Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 36 Simple Down Jacket
"What are you doing? Bully the sisters of Xiaodu at home." It was almost winter, and old man Luo stayed at home and didn't go out. When he heard the noise in the yard, he ran out. Wanting to trouble Luo Mingdu, he hurriedly stopped her.

When old man Luo was at home, Yao shi would never go too far, at this time he just glanced at Luo Mingdu and called Luo Baining into the house.

Luo Mingdu clenched his fists and stared at Luo Baining's back, his small body trembling with anger.

Luo Tian smiled, touched her cold hand, and said, "Why are you so angry, I will make you new clothes in two days, and keep them warmer and more beautiful than hers."

Luo Mingdu gave a soft "um" and lowered his head to help her clean up the chicken feathers.

Luo Tian felt his heart warm when he saw it.Her eldest sister has always been like this. No matter what she does, she always helps her silently, without even asking a question. Sometimes Fang is annoyed by her and will scold her. Only Luo Ming No matter what time, always stand firmly by her side.

Luo Tiandu has decided that Luo Mingdu will make her first down jacket.

In fact, duck down is more suitable than chicken feathers for making down jackets, mainly because chicken feathers are too thick, but ducks are rarely seen in the north, and the conditions are limited, so we can't be so particular.There is not much down on the chicken body, but more of the thick, hard, and not soft feathers. What Luo Tiandu is doing now is to scrape off the down and half down feathers on the chicken feathers. Hard and thick, only to be thrown away.

For a sack of chicken feathers, Luo Tiandu and Luo Mingdu sat in the yard and scraped obediently for two days, before they finished scraping, soaked in water and piled up in the big foot basin, like a hill.

Removing the feather stems is just the first step, and the next step is to disinfect and remove the fishy smell. This needs to be taught by professionals.

Luo Tiandu went to the thatched cottage specially, and asked Li Langzhong to make a side herbal medicine, boiled the soup and soaked chicken feathers to sterilize it.This step is very critical. There are usually parasites on poultry. If they are not treated properly and stuffed in clothes, it will be fatal. Besides, poultry such as chickens and ducks are raised to satisfy their appetites. Naturally, no one will treat them like this. Like loving a pet, taking care of him is like taking care of your ancestors.People who are diligent will clean the chicken coop every two to three months, and those who are lazy will seldom clean it once in a year or a half. Therefore, the poultry has a strong fishy smell, and it is impossible to get rid of this smell.

Luo Tian was concentrating on tinkering with the pile of precious chicken feathers, Fang's brows were wrinkled, she really didn't understand, what's so interesting about that pile of smelly and smelly chicken feathers, but Luo Tian cared about the baby liver, anyone who moved would No, even Luo Ming followed suit.

Fang felt depressed and couldn't control Luo Tiandu, so she had no choice but to pretend that she didn't see it, out of sight and out of mind.

The weather has become more gloomy these past few days, and the north wind is blowing. Seeing that it is getting colder every day, Fang plans to go to the town to prepare all the winter things before it snows.Not to mention anything else, I have to buy more rations, otherwise the food will be expensive in the spring of next year; I have to buy a few catties of white noodles, even if I am poor in the new year, I still have to make dumplings to eat; I also have to buy more oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. The weather won't get warmer until the beginning of spring; neither Luo Baisu nor Luo Ming has winter clothes. Although Luo Ming is wearing hers now, that one has been worn for too long, and the reed flowers are gone. The clothes are not warm, and the child is weak and can't stand the cold, so Fang thought about buying some reed flowers and making a new one for Luo Mingdu. Fortunately, there are ready-made ones at Bu's house. Cloth, just right now.

After everything is calculated, it will cost a lot of money. Fang can't help but sigh, no matter how much money is saved, it will never be enough.

Luo Tian has been busy dealing with the pile of chicken feathers, this time he didn't ask to go together, but just told Fang to buy more thread.

"What do you want thread for? Do you want to learn needlework from your sister?" Fang asked strangely.

"I'm very useful, mother, so don't ask, buy more, and choose the thin and strong thread, blue or white."

"Understood, you're the only one who has a lot of things to do." Although Fang's tone sounded a little disgusted, the expression on his face was one of joy.

No matter how smart and capable a girl is, if she can't handle needlework, she will be looked down upon by her husband's family. Now Luo Tian is willing to take the initiative to learn needlework. This is great, and Fang feels very relieved.

The medicine Li Langzhong prescribed was indeed very useful. The chicken feathers that were soaked and then dried had no smell at all, and there was a faint fragrance of herbs. Luo Tian was very satisfied.

With chicken feathers, Luo Tiandu planned to sew down jackets by himself.

Luo Tiandu's mother used to be a native tailor in the countryside. She had an old sewing machine at home, and she often sewed shirts and trousers by herself at home. Luo Tiandu learned a little bit from what she saw and heard. For a while, she was quite interested in this. , specially bought a few tailoring books to read. Later, when she graduated from high school, she sewed a small blue dress by herself.

The first down jacket, of course, must be given to Luo Mingdu. First of all, she hasn’t done needlework for a long time, and her craftsmanship is a little rusty. She is afraid of wasting fabric if it is not done well. Luo Ming is small in stature, even if it is broken. , can be changed again, and left for herself to wear, even if the waste is limited; secondly, she feels sorry for Luo Mingdu, and feels that this child is really sensible and lovable.

The first thing to do when making clothes is to measure the size.She didn't have a soft ruler, so she had to use a rope instead. The shoulder width, arm length, waist and other parts were tied with different colored threads and marked on the rope so that there would be no confusion.

Once the measurements were taken, I had trouble actually cutting the fabric by hand.

Mrs. Fang was willing to let her learn sewing, but she did not expect that she would ask her for fabrics to cut clothes on the first day of learning sewing, and immediately glared at her and refused without explanation.

"You should follow your sister to practice needlework first, and when you become proficient, you can also learn to embroider handkerchiefs and so on." Fang said a little perfunctorily.

Luo Tian was depressed, no matter how thoughtful she was, she couldn't make clothes without fabric. Fortunately, Luo Ming was very cooperative and contributed the old jacket she was wearing.

Luo Tiandu originally wanted to cut a new jacket for Luo Mingdu, but now he can only refurbish the old clothes.

The jacket is made of interlayers, Luo Tiandu first opened the seams of the interlayer, and separated the lining and the face.The stitches can be seen to be Fang's handiwork. The stitches are thin and dense. Even after wearing it for so many years, there is only one thread that is missing at the shoulder, which shows Fang's needlework skills.

This is a short jacket with the front open to the right, folded inward for a long length, and then tied with a tie.Luo Tian thought it was such a waste of cloth, so he "swished" twice, cut the excess folded fabric, and cut the fabric according to the rope measured earlier.

What she cut was an ordinary women's short jacket, which was divided into three parts: the sleeves, the back and the front chest.The first thing to do is to sew the sleeves, spread the fabric, spread the chicken feathers without feathers evenly on the fabric, then sew the lining, and finally join the two sides of the sleeves together, her needlework is not good , this step was completed by Luo Mingdu.In order to prevent the chicken feathers from moving around and eventually clump together, the whole sleeve is divided into many squares of the same size, and then sewn together with thread, so that the chicken feathers are fixed in each square and will not run around.

When the down jacket was finally made, Luo Mingdu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to put it on. It was indeed very warm, but there was still a small problem.

"Xiaodu, you made it too small, you can't tie it on." Luo Mingdu blushed, admiring the little girl's idea of ​​stuffing the jacket with chicken feathers, which is much warmer than stuffing reed flowers.

"Sister, this is just right, not small at all."

Luo Tiandu smiled, and asked Luo Mingdu to take off his clothes, clicked a few times, and cut six small holes at equal distances from the collar to the hem on the left side of the skirt, and then twisted these small holes finely, Then he took out the secret weapon that he had prepared long ago—six pebbles of the same size with extremely smooth edges.First wrap it tightly with thread, and then wrap it with the leftover cloth. After nailing it, it becomes six very distinctive cloth buttons.

Since then, the first down jacket was officially born.

Luo Mingdu put on his upper body, overjoyed.

It's really warm!

Luo Tian propped his chin, looked left and right, felt that there was still something missing, glanced at the extra fabric, and Luo Mingdu cut out a down hat and sewed it on the collar. , The lower part of the hat brim is tied with two cloth strips, so that it is not afraid of being blown off by the wind after wearing it.

Fang didn't expect that the two of them actually tossed out a jacket. Although the style was a bit strange, seeing that Luo Mingdu no longer looked shivering from the cold after wearing it, she knew it must be very warm.

"How did you know that you can use chicken feathers to stuff your jacket?" Fang was curious.

Luo Tian thought for a while, and said: "I saw our old hen, it is not afraid of the cold in winter, and it still pecks insects on the ground to eat when it snows, and it doesn't wear clothes, its feathers are clothes."

Fang smiled, thinking that she is a child after all, thinking so simple.She was very curious about the buttons that Luo Tian had come up with, and after explaining them to Luo Tian, ​​she also felt that it would save fabric, but with the fronts open like this, winter jackets are fine, but summer shirts would inevitably be a bit immodest.

According to this method, Fang cut a long jacket for Luo Baisu, and the remaining cloth wanted to make another one for Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu.

To make a new jacket for Luo Mingdu, Luo Tiandu was very appreciative, but he strongly disagreed with making it for himself.Her excuse is that children grow up fast, and it won't take long to wear new ones, which is a waste of fabric. It's better to make new ones for Luo Mingdu and Fang, and when they are too small, they can be changed and left for her to wear. .

Peasants are the most frugal, and there is no waste. Most people’s families are almost like this. There are many children in the family. A piece of clothing is worn by the eldest brother first. If the eldest brother can’t wear it, he can change it to the second child. I can give the third child a while.

(End of this chapter)