"Really? You are so assertive, let's sleep in the soldier's patriotic house tonight. Huang Chunxiang smiled and dropped a sentence, rolled two rolls of cloth into the room and threw the door open.

Although the cloth was really bought, Huang Chunxiang was still angry that Sande did not consult her in advance.

Gu Sande was confused in the hall, and jumped to his feet, "That house is not covered, how can I sleep?" ”

Just now when he said that when he bought cloth, Gu Sande was afraid that Huang Chunxiang would blame him, but Huang Chunxiang didn't.

Suddenly he turned his face again.

Gu Sande scratched his head, "This woman's heart is really a needle ...... the seabed."

*

"It's so pretty!"

When he got up early in the morning, Wei Lan called Youlan into the room and put on the sweater he had knitted last night.

There is no mirror in the room, and You Lan can't see the whole picture of herself wearing a sweater, but when she looks down, she can see a few small white flowers on her chest, and her eyes are bent into a small crescent, "Thank you, Sister Lan!" ”

Youlan hooked her head, looked at those little flowers happily, raised her little hand and wanted to touch it, but she was afraid of getting dirty, and retracted halfway.

You Lan couldn't care about wearing the padded jacket, so she jumped out of the room and ran to the kitchen to find Grandma Gu, "Grandma, look, look, Sister Lan knitted it for me!" ”

"It's a beautiful color...... You girl, your sister Lan weaves such beautiful and warm clothes for you, if you dare to play with the mud again, see if I don't whip you! ”

"No, no! Grandma, I'll never play with mud again! ”

Youlan patted her chest and reassured, thinking that she hadn't washed her hands just now when she was carrying firewood, and she was afraid that the ash would stain her sweater, so she hurriedly looked down.

The red and glamorous, plush clothes showed the same feelings as before, and Youlan couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth, slapped a basin of water with a gourd scoop, and took the initiative to wash her hands for the first time.

Xiao Fang also showed off the pony coat that her mother made for her a few days ago, army green, although it is new, but Xiao Fang follows her father and mother to work in the field every day, and people are tanned, and when they wear green, they are even darker.

Rao is like this, Youlan is still very envious.

But now she doesn't have to envy others, she has new clothes too!

There's little tweed on it! The entire brigade couldn't find a second one.

Youlan's little hand swings around in the basin like a fish, and the curvature of the small lip flap can't wait to hook behind the root of the ear.

Grandma Gu was afraid that her tail would rise to the sky, and she wanted to reprimand a few words, but when she saw Wei Lan walking into the kitchen with a padded jacket in one hand and a comb in the other, she turned her mouth and said, "It's not that she has no clothes to wear, what are you knitting for her?" How could my eyes stand staying up so late last night? ”

"Life at home is still passable, if you buy it, it's expensive, and if you have your own wire, you can weave it yourself." Wei Lan wiped off Youlan's little hand and asked her to put on the padded jacket.

took two small maza, Youlan sat in front of him, Wei Lan sat in the back, pinching Youlan's thin and soft hair in his hand, strands by strands, slowly combed out.

Wei Lan pursed the corners of her lips and smiled playfully: "If Grandma feels sorry for me, why don't you let Brother Chao buy two more rounds of meat?" ”

"You guys, you shout for meat every day, why is there no one missing you?" Grandma Gu shook her head amusedly and didn't speak.

There is still a surplus of red wool to knit the sweater, and it is estimated that you can still knit a shorter vest.

Wei Lan just used scissors to cut down a few sections, three as a strand, one of which was knotted, and then it became a strand according to the way of braiding, and then a knot at the end, so that a simple head rope was braided.

Wei Lan braided two, tied two small braids for Youlan, wrapped a red head rope at the end, wiped his little face, and smeared some clam oil on Youlan, which was clean and fragrant, and Grandma Gu didn't dare to recognize it.

"I don't know if I don't clean it up, at first glance, Lan Yatou looks like a villain on the New Year's painting, handsome!"

Youlan blushed shyly.

The little girl looks not bad, her eyebrows and eyes are like Gu Chao, but they are a little softer.

In the previous summer, I helped to work, plus I played everywhere, Youlan was like a little loach, and after winter, I covered it white, and the food at home was good, and Youlan's little face was ruddy, and her hair didn't want to be as yellow as before.

Wei Lan gently scraped the tip of her nose, and instantly stuffed the clam oil in her hand to Youlan, "In the future, I will wipe a little bit after washing my face every day, my little face is not easy to come back, the wind is hard outside, don't blow it anymore." ”

Clam oil is the cheapest five cents, the most expensive piece of five, the price is not very high, but it is really easy to use.

Wei Lan has brought a lot of them from Beijing, and there are still several boxes from the time he first came.

You Lan obediently clutched the clam oil and nodded seriously, "Sister Lan, I must be obedient!" ”

Wei Lan has always been accustomed to Youlan, Grandma Gu said many times, Wei Lan listened on the surface, what should be done in private, many times, Grandma Gu simply turned a blind eye and let them go.

Gu Chao held two industrial vouchers in his hand, his heart couldn't settle down for a moment, and after breakfast, he carried his bag to go to the county to have a look.

Wei Lan stopped the person in time, went back to the house and took the scarf he often brought for him to wear, "You have a padded jacket at the bottom of the collar and a collar with wind, it will be better to wear it." ”

The scarf was very soft, and there was still the unique fragrance on Wei Lan's body, which was very light, but Gu Chao could smell it clearly.

Let Wei Lan tiptoe up and down to help him bring the scarf, Gu Chao didn't mention the question of whether the red scarf was suitable for him to carry, "If there is something, go to Brother Yang, if you really can't solve it, go to the captain, I'll be back soon." ”

"I see." Wei Lan nodded lightly and advised: "The county department store doesn't necessarily have these two things, if you don't come back, there is no shortage of anything else at home, don't buy everything in a mess." ”

Seeing Gu Chao away, Wei Lan turned around to look at the cashmere thread that had been soaked in Sumu water overnight.

After soaking it yesterday, Wei Lan brought the pot into the house, found an empty crockpot and put it at the door of the room, the bottom of the pot was stuck in the mouth of the jar, and it was just put down.

Grandma Gu had already taken two clean wooden basins, made water and waited in the backyard, and Wei Lan went back to the room to serve it.

After a night of soaking and precipitation, the liquid in the pot became darker, red and black, like thick blood.

Wei Lan couldn't think of what color it would dye, until Grandma Gu reached out and fished out the cashmere thread from the pot, and the cashmere thread had turned dark red.

When Grandma Gu wrung the excess liquid back into the pot, the cashmere thread that had been detached from most of the moisture was much lighter in color.

"Add alum to this water, rub it in the water for a while, and then change it to this basin of water to clean it up and dry it."

Afraid that Wei Lan didn't understand, Grandma Gu would stop and explain every step she took.

After overnight soaking, the cashmere thread must also be fixed by alum water, and it must be constantly kneaded when fixing the color, during which a part of the pigment will fall off and the water will be dyed red.

After this process, the color on the cashmere thread has basically been finalized.

After that, it is then rubbed in plain water to wash off the excess alum residue.

The cashmere thread at the bottom of the basin is cherry pink, which is the color of a very pink woman.

The sumac wood dye in the basin is so deep, but the final dye is so pink and tender!

Wei Lan's eyes widened, completely unexpected.

"It's not that the professional can't grasp this degree, in the old days, those craftsmen who dyed cloth put as much water as they wanted, and the dyes that boiled out could dye pink, red, and everything."

Grandma Gu recalled, smiling kindly, "I used to listen to some when I was young, but now that I'm older, I can't remember." ”

"That grandma is also the most powerful, look at this cashmere thread, how beautiful it is dyed!" Wei Lan smiled and wrung out the moisture on the cashmere thread and hung it on the clothesline in the backyard.

"Grandma, can you still use the dye liquid written in the pot?"

It would be a shame if you could only send it once.

Grandma Gu nodded, "It can be used, but the amount is not much, don't put too many things in it, otherwise it will be unevenly dyed back." ”

Wei Lan took note of it carefully, and then Grandma Gu handed over the previously chopped Su Mu and alum to Wei Lan together, "Put more alum and put less, just like cooking with salt, you can cook, you should be able to grasp this degree." ”

Wei Lan nodded lightly, and brought the pot of dyeing liquid back to the door of the room and put it aside.

The backyard is surrounded by trees and bamboo forests, and the wind can't blow in, and on the flat land near the well, there is just a circle of bright sunlight hitting there, so it is best to bask in the sun.

Wei Lan came out of the room, and Grandma Gu was still basking in the sun in the backyard.

After pondering for a moment, Wei Lan trotted to Grandma Gu's side, "Grandma, can you teach me how to cut clothes?" ”

(End of chapter)