041 How to sew clothes
At night, the town was raining heavily, with lightning and thunder, and the wind seemed to tear off the roofs.
The little town trembled like a child under the majesty of nature.
Another lightning bolt struck, illuminating the dark room for a moment, and the two sisters Xu Yue, who were shrunk in the futon, immediately covered their ears.
The next second, "Boom!" There was a loud thunderclap that seemed to blow up the whole room, and even if they covered their ears, the sisters' hearts were still beating violently.
This ancient thunderstorm seems to be wilder than the modern one, Xu Yue comforted herself that she was fine, but at the same time couldn't help but think in her heart: In ancient times, there was no lightning rod, what if this thunder slashed directly down on him?
"Are you alright?"
A burst of lightning and thunder passed, and the Wang family, who was laying on the ground, asked with concern on the bed.
Xu Yue and Xu Erniang shook their heads and said in unison that it was okay.
It's just such a loud thunder, a family of five was all awakened, five pairs of eyes stared at each other in the dim room, from time to time a lightning flashed, five pairs of eyes lit up at the same time, and the family was almost frightened by each other.
It's embarrassing.
“......”
"Ahem!" Xu Da coughed lightly twice, and the whole family looked over to him.
"You have a cold?" Wang asked with a frown.
Xu Da asked blankly: "What kind of cold?" ”
When Wang heard this, he let out an "oh" and said lightly: "It's nothing." ”
Xu Da suddenly felt that a cold was not a good word, but this was not the point, the point was that he had something to say!
coughed twice again to attract everyone's attention, and Xu Da said:
"Today I inquired with the steward of the noble family, the governor of Jizhou ordered all counties and counties in Jizhou to open the city to accommodate the refugees from the north, and to give the house and land and return the household registration, which sounds like a good place to go, what do you think?"
Wang asked distrustfully: "Are you sure that the steward didn't fool you?" ”
Xu Yue, who was lying on the bed, remembered what happened in Puyang and was also skeptical about this kind of good thing.
Looking at the suspicious faces of his cheap wife and children, Xu Da was suffocated for a moment.
Who did he ask so hard for?!
As if sensing the resentment in Xu Da's heart, Xu Erniang sympathized: "If what the steward said is true, then we will find the nearest county seat in Jizhou to settle down." ”
Xu Da finally felt a trace of warmth in his heart, "There is no need to lie to me in charge, the news should be true, but whether the counties and counties can strictly follow the orders of the above, I don't know." ”
Hearing this, the family fell silent, but no matter what, since they have a direction, they must try it.
An autumn rain and a cold.
When I got up in the morning, the moment I opened the door of the house, the cold wind hit, and Wang, who was only wearing a shabby single clothes, couldn't help but shiver fiercely.
Afraid of the children in the house, she hurriedly closed the door, turned around and went back to the room to get a piece of cloth and went out again, called the Tong family next door, and the two went to change the linen cloth and came back to make clothes.
It was cold, and he had to freeze and get sick when he wore tattered single clothes, so Wang decided to make two new clothes for adults and children to wear on top of each other.
One silk silk can be exchanged for four linen, Tong helped estimate the materials used by the Xu family of five, four horses of hemp are completely enough, if there is a surplus, maybe two pairs of shoes can be made.
Ordinary peasants did not dress as elaborately as the aristocracy, mainly for convenience.
The woman wears a mid-length shirt on the upper body, a long-necked shirt with narrow sleeves on the outside, and wide trousers on the bottom.
Those who are a little more particular wear curved deep clothes or Confucian skirts.
Men are also dressed similarly, in order to facilitate work, the cuffs will be made larger, the hem will be shorter, and the lower body will be worn with pants and a belt.
Therefore, walking on the street, people can basically tell what kind of person the other person is from the clothes.
Wang and Tong changed the cloth and bought needle and thread, at this time the needle and thread were also expensive, and Tong bought it after pinching the length to be used, for fear of spending an extra money.
She counted her own thread, thinking that Wang was familiar with it and didn't pay attention to it, until the two returned to the inn, and when Tong was about to ask Wang to thread the needle together, she found that Wang didn't buy needle and thread.
Without needlework and cloth, what can be used to make clothes?
Tong was taken aback at first, and then gently said that his needle could be lent to Wang.
Wang awkwardly refused, got up and prepared to buy the needle and thread again.
Unexpectedly, the rain that had just stopped began to fall again, blocking Wang's under the eaves.
"Let's use mine, I'll cut the cloth, sister-in-law of the Xu family, you sew first." Tong walked out, brought Wang into the house, and handed the fabric he had just cut to Wang for her to sew first.
Wang looked at the piece of cloth in his hand and was stunned for a long time, and under Tong's surprised gaze, he asked embarrassedly: "How should I sew clothes?" ”
Tong was dumbfounded, and couldn't organize the language to answer Wang's question for a long time, so he silently handed her his own needle and thread.
Perhaps the atmosphere was too awkward, Wang smiled and put down the fabric, picked up his four linen horses and went back to his room.
As soon as he entered, he saw the father and son carrying a thick plank in the house.
The wooden board was exchanged by Xu Yue for a piece of millet cake with the second brother of the inn, it was thick and big, and the sister and brother could write and draw on it to their heart's content, and let her copy it into the research room to light up the apple tree.
When the board is full, let Daddy use a wood knife to plan, and the board can be used again. The brushed shavings can also be used to light a fire, killing three birds with one stone.
The father and son were tacitly brushing Xu Yue's apple tree with knowledge points, and when Wang saw that they were so focused, he opened his mouth, didn't say anything, and sat down silently in front of the desk with a cloth on the side.
Soon, the father and son noticed her sluggish appearance.
The four of them looked at each other and thought in disbelief: Is this still my tiger and tiger aunt (lady) in front of me?
The four of them involuntarily stopped what they were doing.
Xu Da asked softly, "Xu Wang, what's wrong with you?" ”
Wang glanced at him, inexplicably angry, too lazy to take care of it.
Xu Yue remembered that A-Niang went with Aunt Tong early in the morning to change linen cloth and prepare to make clothes, shouldn't the two women be cutting cloth and making clothes at this moment?
Why did you come back with four pieces of cloth?
After thinking about it for a while, and looking at Wang's depressed appearance, Xu Yue suddenly understood.
"Doesn't A-Niang know how to make clothes?" She asked in a whisper.
Wang suddenly froze, and the four big words of Tong Yan Wuji floated through his mind, and then he resisted the urge to plug the little mouth of his little daughter.
When the father and son looked at it, they immediately understood.
Xu Da wanted to laugh a little, thinking to himself, aren't you very angry with your mother-in-law, you know astronomy and geography, so you are planted, right?
But he was afraid of being beaten to death by the Wang family, so he stepped forward with a strained face and patted her on the shoulder to comfort:
"You won't do it...... It's also normal, the original body won't do it, and in the past, the family spent money to find someone to help make clothes. ”
Wang glanced at Xu Da suspiciously, and suddenly thought that the general would not do it, but he could hand it over to his soldiers!