Back home, she went straight into the west room with her basket, first hiding the cultivated seeds, then taking out the various items from the basket.
When Li Zhengguo came in, he saw three porcelain basins filled with things. "What is this?" Su Dan Novel Net
Li Zhengguo pointed at the things wrapped by vines.
"Rabbit meat and rabbit skins. We'll deal with them tonight. Just leave them like this for now. Go catch some ground cherry fruits to eat."
Tian Jing took the wild vegetables to the east room and gave them to Li Min to pick. She went to the kitchen to boil water herself.
After washing her feet, putting on nylon socks, and wearing new shoes, Tian Jing went to the east room. "The shoes are very comfortable, thank you, Mother-in-law."
Mother Li, who was making clothes for her daughter-in-law, smiled and shook her head. "We're family, why be so polite?"
"Then I won't be polite. Mother-in-law, hurry up and sew. Li Min, put down your sweater and help. I want to take a bath, it's been many days."
"I want to wash too." Hearing that Tian Jing wanted to take a bath, Li Min felt her scalp itching and scratched her head. "I haven't washed my hair or taken a bath for half a month."
"Are you going to get lice?"
Seeing Li Min scratching her head vigorously, Tian Jing got scared. Many people had lice on their heads during this era.
The original owner was a clean person. Although bathing was inconvenient, she always secretly washed her hair because Tian Ping had lice. The original owner was afraid of catching them, so she washed her hair frequently.
Moreover, the original owner's hair was short, and a basin of hot water was enough when divided. Naturally, she didn't have lice on her head.
"No way?" Li Min, who was scratching her head, stopped. "I had them when I was a child. Later, my mother combed them for me every day, and they were gone."
Mother Li put down her needlework and rummaged through the kang cabinet to find her treasured comb. "Take it and comb yourself. There are many people in the family recently. I don't know if someone passed it on."
When Li Min actually combed out a large louse, she screamed and jumped off the kang. "It's over, quickly, quickly wash the bedding and air out the blankets."
Tian Jing touched her numb scalp. "Hurry up, Mother-in-law, don't be busy making clothes. Take everything off the kang. Li Min, you wash the bedding and blankets. I'll boil water and scald everything, then wash my hair and take a bath."
"From now on, stay away from those people. You can talk and do things, but don't be too friendly with them.
"Mother-in-law, you can wash your hair with the water in the clay pot first. When I come back from boiling water, you can take a bath too."
The three women, mother-in-law and daughters-in-law, each with their own tasks, hurriedly began their anti-louse campaign.
Mother Li washed her hair and took a bath, and only then did Li Min wash the bedding and blankets.
Li Zhengguo carried water back and forth multiple times. Finally, Tian Jing directed him to carry the scalded bedding and blankets to the Ku River to rinse them.
After Li Min washed her hair and took a bath, Tian Jing had no time to wash and could only wait until after dinner. She hadn't planned to wash today, but because of Li Min, the whole family had a big cleaning.
Lunch was made by Mother Li and Tian Jing. Li Min continued to wash the blankets, washing her elder brother's thin quilt. If she hadn't been afraid of lice, she would have washed them together from the beginning.
When Li Zhengguo returned carrying the bedding, he saw his sister washing his thin quilt. He was stunned. He had forgotten. Did Tian Tian want to share a quilt with him?
Li Min had a lot of strength. While wringing the water from the bedding with her elder brother, with a *cila* sound, the quilt cover, which had been around for many years, was torn by the brother and sister.
Mother Li was heartbroken. She opened her mouth to scold her daughter when she heard her daughter-in-law speak, "That's good. We can keep it to make quilt pads. The ones I made yesterday aren't suitable to return to Sister-in-law Niu."
Yesterday, she had used her own clothes to make quilt pads, but the pieces of cloth were too small. The cloth pieces on the quilt pads that Sister-in-law Niu brought were not small at all. Even if Sister-in-law Niu didn't say anything, would Sister-in-law Niu's mother-in-law and sisters-in-law not talk about it after they were returned?
"But, but, what about the quilt cover?" Li Min asked weakly.
"Are you stupid? What do you think all that fabric in my room is for?"
"That's floral cotton cloth." Li Min felt heartbroken. She had glanced at the bolts of cloth when she went into the west room to get the quilt. She liked every one of them.
"They were bought to be used. Replace Mother-in-law's quilt cover, and the quilt in my room, replace them all." Tian Jing made a decision that could not be refused.
Li Min glanced at her elder brother and mother, then lowered her head and continued to wring water, applying less force.
After lunch, Li Zhengguo let Chen Suozhu go home. Tian Tian was going to take a bath, and he didn't want any other man to hear the movement over there, not even Chen Suozhu, who was devoted to his sister.
After washing her hair and taking a bath, Tian Jing sat on the cool bed basking in the sun, her eyes squinting comfortably.
Li Zhengguo was also chased away to take a bath.
After he finished, Tian Jing dragged him to cut out the quilt covers.
The floral cotton cloth was cut out and soaked by Tian Jing in salt water. Li Min found it strange. Tian Jing only gave her a few words: "Shrinks and fades slower."
In the evening, the three women began to sew quilts.
Li Min hugged her new quilt cover and quilt and sniffed it deeply. "It smells so good."
"Nonsense," Mother Li slanted a look at her daughter. "It was washed with shampoo, so of course it smells good?"
Her daughter-in-law insisted on washing the quilt cover with shampoo because it was effective at removing oil, but she used almost half a bottle, which made her heartache.
"Hehe, shampoo is great. My hair smells good too." Li Min gave her mother a silly smile and quickly carried the quilt onto the kang in the east room.
Tian Jing smelled the faint scent of shampoo in the air. This stuff was better than soap or lye for washing hair. The fragrance was just right, and its cleaning power was strong. No wonder it sold for over three yuan a bottle? Next time, she would buy a few more bottles.
For dinner, Li Zhengguo stewed rabbit meat, made in the spicy rabbit meat style according to Tian Jing's method.
Li Min rubbed her bulging belly. What should she do? If she kept eating like this, would she eat the family poor?
Tian Jing didn't want to deal with this sister-in-law who was being overly dramatic from time to time. She went back to her west room to rest. She didn't need to wash her face or feet tonight.
After dealing with the rabbit skins, Li Zhengguo returned to his room. When he tried to get into Tian Jing's bed again, he was driven away by Tian Jing.
"Your quilt has been washed and sewn. Also, when can the new quilt be brought back? In winter, your thin quilt..."
Forced to sleep separately, Li Zhengguo's expression didn't change much. "Soon."
"How soon? I also want to go to the county town."
"We'll go to the county town after things at home are done. If it's not delivered by then, I'll go get it."
When she woke up in the morning, facing the enlarged face in front of her, Tian Jing looked at the quilt on her body again. It was Li Zhengguo's thin quilt. Could it be that she had crawled into it in the middle of the night?
The reason she slept back in Li Zhengguo's arms wasn't a big problem.
The problem was, why had she been sleeping so well every night since coming to the Li family? Was it just because of the quietness in Ku Mountain? Had her insomnia from the apocalypse been cured?
Li Zhengguo, who had his eyes narrowed, waited for a long time, only to see Tian Jing get up and put on her clothes.
Since Tian Tian didn't mind, he would pretend not to know.
In the morning, Mother Li had finished making a set of corduroy jacket and pants for her daughter-in-law.
Tian Jing tried them on. They fit perfectly, unlike the clothes of this era which were loose and long.
"Mother-in-law's hands are so skilled. In the remaining time, first make clothes for yourself, Li Min, and Li Zhengguo. Everyone should make corduroy clothes that fit just right in terms of looseness and tightness."
"For the outer jacket of the padded clothes, when I go to the county town again, I'll see if there are any cheaper fabrics."