Chapter 134 Cotton Picking
When he got up early in the morning, Wang Ke didn't let his wives go out, but told them very mysteriously that he would follow him to his own village for a while, and there were good things for them to show today, but he never said what it was.
Wang Ke just smiled and didn't say anything, prescribing as if he was killed and didn't say anything.
After eating, the three 'women' kept urging Wang Ke to take them to go immediately, and Wang Ke deliberately rubbed for a long time before leaving the house, and hung the appetites of several 'women' very high, and wanted to go early to see what good things were.
Outside the village, Wang Ke did not go into the courtyard, but came directly to the edge of his own field, only to see the cotton branches full of white 'color' cotton 'flowers', at a glance, like a piece of white clouds floating on the green grassland, the three 'women' have never seen such a scene, and they can't help cheering.
Nanping asked suspiciously: "General, how do you know that this cotton 'flower' has bloomed, and how long will it take to bear fruit?" ”
Nanping's question was nothing at first, but as soon as the last sentence came out, Wang Ke didn't hear it and fell into the field, these cotton 'flowers' are all cotton peach 'flowers', where can they bear fruit again.
Seeing Wang Ke like that, Nanping asked strangely, "General, what's wrong with you?" Could it be that what the concubine said is wrong? ”
Wang Ke shook his head and said, "Your words are not only wrong, but also very wrong. You don't know anything about the growth characteristics of this cotton flower. ”
Nanping was a little embarrassed and slapped Wang Ke lightly and said, "Didn't the concubine not know, the general laughed at the concubine." The general told the concubine what was going on. ”
Wang Ke immediately explained the growth process of cotton 'flowers' completely, and saw that the three 'women' also understood a little, before continuing: "Didn't Uncle Wang in the village come to the house yesterday? I'm here to tell me that the cotton 'flowers' in this field are blooming, and to ask what to do now. I arranged it yesterday, and Uncle Wang will organize people to pick it in a while, and I will bring you over early in the morning, just to let you see what this cotton 'flower' looks like when it is still growing in the ground. ”
Lan Ling looked at the cotton 'flowers' in his eyes, and said with a blank face: "This thing can't be eaten, it's all white, and the 'color' is single, what's the use." ”
Without waiting for Wang Ke to speak, Dongyue preemptively said: "The princess forgot, the general said a long time ago that this is used to make cloth, and it can also be made into a blanket to cover and pad." ”
Lan Ling tilted his head and thought for a while before saying, "Did you say that?" I don't remember. ”
Wang Ke knew that he couldn't tell her clearly, and he didn't bother to speak, so he let Dongyue and Lanling muttered there non-stop.
Maybe it was Wang Ke and his entourage who drove over, the sound of the car let the people in the village know that they had arrived, Wang Ke didn't stand for a while, Uncle Wang came with the farmers who planted cotton 'flowers', Wang Ke saw that there were not many people here, and he frowned, he felt that the cotton 'flowers' planted now are not too much, as long as there are more people, it won't take a few days to finish picking, but if it's just these families, then when will it be done.
Uncle Wang saw that Wang Ke was a little displeased, and hurriedly asked, "Young master, what's wrong, what's upsetting you." Tell the old man, the old man will help you get angry! ”
Wang Ke pointed to the people he brought and said, "Uncle Wang, why are there only these few people?" Is there no one in the village? ”
Uncle Wang was stunned, he didn't know why Wang Ke was so unhappy because of the lack of people, so he had to answer honestly: "There are many people in the village, but this cotton 'flower' land is only planted by a few of their families, so they don't need to pay extra money to pick it, if they find someone else, they will have to pay the wages separately." The old man didn't think it would take a few more days, so he didn't call anyone else. ”
Wang Ke then understood that this Uncle Wang was saving money for himself, after all, this starting point was good, and Wang Ke couldn't blame him, so he had to say softly: "Uncle Wang, this cotton 'flower' is no better than other things, and it has to be dried after picking, if you don't take advantage of the sun these days and pick it to dry, it won't be used." You'd better go back to the village and call some more people. ”
Uncle Wang said with some hesitation: "Young master, how can you give money, if the lord and lady know about this, will they talk about the old man?" ”
Wang Ke smiled helplessly, he really didn't understand, how could people at this time be so sincere, for the sake of the owner, and now there is a ready-made thunder person in front of him, and he is afraid that he will be scolded if he does something wrong.
Wang Ke looked at Uncle Wang, and said with an oath: "Uncle Wang, don't be afraid, if there is anything, I will bear it, and my father and mother will not blame you." ”
Just kidding, now Wang Ke is a person who counts in the Wang family, even Wang Si and Mrs. Wang will not say that they disagree with his approach, as long as Wang Ke says it, it will definitely be counted, how can there be the kind of situation that Uncle Wang is worried about!
Seeing that Wang Ke was resolute, Uncle Wang 'handed over' several peasant households to Wang Ke, and turned around and went back to the village to call someone.
Wang Ke saw that several farmers had a guy in their hands, and he didn't delay, first told them how to pick, and repeatedly told them to be careful when picking, and pay attention to not pricking their hands by the thorns on the cotton stalks.
The three 'women' sounded interesting, and they also ran into the field, to try what is difficult about picking cotton 'flowers', Wang Ke couldn't stop it, so he had to stand on the ridge alone, he knew that it wouldn't take a while, and the three 'women' would run back by themselves.
It is strange to use the delicate hands of the three of them to pick cotton 'flowers' on weekdays, and not to be pierced with blood. Sure enough, it didn't take much effort for the three 'women' to run back one by one, and all three of them had blood on their hands.
Wang Ke shook his head and said with a distressed look: "I told you everything, told you not to go, but I just didn't listen." It's all right now, it's all bleeding, it's comfortable. Don't come up yet. ”
Lan Ling pouted and said: "The general knows that we are all like this, and the general should hurry up and find a way to stop the bleeding for us." ”
Wang Ke almost fainted when he heard this, just this small injury, do you still need to stop the bleeding? Just ignore it, it won't flow for a while, why make such a fuss.
But Wang Ke can't say this yet, after all, two of the three of them are princesses, if Comrade Li Er knows, then he will have to bear it himself.
At this moment, Uncle Wang also came with the people who were called in the village, and when he saw the three young ladies receiving this appearance, he had no time to arrange for the farmers, so he 'touched' a piece of paper made by the Wang family from his body, lit it with flint, and pressed the burned paper ashes to the place where the three 'women' bled out.
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Among the three 'women', only Dongyue knew that this could stop the bleeding, and stood there obediently, allowing Uncle Wang to press the paper ashes on the bleeding place on his hands; Nanping and Lanling saw that they wanted to press this dusty thing on their hands, they both shook their heads vigorously and refused, and their hands were dead behind their backs and refused to take them out, and it was useless for Dongyue and Uncle Wang to say that the sky was broken.
Wang Ke looked at everything in front of him, just smiled and didn't speak. Walk back to the car, find a band-aid in the storage compartment in front of the passenger seat, and walk back to put it on to the three of them.
Wang Ke has been carrying this thing in his car for a long time, after all, when doing engineering in later generations, the workers can hardly guarantee that they will not 'make' some small wounds, and these band-aids are prepared by Wang Ke for the workers. After coming to the Tang Dynasty, Wang Ke forgot to take out these things because he didn't encounter such a thing on weekdays, and today he saw the three 'women' bleeding on their hands, so he remembered that he still had this thing, and hurriedly took it out.
The three 'women' had never seen anything like this, so they all looked curiously at the ones pasted on their hands, and then looked at the ones that had not been used, wrapped in paper, and kept asking Wang Ke in their mouths, what was this thing and whether it could stop the bleeding.
Wang Ke ignored them, and asked the first few farmers to teach the later farmers how to pick, and then took a band-aid from Nanping and gave some to Uncle Wang, so that he could see whose hands were bleeding and put them on as they were.
After finishing these things, Wang Ke turned to Nanping and said: "This thing is called a band-aid, and it is used to stop bleeding when there is a small wound, but if the wound is large, you have to use other methods." ”
Lan Ling looked at the Band-Aid in his hand and asked, "General, some of the words on this can be recognized, and some of them are very similar to our words, but I don't know them." ”
Wang Ke looked over and immediately understood what Lanling meant, the words she didn't know were the abbreviations in later generations, and the so-called known, of course, was the words that didn't change after the traditional characters became abbreviated.
Wang Ke couldn't explain this question clearly, so he had to say in general terms: "This is the text of the Far West Country, which is somewhat similar to the text of my Tang Dynasty. ”
When the three 'women' saw Wang Ke say this, they didn't think deeply, put away the band-aid, and looked at the cotton field again.
After looking at it for a while, Nanping turned his head to look at Wang Ke and asked, "General, how can this cotton 'flower' be turned into cloth?" Now the cloth is woven with linen, and it is woven with hemp silk. The hemp silk is so long, but this cotton 'flower' is so short, you can't weave it if you want to. ”
Wang Ke smiled and said: "This cotton 'flower' has to be dried after picking, and when it is dry, the seeds in it can be removed before it can be used." After that, it must be spun into thread before it can be used for weaving. ”
Looking at Nan Ping's dazed look, Wang Ke said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't know now, when the cotton 'flowers' are put away, I will make a few more tools and you will know how to 'get'." ”
Wang Ke said in his mouth, thinking in his heart: "Of course you don't know, this zodiac woman has not been born yet." But with me here, this textile has to appear in advance! ”
Nanping and the others have become accustomed to Wang Ke's 'fine' understanding of these strange things (in fact, Wang Ke only knows a little 'hair', but for people at this time, they think he is very 'fine'. Seeing Wang Ke's confident look, he looked at him trustingly, and then looked at the field. Now they have another expectation, looking forward to the cotton 'flower' being harvested as soon as possible, so that they can see how this little 'flower' turns into cloth.
As time passed, everyone's basket was about to be full, and Wang Ke hurriedly asked Uncle Wang to spread several large mats on the edge of the field, so that the people who were full of baskets would fall on it, and then send them back to the village at the end of the evening.
Uncle Wang whispered to Wang Ke: "Young master, when the old man went back to the village to call people, he promised to give each person five dollars a day, which will not be much." ”
Wang Ke looked at Uncle Wang and said, "What's more?" The people in the capital village will be given a meal by the village at noon, and they must be full to work before they are strong. ”
Uncle Wang was a little anxious, and hurriedly said, "Young master, five dollars is a lot, and if you have to take care of the meal, it will be too much." ”
Wang Ke pointed to the busy farmers in the field and said: "This is the people in our own village, isn't it just one meal, and how much more can we get." That's it. If there is anything, say that I arranged it. But let me make it clear first, you can't just 'get' a little bit and send it away, you have to see the meat, you know? ”
When Uncle Wang heard this, he said with some embarrassment: "It's hard to kill a pig in the village." They haven't grown up yet. ”
Wang Ke said impatiently: "I don't know how to buy it outside the village before I grow up." What, pigs! Do we have pigs in our farm? ”
Wang Ke said before he reacted, he has been in Datang for so long, he has always eaten cow and sheep 'meat', he thought that he did not feed pigs in his village, and he was not embarrassed to ask, and he forgot about it after a long time, today Uncle Wang talked about it, he was a little strange, there is a pig, why didn't he eat a little pig 'meat', and he didn't even smell a little taste, so now Wang Ke was very surprised and asked Uncle Wang.
Uncle Wang was very puzzled by Wang Ke's expression, but he didn't dare to ask, so he replied honestly: "Yes, they are all raised by the farmers to sell the money for the New Year." ”
Wang Ke rubbed his hands happily, and hurriedly said: "Go buy some and come back, we won't leave at noon, just eat here, I'll cook a few dishes." ”
Just now, Wang Ke asked Uncle Wang in a loud voice, and the three 'women' were all attracted by their conversation. As soon as I heard Wang Ke say that he wanted to eat pig 'meat', Nanping and Lanling had never seen what a pig looked like, and Dongyue couldn't stand it, and said with a disgusted face: "How can pigs eat, such a dirty thing." ”
Wang Ke said with a yearning face: "Don't you know, this pig 'meat' is much more delicious than beef and sheep 'meat', and I will cook a few dishes in a while, and don't swallow your tongues." ”
As soon as Wang Ke said this, several people thought about the delicacy made by Wang Ke, and no one thought about how dirty the pig was.
Wang Ke also stood there thinking about the dishes made of the pig 'meat' he had eaten, and after thinking about it, he 'revealed' the appearance of a pig brother, and saw that Uncle Wang shook his head on the side, so he simply didn't look at it, and went to arrange the lunch meal by himself. This large group of people's food is enough for him to 'worry', and if he continues to delay like this, he doesn't know when he will be able to eat.
As soon as Uncle Wang left, Wang Ke's mind couldn't be put in the cotton field, and he was always thinking about Uncle Wang buying back the pig 'meat', and he would make a dish of 'meat' in the pot.
As soon as he thought of this, Wang Ke remembered that there is no douban, this douban has to be made with beans, and now it seems that there are no beans, even if there is, there is no harvest of his own chili peppers, and it is too late to make it fresh, forget it, let's make braised 'meat', as long as there is something to eat! It seems that this Douban will have to go to the merchant in the Western Regions to get some seeds, and he will not be able to eat them until next year.
Wang Ke thought about it and let out a sigh, so that the three 'women' all glanced at him together, Wang Ke hurriedly said why Uncle Wang hasn't come back yet, this noon is coming. to cover up the past.