Song Haonian forcefully asked Lily to sit back and rest, and he squatted by the well platform to wash the quilt.

He had a lot of strength, and as soon as he rubbed it down, a piece of dirt on the quilt was rubbed off. Lily looked stunned: "You still do laundry?"

Song Haonian thought that he was biased towards his sister-in-law, and Lily was going to be angry with him, but he didn't expect her to take the initiative to talk, so he couldn't help but smile lightly: "I didn't know how to wash it before." But I've been separated from home for more than a year, cooking, laundry, sprinkling, sweeping, drying, all these things have to learn to do. If you do more, you will be. ”

In ancient times, it was important to pay attention to the fact that parents did not separate their families, and Lily remembered that when she was a child in the countryside, it was a big deal for people in the village to divide their families, and they tried not to separate their families if they could. If someone's family splits up, everyone will definitely say that it is not virtuous to take the daughter-in-law of the family, if it weren't for them, how could the brothers think about splitting up?

She thought about the reason for Song Haonian's separation, but she didn't ask. People say that it is taboo to have shallow and deep words, she and Song Haonian are nominal husband and wife, but the friendship is not as deep as that between her and the chickens in the yard, it is not good to ask such a question that is easy to cause taboos.

Lily was coming out, and suddenly heard Song Haonian say "ah" softly, and said, "It's broken!"

"What's wrong?"

Song Haonian didn't answer, and spread out his hand to show her, in the thick palm, the thin quilt had been washed by him.

Lily suddenly cried and laughed, and had to complain that the quilt cover was too old, obviously it was a home-woven homespun cloth, no matter how thick it was, it was still too thin after a long time of use, and it was good that she had little strength, and Song Haonian rubbed it so vigorously, and it was broken piece by piece like rice paper.

Seeing that Lily didn't blame him, Song Haonian smiled embarrassedly and continued to wash the quilt, but this time he didn't dare to use force, the tall man was light-handed, and Lily felt uncomfortable.

"You...... Go inside and take out the straw mat to dry. Lily whispered.

There was only one bed in their house, and the bed was covered with a thick straw mattress, a thin cotton mattress on the mat, and a broken quilt was all that. Lily took the quilt out and washed it by herself, but the straw mat was so big and thick that he couldn't drag it at all.

Song Haonian was like being amnestied, and quickly left the wooden basin and went to the house to carry the straw mat, and Lily took over the work of washing the quilt cover.

Straw is a good thing used by poor families to warm and keep out the cold in winter, that is, it is easy to absorb water and return to moisture, and it is cold when it is wet, it is best to dry it more, as long as it is kept dry, it will always be very warm.

Song Haonian rolled up the straw mat on the bed, clamped it under his arm with one hand, and easily went to the yard to spread out the sun.

After washing the quilt cover, Song Haonian called out it, and the two of them worked together to hang it on the fence, Song Haonian was afraid that the wind would blow it away, so he deliberately folded two soft wicker loops into a ring and fixed the quilt cover on the fence.

One turned over a straw mat so that the sun dried it evenly, and the other took a stick and patted the cotton wool to make it fluffy. For a while, the yard was filled with crackling sounds, and the dust in the cotton wool floated up, itching people's noses.

"Ahh

He seemed to think that this was not good, while rubbing his nose while peeking at the lily, but saw the lily smiling with a pursed mouth, although the face was yellow and thin, but the eyes were full of smiles, as if there was a morning sky light falling on it, he was stunned all of a sudden.

As soon as the bedding was dried to the extent that it was dry and warm, Song Haonian didn't let Lily do it, and moved back to the room by himself, the shop was neatly laid, and he was in a daze at the broken quilt cover, and went to the kitchen chest of drawers to find needlework and thread, and planned to sew by himself.

After more than a year of separation, Song Haonian learned a lot of things by himself, but the matter of sewing and mending clothes was covered by Liu Yi's sister-in-law, and he really didn't learn it.

The thin needles are pitifully small compared to the thick fingers. Song Haonian tried to thread the thread into the needlehole, but failed four or five times in a row, scratching his head at the needle and thread, and bowed his head to continue.

obviously has a daughter-in-law, but he didn't take these things for granted, but took care of her body...... Lily feels that Song Haonian has a conscience more than many modern men in this regard.

Lily went to the kitchen and searched the chest of drawers, and sure enough, she found a needlework basket. There was a pair of scissors, a needle plug, three or four needles of various sizes stuck in it, and two rolls of thread, one black and one white.

In addition, there are various colored rags, all of which are of different shapes, mostly monochrome, and a few with flowers. This kind of rag head is usually begged for when someone else is cutting clothes, or it is used to glue the upper of the shoe, or it is good to use it for patching.

Ordinary people are reluctant to give away the cloth head, which is still saved by Erniu as a helper at Master Liu's house, and she is too lazy to do the work herself, so she gives it all to her sister. The big girl is in charge of the house, she lacks everything, and she is very grateful to her sister for sending these things.

"Give it to me, I'll sew it. Lily carried the needlework basket to the middle room, and when she saw that Song Haonian was still struggling with needlework, she wanted to laugh a little.

Taking over the needle and thread from the stunned Song Haonian, Lily found that the length and thickness of the needle were medium, so she inserted it back into the needle insert, picked a small needle again, twisted the thread with her fingers and moistened it with the tip of her tongue, twisted it into a bunch, squinted her eyes and wore it, and easily threaded the thread into the needle's nose.

It took a lot of thread to sew the quilt cover, but Lily first measured more than two feet with her hands—when she was a teacher, she would sometimes use her hands to roughly measure the height of her students, and her hands were as wide as possible to the maximum, and the distance between the tips of her thumb and middle fingers was exactly nineteen centimeters.

The hole in the blue cloth cover was in the middle, and Lily took a pair of scissors to cut off all the floc around the hole, leaving only the relatively strong part, and then rummaged through the cloth head of the appropriate shape in the basket.

Many men are impatient to watch women work, and Song Haonian used to do the same, so he never knew how his mother sewed the quilt. Watching Lily work in an orderly manner, without hurrying or slowing down, he found it very interesting.

Song Haonian squatted next to him to help Lily pick up rags, picked out five or six pieces, and Lily pressed them on the hole to compare, and left them when he thought it was suitable.

Place the rag on the inward side of the cover, the outward side should be brighter, and use the seam stitch method to make up the edge of the rag and the edge of the hole.

Turn to the outward side, the stitches are fine, there is no exposed raw edge, and finally tie a knot and cut a short line on the inward side, even if it is completed.

Lily was deeply glad that she had done a lot of patching and sewing sandbags in the past, and if she hadn't done it like her female classmates in the city, she would be dumbfounded in the face of such a situation.

There are two pieces of quilt cover, the larger one is spread out on the bed first, the uneven thickness of the cotton wool is placed on it, the blue cloth cover of the same size as the cotton wool is covered, and finally the extra part of the bottom four corners is folded up, it looks like a gray and blue edge on the blue cloth, and the shape position is fixed.

Then Lily changed the largest needle, pulled a thread that was more than a foot long, sewed the quilt from one corner, sewed the upper and lower layers of quilt cover and the cotton wool in the middle, and at the same time paid attention to the edge of the cloth to make it look neat and beautiful.