After three days of singing, there are still a few days of leisure, there are people who take advantage of this time to use wheat straw to weave some straw ropes, which are convenient for making straw shoes or weaving straw hats.

Most of the women tidy up their homes, wash and dry, and there are craftsmen who play cotton walking around, and whoever has an old quilt will call them to play.

The quilt in Lily's house has long been worn out, she has already had the heart to play again, but she has not been a good craftsman, and it is a coincidence that she has time these days, so she invited a craftsman to come to the house to play cotton.

There are two craftsmen, it is a father and son, surnamed Tao, and it is also a master with a little apprentice, they usually farm, only in the off-season to come out to play cotton, to earn more chewing and wrapping for the family.

Whoever wants to play cotton is invited to their home, and a meal is packed, and a few dollars are given, and they do their work beautifully.

When the courtyard erected a trampoline, the old quilt was disassembled, and the tightly packed cotton wool was poured out and placed on the trampoline, the old Tao master stretched out his hand and poked out the weight, and said to the lily: "This cotton is too old, the bullet is not very good, and I am afraid it can be better with a pound of new cotton." ”

The large pockets they carried with them were stuffed with new cotton, fluffy and soft, completely different from the yellow and tight cotton of the lilies.

Generally, cotton tires are either six catties or four catties, thick in winter, thin in spring and autumn, and no need to cover the quilt when it is hot in summer.

Lily brought this old quilt from her mother's house only three catties, even if it was covered in spring and autumn, it was too thin, and they relied on this quilt to survive a winter.

"Master Tao, add a pound of new cotton and the old one together, weigh six pounds of new cotton, and make a new quilt. "Lily is not short of money now, and since she has invited all the masters to her home, she can't ask people to run for nothing.

Unless the bride wants to get married, or there is a big happy event in the family, Master Tao didn't expect Lily to be so generous, and he was happy at the moment, and said: "It's just so slow, I'm afraid that I can't finish playing it in a day today." ”

Lily said: "I'm afraid that we have to work for the two of you to find a place to sleep elsewhere, don't worry about food and wages, it's all on me!"

Master Tao suddenly smiled: "I promise to play it well and beautifully!"

Master Xiao Tao first used cotton thread to stretch out horizontal, vertical and oblique lattices on the trampoline to hold the quilt, and then disassembled the original old cotton thread on the cotton tire, dismantled the cotton wool into pieces, tore them and threw them on the trampoline.

The cotton tires are old, the lilies are diligent, and there is no smell and dirty feeling.

The old pottery master took the cotton bow on his back, flicked it with a wooden mallet, and buzzed, and he kept circling around the trampoline, so that the strength of the bowstring brought up the cotton, and the cotton that was originally tightly compacted was broken and bounced off little by little.

The cotton wool flew like a poplar flower, falling to the ground and clothes, and the old Tao master's head and eyebrows were also covered with white wadding, looking as if he was dozens of years old.

He played so hard that he was sweating profusely, and Lily hurriedly went to scoop water for them to drink. Master Tao stopped to take a breath, took the water bowl handed over by Lily, and was stunned at the entrance.

They play cotton for people, and in the countryside every day, they take a scoop of cold water for them to drink, and it is the first time they can drink hot water, not to mention that the hot water is added with sugar, and it tastes sweet and sweet, which is very different.

Sugar is used to entertain distinguished guests, and the old Tao master didn't say anything, knowing in his heart that Lily treats them as guests, and works harder and harder.

The old cotton wool bounced off, and then weighed a pound of snow-white new cotton into it, and used a cotton bow to bullet it evenly and fluffy, turning it into a thick layer.

At this time, it was the turn of the little Tao master to come on the field, and he held a thick and large log board in his hand, and there was a handle behind his back to compact and thin the thick cotton.

Pressing cotton is also a technical job, the strength is small, the cotton is loose, and the quilt is too strong, the cotton tire is too reliable, not warm, and it is not comfortable to sleep.

When Master Tao was working, Master Tao went to drink a bowl of water again, and this time he specifically said to Lily: "Just white water." ”

The host gives them sugar water to drink, it is the host's kindness, if they still want to drink it, they are not satisfied, not the reason of life.

At one point, Master Tao pressed the cotton tire, and the father and son each took a roll of cotton thread, wound it left and left on the trampoline, and made a lattice on the surface of the cotton tire.

These cotton threads are intertwined with each other, densely holding the cotton so that they do not fly out, and can keep the cotton tires in a certain shape, which is convenient for later loading into the quilt cover.

The bed was well packed, and the sun was already setting in the west, so Lily beckoned the two masters to sit down and drink water, carried the quilt into the house herself, sewed the quilt, and went to the kitchen to cook.

The yard was full of cotton wool, a white layer, and the old Tao master sent his son to sweep the floor: "The daughter-in-law of this family is a sincere person, not such a crazy and deceitful person, she is polite to us, and we must also know the etiquette, go to sweep the floor, and clean people." ”

As soon as Song Haonian came home, he saw two people with white eyebrows and hair sweeping the floor of his house, and he was startled, figuring out that these two people were masters who came to play cotton, he hurriedly invited someone to sit down, cleaned up the ground two or three times, and went to wash his feet and face.

The lily dishes were almost fried, and the aroma came from the kitchen, and she called out to Song Haonian: "Please ask the two masters to wash their faces, it's time to eat." ”

Everyone washed it for a while, and because it was hot in the house, Song Haonian moved the tables and chairs to the courtyard and took advantage of the daylight to eat. Song Haonian sat on the head, the old Tao master and Lily played horizontally, and the little Tao master sat down.

The father and son saw the woman on the table for the first time, but this was someone else's business, and Lily treated them well, so they didn't say anything, so they happily ate a meal.

Lily also said to the craftsman father and son, and invited them to come to breakfast early tomorrow morning, and the father and son were even more grateful for her thoughtfulness, and took the cotton bow and the board on their backs to find a place to sleep in the homes of acquaintances.

Now that the weather is hot, the newly popped quilt is not needed, Lily folded the quilt neatly, received it in the box, and told Song Haonian about making another quilt.

Song Haonian said: "It should have been like this a long time ago, I was careless, I couldn't think of many things, you just thought of doing it, and the family's money only worked." ”

Now the money of the young couple is pinched in Lily's hands, and she spends it, and whenever Lily has any major expenses, he must always explain it clearly to Song Haonian, so that he knows in his heart.

One is generous and the other understands, so that life can live in harmony and longevity. Early the next morning, Lily cooked porridge, fried egg cakes and invited Master Tao father and son to eat, Song Haonian went to work after eating, Master Tao gave Lily a new bed of brand-new, weighing six catties and eight taels of new quilts, Xuanhu, white balls, face buried on the top can smell the fragrance of the sun and cotton, called people

A smile appeared in his eyes. Master Tao also asked Lily to take out the mattress and play it, and when calculating the money, he was only willing to calculate the wages of two quilts and the cotton money of one quilt, and Lily refused to let them suffer this loss, and said: "That pound of cotton is counted as you spare me, and the rest has to be calculated clearly, otherwise how much money do you earn."

It's not a problem to go on like this. ”

After calculating the wages of cotton and father and son, a total of thirteen yuan, Lily took a few egg cakes and wrapped them in oiled paper and brought them to eat: "If you can't find a place to eat on the road, you can use this cushion to pad hunger." ”

Whether a person is good or not, just depends on what kind of person she treats her family background and identity is not as good as herself, Master Tao walked out of the world and said to Master Xiao Tao: "This is a real good person." ”

Master Xiao Tao smiled and said, "Dad, you don't want to tell me a daughter-in-law, I think this young sister-in-law is very good." ”

Master Tao glared: "What nonsense, she is already married!"

If it weren't for the fact that Lily was already married, Master Tao also felt that it was good to tell his son that such a daughter-in-law was a few years older.

Master Tao scratched his head, "Dad, I mean that there is a sister in the family of the eldest sister-in-law." "His father often said that looking at people looks at the family, the eldest sister-in-law is a good person, and the sisters in her family will not be bad.

Only then did Master Tao show a smiling face: "You kid is smart, I'll ask you when I go back." You have to work hard, earn a family business, and still worry about not being able to marry a daughter-in-law?"

Master Tao said in his heart, Dad, you married my mother when you didn't have a family business, and now it's my turn to marry a daughter-in-law, but I asked me to start a family business, I am your son, where can I be bigger than you?

Lily didn't expect that she would treat people sincerely, but she would bring a marriage to the two sisters, and she was thinking about fertilizing the vegetable patch.

When the vegetables are still growing in the ground, this is the last time to apply fertilizer, and the next fertilizer is to pile the fertilizer into the ground to raise the soil after the autumn is cool and frosty, and the vegetables are harvested.

Song Haonian took a day off, went to Liu Yi's house to pick up a few loads of fertilizer, carefully cultivated it in the roots of melons and vegetables, and poured a lot of water to prevent the fertilizer from burning the vegetables to death.

He didn't let the lily get his hands on the manure and said, "You just have to water it." ”

The manure stinks, and his daughter-in-law is fragrant and soft, how can she get this thing?

Both of them felt that they had a bad smell, and they put on the oldest clothes before they got fat, Song Haonian began to take off his clothes and take a shower in the yard, the lily did not get wetted with fertilizer, stomped off the mud on the soles of his shoes, stood in the wind and dispersed the smell, and then went into the kitchen to prepare hot water for a bath.

As soon as the two of them lay down at night, Song Haonian felt different: "This newly played mattress is different, it is extraordinarily soft!"

He slept with the Song Haojie brothers at home and slept on a new futon in the past few years, and later touched all the stiff cotton tires, and almost thought that the cotton tires were like this.

Lily smiled: "Now that I have a new bedding, I won't be frozen again this winter!"

She had almost frozen to death the previous winter, and the cold was so deep in her memory that she wished she had equipped herself with the thickest cotton clothes to survive such a terrible and cruel winter.

Song Haonian hugged Lily: "I won't let you suffer like that in the future." ”

In the summer, the two of them hugged each other and said how to keep warm in winter, and after a while, they shouted hotly, and Lily felt itchy on her back: "Your sweat has flowed on my back." Song Haonian said that there is absolutely none, he must prove it to Lily, turn Lily over and lick her smooth and thin back, and the high and low groans will soon be mixed with the sound of insects outside the window into a beautiful music.