Siheyuan: Stab at Louzi at the beginning

Chapter 812 Brocade Hat and Sable Fur Coat
"If I take medicine but can't get full, and if I get sick and can't go to work, that's when I'm really done."

Xu Damao is a professional and won't laugh unless he can't help it.

Just like now.

He laughed angrily.

"You still want to go to work, so what are you still doing here? Now hurry up and go back to work."

What Ding Qiunan was embarrassed to say, Xu Damao said without any pressure.

It’s very simple to get rid of people.

It turned out that he was a guest. He had been treated several times and had three meals a day. At this time, if you visit relatives, you have to bring your own food coupons, otherwise you will have nothing to eat at the end of the month.

This Liang Ladi is a pure bad guest.

A nasty guest who wants to eat and drink for free.

"Hey, we'll be leaving right away. Director Xu, please go inside and sit down first. We'll be leaving right away after you pack your things."

Xu Damao had no doubts. This was the house he bought and it was his own home. He was not afraid at all and followed Liang Ladi into the room.

Da Mao walked around the yard and then went out to continue playing with the friends he had just met.

There was steam rising from the stove in the room, and a pot of water was boiling on it.

There were a few pieces of clothes hanging next to the stove. They were obviously freshly washed, from inside to outside, except for the cotton-padded clothes.

The cold weather at this time is really unbearable.

Not to mention the Northeast, there is no heating in winter, the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, and people have to rely on heating the kang. Basically, they can't even go out the whole winter, so they have to stay indoors.

But it’s different in other places. There’s no heavy snow blocking the roads and people can go out, so it’s not hibernation, but enduring the winter.

Just get through it all.

In fact, if you observe and summarize carefully, you will find that many of the things they say make sense.

For example, 'so and so did not survive the winter'. Generally speaking, an old person can live one more year if he can survive a cold winter without any illness or disaster. This is a true portrayal of the present.

Just one word: endure.

Qin Jingru once said that some people in the countryside now don’t even have beds to sleep on, so they just build a small earth platform on the ground, first covering it with a thick layer of wood ash, and then covering it with straw.

Place a hand-woven mat on top of the straw, and then spread wheat straw or rice straw on top of the mat because they are softer.

Finally, if conditions permit, put on a layer of linen sheets, the best would be cotton sheets, and then add a quilt, and then it will be a complete bed.

It's much better now. Before cotton was planted on this land, life was not a good place for people. There was no cotton, only hemp. Anyone who has seen hemp clothes knows that they are really not warm.

So how do they survive the winter? The answer is fire.

Among firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, firewood comes first.

Looking at old photos from the past, especially those of the countryside, it is as if a swarm of locusts has passed through. There is not even a blade of grass, let alone trees.

The lush greenery you see now is all freshly planted.

If you actually go to the countryside, you will find that there are not even any old trees.

Let alone the cities, especially Old City, where only rich people live and the rich people burn charcoal, so many old trees are preserved.

Also, those trees used to be landscape trees in some garden, which is a spiritual enjoyment.

Rich people don't wear linen clothes either, they wear brocade hats, mink fur coats, silk and satin. Brocade is a silk fabric, such as silk, mink fur coats are mink coats, and silk and satin are also silk fabrics.

The most common garment worn by the rich is "fur coat", which is clothes made of the fur of various animals. For example, in Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu's "Qiuxiang-colored python and white fox armpit arrow sleeves" is made of a small piece of fur from the armpit of a white fox. It can be said to be very luxurious.

This is real leather.

There is also Lin Daiyu's "crane cloak with white fox fur and bright red feather gauze". Everyone knows about white fox fur, but Lin Daiyu's crane cloak is made of a whole white fox fur. Although the leather is slightly inferior to that of the white fox fur, it is also very precious.

Moreover, the outside of this crane cloak is made of feather gauze, woven with bird feathers. It is not only beautiful in appearance, but also waterproof. Needless to say, the feather gauze is very precious.

There are also many different kinds of furs, such as golden pheasant fur, duck-cheek fur, stone blue sable fur with tassels, etc.

But there was no sheepskin, because some ordinary people who were not too poor could wear sheepskin, so the rich despised sheepskin.

Since ancient times, people have used animal fur to make clothes for the winter, so some people are still pursuing these things today, such as mink coats, crocodile leather shoes, crocodile leather belts, and fox fur scarves.

By the way, ordinary people used to be able to wear sheepskin, but now they can’t even afford woolen sweaters.

Let’s not talk about wearing shoes anymore. Let me say it again, poor people don’t wear shoes and can’t afford them. If they have time, they can just weave a pair of straw sandals to wear.

The problem of food and clothing has not yet been solved, what shoes should I wear?

Even now, in Beijing, you can still occasionally see people walking barefoot.

This is all normal.

Why did the boatmen pull the boats naked in the past? The main reason was that they were afraid of damaging their precious clothes.

Having said that, the topic has gone off topic again.

So Liang Ladi can have a cotton coat to wear, which is very good now compared to before.

Cotton-padded clothes are rarely washed. If you want to wash an old-fashioned cotton-padded clothes, you need to take the clothes apart and take out the lint inside. If conditions permit, it is best to re-stuff it.

Flicking cotton.

In this way, the cotton will return to its previous softness and fluffiness. If conditions do not permit, place it in the sun to dry.

Wash the outer fabric by hand and then sew the coat back together.

Don’t think this is difficult, it is actually a skill that most housewives have mastered and it is also a type of needlework.

Making clothes is a piece of cake. You can just sew it with needle and thread, and no one cares about it.

"Director Xu, look, my clothes have all been washed, and now I can't leave. You can't ask me to go back wrapped in a quilt, right? If possible, I would like to go back wrapped in a quilt. This quilt is really soft and warm, and there are at least 15 kilograms of cotton in it."

As expected of an experienced craftsman who is good at altering clothes, he can tell how much cotton is in the quilt just by feeling it in his hands.

"You really are going to any extreme lengths. You even washed your clothes just to stay here. Look at the clothes, they are still dripping with water. You obviously just washed them. If you washed them this morning, I might have believed you."

Liang Ladi smiled widely.

Then he admitted directly: "Yes, it was just washed not long ago. The coat is covered with oil and mud from sitting on the ground. If I don't wash it clean, I will feel uncomfortable wearing it. The small clothes inside are because I took the three children for a walk around the city yesterday. I was sweating and it was sticky and uncomfortable to wear, so I washed it."

Xu Damao:......

He was really speechless about this woman.

"I'm not asking you why you're washing clothes. I'm telling you to get back to work. If you don't, Director Liu might fire you for absenteeism."

(End of this chapter)