"Shopkeeper, sister-in-law, you're back." Tong Xiaosi and the others greeted them excitedly, gossiping: "Don't you know, during the time when you are away, we talk to you every day, but we want to die." ”

"The shopkeeper and his sister-in-law have made this trip to Hangzhou, can everything go well? How's the business going? Can you have a safe journey? ”

"What souvenirs did the shopkeeper bring us back?"

"Hey, I heard that Hangzhou City is big and prosperous, you must have taken a good look at Hangzhou City on this trip, Hangzhou City is really as good as rumored?"

A few people gossiped, one sentence from east to west, which made Song Leshan and the others laugh dumbly.

"You guys, it's not too late to wait for us to go in and then talk slowly, isn't it?" Song Leshan smiled helplessly.

"Yes." Meng San stretched out his hand and patted Tong Xiaosi's head: "We have been on the road for most of the day, and we feel stiff all over our bodies, so we have to hurry into the shop to rest, if you want to know anything, I will tell you slowly, I will make sure that you can't sleep tonight, and we will tell you all the stories about Hangzhou City." ”

Su Rili, Tong Xiaosi and others can be said to be the most disciplined, and now this appearance is obviously because they haven't seen Song Leshan and others for too long, and when they suddenly saw it, they were very excited in their hearts, and they didn't know what to say or what to do for a while.

"Look at us, we've been chasing the shopkeeper's questions, and we've forgotten all about it." Tong Xiaosi slapped his head suddenly, hurriedly picked up the things that Meng San handed down, and transported them to the shop.

Mao Zhenggen and others also moved things inside, and helped Song Leshan and others make a pot of hot tea.

When the things were moved, they gave the coachman money and sent him away, leaving two people to stare at the front of the shop, while the others were in the backyard, sorting out the things they had brought back, while chatting about what had happened in Hangzhou.

"These are the cloths brought back from Hangzhou, food, etc., which are brought to a few of you, and you will look at each of them later, and divide one point."

"This box is the pattern that your sister-in-law selected from Hangzhou to make clothes and jewelry, and you will drive the carriage behind you and help me deliver it to my home."

"And these ......"

Song Leshan counted those things and distributed them one by one: "These gadgets are all picked by Meng San and Guangwu for you in Hangzhou City, and you will divide them later, put them in the room or send them back to your home, and use them on weekdays." ”

"And these, is in Hangzhou to buy a few pieces of looms and patterns, be sure to put away first, the cargo ship transporting the loom is slower than the passenger ship, it is estimated that the delivery of the horse team, tomorrow can arrive here, then you have to study how to assemble the loom."

Tong Xiaosi listened to Song Leshan's words, while carefully remembering Fang Cai's words, while thinking about how to arrange them one by one according to what he said, when he heard about the loom, he was stunned for a moment.

"What is this loom for? Could it be that my sister-in-law has nothing to do at home and wants to weave? ”

Many people bought the cloth used in this person's dressing, cut and sewed it themselves or hired an embroiderer in the shop to make it, and the cloth of this kind of clothing is delicate and meticulous, and it is very lovely.

In this case, whether it is to make clothes, bed sheets and other things, the cost is a bit high, and many people do not want to spend this money, so they spin and weave cloth in their leisure time, and use the cloth they weave to make clothes and things.

However, the cloth woven by oneself is often thick because the thread spun is relatively thick, so the cloth made is thick but rough, and it is called coarse cloth, and it can be said that neither this color nor this pattern is as soft and bright as the fine cloth sold from the Jiangnan area.

But this is a big way to save money, and many people naturally don't care about these and just use it.

But for Song Leshan and Xie Yinan, there is no shortage of clothes or fabrics, Linglong Pavilion will regularly send ready-to-wear over, and even the Chengjia Cloth Village in the county town will often pay tribute to some fabrics.

can make Song Leshan think about studying this loom, in Tong Xiaosi's opinion, only Xie Yinan should be at home and has nothing to do, so assemble a loom to pass the time.

"Not really." Song Leshan shook his head and said: "This loom is the loom and spinning machine used in the workshop in Hangzhou. ”

"When we went to Hangzhou this time, we took a closer look at the cloth shops over there and found that the fine cloth sold there was delicate and soft, but the weaving method was not much different from ours."

"So we inquired carefully, and it turned out that the cloth sold there was not scattered cloth woven by individual households, but was made by weaving workshops."

"Compared with our side of the family according to their own preferences and weave different quality of cloth, weaving workshops, using a unified loom and spinning machine, weekdays hired people, do nothing, only weave and spin, so skillful, and the yarn can be spinned very fine, the cloth woven out of nature can also be delicate and soft, the quality will not be bad."

"So I thought that if we also do such a weaving workshop here, we should be able to weave cloth of this quality, and we are also rich in cotton in the local area, eliminating the cost of transportation back and forth, and the cost of this cloth will be much lower, and we only grow two seasons of grain a year here, and even in some places in order to raise the fertility of this land, we can only plant a season of farmers, and there is a lot of leisure time on weekdays, and it is very easy to find people who do this work."

"I thought about it, I think this thing should be able to do, so I bought a few looms and spinning machines from Hangzhou, and came back to try to do it first.

"But this is also my temporary assumption and intention, whether it can be done or not depends on the actual situation, you must not publicize it to the outside world."

Song Leshan admonished at the end.

"The shopkeeper can rest assured, we understand this truth, everything can not be promoted, lest it be listened to by people with intentions, imitation or slander, it is inappropriate, even if there are no people with these ill intentions, if they say it in advance, it is inevitable to show off, if it is not done in the end, it is always a joke."