North Park, Zhiyun Temple.

Gu Qing, who stayed in the warm room and didn't want to go anywhere, was teaching a few girls to knit sweaters.

Yes, you read that right, knitting sweaters.

From ancient times to the present, the life of the powerful and powerful families has been very comfortable. Even in this era when there are no toilets and no air conditioning, it is not hot for her in the summer and cold for her in the winter.

As for going to the toilet, as long as it is convenient to go to the toilet, someone will take care of it. The toilet attached to her bedroom was cleaner than the luxurious toilet she had ever had in modern times. The floor was covered with smooth tiles, and there were many pots with fragrant flowers and herbs in them, which she was surprised by when she first went to the toilet.

She is already old and menopausal, and she doesn't even need the legendary artifact of the moon X-belt, even if there is anything inconvenient, it will not be more difficult than going to the countryside to see a doctor in modern times.

Now that Gu Qing is living this * life, she just wants to say one thing

- Please come here more violently!

But there are some things in this world that can be changed through money and power, and some things cannot. For example, dress, for example, some concepts. Gu Qing is not a fool, she didn't want to shake the wheel of history with her body, but where she can, she still wants to change one or two.

For example, knitting sweaters; Another example, down padded jackets.

This idea of knitting a sweater, Gu Qing has already had it. After arriving here, she has long clothes and long skirts inside and out, which is inconvenient to wear, not to mention, when it is cold, the three layers inside and the outside are even more troublesome.

In winter, these masters covered with silk quilts, which were filled with silk. Most of the clothes worn outside are mink fur and fox fur, and the jacket cotton jacket has silk and cotton. Because the cotton is not warm after washing it several times, and the cotton cloth is easy to fade, the cotton jackets of the masters are mostly worn through a winter and are not used, and they are replaced with new clothes the next year.

Poor families usually go unwashed in order to wear a cotton garment for a few more years. If it's too dirty, I will tear down the face and change the face. But that's it, cotton absorbs moisture, and it will become harder and harder, and less and less warm.

She heard from people that some poor people could not afford to buy cotton jackets, and there were people who wore kudzu clothes and linen clothes during the winter, and she couldn't imagine how Mai would survive the winter. She only wears sackcloth in summer, and everyone who wears sackcloth knows that the sackcloth is all holes, and it is good to use it for ventilation in summer, but this winter......

Fortunately, there is no need to farm in winter, and if you can not go out, you can not go out, light a brazier to keep warm, and not many people freeze to death.

Gu Qing also looked at her wardrobe when she was bored, and saw that there were so many clothes in it that she didn't wear after wearing it a few times, but the fabrics she used were all good things, some of them were even tribute satin, and they couldn't be given to her subordinates indiscriminately, so every time she gave clothes to someone, she had to ask Mama Hua to confirm that it was okay, and then give it to the girls and mothers-in-law.

Old Taijun Qiu was not stingy in the first place, Gu Qing was even more generous, and now all the subordinates who were assigned to the North Park were not happy and smiling.

Gu Qing rarely went out in ancient times, it was okay indoors, there was a hot earth dragon underground, and there was a charcoal basin in the house, which was not cold. But Li Rui has to practice arching every day, can't wear a thick cotton jacket or a big fur, can only wear a thick jacket, this winter is cold, she watched Li Rui pull the bow again and again in the cold wind, a little distressed.

So she wanted to try and see if she could knit a cashmere sweater.

In the spring of last year, she thought about it, and also instructed Fang Shi to find her some cashmere, rabbit hair and other things, and find a way to spin them into fine threads.

She had seen the animal world before, and knew that animals such as sheep and rabbits would shed their hair at the turn of spring and summer, and the animals needed to take off their fine fluff for the summer; In the fall, it grows again for the winter. She wanted the Fang family to find some people in the Zhuangzi to help her weave this kind of velvet thread, and then send it to the mansion.

She thought simply, but in the summer, people from Zhuangzi came to report that the cashmere was too short to spin the thread. At this time, Gu Qing remembered that China does not seem to produce sheep, and the fluff fiber of goats is too short. So she asked the people in the Zhuangzi to mix in other things to try, but it really didn't work, so she had to give up.

I don't know how the people on the Zhuangzi of Ludao experimented, in short, in the autumn, all kinds of velvet threads were sent to Gu Qing's yard. In addition to cashmere mixed with wool, cashmere mixed with fine yarn, there are cashmere mixed with rabbit down, mixed with fox down. There are even separate rabbit velvet threads and fox velvet threads, but these two quantities are not many, and they can't weave a few clothes.

Gu Qing saw that the people on the Zhuangzi really smashed out the thread, and hurriedly sent someone to reward him.

Although the Fang family felt that the old lady was tossing blindly, but this was the old lady in the house, and he listened to and did what he wanted to do, and he didn't say much, but he just called the people on the Zhuangzi up and instructed him carefully, it was okay to spin the thread, but not to shear the wool on the sheep that had survived the winter, if the sheep froze to death in winter, they would have to compensate themselves.

These farmers were heavily rewarded by Gu Qing, and they were already ready to go back to shear and spin wool again, and then come to ask for a reward, but they were beaten by the Fang clan like this, and they all quickly came to their senses. If it's not cold in winter, it's okay, and the ancestors who slowly serve this group of sheep can survive the winter, but if it's cold, many sheep will really die, so let's give up.

It's also a shame that they put away their greed, otherwise the weather will be cold this year, and their little reward will not be enough to lose sheep money. When the time comes, entering the house is not to ask for a reward, but to beg for a beating.

However, at the end of the year, when Zhuangzi wanted to bring fox skins, rabbit skins and other animal skins to the house, they had a heart and left a lot of velvet, which was later mixed and made into a kind of fine flannel thread with a hemp color, and sent it to the house.

Gu Qing originally just wanted to try, but she was really drummed up, and she was naturally greatly encouraged in her heart, thinking about how many of her modern things could be copied and used all day long, and they were not shocking to the world.

There are many ducks in the Returning Garden, Gu Qing saw the ducks one day, and suddenly remembered the duck down quilt and down jacket, so he started the idea of duck down and goose down.

The smell of ducks is heavy, the ancients did not use the feathers on the ducks, such as in the Red Mansions, there are many people who use peacock feathers mixed with gold thread to spin into threads to make clothes. Gu Qing is from modern times, and he knows that duck down and goose down are also good things, so he instructed the people to get some plucked duck feathers, wash and dry the down after removing it, and keep it for later use.

It is said that after Gu Qing got the various colors of velvet sent by Zhuangzi, he asked the people in the workshop in the house to make some bamboo needles of different thicknesses. She asked for this kind of needle to be smooth and durable, and the two ends would not stab people, so the craftsmen in the house naturally chose some good bamboo, polished it carefully, and made it extremely smooth, and then sent it to the Zhiyun Courtyard.

Gu Qing's sweater knitting skills were learned from her roommate in the same dormitory when she was in college, and the girl was determined to be a good wife and mother, such as knitting, cooking, making rag dolls, everything, which made Gu Qing want to marry her home.

There was a lot of spare time in college, Gu Qing and several other roommates learned to knit with this roommate, first learned to knit scarves, Gu Qing knitted scarves for everyone in the family, and after no one gave them, they began to learn to knit hats and gloves.

Later, I learned to knit sweaters.

Sweaters are far less easy than knitting scarves, she learned for a long time to learn how to tie sleeves and collars, and then after knitting a few pieces of tired finger cramps, she still thinks that the sweater she bought looks good and convenient, so she gradually abandoned this craft.

At this time, picking up the bamboo needles and velvet threads, Gu Qing suddenly felt very cordial, as if she had returned to the time when the four girls lived in the same bedroom, poked bamboo needles, and knitted sweaters.

Now I don't know if the "good wife and good mother" can get what she wants. Anyway, she is a good wife and a good mother, and now she even has two cheap grandchildren, and several cousins.

Life is really lonely like snow.

Mrs. Qiu asked for a lot of velvet thread, and everyone was thinking about what kind of cloth she was going to spin into. But what Mrs. Qiu wants is fine velvet thread, which is easy to break, so fine, the loom will definitely break when it is pulled, and it is impossible to form a cloth. If it is a thick velvet thread, then it is made of thick cloth, is it difficult to make a carpet?

After Mrs. Qiu picked up two bamboo needles and kept weaving them with threads, a long flannel cloth was woven by her. The eyes of the girl were round, and she called it magical.

Gu Qing practiced with a scarf at the beginning, she only knitted sweaters with up and down needles and flat needles, but the scarf would have a lot of tricks, and she was familiar with the stitches such as "Unit Treasure Double Ingots" and "Valentine's Day Fishbone Needle".

It's just that the cashmere scarf is not as warm and sheltered from the fur as it is after all, and she didn't intend to make a scarf, so when she gradually became familiar with the stitching method, she immediately began to ask for Li Ming's height and size, and began to practice with his clothes first, and knitted a close-fitting pullover.

As for choosing Li Ming, of course, it is because he is the smallest and fights the most effortlessly!

Gu Qing's old lady Qiu who is now possessed already has some old flowers, and her dizzy and trembling hands from time to time also make her play for a while to rest, originally wanted to give Li Ming a long-sleeved pullover trade, but after the worst, she only made a vest vest and there was no follow-up.

There are so many girls and women under her hands, and so many people in the needlework room, why do you want to weave by yourself? Just teach others how to weave!

The people in the sewing room have a lot to do at the end of the year, and Gu Qing is embarrassed to let them do more work, their eyes will not be able to stand it. So she first taught her subordinates "Siyun" and a few second-class maids how to knit needles and how to make clothes.

Many of the techniques and crafts of ancient times are not passed on, and some young ladies in the boudoir want to learn the unique skills of embroidery, and they also have to formally apprentice to learn. Mrs. Fuli is teaching what she is teaching is obviously what kind of unique ability, but she has no secrets, and several girls are very grateful, and they redouble their efforts in natural learning.

They are all very smart girls, and they quickly learned how to weave sweaters in the process of dismantling and weaving, dismantling and weaving. As soon as they learned, Gu Qing became much more relaxed. Except for Li Rui's Gu Qing who knitted by himself, Li Ming's vest that has become, and the sweaters of the other masters in the house are all knitted by them.

So there was a situation where Gu Qing was knitting sweaters on the Luohan bed in the room, and several big girls and little girls around her were also knitting with their heads down. The size of each master in the sewing room is available, but there is no need to measure it, it is easy to be slightly elastic, and it is good to make it close.

Cashmere garments woven with fine cashmere threads can be worn over the middle coat and inside the padded jacket, which is both light and warm. Gu Qing was already wearing a fox velvet, and Xiangyun was knitting cashmere pants for her.

The other masters in the house have also been knitted, but Gu Qing didn't let his subordinates dye the cashmere thread, which is basically white, and the style is a bit monotonous.

Gu Qing looked at the few clothes that had been made on the couch, and couldn't help but feel very proud in his heart.

Aha Working people are the most glorious wow!

As for those eiderdowns, there aren't many of them collected. Gu Qing asked people to make two padded jackets, which were not filled with cotton, but filled with those duck downs. There is no tarpaulin here, so the outer fabric of this "down jacket" is made of fine and thick fabric, and the inner lining is made of light feather crepe to prevent down leakage.

Li Rui's one was sprinkled with gold on the black ground, Li Ming's one was red, Gu Qing asked his subordinates to beat it and found that there was no white velvet, and it was not heavy to carry, and he was full of confidence, and he felt that he had done an extremely remarkable thing.

In fact, whether it is silk or good skin, there is no shortage of Xinguo Mansion. There are even many animals such as foxes and roe deer on their villages, which are used in the government. Gu Qing tossed so much, it was really because he was too bored in the Guogong Mansion.

As the highest-level hostess of the Xinguo Mansion, she is not short of food and clothing, but she just wants to make something familiar to her to prove that she is really useful and has really existed.

Now she is wearing a fox velvet sweater, warm and soft cashmere pants in her pants, holding a rod needle in her hand, and then looking at the scene of a room of girls knitting sweaters with their heads down, I don't know why my nose is sore, and my eyes are hot.

Gu Qing was feeling the sadness of spring, and Li Mao took the three children into the house.

"Hey, why are you here together?" Gu Qing put away the sadness in her heart and put down her clothes. When the girls saw Li Mao and a few young masters coming in, they hurriedly put down the sweaters in their hands and retreated behind the old lady.

Li Jun, Li Rui and Li Ming all saluted Gu Qing, and Gu Qing accepted it with a smile. She heard that Li Mao was summoned to the palace early in the morning, and thought that she would not be able to come back today.

"Mother, I'm going to Fenzhou tomorrow on an errand, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in time for the New Year." Since the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival, Li Mao has also begun to slowly chat with Gu Qing about some things in the DPRK and China.

"Fenzhou was hit by a snowstorm, and His Majesty was afraid that the horse farm over there would be lost, so he sent me out to inspect."

Oh, I know, I know, I'm going on a business trip. Even if you don't let people go on a business trip every year, I'm afraid that the snow is really big.

"I'm not in the house, and there is only one daughter-in-law in the house to take care of the house, so I'm afraid there is something inconsiderate. After I left, the family still tried not to be publicized, except for some relatives and old friends at home, it was best to return to other people's visits. At the end of the year, the family temple needs people to officiate, and there are other social contacts, and I am ready to let Rui'er be the master. My mother also took care of it. ”

"Huh? Brother? ”

"Me?" Li Rui didn't know Uncle Lu Dao's plans before he came. He and Li Ming met Li Mao on the way to Zhiyun Courtyard, and the three of them entered the garden together.

Li Mao's decision was made after careful consideration.

It was only after he entered the court that he realized the disadvantages of the thin Daoist Ding.

He was only in his twenties when he suddenly became the Duke of Chad, and he was no older than his brother, and he was always regarded as □□an heir, and he was not as smart as his brother. At that time, he had no official position, his father was gone, the family was filial piety, and he was idle at home all day long, except for raising his son and nephew, there was nothing to do.

When my brother first went, he really regarded Li Rui as his son, he had nightmares at night, he got up and went to see it a few times every night, lest he be scared. He is a man, and the sun is strong, and every time he walks to the bedside, Li Rui will sleep peacefully.

But when you are idle, you are easy to think crankily, and you will suffer from gains and losses. Coupled with the fact that his wife blows the pillow wind in his ears from time to time, gradually, when he looks at this nephew, he really feels that nothing is right.

When the eldest brother died, he had to start a career and endure all kinds of complicated situations and dangers. He has to do his best to fight for the future of the whole house. But if he is tired of hard work and he is the one who bears the risk, why should he make a wedding dress for others in the end?

He's his father's son too!

Therefore, he acquiesced in Fang's move of "praising and killing".

Later, when he entered the imperial court, his horizons gradually broadened, and he was surrounded by family and country affairs, and the intrigues in these backyards gradually became invisible. He doesn't have the ability of his eldest brother to never forget, nor does he have great wisdom in his heart like his father, and being able to stand on top of the court is nothing more than learning more, listening more, and working harder.

At the beginning, he was so busy that he couldn't even sleep for two hours every day, and there was no helper around him, so he couldn't count on the two relatives who should be the closest.

The wife's maiden family is also from a meritorious background, and the father-in-law, as a Dali Siqing, naturally wants to avoid suspicion and cannot be biased towards him in the court; Rui'er's uncle's family, this is the most serious in-law in the house, but he probably knew about his "killing", and stood by in the court, and faintly excluded Fang's younger brother.

The methods he and the Fang clan thought were clever in the eyes of those real "smart people", all of which were jokes. I'm afraid that his mother already knew, so she quietly moved Rui'er into Zhiyun Courtyard, and then took care of the affairs of Mr. and the new subordinates.

His mother used to be the most impatient housekeeper.

The old lady is now unusual, and has begun to be high-profile, not only silently announcing the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but also making things such as "Shooting Jue" and "Three Kingdoms Killing", I am afraid that he will assassinate this nephew, so she began to slowly build momentum for Xinguofu, that is, she wants him and Li Rui to stand up, and she also wants more people to pay attention to his eldest brother's widow.

Unconsciously, he seems to have changed a lot of things, missed a lot of things, and lost a lot of things.

Now that he has known what kind of misunderstanding he has entered, he is naturally not ready to make another mistake to the end.

Let Li Rui officiate this time, it is precisely for this reason. But whoever can be the main priest in the family is either the head of the family, or the eldest son or a virtuous elder, and he does this to revive Li Rui's identity and status.

Since it is rumored that he is plotting against his nephew, he might as well slap these people in the face.

He is doing a good job now, but what really makes him proud is not that he is in a high position now, but that he has gradually gained confidence. People say, "If you hear the Tao, you can die at night." Now that he has found his worth, he understands how far he can go.

Even if he is no longer the Duke of Xinguo, he thinks there is nothing remarkable. The emperor needs him, and the nobles need him. If he didn't believe in the country, they would be the first to be unwilling. If he gradually becomes useless, it is also because he is not angry, and no one else is to blame.

He will train his son well, and he will also train his nephew well.

People say that he stands at thirty, he has just one in thirty, and it is not too late to come again.

"Mother, I'm afraid that my errands will only increase in the future. Qin Tianjian predicted that there might be a famine outside the pass in the coming year, and he was afraid that he would have to raise sword soldiers again. As the commander of the military department, I definitely can't be in the palace all the time. In the future, I will not be in the house, and I hope that my mother will take care of the two children. Especially Rui'er, he is fourteen years old this year, and he is about to enter the palace to accompany him, the palace is complicated, Mama Hua has been in the palace for more than ten years, and Rui'er listens to her teachings, which is very good for him. ”

Li Mao looked at Li Jun again. "My cousin is hardworking and kind-hearted, but he is a little clumsy, and I am afraid that he will offend people. Fang's family is a relative, so I can only ask my mother to mention a little more......"

"Wait, wait!" The more Gu Qing listened, the more wrong it became, and he directly interrupted Li Mao's words. "I listen to your tone, why is it the same as Tuogu? Didn't you go to Fenzhou on an errand? It's just to inspect the disaster, is it possible to have to fight? ”

Li Mao saw that the old lady's expression was nervous, and hurriedly shook his head, "No, no, no, it's just that this is the first time my son has left Beijing on an errand, and I don't know when I will be able to return, so I ......chattered for a while."

Gu Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter how bad Li Mao is, he is also the only man in the Xinguo Mansion, if something happens to him again, this family is old and young, and he will be pinched to death.

She smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will take care of your son and daughter-in-law." If I can't take care of it, there are Rui'er's uncle's house and Ming'er's grandfather's house to take care of. You just have to take care of yourself and get out of the house and come back well. ”

Gu Qing thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said. Although this is the first time that she has taken on the triple positions of "mother-in-law", "mother" and "grandmother" at the same time, when she was a child, her father was on a business trip, and her grandmother said the same.

Speaking of Li Mao going to Fenzhou, Gu Qing suddenly remembered the sweater she had knitted, and she asked her subordinates to give Li Mao the knitted fox and fleece blended pullover and a pair of cashmere pants.

"You're going to Fenzhou, it's cold there, and in addition to putting on a coat, you have to wear a thick coat inside. This is a dress made of cashmere and fox wool thread, which is the most light and warm, and you can wear it close to the inside to protect you from the cold. Gu Qing pointed to the finger down gloves on the top of the clothes, "You and Li Rui are both going to ride horses, and your hands are afraid that it will be very cold outside, so you can also take these pairs of suede down gloves with you on the road." ”

Gu Qing sighed, "You are the prince of the country, how can I not freeze you." I just hope that the people of both states will have clothes to wear. Otherwise, you're going to take all these old clothes away from me? ”

Gu Qing looked at Li Mao with expectant eyes.

"Mother, I went to Fenzhou this time to inspect horse affairs, regardless of disaster relief. If you really want to do good, the way back is open, and naturally there will be people who come to the capital for refuge, and at that time, you can ask your family to open more porridge factories and give more winter clothes. The cashmere coat made by the mother, the son must be wearing it close to the body......" Li Mao held the winter coat given by the old lady, and there was a surge of heat in his chest, and he couldn't say anything more.

He walked up to Gu Qing and knelt down, kowtowed and thanked his mother.

"Mother, take care. The child will go tomorrow. ”

Gu Qing was so frightened by Li Mao's kneeling that he took three steps back.

Oh my mother!

Ah, no! I'm not your mother!

The author has something to say: Li Mao thinks too much. What's that. Li Mao is about to leave. For a long time, it will be the drama of the two little children and Gu Qing.