These years of being the queen mother!

After the two brothers and sisters ate their belly full, they nested in the thick straw piles in the corresponding corners and slept peacefully until dawn.

After getting up, the siblings first lit a bonfire, boiled a bamboo tube of stream water into hot water, washed with coarse cloth and peeled wicker, and then started breakfast in a leisurely manner.

The breakfast of the siblings was the same as before, except that a small handful of miscellaneous grains were thrown into a pot of wild vegetable soup.After a quick breakfast, the siblings left the ruined temple to start a new round of picking mountain treasures.

Yang Lingyue is still planning to sell the mountain treasures picked this time. The copper coins sold are not used to buy grain, but are kept. When there are enough, they are used to buy grain and vegetable seeds that can be used for planting.

In this way, another month passed.After buying the arable grain seeds and vegetable seeds, Yang Lingyue took the time to go to the small village at the foot of the mountain, borrowed a hoe and an ax from the village official, and exchanged some treasures for a kitchen knife. After returning to the ruined temple, he led Yang Mingda to open up wasteland and grow vegetables in the courtyard of the ruined temple.

The grain seeds that the siblings bought were not far from the ruined temple, on a relatively flat terrain. It was close to the creek, so it was convenient to come and go, so they planted all of them here.

Of course, since girls are not very strong, Yang Mingda, who is three years younger, did all the physical work required for land reclamation and planting. As for Yang Lingyue, he made a rough but practical weaving cloth out of the bushes that Yang Mingda chopped down with an axe. machine.

The reason why Yang Lingyue can make this thing is entirely because her grandmother’s house in the country also has an ancient loom with a wooden frame structure. After explaining how to use this thing, and after getting in touch with the computer, I searched for detailed information on ancient looms, so Yang Lingyue was able to make a decent loom this time.

After Yang Lingyue finished making the loom, he twisted the dried nettle bark into lines the same size as fine wool, and then carefully spread these lines on the wooden loom, except that it was not smooth when weaving, and the weaving was not smooth. It was a mess, but it was woven decently in the back, and after a few days of busy work, I could weave a few feet of nettle cloth.

It's just that although Yang Lingyue has woven cloth, she doesn't know how to make clothes. She has no choice but to pick up half a basket of mountain treasures.

"You are linen cloth!" The aunt looked carefully at the grass-colored nettle cloth in her hand, and said in admiration: "Your sister's hands are skillful, this cloth is well woven, and it is not too rough to the touch, but it can be used to make clothes."

"Ma'am, I think so too. It's just that my mother didn't teach me how to make clothes long ago. Even though I can weave cloth now, I still have the will but no power."

Yang Lingyue smiled sweetly and said, "I know auntie is a kind-hearted person. If auntie doesn't find it troublesome, she can simply teach Yue'er how to cut and sew clothes."

"Oh, your sister's mouth is really sweet. Well, my aunt will teach you how to cut and sew clothes."

The aunt smiled and planned to lead the siblings in, but before the siblings had time to enter, they saw the eldest daughter-in-law of the main family in the village and said with disdain.

"Mom, take home whatever smells good and smelly, don't mention the dirty ground, and don't lose things when the time comes."

As soon as this remark came out, the aunt immediately changed her face, and scolded her daughter-in-law who couldn't read people's faces. "What are you talking nonsense here? Don't force me, a mother-in-law, to drive you back to your mother's house for things you can't see."

The daughter-in-law married by the eldest of the family, the aunt was unwilling at first.Aside from being lazy, he has shallow eyelids and can't speak. It can be said that apart from that pretty face, he has no advantages at all.But who made her family and my family have been married since childhood? Although she looked down on this eldest daughter-in-law, in order to avoid being said to be dishonest and unrighteous, she was afraid that it would affect the status of her old man in the village, so the aunt had to grit her teeth. admitted.And the elders have lowered their eyebrows and been submissive for a while since they entered the door. They never thought about it, but today they accidentally couldn't pretend and showed their true colors.

In fact, this can’t be blamed on the elders of the village. After all, the image of Yang Lingyue’s sister and brother, although the clothes they wear are washed clean with saponin pulp, they are tattered, with big holes and small holes, and the color is pale. Don't blame the poor-sighted daughter-in-law of the village for showing contempt when she sees them, thinking that they are beggars who take advantage of the aunt's sympathy and plan to come to the house to fight the autumn wind.

Yang Lingyue was full of anger, and wanted to curse a few words, but they were in such a situation now, no wonder others looked down upon them, so Yang Lingyue had no choice but to hold back her anger, and first comforted Yang Mingda, who was also so angry that his eyes were red, and smiled timidly at the aunt, He pretended to be embarrassed and said:

"Ma'am, brother Ming and I won't go into the house, just study under this roof."

The aunt nodded dispensably, and said 'wait, girl', and went into the main house where she and the village lived, took out a basket with needles and thread, and sat down on the steps under the eaves, patiently and Carefully teach Yang Lingyue how to cut fabrics and sew clothes.

Yang Mingda is a boy, and he is very impatient to listen to these daughters and buddies who are twisting with needles.But he still followed Yang Lingyue, picked up a thin wooden stick in every possible way, and poked an ant hole there to play...

Yang Lingyue was originally a smart guy, and her actual age was not ten years old as she is now, and the auntie taught her carefully and patiently, Yang Lingyue studied for a whole morning, but she still decently cut out fabrics suitable for Yang Mingda's figure. When I got home, I just patiently sewed the various parts together. You must know that the house where Yang Lingyue lives in a ruined temple has nothing. Cotton thread, a few embroidery needles, and a pair of half-worn but still sharp scissors.

"Thank you, aunt." Yang Lingyue thanked aunt with a smile on her face and said, "I'll ask brother Ming to send aunt some sun-dried mountain goods tomorrow. Don't say no, aunt, you have been kind to us siblings. Both of them remember it in their hearts. Sending some worthless mountain goods is just a way of expressing our affection."

"You girl can talk." The aunt who was flattered by the good words liked Yang Lingyue's knowledge and interest even more.At this time, the light-hearted aunt is also qualified to be her daughter-in-law.However, since Yang Lingyue is an orphan with no parents, and has a younger brother who is a drag on her, this idea is just passed through the mind of the aunt and then left behind, just smiling and watching her siblings like a Maitreya Buddha The two carried their own things and walked up the mountain hand in hand.

Spring went to autumn, and after the news spread that the Jurchen soldiers had conquered Fushun, prices in the towns near the capital soared again.A liter of rice, which could have been bought for a few copper coins, has now become fifty copper coins per liter. Even the wheat bran and bean dregs that are usually used as livestock rations have become the same price as miscellaneous grains.

"Fortunately, my sister is smart enough to buy grain early and grow it myself, otherwise we would have to go to the street to beg in the cold winter months."

Yang Lingyue stood at the entrance of the dilapidated temple, and while cleaning up the overturned dried vegetables and pickles, she thankfully said to Yang Mingda who was chopping firewood with an axe: "Sister Ming'er will go to Gengjia Village to exchange wild products for chicken, duck and goose feathers. In addition to down jackets, our siblings have been covered with down quilts this year."

Gengjia Village is a small village at the foot of the mountain, so it got its name because most of the villagers were surnamed Geng.After harvesting most of the wild nettles growing on the mountain, Yang Lingyue worked overtime to weave a lot of nettle cloth.Although the fabric was a bit rough and skin-cut, but because the siblings didn't have the money to buy muslin cloth, they made a few sets of clothes suitable for spring and summer with the original color nettle cloth, and wore them interchangeably.

As for the down jackets and duvets that Yang Lingyue talked about, it was because the siblings did not have the money to buy cotton to make cotton-padded clothes and quilts, so they had to use the collected and dried mountain products in exchange for the chicken, duck, goose feathers that were discarded by the villagers after killing chickens...Yang Lingyue counted After all, the chicken, duck, goose feathers she exchanged and the pheasant feathers caught by Yang Mingda's good luck can just make a duvet and two sets of clothes inlaid with down. She will spend time saving to make another bed , lest the siblings sleep together in order to keep warm.

Yang Lingyue knew that with her weaving skills, it was completely possible to weave the cloth into a cloth as fine and thick as the clothes of later generations.If you only want a down jacket, no matter how fine and thick the fabric is, it can't stop the down from coming out, so Yang Lingyue had to press and sew the down into the densely woven nettle cloth, and then put a quilt of the same size on the coat. .Doing so should reduce the problem of down coming out.

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