Li Man recalled that when she was in college, she once entered the boys' dormitory. It seemed like this scene. It seemed that the family really lacked women.
But, who am I? Isn't it the family
Li Xiaowu was a little embarrassed. Originally, the second brother did all these tasks, but today there was fish in the pond in the village, and the second brother wanted to help keep the accounts, so he hadn't had time to leave.
Without thinking about it, Li Man knelt on the kang with one leg, reached out and opened the window on the wall, so that fresh air could come in and the smell would diffuse, and then she took out all the dirty clothes.
"Sister, let me wash it." Li Xiaowu hurriedly took the wooden basin from the house to the yard, and then pumped water vigorously from the well.
Seeing his small body and strenuous effort, Li Man smiled and told him to go to the side and do it by himself.
Li Man's strength is still not small. Although this is the first time to use this rolling well, she is quite skilled in using it. After a while, the water in the basin is full.
There was no laundry detergent and soap in this era, so Li Man had to do as the Romans did, using some plant ashes to make up for it. Fortunately, after scrubbing carefully several times, the clothes were excellent. Although they were old, they were clean. When you come up, you can smell the fragrance of grass and trees.
Li Man was very satisfied. She loves cleanliness very much. After washing her clothes, her hands were itchy, so she went back to the room, tore off the quilt on her bed, and threw all the sheets into the basin.
The sun was very sunny today, so she took all the quilts to the wall to dry.
But it was not very good to just wash my own, so I went to the east room again, dismantled all the quilts, dried the quilts, and washed all the quilts.
Because there were not enough bamboo poles to dry clothes, she found a rope in the kitchen and tied it in the yard, and then dried the washed sheets.
After everything was done, it was almost noon. Li Man used several gestures to let Li Xiaowu understand that there were only two of them at home at noon, and no one else would come back for dinner.
This is easy to handle, the two of them can eat whatever they want.
On the bench in the corner of the kitchen, there was a bag of cornmeal, half a bag of flour, and half a bag of white rice, and some sweet potatoes were piled on the ground. Apart from that, there was nothing else to eat.
Li Man thought about it, and decided to make some hand-rolled noodles. She went to the small vegetable garden in the backyard and picked two small cucumbers, washed them after she came back, and kneaded them again.
From the beginning to the end, Li Xiaowu squatted on one side, resting his chin on his hands, looking at her in surprise and admiration, his eyes filled with: My sister is really amazing.
Li Man also felt that this child was really distressing, and thought, if she hadn't been sick in modern times, if she had a child, she would be as old as him. Unknowingly, she cherished him a little more .
As soon as Li Mo entered the courtyard, he saw clean clothes and bed sheets all over the courtyard. He couldn't recover for a while, and when he walked to the kitchen door, he saw a slender and beautiful woman standing by the pot kneading dough.
The woman was wearing a gray cloth shirt with patches, the sleeves were rolled up high, revealing a section of snow-white arm.
Li Mo only felt that the whiteness was dazzling, and he wanted to look away, but his eyes were disobedient, and he stared at it as if he wanted to see more.
At this moment, Li Man suddenly turned her head, saw clearly the man who was staring at her stupidly at the door, and was also startled.