Xu Kongshan handed over the deposit to Chen Wan for safekeeping. Except for the tiles and lime that need to be bought, the mud, river sand, stones and wood used to build the house are all self-collected. Most of the money for building the house is spent on labor. .

The next day, Chen Wan went to the market with Zhou Mei, and Xu Kongshan and Chen Qianjin took the villagers to quarry and log on the mountain.

There were more people in this fair, and Chen Wan was almost too crowded to walk in the supply and marketing cooperative.Zhou Mei had the foresight to not take Chen Yongyang's three siblings with her. In the past two years, someone was photographed and abducted their children because of their negligence.

Their biggest task today is to pull cloth for clothes. According to Zhou Mei, if they don't buy it now, they won't be able to buy it until the Chinese New Year.

Zhou Mei brought enough money and cloth tickets, and stood at the counter of pulling cloth with the attitude of a man in charge, and Wang Cui was stunned by the number she spit out.

"Why did you buy so much?" Compared to what Zhou Mei bought, Wang Cui's was a fraction.

In fact, what Zhou Mei bought was not too much, and it was about half the length of each person's body. The main reason was that Xu Kongshan was tall and strong, and the clothes and trousers of a person added up to about ten feet of cloth.

After talking about Bu Zhoumei, she was free to visit the market. Zhang Cheng and the others came to eat on Tuesday. She planned to see if there was any seaweed for stewing pig's trotters.

"Sister-in-law, go shopping." Chen Wan walked weakly, "I'll wait for you at the street corner."

"Okay, take a break, we'll come as soon as we finish shopping." Zhou Mei put down the pannier filled with cloth and asked Chen Wan to watch over it.

It was already noon when they arrived home after the fair, and Xu Kongshan and the others probably had to call it a day, so Zhou Mei hurriedly changed her clothes and went to make lunch.

After picking stones all morning, Xu Kongshan and Chen Qianjin were both disheveled, with broken stones in their hair.

Xu Kongshan piled the rocks he picked down the mountain on the house site. He didn't want to bother Zhou Mei too much, so he gave a few extra wages a day to the other helpers, but no food was included.

"I think the mountain is a good material for building a house!" Chen Qianjin praised Xu Kongshan fiercely. He had never seen a rock hit so fast, and that hammering down was equal to his strength of four or five hammers.

Xu Kongshan scratched his head with a smile and planed a few broken stones.

The two stood under the eaves and patted the ashes on their bodies so as not to affect their meal later.

Zhou Mei cooked a big pot of rice. Breaking stones was hard work, and it was exhausted quickly. If you didn't eat enough, you couldn't keep up with your physical strength.

In the afternoon Xu Kongshan continued to go up the mountain to quarry. No matter how powerful he is, he is not made of iron. Chen Wan saw the tiredness on his face.

"Brother Shan, don't work too hard." Before going to bed, Chen Wan advised Xu Kongshan to take it easy, what if he was exhausted.

"Liu'er, I'm not tired." Xu Kongshan grabbed his hand and fell asleep without saying a few words.

Not to mention tired!Chen Wan slept in it, and pulled down the light cord past him.

On Monday, Chen Qianjin and Zhou Mei went to the county town to buy a sewing machine.The entry of a large object into the village attracted the attention of many people. They followed Zhou Mei and rushed into the house, wanting to have a look.

"This sewing machine is really beautiful. How much did you spend, Damei?" Liu Qiang's mother touched it fondly. She dreamed of owning a sewing machine of her own.

"One hundred and four plus a sewing ticket." Zhou Mei graciously let them do it, but her expression was nervous. Even though everyone knew how to measure it, she was still afraid that they would accidentally break it.

Adults can still touch it, but children who are not light or heavy can only watch it from a distance and not play with it.

One hundred and fourteen!Good guy, Zhou Mei is really willing.

Liu Qiang's mother was dissuaded by the price, and she withdrew her hand resentfully.

"Zhou Mei, step on it a few times and show us." The sewing machine was set up on a small table with pedals attached to it. Someone brought a stool and pushed Zhou Mei to sit down.

Zhou Mei had never used a sewing machine before, so she learned a little from someone in the morning.In order to satisfy everyone's curiosity, she threaded the thread according to the steps she had learned, then took a rag and put it under the needle, and pushed the rag while stepping on the pedal.

Her movements were very rusty, and the lines she stepped on were crooked, but this did not prevent the crowd of onlookers from admiring.

It took several minutes for them to sew the length of this piece of cloth by hand, and the stitches were not so dense, Zhou Mei stepped on it twice and it came out.

The women are so envious, it would be great if they could have a sewing machine.

"Sister-in-law, is there an instruction manual for this sewing machine?" After the crowd dispersed, Chen Wan came out to take a closer look at this old-fashioned sewing machine that he had only seen in pictures before.

The general structure is the same as the modified version of the sewing machine he used, but the body is more bulky.

"Yes, it's quite a thick book. I haven't read it yet." Zhou Mei flipped through the manual given by the salesperson, Chen Wan, and was overjoyed.

This is not so much an instruction manual as it is a sewing teaching guide, and there are detailed illustrations on how to make clothes.

He doesn't have to rack his brains to make excuses about how he knows how to make clothes!

Chen Wan acted as if he had found a treasure, and he acted as if he was very interested in the instruction manual: "May I read this book first, sister-in-law?"

"If there's anything wrong with it, just read it and tell me after reading it." Zhou Mei didn't have a high degree of education, so she felt that she might not be able to understand it.

The sewing machine was left in the main room, Zhou Mei and the others' bedrooms were not well lit, and the main room was spacious, so a sewing machine wouldn't hinder anything.

It didn't take much time for Chen Wan to get familiar with the use of the sewing machine. The cloth he bought was uncut, so he first used rags to sew a pencil case for each of Chen Yongyang and his brother. Of course, their favorite panda head was indispensable on it.

Chen Yongyang's is black, and Chen Xing's is gray, both of which are more resistant to dirt.

There was no zipper, so Chen Wan nailed two concealed buttons on the seal side of the pencil case.

"Thank you, little uncle!" The three children really liked it, and immediately put all the pens in it.

Chen Wan was itchy and couldn't find anything else to do for the time being, so he picked up his notebook and started drawing design drawings.

Xu Kongshan's part was removed from the fabric Zhou Mei bought, and the rest was enough in his plan to make a new dress for everyone.

When buying a sewing machine, Zhou Mei bought a measuring tape along the way. In the past, when making clothes at home, she would ask a tailor to come and measure them, and wait ten and a half months to pick them up.Now that I have a sewing machine at home, I can save a lot of trouble.

Zhou Mei didn't think about the possibility that she couldn't make clothes, maybe she could learn.

At night, after Xu Kongshan took a shower, Chen Wan stood in front of him with a tape measure: "Brother Shan, take off your clothes."

Xu Kongshan suddenly remembered the night when he had a nosebleed, his face was as red as a sunburned monkey's butt.

Chen Wan couldn't help laughing at his shy appearance, and somehow felt like a bully forcing his little daughter-in-law.

"Take it off, maybe I can still eat you." Chen Wan stretched out his hand towards Xu Kongshan, and the man took a step back: "Liu'er, I'll take it off, I'll take it off myself."

Xu Kongshan unbuttoned his padded jacket, but his hands did not tremble as he did when he took off Chen Wan's clothes.

"Stand still and don't move." Chen Wan passed the measuring tape around Xu Kongshan's neck. The dark colored measuring tape was under the Adam's apple. Chen Wan swallowed shamefully as her throat moved, "Raise your arm."

Xu Kongshan opened his arms obediently, and Chen Wan moved close to him to reach the other end of the measuring tape. The distance between the two was infinitely close to zero.

"Brother Shan, your heart is beating so fast." Chen Wan poked Xu Kongshan's chest, and the measuring tape tightened on Xu Kongshan's chest. I don't know which sensitive place touched him, and the man's muscles instantly bulged.

The bust goes down to the waist. I wonder if Xu Kongshan's waist is also sensitive?

Under Chen Wan's fingers were Xu Kongshan's firm muscles, and he could even touch the contours of his abdominal muscles through his clothes.

"Liuer." Xu Kongshan gasped heavily, and pressed Chen Wan's hand, begging for mercy in his eyes, if he continued like this, he would explode.

Okay, the timing is wrong, Chen Wan measured his waist and let this poor man go.

Chen Wan recorded the neck circumference, shoulder width, arm length, arm thickness, wrist size, bust, and waist circumference in the notebook. As for the hip circumference and trouser length used for making pants, I will save them for next time.

The rice should be eaten bite by bite to be delicious.

Chen Wan glanced at Xu Kongshan's waist, and bit her lip lightly.

After Xu Kongshan's padded jacket is made, it will be easier for him to convince Zhou Mei and the others.

On Tuesday, the Chen family slaughtered pigs.

The thinner Chen Qianjin rushed to hand in the work yesterday afternoon, and exchanged some piggy tickets.

This hairy pig ticket does not refer to the pig zodiac stamp sent by the post office, but the hairy pig ticket used to kill pigs.

According to today's regulations, if there is no piggy ticket, then half of the slaughtered pigs must be handed over and the other half will be kept, and the weighing on the spot cannot be faked.It's not like the Chen family has two heads, and they can decide which one to hand over.

There are also those who have raised pigs and are reluctant to hand them in. In order not to be discovered, they will cover the pig's mouth when killing the pigs, so that the movement is small, and everyone calls it killing a masked pig, but there is a certain risk.

Once reported, maybe the whole pig will be confiscated by you.Naturally, the Chen family would not do such a thing that violated the current policy.

After breakfast, Zhou Mei boiled a large pot of boiling water, and the fat pig on the pen was dragged to the pig slaughtering bench by the butcher, Xu Kongshan and others, and the ear-piercing howling pierced the sky.

The pig butcher stabbed the fat pig's throat with a knife, the white knife went in and the red knife came out, and the steaming blood rushed into the big basin prepared in advance. After the blood coagulated, it became the pig that many people love to eat. Exuberant blood.

As the blood ran out, the fat pig gradually stopped struggling.

The next step is to scald with boiling water, the dirty pig hair will fall off, and the fat pig will return to the whiteness when it was just born.

About [-] catties of fat pigs were hung upside down on the stairs, and the butcher went down with a knife, and the belly was ripped open, revealing the palm-thick fat.

"You pigs are well raised!" the pig butcher boasted. It's better to be fatter, and there is oil and water in the fatter.

The wild boar brought back by Xu Kongshan last time had its belly ripped open and its internal organs thrown away on the mountain. Chen Wan was caught off guard and frowned when he saw the scene inside the fat pig's belly.

Chen Wan silently recited braised pork, steamed pork ribs with flour, braised pork with preserved vegetables, and pot-packed pork. He thought about all the dishes related to pork that he could think of, and finally erased the shadow of the scene just now.

The villagers who got the news heard that the pigs were arriving one after another, and saw the fat pigs in front of them drooling involuntarily from their mouths, and some children pulled their parents' clothes and shouted for meat.

"Eat, eat, eat, isn't this here to buy you meat?" The parent took out the money, "Zhou Mei, why are you selling this pork?"

Zhou Mei doesn't charge too much, just pay according to the price in the pork shop, and give some meat as a gift. The folks in the village don't have to suffer or not.

When the pork was half sold, Zhang Cheng and Zhao Hui came with their things.

Chen Wan didn't inform them the second time, so they didn't know that the Chen family slaughtered pigs today. When they came in, they thought something happened to so many people. Seeing the big white pig on the chopping board, Zhang Cheng said with a smile: " Huizi, we have a lucky day today!"

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