The three of them were fast, and Hu Xiaomei was responsible for threading the needle and thread, which was sewn by Wei Sanniang and Hu Lixiang, and it took a day to finally sew the first jacket. The size of the garment is made according to the size of the fox fence.

At night, the fox fence took off the outer padded jacket, only wore the inner one**, put on the down jacket, he walked around the yard, and he didn't feel cold at all, and it was warmer than wearing a padded jacket on weekdays.

Originally, this jacket had to be sewn on the outside, but in order to save, Hu Xiaomei decided that her family didn't need to sew it, and the outer coat was dirty and replaced, and the inner jacket could still be worn and not changed.

There is only one drawback, because the down is relatively soft, and the jacket feels bloated on the body, but when the time comes, it is quite acceptable for the average person to wear a suitable and beautiful coat outside. As for the big families, let's improve it when the time comes.

The jacket was made, and on the second day, Fox Dayou carried the silver, took the things, and went directly to the farm, and the fox Xiaomei was responsible for guarding the stall in the market. When it was close to noon, Fox Dayou and Thirteen carried a big cloth bag on their backs, two pigtails in their hands, and took Fox Xiaomei back to Hujia Village with a smile on their faces.

This harvest was quite good, and the eiderdown was prepared yesterday. The hundreds of adult ducks on the farm were all sold, and some were slaughtered on the farm, so Uncle Wang collected all the duck feathers and dried them for only one day, so some were wet.

Three hundred ducks, one duck has about two or two plumes, plus water. There are about three taels, three hundred ducks have about 100 catties, and some of the duck down that has been replaced, and there are seven or eight catties of dry and dry. Wet duck feathers can't be combined with dried duck down, so the dried duck down is directly packed in a cloth bag and placed in the bag with your hand, and a person has dozens of pounds of wet duck feathers on his back, and when he comes back, the clothes on his back are soaked.

However, seeing a lot of duck feather fox big friends think it's worth it.

These duck feathers have been waterlogged overnight and must be disposed of immediately. Otherwise, mold will grow in two days. At that time, it is not only difficult to handle, but also affects the quality of the duck feathers.

While the fox fence was fragrant and cooked, the fox Xiaomei immediately boiled a large pot of water and took out all the pots. Even the bathtub was used. Pour all the duck feathers into the pot. Rinse with hot water.

The duck feathers were cleaned three times before they were cleaned, and then they found a sieve for Wei Sanniang to dry pickles, and added a few pickles. Lay it all over it.

As for the duck down, it should be clean, and it should be washed twice at that time. However, because there were too many duck feathers, there was nothing to dry the duck down, so Hu Xiaomei decided to wash the duck down in two days.

In order to make the duck feathers dry faster, she turned the duck feathers every once in a while, so that it only took three days for the hundred catties of duck feathers to dry out. Collecting is a delicate job, which should be tied tightly with a muslin bag, hung under a ventilated roof, and taken out as much as you want.

And these duck feathers have to be picked and reduced first, leaving only soft feathers and down, and the hard duck feather fox Xiaomei is not going to lose it, she took another bag and packed it, and it may be useful in the future.

The original cloth bags were not enough, so Hu Xiaomei and Wei Sanniang went to the market and pulled back more than ten feet of muslin cloth to make several muslin bags.

Her initial plan was to make two jackets out of the soft duck feathers, take them to the ready-to-wear store for trial sale, and then make them in large quantities if the effect was good. As for the better eiderdown, when the market opens, it will be sold to the rich.

In the afternoon, when there was nothing to do, the family closed the door and sat in the yard to cut duck feathers. The hard duck feather tube in the middle can not be wanted, and the rest of the duck feathers are hard and soft separately.

There is only one pair of scissors at home, Wei Sanniang also went to buy two back, and borrowed another one, plus thirteen, a total of five people, four people are responsible for cutting duck feathers, and one person is doing it.

During this period, Hu Xiaomei also had to check whether the duck feathers sheared by others were qualified. In addition to the work at home, I didn't even care about the artemisia in the field for a few days, and it took a total of seven days to pick and cut all the duck feathers.

Fox Xiaomei, Fox Dayou, Wei Sanniang, Fox Fence Xiang, Thirteen, plus Mu Xiu's fox fence also joined the ranks of picking and shearing duck feathers, and it took a total of seven days to clean up all the duck feathers completely.

Although the movement was small, it still aroused the curiosity of some people in the village. That day, Fox Dayou and Thirteen carried duck feathers back to Hujia Village to be seen by some people, and they were quite surprised to see a lot of duck feathers poured out, and then I heard that a few days ago, Wei Sanniang went everywhere to collect duck feathers, and some people also joked about this, saying that the fox Dayou's family had a rusty brain and had nothing to do.

In the past few days, I saw that the fox family was closed to the courtyard door, and I didn't know what to do at home, and then Wei Sanniang went to Chen's to borrow scissors, and there was more discussion.

What can this duck feather be used for, what was directly lost after slaughtering the duck, and the fox Xiaomei's family still spent money to buy it.

However, the door of the courtyard was closed for a few days, and it was opened again in the past two days, but the pile of duck feathers that I heard was gone, and the Wang family, who was close to Wei Sanniang, asked her: "I heard that your family got a bunch of things back a few days ago, what are you doing?" ”

The Tan family, who were standing not far away, pricked up their ears, and Wei Sanniang did not avoid them, and said to the Wang family with a smile: "Lijing, this girl is fine, I want to make a little thing, buy some duck feathers and come back, it's not worth a few dollars, so I toss with her." "If this happens, it's the credit of Fox Xiaomei, if it doesn't work, it's a child's trick and play.

"Yo, duck feathers?" Wang Shi said in surprise: "What can you do, what do you lose when you slaughter ducks on weekdays?" ”

"Her father and I don't understand, it's also good for children to be able to use their brains more." Wei Sanniang said with a smile. She and Fox Dayou had already thought about it, and the matter of spending five hundred copper plates to buy duck feathers must not be known to these three aunts and six women now, otherwise they would not know how to arrange them in a joke, at least they would not let anyone outside know until the jacket was sold.

Wei Sanniang said vaguely, Wang was embarrassed to get to the bottom of it, Tan listened to it with disdain, and turned to another place to quietly chew the root of the tongue with others: "Buy a bunch of hair and come back to make a mysterious ......" but no longer quarrel with Wei Sanniang in person, last time I quarreled with Wei Sanniang by the river, and was scolded by Hu Yingdi when I went back, and then this matter was somehow known by Hu Mingzhao, and called Hu Yingdi to say it, saying that Hu Yingdi did not discipline his daughter-in-law well, and the Hu family also made jokes for outsiders to see, The old lady fox's body is not as tough as before, so she can't block the old lady.

After the fox came back from the fox family, he gave Tan another lecture, and he didn't pay attention to her for a few days, which made Tan feel uncomfortable for a while.

Besides, Fox Xiaomei's side, the jacket is ready, and the most important thing at present is to find a market. On the second day, she and Wei Sanniang went to the market with two jackets, found the ready-to-wear shop where they often bought fabrics, showed the things to the boss, and explained them again.

The boss listened to Hu Xiaomei's words in surprise, and then looked suspicious: "Is the warmth really as good as you say?" ”

"Of course." The things invented by the high-tech of later generations are of course full of confidence, although she does not know whether the warmth can withstand repeated washing like modern down jackets, but the warmth is still very good when she first uses it.

Because it is a ready-made jacket, there is no size to make a comparison, so Fox Xiaomei has to make it according to the size of the fox fence, after all, the boy is more expensive at home.

The owner of the ready-to-wear put a hand into the jacket sleeve and tried it, it was really warm, but I don't know how to wear it, but unfortunately there is no way to try it. Whether it's really warm or not depends on what's inside.

"What's in here?" The garment owner said.

"It's not anything of value in there, but I can't tell you right now, if we can become long-term partners, what is filled with it will no longer be a secret." She won't let people know what's in it until the business is done. Even if the business is completed, she has to sign a contract to ensure that the other party will not regret it after knowing what is inside.

The owner of the ready-to-wear garment glanced at Hu Xiaomei, took the jacket and looked left and right, and couldn't tell what was inside, but if the warmth effect of this thing brought by Hu Xiaomei was really as good as Hu Xiaomei said, it must be a good thing. What embarrassed him was that Hu Xiaomei asked to sign the deed first.

"Otherwise, you will put these two jackets here with me first, if they are easy to sell, let's sign a long contract, and you will supply them for me in the future?" The price you said is also negotiable. Moreover, if it sells well, you can change this jacket and embroider some flowers on it, which can be sold more expensively, and of course, the price for you will also increase. ”

The suggestion of the ready-to-wear boss is really good, Wei Sanniang looks at the fox Xiaomei.

Fox Xiaomei smiled slightly, she is not a fool.

"Boss, you don't know, we did these two jackets really unexpectedly, I'm not afraid to tell you, the things in here are also easy to find, if someone wants to counterfeit it, it's also easy, but I want to do exactly the same as mine, so clean, I can guarantee that there is no one else but us." Boss, you are a cheerful person, and we don't talk nonsense. If you think this thing is okay, you can keep these two jackets and sell them first, but the deed still has to be signed first, and you have to sign a long deed to ensure that you get the goods from us. Of course, if these two jackets can't be sold, our deeds will not be counted. This will be written in the deed at that time. As for the embroidery you mentioned, those are all trivial things, and I have so many patterns here, I'm afraid you haven't seen them before. We will slowly add other things later, but this deed must be signed today. ”

The owner of the garment furrowed his eyebrows and hesitated.

Hu Xiaomei saw that the garment boss was too unhappy, and there was more than one garment shop in Weijia Town, so she asked the garment boss to think about it, and went out with Wei Sanniang with something.

Until the two of them left the ready-to-wear shop, they didn't see the owner of the ready-to-wear store come out to call someone. (To be continued......)