A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

After several days, the sky finally cleared up. Although there was still mud and water on the ground, there was no problem going out.

Shen Wu carried the younger brother to the yard and placed him in the sun with his back to the sun for a while.

The two chickens that were originally tied under the wooden shed were led out and returned to their original place.

She threw some picked vegetable leaves to the two chickens to eat and immediately started taking things out to dry.

She tried stuffing some cattails into the clothes she had made earlier, and when she felt it was okay, she secretly took it out again. Now she was placing it in a wooden basin with several other clothes, waiting to be rinsed.

It's not that she's being pretentious, it's mainly because there's no way to wash the cloth before making clothes. It's been raining for almost seven or eight days in a row and she can't have nothing to do after cooking every day. After thinking about it, she decided to pick up the knife and start cutting clothes.

Each person had a Chinese-style double-breasted shirt with an inner lining, a thick coat filled with cattail hair, and two pairs of boxer briefs that she had sewn for each person. They had not rested for a moment in these days.

Gu Zhou said that winter was only half a month away, so she had to wash the cloth and sew the bedding and quilt quickly, otherwise when the cold came, she would shiver so much that she wouldn't be able to hold a needle.

Since Gu Zhou and Gu Wei had to sleep in one bed because they had to take care of their younger brother, she only needed to make two beddings, one big and one small. She would use the small one and the big one for the two of them.

Each person has a quilt. Since my skin is delicate, my mother left some small quilts from previous years that can be given to children.

Shen Wu fiddled with the straw mattress woven by Gu Zhou, wondering what else to do.

"Sister, do you want to go to the river to wash new clothes?" Gu Wei stood obediently beside her younger brother holding a small stool, looking up at Jiang Yu who was fiddling with the new things her brother had made.

"Well, I'll have to trouble Xiaowei to look after my brother later. I'll be back soon after I finish washing." Shen Wulazhan felt embarrassed because the mattress was rolled into a tube.

"Then my brother and I will wait for my sister to come back." Gu Wei sat on the stool and supported her younger brother's bamboo chair.

The ground in the yard should have been rammed, and once the rain stopped and the sun came out, it would be dry again in a day. Except for some places in the corners of the house where the sun couldn't reach and were still a little wet, the rest of the ground was dry as usual.

"Sister, please wash the new clothes and bed sheets. Xiaowei, be good, sister will be back soon." Shen Wu rubbed Gu Wei's hair, which was a little frizzy, and thought about finding time to wash Gu Wei's hair and then braid it into two big pigtails to make it easier to manage.

She had combed Gu Wei's hair once since she came here, casually tying it into a low ponytail. She didn't realize this until she had been working for half a day.

After saying goodbye to Gu Wei, Shen Wu walked towards the river carrying a large backpack and a small bag of soapberry fragments.

This soapberry bag didn't work after being used once or twice. She was too busy today to make it again, so she remembered it just before using it.

As Shen Wu walked towards the river, he suddenly remembered something.

In modern times, she was obsessed with handcrafts for a while and tried many things, including making soap...

In order to replicate ancient soap, she went to the riverside and the seaside, collected clam shells, took them back to burn, and mixed them with the water clarified from wood ash and lard to make lard soap.

Speaking of this, she was really bored at that time. Because she was in a bad mood and afraid of death, she frantically looked for various ways to enrich her life.

I also tried to weave cloth... but because I only bought a small amount of hemp, I only wove a little and was reluctant to use it, so I kept it as a treasure.

When we arrived at the river, it was only around ten o'clock and there were quite a few people there.

She didn't know anyone, so she tried to find a place where there was no one and quietly took out the clothes to wash.

The clothes she made were of special styles, and she didn't want others to notice the strangeness of the clothes, so she threw a large bunch of clothes into the water to soak them. She rubbed the cleaning bag a little, and when she saw foam coming out, she started to knead it.

It was her habit to wash new clothes, and she also wanted to dye them into a darker color, so that they would not only prevent dirt but also be conspicuous. So she quickly rinsed them and put them back into the backpack.

"Yuwa, wait for me." The person who came was an aunt, her hands were red from washing clothes. She hesitated for a long time before coming forward to talk.

Shen Wu subconsciously rolled up the clothes in the backpack so that she couldn't see them clearly: "Aunt, what's the matter?" She didn't know this person. She was not among the people she had seen since she woke up. She called all the aunts she didn't know "Aunt".

The person who came was a woman from Li Dahe's family. Actually, she came to help during the wheat harvest, but unfortunately she had done all the work when she first arrived in Jiangyu.

The villagers had said they would help the Gu family with work. First, the wife of the Gu family went to keep vigil and carry the coffin, and then she helped the family harvest and winnow the wheat. Everyone in the village was busy paying their taxes before they came back to work, but this kid finished all the work by himself.

When I was harvesting wheat, I saw her busying around from a distance, and I was a little skeptical that Jiang Yu didn't remember anything. But now that I've talked to her and I see that she hasn't had the energy she used to have, I believe it.

Li Dahe's wife rubbed her icy red hands and squatted down: "Auntie wants to ask you what this is. I see you always use it to wash things."

It turned out that she was not after the clothes. Shen Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and patiently explained to the aunt who came: "I made this with the broken soap beans. It can wash clothes more cleanly. If the clothes are too dirty, mix it in water for a while and then rub it more easily." As she spoke, she loosened the rope of the cleaning bag, opened the cloth, and showed the broken soap beans with some foam inside to the visitor.

"That's it! I know!" Li Dahe's wife said with some surprise. People don't use it much on weekdays, mainly because it pricks the hands and is difficult to produce foam. The hands still feel a little sticky after washing. Jiang Yu's method is to crush the soap beans and put them in a cloth bag. When washing, soak them for a while and rub them slightly to produce foam. As for the question of how to wash cleanly, they have never tried it.

If Jiang Yu had said this in the past, she would not have believed it. But after seeing that they have been using soap nuts for these few days, and after she noticed the changes in Jiang Yu after getting to know her, Li Dahe's woman firmly believes it.

"Wait a moment, auntie." She quickly got up and went back to where she was washing clothes. Ignoring the curiosity of several old friends who were washing clothes with her, she grabbed the piece of clothing that she had not been able to wash clean before and took it over.

"Can you let me try it?" Li Dahe's wife asked tentatively.

Shen Wu tied the cleaning bag back together to prevent the soap from falling out and handed it to the aunt: "You can try it, but I can't guarantee that it will be very clean. We have used this many times, and it is very difficult to clean when it is very dirty."

Li Dahe's wife couldn't wait to take it and tried it on her cuffs, but felt no change.

Shen Wu told her what to do: "First, soak the bag in water and put your sleeves in. Then take them out and rub them together."

She tried it according to Jiang Yu's method, and foam actually came out. After rubbing it a few times, some marks on the clothes could no longer be seen clearly.

"Oh, it really works!" Her surprised voice attracted several aunts who had been watching on the side, and they came over to watch her scrubbing her cuffs curiously.

The aunts were experienced in housework and could see the usefulness of this method at a glance, so they came over to try it out.

After trying the effects themselves, they all asked Jiang Yu how he did it. Jiang Yu patiently explained the method again in detail: "Aunts, just pick up some dried soap beans, smash them with a stone, put them in a cloth bag, soak them in water and rub them with the clothes when washing. It's done when there are bubbles. Rub more on the dirty places. Fresh ones are better. They will be harder to use if they have been used for a long time."

After she finished speaking, her aunts surrounded her and asked her questions for a long time, until Gu Zhou realized that she had been out for too long and came to the river to look for someone, and then he got away and went home.