A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Gu Zhou helped her pull the rope and watched her mark on the rope with a thread that she got from somewhere.

Shen Wu deliberately kept it to himself and just teased her: "This is a secret, you can only tell us after we're done."

"Secret?" Gu Wei was obviously very happy! She held her two younger brothers and watched them work without blinking.

After measuring the widest part, it was time to measure the narrowest part. The Gu family's bed was exceptionally wide. Compared with the two beds Shen Wu had seen, it should have been specially made...

She had been making clothes for many years and had developed an eye for estimating length. She measured the bed herself with a hemp rope and found that it was nearly two and a half meters wide and more than three meters long.

"Okay! Thank you, Xiaowei, for playing with your brother. Brother and sister should go and do other things!" Shen Wu rubbed Gu Wei's head, put away the rope, and got up to go out.

Gu Zhou also touched her sister. She often did this. It seemed like she was trying to comfort her sister, saying that she had worked hard at home.

He was too embarrassed to speak, so he imitated her actions and touched his sister to go out: "Brother is going to be busy, Xiaowei, call brother if you have anything."

After the two of them came out, Shen Wu told Gu Zhou about her idea: "We have measured the approximate length and width of the bed. When the time comes, the one we can make can only be bigger, not smaller. If it is smaller, it will rest on the waist and back, making it uncomfortable to sleep."

"Okay! Then please tell me how to do it and I'll do it!"

"You want to do it?!" Shen Wu was very surprised.

"Well, I'll do it! I've woven bamboo baskets before, so I should be able to learn it quickly, and it won't waste your time." In fact, he wanted to learn how to finish the work in the middle of the night so that he would have other things to do when the time came.

"Okay." Shen Wu thought that there were so many things to do in winter, and it would be great to have someone to help her share the burden.

She squatted down, pulled out a few bundles of straw, found a few longer and stronger ones, and tied them into a bundle until they were as small as her palm.

After doing seven or eight of them, she stopped and asked Gu Zhou who was squatting on the side: "Do you understand?"

Gu Zhou nodded: "I understand, just bundle up the wheat straw, the same method I used before."

Now that he understood it, Shen Wu continued. She first demonstrated to him how to weave.

"In this case, do you want to make it the same width as the bed, and then repeat on the next row until it's the same length as the bed?"

Gu Zhou was smart and had figured out how to do it from her demonstration.

Shen Wu nodded excitedly: "Yes, that's right."

Gu Zhou took the bundle of straw from her hand and said, "Let me try."

Although his hands were the slowest, he copied Shen Wu's movements accurately step by step. Since he only tied a few, he only did a little bit of weaving.

"I got it," Gu Zhou was very happy and showed her the few tricks he had made.

Shen Wu nodded in agreement with his work: "Let's tie it up quickly while I get some firewood!"

She was about to run out the door, but Gu Zhou stopped her: "No need! I can do it myself!"

Shen Wu stopped and asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Hurry up, both of you!"

Gu Zhou shook his head: "The amount you and I bundle is different. If we weave it like this, it will be easy for one piece to be higher than the other. Wouldn't it make people feel more isolated?!"

Indeed... Shen Wu was silent. The doses they divided were of different weights.

"Okay, I'll get you some firewood to sit on." Shen Wu was about to go out again, but he stopped her again: "No need, I have this!"

He patted the straw next to him so he could sit on it.

"Okay..." Shen Wu was deflated. She just couldn't think straight.

Gu Zhou was sitting on the straw mattress. She remembered that she hadn't put on her shoes yet! Yesterday, she was thinking about making shoes for embarrassing things, but then she started making up stories. She even fell asleep while making up stories and forgot about the shoes.

She went back into the house, picked up her shoes, and raised her buttocks that had just sat down.

Gu Wei was very surprised to see Sister Jiang Yu sitting like this and then standing up: "Sister, what are you doing?"

Shen Wu laughed at herself: "Sister was going to continue working on the shoes and forgot that there was no light in the room."

Yes, the room was very dark, so dark that... it was not very bright even in the broad daylight. That was why there were no windows, but she couldn't just use an iron rod to chisel one out.

Let’s not talk about the problem of how to find the iron rod, just use a chisel to chisel it out, will she still be able to keep her hand?

"My elder sister went to the main room to make shoes. If I have something to ask, I will call her and she will sit at the door."

"Okay!" Gu Wei nodded obediently.

Shen Wu came out and stood at the door of the main hall, holding the small backpack and sitting facing the yard. He then sat back inside the house for fear of blocking Gu Zhou's light.

Sitting too far outside would block the light, but sitting too far inside would also be in the way, so Shen Wu chose a compromise and sat next to the cotton bag.

Gu Zhou was concentrating on tying and studying the mattress. Although he felt her movements, he did not look up.

Shen Wu already had three pairs of shoes that required the above steps. She continued to poke the shoes with an awl and then thread the hemp rope.

I have to say that she is getting more and more skilled at her job, and now she is much faster than at the beginning.

The upper is the top layer of the superimposed base insole. It needs to pass through the top layer of cloth and the cloth on the upper, and then be connected in series.

Be sure to tighten the hemp rope so that it is firmly embedded in the fabric. If it is too loose, it will easily fall apart and tear. If it is tighter, it will firmly hold several layers of insoles together to form a whole, which will be more wear-resistant and durable.

A day later, when Shen Wu was making shoes again, he felt that some of his good fingertips began to ache again.

Every time she pierced a hole or sewed a stitch, she would remind herself in her heart that it was okay, just one more push and it would be done.

I continued doing it one by one, pua myself, trying to ignore the pain in my fingertips.

As he was making the shoes and tying the wheat straw, the sun soon rose high in the sky.

Shen Wu was so absorbed in his work that he only looked up when he felt a little hot from the sun.

The shoe in her hand was only one or two stitches away from being finished. She gave up the idea of ​​standing up to stretch her muscles and sped up the piercing process.

After a few attempts, I finally made the first cloth shoe.

Shen Wu threaded the end of the thread into the cloth and hid it, then finally passed it through his heel and made a loop before cutting the thread.

After finishing one, the tension in her heart began to relax a little. She changed her sitting position and took out the second pair from the small backpack. This pair belonged to Xiaowei. Although the size of the shoes was deliberately made a lot bigger, it was still smaller than Gu Zhou's.

She compared it with the sole of the shoe and continued with the previous drilling and stitching process.

When she finished the second time, the sun outside was almost as high as it was when she first came.

Shen Wu was so tired that he pinned the needle to the shoe on his body, stood up and patted his body.

I sat for too long and my body became stiff and painful.

She stood up and stretched her stiff muscles. When her body made a cracking sound, Shen Wu thought she was going to die. After finding out that it was just caused by long-term inactivity, she lost her curiosity.

Shen Wu stretched a few times, then turned back to check Gu Zhou's progress... He had actually already knitted a few lines? !