Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 125
On the second day, Guan Wen started scratching the bamboo. The wooden strips were stuck into a cross, and after a cross was made at the beginning of the bamboo, they were stuck on it, and the back of the knife was used to break open along the way, and the cylindrical bamboo was split into four neat strips.

Lao Guan was stepping on a wooden stake, and his hands kept on pulling the bamboo that Guan Wen had broken open.

The wider bamboo strips are divided into four strips, the middle is opened first, and the two are superimposed to continue dividing.Bamboo is well-organized, and it is not afraid of going astray.The narrower ones are divided into three strips.

The division didn't end directly, so the bamboo was pulled back with a little force, and it was gently slaughtered from the beginning to separate the bamboo strip from the bamboo body.

The voice was clear and rhythmic, and the grandparent and grandson cooperated tacitly, and after a while, a small bundle was made.

Li Xin was helping to clear the space, and watched the bamboo strips after they were cut off, soft and tenacious, and the front was green with the color of bamboo, while the back was slightly lighter, but it also had the fragrance of bamboo.And the rest are white bamboo bodies, neatly stacked one by one, because they are thicker than the split bamboo strips, so it looks more than the number of bamboo strips.

Bamboo strips can be used to weave all kinds of things, and the bamboo body can be used to burn after drying.Although the bamboo body is very expensive to burn and burns out in a while, it can still be used to make fire.Especially when many people are chatting around a fire.

Li Xin tied a small bundle and asked Guan Wen: "I didn't cut many bamboos yesterday, so I'll weave them for my own use today."

Bamboo is not a picky season in Hui County, it can be cut down anytime whether it is winter or summer.Looking at the bamboo grove over there, Li Xin thought for a while before saying: "In the future, try to keep an eye on the bamboos that are farther away, and keep those near the house, and see if they will bear new shoots next year."

Guan Wen nodded, "Those young bamboos were not cut, they were all old bamboos."

At the old juncture, he laughed and said, "Awen's daughter-in-law, what do you want to make up?"

Li Xin smiled and said nothing.

After dinner at noon, Guan Wen was going to work again, Li Xin pulled him away after a bit of coercion, and said quickly, "Make me a bamboo grasshopper."

Before Guan Wen came back to his senses, Li Xin stomped his feet and ran away.

It took him a long time to react, and he ran in the direction where Li Xin ran away, foolishly.

In the next afternoon, I saw that he didn't break the bamboo anymore, so I took a bamboo strip and chopped it finely, and then sanded the ground so that it didn't prick my hands, so I started weaving.

At the old juncture, I was weaving a big dustpan, and my hands were moving very fast. My grandson said that weaving a big dustpan is good for shoveling garbage, and he happily took over the job.At this moment, he saw his grandson concentrating on making small things with bamboo strips in his hand, and couldn't help asking him, "Ah Wen, what are you making?"

Guan Wen didn't raise his head, his eyes were fixed on his hands, afraid that he might accidentally break the bamboo strips, and he said back to his grandfather, "Weave a bamboo grasshopper."

"What do you do to weave bamboo grasshoppers?" I shook my head at the old juncture: "You young children, you still don't know the truth. Weaving that thing takes time and effort. With your kung fu, grandpa's dustpan can also be done well. gone."

Guan Wen just laughed, and didn't bother to talk about him at the old juncture, and weaved a dustpan with his legs side by side.

Not to mention, although the old man is old, his work is really meticulous.He can't get rid of big movements, but he can still do this small range of movements.The dustpan in my hand slipped down from the beginning to the end of weaving.

When Li Xin brought hot tea, he just finished weaving a dustpan at an old juncture, and raised his hand to present treasures to Li Xin: "Awen's wife, grandpa is a good crafter, right?"

"Not bad." Li Xin brought the tea to Lao Guan with a smile, and boasted, "Grandpa's craftsmanship is amazing!"

When he was praised at an old moment, he was like a child, smiling all over his face, and asked Li Xin cheerfully: "Then what else should I make up?"

"Let's make up a few more dustpans, no matter how big or small." Li Xin looked carefully at the dustpan weaved at the old juncture, and found that it was really well made, and it didn't rub your hands at all. It must have been smoothed, so he nodded and smiled. He said: "Use a Shau Kei to drain the water for cooking and cooking, and you need a rice steamer to cook rice. The old ones are worn out and almost old, so they should be thrown away."

At the old juncture, he nodded and started to work, chatting with Li Xin: "Awen's daughter-in-law, what do you think of Awen's work, you put serious things and don't make up that little thing..."

Li Xin blushed blushing—this was a long overdue bamboo grasshopper that Guan Wen owed her!Annoyed, he glared at Guan Wen, who was looking over, seeing that the old Guan had lowered his head and didn't look at the two of them. He thought it was not a joke but just a matter of fact, and felt a little funny for a while.

Guan Wen raised a smiling face at her, the scars on his face became lighter the longer he looked at them, and the Scar Removing Spirit was still useful.

Continue to use it for him in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Xin stuck out his tongue at Guan Wen, made a grimace, blushed and said back at the old juncture, "That's right, grandpa should teach him a lot. If he doesn't listen to grandpa, we don't care about him."

He laughed at the old juncture, "Alright, grandpa will teach him a lesson for you."

He said to Guan Wen earnestly, "Ah Wen, life is not easy, you have to focus on practical things..."

Guan Wen listened humbly, and Li Xin grinned happily and went to Amei's room to chat with her for a while. He felt that the light in her room was not very good, so he could only open the windows, which made it better.But when there is a wind blowing in winter, it can be very cold.

After thinking for a while, Li Xin said: "Sister-in-law, go to the main room to do needlework. It's brighter, and it won't be cold. Sister-in-law, get me a charcoal basin to warm your hands."

After speaking, he went to look at Amei's hands, and said with a little distress: "Look, your hands are a little chapped."

In ancient times, there was a kind of oil similar to hand cream, but Li Xin felt that it was greasy, and after applying it on his hands, he always felt that his hands were not washed clean.She used wax oil to moisten her hands before, but now it's cold in winter and she doesn't feel comfortable using it.

If only I could make a homemade hand cream that would keep my hands moisturized without looking greasy.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Li Xin was a little moved.

A-mei withdrew her hand shyly, rubbed herself, nodded obediently and said, "I'll go to the main room right now."

After speaking, he took the sewing basket and trotted to the main room.

Li Xin paced back to his bedroom thoughtfully, took a pen and paper and scribbled two lines of words, stroked his chin and thought for a long time, then picked up the paper carefully.

Just as he was about to go out, Guan Wenle ran over, holding a well-made little grasshopper and smiling at Li Xin.

Li Xin was annoyed at him, shot him a look and closed the door, looked awkwardly at the bamboo grasshopper, "What is this made up?"

"Grasshopper." Guan Wen blinked, reached out and took Li Xin's hand to put the bamboo grasshopper in, "Xin'er, do you like it?"

"Whether you like it or not... Grandpa didn't say it's not true..."

Li Xin pretended not to like it very much and played with the bamboo grasshopper. The words were awkward, but the corners of his mouth were raised more and more.

"What you like is the real thing, don't talk about bamboo grasshoppers, bamboo worms, I will make it up for you..."

Guan Wen knew that Li Xin was acting like a spoiled child to him, but he was still very surprised that his daughter-in-law acted like a spoiled child to him today, and said something flattering without thinking, which made Li Xin giggle.

In fact, it's just that Li Xin thinks that what he did in the old house suits her today, and she is happy in her heart.

The two of them were tired for a while, and they were about to fall on the bed after watching. Li Xin quickly pushed him away, helped her hair bun, and when she felt loose, she untied her hair and put it back together, while sitting on the dressing table. On the one hand, he said angrily: "Like a poor pervert, hiding in the house during the day, grandpa and sister want to see our jokes."

Guan Wen got up from the bed and rushed behind Li Xin, took the wooden hairpin from her hand and helped her insert it, and said with a smile, "They hope that our relationship will be good."

If the relationship is good, it would be even better if you can have a baby.

Guan Wen didn't say this, it's fate to have a baby or not, he can't make his wife unhappy by talking about it.Even if he doesn't have a baby in this life, he also admits it, and everything will follow the fate.If there is a baby, it is naturally a good thing that is icing on the cake.

Li Xin didn't read what he meant, and now she was still lazy, and her every move was a bit of a woman's obsession.Guan Wen felt his heart itch when he saw it, and leaned his head over to steal a scent. Li Xin let out an "ah" and turned his head to scold: "I've never seen you so shameless before, and the longer we get along, the more I feel that you are so shameless. Calmness and thickness are superficial skills..."

"Whether I'm heavy, stable, thick or heavy, only you know..."

Guan Wen leaned up and hugged her waist, and bit her ear.

It took Li Xin a long time to realize the implied meaning of what he said, and his ears turned red in an instant, and he pinched down the iron arm on the waist pole, and said, "You are not serious, get up."

Guan Wen got up obediently, standing behind her and stroking her temple hair: "In front of you, you prepared the bride price for the fourth son to go to the Hu family and bought him a pair of silver earrings, but you don't have anything on yourself. This wooden hairpin has been on since you married me." Guan Wen paused, "Why don't we go catch up next time and buy you some gold and silver jewelry?"

"I don't need those." Li Xin shook his head: "A wooden hairpin is good, it's not easy to break, and if it breaks, just carve another one."

Li Xin turned around and smiled at Guan Wen: "If you have the heart, why don't you carve me a pattern that looks better?"

Guan Wen was silent for a moment, and then he replied solemnly: "Okay."

After tidying up his clothes, Li Xin went to unbolt the door, discussing with Guan Wen: "I think Amei's room is a bit cold, it's originally in the west, only when the sun goes down will there be a little sunshine. I took photos, but it was cold at that time, and the sun was not strong.”

"It's not very popular over there, and it's a little cold to live alone with my sister. Unlike ours, our house is next to Grandpa's." Guan Wen also said.

Li Xin said: "So I thought, A-mei is a girl's house again, why not repair her house and build an attic, what do you think?" Li Xin paused and asked: "There is a building in the village The craftsman in the attic?"

"Yes, there is." Guan Wen thought for a while and said, "It's just that building an attic is always a kind of technical work. It's a second-story building, and it's going up one floor, and it's under the condition that the house has already been built. It's hard work, I'm afraid the price..."

"The price is not a problem, we can afford it." After some calculations, Li Xin still felt that it would be better to build a loft: "People say that the girl's house should sit in the embroidery tower. Although Amei grew up in the village, she looks like a The girls in the village are different, and they haven’t done much farm work. Building an attic, she and sisters Axiu can move around more. And after winter, those thick quilts, mattresses, etc. Find a unified place to put it."

At the same time, Li Xin had more thoughts: "Otherwise, all the houses on the west side will have attics, and the kitchen will also have an attic."

Guan Wen was taken aback: "What are you doing with the attic in the kitchen?"

"The attic was built in the stove to make smoked products." Li Xin's eyes lit up: "Yes, the attic was built in the stove to smoke meat, and a big attic was built on top of the row of three rooms in the sister's house, sealed into two rooms One is used to put some miscellaneous things, such as quilts, which can be put in. One can be used as a girl's boudoir."

"But isn't there a room on the west side that was previously reserved for storing sundries?"

The house on the west side Li Xin previously designed was to walk from the slope to the main house, followed by the kitchen, the house of Axiu and Amei sisters, the firewood house, and an empty room for entertaining guests.

Li Xin told Guan Wen: "The stove has been fixed and cannot be changed, but the other rooms can be adjusted. The firewood room should be moved to the innermost side, and the spare room can be used to share with Amei's room." Adjacent to each other, it is Axiu’s bedroom. Compared with Amei Axiu, the attic is a big room, whether it is for the two sisters to play, or to put quilts and other things. The one below No matter whether you put firewood in the woodshed or the attic above the woodshed, you can put any tables, chairs and benches, the space is bigger, isn’t it?”

Guan Wen thought for a while and asked again: "Where is the entrance to the attic? Where do you go up?"

Li Xin said with a smile: "The entrance to the attic of the firewood house can be opened directly inside the firewood house. As for the attic above Axiu and sister, because the bottom is blocked, the top is open, we open from the middle of their room Go up the stairs and form a door alone."

Guan Wen felt that this was feasible, so he still sighed: "However, even if we start work now, we probably won't be able to finish it during the Chinese New Year. Besides, A-mei can't go to the attic right now, and she will still be chilled."

It's true, what Li Xin thinks is that there are big windows on the east and west sides of the attic. In summer, the east and west windows are open, which is cool. In winter, the west side is closed and the east side is open.

But things always have a solution, so Li Xin thought of it and said, "Why don't you dig out a fireplace for my sister? Grandpa said that the charcoal basin is enough for him, but girls don't like ashes. A fireplace would also be nice to warm the room.”

Guan Wen looked at Li Xin puzzled and said, "Fireplace? Make a stove on the wall?"

Li Xin coughed and said, "It's just to build a stove on the wall with a length, width, and height of about half a person's height. There is a chimney on top of the stove, just like a stove."

There are no earth dragons to hold in the countryside, and it is quite cold in winter.Li Xin doesn't know if this method can be implemented, but it is always possible to try it. "

Guan Wen weighed it carefully, and discussed with Li Xin that tomorrow he would ask someone if he could build an attic. By the way, he would talk about the fireplace. If someone is willing to take the job, then work will start.

(End of this chapter)