Chapter 51: Chilling
Things get much faster when it comes to the agenda.
The matter of raising silkworms was handed over to Zhang Li and Aunt Li to be responsible, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan began to be busy with the fish pond, Zhang Tongtong quarreled with her that time, she still looked unpleasant, Liu Meiniang didn't care, she didn't care about children. She had already thought about it, and when this time passed, she would go and have a good talk with Zhang Tongtong.
The chicks raised in the mountains also grew quickly, much larger than when they were first brought back, and the fry in the fish pond seemed to have grown a lot.
Liu Meiniang diluted some mountain springs with spiritual spring water every few days, and asked Zhang Jihan to carry it to water the mulberry trees, adding a lot of spiritual spring water to the chicken food and fish ponds, and under the irrigation of the spiritual spring water, the mulberry trees grew fast and well.
"Mei Niang, the silkworm has spun silk." In the afternoon, Zhang Li ran to the top of the mountain and shouted excitedly.
"Oh, so fast, mother." Liu Meiniang was also a little incredulous, Zhang Li clearly said that it would take about a month for silkworms to spin silk and knot nets, and it was only twenty days.
"Yes, I was also shocked, I thought you miscalculated the day, but your Aunt Li said that she was not wrong." Zhang Li said in surprise.
"Let's go, let's see." Liu Meiniang has lived two lives and has never seen silkworms spinning silk, so she is still very much looking forward to it.
"I'm going too." Zhang Dandan ran over from not far away, clapping his hands and said.
"Okay, let's go together."
The three of them walked down the hill together.
"It's amazing." Liu Meiniang whispered when she saw the silkworm spinning.
"Mother, is it possible to weave silk from silk?" Zhang Dandan poked lightly on the silkworm chrysalis and quickly withdrew his hand.
"Yes, when the time comes, we will be able to weave and sell it for money." Zhang Li's words were also full of joy.
"At that time, I still have to trouble my mother and Aunt Li." Liu Meiniang said with a smile.
Raising silkworms and weaving cloth is a whole process, and in ancient times, most of the women who raised silkworms could weave cloth.
"Okay, Mei Niang." Aunt Li readily agreed.
Zhang Li and Aunt Li moved quickly, and they weaved several pieces of cloth in half a month.
"Mother, the cloth you weave is too good." Liu Meiniang touched the cloth woven by Zhang Li and Aunt Li, and couldn't help but admire.
The craftsmanship of the ancients is indeed incomparable to modern mechanical production. This handmade cloth should be robbed crazy in modern times.
"It's not as good as you say." Zhang Li and Aunt Li couldn't stop laughing when they heard Liu Meiniang's praise, obviously, silkworm raising and weaving are their best crafts, even those big families in the city can't compare to the horses.
"Tomorrow we're going to sell cloth." Liu Meiniang slapped the table and settled down.
"To the town?" Zhang Dandan asked.
"No, let's go to the county seat." Liu Meiniang stretched out a finger and shook it.
"Go to the county seat, go to the county seat." Zhang Dandan jumped up excitedly when he heard that he was going to the county seat.
"Okay, Mei Niang, you go, Aunt Li and I will continue to weave at home." Zhang Li said.
"Mother, you and Aunt Li will rest for two days first, weaving cloth is very eye-consuming, you can't weave every day, you just rest for two days, and when we sell this cloth, you can start weaving again." Liu Meiniang said disapprovingly.
"I'm not tired." Aunt Li leaned over and said with a smile that in the past two days of weaving, it seems that she has returned to her youth, and the more she weaves, the happier she becomes, and she doesn't feel tired at all.
"No, we have to rest." Liu Meiniang said strongly.
"Okay, okay, listen to Mei Niang." Aunt Li covered her mouth and said with a smile.
"You go find your second brother and ask him to rent an ox cart, and we will leave tomorrow."
Liu Meiniang patted Zhang Dandan on the shoulder, and Zhang Dandan immediately ran out when she heard this.
"Mother, are you going to ask Tongtong if she is going?" Liu Meiniang turned her head and said again.
"Don't call her anymore." Zhang Li's face was embarrassed, Zhang Tongtong has not changed at all recently, and basically does no work at home, except for washing clothes, he does not wash Mei Niang's.
Zhang Li was already a little disappointed in this daughter.
"Mother, go and ask, if I ask, she won't go, you and Aunt Li will go with you tomorrow." Liu Meiniang continued.
"I'm not going, it's too far, I'm afraid I can't walk this old bone." Aunt Li waved her hand.
"Aunt Li has an ox cart." Liu Meiniang didn't mind exposing Aunt Li's lies.
"Let's go together, just go shopping." Liu Meiniang continued.
"Well, well." Aunt Li finally compromised. Villagers like them can't finish their farm work every day, and they rarely have the opportunity to go around the county.
It is said that Aunt Li has been to the county twice over the years, and Zhang Li has been there a little more often, but Zhang Jilin's father loves his wife, so he took him around a few times.
I have to say that the men of the Zhang family are quite good, although I have not seen Zhang Jirin, but listening to the evaluation of Zhang Li Rin by the villagers, Liu Meiniang can also think that it is a man who stands up to the sky, especially in this kind of small mountain village, it is indeed amazing to have such a person.
Although Zhang Jihan was idle and gambling before, after getting along during this time, Liu Meiniang also found out. Zhang Jihan will also be a good man in the future.
As for Zhang Jilin and Zhang Jihan's father Zhang Tianlin, he is a rare good husband, at least in such an era.
This is what Liu Meiniang heard Zhang Jihan say.
Zhang Tianlin and Zhang Li's relationship is much better than other couples in this era.
When Zhang Li was young, he was also a village flower in ten miles and eight villages, and Zhang Tianlin was not bad, otherwise how could he give birth to such an outstanding child of the Zhang family.
Just looking at Zhang Jihan's appearance, Liu Meiniang can probably guess what Zhang Jilin looks like. If Zhang Jihan gives people the feeling that everyone is a noble young master, Zhang Jirin is a little more heroic than Zhang Jihan, and he has been fighting on the battlefield for a few years, presumably he should be sword eyebrows and starry eyes, heroic and cool.
Zhang Tianlin was famous for loving his daughter-in-law at that time, I heard that Zhang Li was pregnant with Zhang Jihan at that time, in the winter, in order to supplement Zhang Li's nutrition, Zhang Tianlin ventured to hunt in the mountains, and finally hunted back a small wild boar, which became an interesting story in the countryside at that time.
Liu Meiniang can imagine that such a man who loves his wife will definitely not be bad.
"Then I'll ask Tongtong." Zhang Li wiped his hand on the hem of his clothes and got up.
"Aunt Li, come to my house for dinner." Liu Meiniang took Aunt Li's arm and said.
"I'll just cook my own meals." Aunt Li said with some embarrassment.
"Uncle Li and Brother Li recently went to work in other places, and you are alone at home, what kind of stove to open, come to our house to eat." Liu Meiniang said undoubtedly.
"Okay, sister-in-law will clean up and come over." Aunt Li said with a smile.
The more she gets along with Liu Meiniang, the more she likes this girl, she has a tough temperament, as if she has changed after that incident, and now she can speak well, and her personality is pleasing, if she ...... Aunt Li quickly shook her head and shook off the thoughts in her mind, Mei Niang is a hard-working child.
Liu Meiniang has already left Aunt Li's house, of course she doesn't know that Aunt Li has thought so much.
"Tongtong, let's go to the county seat tomorrow." Zhang Li sat in Zhang Tongtong's room and said.
"What are you doing in the county seat?" Now Zhang Tongtong is like a hedgehog with thorns all over his body, and he has to prick anyone he sees.
"Go for a walk, you haven't been out in a long time." Zhang Li's words made Zhang Tongtong a little moved.
"I'm not going!" But as soon as she thought of Liu Meiniang, Zhang Tongtong's face collapsed.
"Tongtong, last time Dandan came back and said that there are still a lot of fun things in the city, and there are monkey tricks, go around, we will all go tomorrow, it's boring for you to stay at home alone." Zhang Li continued to persuade.
What she hopes most is to take this opportunity to make Zhang Tongtong change her opinion of Mei Niang.
"I ......." Zhang Tongtong also remembered the last time Zhang Dandan came back and chattered about how lively the city was, and his heart began to yearn.
"Let's go together." Zhang Li continued.
"Okay." Zhang Tongtong nodded.
"Let's go out to eat later, don't wait for everyone to finish eating and then go to the kitchen to find something to eat." Zhang Li took the opportunity to tell the matter, a family, not eating at the same table is nothing.
Seeing that Zhang Tongtong didn't speak, Zhang Li knew that this girl had agreed, and he didn't say that every time Liu Meiniang deliberately left food on the stove, so as not to stimulate Zhang Tongtong again. Led to Mei Niang's "reverse effect." ”
At dinner, seeing Zhang Tongtong appear at the dinner table, Liu Meiniang raised her eyebrows in surprise and did not speak.
"Aunt Li, you eat vegetables." Liu Meiniang greeted.
"Okay, you guys eat too, Mei Niang's cooking skills are really good." Aunt Li was sincerely amazed after eating a bite of the dish.
"The food cooked by my sister-in-law is delicious." Zhang Dandan was very enthusiastic.
Zhang Tongtong didn't have anything to do at this time, because Liu Meiniang's cooking skills really didn't say, at least better than Zhang Li's.
"Haha, Mei Niang is really virtuous." Aunt Li said lovingly.
Everyone had a good dinner.
"Aunt Li, we will leave early tomorrow, you have to get up early." Sending Aunt Li to the door, Liu Meiniang said jokingly.
"I'm old, I can't sleep, I'll come early tomorrow." Aunt Li patted Liu Meiniang's hand and said.
A group of six people got on an ox cart to the county seat.
"How long will it take?" Zhang Tongtong asked with a frown.
"Another hour." Zhang Dandan replied without turning his head.
Liu Meiniang looked at the interaction between the two sisters and thought it was quite funny.
However, she found that although Zhang Tongtong was rude and willful, and a little unreasonable, she was still good-natured, at least she had been in the ox cart for so long, and she had never shouted tired.
"Aren't you uncomfortable sitting?" Zhang Tongtong glanced at Zhang Dandan.
"My sister-in-law gave me this." Zhang Dandan pulled out a mat from under her ass.
"What is this?" Zhang Tongtong asked curiously.
"This is the seat cushion sewn by the sister-in-law." Zhang Dandan seems to be honored.
"Why didn't I." Zhang Tongtong muttered in a low voice, but Zhang Dandan still heard it.
"Sister-in-law sewed a total of three, one for my mother, one for Aunt Li, and one for me, if you want, I'll give you this." Zhang Dandan stuffed the cushion into Zhang Tongtong's arms.
"I don't want it, you should use it." Zhang Tongtong said with a stinky face, and the discomfort in his heart just now disappeared without a trace. It turned out that it was not Liu Meiniang who targeted her and did not give her a cushion.
After arriving in the city, Liu Meiniang got out of the car and silently hammered her old waist.
After a while, she will have to build a carriage.
"It's finally here." Zhang Dandan jumped off the ox cart
"Sister-in-law, where are we going?" Zhang Dandan asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.
"What's the biggest cloth house in town?" Liu Meiniang asked directly.
"It should be the Caiyi Pavilion in the east of the city." Zhang Jihan said tentatively, this is also what he heard, the clothes of Caiyi Pavilion should be the best in the entire Qingshi County, of course, it is also the most expensive, and people of their class are estimated to not even be able to touch the threshold.
I didn't expect Liu Meiniang to go to Caiyi Pavilion as soon as she came up now.
"Mei Niang, are we going to Caiyi Pavilion?" Zhang Li looked at the clothes on his body and said crampedly.
"Let's take a look." Liu Meiniang snapped her fingers and said.
"Just like you, you are poor, you still want to go to Caiyi Pavilion, and you are not afraid of being kicked out by others........"
Before Zhang Tongtong finished speaking, Liu Meiniang walked past Zhang Tongtong and left.
"Hey," Zhang Tongtong looked at Liu Meiniang's back and stomped her feet angrily.
"Shall we go to the Pavilion of Colours?" Zhang Li still asked in disbelief.
"Ji Han, lead the way." Liu Meiniang directly told Zhang Li with her actions.