Chapter 66 Hand Tearing Cotton
Li Qing's small book recorded his experience in planting cotton.
When you harvest this white dumpling, you will be able to finish the book in your hand. She has done research on the market, and there are no books on cotton planting, so she should have set a precedent for her.
First, she described in detail the farmer's planting experience, and then her own practical experience. Problems that occurred during the planting period are documented in detail.
In September, the cotton in the field is already ripe. Taking advantage of the good weather, Li Qing pulled Jiang to collect all the cotton in the field.
The cotton stalk is a good burning material, and it was also dragged back together, back and forth many times, which can make the two of them tired enough.
Jiang Shi looked at these large baskets of cotton and smirked, what a cute cotton ball, with it, it can be warmer at night.
Different from what Jiang thought, Li Qing thought that there was a seed in the cotton, and that seed had to be pulled out...... I won't tear it by hand.
There should be something called a cotton gin, but it didn't appear now, but in the Yuan Dynasty, when cotton was popularized and planted.
The Song Dynasty is gone, what are you waiting for the Yuan Dynasty?
Li Qing wants us to rob Huang Daopo of the credit? Now that she's written cotton planting strategies, it's okay to try to come up with some derivatives. Once it appears, the cloth industry will definitely set off a change, it is better to take over the dragon earlier and make some money to play.
Sometimes occupational diseases are not necessarily bad.
She herself doesn't know how to do carpentry, let alone make iron. She has seen "Heavenly Creation", and the cotton gin can also say a rough idea.
As for the bow to play cotton, it was simpler, she had seen that thing.
Li Qing felt the need to find a helper, and then fooled around and created a work that shocked the world and cried ghosts and gods.
The next day, Yun and went to the school, Jiang was sorting out the cotton stalk, and in order to make it better to burn, he had to cut it into sections. Some cotton holders are not dead and have to be dried again.
Li Qing took out a piece of carbon from the stove hole, found a wooden board, and began her creation.
Cotton gin, biaxial reverse rolling and hook teeth, wood alone is not enough, there must be hard, iron rod on the hook, this has to be customized. I don't know if I can do it at the blacksmith shop in the city.
If the cotton bow is made of bamboo, it is better to cut it out of wood, but the bowstring must be made of cow tendon. It's a little difficult to eat cows, let alone buy their tendons.
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. The idea is good, but it is difficult to put it into practice.
Li Qing drew the picture, washed his hands, and went to Liu Erye's house with a wooden plank. He is a carpenter, and legend has it that the carpenter's ancestor is Lu Ban, I hope that Liu Erye can understand the picture and make it.
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"What do you call these two things?" Second Master Liu thought that he was hallucinating, and just now Li Qing said that this thing can be used to take out the seeds wrapped in the middle of the cotton. There are at least seven or eight cotton seeds in a cotton flower, and there are more than a dozen. Ordinary people harvest cotton, and the cottonseeds are torn out by themselves. This Li Niangzi is a person who does not follow the usual path.
And this one looks like a bow, what does this thing do to cotton?
"Cotton ginners and slinging bows."
"Okay, I know it in general, this thing is relatively simple to make, but you need something other than wood, you can get it in half a month." Second Master Liu has never said anything that he is not sure of, and his skills are decades old. There are dozens of apprentices who have been out, so how can they not even make such a little thing?
Li Qing paid the deposit.
You have to make money, and if you don't make money, your family will have to drink the northwest wind.
Jiang couldn't wait to tear the cotton by hand.
Li Qing walked along the path to his home and found his mother tearing off the nursery wrapped in cotton, which was the calyx before. She also joined the ranks of the Jiang family.
"What are you doing mysteriously today?"
Li Qing watched Jiang's speed of tearing cotton so fast that she was speechless, and even when she spoke, her hand speed did not slow down.
"Mother, take it easy, this thing is very prickly." Li Qing said to Jiang.
"You think I'm like you! is young, with fine skin and tender meat, and the old lady's hands are so thick with calluses. Jiang said, threw down the cotton, put the two fingers together and showed a gap.
Li Qing smiled: "Where is there such an exaggeration? Tell jokes. ”
"Eh, I see you didn't do anything this morning, what are you going to paint with charcoal?" Li Qing still couldn't change the topic of success, so he had to confess.
"I'm thinking that the seeds of this cotton are not easy to come out, isn't it? Go to Liu Erye's house to make something, and it will be very easy to remove the seeds when the time comes. ”
"Is it really as amazing as you say?" Jiang thought that Li Qing was joking, and he didn't believe it at all.
"Look at the cotton here, there are about twenty catties, Liu Erye said that he would get it in half a month, so let's wait and see."
"Keep it, I'll see what you can make." Jiang's face was full of helplessness.
What else can your daughter-in-law do? Pampered.
Anyway, she also planted this cotton, and she just helped dig a little pit and pick up some water.
"That pile of rubble in the corner, you should clean it up." Jiang pointed to the pile of things in the corner.
“……”
It was a bread cellar that had been piled up before, soaked into slag by the flood, and Li Qing had been sitting there uncleaned.
Since Jiang knew that he had lost his strength, he was doing the work of carrying baskets and so on. For example, now Jiang is openly directing himself to move stones.
But Jiang also knows how to avoid it, she never asks Li Qing to carry heavy things in front of people, and as long as Li Qing doesn't trigger a strong buff, she can't even lift a bucket of water.
"Okay mother."
Li Qing put down the cotton in her hand, Jiang's hand speed was like a small motor, she didn't need her at all, she still went to move stones.
The slate was still good, and it was the mud that had soaked up and destroyed the bread cellar. It took Li Qing a lot of effort to pull out the slate and put it aside. I didn't care about it for a long time, and the mud was already covered with moss and other small grass plants.
Can we just let it pile up here? Why don't you get some more soil and make a flower bed?
Li Qing whispered in his heart: You are really a little clever ghost.
After Jiang finished making the cotton, she got up to see if the place was clean, but she slapped her hands and crossed her waist.
Then I saw that the waste rock and mud pile had been flattened, and the stone slabs were made into a baffle, and the mud was sealed inside, and some branches were inserted in the mud.
Jiang: Can I take back the sentence of spoiling her?
It's just lawless!
I wonder if this thing is in the yard and is unsightly? The key is to still occupy the place.
I'm really angry with her, let's do it myself in the future, how unreliable Li Qing is, she has seen it more than once.
Li Qing looked back at Jiang Shi Zheng looking at her with a gloomy face, and suddenly her back was cold.
"Mother, look at it here, it's ...... floating" Liang, Li Qing swallowed the last word, there are no flowers in it, what a beautiful thing. Wait for her to go to the temple to find a white plum and plant it in it.
But now to stabilize Jiang's mood, Li Qing smiled: "Oops, it's empty now, but I'm going to plant something in it, and it will be beautiful then." ”
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