take a wife to support the family

Chapter 95 Tanning Wild Animal Skins

Lily originally didn't want Song Haonian to tell him such an important matter as soon as he got home, but it didn't mean that he couldn't help but throw her down, so he had to talk about it in advance.

"Lamei lives with me now."

Song Haonian didn't understand, so: "Well, I just had dinner with my sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

Lily: "...I mean, my mother almost sold Lamei to Guo Shuicheng from Guojiapo. Do you know that person? Lamei ran to me, and I told her to live with me from now on, and never go back to my mother's house. She will get married in the future , I will pay the dowry."

Song Haonian said unhappily: "Why can I live with you, and you will pay the dowry?"

Lily didn't expect to be rejected by him, she was a little confused for a moment: "You disagree?" She never thought about Song Haonian's disagreement, because since the two of them lived together, he had never rejected her.

Song Haonian stared at Lily intently, and suddenly saw that her expression darkened, and the circles of her eyes were red, and she quickly said the whole thing: "La Mei lived with us, and we will share the dowry in the future."

There were ups and downs, Lily's heart went up and down like a swing, he hesitated: "We two?"

"You returned ours when I came back. How long has it been? When it comes to Lamei, you are alone?" Song Haonian hugged his wife, "You are my wife, and your sister is me." Sister, if Lamei wants to live with us, we can live together, and we will pay the dowry."

"My sister is not your sister." Lily whispered, thinking of his sister Song Xiuxiu.

Song Haonian laughed loudly: "Alright, sister-in-law knows more than my sister!"

Only then did Baihe narrate the matter in detail from beginning to end, and Song Haonian was furious for a moment: "This bastard, don't fall into my hands!"

He showed a fierce look, and was afraid of scaring Lily, so he looked at her face carefully: "Daughter-in-law, don't think I'm a bad person."

Lily couldn't help laughing: "I know."

For a while, he was very nervous again: "Are you okay? Did Guo Jiapo's gang hurt you?"

Bai He said: "So many neighbors and family members are watching, how can Guo Shuicheng hurt me?"

"Master Liu and Dad have bothered about this matter, I will go thank them some other day." Song Haonian was afraid that others would hurt his precious wife, as long as Lily is fine, he is a very reasonable person, and it happened that he went to the mountain this time I made a lot of leather and sent it to someone another day, and it looks good.

The young couple murmured for a while, Lamei had already retreated into her room to sleep, Song Haonian pricked up his ears to hear the silence from his sister-in-law, and couldn't hold back any longer, looking at Lily with burning eyes.

Lily's face and body started to have a fever again, and she pretended to be fierce: "What are you looking at, don't go to sleep!"

When Song Haonian came to this kind of time, he started playing hooligans without a teacher: "I can't sleep without my daughter-in-law in my arms."

The two huddled under the quilt, rustled their clothes, and kissed each other like glue, reliving that blissful enjoyment.Both of them were sweating profusely, Lily was biting the pillow towel tightly, not daring to make a sound, for fear of alarming Lamei next door.

The more restrained you are, the more intense the lingering atmosphere will be. Every twitch of a muscle will touch your heart and make you shake your head...

The sky is full of stars, and the black tiger is barking at the night sky outside. Tonight and any evening, see this beloved man.

The first day I came back for family reunion, and the next day I went to meet Liu Yi. Liu Yi said: "Taking advantage of the good weather these days, quickly tan the fur and sell it before it snows. Let's have a good year too. .”

The yard of his house is spacious, and all the brothers gathered the furs they brought back together, and tanned them in his yard.The men groomed their fur together, and the women gathered at Liu Sanping's house to cook for them—the smell of tanned fur was too strong, and Liu Yi's house couldn't cook the pot, and it was not as convenient to cook in one place.

To make a big pot of rice, of course, steamed rice, steamed buns, steamed buns, mixed with pimple soup and vegetable soup every day, and the women put out all kinds of special dishes one by one. Although it is only late autumn, there is a lively atmosphere of Chinese New Year.

Xing'er was so excited that she went to Liu Sanping's house every day to be with her mother and aunts, or to watch her father and uncles trim animal furs.But she couldn't take it anymore after watching it for a few days, she held her nose and didn't want to get close to Liu Yi: "Father, it stinks!"

Liu Yi wanted to pull his daughter into his arms, "Did you say dad is stinky? Is it stinky? Is it stinky?"

Xing'er couldn't escape, she laughed loudly in her father's arms, accidentally choked on her own saliva, and coughed loudly, so panicked that Liu Yi hurriedly sent her daughter to his wife, not daring to say a word.

Li Caifeng saw that Xing'er was playing like crazy, and glared at Liu Yi: "I blame my daughter for thinking you smell bad, even I think you smell bad."

He has a keen sense of smell like Heizi, and has long since gone to be with Heihu, and will never stay at home during this time.

Liu Yi and the others smelled of processed animal fur, which was really not pleasant.

When they were in the mountains, whenever they caught fresh prey, they would skin it while it was hot, and cut off the head, hooves, ears, tail, and some with thick lips.Then hang off the remaining flesh and fat attached to the inside of the leather board, wash it with the clear spring in the mountain, and hang it on a tree trunk near the camp to dry.

After this treatment, the fur can be prevented from rotting quickly, so that they can take it back and process it slowly.

The peeled meat is either eaten on the spot, or it is smoked and then dried, and brought back as dried meat. It happens that everyone eats together these days, and many of the meat used are brought back dried meat.

Heizi also ate a lot of animal viscera, and the whole dog grew stronger. Its fur was black and smooth, and Xing'er stroked Heizi's back and said happily, "Heizi is so beautiful!"

The black tiger has not yet grown up, and compared with Heizi, it looks thin and not majestic enough. It comes to play with Heizi with its head held high, and then goes back to watch the house dejectedly: try to be a good dog, and the owner will feed it to be so majestic of!
This time they brought back hundreds of furs, ranging from small rabbits to large deer and leopards.

Liu Yi was very popular, so he borrowed the hair-shedding bucket used by others for slaughtering pigs, filled it with clean water, and soaked all the furs in it. After soaking for a day and a night, they absorbed water and softened, and returned to the appearance when they were peeled off, and then rinsed off.

A few big men, each with a pig bristle brush, brushed the wool board until the dirt was not visible at all, then soaked it in gray water, scrubbed it three times, and dried it in the air until it was [-]% dry.

During this period, they have to constantly stretch the fur to avoid shrinking and deformation, and sometimes even need to squeeze it with wooden boards to shape it.

For every 20 catties of water, add [-] catties of Glauber's salt and [-] catties of rice flour, soak the cleaned fur completely, and put stones on top to prevent the fur from floating up. It takes [-] days to soak for the next step.

It took only seven or eight days to finish the preliminary steps of tanning. After all the furs were soaked, everyone could rest temporarily. After 20 days, the weather became colder. A frost flower.

Take out the fur that has been soaked enough to check. If the skin is white, soft and smooth, it means that the tanning process is successful. At this time, it must not be wet with raw water. Let it dry under the sun for three to five days, pat off the rice flour, and then cut it off. The blackened part can be sold over long distances.

It wasn't long before everyone returned home and they had to go out again. Why didn't others know about it? Lily was very reluctant to let go, and wrapped her hands and feet around Song Haonian at night, feeling aggrieved: "It's only been a few days since I've been back, and I have to go out again."

Song Haonian was reluctant to part with Lily, but it was just a year of hard work, and he had to gain something to live up to this year. He also wanted to ask Lily to live in a new house. Next door, how do you enjoy yourself?
With these reasons, how dare Song Haonian not be diligent?

Talking more would make him feel sad, he could only prove his dissatisfaction with his wife with practical actions, he ate her over and over again, touched her flat and soft belly and said softly, "I just want a child to accompany you. "

Lily was extremely sleepy, and just thinking of him leaving again, she couldn't fall asleep, so she blushed and said in a low voice, "I don't want my baby to accompany me, people say my wife always comes to accompany me, and you will accompany me in the future."

Song Haonian said: "Don't worry, in a few years we'll have a better life, and I won't go out again."

Lily just couldn't bear him, and she wasn't the kind of short-sighted person who wanted to tie him to her belt to rest assured. She thought about it and said with a smile: "It's okay to go out. In two years, you can take me with you when you go out. I I haven’t traveled far, so I don’t know what it’s like outside.”

This is the truth. She has grown up and has never been to places other than Qingliu Town, that is, the villages around Qingliu Town. Except for Liushan Village, she has not been to many places.

In her previous life, she went to a big city to go to college, but in this life, she is still a country girl who has never seen the world.

Hearing what Lily said, Song Haonian couldn't help thinking: "At that time, we will have some money in our hands, and we won't have to work at home all day long. I will hire a good carriage and take you around. Last year I ate it in the north. A kind of mutton is really delicious, and I will take you to try it when the time comes."

He originally thought that when he was rich, he would hire a few people to farm the land, and he and his wife could just enjoy it at home, just like the patriarchs and villagers, that would be the best prospect. At this time, he thought, as long as he has some money in hand, he can bring his wife everywhere. It's also good to have a look.

He has been to many places and met many different people, but he has never seen anything better than Lily.It would be unfair for such a good daughter-in-law to be locked up in Qingliu Town all her life, unable to see the outside world.

People who are in love are always a bit silly, Song Haonian solemnly promised Lily that he would take her outside in the future, "We can still go to the capital city! I haven't been there either. The palace is as good, if we are lucky, we can meet the emperor!"

Lily smiled softly, of course she knew that the emperor was not so easy to see.But her husband was willing to have such a childish dream, so she was also happy, and the two of them pulled the hook together with their little fingers: "In the future, we will go to the capital to see the world together."

(End of this chapter)