Chapter 36 Dyeing Cloth
Since the suede incident, the Qi family has stopped for a lot of time, but the sisters of the Qi family have also found that every time Qi Xuan goes up the mountain, there will always be many people behind him, and they will go up the mountain together, who knows what they are going to do.
After doing this a few times, Qi Xuan stopped going up the mountain, even if he fed the chickens, Qi Yang was very careful when he went to the back mountain, and he only went after dark.
In fact, others were curious about how Qi Xuan did traps, and they also wanted to learn a few tricks and go to the mountains to hunt some muntjac to eat. But on the mountain, these people saw some traces of traps that had been destroyed by wild beasts, and guessed that these should be the traps made by Xuan Yatou, and everyone completely believed her words. It's just that Xuan girls don't put traps, and it's not easy for them to learn.
In the end, some greedy people ran to Qi Xuan's house to make a reservation.
"Miss Xuan, next time you hunt muntjac, can you buy some meat for your uncle, uncle is very greedy, and he ate muntjac meat when he was a child. Villager Qi Qingliang waited until Liu Yang went out and found Qi Xuan, and asked their sisters to book a muntjac, and his family was not short of money, but he had a good mouth. Liu Yang is at home, he is not easy to come to the door as a big man, he is afraid that the villagers will gossip, now Liu Yang is not at home, there are only children at home, and he dares to come to the door.
"Uncle Qi, I probably won't put traps recently, you see that the summer vacation is coming to an end, and I still have to review my homework, you want to eat muntjac meat, it's not nothing, in this way, do you eat air-dried meat?" Qi Xuan asked.
I ate some muntjac meat last time, but some of it couldn't be eaten, so Qi Xuan dried it and put it in the fortress.
"Okay, okay, you can still make air-dried meat! It's really capable," Qi Qingliang didn't expect Qi Xuan to be so capable, he would actually air-dry the meat and store it.
Then Qi Xuan asked Qi Yang to get the air-dried muntjac meat, and after a while, Qi Yang brought the muntjac meat. Qi Qingliang, who saw it, drooled.
"How much is this?"
"Uncle Qingliang, look at it, our sisters don't know the market price, they all came from the mountains by themselves, and they are all from the villagers, I believe Uncle Qingliang will not let us suffer." β
Qi Xuan said so, and Qi Qingliang naturally wouldn't lower the price, "Then I'll give you sisters two hundred yuan! If it's delicious, I'll pay it back next time." β
"I may not have hunted it next time, if there is, I will contact you, thank you Uncle Qingliang!" Qi Xuan put away the money handed over by Qi Qingliang.
After Qi Qingliang left, Qi Xuan handed over the money to Qi Sha.
"Second sister, did you really give me the money?"
"Yes, I spent so much money last time, as if you were in pain, and now I will hand over this money to you for safekeeping, you should laugh, little wealth fan!" Qi Xuan pinched Qi Sha's baby fat.
In fact, among the three sisters, Qi Sha is the cutest, some like dolls in New Year's paintings. Qi Yang is the best-looking, tall, white-skinned, and has a pair of big eyes, if he dresses up compared to Qi Huang, he doesn't know how much more beautiful he is, but Qi Yang doesn't know how to dress himself, and his clothes are usually not too fancy.
Qi Xuan asked Qi Sha to make clothes from the suede at home as soon as possible, she felt that since this suede was already eye-catching, it was better to make clothes! Anyway, Qi Sha didn't want to try making clothes, making ordinary fabrics and making leather.
"Sister, this is suede, I'm afraid it's bad. That would be a waste. Qi Sha looked embarrassed.
"If it's bad, it's bad, it's not just a few skins, and it's better to wear it than to wear it to a white-eyed wolf. Qi Yang said fiercely.
The white-eyed wolf in her mouth is naturally the third uncle's family, and her father brings gifts to the third uncle's family every time she goes home, but how does the third uncle's family treat them?
"Qi Sha, since you want to practice, it's better to make it for your father first, these few skins can't make a set of clothes for one person, and it's not good to make one for anyone, but I think it's enough to make one for my father, and the third uncle's family is used to reversing black and white, and it was not without such a thing before, when the time comes, let them reverse black and white and say that we don't honor our grandparents, we only care about our own enjoyment, we still have to obediently sacrifice the skins at that time, even if we make clothes, I'm afraid they will be thrown away by Dad, but if we show a filial piety to Dad, then they have nothing to say, do you say yesοΌβ
Although what Qi Yang said made sense, but asking her to make clothes for her ruthless and unrighteous father, Qi Sha's little teeth were crushed.
"I think what the eldest sister said is still reasonable, Qi Sha, no one blames you for your ugly work, it is your filial piety, and you practice by the way. Qi Xuan nodded to her.
"Okay, I'll do it. Seeing that Qi Xuan also said the same, Qi Sha agreed, and unconsciously Qi Xuan was already the backbone of several sisters and brothers.
Qi Xuan doesn't hunt, but went to the mountains to pick some woad back, woad is a treasure for Qi Xuan, rhizomes can be used as medicine, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, in summer, if the heat is strong, drink some woad rhizomes can immediately relieve the symptoms of sore throat, head fever and brain pain, it also has a term is the famous banlan root.
The leaves are large green leaves, and the leaves can be used in medicine, but the curative effect is not as prominent as the roots. The leaves were all used to dye in their time, and Qi Xuan picked the roots to dry and store them as medicine, and the stems and leaves were used to make colors.
According to the record in "Qi Min Yaoshu": "The blue is erected upside down in the pit and put into the water", and then pressed with wood and stone, so that the blue grass is all soaked in water, and the soaking time is "one night when it is hot, and two nights when it is cold". Then filter the immersion solution, add lime water in the proportion of 1.5% and stir it with a wooden stick rapidly, and after precipitation, "clarify and drain the water", "wait like strong porridge", then "blue indigo becomes a stick".
When used for dyeing, only need to add lime water to the indigo mud, prepare the dye solution and ferment, and replace the indigo with indigo. Indigo can be dissolved in an alkaline solution, which makes the fabric colored, and the fabric can be obtained a vivid blue color by air oxidation.
Qi Xuan spent a few days digging a small pit in the back mountain to make this dye, and the villagers saw Qi Xuan playing with mud, so they were not interested in watching it for two days.
When the indigo mud was extracted, Qi Xuan prepared a large vat, added lime water to the extracted indigo mud, prepared it into a dyeing solution, and waited for a period of fermentation before soaking the cloth.
During this period, Qi Yang counted the time, waited on the dock every day, and finally made her wait for her father's return date when Qi Lang went to sea, she pulled her father home as soon as possible, Qi Yang knew that if she didn't do this, let her grandmother invite her father over, and her study expenses for the next semester would be unsettled.
And she also has a purpose in doing this, she can't let the third uncle's side reverse black and white first, if the third uncle's side reverses black and white, even if they say something afterwards, their father will not listen to them.