Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Huang Weifen
Each cotton pocket first pulled a hole in the middle, and then the two people worked together to tear it off, turning into a long band dragging the tail. After a slight pause, the silk belts were torn thin in the ingenuity of the two aunts.
Layer after layer, the sun shines on the layers of stacked silk, which is soft and soft to the touch.
Today (October 26), the hourly reporter once again came to the canal and met The Tongxiang Aunt, who, like a migratory bird, delivered warm silk quilts to the people of Hangzhou in winter.
Aunt Lu's four sisters' stalls have been supported in Genshanmen for 18 years, and they usually leave from Tongxiang to Hangzhou on National Day.
Then they would stay here for about three months, and a bed of silk wool would be formed in their hands, or it would become soft again from flat collapse.
The wind by the canal is soft, and the osmanthus flowers of the trees fall in pairs, and there is a hint of sweetness in this warmth.
The aunt who lived far away came to queue up at 6 o'clock
A while ago this year, the weather was warm, and Aunt Lu's four sisters came at home after the National Day.
Unfortunately, after coming, it rained for a long time, not only aunt Lu was anxious, but the residents waiting for the quilt to be renovated were even more anxious.
No, taking advantage of the good weather, Aunt Wang of Dingqiao rushed over early in the morning.
"I'll leave the first bus and it'll be there at 8 o'clock." Just as I approached aunt Lu's sisters' silk stall, I could hear several residents chatting around.
Aunt Wang said that there were two beds of silk wool that needed to be renovated at home, but there was no one in the Dingqiao area who could turn over, "Later, I found out that they would turn over the silk cotton quilt here, and I had already called to make an appointment." Aunt Wang said that she changed the bus twice and rushed to the first bus.
Unexpectedly, even if you get up early in advance, you still need to queue.
"Fortunately, the people who live close to me take care of me and let me go first." It was hard to wait for Aunt Wang to renovate a bed of 5 pounds of silk quilts.
Aunt Wang decided to add another pound of new silk.
"Oh, you see, this silk wool she originally had should be from the north, unlike ours, which is mulberry silk and eats mulberry leaves." For more than twenty years, the silk wool was torn off, and a dozen aunts could tell the source of the silk.
The business was scheduled for 20 days
While talking, aunt Lu and her companions' hands had never been idle.
Each pound of silk cotton has thirty-six or seven cotton pockets, and it takes a lot of time to become a quilt.
It takes more than an hour to renovate a silk quilt, and it takes more than two hours to make a new bed of about 5 pounds of silk quilt.
Aunt Lu's four sisters began work in two groups. If the weather is good, they get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, make breakfast, prepare lunch, pack up and ride their bicycles out, sometimes busy, and leave work at seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
After the sun goes down, continue working under the street lights by the canal.
"It's hard work, and my arms are sore and sore all this time." Therefore, no matter how late they return to the rental house, they will also make themselves a hot meal, "Eat scrambled eggs with leeks and stewed hooves at noon today." ”
Most of them are looking for their old patrons, and there are also new customers like Aunt Wang.
Everyone is very relieved to see the quilt do a little bit of achievement, so the customers that Aunt Lu has accumulated for more than ten years are enough to work for a long time.
The hourly reporter inquired about it, and the business was already lined up until November 15.
"No way, time is there, you can do this every day." Aunt Lu said, "You can only make seven or eight beds a day." ”
Those who rushed over temporarily needed to wait, and those who could not wait had to get up early tomorrow.
Silk is 10 yuan a pound, renovation is expensive 5 yuan, many people are curious to watch
"When you're making a quilt, do you still have to bang and knock?" Passers-by were somewhat attracted and curious to watch.
"No, you're talking about a cotton quilt, which is called 'white and fat.'" Watching her own silk quilt recover and become newer little by little in Aunt Lu's hands, Aunt Wang couldn't help but laugh, "The time of the old bottom, whether it is playing cotton quilts or turning silk quilts, is invited to the house." ”
She also joked, "If you had been there, you would be eating at my house today." ”
Aunt Lu kept resting on her hands, echoing on the side, "Yes, we went to the door when we first came, and then we were fixed here after renting a house." There are also hairy twenty years here. ”
Some people make quilts on the spot, and some people call a pound of silk, and go home to make silk vests and silk cotton jackets.
Some people may be curious, attracting Hangzhou aunts to queue up, how much does it cost to make such a quilt suitable for winter cover?
Silk is 300 pieces per kilogram, up 10 pieces over last year, and the processing fee is 20 pieces per kilogram.
If it is renovated, 80 quilts per bed is 5 yuan higher than last year. If you add silk wool, you can add extra money.
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