After dinner, Li Yue'e came to teach Su Mo how to make cotton trousers.
Su Mo has a strong learning ability. She watched Li Yue'e making cotton-padded clothes in the morning and got a general understanding of the production process. Su Mo volunteered to make the cotton trousers herself, and Li Yuee was there to guide her.
Su Mo first hemmed the cotton-padded clothes she made in the morning and got familiar with the operation of the sewing machine. Then she fixed the cotton with threads. Soon, the sewing machine started to operate smoothly.
Li Yue'e also sighed in her heart, Su Mo was indeed an educated youth from the city, she was smart. She had taught the boss and the second man how to make clothes before, but she didn't learn so quickly.
After finishing the cotton-padded clothes, Su Mo began to measure herself, cut the trousers, and then sewed, wadding, hemming, and threading. Under Li Yuee's guidance, they all did it in a stylish way. In two hours, a pair of cotton trousers was ready.
Li Yue'e checked it and said with a smile: "It's done well."
"Mom taught you well." Su Mo flattered Li Yuee.
Clothes these days don't have much style to speak of, and Su Mo isn't a particularly particular person. As long as she can keep warm and isn't particularly ugly, that's all.
Su Mo looked at the newly made cotton clothes and trousers, feeling happy in her heart. In a few days, she went to the city again, bought a piece of coarse cloth, and took advantage of the evening time to make cotton-padded clothes for the two of them.
Calculating the time, they should be in the bullpen in three or four days. Then she would find an opportunity to visit the team next door.
"By the way, Mom, I heard someone say that there are a lot of mountain products in the mountains in the northeast. Every autumn, we have to harvest them. The mountain products are picked up in several large baskets." Su Mo asked. .
Li Yue'e heard this and smiled: "Who did you listen to?"
“If there really were so many wild beasts, how could farmers’ lives be so miserable?”
"There are a lot of mountain goods, but there are also a lot of people. Everyone has nothing to eat, and they all go into the mountains when they have free time. If there are too many people, there won't be anything to pick up."
"Are there wild boars and pheasants on the mountain?" Su Mo was curious.
"Of course there are, but they are all deep in the mountains. I have almost never seen the mountains outside. Even if there is one occasionally, it has been beaten by the militia teams of various brigade to improve the food for everyone."
The militiamen were not vegetarians. They were all equipped with shotguns. Any wild beasts that dared to come down and waste food would be killed by them.
"Then our militia team usually goes to the mountains to hunt wild boars to improve food for everyone?" Su Mo asked again.
"Every year when cats are in winter, they go hunting to catch something to cheer everyone up. However, they don't dare to go very deep. They only dare to wander around the outside. They don't catch many things every year, so A few pheasants, hares, and the like. Wild boars are not found every year, so you have to be lucky to catch one or two."
Now the captain of the militia is Li Cuihua and her husband. As cowardly as he is, he is afraid of tigers in front and wolves in the back. How can he fight against anything? It's just a few small things he makes every year to stuff people's teeth, so that people can't say he's getting his work points in vain.
"Then why don't they go into the mountains?"
"Oh, those deep mountains are dangerous. I heard that there are tigers, wolves and bears in there, and they are all cannibals, so I don't dare to go there." Li Yue'e said, fearing that Su Mo wouldn't believe it, so she added.
"A few years ago, a brigade had a bad harvest. The militia team ventured into the mountains. A dozen people entered, but only five came out."
"If you want to harvest autumn, just hang out outside, but don't go to the mountains, you know? No matter how many things there are in the mountains, they are not as important as your own life." Li Yue'e explained.
"Yes, I understand." Su Mo nodded.
Look at the heroines in the novels of those days. They would go up the mountain and pick up wild boars and pheasants. She also thought about going up the mountain to solve the problem of eating meat, but she didn't know if she would have such a fate.
"You really want to harvest the autumn harvest?" Li Yue'e said casually, but she didn't expect that the third child's family really wanted to go.
"Yes, I want to pick up some mushrooms and mountain products, and then make some mushroom sauce and send it to the Long March." Su Mo said, she really thought so too. When the sweater is knitted, she can make some mushroom sauce for rice. Send it to Lu Changzheng.
"Now that the hazel mushrooms are almost gone, there won't be many left, so we have to go quickly." Li Yuee said. The third child is a caring person, and she knits sweaters and makes mushroom sauce. She had also sent some pine nuts and walnuts before.
"Well, I'll ask Daya to accompany you tomorrow. You're not familiar with this place, so don't get lost."
In the past two years, there were educated youths from other brigades who went to the mountains to harvest the harvest and got lost. I heard that it took two days of searching to find it, and when I found it, people were almost stunned.
"Okay, then I will go to the mountains with Daya tomorrow to see what wild animals there are." Daya is Lu Xingjun's eldest daughter, Lu Fengqin, who is 9 years old this year.
"At this time, there are still some hazel mushrooms, pine nuts and walnuts in the mountains, some chestnuts, and shepherd's purse, but they are not as tender as in spring. They are dug and dried at this time. In winter, when there are no vegetables to eat, it is good to cook them. "
Su Mo nodded.
The couple talked for a while, and Li Yue'e was about to go back. Su Mo quickly found a jar, filled it with about a pound of brown sugar, and took it back to her.
After Li Yue'e left, Su Mo saw that it was still early, so she took out paper and pen again and started her literary creation.
She planned to write three or four short stories of about a thousand words and send them to them first. They were all interesting stories about educated youths going to the countryside and full of positive energy. The country is encouraging educated youth to go to the countryside, so this kind of article should be easier to select.
After writing until the sky turned dark, Su Mo stopped writing and put the manuscript away.
Su Mo is not going to eat steamed buns tonight, but is going to make claypot rice with cured meat.
After closing the back window of the living room, Su Mo took out the small stove she used in the apocalypse, and then took out a small casserole. I found some fine firewood and lit the small stove, then brushed the small casserole with oil, put the washed rice into the casserole, added an appropriate amount of water, and put it on the small stove to cook.
While cooking, she cut some more sausages and bacon, and when the rice was almost ready, she spread the sausages and bacon on the rice. Then I took a small handful of cilantro and diced green onions. After the rice was done, sprinkled with the cilantro and diced green onions, then poured some soy sauce, and a fragrant pot of cured meat claypot rice was ready.
Su Mo was eating claypot rice, looking at the practical small stove, thinking that she had to find an opportunity to let this old man who had been with her for several years in the last days see the light of day again.
Her stove is specially made for the apocalypse. It is durable and easy to carry. It is especially suitable for the supernatural team who go out on missions and single people like her.
After finishing the meal, Su Mo put the cooled small stove back into the space. After cleaning the casserole, she also put it away.
She lit the kerosene lamp and started to boil water for a bath. After cleaning up, Su Mo went back to her room, closed the doors and windows, hung the curtains, turned on the lamp, and continued her literary creation. After writing until about ten o'clock in the evening, Su Mo turned off the lights and went to bed.
The next day, Su Mo got up early and went to the vegetable field to germinate all the seeds in several fields. Su Mo discovered that relying on the land here to grow plants actually saves a lot of energy.
In the end of the world, because the land contains zombie viruses, the soil for growing crops depends on earth-type supernatural beings. However, the soil produced by the earth element does not contain the mineral components needed for plant growth at all, and is quite barren.
Seeing that using the soil is no different from directly regenerating oneself, many wood-type superpowers like to directly regenerate, and Su Mo does the same.
This discovery was a real surprise.
In this way, in winter, she asked someone to make a few wooden frames, put some soil in the living room, so that vegetables could grow every day, and she could pretend to be doing research.
By then, her new varieties of vegetables will also have a provenance.
For breakfast, Su Mo fried two eggs and ate a steamed bun. As soon as she finished eating, she heard someone calling her outside the yard.
"Third Aunt, Third Aunt, are you at home?"
Su Mo walked out of the house and saw Lu Fengqin, standing outside the courtyard door with a backpack on her back, looking in.
None of the Lu family are short, and Lu Fengqin also inherited the height advantage. At the age of 9, she is about 130cm tall. It's just that there wasn't much to eat in this era, so she was very thin, with big eyes and two pigtails. She was a pretty girl.
Seeing Su Mo come out, Lu Fengqin quickly said: "Third Aunt, my grandma asked me to take you to harvest the autumn harvest."
"Fengqin, come in and sit for a while while I change my clothes." Su Mo called Lu Fengqin in, and Lu Fengqin opened the door and walked in.
Su Mo let Lu Fengqin into the main room and pretended to take a bun out of the steamer, "Here, eat a bun."
Lu Fengqin's eyes lit up when she saw the buns, "Third Aunt, is this a leek bun?"
Yesterday, Li Yue'e took 6 steamed buns back, and then took two to share with the children in the second bedroom. After Lu Fengqin finished eating, she had a deep memory. It was simply the most delicious bun she had ever eaten.
"Yes, leek buns, but this is the only one left. Eat it yourself and don't tell anyone." Su Mo said.
There are many children in the second bedroom, so it's okay to give her some delicious food occasionally, but she can't afford to give more. Besides, she still understands the principle of rising rice and grudges.
Lu Fengqin was thinking about taking it home and sharing it with her younger siblings. When Su Mo said this, she gave up and ate the buns in a few bites.
It's not that she, the eldest sister, is ignorant, it's that the third aunt said she couldn't tell anyone about it and ate it herself.
Su Mo put on work clothes, Jiefang shoes, and a backpack, and went out with Lu Fengqin.
Su Mo felt a little excited. She went up the mountain to harvest autumn, absorb energy, and look for wild ginseng!
