Just after the heavy rain in Qingming, the seedlings in the vegetable field will grow wildly, the cabbage can be left alone, the corn seedlings can wait for two more days, the melon and mandarin vines can not wait any longer, they grow rapidly.

Courgettes, lentils, and cowpeas must be put on a shelf, otherwise they will not be able to bear fruit if they lie on the ground. Lily had expected this day, and when she burned firewood and picked raspberries on weekdays, she paid attention to it, and saw bamboo sticks and wooden sticks that were tall and finger-thick, and they were all collected and kept for future use.

Now there are hundreds of these sticks of wood, and half of the house is piled up in the room on the west side.

There is no need to go to the market to buy hemp rope, and all the women in the countryside will make twine, tear off the skin from the hemp pole, and twist it into a strong rope with a handle "hemp cart", which can be used to hold the soles of shoes, and the family also uses it to tie things every day.

Song Haonian's family did not grow hemp or hemp car, but hemp rope can be used for gifts, when she sent fried petals to the neighbor's house before, someone returned a roll of hemp rope, heavy in the hand, enough to weigh two or three catties. Lily and Lamei walked to the vegetable field with a dozen wooden sticks in their hands, scissors and hemp rope in their hands. Three wooden sticks are built into a "human" shape, placed on top of a bean seedling, and the three feet are pressed down into the soil to make them firmly inserted, and then the intersecting parts on the top are tied with hemp rope

, a shelf is built.

In order to make the bean seedlings and melon seedlings grow well, you have to gently wrap the bean vines around the stick with your hands, so that you don't have to worry about it in the future, the seedlings themselves will climb up along the shelf, as long as the shelf does not fall.

The two sisters held a wooden stick and tied twine, which was an easy job compared to the heavy work of turning the ground and fattening, and it was easy to tie a piece of it lightly and skillfully.

There was only one point left to set up a shelf again, and the sun slowly got hot, and Lily only felt that her face was hot, so she hurriedly went back to the house and found two headscarves, and put them on one by one with her sister.

Lamei felt that the headscarf was ugly, and it was only worn by an old woman like her mother, and whispered, "Sister, I don't want to wear it." ”

After a little thought, Lily understood that the girl was Aimei, and said with a smile: "You wear it quickly! It doesn't matter if you are ugly for a while, if you have spots on your face, you will be ugly for a lifetime." ”

Reluctantly, Lamei put on her headscarf, feeling as if she was twenty years older. Lily looked at her face carefully, and found that there were many freckles, and her skin was not as delicate as that of a girl of this age, not much like that of a woman who has been exposed to the wind and sun all year round.

"Tomorrow I will go to the market to buy two straw hats, and in the future, as long as the sun is big, you will wear them when you go out. ”

Lily estimates that she is in a similar situation to Lamei, and she should pay attention to maintenance, otherwise a person who is not yet twenty years old will be white and white, with a thick black and purple face, what does it look like?

Hearing that there was a straw hat to wear, Lamei did not get happy. Girls at this age are always pretty, even if they don't have the money to buy flowers to wear, they will think of picking some wild flowers and decorating their hair with red head ropes and duck egg green head ropes.

Wearing a headscarf will hide these outfits that have taken a lot of thought, and the headscarf will look old, and going out will give people a joke. Lamei was already afraid to talk to people, and if she laughed at people twice, she would be more and more reluctant to go out.

The straw hat is better than the headscarf, but most people only wear it when they are harvesting rice and wheat in June.

Lily ignored Lamei's careful thoughts, and went back to the market to buy two straw hats and came back. At this time, the straw hat was flattened and braided into a straw rope, and then the straw rope was used to weave a straw hat.

When Lily went, she didn't ask for a straw hat to be braided, but she told the man to follow it, and finally added two more dollars.

The straw hat in her hand is lighter and more beautiful than the ordinary straw hat, and now Lamei is happy and wears it on her head to take pictures by the water. Lily remembered that she was scared by the shadow, and when she was about to stop her, she reacted again, Lamei would not be frightened by the shadow, she was used to her appearance.

She still thinks of her starving ghost-like face and still feels her heart tremble, and every day when she combs her hair, she feels the comb, and she doesn't dare to go to the water's edge to shine on her shadow.

It was already two days after the beans and courgettes were built, and it rained again this day, and the seedlings grew taller, and the corn seedlings had grown more than a handful, and they had to be seedlings.

When planting corn, three seeds in a nest, lest some seeds are not good and cannot sprout. Nowadays, in the corn field, there are two or three small seedlings growing in each nest, and they want to grab nutrients, and in the end, no one can grow well, and this season of corn is considered white.

At this time, it is necessary for people to choose, and leave the strongest one in the nest, and pull out the short and thin ones, so that they do not rob them of nutrients.

Lamei had never seen corn seeds before, and Lily heard from Aunt Sheng that many years ago the imperial court promoted corn in the northwest, but Nanzhili planted less here, and everyone didn't know how to plant.

Others don't understand, but Lily knows how to grow corn. Corn is not as good as rice and wheat, it is the easiest to survive, as long as the seedlings are properly interspersed and enough water is put in, it can grow very well.

Lamei Xin said that the eldest sister was also planting corn for the first time, but she said that she was the first to be the eldest sister. With Lily as her backbone, she was more courageous, and according to what Lily said, she followed her eldest sister to give all the corn seedlings in every field.

The most tiring thing to do is the waist, you have to squat on the ground, after a while, your back hurts, you have to stand up and stretch your waist and then squat down. Fortunately, the land was not large, and the two sisters could finish it in a day.

Crops don't wait for anyone, picking up the fields is a hurry, waiting until beans, courgette vines are climbing and winding on the shelves, and corn seedlings are neatly lined up in the ground, another torrential rain is coming, looking at a large pool of water on the kitchen floor, Lily remembers that the problem of the roof can not wait any longer. There are several ways for country people to repair houses. The most exquisite first-class is like the house of Master Liu, with two roads and five courtyards, blue brick walls, black tile roofs, three-layer stone thresholds in front of the door, black oil gates lined with powder walls, and the main house is five rooms with tall beams, two wings and verandahs

, the inverted seat is readily available, so that people will admire the wealth and generosity of this family,

The second-class ones, the sturdy wood beams and frames, or the long three-room, or the long-five-room tile house, the middle is separated by a plywood rammed loess wall, and the wings on both sides are also built with bricks, and there are also those with rammed earth walls, and a shadow wall at the door is also a very particular house.

Again, it is a tile house with a beam frame rammed earth wall, plus two or three adobe walls and thatched roof wing rooms, there is no shadow wall, and the gate is not exquisite, so you can see through it at a glance when you enter the door. The worst thing is that Song Haonian's family is like this, when the family is separated, there is no money, even if there are righteous brothers to help, they can only build three thatched huts with adobe walls, fence around a yard, and people with long legs can step over in one step, not to mention thieves, even trick-or-treating little dolls can't prevent it

。 The adobe is just digging some mud from the river, putting it into the mold and ramming it, knocking it out and drying it can be used to build a wall, it is very not strong, sometimes the rain is heavier, the adobe will be soaked and rotten, and people who are a little more particular about it will not use adobe to build a house where people live, at most build a pigsty and a cowsty

Damn. Song Haonian's family had a few thatched huts, and when they were building adobe, they mixed some wheat and straw straw into the soil, which were quite strong, and they were not damaged after a few rains. Naturally, there were no beams on top of the adobe wall, but a few wooden rafters were used to make a shape, covered with wooden planks, and then mud

Cover with straw, and finally thatch.

In the house, a layer of mud is mixed with grass on the adobe wall, and it is baked on the fire, so that the mud does not fall down.

The thatch must be repaired every once in a while, otherwise the thatch will rot, and the mud under it will melt when it rains, and the house will leak.

In the past, Lily repaired the faucet and changed the fuse, and many things could be done by herself, but she never repaired the roof. If it is a tiled house, there is a special bricklayer to repair it, and her thatched house can't hire anyone, so she has to do it herself.

Lily was really a little worried about what she wasn't sure about, and she walked around the room, trying to remember the structure of the rafters on the roof.

When Lamei saw that the eldest sister was going to go on her own, she whispered, "Eldest sister, call someone to help." ”

"Who are you calling?" Song Haonian's group of brothers were all outside, leaving one Wang Xiaofu to run from village to village, and it was rare to see people. Liu Sanping's father Liu is too old, and no one is at ease when he is asked to go to the room, what about Li Caifeng, don't look at her ability, she can't do this job.

After all the calculations, I really have to roll up my sleeves and go to the house.

The matter of repairing the roof is not something that can be done by remembering the location of the rafters, so Lily first put on the basket on his back and asked Li Caifeng to borrow straw. Her family didn't grow rice, not even straw, and she didn't know which brother gave her the straw mat on the bed.

Liu Yi's family planted rice, Li Caifeng was planting rice these days, Xiaofeng also came to help, and when she saw Lily coming to borrow straw, she hurriedly opened the door of the grass building to fetch it for her.

The grass building is an adobe house, with a thatched roof on top to make it into two layers, and the upper floor is filled with straw and wheat straw, and below is the cattle pen, raising a cow.

Lily left four eggs for Xiaofeng: "The straw is reserved for the cow to eat, if I get these, the cow will eat less, don't be polite to me." ”

As soon as Xiaofeng heard this, he accepted the eggs. Anyway, their family is planting seedlings, and they are cooking a lot, so they just turn around and call the lily to eat.

To go up the grass floor to have a ladder, Lily looked at it, felt that the ladder was a bit short, so he didn't open his mouth to borrow it, first carried a basket of straw home, and then took Lamei to Liu Sanping's house to borrow a ladder.

The carpenter has to erect beams for people, and all kinds of ladders are complete in the house. When Daddy Liu heard that she was going to repair the roof, he volunteered: "I'll repair it for you!" Lily hurriedly stopped, and finally asked Daddy Liu to pick a ladder that was a little lighter and high enough for her, and carried it home with Lamei.