Making clothes is a big job, and everyone in the countryside can sew two stitches, but not everyone can make clothes.

Before the eldest girl got married, she often changed her father's old clothes to her brothers and sisters to wear, and she was skilled in needlework, and a large part of her skills in making up clothes came from her memory.

Sister-in-law Jin has already helped cut the clothes, and the rest of the sewing is simple.

Each piece of fabric has a three-inch wide edge that makes it easy to change the size in the future. Lily first closes the two sleeves and sews them into a tube, opening the ends of the sleeves and fladdling cotton on the side with stitches.

The cotton wool is very particular about the technique, first tear off a small ball of cotton wool, adjust the shape and press it into a thin piece by hand, paste it on the sleeve, and then pick up the next piece next to it.

The cotton cloth used to make the sleeve itself has an adsorption force on the cotton wool, coupled with the friction between the cotton wool fibers, the cotton is firmly attached to the sleeve, as long as it is not shaken vigorously, the cotton wool will not shift.

After the sleeve is evenly and thickly covered with cotton wool, then put another layer of slightly shorter sleeve on the outer head, grasp one end of the sleeve, carefully turn the sleeve inside and out, and the cotton wool is all hidden in the sleeve.

Adjust the position of the cotton wool slightly with the feel, and then seal the end of the wrist, and leave the end that meets the shoulder for future processing, and one sleeve is ready.

When all the parts of the garment are sewn, and then sew the lines similar to the car thread with a needle and thread to prevent the cotton from running and misaligning, it is a new and warm garment.

What I made for Song Haonian was a black cotton pants and a green cloth cotton jacket, the man's clothes were easy to wear and tear on the elbows and knees, and Lily specially added a few pieces of fabric in these two places, which were strong and warm.

Her own was a cotton jacket with red lotus flowers, a small tuan of flowers, and a pair of green cloth pants, afraid that she would stain her clothes by doing work under the kitchen every day, so Lily sewed a blue coat for herself, and planned to put it on the outside when she was doing work.

Lamei got a red and bright jacket, embroidered a few delicate yellow Lamei, just in line with her name, the pants are the same green cloth, all covered with thick cotton, light and warm.

The sun was warm, Lily spread out the felt blanket under the eaves, and the cloth, cotton, needles and threads were piled on it, she flicked the cotton for a while, and when she saw sweat on her forehead, she couldn't help laughing: "This day is really good." ”

Lamei helped sew the buckle on the side, rolled the cotton cloth into thin strips and sewed it up, and then bent it into various patterns to fix it, leaving a hole in one section, and the other one knotting a pimple at one end, which happened to be a pair.

The word buckle is the simplest, commonly used on men's clothes, women's clothes have more patterns, eight-character buttons, pipa buckles, butterfly buckles lily prefer pipa buckles, Lamei little girl loves beauty, has to do a few butterfly buttons sewn on their clothes, is sweating profusely butterfly buckles.

The butterfly buckle is troublesome, to poke several needles on a wooden board, and then use cloth strips to coil, and finally sew up, listening to the lily said that the weather is good, Lamei said: "The sun is too big, the sun makes my back hurt, I go to the house to hide." ”

"It's cold in the house, so don't take off your clothes, lest you freeze to death." ”

"I know!" Lamei had been in the sun for a long time, and as soon as she entered the house, she felt that her eyes were all black, and it took a while to get used to seeing things clearly, and she pulled a small bench and sat down at the door, and continued to make buttons.

It takes at least two or three days to sew a piece of clothing, and this is still the case when Lily has Lamei to help cook, and nothing else is left to chance. It took more than ten days to sew a dress for Song Haonian, himself and his sister-in-law.

Lily thought carefully, and then used strips of cloth of the same color to sew a side of the clothes, embroidered a few flowers on the skirt, made some gloves, socks and other small objects, and a month passed.

In winter, cotton shoes are also important, and mille-feuille cloth shoes are particularly laborious to make, and dozens of layers of cloth glued together with paste must be pierced with an awl, and the thick needle can be passed through with hemp rope.

Lamei will also accept mille-feuille soles, and Lily bought her a new silver thimble and asked her to make the soles for herself: "Do more for what you want to wear, and you won't suffer in the future." "Zhu didn't deliberately teach the daughters, Lily is the eldest in the family, and in order to take care of the sisters and brothers, they will know more. Lamei grew up in a completely ignorant state, Zhu did whatever she was told to do, she never systematically learned to live at home, and she only knew that she would be able to follow Lily these days

Too little, there's still a lot to learn.

Put in the mille-feuille sole, then use thick cotton wool to make an upper, sew the upper and the sole together, and put a wooden shoe last inside, which can be worn in a few days.

As soon as December entered, some people in the town began to kill New Year's pigs one after another.

Black pigs that have been kept in captivity for a year are tied up and hung upside down on a wooden board, a knife breaks the trachea and blood vessels next to the throat, and the hot blood is held in a large basin, and then the whole pig is thrown into the boiling water to scald, and the hair is removed with a special "rust stone" with a pimple.

Then the stomach is disemboweled, the internal organs are taken out and cleaned, and the pork is also cut one by one, and processed according to different parts.

In the past few days of killing pigs, Lamei didn't dare to go out, she was afraid of killing pigs, and when she heard it, she wanted to hide in her eldest sister's arms. Song Dagui is the best butcher in the town, he is invited to kill pigs every day, and the reward is a pair of meat or a front leg, he has no shortage of meat to eat, remembering that the brothers have a few families that do not raise pigs, so he asked Song Ermei to send it back door to door, Lily got a pork leg, a pork belly with skin, and

There is a basin of blood buns.

Mix flour, green onions and salt in the steaming pig's blood, stir well and steam directly in the basket drawer, and after two quarters of an hour, the blood coagulates into a dark red, and the surface is covered with dense pores, like honeycomb.

Eaten hot, the blood bun is soft and tough, without a little blood, but has a special fragrance. After cooling, it becomes firm, and when you want to eat it again, you can fry it with kidneys or pork liver, which is crispy, fragrant, and very chewy.

Fresh pork is smeared with salt and hung on the top of the kitchen stove to smoke for half a month, and it becomes smoked bacon that is not greasy or woody, and some people use hinged minced meat to fill sausages.

Although Lily did not raise pigs at home, she also bought twenty pork with skin, and there were still unplucked hairs on the skin.

Hang a long bamboo pole on the roof of the kitchen, put both ends on the earthen wall, and then wear pork with hemp rope and hang it one by one.

There is a lot of firewood burning in the countryside, and the smoke will slowly smoke through these meat strips. In order to make the bacon taste more delicious, Lily went to Xiaodonggou to cut some cypress branches, and smoked the meat with cypress branches to have a special aroma.

At this time, the weather is so cold that the water is poured into ice, and the meat can be stored for a month or two if it is hung directly in a place where the sun does not shine, and the smoked meat can be stored for a longer time.

Lamei looked at the pile of meat in the room and was surprised: "Sister, I have never seen so much meat!" The eldest sister surprised her again and again, and Lamei was also very popular, and she was surprised and surprised every time.

Lily clapped her hands: "In addition to these bacon, you also have to smoke sausages." ”

The pig killer family, not every family has the patience to treat the pig's large intestine, so Lily bought some back, first washed it with well water several times outside the house, and washed all the dirt inside into the vegetable field before he was willing to take it into the yard.

Lamei knew that her eldest sister loved to be clean, and she herself disliked these things, pinched her nose and said, "This thing is weird and dirty, don't you want it?"

Lily said: "If you clean it, you won't feel dirty when you eat it." ”

Rinse more than a dozen times with warm water, then turn the large intestine over, add flour and rub inch by inch, rub off all the mucous membranes, grease and other debris inside the intestinal wall, and rinse again.

Repeat it many times until the casing is completely clean and there is no smell at all. Because the lily loves to be clean, the two sisters deliberately washed it several times and checked it carefully, until both of them were completely relieved.

The washed casing can be filled with meat filling when it is dried until there are no water droplets on the surface.

Dozens of catties of fresh meat are used to fill sausages, and lilies and plums take turns to chop out with kitchen knives, both of them are tired and have sore hands and back pain, and they are full of energy when they think of the delicious sausages.

Fresh meat stuffing with autumn oil, salt, sugar, wine, ginger, pepper powder, etc. to adjust the taste, marinate for a day, choose a section of seven or eight feet long casing, first tie one end with hemp rope, and then stuff the meat filling in, while stuffing the filling, while using your hands to the tail, be sure to ensure that the plug is tightly compacted. Plug it half a foot long, tie it tightly with hemp rope, and pour it into another section. This section of the casing is all filled, you can tie the other end, the casing also contains air, Lily tied the thin needles used to sew the clothes on the wood chips and tied them in a row, pricked a few times and then squeezed out the air with their hands to ensure that the casing is fat and thin

There are no gaps between the minced meat.

After filling the sausages, they should not be allowed to see the sun, so as not to change color and taste, and hang them on the bamboo on the top of the kitchen like bacon and smoke.

Lily has to refine some lard and oil residue to eat every other day, and when it comes to such a time, every household in the town has the fragrance of meat and oil, and she naturally refines a lot.

After finishing the day's work, the next pot of noodles, put some cabbage leaves in it, fry a material with leeks and lard residue, add water, autumn oil, vinegar and cook into oil and vinegar soup, take out the noodles and pour the soup, which is called oil and vinegar noodles in the local area, and it is a particular food.

The freshly ground flour and the noodles kneaded by yourself are fresh and chewy, and the rich wheat aroma fills the mouth. The lard residue is fat and lean, the lean meat residue is dry and chewy, the fat meat residue is flexible and sweet, the soup noodles are hot and fragrant, and it is very comfortable to eat a bowl in winter.

"It's getting dark early today," Lamei was eating, and she noticed that the light was dimming, and she could only rely on the light of the fire in the stove to illuminate.

Lily sighed in her heart, and hurriedly looked out, and sure enough, it was dark outside, and the north wind was also blowing, blowing the tattered cotton paper pasted on the window lattice.

"It's going to snow. Lily muttered, very worried.

Sure enough, in less than half an hour, snow began to fall from the sky, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the ground was white, and the two sisters could feel the soles of their shoes slippery on the snow as they walked back from the kitchen to the bedroom. It was snowing heavily, but the people who could go out to sell mountain goods were still outside