Behind the door was an empty room, Lou Hua motioned for everyone to take off their cloaks, and then opened the heavy curtain of the door by roasting their bodies on the fire. Behind the curtain, the large room is neatly and orderly filled with wooden shelves, and on the wooden shelves are layers of bamboo mats used to support silkworms. There are no silkworms in the cold weather, and Lou Hua led the group to continue inside. According to the house rebuilt in the modern factory, from the quality of the cocoon to the specification, a series of assembly line projects to the final statistics, the quality specification is then affixed with a seal and sent to another room to make raw silk.

The division of labor is clear, organized, and each level has a number of jù as evidence, and there will never be a chaotic situation of numerical jù.

Pei Sheng smiled: "It's convenient to check the accounts." ”

The scarlet father-in-law was silent, and a meaningful smile flashed on his face.

The white and flawless raw silk is sent to another room for dyeing, unlike ordinary people who weave cloth and then dye it one by one, and the dyed color is bright and bright, symmetrical and smooth, and you don't need to touch it to know that it is the best grade.

"Dyeing first and then weaving, isn't it easy to cause uneven color?" Unless it is the kind of embroidery pattern deliberately made uneven color, the rest of the silk pursues uniform color.

"These silks are not woven into cloth in the usual way, but into brocade."

"Tapestry?" Pei Sheng raised his eyebrows. Before the Great Yuan Dynasty, there was also a brocade, but the color was single, the picture and text were monotonous, and it took a long time and was not loved by the dignitaries, and finally it was forced out of the historical stage by the more exquisite embroidery technology.

Lou Hua naturally knew that Brocade had been defeated, and he was not eloquent, leading the group through the corridor to another locked room. There were two locks on the door, Lou Hua Lou Ming took out the key wrapped around his hand to open it, and then pushed open the heavy door.

The room is empty, the ceiling is specially hung high and opens four skylights, the skylights are built with glazed tiles, and then several strange huge bronze mirrors are fixed in all corners, in the middle of the room are placed four large looms with a height of more than ten feet, and the cabinets divided into small grids under the glazed windows on the wall are stacked with various colored silk threads dyed before, and each silk thread has a code mark color number.

Lou Hua clapped his hands, and a servant leaned over to the bronze mirror to adjust the angle, and the light cast by the glass skylight was reflected and amplified by several copper mirrors, and finally cast it on the four looms. Eight other young slaves lined up to salute everyone, and then four of them climbed on top of the weaving frame, and the other four sat in front of the weaving frame, and with Lou Hua's "start", bowed their heads and began to weave brocade.

There was half of the brocade woven on the four looms, and the graceful and atmospheric pattern patterns were woven with bright and bright colored silk, showing off and being lifelike, like a ghostly workmanship, and there were people who couldn't help but want to touch it immediately.

"Lord Xu, stop!" Lou Hua hurriedly stopped, waved his hand and said: "The brocade needs to be concentrated, hands and eyes in one, and the slightest difference may cause the failure of the brocade, so I just ask Lord Xu to just look at it." ”

Lord Xu, who was stopped, withdrew his hand with a palpitating face, and the rest of the people who wanted to touch it immediately rested their minds and took a step back.

For those who want to get started, Lou Hua introduced the operating principle of the large loom, of course, it is a brief version, but this brief version is also a cloudy to listen to.

Pei Sheng, who didn't understand, asked the result directly: "How long can you weave a horse?" ”

"Two weavers cooperate, weaving for four hours a day, with complex colors, such as this," Lou Hua pointed to the pattern woven in front of him for the flower medicine spoon and said: "There are more than 20 kinds of colors, there are 27 medicine spoons, and there are 61 colored leaves, and it takes a year and a month to weave a horse." If the color, medicine spoon, and lining leaf are reduced by half, you can weave a horse in eleven months. ”

Hearing this, Pei Sheng also made a speech: "In this way, it is not too much to pay an inch of cloth." ”

"Why don't you extend the time of weaving?" It is a pity that such a fine and luxurious brocade can only produce one horse in more than a year.

"The reason why there are only four hours is to let the weaver be full of energy and can concentrate on the work at hand, second, because of the light, and third, because of the desire to protect the weaver's eyes and hands. As soon as each weaver gets on the rack, he or she needs his heart, hands, and eyes to concentrate on the brocade, and a high concentration of spirit for a long time will cause damage. The combination of work and rest can make the weaver work wholeheartedly, otherwise, the weaver will have a bad cuò, not to mention, a weaver's brocade time will be ten years to the end. "It is not easy to train a weaver, you can only weave for ten years every day and you can only weave for twenty or thirty years with a reasonable operation time, and fools know to choose the latter.

After the introduction of the loom, Lou Hua led the group to the side, and Lou Yuzhu and Lou Ming opened the woven moire brocade for everyone to enjoy.

Looking at the amazed looks of the people who wanted to touch but didn't dare to touch it, Lou Yuzhu smiled: "All the adults can touch it." The biggest difference between brocade and embroidery is that brocade has no needle angles, is tightly arranged, and will not lightly hook the thread. ”

Hearing this, Pei Sheng and Grandpa Scarlet touched it, and the two of them who were well-informed had to praise their workmanship.

There were four slave brothers holding four brocade boxes, and four brocade horses with different patterns were placed in the brocade boxes. Lou Hua said: "Here four brocade horses and four weavers, tired of the scarlet father-in-law to serve the emperor." "It's not that they're stingy, there are only five horses in total, and one horse was opened for people to admire, and only four horses remained. Then he handed over the iron box in his hand: "Here is the pattern and weaving method of the loom, and please also serve the emperor with the scarlet father-in-law." ”

You don't have to think about looms and weaving methods to know that it takes a lot of money from research and development to making zuò, and then it is a hen that only lays golden eggs! Such a thing worth a thousand gold is said to be tribute? Don't they want to make money in this business?

"Don't hide it from my father-in-law, we didn't think about doing brocade business when this method was developed."

The brocade was the beginning of Lou Yuzhu's beginning, using the method in the documentary he had seen to guide the craftsman to make zuò, and not doing this business was the result of a family discussion. The first is that the brocade is indeed too complicated and laborious, and making money from it is to make money but it is too eye-catching, which is inconsistent with the reputation of the 'meritorious building family'; Lou Chengyi's husband is not a businessman, Lou Hua must be in the office, Lou Ming will not be able to play these even if he does not take the official career, Lou Chen Baimu Laomen is proper to take the official career, and the remaining Lou Yuzhu is a brother who will always marry in the future, and he can't always manage his family's business, right?

"It's enough to have a raw silk business." A profit of tens of thousands of taels a year is enough for three rooms.

Hearing this, people who don't know the consideration of the three rooms only say that they understand the righteousness and do not want to be rich.

The scarlet father-in-law looked at Lou Hua deeply, and said with a smile: "Governor Lou really gave the emperor a problem, just four brocades, how can there be enough for so many palace monarchs in the palace?" After that, he blinked his eyes and urged: "But fortunately, this is something that the emperor should worry about, and our family can just send it." ”

The scarlet father-in-law has served the emperor since he was a child, and it doesn't matter if he says a few funny words, but others dare not talk about it.

Lou Hua waved his hand and saluted: "I'm tired of my father-in-law." ”

The scarlet father-in-law waved his hand to indicate that it was fine.

After a group of casual visits, down the mountain to eat a sumptuous lunch, the seniority is not enough to get two horses of fine silk as a gift and then go home, the qualifications and the amount of enough will be sent to the scarlet father-in-law and Pei Sheng from Linnan Bay to Beijing by boat.

Before parting, Pei Sheng looked at Lou Yuzhu and said with a complicated expression: "Guan Ying is the elder brother of the filial piety mansion, and the marriage will be completed in October next year." He Pei Sheng thinks that he became famous as a young man, and he rarely sees countless people in his life, and he doesn't want to be middle-aged but he looks at a wrong house, and he can't imagine that a Zhuang family has such a creation, and the royal merit building card is remembered by the Son of Heaven. He was also appointed by the Son of Heaven as the Marquis of Jingyang because of his meritorious service, and the meaning of the old father's words when he went out was probably to resign, and then he would be the new Marquis of Jingyang, Pei Guanying was his only son-in-law, and the name of the son would fall on him.

"The second brother should have been married a long time ago," Lou Yuzhu smiled, pretending not to understand the strangeness in the other party's eyes, and said, "It's just that the road is far away, so I won't join in the fun." "It's better not to see each other, and when the knowledge grows and the experience deepens, the young Aimu will forget it faintly, leaving only a wisp of residual warmth or a wisp of residual warmth.

It is not only Pei Sheng who regrets it, but also Li Zhifu and others. Looking at the different times in the past, the Lou family said with regret: "An ordinary Zhuang family has such a creation, the emperor can't remember that there is a Li Zhifu in Nanyang Mansion, but he must remember that there is a Lou Chengyi in Yanjia Village." After that, he sighed: "If you knew it earlier, don't say that you are worthy of the second child, but you are more than enough." ”

Li Yue also smiled bitterly. The funny thing is that they guessed that the other party was greedy for wealth and clinging to the powerful, but they didn't want the other party to cling to it at all, and they worked hard to earn a personal gift of 'merit building', thinking of the past and thinking about the current situation, Li Yue felt quite a faceless feeling. "Fortunately, the friendship is still there."

is in, but there are cracks in the relationship between the two families before. It's a pity that time can't be reclocked, and the cracks have already existed, so I look forward to slowly repairing them in the future.

"The second child is married, let him come over to deliver the post in person, and then let your father apologize to Brother Lou."

"Yes, father."

After the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival, the people who came to worship gradually stopped, and on this day, Lou Huashang asked the old man about the Liu family's brother replacing his brother.

Old Man Lou looked at Lou Hua who was full of energy and dressed in gorgeous clothes with cloudy eyes, and then thought of Lou Wen who was in a trance, and his heart was sour. The big house he fancied had nothing to do, but the three rooms that he abandoned were thriving, and he also got the merit building card from the Son of Heaven himself, and the prefect and the county all came to worship in official uniforms, which was talked about and called a beautiful talk. The eldest grandson who was trained since childhood failed to lift people in the exam, but the second grandson, who was studying halfway, went to the exam bravely to lift people, and he was given the official position of governor of Jiupin by the Son of Heaven. The stark contrast between the two sides made Mr. Lou wonder, what went wrong?

Lou Hua woke up the fugue old man Lou and asked again, "What does grandpa mean?" ”

"That's it," Old Man Lou sighed: "It's been decades, what can you investigate again?" "Both of them have given birth to four children, and their grandchildren are going to marry, do you still have to make a joke about abandoning the old man?

Old Man Lou didn't have the heart to investigate, but Lou Hua had a mind, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was the cousin who had a dirty mind about Lou Yuzhu and the cousin, but this question only knew that someone had already cleaned it up. The cousin who was put in the big cell was beaten three times a day, so what cousin was also thrown into the big cell after beating the board, and he was directly broken and scrapped, as for Brother Jing, he was a little insane after only a few days of being imprisoned.

Lou Yuzhu, who learned the news, raised her eyebrows. Three good people have only been locked up for more than a month, crazy crazy waste, how much of an idea does this have to be put on the stall? And the three are related, so he believes that it is a coincidence? Hehe.

"I can't imagine you're so bad." Looking for Zhou Cheng to study silently for a long time, Lou Yuzhu made a comment.

Zhou Cheng, who was checking the accounts, stopped what he was doing, raised his eyes to see Lou Yuzhu studying his eyes, and asked funny: "Brother Yu'er has been staring at me for so long to come up with such a comment?" I want to ask, what's wrong with me? ”

He looked at him with disdain: "Do you dare to say that you didn't let the three of you clean it up?" ”

Zhou Cheng lowered his eyebrows and drank tea, which was considered a default.

"Three beatings a day, you're not afraid of causing death." But for a man, it was worse to scrap that thing than to kill him.

Zhou Cheng raised his eyebrows. What he wanted to say was that not killing him would be to let him live in pain for the rest of his life! Some people can't think about it, otherwise they will have a restless home and a lifetime of restlessness!

Lou Yuzhu, who understood the meaning between his eyebrows: "Good job." Inexplicable feeling is so ashamed?