"Dad, mom, the ewe have been born," Sun Gang put the ewe who had recovered his strength and the little lamb who could already leave back to the sheep pen, and then returned home to report the good news to his parents.

"That's great, how many lambs have been laid?" Sun Ma asked happily.

"Two, now they're standing up and leaving."

"You have to take care of me in the past two days. I have to make up for the lamb just now." Dad Sun was also very happy. It was a happy event to lay cubs in rural livestock, and it was also a big deal. "Get some wheat bran and corn noodles later, boil them and replenish them for the ewes."

"There are so many rice soup today. I'll get some corn noodles and boil them in the pot later. I'll take them to see the lambs by the way." Sun's mother agreed.

After breakfast, Sun's mother brought a pot of hot corn noodles and went to the orchard to feed ewes with wheat bran.

My father went to the street to buy some bean cakes. Since the snow had not melted yet, the icy on the road was a little slippery, so he didn't drive. Anyway, it was only more than two miles away, so it wouldn't take long to walk slowly.

Soon, Sun's mother came back from the orchard to feed the sheep and praised Sun Gang. She said that he raised the sheep to be fat and strong, and the lamb was also very healthy.

"Gangwoo, aren't you going to plant trees on the ridges of the ponds in the spring next year? When will you dig a tree pit?" Dad Sun remembered such a thing.

"Oh, I forgot about it during this period, so let's dig it in the afternoon." Sun Gang did forget about this during this period. In rural areas, trees are usually dug tree pits before the New Year to freeze the soil, and let the low temperature kill the pests and bacteria that may cause diseases.

Although it is a slack season now, Sun Gang and his father have no plans to hire people. After all, there are not many things, they are just fragmentary and not very tired. There is no need to find someone to help. The rural people are real, but it is not good to owe too much favors.

In the afternoon, Dad Sun carried his head and Sun Gang held the shovel. The soil was frozen and it was a little hard. Fortunately, the sun was strong at noon and it was melting in the afternoon.

Moreover, the saplings are not very big. You need to plant poplar seedlings as thick as eggs. The pit is more than half a foot deep. The ridge of the weir pond is more than 100 meters long and nearly four meters wide. One pit is dug on both sides of the weir pond ridge, and two parallel pits are dug every three meters.

It took me an afternoon to dig half of it, with the size, depth and line spacing according to the above standards, meticulously.

In the afternoon of the following days, Sun Gang and his father dug all the ridges of the pond and the tree pits. In the morning, the soil was frozen, and in the afternoon, the soil was soft and easy to dig.

Some pits were dug in the dam, and Sun Gang planned to plant some trees around the dam. Some pits were also dug in the orchard, which were used to plant osmanthus trees. Osmanthus trees were not safe in the field, and each half-large tree was worth hundreds or thousands of yuan, so people couldn't help it. So Sun Gang planned to transplant them into the orchard so that there was no need to worry about that happening. Sun Gang planned a clearing area and prepared to build a osmanthus forest. When it bloomed, the fragrance was everywhere in the garden.

After working hard for a few days, Sun was relieved just now.

"Gangwa, your brother is back. He will leave tomorrow and arrive the morning after tomorrow. You can drive to pick him up when the time comes." Sun's mother told her son. Sun Gang's brother is about to get married, so he has to come back some time in advance to prepare.

"Yeah, OK, I get it."

"By the way, you will drive me to the street to flip the quilt cover." Sun's mother almost forgot to flip the cotton into a quilt, and then sew it into a quilt with a red quilt. The custom of Sun Gang here is that her parents want to make a quilt of ten or eight for her newlywed son.

"oh."

Sun Gang took his mother, the car was filled with large sacks of cotton, and came to a workshop on the street that specialized in cotton-fueling.

Nowadays, handmade elastic cotton has gradually been replaced by machinery and has decreased, but handmade elastic cotton is still popular in many places.

This small workshop has been open for more than ten years. Every autumn and winter, many old customers who live nearby come to visit. It is a semi-hand and semi-mechanical workshop. Sun's mother has been processing cotton mattresses here for so many years.

Traditional quilts are cheap and warm, so they are definitely much more comfortable than those with chemical fiber materials.

In the memories of many people born in the 1970s and early 1980s, the cotton-woman who once walked around the streets and shouted with a "cotton bow" on his back can basically not be seen. At that time, with the sound of strings, flowers flew, and a pile of cotton was pressed into a neat bedding, as if it was a magic trick, which surprised the children. At that time, the cotton-woman craftsmen also walked around the streets and were overwhelmed with business.

After removing the seeds of the cotton, use a string bow to flip the cotton quilt and cotton coat to process it to this point.

The cotton-padded tool has a large wooden bow, and uses beef tendon as strings; there are also wooden trowels, shovel heads, millstones, etc. When playing, use wooden trowels to frequently hit the strings to make the cotton on the board gradually looser. Later, two people will use yarn vertically and horizontally to form a mesh to fix the cotton trowel. After the gauze is ready, use a wooden disc to press and grind it to make it flat, solid and firm. According to folk customs, the yarn used is generally white.

More than a dozen beds of processed cotton wool were piled up by the wall, and the cotton pressing machine heard the sound of cotton wool from time to time. The boss and his wife were wearing masks and took out the long strips of cotton wool that had just been pressed out, spread them flat onto a machine, and then used bamboo sticks to tinker evenly with the cotton wool. The boss was busy in front of the machine, while Sun Gang and his mother were waiting quietly at the door of the store.

When applying a quilt, you must go through several processes such as breaking, spreading, grinding a quilt, and putting on a yarn net. After introducing the cotton-elastic machine, the old quilt that was originally dull and lacked elasticity was re-opted by the cotton-elastic master and showed a new white and soft shape.

When the boss saw a new guest, he put down his cotton bow, came out to rest for a while, and smoked a cigarette at the same time. It is easy to cause fires in the workshop, so he can't hold it in such a big addiction to smoking.

A cotton bow is a specialized cotton-spreading bow. It can be long or short according to personal habits. By tapping the strings on the bow with a hammer, we can dip the cotton and make the cotton into a square shape. The iconic sound of cotton-spreading sounds we hear are made by them. This is the most basic tool for cotton-spreading. You need to sort out cotton by this "bow".

The boss greeted Sun's mother and started chatting with Sun Gang.

"After a day, I was so tired that my back was sore, my nostrils were covered with hair and my head was very dirty. Which young man would do such a job?" The boss told Sun Gang that he and his wife could barely maintain this small shop now, but it was too difficult to pass on the skills, and his children were unwilling to learn it.

Cotton-stretching is an ancient craft, and we cannot do without it even in modern life. Because even the hard and black cotton wool that has been re-stretched, it is white and soft as new, which is very magical. However, the work of the garden craftsman is very hard and the dust is heavy. Many people are working in the open air, and they can open it by simply finding a corner or building a shed. Almost no one wants to engage in this profession.

The boss also said that you can usually play one bed in an hour, and you can play seven or eight beds in a day by just playing cotton.

When the boss saw the amount of cotton on the car, he had to ask his mother to come and pick it up in two days, because the process was there, so he couldn't do it even if he wanted to speed up.

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