"Li Niangzi, what I made according to this drawing, right?"

As soon as Li Qing entered the door of Second Master Liu's house, he saw him happily greeted him, and there was a spinning wheel in the yard.

There are three spindles on it, and the runner is a bamboo, wooden structure, and the whole is a foot pedal type.

"Try it and you'll find out." Li Qing picked up the cotton strip on the side, twisted a thread out, and wore it on the runner, and then called the tread pole, the cotton thread was gradually lengthened, and finally Li Qing divided them into three strands and hung them on the spindle.

The spinning machine as a whole has a circular motion, which is rotated by pulling the runner by the belt, and all the power comes from the pedals.

As soon as I stepped on it, the spindle turned wildly, and the weak cotton silk was gradually rolled into the stronger cotton thread.

"Sure enough, it worked." The cotton silk in Li Qing's hand broke in response, she had not yet practiced spinning skills, and breaking it could only show that the technology was immature.

Li Qing put down the cotton sliver and said with a smile: "In this way, the spinning efficiency has been greatly improved, to three times the original, how much cotton yarn does this need to produce, and how many times did the second master fail to make it?" ”

"Seven or eight times." Second Master Liu was heartbroken, how much energy and wood he had spent for such a thing, and the suffering was only clear to him.

"Don't worry, I'll pay for the loss." Li Qing couldn't help laughing when he saw Second Master Liu's painful look. "Please also ask Second Master Liu to make another ten crosses and eight crosses."

"(⊙o⊙) What?" Second Master Liu thought he had misheard. It's not difficult to do this thing after it can be done, but what do you have to do so much? Does it look good there?

"I have my own magic use, and the salary will not be less, doesn't the second master want to promote him?"

Second Master Liu nodded: "This is also true, but Sansheng and I have to make it in a short period of time, I'm afraid it's unlikely." ”

"So I got you helped." Li Qing clapped his hands outside the door.

"His name is Li Ao, and he used to be an apprentice in a carpenter shop in the city, so the second master can rest assured and boldly hand over some things to him."

Li Ao was dressed in coarse linen clothes, carrying this burden, he was burly and powerful, and he was a capable man.

When he was building a house in the western suburbs, he showed the creativity of an extraordinary carpenter. This made Li Qing appreciate it very much, and felt that he was a usable talent, and now it came in handy.

Second Master Liu looked at the big man next to him who was a head taller than him, and suddenly felt a lot of pressure. Li Ao's unsmiling appearance can indeed make people feel depressed.

"I'm tired of Second Master Liu taking care of his food and lodging, and the money will be paid to you together, this is a deposit." Li Qing took out five taels of silver from his sleeve.

Li Ao had the drawings of the water-powered spinning machine she gave her, and she thought about the river and various gadgets for several days before she formed a water-powered spinning machine that took shape. This kind of thing appeared during the Yuan Dynasty, and it was short-lived in history, and I don't know if it's true or not.

You have to try everything to find out.

Li Qing didn't know if Li Ao would succeed. She's not a professional in the first place, so she's lucky to be able to barely draw it, and it's up to her creativity to come next.

The water-powered spinning machine can turn water into a large spinning wheel, in order to adapt to the current name, Li Qing named it a water-turned spinning wheel. Such a spinning wheel is not suitable for cotton fibers, but for long fibers such as silk.

There is only a prototype drawing, and it takes continuous testing to know whether it is true or false.

"The rest is up to you."

Li Qing said goodbye to Second Master Liu and returned home. Yun and Guan Shangxuan have gone to school, and Jiang is weaving at home. It's been a long time since she's had enjoyed such a relaxing moment.

Since the store was opened, it has never made any money, and it still owes a thousand taels to the pawnshop. Li Qing felt that her career could still be in business, all because of her character. Fortunately, the capital circulation chain of ancient commerce was not all circular structure, and she was able to maintain this kind of small business.

The western suburbs don't need her to invest a lot of money. The end of the year is approaching, and it is necessary to prepare New Year's goods. After the year, Yun and Monk Xuan will have to prepare for the college exam, and it seems that the Jiang family is about to produce a ten-year-old showman.

If it weren't for the previous year of cancellation due to natural disasters, Yun Ji would have become a showman at the age of nine.

It's a pity that God won't let it.

Li calculated that she only had a dozen taels of silver in her hand, and the purchase of New Year's goods must be taken into account in the western suburbs, so this amount of silver is not enough at all.

It was time to take out the newly written script, and he and the shopkeeper reached an agreement on long-term cooperation, and each script was fixed at forty taels.

Li Qing's words are vivid and bizarre, making it impossible to predict the ending, Li Qing asked the shopkeeper to adopt a serialized method and synchronize it with the teahouse.

If you want to predict it, you have to pay money to buy it, and that's how the book was sold out of stock.

It's not just Lexu County that sells Li Qing's books, as long as they are sold in the bookstores owned by this bookseller, so these books are popular in Jinzhou, Yizhou and other places.

This is an effect that no other script can achieve, so the shopkeeper is willing to pay a high price of forty taels, while others can only cap ten taels.

There is no shortage of people in this world who are learning, driven by Li Qing's mature scripts, each family has changed, and for a while, the scripts on the market are affected by Li Qing's style, showing an unprecedented grand occasion.

Later generations called this "the breeze and the big talk".

This is not listed for the time being, and it is said that Li Qing took forty taels to buy New Year's goods with Jiang.

This year's winter was exceptionally cold, and the sky was covered with snow that had not been seen for a long time, which was the first time Li Qing had seen snow in recent years.

Snowflakes flew down like goose feathers, silently on the ground, and gradually disappeared. Li Qing stretched out his hand to catch a petal, and the little thing was melted by the temperature of Li Qing's palm.

"Ah Qing, it's almost enough to buy some more dried fruits." Jiang came out of the grain shop, holding a bag of wheat flour in his hand, and Zhou He behind him was holding two crockpots in his hands. Jiang casually put the wheat flour in the back basket on Zhou Yongchang's back. Zhou He gave the clay pot to Zhou Yongchang to hold.

Li Qing nodded and asked Zhou Yongchang to go back to the shop.

It's almost noon, and the guests are coming.

There wasn't much to buy later, so they could take it back themselves.

Before the official Chinese New Year, red lanterns were already hung under the eaves on both sides of the road, and some beautifully cut patterns were strung with ropes and hung on trees.

The smell of the year is getting stronger and stronger.

After buying the dried fruits, Li Qing asked Jiang and Zhou to go back first, and she wanted to go shopping alone.

Yunhe Monk Xuan has already suspended classes, and today he went to the housekeeper, so he took advantage of the New Year's Day to play hard, and then he had to prepare for the exam carefully.

Li Qing bought and rented an ox cart, went to the grain store to buy grain and spices, weighed sugar in the grocery store, beat two jars of wine, and asked it to be sent to Zhuangzi in the western suburbs.

This is the benefit that Li Qing gave to his employees, which seems to be a little shabby, but it is exactly what they need.

I'll see them when I get the chance.

Right now, Liang Shanxian is walking outside, and he will not return until April after the new year, and now there is a person named Xu An in the western suburbs.

Xu An is a person with a good mouth, although he has not read any books, he knows the truth of being a man. Be upright, not greedy or robbing. That's why he was elected steward.