, and there was no way to compare.
A kind of thought of living here if you don't want to leave, has been hovering in Bao Xuan's mind, although she has to endure some of Zhang Xiaoxue's various disciplines here, but think about it carefully, she can still accept her request.
During the meal, Wang Quanduo also knew that today's dinner was actually made by his niece.
He was very surprised, he really didn't expect his niece's cooking skills to be so good, and everything she cooked was so delicious.
Thinking about it, I'm afraid that the food in the restaurant in the county tastes like this.
While eating, he couldn't stop praising Zhang Xiaoxue's good cooking skills, and Bao Shui also echoed it, shouting that he didn't want to leave.
Zhang's father and Zhang's mother responded to the treasure bolt with a smile, asking him to live as long as he wanted.
The life of the little aunt's family is really good, all the dishes are meat dishes, and the taste is so delicious, listening to the treasure bolt yelling that she doesn't want to leave, even Duo has this idea in her heart.
Lian Duo immediately shook his head, how could it be? No matter how good the life of the little aunt's family is, there is no reason to raise them in vain.
Besides, I am also thinking about my father and sister in my heart, and my mother is pregnant with a baby in her belly, I hope it is a younger brother, and my father and mother have been looking forward to having a younger brother.
There are many people in the family, and after a lively dinner, the more sensible Lian Duo also helped wipe the table, what a well-behaved little girl.
Mother Zhang saw that Lian Duo was so well-behaved, so she praised Lian Duo, and Lian Duo listened to Mother Zhang's praise, and her little face was a little blushing.
Haha! Zhang Xiaoxue felt that Lian Duo was really a well-behaved and shy little girl, and it would be good if she had such a sister.
Zhang Xiaoxue came to the rabbit house in the backyard, took out the 12 little rabbit cubs from the pasture, and let them into the rabbit house.
Of course, she also told the new 12 rabbits that she wanted to live in harmony with the original six rabbits, and she had to follow the six rabbits for everything.
Tomorrow, his younger brother Bin'er will lead them to graze, and they will listen to Bin'er's words.
After dealing with these things, Zhang Xiaoxue went back to her house.
Now that the days are getting longer and longer, and it is not dark after eating, Zhang's mother thought of the spinning wheel that Zhang Xiaoxue borrowed from her eldest brother's house, so she was ready to spin some woolen thread, and her daughter said that she wanted to use it.
Because the spinning car was used by Zhang Xiaoxue, it was placed in Zhang Xiaoxue's house, and Zhang's mother took a low stool and went to Zhang Xiaoxue's room.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoxue has not yet entered the farm, she is sitting on the kang, looking at the spinning wheel placed on the ground, and she is planning to let Zhang's mother take the time to teach her how to spin thread tomorrow.
"Mother, why are you here?, is there something wrong?" Zhang Xiaoxue asked.
I thought to myself that it was really hanging, but fortunately I didn't enter the farm so quickly today, otherwise the people at home would find out that they were not there, and it would be difficult to explain at that time.
Well, when you go back to the house in the future, you have to remember to close the door, otherwise it will not be good to scare people when someone comes in and suddenly appears.
"Aren't you going to make something out of wool thread, it's getting longer now, and it's not dark yet, I'll come and help you spin some wool thread." ”
Zhang's mother answered Zhang Xiaoxue's question while checking the spinning wheel on the ground.
"This spinning wheel is very well maintained by your eldest concubine, it seems that she cherishes this spinning wheel very much, I have to be careful not to use it for her. ”
Zhang's mother walked over and put the low stool next to the spinning wheel, took some wool from Zhang Xiaoxue's kang, and came to the low stool next to the spinning wheel and sat down.
Zhang's mother used a spinning pendant to twist wool into silk threads.
The T-shaped wooden frame of the spinning wheel is equipped with bamboo strips, which are bent into eight semicircular circles, and Zhang Mu places twisted wool threads between each frame.
At a distance in front of the shelf, there is a long bamboo pole with several bamboo needles nailed to it, apparently to separate the strands.
Mother Zhang tied the twisted wool strands at both ends on two spindle-type spindles.
The spindle rod is an iron rod with a hook at the top, and the tail of the rod is combined with what appears to be a copper ball.
The twisted wool thread is affected by the weight of the copper ball of the spindle rod and gains a certain force and sags under the T-frame.
When twisting, Zhang Mu holds two long wooden handles with handles, and continuously rotates each spindle in turn, so that the spindle rod rotates continuously in one direction, and drives the wool thread on the hook at the end of the spindle rod to twist it.
When the initially twisted wool is gradually shortened to a certain extent by twisting, the spindle rises with the wool thread, so that the spindle rod is separated by the beam on the T-frame and can no longer be twisted.
This can be used as a standard for the uniform twisting degree of each yarn on the wire rack when twisting wool.
"How thick does the yarn you want need to be, is the thickness of the yarn I spin now?"
Zhang Mu asked when she spun some wool as thick as a quilt.
"Ah, mother, do you mean that the thickness of the spun wool can be adjusted? The wool I want to use should be thicker, and then three times thicker. ”
For Zhang Xiaoxue's question, Zhang's mother really gave her satisfactory answer, it turned out that the thread spun by this spinning wheel can adjust the thickness of the thread.
The spinning wheel is so easy to use, it's really good!
Zhang Xiaoxue also wants to learn from Zhang's mother and try spinning.
"Mother, you teach me, I'll spin the thread to see how it goes. Zhang Xiaoxue got off the kang as she spoke.
"Well, this spinning is also a skill, and it's good that you learn it. ”
Zhang's mother got up and let Zhang Xiaoxue sit on the low stool, while explaining, and asked Zhang Xiaoxue to repeat a few actions she had just made.
But this spinning thread looks simple, but it's not so easy to do, Zhang Xiaoxue is in a hurry, and she often makes mistakes, hey!
This is also too difficult, Zhang Xiaoxue spun a little clumsily for a while, but she didn't spin much wool thread.
"Haha, Xue'er doesn't need to worry, it's like this when she first learned to spin, and after a long time of spinning, she slowly became proficient. Mother Zhang said with a smile.