Song Haonian folded a few folds of the hemp rope on the reel in his left hand, threw it down with the mouth of the wooden barrel in his right hand, and at the same time quickly put the rope down with his left hand, only to hear a plop, and the bucket had fallen into the water.

He didn't even have to turn around, he kept staggering and pulling up with the hemp rope in both hands, and he pulled up a bucket full of water.

He poured some water and rinsed the shabu basin, washed off the ashes on it, poured half a basin of water into the basin, and said, "The water is cold, and you can wash it after a while." With that, he carried the remaining half bucket of water into the kitchen and poured it into the tank.

The water tank is a large clay pot half a person high, and the water is stored in it once a day, so as to avoid the trouble of having to hit the water every time.

These days, several half-sized chickens have been killed, and the tail feathers and wing feathers of the rooster are long and bright, and Song Haonian has saved a lot of chicken feathers and put them in a big basket to dry.

They have a lot of bamboo fences and baskets at home, which are sent by Lily's father Li Mingjiang one after another, although they are not valuable, they also save their daughters and sons-in-law from buying these small things one by one, making life a lot more convenient.

In the kitchen, there is a dilapidated chest of drawers, the lower floor has a large space, which is usually used to store rice and noodles, because it is their cabinet, most of the time is empty, and the upper level has several drawers that can be pushed and pulled, and some useful needles and threads.

In this house, there is no lock in the bedroom, and even the door on the west side is not tightly closed, but the kitchen has a lock.

Song Haonian found a handful of twine from the chest of drawers, cut it off, and went to the west side to find a bamboo pole with the thickness of a little thumb, and sat in the sun with a basket full of chicken feathers.

The small bench where Lily was sitting was still given by Brother Liu Yi when they got married, a total of two, one of them sat on the other, and they didn't speak, each doing their own thing.

The bamboo poles grow neatly and do not require much renovation. Song Haonian picked up a few chicken feathers and sorted them out, pasted the roots together and put them on the bamboo pole, and the hemp rope went around and wrapped it tightly, and Lily understood that he was going to make a feather duster.

The sun was warm and the sun was warm, and Lily saw him wrapping hemp rope while pulling chicken feathers, and soon understood the trick: first wrap a layer of short and fine white feathers on the bamboo pole, and then wrap the bright tail feathers outside, and tidy up the fluffy and beautiful.

She gently moved over and helped Song Haonian pick chicken feathers, so that he didn't have to pick them himself, just quickly wrap them around the bamboo pole.

He didn't say anything while he was working, and as soon as the feather duster was ready, he smiled at Lily. The countryman couldn't say "thank you", he just felt that Lily's work made him feel comfortable.

People's hearts are full of flesh, how can there be anything that can't be hot?

The remaining chicken feathers are just three shuttlecocks, the best shuttlecock, each hair is carefully selected, and the hair root has to be inserted in the copper coin hole. Their family didn't have the money to spend like this, so they used two small pebbles to deal with it.

"There is a set tomorrow, I will go to the market and sell these, and I can make a few bucks. Song Hao picked up the feather duster and two shuttlecocks, and put the remaining one in Lily's hand, "You take this and play with it." ”

Lily was stunned, this person had already gone to clean up the house, and he didn't see the complicated expression on Lily's face that was mixed with emotion and crying and laughing.

She held a shuttlecock in her hand, two stones, a piece of cloth, and a few chicken feathers, which added up to a very light weight, but there were some things that could not be seen, very heavy and heavy......

The water in the wooden basin was still cold, but it was not as cold as the one I came into contact with when I washed my hands a few days ago, and it was faintly warm. Song Haonian gave it a try and said to Lily, "You can wash it." "Go into the house and hang up the feather duster yourself, so that it will not be gnawed by the rats.

The basin was placed on the ground, and the lily squatted down, and saw that the blue sky was reflected in the basin, and a few white clouds were high and far away. An eerie grimace suddenly appeared in the basin, and she let out a scream and sat back.

Song Haonian rushed out: "What's wrong?"

Lily was so frightened that her heart was pounding, and when she heard him ask, she quickly reacted that what she had just seen was not a grimace at all, it was herself.

"No, it's okay...... I just didn't stand still and tilted a little. ”

"Then be careful. ”

Lily swallowed and comforted herself: "A drowning person, if you are still alive, you will earn it, whether this body you picked up is ugly or alive, it's better than being a lonely ghost." ”

Then she cautiously examined herself through the basin.

The eldest girl of the Li family only heard her sister Erniu say that there is a kind of mirror in the house of the big family in the town, Master Liu, who can reflect the shadow of a person. But she has never seen it, and she doesn't know much about her appearance, just looking at her mother's attitude, she intuitively thinks it's not very good-looking.

was seriously ill, and she went straight from not being good-looking to being unkempt.

The figure of the clear water was a figure with withered yellow hair, piled up in a mess on his head, like weeds, his face was sallow and black, not to mention, his eyes and cheeks were sunken, not like a living person, but more like a starving ghost.

Lily couldn't help but sympathize with Song Haonian, five taels of silver is a huge amount of money, and marrying such an ugly and unscrupulous daughter-in-law is really a blood mold.

But now that she is this ugly daughter-in-law, Lily had to sigh, and washed her face with the water in the basin with her hand, until the sludge from the basin of water turned yellow, and she felt a little refreshed.

Poor families naturally have no pancreas and flower dew to use, and the freshly washed face is blown by the breeze, and it quickly dries and peels, as if there is a knife scraping on the face. Lily smiled bitterly, she understood why women from poor families don't like to wash their faces in winter, it's cold!

But let her choose, she would rather endure the pain on her face than wash herself. People are not afraid of poverty, what they are afraid of is that they accept their fate and are willing to roll in the mud for the rest of their lives, then they are really hopeless.

In winter, there was no activity in the poor family, and Lily didn't know whether the big families in the town had entertainment, so she sat in the yard and basked in the sun, slowly thinking about her current situation and what would happen in the future.

It wasn't until the sun was setting in the west that it was no longer hot on people, and Song Haonian made dinner and called her to eat, so she returned to the room with two small benches and shared the few meat, chicken soup and yellow rice with Song Haonian.

Before going to bed that night, she said to herself, sitting and eating the mountain is empty, Song Haonian's family has been hollowed out by her mother, and she must find a way to earn food for herself.

Song Haonian next to him was hot, exuding the amazing vitality of a young man.

This man ...... Isn't it bad in the end? Lily thought to herself, to be a daughter-in-law, you still have to be a daughter-in-law.

She has no ambitions, she never expects to marry the prince and the prince after the crossing, even if she reconciles with Song Haonian, she can't support herself, not to mention, even if she remarries, she may not be able to meet such a simple person again.

He's a good person, and she's going to learn to do something that's good for both of them, and make a living in this terrible situation.

She has hundreds of years of knowledge, and if she was still starved to death in this era, she would have studied for so many years in vain.