Chapter 54: Knitting a Sweater
Erya took the three little ones to Hongye's new house, Hongye had already tidied up the new house neatly, and combed her hair very smoothly, just waiting for Erya to come over and braid her hair.
This time, because there was no such thing as a bride, Erya made a coiled hair for Momiji. The oversized peony flower made of silk and satin with red leaves is tied tightly around the hair plate, and the round hair plate is like the black core of the big red peony, and the gap in the middle of the hair plate is filled with a small red pomegranate flower made of silk.
There is only the upper end of the whole head, in order not to let the petals made of silk and satin, hang down and look good, use a few thin silver hairpins, along the gaps of the petals, fixed on the hair, and the rest do not have more gold and silver jewelry.
However, the autumn leaves look different and gorgeous.
Erya and Hongye had just finished their work, and they hadn't had time to eat breakfast yet, when they heard someone in the yard shouting: "Hurry!" Fast! Quickly take out the cannonball, and the new daughter-in-law's house will be almost there. ”
Erya pretended not to care while combing her hair, chatting with Momiji. I only knew that the customs here were a little different from the general customs that Erya knew.
This is not the usual third day to return to the door, but the second day to return to the door, and it is a father, uncle, brother, younger brother, at least four, usually six, to go to the newly married daughter's house to pick up the daughter back to the door.
When the bride's family arrived, they were to set off a cannon and then enter the hall, where the elders sat on the side of the square table that had already been covered with red cloth, and the elder brothers and brothers of the same generation stood beside the elders.
The bride and groom should come forward to salute, and the mother's parents should give red envelopes. When a few people came, they gave a few red envelopes.
Kindly to the bride and groom are the same. If there is anyone who wants to be strong, he will give the red envelope to the bride. Some simply put them on the table covered with red cloth and let the bride and groom grab it themselves.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle came over with Xiangzi, Laizi, Daman, and Xiaohu, a total of six people. As soon as she entered the hall and sat down, Momiji's mother-in-law pushed her son forward to greet her, so that she could take the red envelope first.
Hongye's newlywed husband Xu Guangfu was very embarrassed by his mother's constant push on him, so he turned around and ran to the new house, closed the door and hid.
Everyone laughed.
"Guangfu! The new house is a place for the bride to hide from her shame, what kind of shouting are you running in!? ”
Momiji was tidying up his clothes inside, waiting to go out to meet him, and when he saw his newlywed husband suddenly running in and closing the door, he asked inexplicably, "What's wrong?" Who gave you a bad look? ”
Xu Guangfu was stumbling, it was hard to say that his mother embarrassed him.
"Let's go!" Momiji stepped forward and tugged at his arm and opened the door.
The two went to meet the elders one by one, and each person had three red envelopes. Everyone was very disappointed to see that they didn't have to grab the red envelope.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle rubbed their hands honestly and sat there laughing.
As soon as the door arrives, a banquet must be set up, because the bride and groom have to go back to their parents' house with their mother's family to eat.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle each sit at a table, and they are both chiefs. All the bride's family members will go to the table with them, and they will leave after eating.
When I returned to my mother's house, the cannon greeted the door, and the woman's house began to put the table.
At this time, the groom began to make trouble. Smearing red, smearing, hanging red ropes, stealing to add rice to **, burying fat from greasy dead people in bowls, and all kinds of methods for rectifying people. Fortunately, it's all harmless.
The people who make these are generally the sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law, and the red leaves are the second and one sister-in-law, and she doesn't understand these, so there is no trouble.
However, the sisters-in-law of the Wang family made a bit of a fuss, and soon Xu Guangfu couldn't bear it. The uncle said kindly, seeing that his niece and son-in-law couldn't bear their trouble, a cousin-in-law gave them a candy bun and begged them to spare Xu Guangfu.
The second aunt laughed while watching from the sidelines, not knowing that she felt sorry for her son-in-law at all. Momiji also sat on the side and watched, and he didn't eat, so he knew that he was covering his mouth.
Xu Guangfu escaped the poison of several sisters-in-law, but he did not escape the drunkenness of several brothers-in-law and brothers-in-law.
In the end, I vomited a mess, and a few brothers-in-law helped send it back.
After finishing the marriage of the red leaves, it was still far from the time to pick the tea leaves, and the second girl was busy supporting the woolen stall.
After eating, the eldest aunt helped Erya tidy up the open space in the yard, and when the weather warmed up, she hurriedly planted chicken hairy vegetables and other early spring vegetables.
Erya used a hoe to break a large lump of dirt while discussing with the eldest uncle: "Uncle, I want to invite a few granddaughters-in-law and great-granddaughters of my grandfather's family to come over and learn how to make sweaters." We had to weave the sweaters by April, and at least five or six different styles of sweaters had to go to the provincial capital. When it comes to autumn, it's time to officially play. ”
The eldest aunt was busy digging the soil piece by piece with a shovel, squatting down from time to time, grabbing one or two grass roots with her hands, putting them on the edge of the shovel and beating the soil clods on the roots.
When I heard Erya talk about the sweater, I paid a little attention to it. Stopped what he was doing, stood up and asked Erya: "If you have raw hands, the weaving is tight and loose, I'm afraid it's not easy to sell, right?" ”
Erya replied: "I didn't think they would be able to make money right away, I just thought about letting them learn first." When autumn comes, business is up and running, I have someone to help.
Uncle and second uncle's carpenter work still have to learn again, otherwise, I will go directly to the blacksmith to make a set of crochet needles and get a few wooden frame machines that specialize in weaving clothes. That's more than a dozen people, and it's smoother and better than hand-knitted. ”
The eldest aunt listened to it freshly, "You said that this sweater can be woven with a machine like a loom?" ”
Erya smiled: "Of course! It's like a loom, isn't it all thought up by the human brain, and corrected again and again?! ”
The eldest aunt bent down and turned over the soil again, and said in her mouth: "I can't see it, just your uncle's stupid appearance, you want to get a good machine for weaving clothes, but there is no hope!" ”
Erya smiled and didn't speak, but in her heart she was recalling the first manual knitting machine that appeared in later generations.
The weaving machine is complicated, it is fully mechanized by computer control, as long as you can design the pattern, there is no weaving machine that can't be woven.
If you want to make it simple, it's not that hard. It is because it is not too difficult that Erya does not dare to find other masters to help do it together, lest his own weaving room has not yet been erected, and other people's finished products have already been listed.
At the beginning, the British priest could make a knitting machine out of thin air, and he not only saw and used it, but also changed the needle, dismantled and washed, oiled and maintained, and repaired minor problems.
If you can't figure it out, you'll be really stupid.
Because the carpenter skills of the uncle and the second uncle are not at home, the second girl can calculate and draw samples for many things, accurate to the millimeter, but the uncle can't do it. A qiē is also a white ride!
I haven't heard of any reputable craftsmen here, otherwise, it would be no problem to let Erya spend a lot of money to do it.
Once that kind of machine is made, it will be a great revolution in the weaving industry. Sweaters, **, socks, sportswear, scarves, hats, all have its products.
In the evening, Erya really went to grandpa's house and asked a few aunts if there were anyone willing to learn to knit sweaters.
The third aunt immediately remembered the wedding dress worn by Hongye, and asked Erya: "But it's the same as the one Ye Zi wore?" ”
Erya nodded and responded with a smile: "Hmm! If you want that style, you can weave it like that. If you are good at weaving quickly, as long as you pass the guò acceptance, you can be paid for it. ”
Tian, the eldest daughter-in-law of Grandpa's second son's family, asked: "My mother's sister is skillful, can I ask her to come over to learn?" ”
Erya said embarrassedly: "Aunt Tian, I won't tell you anything." Even after teaching you, I still want to ask you to help keep it secret, and don't teach others. lest I have not yet taken it out and sold it, but someone else is collecting money over there. If you can make sure that your sister doesn't teach anyone else, you can ask her to come and learn. I'm only going to teach your family here, after all, this yarn was brought back with the help of the third uncle. I also want to be a part of the third uncle! ”
The eldest grandmother listened beside her, and said politely: "You don't need to count my three sons, you have already paid for the road expenses, where can I ask for your share again." ”
"Big! I'm not just doing it this once, I want to do it every year, and this business will not be bad in the future. The third uncle has a lot to do, how can there be no third uncle's part. ”
The grandfather, who was sitting on the edge of the top and had been listening to their commotion, said to the eldest daughter-in-law: "Old family, this is a deal between the third son and the great-grandson's daughter-in-law, don't interfere." ”
Then he asked a few grandchildren and daughters-in-law: "What the great-granddaughter-in-law said just now, I taught you to learn, you can't teach others casually, but you can do it?" ”
The third aunt immediately replied: "Yes!" ”
For the rest, you look at me, I look at you, and I don't know how to answer.
Seeing them like that, Grandpa said with a cold face: "If you can't do it, don't go to study." ”
Tian was anxious, and hurriedly defended: "Grandpa, it's not that we don't want to hide it, if we can hide it for a year and a half, if it takes a long time, where can we hide it?" Besides, if you don't let us teach others, you can refuse once or twice, and if you always refuse, it will be an offending thing. ”
Erya knew that there was so much instability in inviting others, but several of her sisters couldn't rely on it, and it was better to invite others than to invite grandpa's family, at least it was still a personal favor.
That's it! Now they don't want to hide it for me, and one day you will regret not hiding it!
Erya thought about it, so she said to a few aunts with a chuckle: "It's okay! I don't want you to hide it for a long time, as long as you hide it until next year's Spring Festival. ”
Get a few pieces and send them over first, and explore the way. In the autumn, weave a little more, sell out this autumn and next spring, and when others find their remote place, their own weaving machine should almost be made.
At that time, who is still afraid of who will teach whom?