Chapter 67 Cotton Ginner

Master Zhu is a musician, and Yun Ji has been learning the piano with him since March last year.

Yun Ji pushed open the gate of the courtyard and walked in. He had a piano in his hand.

"Xiaobai."

"Mother, grandma." Yun Ji shouted sweetly. Jiang Shi answered and asked, "What are you getting in your hand?" ”

"Grandma, this is the piano that the master gave me, and he got it through his relationship."

Li Qing's eyes lit up, is this the qin? As a scholar of literature, she has indeed practiced the piano and cultivated her sentiments. But...... The original owner won't, so she "won't", but now she can learn from Xiaobai and pretend to be a genius.

"Really? Our little white guy is great. Li Qing walked over and touched Yun Ji's head, it was so soft and comfortable.

"The master said that I didn't have enough heart to practice the piano, so he asked me to come back and ask my mother for advice." Yun Ji tilted his head and said to Li Qing.

Li Qing should also sigh in his heart~

Is this treating me as a full-time tutor? Doesn't he know that I "won't"?

"But my mother can't play the piano?"

Li Qing took the piano from Yun and put it in the study.

"The master said that my mother's heart is very stable, so let you teach me how to stabilize my heart." The clouds and catch up. Li Qing sat on the stool and closed his eyes and was silent for a while.

"Although I haven't played the piano before, and I don't even know what it looks like, there is one thing in common." Li Qing opened his eyes and raised an index finger.

"What is it? Tell me, mother. Yun Ji asked.

"When you play the piano, imagine your mentality when you practice calligraphy, if the mentality is unstable when you write, then the spirit embodied in that character will be destroyed by you, this playing the piano is actually no different from writing, do you understand?"

Yun Ji couldn't wait to open the piano case and put the piano on the table. The master had never let him touch the piano before, and because of the original strength of his body, he couldn't do many things.

Li Qing looked at his son, this child has a heart that can't wait to grow up, this is a mentality that longs to get rich overnight. It's strange to be able to play the piano well with such a mentality.

It's time to find an opportunity to hone this kid, Li Qing decided to take him to the streets or mountains and forests when he has time, only by going out to see the world more can he have a broad mind.

Since then, Yunji has carried the piano as high as him to and from the village school and home every day. Every day, Li Qing would accompany him to practice, and over time, Li Qing slowly learned to play the piano. You can even give some pointers to the clouds.

Yun Ji thought in his heart: I can't even catch up with my mother, who has not taken classes seriously, it's too much of a failure.

"Don't be discouraged, you're still young, your fingers are so short, your joints aren't growing well, plus your brain is not good, it's not normal to learn in a short time, not to mention that your fingers are too short, and they are not very powerful, they bounce weirdly, cough cough ......"

True?? Bad brain?? Yun Ji: "......" Mother finally said what was in her heart, and sure enough, Mother thought I was stupid, I was a stupid child.

Li Qing glanced at Yun Ji and found that he was practicing fingering seriously. Therefore, it is not good to speak again.

Alas, the child grew up disobedient.

The child has learned to study his own, and the mother is very relieved to arrive, and the child who studies seriously is the best.

Li counted the days, half a month had passed, and she went to Second Master Liu's house to prepare to get the finished things back. The iron rod should not be very cheap, and the bowstring on the cotton bow should be made of some kind of animal tendon, which is not easy to find.

"Li Niangzi, both things are ready, but they are not too light, are you sure you can afford it?"

Li Qing paid the follow-up money and said, "I can afford it." ”

"Can you tell me what you're doing with this bow? and they cannot hunt or plow. ”

"This bow is called a slingcotton bow, and it is used to play cotton." Li Qing said to Second Master Liu. Just a bow wasn't enough, she remembered seeing the one who played cotton, and a few tools, waiting for her to think about it.

But for me, this thing is still a dusty thing for the time being. Even if it's made, it doesn't mean that she will use it.

Let's find an opportunity to find a capable person in the future.

"That's what you're talking about?" Jiang stared at the cotton gin for a long time, but didn't see a reason.

"This is the simplest kind, and I can't draw it if it's complicated, even if I draw it, Second Master Liu may study it for a long time."

Li Qing fixed the cotton gin, stuffed the cotton with seeds into it, and turned the handles on both sides in reverse, and a magical scene happened.

The axial movement drove the barbs on the iron shaft, scraping away the cotton, and the cottonseed could not get in and was forced to fall out.

Jiang couldn't help but sigh when he saw it: "This thing is really easy to use." ”

"That's, and it doesn't matter who designed it?" Li Qing said arrogantly.

"Look, I'm happy with you, I've got some color for you and I've opened a dyeing room."

Jiang and Li Qing had a tacit understanding of the rapid division of labor, the two of them stood on one side and turned the handle in reverse, Jiang stuffed cotton into it, and Li Qing pressed the cotton that was not removed for a second time.

But in half an hour, all the cottonseeds were taken out.

Scold! Cotton seeding, which has plagued people for a long time, has been solved here. Li Qing wrote the production and basic principles of this thing, and even the sketch into his "Miansang Minutes".

It was just the first step in her mental structure.

Li Qing would never do meaningless things, since she dared to make up her mind to write a book, she naturally went to the goal of promoting cotton planting, and since she was determined to rob Huang Daopo of the credit, she would do it to the end.

Nowadays, hemp and kudzu occupy most of the country, and precious fabrics such as silk are provided to the upper class. Even if the whole Jinzhou is engaged in the sericulture and weaving industry, not many people can really enjoy silk. It is a source of wealth for the people of Jinzhou.

Of course, the whole of Jinzhou was not fully engaged in the sericulture business. It's just that Lexu County is the most prominent. Other counties and townships are still mainly engaged in agriculture, supplemented by textiles. It's the days when you plough the fields and come to me to weave.

Take the Jiang family as an example, in fact, in addition to spinning silk on the loom at home, sometimes they will also spin arrowroot cloth, and arrowroot cloth can also be exchanged for money, and most of them are still used for household use.

The clothes on the family were cut and made by her and Jiang together. During the cutting process, Jiang taught her how to minimize the loss of a piece of cloth. Li Qing's learning ability is very strong, otherwise he would not have adapted to the folk customs here in a short period of time, including language and pronunciation.

She learned to tailor and weave in the memory of her original owner, and in practice she truly used it for herself.

In fact, she had the idea of promoting cotton planting because after this flood, she actually saw people stripping dead people of their clothes to wear, and some people didn't even have a quilt except for the clothes on their bodies, and slept in clothes every day, getting up at sunrise with empty arms.

Poverty is the original sin, and she can't change it, but she has the ability to cause a revolution in the cloth world. So why not do it?

What is Our Lady?

Our Lady is not something that can define her, she never was, she just wanted to do what she could.