Chapter 665: Winter Coat
"That's hard to say." Gu Yilan shook her head and sighed: "Hongshang is her only granddaughter!" β
"Well, let's not talk about that." Xie Shurou patted her chest: "I asked you, the red dress said in the letter, I wish us all the best in Beijing." Who do you mean by her? Apart from you and me, have you ever believed in the king? β
"Why do you ask?" Gu Yilan glanced at Xie Shurou strangely: "The letter is written to you, not to others." β
"Of course I knew the letter was addressed to me." Xie Shurou blinked: "But the letter to me was written in front of it about the customs of the northern border, as well as the fact that she went all the way to the northern border, I really like to read it." But what you said later about the situation in the north, did you say that they were written to me? β
"Is it possible that you don't like to watch it?" Gu Yilan rolled her eyes at Xie Shurou.
"I love to watch it," Xie Shurou immediately nodded like pounding garlic: "I love to read whatever she writes." I just thought, she wrote so much, didn't she just want to show me? β
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Gu Yilan frowned: "My sister doesn't have the habit of writing letters to men who have fiancΓ©es. β
"Isn't that fake?" Xie Shurou replied confidently: "Lovers can't see each other, it's not normal for them to communicate with each other!" There is no way for Hongshang to send a letter to the king of letters at the moment, and some of the letters I am willing to write to the king of letters are written to the king of letters! β
"I don't know what to say about you!" Gu Yilan began to get angry again: "My sister is not you, how can she be so unruly." β
"Okay, you're pretending to be like you." Xie Shurou replied unceremoniously: "If you have the ability, you pat your chest, just say that you never wrote a letter to Master Mu before you got married?" β
"You ......" Gu Yilan was so angry that one Buddha was born, and the second Buddha ascended to heaven, and she wanted to refute but had no words. Seeing her poor appearance, Xie Shurou was proud.
"I have a good heart, it's not difficult for you." Xie Shurou, who was cheap and obedient, put on a condescending appearance and beckoned to Gu Yilan: "Look at your appearance, you are as angry as a frog." Okay, okay, don't go on and on, I still have something to tell you. β
"What can you do?" Gu Yilan was about to explode: "You're a madman, what else can you do besides saying crazy things?" β
"This." Xie Shurou calmly picked up the big basket she had brought from the ground and pushed it in front of Gu Yilan: "This is the right thing." β
Xie Shurou lifted the lid of the basket, and Gu Yilan was instantly attracted by the contents inside. The basket contains one after another "cloth bags" of different sizes, one by one sewn with fine warp and weft threads, saying that it is a cloth bag, but there is no mouth, can not hold things, I don't know what bulging bags are stuffed in the middle of the two layers of cloth, and it is light and fluttering in my hand.
"What is this?" Gu Yilan couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you used for?" β
"These are just experiments, and I want to see if it works." Xie Shurou handed those small "cloth bags" to Gu Yilan one by one: "This one is made of muslin, this one is made of bamboo cloth, and this one is ...... Anyway, it's all different ingredients, filled with duck down. β
"What are you...... Want to make a velvet quilt? Gu Yilan raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing?" Could it be that you want to make your own dowry quilt? Can't your Xie family still be able to marry a silk quilt? β
"No, I'm going to make a cloak for the red coat to make a cotton coat." Xie Shurou shook her head: "It's too cold in the north in winter, and it will be winter in early October, I have to prepare in advance, otherwise when the time comes, how can I bring winter clothes to the north!" β
"Where do you need to worry about it?" Gu Yilan threw the "cloth bag" into the basket: "I have already started to make a wind hair cloak for my little sister." It's all poor families who can't afford silk cotton, so they will use feathers and cotton wool to make flocculent quilts! Where does the little sister need to suffer such grievances. β
"The poor man's quilt is the same as mine!" Xie Shurou looked at Gu Yilan with a mentally retarded expression: "The wind hair cloak is warm, and the thick cotton clothes and pants are warm, but heavy!" You don't want to think about it, who goes to the battlefield and wears a heavy fur? Do you wear it in the Guild? β
"No, it won't." Gu Yilan shook her head very sincerely: "The clothes are in the north, and what I often wear is an ordinary cotton cloak. β
"That's right!" Xie Shurou nodded: "The big wool clothes are dirty on the battlefield, or they are stuck to the enemy's blood, and they can't be washed." Do you think the northern border can be like Kyori, with good soybean bread to raise sweaters? I just want to make a light and warm dress for the red dress. At this time, I have to talk about the difference between men and women, and I am reluctant to let her pass the winter in the north in a cotton cloak like you. β
"What are you going to do?" Gu Yilan really didn't ramble anymore, she was convinced by Xie Shurou's brain. Although this person usually really looks like a madman, her ideas are really amazing, and the food she makes is something that others can't think of.
"Velvet doesn't have much to say." Xie Shurou handed a bag of picked up duck down to Gu Yilan: "Look, just choose the softest fluff under the hair roots, and don't use the slightly harder hair stems." The stiff hair stalk will drill outward, and the thinner it gets, it shouldn't be warm. We don't need to do this in person, just ask the people to pick it carefully. The key is the fabric, you help me see, these I choose are still not fine enough, there are always not enough fluff drilled out. This cloth doesn't need to be gorgeous, it doesn't matter if it's rough, the denser and stronger it is, the better. β
"I'll leave it to me." Gu Yilan nodded immediately: "When I got married, my mother's family accompanied the cloth village, and we will go shopping together later, and ask the shopkeeper if there is any material that is denser and stronger than fine cotton and bamboo cloth." β
"Once you've chosen your cloth, you're ready to start making cloaks and cotton clothes." Xie Shurou picked up another small cloth bag sewn with warp and weft threads in the basket: "You take a closer look, it's not just about filling in the fine velvet." To sew the warp and weft threads. β
"Why is that?" Gu Yilan asked a little strangely.
"I tried." Xie Shurou pinched up the small cloth bag without sewing the warp and weft threads and actually shook it: "Velvet and cotton are different, they are too light, and they don't clump, and they will run to both sides when they are dressed, and it shouldn't be warm in the middle." β
"Got it!" Gu Yilan, who is good at needlework, immediately nodded: "Hoop into small squares, don't let these eiderdowns drill around." β
"That's it." Xie Shurou smiled and nodded: "I knew it, as soon as I said it, you would definitely understand." The cloak is simpler, hand it over to me, this cotton coat will be entrusted to you, this warp and weft must be sewn finely, you don't do it all yourself, if you are alone, the embroidery girl at home will do it together. If you do it alone, you don't know how to sew it until that year and that month! β