【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

"Okay, get the cloth and cotton out and start making clothes. Meizi, you take everyone's measurements and make clothes. Each person should make four sets of underwear. Use the half piece of cloth we were given and the cotton to make two sets of cotton-padded jackets and four pairs of cotton socks. If you're busy enough, you can also make a cotton hat for each person."

The Luobu was found in An County, and my family was given half a piece. Luobu is breathable and is just right for making inner clothes.

Li Meizi nodded obediently, "Okay."

Both Chunsheng and herself can do these things. She was picked up by Chunsheng's biological mother and brought home. The farming family was poor and was afraid that Chunsheng would not be able to get married when he grew up, so they arranged a marriage for them. Chunsheng's mother raised her as a farm girl. She can do laundry, cooking, housework, make clothes, farm, etc., and she is very skilled at it.

"Chunsheng, you spread the mat, you sew the mattress and I'll sew the quilt. You two little guys go feed the chickens, ducks and geese. Don't get close to the pigs and cows. They can be very ferocious when they go crazy." Yun Xi made the arrangements and started to thread the needle with Chunsheng.

"Yeah." Li Yanran pulled her brother to the backyard, and scooped a ladle of rice when passing by the kitchen.

Li Chunsheng was delighted to see the fluffed white cotton and asked, "Mom, how many kilograms does the mattress weigh?

"Two pounds, so you can make four. Meizi, make the clothes thicker, otherwise they won't be windproof."

"Hey!"

Li Meizi skillfully picked up the scissors and cut the cloth.

Li Chunsheng waited until she finished cutting, then took the scissors and divided the 13-meter-by-1.4-meter piece of cotton cloth into three larger pieces and three smaller pieces, and handed it to Yun Xi.

After Yun Xi got it, she spread a smaller piece of cotton cloth on the ground, then spread the cotton evenly on it, and then took out a larger piece of cotton cloth to cover it. She first locked the edges around it. The upper piece of cloth was larger, so she wrapped the lower piece of cotton cloth, folded it up and sewed it. This can prevent the cotton from running out of the seams. The stitches of the locked edges around the edges must be fine and dense, which is quite labor-intensive.

In order to prevent cotton from leaking out, Yun Xi sewed several straight lines horizontally and vertically in the middle to ensure that cotton would not leak out.

A quilt weighs four pounds, and four quilts require sixteen pounds of cotton. They can be sewn in one day. A single quilt is 1.2 meters wide and two meters long. Two small ones can be used as a cover. This weight is enough for sleeping on the kang.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chunsheng finished sewing the mattress, put it away, and got up to make dinner, while Yun Xi was making the quilt cover. The quilt cover was very easy to sew, and all he had to do was sew a rope around the opening and tie it up.

The weather was getting cooler, and bedding came in handy. Seeing that Mei Zi only had four sets of cotton coats left to sew, Yun Xi went over to help.

Twenty-four pounds of cotton were used for making cotton clothes and mattresses, leaving only six pounds for making cotton clothes and cotton shoes, which was barely enough. An adult's cotton coat required at least eight taels of cotton, and a child's required five taels of cotton.

Not long after, Li Chunsheng announced that it was time for dinner. Dinner was a pot of porridge and steamed salted fish. It tasted okay, but it was very inconvenient because there was no oil. He couldn't cook, so he had to think of a way.

After dinner, with the sunset still shining, the three of them worked quickly to finish making all the cotton-padded clothes. They would make socks and shoes tomorrow. The straw sandals on their feet, which were uncomfortable and leaky, should have been replaced long ago.

"Mom, if you want to make shoes, I'll make some paste and use old clothes as soles." Li Meizi said.

"Okay, we're not short of money now, and we're not living in poverty, so there's no need to save. Make four pairs of plain shoes for each person, and two pairs of cotton shoes for each person to wear alternately. There'll be plenty of rabbit fur left over after making a pair of rabbit fur boots for each person. By splicing it with gray squirrel fur, we can also make a vest for each person, which is guaranteed to keep them warm." Yun Xi happily arranged, "Let's do this this year first. In winter, we'll frequently add firewood to the kang in the middle of the night. Next year, when the price of cotton drops, we'll buy a few dozen kilograms and make an eight-kilogram quilt. That way, we won't feel cold when we sleep in bed in winter."

Yun Xi knew about the winter conditions here from the original owner's memory. It was usually very cold, the kind of cold that went right to the bone marrow, and it would snow, so she wanted to make some thick quilts.

"Mom, that's not necessary. Four pounds is enough."

Li Chunsheng was shocked and refused immediately. My goodness, an eight-jin quilt, I have never heard of anyone being so extravagant. In the past, in a good year, a jin of cotton would be sold for two hundred wen per jin. This time, the old cotton I bought was sold for three hundred and fifty wen per jin. It is too expensive!

"What are you afraid of? I have bought cotton seeds. If you don't buy them, we will plant them ourselves next year. There are two acres of wasteland in the east. Two acres of cotton can produce more than 200 kilograms of cotton, which is enough." Yun Xi understood his feelings. The family had finally managed to get so much money, so it would be best to save it.

However, the cotton seeds in her system have a yield of more than 200 kilograms. They are not ordinary cotton seeds, but cotton seeds from advanced time and space. The area of ​​one acre here is small, so the yield is at least 800 to 1,400 kilograms.

Then I will give my stepson and Mei Zi a big surprise!

"Mom, did you really buy the cotton seeds? If we can plant two acres of cotton, we can make a few more quilts. The extra cotton can be sold for a lot of money." Li Chunsheng was very happy.

"Okay, I said I have it. It's getting dark, let's pack up and go back to rest. I didn't buy any lamp oil."

What can't I buy in the system? I have lamp oil, but it's not available in the grocery store, so it's hard to get it out.

Yun Xi got up and went to the kitchen to get some water to wash up. She washed her face, brushed her teeth, wiped her body, and then soaked her feet. There were only two wooden basins in the house, one for the girls and one for the boys. Alas, there were not enough wooden basins.

After washing up, Yun Xi hurried out with the rice before dark to find Li Ba Niu and said bluntly, "Baniu, my family needs five large wardrobes, five wooden boxes, ten wooden tubs, two bathtubs, and three washbasins. Oh, and can you make a steamer? I want a two-layer one. I also need five bamboo cups, ten bamboo backpacks, and ten bamboo baskets."

Li Ba Niu rubbed his hands excitedly and quickly wrote down the fifty kilograms of rice. "Don't worry, Third Sister-in-law, I'll make it for you in half a month. Just come and pick it up when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll come get it when the time comes. Make it stronger for me."

"No problem, just wait and see."

When Yun Xi returned home, Li Chunsheng was installing a bamboo window. He had taken the time to weave it. The bamboo window had some gaps left in it and was installed on the window, which allowed for ventilation and blocked some mosquitoes.

"Not bad, Chunsheng, your craftsmanship is really good. I bought some gauze and will cut some to put it on tomorrow." Yun Xi gave a thumbs up.

Li Chunsheng said quickly, "Don't worry, wait until I finish making the wooden windows and leave space for the gauze, and then we can install it together."

"Okay, wooden windows are good too, they keep out the wind in the winter."

The afterglow in the sky completely disappeared. Yun Xi yawned and pulled her children who were playing in the mud back to bed. She was used to falling asleep at seven or eight in the evening and waking up at four or five in the morning. Her biological clock set it so that she would be extremely sleepy as soon as the time came.

After a sleepless night, Yun Xi woke up the next day with her face buried in the fragrant quilt and didn't want to get up.

"Mom, I need to pee."

Unfortunately, my son didn't give me face and asked to urinate.

"Get up! It's past the hour of Mao and it's a little cold today. Put on the undershirt you just made yesterday."

Yun Xi got up and got dressed. She looked at the weather forecast and saw that the temperature was about to drop. There would be a small drop in temperature first, followed by a big drop in temperature.