Chapter 6: The Mother and the Loom
Wei Shuyu slept until dawn, and in his dream, he was touching the fish again, and inevitably fell into the water. Wei Shuyu tightened the clothes on his body, found that it was a little cold, rummaged through the cabinets, and added a coat before walking out of the door.
"Click, click......"
The mother sat on the loom, alternating between the pedals and the shuttle, shuttling back and forth on the loom with a shuttle in her hand, and the thin cotton threads accumulated little by little. From inch to ruler, from ruler to zhang, a step is slowly woven in the mother's hands.
Seeing that his mother used both hands and feet, and the cooperation was extremely flexible, Wei Shuyu didn't know how much cloth his mother had woven over the years, and he didn't know how much money the previous bastard Wei Shuyu had taken from his mother and how many steps he needed to change.
The mother in front of the loom took off the cloth she had just finished, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and raised her eyes to find Wei Shuyu standing beside her.
"Da Lang, what are you doing standing here? What's so nice about a woman's work? Pei put the woven cloth in the basket and began to weave again.
"Mother, how can this be called the work of a woman's family? Isn't our family supported by our mother? ”
"Okay, Da Lang, look, my mother can't tell you." Pei Shi looked at Wei Shuyu, but his hands and feet did not stop.
"Mother, didn't I say yesterday that I will be responsible for making money to support my family in the future!"
"The money that Da Lang gave me yesterday, I estimate that I will first take out some of it and give it to those dozens of families, so that they can also add some new clothes, quilts and so on." Pei Shi stared at Wei Shuyu's eyes, wanting to see if her son was not satisfied with this, if her son did not agree, she would definitely not do so.
"Mother, this is as it should be, you just decide."
"Well, Dalang is the kindest." Hearing that Wei Shuyu affirmed his idea, Pei found that his weaving efficiency had improved a little.
"That's right, mother. How much cloth can you weave in a day with this loom? Wei Shuyu found that it was tiring to look at this kind of textile machine, can it be improved by the robot "sledgehammer", or directly automated production?
"There is no fixed amount, the silver money exchanged for the mother's weaving and embroidery is just enough for our family to eat." Pei Shi wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and looked at Wei Shuyu with some doubts.
She found that Da Lang was a little different in the past two days, and she couldn't say what the difference was, "Maybe I've grown up, I can make money, and I know how to care about myself." ”
"Well, mother, I'll go back to the room first." Wei Shuyu left in a hurry, closed the door, and took out a mini robot sledgehammer from his arms.
The sledgehammer automatically becomes palm-sized when the power is turned off. After turning on the power, the owner can choose the right height, which is only three meters high.
Wei Shuyu started the sledgehammer, directly woke up by voice, and entered the voice control mode.
"Call up all the information about the loom."
The space in front of Wei Shuyu projected relevant information, from ancient hand-cranked textile machines to modern fully automated textile factories, listed one by one, very detailed, Wei Shuyu saw one head and two big.
"How to improve the pedal weaving machine."
This time there is less information, Wei Shuyu chose the shuttle loom, only need to add the shuttle on the basis of the original pedal loom.
"Improved into the material needed for the shuttle loom."
After Wei Shuyu saw the materials, he searched inside and outside the house. After a while, Wei Shuyu found some wood.
Wei Shuyu rummaged inside and out of the house, but he couldn't find fine iron.
"It seems that we can only go to the Fang Market and buy some fine iron to come back." Wei Shuyu touched the consistent money in his pocket.
Yesterday, his mother Pei smiled and said that she saved the money for Wei Shuyu to marry her daughter-in-law, but she did not take it all, but kept it for Wei Shuyu as a pocket use.
Wei Shuyu thought about it and didn't refuse, he really needed some money, and besides, there would be many opportunities to make money in the future, and he would give his mother an extra part when the time came.
When he needed to buy refined iron, Wei Shuyu realized how wise it was to keep some money on him. With the money, Wei Shuyu went to Dongshi.
The main markets of Datang are the east and west cities, which are relatively large in scale, and there is basically everything in them, of course, the premise is that you have enough money.
Wei Shuyu found a blacksmith shop, explained his intentions, spent a hundred yuan, bought some fine iron, and asked his men to help send it to the Wei Mansion.
It was still early, Wei Shuyu decided to take a stroll in the Fang Market, after all, he had been in Datang for a few days, and he hadn't learned about the Fang Market in Datang yet.
And if you want to understand the economic situation of a region, the best way is to visit the business district, and Dongshi is an out-and-out business district of Datang.
In addition to the local people in Datang, Wei Shuyu also found that many shop owners are foreigners, and some are ethnic minorities, which is an international business circle.
After this lap, Wei Shuyu found that the sun had already set, and after Wei Shuyu bought a few strings of rock sugar gourds on the street, he hurried home.
After dinner with his family, Wei Shuyu took out the rock sugar gourd, and several younger brothers and sisters saw the appearance of the rock sugar gourd drooling, which made Wei Shuyu laugh.
It seems that whether it is ancient or modern, children like to eat snacks, which is regardless of time and space.
After Wei Shuyu distributed the rock sugar gourd, he asked Erlang to help carry the fine iron sent by the iron shop into his room.
Wei Shuyu didn't dare to let the sledgehammer work in the yard, and the Wei Mansion was simple and there were no other vacant rooms, so he could only choose his bedroom as a temporary processing plant.
Wei Shuyu sat on the bed, silently waiting for dark, and after everyone went back to the house to turn off the lights and go to bed, Wei Shuyu dismantled his mother's loom into several large pieces and transported them back to his room piece by piece.
When Wei Shuyu brought back the last part, the sledgehammer making shuttle was also coming to an end. At this time, the sledgehammer is being installed to install the spring for the shuttle.
Seeing the clumsy arm of the sledgehammer, but doing flexible and delicate work, Wei Shuyu couldn't help but sigh for a while, it is really the strongest golden finger, this operation, if you want Wei Shuyu to come, it is basically impossible to complete.
After the shuttle was made, Wei Shuyu asked the sledgehammer to use the old loom that had been dismantled into several parts to make a new loom that could match the shuttle.
An hour later, all the parts had been made, and in the night, Wei Shuyu asked the sledgehammer to transport all the parts to the yard.
Wei Shuyu planned to assemble the first shuttle loom by himself.
Back in the room, Wei Shuyu spent another hour, memorizing all the steps of assembling the loom. Then the sledgehammer was turned off.
Regarding the operation of the sledgehammer, Wei Shuyu found that the backup power supply in the sledgehammer had been used up by five percent. Before a new power supply was made, Wei Shuyu felt that it was necessary to save some electricity, otherwise at the critical moment, the sledgehammer would run out of power, which would be really ......
Wei Shuyu lit a lantern, lit the moonlight, and got busy in the courtyard.
"Ding Ding Bang ......"
Wei Shuyu became more and more energetic, completely unaware that his actions had disturbed the people. At the very least, the family woke up all the old and young, and everyone came to the courtyard with sleepy eyes......