Chapter 37
In ancient times, men could not have private property until they were separated, not to mention that women could have spare money before they got married. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
But for Zhang Zhaohua, she is one of these rare people. Because of Zhang Qiwang's love on weekdays, he will give some remaining change many times, although it is only three or five Wen every time, but Zhang Sheng has no such treatment, and it is estimated that he knows that the money given to Zhang Sheng cannot be kept, and given to Zhang Zhaohua, this girl can be counted carefully and sent to the place where it should be used.
But this is not Zhang Zhaohua's main input. There is a big item in her small private room, which is the money for raising silkworms and reeling silk in the family. Because planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms with mulberry leaves is a government decree from above, every household will raise it, but most of them are not well taken care of, and they cannot produce silkworm cocoons. Only Zhang Zhaohua is very concerned about this thing, from the time when the silkworm baby was just a black silkworm egg, he carefully fed, kept warm and conserved, picked the freshest mulberry leaves every day to feed, and even wiped the water of each mulberry leaf.
This silkworm was successfully raised by her, and every year she was able to cut hundreds of complete silkworm cocoons and hand them over to the grain chief, and there would be an income of two or three hundred wen, and the Wang family was not greedy for this money, so she handed it all over to her to collect herself. But some time ago, the grain chief said bad news, there are reeling workers in Kaifeng City, and the government will allocate a field to plant mulberry trees, and there will be no mulberry leaves and silkworm cocoons collected from the countryside.
However, it will take three years for the mulberry tree to grow into transplantation, and Zhang Zhaohua calculates that he can still earn two taels of silver if he steps up.
In addition to this, Zhang Zhaohua also has an unstable entry, which is to sell it.
Some people say that the knot is the knot, the knot of various patterns and styles, but in fact, it is not. The rope also includes a net bag made of colored rope and a small mesh bag made of silk thread rope, not only on the hair, on the fan pendant, on the curtain and even on the waist of men and women as decoration, the size of the daily life items such as sedan chairs, curtains, tent hooks, shoulder pendants, flutes, incense bags, hairpins, necklaces, money bags, etc., are also braided with beautiful decorative ropes, all have beautiful and auspicious meanings.
There are also many kinds of ropes, a stick of incense, stirrups, elephant eye blocks, Fang Sheng, Lianhuan, plum blossoms, willow leaves, etc.
Playing the line, a little bit of female red foundation will play, you can't learn it with your heart, like the ordinary grass and flower knot, most of the women in the village will play, only who plays brighter, smarter and better-looking.
A single knot can't be sold, but a large knot woven by five knots can be sold, but it takes a lot of effort, and the merchant will keep the price very low, and he can't make much money. But it's very good to be able to make money, whether he can earn a penny or two, like a horse widow as long as she doesn't help, she generally concentrates on playing at home, she has two or three styles that are extremely fresh, such as the caisson knot bracelet, this is particularly easy to sell, the merchant came once and asked her to take it all, because this big red bracelet went to the city, there are many people who want to avoid the flow of the year.
Zhang Zhaohua has learned to tie five large flower knots of grass flowers, and now Wang is teaching her to tie the brocade knot, this knot can tie ten petals out, and seven ten petals of the brocade knot can be woven together, and it can be sold for five dollars of silver, which is a very high price.
Maybe Fangfang really doesn't have the talent of female red, and she can't learn anything about female red knitting, and a single grass knot is a mess, and she was scolded by Zhang Qin's for wasting the colorful thread she bought from the city.
She can't make a decent connection, and naturally she has no change to make, like Zhaodi, the granddaughter of Uncle Zhang's family in the same village, when she was playing, her four-year-old sister Yindi was also crying and learning on the side, because she knew that the things in her sister's hands could be exchanged for money to buy candy to eat.
In this era, there is still a little tolerance for girls, for example, the money that is exchanged for the money of the girl's family, the parents acquiesce to prepare a dowry for herself.
"Hey, look what that is-" Fangfang put down her headscarf, her eyes wandered and saw something in the corner, so she pointed to let Zhang Zhaohua see.
Zhang Zhaohua raised his eyes and jumped up in fright: "Spider, oh, there are still spiders at this time!"
Zhang Zhaohua is the most afraid of these long-handed and long-legged insect monsters, spiders, worms, rats, women and cockroaches can't be seen at all, and they are hairy all over their bodies when they see them, but there is no shortage of these things in the countryside, but the house is cleaned by Zhang Qi, and he specially sprinkled insect medicine, so he usually doesn't see it much, but it is not necessarily when he goes to someone else's house.
"Look at what you're scared!" Fang Fang felt very funny when she saw her show such a terrifying look, and grabbed the long-legged spider with one hand in the past, and brought it close to Zhang Zhaohua's eyes.
At this moment, Zhang Zhaohua's goosebumps were about to stand up, and she was very angry at Fangfang who deliberately teased her like this.
"If you do this, we'll break it," Zhang Zhaohua took a gap and ran out of the door and shouted: "You have a spider here, and there is a nest behind it, if you don't clean it up early, you will come to bite your big white peach in the middle of the night!"
The word big white peach is specially used by Zhang Zhaohua to describe Fang Fangyuan's lost ass, Zhang Qin often says that Fangfang's whole body is also born well, Zhang Zhaohua also thinks so, the loose jacket pants can no longer cover the two-petal shape, and it feels very good to the touch, Fangfang often cried when she was a child, and it is said that the skin on the ass was broken by her family.
"Where are you going," Fang Fang chased out the door: "Don't go, the flower rolls have just been steamed on the stove!"
"You can keep it for yourself," Zhang Zhaohua waved his hand at her proudly, and made up his mind when Fangfang finally remembered to remove the cobwebs from her house, and she would go to her house to play.
When he got home, Zhang Zhaohua was going to collect the silkworm sand he took out to roast first, but he didn't expect to go around but didn't find it, he obviously remembered that it was placed next to the charcoal pot in the main house, why did it disappear in two hours?
"Ah Niang," Zhang Zhaohua shouted, "Did you see the silkworm sand I put next to the brazier in the morning?"
"Where do I move your things, you can take a look for yourself," Wang also said as if he had just returned, "Don't leave it in other places to remember." ”
"Can this be mistaken?" Zhang Zhaohua searched everywhere, and Zhang Qi, who was sharpening his knife in the yard, asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Silkworm sand is silkworm dung," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I spread it next to the brazier in the morning and wanted to bake it, why can't I find it?"
"What do you want that thing for?" Zhang Qi was also puzzled.
"It's not about that," Zhang Zhaohua said: "This thing is the last feces pulled out by our silkworm babies this year, I have been collecting and drying it to make pillow cores for three months, and I accidentally spilled water on it this morning, so I took it out and prepared to roast it." ”
"How can this thing be made into a pillow!" Zhang Qi really didn't understand: "What do you usually look like cleanly, why don't you feel disgusting about this?"
"Ah, silkworm sand is a good thing, it is a medicinal material," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Dry and damp to dispel wind, nourish blood and calm the nerves, made into pillows can act on the acupuncture points of the head and neck, so that the muscles of the whole body are relaxed, the qi and blood are smooth, and the viscera is peaceful." Anyway, long-term use can calm the mind and clear the ears and eyes. Moreover, the silkworm sand pulled out by the fifth-instar silkworm that I specially selected has the greatest medicinal effect. ”
"Such a good thing, why don't you make one for your father?" Zhang Qi looked very excited.
"At that time, I said to make one for you," Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "Who said that you are used to sleeping on the bran pillow, and you will change it to an uncomfortable taste - I said Dad, where did you put my silkworm sand?"
"I see that thing looks like a little black bean," Zhang Qi said embarrassedly: "Didn't your mother say that there were beans at home that had worms, I thought your mother was reluctant to give up a little bad beans, so she took them out and dried them again, and simply threw them all into the chicken coop." ”
"The beans that my mother said are beans from August this year, and they have already been thrown away," Zhang Zhaohua said: "You can't let my mother know what you said, or you should nag again." ”
"Whoever told her to nag about the same thing every day, I can't tell the difference anyway. Zhang Qi said.