take a wife to support the family

Chapter 38

On March [-]rd, take off the jacket and change into a single shirt.The weather is gradually getting warmer, and you may still feel a little bit of coolness in the shade of the house, but it is warm under the sun, and you will sweat a little when you move around.

Every day, Lily went into the ditch to climb the mountain to pick wild fruits. She spent several pairs of straw sandals, and she was sweating profusely every time.What's more, cooking in the kitchen is smoky, and it is easy to sweat all over, with white flakes flying from the firewood all over the head, which is not refreshing to look at.

Lily can tolerate everything, except that she can't bear being unhygienic.When she first wore it, her body was just getting better, so she tried every means to clean herself.Now every day after dinner, she has to boil a pot of hot water. After cleaning the house, when the water is just hot, she washes her hair and wipes her body with a wooden basin and a towel.

After all, it is cleaner and more comfortable than showers and baths, and the water tends to be cold, so changing the water every time is extremely troublesome, so Lily thought about buying a bathtub.

Liu Sanping, a carpenter in the town, is one of Liu Yi's brothers. This time he went out with Liu Yi to earn a living. If someone wanted to buy more tables, chairs and benches, he just went to his house to see the finished product, and bought what he liked.If you want to build beams, make birthday materials, or make custom-made furniture, you have to wait for him to come back, or find his father.

Father Liu passed all his skills to Liu Sanping. The father and son had similar skills, but Liu Sanping was younger and more agile.At this time, when people invite carpenters to work at home, they always provide food on a daily basis, and finally give food and money according to the number of days.Father Liu is old, so his work is slow, so not many people are willing to invite him, unless it is urgent, most of them will wait for Liu Sanping to come back.

Lily took the time to go to Liu Sanping's house to ask, and there was no such thing as a bathtub, and it had to be made from scratch.Father Liu showed her his own bathtub again, which was a large wooden barrel half the height of a person, and it was very solidly beaten without leaking at all.

Father Liu said to her: "This thing is not commonly used, so it doesn't matter if it's a little troublesome."

It is very difficult to move such a large wooden barrel, and to fill it with water, let alone a lily, even a mature man would not be able to move it. You have to scoop out more than half of the washed water before removing it and throwing it away.

Most people wash once every seven or eight days or ten or so days, which is good if the interval is long, but Lily has to take a bath every day, how can she bear this trouble?
She then asked several types of wood which was the lightest, and the answer she got was that the bath tub didn't use very good wood, and the weight was about the same, and the wood was heavier after absorbing water, and everything was troublesome.

Lily was unhappy, so she had no choice but to suppress her desire to buy a bathtub, and told Father Liu that she would go back and think about it, and come back after making a decision.

Once you have the idea of ​​buying a bathtub, when you scrub with a small wooden basin, you will feel very unhappy.Lily went back and forth to change the water several times, more and more longing for a bathtub that could soak the whole person in it.

After thinking for two days, he finally came up with a solution. It just so happened that Qingsong was sent by his father to deliver a basket to Lily, and then his sister caught him and told him to go to Liu's house and describe it to Liu's father.

After listening to Qingsong's words, Father Liu frowned: "It's so troublesome...I'll give it a try and I'll talk about it when I'm done."

They do carpentry work, except for some fixed procedures that cannot be changed. Most of the time, they do what the customers say. As long as the customers can afford the money and materials, they have no opinion.

Qingsong came back to report the good news to Lily, and Lily was very happy, so he gave him two money to go to the fair by himself.Qingsong tossed the coins for fun, and suddenly asked Lily: "Sister, do you still know the characters I taught you?"

"Ah?" Lily thought for a long time before picking out a vague shadow from the corner of her memory.She thought Li Da Niu didn't know a single character, but she didn't expect Qingsong to teach him how to read.

But Qingsong never went to school, where did he learn to read?

Seeing his elder sister's dumbfounded look, Qingsong knew that she probably forgot those words again, and stretched out his hand in front of her eyes to show her the four words cast on the copper coin: "How many more do you recognize?"

"God..." Lily doesn't know how well the big girl can read. If Qingsong didn't teach her, wouldn't she scare people to death if she read it out?She didn't want to be treated like a monster.So just pick the simplest word to read.

Anyway, the eldest sister still remembered one word, Qingsong felt a little bit of comfort, and pointed to her one by one, "Tian, ​​Qi, Tong, Bao! Don't forget it!"

Apocalypse?

This year name sounded a little familiar, Lily nodded, she was an ordinary citizen, and it was not her turn to take care of the country's affairs, so she just did her own duty and didn't think about it.

Qingsong put away the money, and ran to the private school to secretly attend the class. He was always smart, and he could steal a few words from the window every time, and he accumulated a lot over time, so he was able to teach his elder sister.

Lily vaguely remembered that the big girl Yang Qingsong taught her to read, probably because of that little scholar, and suddenly felt bored.She is far more literate than Qingsong, but she dare not show it at this time, which makes people feel surprised. It is still serious to do a good job in the business of selling flowers and fruits.

Ten days later, the carpenter Mr. Liu asked someone to bring a message to Lily, telling her to fetch the bathtub.Lily is a young woman who is easy to gossip when she walks around the city with a bathtub. Now that she has enough gossip, she doesn't want to make any more troubles, so she asks Carpenter Li and Qingsong to help her get it back.

The bathtub is placed in the kitchen, which is convenient for boiling and pouring water.Carpenter Li filled the smoke pot with the orchid tobacco leaves respected by the eldest daughter, puffed out the clouds, and the green pine circled the tub twice, "Sister, what is this?"

The bathtub is near the bottom, and there is a round plug, I don't know what it is for.

The entire wooden barrel was polished very smooth, without any sharp burrs. Lily thought that Father Liu was honest, and he didn't cut corners at all.Hearing Qingsong’s question, he pulled out the plug and put it back in again. After several tries, he felt that it fit perfectly, so he smiled and said to Qingsong, “How can I move such a big bucket of water?”

Qingsong nodded: "That's right, you're not as strong as I am, and you'll be half-dead from exhaustion just by pouring water."

"With this plug, I can just pull it off after taking a shower, let the water flow into the basin, and pour it out one by one, wouldn't it be convenient?"

Qingsong suddenly realized, and nodded vigorously: "Our family should also have something like this!"

Carpenter Li patted Qingsong on the head: "You don't wash it every day, but you pour water twice for San Niu, what's the trouble?"

Turning around to teach Lily again, "Son-in-law is not at home, so you should do your duty. Is it reasonable to boil water for a bath twice in three days?"

They are country people, simple and rustic is their duty, if they are clean and smooth all day long, like those unscrupulous women in the city, what do they look like?

Lily knew that her father was a good man, even though she said that, he didn't mean anything malicious.It is very difficult for a person to change his cognition when he is old, and he couldn't explain it to him, so Lily didn't say much, just said: "Father, I understand. But the barrels are all ready, so we can't return them." .”

Qingsong had already asked Qingsong to bring the fixed money to Father Liu, and he paid off the balance when he picked up the bathtub today, and if he wanted to return it, Father Liu would not agree.

Carpenter Li took a breath, "I've bought everything, so you can use it. Don't waste too much firewood. I think your firewood is used up faster than other houses. If your son-in-law can't come back for a while, what will you do?"

Others save firewood at home, and Lily needs to boil water for cooking, so she never spares firewood, and more than half of the firewood on the hill behind the house has gone down.

Fortunately, the weather is getting hotter, and there is no need to regenerate the brazier at night, and more than half of the firewood can be saved.

In her previous life, Lily would definitely have worried about the environmental pollution caused by burning wood, but this year there are no large-scale polluting industries, and the natural self-purification ability is very strong, and burning wood in every household will not cause major problems, and the hills around Qingliu Town are not bald. Going down, it is still lush and lush, and she has no psychological burden to use firewood.

Carpenter Li and Qingsong went home in the afternoon, and Lily packed a few eggs for them to take with them, and gave them a rabbit that Heizi had caught recently.

A married daughter is from someone else's family, and it is shameful for her mother's family to subsidize her. Only when there is communication, can the relationship be cultivated.In the future, when the Li bamboo craftsman gets old, Qingsong and his wife will be in charge of the house. Giving things to a daughter is not the same thing as giving things to a sister.

As soon as her father and younger brother left, Lily happily hummed a little tune and scrubbed the barrel.The inside of the wooden barrel was covered with dust and polished sawdust. After Lily wiped it several times, the water turned yellow at first, and then became clearer and clearer until there was no impurities at all.

Pour two buckets of cold water in it to let the wood fully absorb the water, and also to see if there is any water leakage, so as to find out early to avoid trouble when it is used.

After dinner, while the sky was still bright, Lily boiled a large pot of water, first poured most of the pot into a wooden barrel, mixed it with fresh well water until it was slightly scalding, and steamed out.

Lily also found jasmine and peach blossoms used to make dried flower sachets and sprinkled them into the water. After a while, the shrunken petals stretched and floated in the water, and the faint fragrance diffused.

Putting Heizi in the yard to watch over the house, Lily bolted the kitchen door from the inside, and quickly got into the bathtub.The slightly scalding water wrapped her whole body, and she couldn't help sighing comfortably.

After soaking for a while, she washed her hair and face with water in her hands. The pores all over her body were soaked open, and even her bones were crisp.

Lily looked at her body while washing. She had just crossed that time, and was frightened by her face like a starved ghost. She still dare not look at her own shadow in the water.

At that time, my body was also skinny, with no flesh at all, my ribs protruded from my hands, and my legs were as thin as reed sticks.

Later, Song Haonian killed chickens, rabbits and pheasants for her to eat, and she tried her best to get food for herself. At least some meat was raised, and the ribs no longer floated up from the skin like a relief. Walking in the ditch, I also gained a little more muscle in my legs.

She looked down at her chest, thinking, even this place is not so flat anymore, it has evolved from CD to Xiaolongbao.She didn't know how much she had paid for this achievement, how much rabbit meat would it take to grow to such a small size.

Feeling that the water is a little cold, just add a little hot water left in the pot, and soak for at least two quarters of an hour.

After being in this world for a few months, this is the first time for Lily to take a bath comfortably. She is a bit reluctant to bear this feeling. She soaks until the water is completely cold, and the skin on her body turns white and wrinkled. Body, put on clean clothes.

(End of this chapter)