It's been four quarters of a year, and Huang Congjiang, who went to the town, bought the dye back.

After the family finished breakfast, they couldn't wait to join in the plan to weave lotus flowers.

Huang Pingcheng, Huang Li, Huang Congjiang, Huang Liu, Huang Conghe, Huang Jiang, and the three sisters weave.

The rest of Huang Yiyun took his younger siblings to cut off the bamboo strips, so that Huang Li and them could weave.

By noon, the seven of them had woven about 80 lotus flowers, and most of these lotus flowers were white lotus flowers on the white side.

I took a break at noon.

Huang Congjiang no longer weaves lotus flowers.

Fill the two water tanks with clean water, and then pour the purple and gold dyes that I bought in the town into the water tanks one by one.

After that, use a roller to stir clockwise until all the water in the tank turns into a thick purple and gold.

"It's finished." Huang Congjiang said after seeing this.

"Throw these lotus flowers into this tank with the dye, and you can dye them." Huang Yiyun said with some skepticism.

"When I bought these dyes in the cloth shop today, the owner of the cloth shop explained that as long as I threw the white cloth into it, soaked it and stirred it a few times, and then let it go for a while, I could dye the white cloth into the color of the dye.

Most of the lotus flowers we weave are white, similar to white cloth, and the steps are similar! Huang Congjiang didn't try it, and he didn't have a bottom in his heart.

"Dad, let's try it, you dye it purple, and I dye it gold. I'm afraid that soaking will not be successful, these are made of bamboo, I am afraid that after soaking for a long time, it will fall apart, and I am also afraid of swelling, so I have to control the time. Huang Yiyun thought about it and said.

"Wait, Dad, I'll go get something." Huang Yiyun hurriedly ran to the utility room, took out the bamboo tongs that had been in the paddy field late last Chinese New Year's Eve, handed Huang Congjiang a hand, and said, "Dad, we will use this clip later." ”

"Done." Subsequently, Huang Congjiang and Huang Yiyun threw ten woven white lotus flowers into a water tank one by one.

A cup of tea time, take out one and take a look.

The color was dyed, but after a little dried, the color slowly faded a little.

After Huang Yiyun's father and daughter saw each other, they put it back into the dyeing vat and continued to dye it for a long time.

Two cups of tea after the time.

I took it out again and looked at it.

The color is dyed, but it's a little light, and it has to continue to be extended for a long time.

However, at this time, Huang Yiyun also discovered that after the lotus was soaked in the first two teas in the dye vat, I was afraid that some of the soaking would swell, and if I continued to soak it, I was afraid that the finely woven lotus flowers would fall out, and even if they didn't fall out, the loose ones would not look good.

When Huang Congjiang found out about this, he immediately became a little sad.

"Dad, do you still have dye? Put some more in there. Huang Yiyun asked after thinking about it.

"Isn't this dye cheap? It cost five pennies to do that. All the dyes were poured into the water tank, and they were gone, and the shopkeeper of the cloth shop said that the dyes that my father bought could dye more than a dozen pieces of cloth. ”

"The fabric is not dense, we are woven out of bamboo, which is much thicker than the cloth, and it is impermeable, so it is naturally difficult to dye. Yes, Dad, let's soak these lotus flowers in a cup of tea.

After the time for a cup of tea is up, we all clip it out one by one, and after it is exposed to the sun, we put it into the dye vat to dye a cup of tea, and dye it several times, and then dry it after dyeing.

In this way, it will not soak and fall apart, and we can dye it for a longer time and a few more times, and we will definitely be able to dye it with pure color. Huang Yiyun said with a flash of inspiration.

Next, Huang Congjiang's father and daughter tried one by one according to what Huang Yiyun said before.

After dyeing a cup of tea, it is taken out of the dye vat.

Spread on the backyard floor and dry in the sun.

After being exposed to the sun, it is put back into the dye vat and continues to dye a cup of tea.

After a cup of tea, take it out again and dry it in the sun.

After two consecutive dyeing and exposure, Huang Yiyun found that after the first dyeing and exposure, the color of the dyeing was lighter, and after the second dyeing and exposure, the color would deepen a lot.

There was also no soaking, swelling and falling apart.

After Huang Congjiang also found out about this, he became more and more motivated.

Wait for the coming and going soaking and exposure to the sun to dry.

Huang Yiyun and Huang Congjiang found that after four rounds of soaking, the color had reached the level they were satisfied with.

Purple lotus, in the sun, shimmers with purple streamers.

The entire backyard of the Huang family is covered with purple lotus flowers, if there is any white gas, and then some purple bamboo is planted in the backyard, it is really a place where Guanyin Bodhisattva's purple bamboo forest practice.

As for the golden lotus, it shimmered with a golden luster, which was very dazzling.

Huang Yiyun saw that after dyeing the white lotus flower into color, the good-looking effect was much better than she imagined.

Previously, Huang Li and Huang Pingcheng were quite worried after seeing that the dyeing was unsuccessful, after all, in order to sell the dyed lotus, they had already invested five hangs of money to go in.

It took so much manpower to buy the lotus flowers woven by the other three families, and these silver coins were counted, not to mention a tael of silver was invested.

If this thing is not done, the loss will be great.

Now that Huang Pingcheng and Huang Li saw that the dyeing was successful, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After weaving the lotus flower in his hand, he became more and more energetic and fast.

After all, three days later, it is the day of Huayun Temple every five and ten, there are high monks chanting scriptures, and the days of burning incense and worshiping the Buddha are several times more than the people in the past.

Therefore, the Huang family wants to take advantage of the three days later, the day of chanting, to rush out a batch of lotus flowers.

After selling the five days of Huayun Temple, when the other vendors did not react, they also had to sell the lotus flowers dyed for two days, which was in great demand, and the time was a little tight.

Huang Congjiang and Huang Yiyun dyed, and the other adults and the third sister knitted, and in the evening, the Huang family was in a hurry, and only two hundred lotus flowers were knitted.

Among them, there are more than 30 cyan lotus, 150 dyed, and there are more than 20 undyed lotuses.

"It seems that tomorrow, the Zhang family, the Xu family and the Liu family will have to weave this lotus. After three days, many people will go to Huayun Temple to sell lotus flowers, which will delay a day's work, and if we have to sell them on the second and third days. These quantities are also not enough. "Today, the Huang family has a special late dinner time.

It was not until three quarters of the hour that I had dinner at night.

Because the Huang family wants to take advantage of the dawn to weave the lotus when it is easy to weave it when it is seen, otherwise it will be difficult to weave it when it gets dark.