I became an old man in my leisure time

The remaining two girls, Qiu and Dong, were born into official families. They seemed to consider being frail and fair-skinned as beautiful at home. Now they have grown half a head taller and have muscular lines on their bodies. Read М

After learning martial arts, most martial artists have bodies like this.

However, women at the lower level don’t care about having obvious muscles on their bodies, but they don’t have the money to practice martial arts.

Women at the middle level care about their figures, and most parents are unwilling to spend money to cultivate a daughter who is destined to get married.

Women at the upper level are rare. They may not have the talent to practice martial arts, and they may not be able to endure hardships.

Most women don’t have to worry about this problem, but it may not be a good thing.

The Yulong Valley is isolated from the world, and they need to be self-reliant, harvest food, make utensils, and face the threat of "refreshing" strange creatures. Naturally, no one wants to follow the traditional route of frail and fair-skinned beauties.

Even the two girls at Qiu and Dong are no exception. After all, no matter how beautiful they are, they still have to fetch water, chop wood, cut grass and cook?

Only Miss Qin basically doesn’t do these chores. This is the treatment that the "chief" of killing strange creatures should have, which fully proves the necessity of practicing martial arts.

In other words, now Gu Ke has been treated as "ignored".

Like when Chunxiaqiudong was washing clothes at first, he just shouted from a distance, and they were so embarrassed that they picked up the clothes and ran away.

Now, they work and walk in front of him in thin single clothes, but no one cares.

This is not just familiarity.

Gu Ke actually noticed it a long time ago.

After reaching level 50 of the Void Great Freedom and Formless True Sutra, not only did Xiaoman become closer to him, but even Xiaoping'er's habitual awe of him was much less.

Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, spring, summer, autumn and winter, including Miss Qin and Sister Bai, are no longer so reserved in front of him.

He asked the two children privately about this.

Xiaoman blinked blankly: "Really? Old Gu, I have always been best friends with you."

Xiaoping'er described him as "respected" like a landlord at first, then like a villager, and now a family member.

Xiaoman agreed with the second half of the sentence after hearing this - she never thought of Gu Ke as a landlord.

Gu Ke naturally understood that the difference between a superior who holds the power of life and death over him and a relative who cares for him is - a sense of security.

When she asked Bai Suqing separately, she looked at him subtly and nodded thoughtfully: "That's true. Thinking about it carefully, I felt very relieved when I defended you before signing the contract... ahem."

After a pause, she suddenly asked: "Did you use magic on me?"

Gu Ke didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and roughly explained the effect of the Wuxiang Zhenjing, but didn't mention the existence of perception.

No one wants to be spied on at will, just like no one in the previous life liked to have invisible cameras secretly installed in their homes.

Even if he promised not to perceive randomly, this ability is like a peaceful weapon - whether it is used is not the point, but whether it exists is.

Bai Suqing suddenly realized, and then slightly annoyed: "You are obviously a fairy method, why do you have to practice martial arts?"

Gu Ke was helpless: "It can't directly provide food and tools, don't we have to do everything ourselves. Strong and strong, if you learn it well, you can work several times faster."

Bai Suqing was speechless: Sure enough, practicing martial arts is just for work for you.

So far, another hidden effect of the Wuxiang Sutra has been revealed, that is, it makes others subconsciously feel that Gu Ke is kind and harmless, as if he has turned on an affinity aura.

The women talked and laughed casually in front of him, just the "daily power" of this affinity aura.

If he did it intentionally, he could even let them regard themselves as part of the scenery and blend into it naturally.

Even when standing next to the bluestone bathtub, Sister Bai inside was in a state of "seeing, but not completely seeing".

Of course, this is just an example.

He has never done such a thing before. His perception has skyrocketed before, and he was too active to fully accuse, and he has "seen" everything he should "see".

At this moment, the red pear in front of me is like fire, the white skin is like snow, the spring sky is blue, and the girl's clothes are thin.

The two girls, Chun and Xia, who have eaten red pear, came.

Xia Lan asked as soon as she opened her mouth: "Sir, the weather is getting hot very quickly. Should this linen be made? Otherwise... our inner and outer clothes may be unusable."

I didn't mention this before, just because it was cold in winter and clothes were scarce, everyone wore cotton jackets, middle clothes, and small clothes to keep warm.

Even so, the coldest November and December still relied on purple wheat and system buildings.

Now that they have practiced martial arts, they can't wear cotton jackets when the weather is hot. The middle clothes and small clothes have been worn for almost one or two years and are very old.

Others have more or less clothes to replace, but Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong only have the one they are wearing.

Saranzhu basically doesn't move anyway, so it's okay for the time being.

The four girls have to practice martial arts every day, and their clothes and pants break from time to time.

Although they are familiar with each other, this kind of thing is still very embarrassing.

Moreover, there were no chemical synthetic materials involved in ancient textiles. The fabrics were worn and washed too much, and their toughness was worrying and they were very easy to be damaged.

It would be embarrassing if the middle and small clothes were opened in front of everyone one day.

Qiu and Dong were more urgent about this matter than Chunxia and the others, but they were not good at weaving. They could only promise to help with all their strength after the work started, and urged Chunxia to come to Gu Ke to talk.

Gu Ke's perception swept over their clothes and found that there were traces of multiple repairs in the armpits and somewhere at the lower back.

From the front, you can find that there are also multiple repairs at the belt connection with just your eyes.

He immediately understood what was going on, patted his forehead, and decisively decided: "Fortunately, you reminded us that everyone really needs to buy some new clothes, so let's do this first these days."

When the girls heard this, they almost burst into laughter.

This was ancient times, and after a cat, no one wanted new clothes.

If there were, it must be because the clothes were too bad to wear.

The grass hemp obtained from Xiongjia Village had been bred on a small scale in Xiantian for more than two months, and was harvested one after another, accumulating a lot.

The first harvest was of poor quality and was taken out for testing.

The grass hemp in Xiongjia Village was of poor quality. When mature, it was about four or five feet tall, and the whole was green. The straight stem was about the thickness of the little finger, with three, five, seven or eight wide leaves at the top, and few branches and leaves in the middle of the stem.

After cutting off the head and tail, the outer skin of the middle long stem was the raw material for making hemp thread. The stem core inside the skin was brittle and easy to break, almost useless, and was generally thrown away.

But now the grass hemp variety grown in Xiantian has become green hemp, which is of poor quality, more than six feet tall, and the stem is thicker than the thumb, and the color is dark green.

The white core of the stem is not brittle but has excellent toughness. It will naturally rebound after being bent hard, similar to the rattan that my mother uses to whip people's buttocks. It can be used to make frames such as baskets.

Because there is not much hemp harvested each time, Chunxia and her friends processed it casually.

The peeled skin was soaked in water overnight, and then the hemp was removed with a saber.

The hemp stripping knife is a small tool with a shallow U-shaped blade, which is similar to a split bamboo tube. It has a simple shape and a small size.

After getting the grass hemp back, Gu Ke made a few with purple bamboo. After repeated minor modifications and multiple manufacturing, it took only two hours to give them a strong characteristic, which is enough for a long time.

When removing the green and taking the hemp, put a thin bamboo tube on the thumb of one hand, press one end of the grass hemp skin into the U-shaped blade, and quickly pull the skin through the blade and the pressed thin bamboo tube with the other hand.

The U-shaped blade will scrape off the green, leaving only the toughest green hemp fiber, and then hang it up to dry, and you get coarse hemp.

Coarse hemp can be twisted into strands, and then two or three strands are intertwined together to form hemp ropes of varying thicknesses.

However, there are iron wire vines in the valley, which can be used as ropes.

Moreover, the fibers in the skin of the iron wire vine are not easy to remove, and it is too laborious to use them as spinning materials, so they are only used as sewing threads and are used in small quantities.

Therefore, Chunxia and her friends only processed them to this point in advance, and did not make any hemp ropes.

At this moment, the processing is to spin yarn.

First, soak the coarse hemp in water for half a cup of tea, break it into thinner silk with fingernails, and then connect them into threads in pairs.

This is a tedious and meticulous job, and it is even more time-consuming and laborious to complete it manually.

Fortunately, this matter does not require much thought. The women are all beginners in martial arts, with agile hands and eyes, and they are very fast. They have connected the hemp ropes for the experiment in less than an hour.

Linen is a plain weave fabric, and the basic principle is the same as bamboo weaving and straw weaving, both of which use the warp and weft interweaving method.

After drying, the hemp balls that are wound into large circles can be used as warps, and the hemp balls that are wound into slightly flat balls can be used as wefts.

The hemp threads used as warps also need to be warped, that is, they are tightened between two short poles that stand apart, which can improve the quality of the woven linen.

Then, Gu Ke made several reed boards.

Reed boards are generally made of bamboo, also known as bamboo reeds.

It is rectangular, with multiple thin strips of bamboo strips evenly fixed and erected between the upper and lower long poles. The strips are the reed eyes, where the threads are threaded.

Passing two warp threads through the reed eyes is the so-called "threads in a knot".

Divide the warp threads into two layers, stretch them apart, and use flour paste to starch the threads several times, brush them evenly, and filter them with a reed board.

This will form a stable sizing film on the thread, so that the fine hairs on the surface of the thread will be gathered, avoiding the increase in the breakage rate due to the entanglement of hairs between the threads during the weaving process, and also making the linen more delicate and comfortable to wear, and not so prickly.

After the hemp thread is dried, it can be put on the loom.

The loom is not too complicated. It mainly consists of a frame, a ram horn roller, a caliper, a heddle, a reed board, a foot pedal, and a shuttle.

The overall appearance is somewhat similar to a rectangular single bed frame, with a hanging column like a "half mosquito net frame" for hanging the heddle and the reed board.

The two heddles are responsible for the odd and even warps respectively, and the foot pedal is connected to the heddle with a rope to lift and lower it.

The odd and even warps will be divided into two layers alternately. Each time they alternate, the shuttle will carry the weft horizontally through the gap between the two layers and use the reed board to press back and tighten it.

The ram horn roller and caliper will fix and clamp the warp until a section of the warp is woven, and then release another section, and repeat until the warp is used up.

The length of the linen depends on the length of the warp, and the width depends on the length of the reed board (the number of reed eyes) and the thickness of the linen.

In the first trial production, the linen was not made too thin, and only 200 reed eyes were made.

The final woven linen was about a foot and a half wide, beige in color, and the warp and weft looked a bit thick, but it was still smooth, and there were still some burrs when the back of the hand swept over it.

Of course, after practicing the Black Evil Palm, this degree of burrs had no effect on him.

Chunxia and Xia smiled and said that the linen was smooth and smooth, and it must be very comfortable to wear.

Gu Ke was puzzled: "This, it's not very comfortable to wear, right?"

The two women were stunned when they heard this: the quality of the grass and hemp produced in the fairy field is far superior to ordinary, and the linen thread is smooth and tough. This is still not good enough?

But Chunshuang saw that Gu Ke's skin was getting whiter and whiter, and she understood a little, and tentatively explained: "This linen is like this when it is just woven. It will be smoother after washing a few times, and it won't be so prickly."

While explaining, she muttered in her heart: The requirements of the immortals are indeed extraordinary. This quality of linen is almost as good as silk, but it is still uncomfortable.

On the side, Bai Suqing took the linen cloth, rubbed it in his hand, and nodded slightly: "This cloth is really good. If it is still too rough, you can only use a stone to grind the close-fitting side a few times, but it will be damaged sooner."

Gu Ke shook his head decisively: "How can you wear it under such roughness? Let's keep it as a coat."

After a pause, he arranged: "These linen threads come from low-quality straw and linen, which can be used to make outerwear. The good-quality straw and linen in the back can be made thinner, and the resulting linen can be used to make underwear. ”

"Tell me what tools are missing. If there are problems with the loom, it can be improved. The performance line can let everyone help when they are free."

"It would be best if everyone has new clothes that are comfortable and suitable next month."

The girls had no objections to this decision.

Fortunately, after the bathroom was completed, they could shower and rinse every day, so they didn't have to sweat and stink all day long.

But without a change of clothes, I had to wash them late at night and put them in the oven to dry before going to bed to wear the next day, which was really inconvenient.

In the next few days, I will switch to weaving in spring and summer, and assist in autumn and winter.

The cooking is mainly done by the two children.

Gu Ke reduced his time for manual work every day and took charge of the farm work in the fairy field.

These days, his work skills have exceeded level 20, and his attribute of dexterity has been changed to 2, but he is still far from level 30.

The agricultural science I acquired early on has not yet reached level 30 because I have done less farm work recently. I just want to brush up on my proficiency.

Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and others are still their free agents, and whoever has free time can help others do things according to their own interests.

Mei Shu, for example, loves cooking and weaving, so he spends more time with Chun and Xia.

Juqin is more interested in manufacturing and processing, and meets Gu Ke from time to time to help.

Zhuqi is interested in planting and practicing martial arts. He spends most of his free time farming, and occasionally asks Bai Suqing for martial arts advice.

Lan Hua likes to weave bamboo and grass, make incense, and make ink, so he spends a lot of time with Xiaoman and Qiudong.

It can only be said that people’s natural preferences are indeed diverse.

After several months of getting along, with Gu Ke's approval and encouragement, everyone has become accustomed to doing things that interest them.

Of course, everyone can do the necessary field work and chores.

Even Miss Qin and Bai Suqing would test the power and accuracy of their martial arts by carrying, chopping firewood, mowing grass, etc. while practicing.

Nowadays, everyone just has a few more small jobs like peeling off hemp and cutting yarn, which can be done by just messing around with your hands while taking a break and chatting.

Because Gu Ke's attitude towards the first linen cloth was too obvious, the piece of cloth that was woven could not be used to make new clothes for him.

Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum also had a change of clothes, so it was not the most urgent thing. In the end, it fell into the hands of Chun Xia Qiu Dong.

But they didn't want to use the new fabric first.