060 Cloth making
Cheng Changqing didn't even go to the town for the past two days, so he squatted at home and assisted Cheng Zhaoer with the Li family.
Although the process has been gone through thousands of times in his heart, Cheng Zhaoer is still a little nervous when it comes to the actual operation!
She is not a person who is easily nervous, how can she boast about Haikou with Ouyang Jing, if this is not successful, not to mention the consequences of angering the young master of an imperial merchant, just say that she herself can't afford to lose this face!
Moreover, she felt that if she really didn't succeed, Ouyang Jing shouldn't let her go!
Although she seems heartless to talk to Ouyang Jing on weekdays, in fact, she has always understood her own positioning! She seemed to vaguely know where the bottom line of a young master like Ouyang Jing was, and she only needed to be in this boundary, then all her actions would be safe.
This is Cheng Zhaoer's way of life, and it is also a way of doing things and skills that she slowly struggled to develop her own career as an orphan in her previous life, as if a puppy has a sense of smell, this is her perception of danger "sense of smell"!
First of all, Cheng Zhaoer pulled out all the cotton in the cotton peach little by little, like the color of snow, the wisps, and all the things that were pulled out were pulled out and placed in a clean bamboo frame!
This is seed cotton, listen to Ouyang Jing's meaning, today's people directly use such seed cotton to sew quilts and cotton jackets......
Cheng Changqing and Li haven't started yet, they just looked at the cotton with curiosity and amazement, Li first wiped his hand with a handkerchief, and then gently touched the cotton with his hand, and immediately praised: "It's so soft and white, I can't imagine that southerners use this thing now!" ”
Cheng Changqing didn't dare to touch it, this thing looked too white, he was afraid that his rough hands would stain or damage this thing, but he retorted to the Li family: "It's used everywhere, didn't you listen to what the young master of the Ouyang family said?" This thing is so close to that place, it's still our daughter's ability, and she actually got so much! ”
Li Shi nodded again and again when she heard this, in her heart, she was really a girl, and now whether it is knowledge or vision, it is not comparable to them.
Look at the color of the flowers that her daughter gave her before, obviously the same embroidery, after embroidering, oops, it's exactly the same as the real one! Scared the hell out of her!
After embroidering, take it to exchange for silver, since the embroidery on a handkerchief can be exchanged for 200 wen!
She used to be tired and tired, and she only got five cents for a painting, which gave the Li family the motivation to make money all of a sudden, if it weren't for Cheng Zhaoer and Cheng Changqing watching, she hated having to sleep and embroider!
The wooden box given by Ouyang Jing was not big, and there were not many cotton peaches in it, and after a while, Cheng Zhaoer pulled out all the seed cotton and piled it together.
Then he picked up the iron brush that he had specially found the blacksmith to make, and like combing his hair, he pierced the iron brush into the cotton pile one by one!
With Cheng Zhaoer's movements, a magical thing happened, and the seeds in the cotton were sorted out little by little! Even if it didn't come out the first time, by the time Cheng Zhaoer combed the second and third times, those cottonseeds all fell out! Not only that, but the cotton, which was still a little tangled, has also become fluffy.
Collecting these cottons, Cheng Zhaoer took out the improved version of the elastic vertebral arch made by Li Jun'an, and bounced the cotton into rolls of cotton wool of a certain thickness!
The design of this bullet vertebral arch actually originated from the bullet flower vertebral arch of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, and this type was used by Cheng Zhaoer's friends in the previous life.
Cheng Zhaoer carefully took them out little by little and spread them into small flakes, and then picked up a half-foot-long thin short rod to roll the cotton slices into cotton twists, and at this time it was time to spin the thread!
Cheng Zhaoer asked Li to help her hold the cotton twist, stood by the spinning wheel, stretched and retracted her arms, and stirred the spinning wheel in turn with the other hand, the action cooperated, and the cotton twist was quickly pulled out of the thread to wrap around the spindle, and soon it was spun full of cotton thread, Cheng Zhaoer took them off the spindle to form a conical cotton ear, threw it into the frame, and then continued the cycle!
Cheng Changqing, Li and Li Junan looked at this scene in amazement, Li Junping had already negotiated cooperation with Cheng Changqing, he took the furniture from Cheng Changqing at a price of seventy percent, sold it at the original price, and earned the difference!
Now I'm back! The main purpose is to contact and see where there is good bamboo in other places, Cheng Zhaoer and Cheng Changqing said that the bamboo forest behind the house is limited, and it will not be enough to make furniture in the future! She doesn't want to be bare in the back of her house in the future! Li Junping is here to help run this matter!
Cheng Zhao'er asked tentatively, do you want to hand over this matter to the second uncle and the third uncle to do, Li Junping does this, Cheng Changqing will inevitably give some errand fees, the more the number, the more errand fees, the second and third uncles are idle every day, although Cheng Zhaoer doesn't want to do these things for these two people at all!
Unexpectedly, Cheng Changqing shook his head decisively, it seems that Cheng Changqing was completely chilled by those two people!
Among Cheng Changqing, Li and Li Junan, the most surprised was Li Junan, who had been muttering when he made these strange tools at Cheng Zhaoer's request, but he didn't expect that Cheng Zhao'er, who now thought it was impossible, actually did it! He didn't even know what to say! When did his niece become so powerful?!
Cheng Changqinghe and the Li family are slightly better, after all, they know that Cheng Zhao'er is fine, and Cheng Zhao'er has arranged them very well before, whether it is making furniture or embroidery, so they are extremely relieved about this daughter!
It's just that they were still amazed to see that such a mass of things gradually turned into a coil of thread!
Cheng Zhao'er's things in his hands didn't stop at all, and when all the cotton pieces turned into cotton ears, three hours had passed, Li felt sorry for Cheng Zhaoer's hard work, forcibly pressed her down to rest, and by the way, he took out Yuanyuan and the plug to show her, and brought her the food that had been hot in the pot, and asked her to cushion her stomach first! Cheng Changqing and Li Junan circled around the cotton threads and machines, curiously touching the east and west, and nodded thoughtfully, and the two discussed it from time to time, looking very interested.
Cheng Zhaoer finished eating and kissed Yuanyuan and the plug for a while. The child is extremely cute, although it is only two or three months now, but Yuanyuan and the plug seem to know Cheng Zhaoer, every day Cheng Zhaoer hugs them and feeds them, the two little people can't help but giggle, as if they are in a particularly good mood. Every time I see them cracking their shameless little mouths and laughing heartlessly, Cheng Zhaoer can't love it enough, and she doesn't want to let go of it!
Although the plug was not born by her, it is Cheng Rongrui's child, although the mother is unreliable, Cheng Zhaoer will treat it as if she gave birth to two babies and bring them together, but the relationship is getting deeper and deeper!
When I coaxed the two little babies to sleep, I called the little brother of Fengnian over to take a nap, and now, Cheng Zhaoer is very interested in the little brother of Fengnian, and these two children don't know how, delicious and crying! Although, the two also know how to help the family do things, and they are very sensible, but Cheng Zhaoer feels that it is not enough!
A man should look like a man, and he will expect them to stand up to the door in the future! How can it be like two crying bags, so she wants to shape their personalities!
Fortunately, they are only three or four years old now, and there is still a lot of room for plasticity! Cheng Zhao'er has already told the Li family that this year, let the Li family teach them some literacy at home, and Cheng Zhao'er will send them to the school in the spring next year.
When everything was over, she asked Cheng Changqing to cook a big pot of rice soup, collected the cotton thread tassels by herself, and then used a self-made thread rewinding device to wind one spindle of thread after another into bundles of large threads.
Then boil the cotton thread with rice soup, and after cooking, take it to the yard and spread it out to the sun until it is half dry, wait until these are finished, and then kick the thread, and then take out a few bamboo knots of the same size prepared by Cheng Changqing, and fix these bamboo knots wrapped with cotton thread on the wooden shaft lined up, and as the thread is pulled, the tube made of bamboo will rotate with it!
Pass the thread end on each bamboo link through a device called a wire grate, and then pull out the equal length and synchronize it to the loom head, and you can weave the cloth!
The loom of cotton thread is very complicated, Cheng Zhaoer is not sure that he can make it, unexpectedly, now there are looms for linen and silk, and there is a loom for weaving burlap at home, which was personally given to Li's dowry by Li Junan, and the loom for weaving cotton cloth is much the same, and Cheng Zhaoer's description that Li Junan listened to soon came out.
Then Lee sat down in front of the loom and weaved cotton cloth in the same way as burlap!
Cheng Zhao'er looked at it carefully for a moment, and found that although the part woven by Li did not feel as good as the modern one, it was much better than linen, soft and white, it looked extremely comfortable, and it seemed to be very tough, unlike silk that was easy to break and could not be preserved!
In the evening, Li finally weaved a piece of fabric!
The three-foot-long fabric has a soft and light texture, and there is no rough feeling on the cheeks, and it is extremely breathable. I really didn't expect this cotton to be able to weave fabric, I'm really capable! ”
Cheng Changqing and Li Junan also looked honored, and nodded incessantly, as if there was a champion in the family.
Cheng Zhao'er's rare face turned red, she stole the wisdom and civilization of her predecessors, she really has nothing to be proud of!
The next day, Li Junan left by himself, Cheng Zhaoer gave ten taels of silver for the manual fee, Li Junan didn't want it, but later Cheng Changqing and Li said peace together, and he reluctantly accepted it!
As soon as he came home, he had work to do, and when he came home, he had to talk to his mother Qian Shi, Zhao'er's niece is terrible now!
Ten days after the agreement, Ouyang Jing still had a lifelong riot in satin clothes, and appeared at the door of Cheng's house with his fixed little servant Zhuqing!
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