You can write during the day, why do you have to write at midnight? ! Do you want to race against time? How can you run too long when you can't even run?
How not to be an "aunt"?
How about ...
? -2008
Sure enough, the back pain began. Especially when you stay in bed for a long time at night.
Lumbago is caused by sewing a quilt, and it is necessary to sew a quilt after cotton is finished.
The day before yesterday morning, I tied two quilt covers loosely to the electric car and began to worry about which street to start looking for cotton. Thinking about a neighbor upstairs, thinking about thinking, there are footsteps in the corridor, and I am waiting by the door. It's really her coming down. We learned that she went out to play cotton not long ago. ...
Go out of the gate, get on the road, turn left at the farmer's market street, cross the butcher's shop, vegetable shop and grocery stall, and you will soon see the old cotton street sign. Turn into the alley, and on the mottled wall facing the street, the three characters of "playing cotton" are written impressively. It took me into a small yard.
In the workshop abandoned in the wild like a ruined temple, piles of cotton are piled on the ground, and cotton wool like cobwebs is hung on the rafters. Cotton wool is flying in the air and the machine is roaring. My two quilts are weighed first. When I was locking the car before, I met a woman who came out with a cotton cover and learned that five or six kilograms of cotton was enough to make a quilt.
"Four pounds." The craftsman with white hair hanging from his eyebrows said, like a centenarian.
"A * * * four catties?" I asked.
"One * * * four Jin."
"Oh, then add your six catties. I want five pounds for a quilt. "
It is said that their best cotton here is 15 yuan a kilo. The labor cost of beating a catty of old cotton is 1 yuan. Hanging above the workbench, one reel cotton net sleeve 10 yuan. I began to calculate the cost of this trip. Don't trust to ask again:
"Are two quilts covered with a * * * four Jin?"
"It's four Jin."
Someone nearby laughed. I finally understand that this foreign accent says ten pounds. A woman who also came to play cotton said, "How can I cover two Jin of cotton?" ? ! It turns out that there is more confusion. "
I'm not ashamed. Imagine, in fact, that two pounds of cotton can cover your arms, but not your legs. "Four catties of cotton" put my quilt on the workbench and cut it in half. Another thin old craftsman put them one by one at the entrance of the cotton spreader, and with the sudden noise, rows of loose white cotton poured out. "Four catties of cotton" kept rolling with a long wooden stick, and the gray quilt cover turned into several huge white cotton rolls. After passing the scale, it is basically intact. I also bought a catty of new cotton to supplement it.
Two craftsmen took the cotton rolls to the workbench, spread them out layer by layer within the size range I needed, and then spread new cotton. Then pull a piece of mesh from the side to cover the cotton up and down, cut the hanging mesh like a curtain with scissors and stuff the corners in. Then, each of them took a big round weight like the wooden flat pot cover that people used to use and began to roll the quilt cover back and forth. Folding, binding and finishing.
I settled accounts with the female boss, and the male boss helped me mend two quilt covers on the electric car. He staggered to me a bit like polio sequelae: "Sister, come back when you are gone." They are all outsiders, and I don't know how many years they have been here to make a living.
Two quilts and I crowded into the electric car and went home like lightning. I won't think of the screen name I saw in the UC conjoined room on the internet in the past: playing cotton. I don't think he has ever seen playing cotton.
He once said: Hu Tiantian is right, I don't know what a plan is.
Someone answered: cotton has been like this for only a few days.
He wrote a sentence about my screen name: Today, the horizon is covered with Wei Yun.
Let me add: I rested yesterday, and I have two ounces of cotton in my hand.
Now I have two 5 kg cotton covers in my hand. They are wide and thick on the ground, so it is not easy to find enough cloth to wrap them at home.
In the past, people's quilts were relatively narrow, about 1㎡. Now the smallest quilt is 1㎡, and there are basically no ready-made smaller quilts on the market. 1The quality of cotton covers in 0 yuan is very poor, so they must be wrapped with a layer of cloth and fixed with a few stitches with a line plow before they can be put into the quilt cover for use.
It was not until evening that the quilt was covered. Clean up the cotton wool on the ground, only to see it everywhere. Finally, the two quilts were covered with brand-new warm quilts and spread out on the bed, showing a thriving state and vigorous momentum. I suddenly thought of the wedding twelve years ago and first came into contact with these quilts. The sun and the moon fly, and things change. The wrinkles on the smooth skin began to creep, and the cotton in the soft bedding had hardened. Cotton can still be loose after ten years of beating; Wash your face every day, but elegance is gone. As for the fragile mind, it has long been impossible to open the layers of packages, and it is even more unbearable to hit it off. If we are still used to using quilts, I will be 50 years old playing with cotton in ten years. People will say "slow down, aunt".
Yesterday morning, when I saw my husband and son get out from under the soft and brand-new quilt, it suddenly occurred to me that if the father and son were wearing fluffy yellow pajamas, there might be a wonderful moment when the chicken and duckling came out of their shells.
When the pain in my back stops, I have to beat two other quilts. After that, I can safely get under the thick and light quilt to stretch, yawn and dream well. ...
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