take a wife to support the family

Chapter 10

Song Haonian folded a few folds of the hemp rope on the wheel in his left hand, held the mouth of the wooden barrel in his right hand and threw it down, at the same time he quickly let go of the rope with his left hand, there was only a plop, and the barrel had already fallen into the water.

He didn't even need to turn the wheel, he kept pulling up the hemp rope in both hands, and he pulled up a bucket full of water.

He poured some water to rinse the wooden basin, washed away the ash on it, poured half a basin of water into the basin, and said, "The water is cold, let it dry for a while before you wash it." After speaking, he took the remaining half bucket of water into the basin. In the kitchen, pour water into the sink.

The water tank is a large pottery tank with a height of half a person. Water is stored in it once a day, so as to avoid the trouble of having to pump fresh water every time.

Several half-sized chickens have been killed these days. The cock's tail feathers and wing feathers are long and bright. Song Haonian has already saved a lot of chicken feathers and put them in a big basket to dry.

There are quite a few bamboo fences and baskets in their home, which were sent by Lily's father, Li Bamboo Craftsman, one after another. Although they are not worth much, they also save their daughter and son-in-law a trip to buy these small things, making life more convenient. few.

There is a dilapidated chest of drawers in the kitchen. The lower layer has a large space, which is usually used to store rice noodles. Because it is their family’s cabinet, it is empty most of the time; the upper layer has a few drawers that can be pushed and pulled, and some needles, threads and brains can be used. .

In this house, the bedroom has no lock, and the door on the west side is not even closed tightly, but the kitchen has a lock.

Song Haonian found a handful of twine from the chest of drawers, cut a length, and went to the west side to find a bamboo pole as thick as a little finger, and sat under the sun with a basket full of chicken feathers in his arms.

The small bench that Lily was sitting on was given by Brother Liu Yi and his partners when they got married, there were two in total, and the two of them sat on one without talking, each doing their own thing.

Bamboo poles grow neatly and do not require much repairing.Song Haonian picked up a few chicken feathers and straightened them, sticking the roots together and putting them on the bamboo pole, and wrapped the hemp rope tightly around it, Lily understood that he was going to make a feather duster.

The sun was warm and warm, Lily watched him twist the hemp rope while picking up chicken feathers, and soon understood the trick: first wrap a layer of short and fine white feathers on the bamboo pole, and then wrap the bright tail feathers Wrapped outside, neatly organized and fluffy.

She moved over gently and helped Song Haonian pick out the chicken feathers, so that he no longer had to pick out the chicken feathers himself, but could just wrap it around the bamboo pole quickly.

He didn't speak while working, but when the feather duster was finished, he smiled at Lily innocently.As a country man, he couldn't say "thank you", he just felt that Lily's work made him feel at ease.

People's hearts are fleshy, how can there be someone who can't keep warm?
The remaining chicken feathers can be used to make three shuttlecocks. For the best shuttlecocks, each feather is carefully selected, and the hair roots have to be inserted into the copper coin holes.Their family doesn't have the money to spend like this, so they can deal with it with two small stones.

"There will be an exhibition tomorrow. I will go to the exhibition and sell these. I can make some money." Song Hao picked up the feather duster and two shuttlecocks, and put the remaining one in Lily's hand. "You can play with this."

Lily was taken aback for a moment, this person was already busy cleaning up the house, and he didn't see the complex expression of emotion and dumbfounding on Lily's face.

She was holding a shuttlecock in her hand. Two stones, a piece of cloth, and a few chicken feathers combined were very light, but there were some invisible things that were very heavy...

The water in the tub was still cold, but it wasn't as icy cold as it was when washing hands a few days ago, it was slightly warm.Song Haonian tried it out, and said to Lily: "You can wash it now." He went into the house and hung up the feather duster, so as not to be gnawed by mice.

The basin was placed on the ground, and Lily squatted down, seeing the blue sky reflected in the basin, and a few white clouds were high and far away.Suddenly a gloomy grimace appeared in the basin, she screamed and sat back down.

Song Haonian rushed out: "What's the matter?"

Lily was so frightened that her heart was pounding. When she heard him ask, she quickly realized that what she saw just now was not a grimace at all, it was herself.

"No, it's okay... I didn't stand firmly just now, and I tilted a bit."

"Then be careful."

Lily swallowed her saliva and comforted herself: "Drowning people, if they can still live, they can earn money. This picked up body is ugly, but it's still alive. It's better than being a lonely ghost."

Then she peered cautiously at herself through the water basin.

The eldest girl of the Li family only heard from her younger sister, Erniu, that there is a kind of mirror in the house of the big family master Liu in the town, which can reflect people's shadows.But she has never seen it before, and she doesn't know much about her appearance. Just looking at her mother's attitude, she intuitively feels that it is not very good-looking.

After a serious illness, she went from being unattractive to a disheveled brat.

The figure reflected by the clear water has withered and yellow hair piled up in a mess on the head, like weeds; the face is sallow, black and thin, with sunken eyes and cheeks, not like a living person, but more like a starved ghost.

Lily couldn't help sympathizing with Song Haonian, five taels of silver is a huge sum of money, marrying such an ugly and worthless daughter-in-law is really bad luck.

Now that she is this ugly daughter-in-law, Lily can only sigh, and wash her face well with the water in the basin with her hands, until the mud in the basin of water turned yellowish, she feels refreshed a little.

Naturally, poor people have no soap or toilet water to use. The freshly washed face is blown by the breeze, and it quickly dries and peels, as if a knife has been scraped on the face.Lily smiled wryly, she understood why women from poor families don't like to wash their faces in winter, it's cold!
But let her choose, she would rather endure the pain on her face than wash herself clean.People are not afraid of being poor, what they are afraid of is that they accept their fate and are willing to roll in the mud for the rest of their lives, then there is really no hope.

In winter, the poor families didn't have any activities, and Lily didn't know whether the big households in the town had entertainment, so she sat in the yard basking in the sun, slowly thinking about her current situation and the future.

It wasn't until the sun was setting that it was no longer hot on the person, and Song Haonian made dinner and called her to eat, then she returned to the room with two small stools, and separated from Song Haonian. Lots of meat, chicken soup and yellow rice.

Before going to bed that night, she said to herself that Song Haonian's family has been emptied by her mother, she must find a way to earn a living for herself.

Next to him, Song Haonian's body was warm, exuding the amazing vitality of a young man.

This man... isn't bad after all?Lily thought to herself, to be someone's daughter-in-law, she still has to look like a daughter-in-law.

She has no ambitions, and never expects to marry a prince or son after time travel, even if she reconciles with Song Haonian, she will not be able to support herself, even if she remarries, she may not be able to meet such a simple and honest person again.

He is a good person, and she will learn to do something that is good for both of them, and earn a way out of this terrible situation.

She has hundreds of years of knowledge, if she is still starved to death in this era, it will be useless to learn for so many years.

(End of this chapter)