Yan Qingge's room was in the southernmost room, and she had arranged it into a small study, but now, this room was placed with two soft couches, and full of needlework, cloth, and small pieces of fur.

The house was lit with a hot charcoal stove, and for fear of not being able to breathe, a small crack was opened in the window on the shady side, and a screen was erected in front of it, which was breathable and would not be windy.

Ling Xiao sat opposite Yan Qingge, sitting in a precarious position, watching her skillfully draw lines on the cloth and leather with powder, and then took the scissors and clicked a few times, and cut out pieces of cloth and leather with different shapes and didn't know what they were used for.

Yan Qingge gave him a stack of pieces of cloth and said with a smile: "This is for your brother Lie, you just have to follow the seams I drew on it."

Because of Yan Qingge's detailed explanation, even the point of the needle was marked, Ling Xiao felt that needlework was not difficult for the first time, and took the needle to do it.

Because Yan Qingge had all the things here, and Ruyi helped, he first pierced the holes with a special awl at the stitches on the leather, and when he went down, Ling Xiao sewed the pile of fur cloth pieces.

I saw that in her hand was a hat, with a flat top and a round top, short in front and long in the back, long ear guards hanging down on both sides, and a short brim in front. The inside of the hat is soft and dense lamb's wool, lined with a thick layer of cotton cloth in the middle, the top of the head is made of leather, and the surrounding and ear protectors are made of slippery fur, which can prevent snow and wind.

Yan Xiuyu's top is matched with sable fur and fire fox fur, and small pieces are spelled out with patterns, and there is a tuft of wild pheasant fur on the top, which is very eye-catching. The top of Yan Lie is made of solid white fox fur, inlaid with a thick strip of silver mouse hair in the middle, and a jade plaque on it, which is quite elegant and stable.

Looking at the finished product under his hand, Ling Xiao couldn't believe his eyes, and couldn't put it down, playing with the hat, and said in surprise: "This is what I did?" ”

Yan Qingge nodded and said with a smile: "Of course you did it." ”

In fact, Ling Xiao didn't do much, after all, even the pinholes were pierced, she just had to spell them up, for a girl with a needlework foundation, it was easy to do this.

Ling Xiao was happy for a long time, pestering Yan Qingge, asking her to make a hat for each of them. Yan Qingge said with a smile: "What are we doing with hats, don't talk about the hairpin ring at one end, just remove it, press the hat, and the hair will not be shaped." Besides, we don't go out often in winter, so how hot it is to wear it at home. ”

After thinking about it carefully, Ling Xiao nodded and said, "It's also the truth, those martial arts training classes I signed up for are said to be temporarily stopped after going on the ice, so as not to cause frostbite to the people in the class." However, Brother Lie told me that in the outer courtyard, the more hot and cold the day, the more we have to train them, and the men are indeed harder than us. ”

The two of them packed the hats and sent them to the outer courtyard.

The grandmother who sent the things came back, smiled and couldn't see her eyes, and said: "The two young ladies should be calm, Young Master Lie and Little Lord Yan both like it very much, they put it on the spot, the size is just right, they said that they like the hat very much, and they will definitely wear it from time to time." ”

After two or three days, a noble lady came to visit. She is the daughter of Zuo Xiang's family, called Xie Xiangyun, this girl is an extremely introverted woman, she knew Shui Ying before, but she rarely came, she came specifically to find Ling Xiao.

"Sister Ling, I heard that your family has a good tailor who can make a good hat, I don't know if you have made a print of that hat, I want to borrow it." Xie Xiangyun asked with a blushing face.

She was already fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was about to go home from Bailu Academy to get married, and she didn't know what to do with the engraving of the hat.

"Hey, how do you know it's my family's hat?" Ling Xiao said curiously, and at the same time looked at Yan Qingge with a weak heart. Those two hats are completely Yan Qingge's handwriting.

Xie Xiangyun blushed and said, "That hat was put on by your brother a few days ago, and a few days later, Little Prince Yan also wore a similar one. I'm looking for ...... Look for...... I asked someone, and your brother said that you made it for your brother, and the little prince of Yan also asked for it. ”

Looking at Xie Xiangyun's red face and shy expression, Yan Qingge and the others suddenly understood that Xie Xiangyun was probably going to make a hat for his fiancé.

Ling Lie had the heart to help Yan Qingge cover up the origin of his hat. This is also a helpless thing, it is normal for a girl in the boudoir to make one or two things for relatives and friends, and put them in other people's homes, but if they are placed in Yan's house, it will be a ruckus, and it is better not to let people know.

"Well, you have to ask the sister of the Yan family, the pattern of this hat was given to me by her, I looked fresh, so I made a joke. If you really want printmaking, you have to ask her first. Ling Xiao was unwilling to take this credit, and directly told Xiangyun the truth.

Xie Xiangyun's watery eyes looked at Yan Qingge. Yan Qingge smiled: "What's the big deal, of course it's okay." ”

The hat is not a big deal, this hat is not popular now, but after a few years, the people of the north of the Yan clan were captured by the whole clan and moved into all parts of the Great Zhou, and their popular hats, leather clothes, leather robes, leather handguards, and even the horse warm pot made of a combination of skin bags and stone tools, as well as the leather quilt stove, etc., are all over the street.

Yan Qingge told Xie Xiangyun to go back and wait, and they would send it to her later, and Xie Xiangyun left with a red face.

She had just left, and the news spread throughout the inner courtyard in a short time, like a leg grown. Soon, there was an endless stream of ladies who came to them to ask for leather hat prints.

Yan Qingge agreed one by one, drew with a brush in the house for more than an hour, and finally finished the printmaking and asked the maid to send it over.

After finishing his errands, Yan Qingge reclined on the couch and asked Ruyi to rub his neck and shoulders.

At this moment, Ling Xiao walked in, with a girl, Yan Qingge got up and saw that it was Xie Xiangyun.

As soon as Xie Xiangyun saw them, he hurriedly spoke: "Sister Ling, Sister Yan, Fang Cai Yuan Qianqian came to me to ask for the print, but I didn't give it to her." But looking at her, she can also be begged for by others. ”

Yan Qingge heard Xiangyun's ventilation report, knew what she meant, and said with a smile: "It's not in the way, it's just a hat." Even if you don't have my prints, you know how to do it. ”

Xie Xiangyun thought about it, but he still looked at Yan Qingge worriedly. After Yuan Niannian's last trouble, all the girls in the inner courtyard knew that Yan Qingge and the prince had a marriage contract. The three sisters of the Yuan family begged for this hat from others, and it must have been done to send it to the prince. However, this thing was clearly thought up by Yan Qingge first, why should the three sisters of the Yuan family be cheapened for nothing.

Yan Qingge understood Xie Xiangyun's thoughts, and she smiled faintly: "Thank you, Sister Xie, I really don't care." It's not getting early, so why don't you stay and eat with us. ”

Xie Xiangyun hurriedly waved his hand and went back to his yard.

Ling Xiao knew that Yan Qingge didn't want to marry the prince, but he still said with grievances: "The three sisters of the Yuan family are too deceitful, why should they use your hat to slap the prince." ”

Yan Qingge nodded her nose and said, "You care so much." ”

Within a few days, Ling Lie and Yan Xiuyu sent the return gift, Ling Xiao received a new pair of good saddles, Yan Qingge received a box of transparent balm, which can moisten the face and apply the mouth, which is very suitable in winter, it is said that it is a big food country goods transported from the sea, which is quite difficult to find in Beijing.

Yan Qingge was ingenious this time, and made a leather handguard, which was still the soft wool of a lamb inlaid inside, with several layers of fine thick cotton cloth sandwiched in the middle, but the outside was made of hard leather, which could protect the back of the hand, half of the palm, and half of the forearm. Especially on the forearm, especially on the outward-facing side, Yan Qingge also added a layer of tanned smooth and very tough fish skin.

This arm guard is used, and the forearm part is fastened with leather buckles, which not only does not affect the winter riding and shooting, but also when competing with others, once the forearm part is cut by someone, it is slippery and not slippery, and it cannot be pierced at all.

This arm guard immediately received unanimous praise from Ling Lie and Yan Xiuyu.

This time, more noblewomen rushed over and begged Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao for prints. This time, not only did someone from the inner courtyard come, but even some aristocratic men from the outer courtyard also sent their mothers-in-law to bring gifts to the door to ask for prints, which frightened Yan Qingge a lot.

She wondered if she had to be more restrained.

The reigning emperor Yuan Kun liked to fight the most, especially in the last few years of his reign, and kept sending troops to attack the extreme north, not only laying down a large territory, but also recovering many northern peoples. In order to stabilize northern Xinjiang, he moved the people of the interior to live in the north, and the ethnic groups of the north moved to live in the interior.

She came back more than twenty years later, and of course she was used to those things, but people today are not.

After thinking about it all night, Yan Qingge finally decided that he would try to do as little as possible such showy things in the future. It's an abnormality, and she doesn't want to be targeted.

The trend of arm guards has been blowing for about half a month, and one after another, no one finally came to ask her for prints.

At this time, the weather is also very cold.

There was a noble lady in the inner courtyard who was good at needlework, and the leather part of the arm guard was removed, and the outside was replaced with silk, but it was made that the arm guard that women could also use, and many people followed it for a while, and it was indeed very warm to wear it in winter.

Yan Qingge also made a few pictures and gave Ling Xiao and Shui Ying, two who are not good at needlework, a pair each. The arms of the third daughter were additionally embroidered by her, and a thick muslin cloth was still inlaid in the middle.

Ling Xiao was puzzled, and asked her why she had to add muslin cloth in the middle to make hats and arm guards, Yan Qingge smiled and nodded her head: "Don't you understand, the hat and arm guards are all wool, and they sweat in winter, if it weren't for that layer of muslin to absorb water vapor, it would be uncomfortable to use it for a few days." ”

Ling Xiao suddenly realized, and praised Yan Qingge for being careful.

Shui Ying also smiled beside him: "No wonder some people have been shouting that the arm guard is uncomfortable to use these days, so they threw it away and redid it, it turned out to be because of this." Shall we tell them? ”

Yan Qingge said: "It's okay, anyway, everyone is not bad for this material for arm guards." ”

This matter, just laughed it off.