You didn't come at the right time, you have to come a month or two earlier, and you can still catch the indigo harvest, and you can dye the cloth with the freshly picked food. ”

Ji Cheng helped Master Song hold the lid of the vat and watched him scoop the dye liquid from the vat .

"Master, what is indigo?"

"Indigo is the main raw material for indigo dyeing in our Sioux City, in fact, indigo dyeing is not only available in Sioux City, and the indigo dyeing materials are different in different places."

Ji Cheng looked back, looking at the pots of green plants behind him,

"Are these indigos?"

"Well, they're all kept for the seeds. You can cover it. ”

Master Song grabbed the edge of the basin, lifted it tremblingly, and put it on the steps. Then he went and poured water into another basin.

Turn your head and call Ji Cheng,

"Come on, come on."

Ji Cheng held the lid and sat over, and the master dragged down two pieces of cloth the size of a square towel from the wooden shelf, put them in a basin of clean water and soaked them, waited for a while, and clamped the four corners with a brace.

"The first step is to wet the cloth so that the color is evenly colored and not clumpy. There are many patterns of blue dyeing, and now I will demonstrate how to dye gradient colors. ”

I saw that the master stretched the cloth open with a brace in his hand, and slowly soaked the cloth into the basin with a vertical fall, and when the dye liquid flooded half of the square scarf, the master stopped and took out the cloth.

Ji Cheng next to him concentrated,

"Is that all right?"

Master Song shook his head,

"It's the first time, and it's going to be a few more times."

As he spoke, his hand fell again, this time only a quarter of the way down to the square scarf, and then it was raised, and the cloth was divided into two areas, the color of which was obviously one dark and one light.

Seeing that Ji Cheng had already understood the principle here, he quietly waited for the master to finish it.

The third time, three layers of color were applied to the Pa, and the Master announced that the dyeing part was complete. He proudly showed it to Ji Cheng,

"Look, isn't it a gradient now?"

"Well, I see, is that done?"

"Not yet, remember that after dyeing, you must dry it in the shade and let it fully oxidize before washing and drying. That's it. ”

Ji Cheng nodded, a little impatient to get started.

Master Song dried the square scarf he dyed and turned it back.

"Let's go, let's go inside, and I'll teach you how to make other patterns."

Ji Cheng reluctantly got up, in fact, he wanted to try it, but ......

"Okay."

Master Song set aside a room as his studio, and as soon as the lights were turned on, the room instantly lit up.

Ji Cheng was shocked by the rows of large and small costumes in front of him, and the neatness of the tidy cleaning was pleasing to the eye.

He couldn't help but burst out:

"Master, your workshop is much more neat than Xu Jingyou's."

"Hehe, she's still young, a little impetuous, and it's natural to be chaotic. Eh, did she say anything about how she came to apprentice?"

Ji Cheng was stunned, this is really nothing.

"Nope."

Master Song giggled,

"That's right, she definitely won't say it, because when she was apprenticed, she was embarrassed-"

Master's words ignited his gossip heart.

"What's the embarrassing method?"

"When she was about to worship me, I didn't agree, because I didn't know her, and because she was young at the time, I was afraid that she was just joking. So I kept rejecting her...... I didn't expect that the more I rejected her, the more fierce she became, and she cheekily rented it next door to my house, and that's it. ”

The small building opposite Master Song.

"Every morning, noon and evening, I appear on the opposite floor at the same time, and greet me, you don't know how to annoy people. We were in a stalemate for more than ten days, and at that time my family still had cattle, so she volunteered to help herd the cattle. ”

"Herding cattle?" Ji Cheng was stunned, she still had this skill.

When Master Song said this, he couldn't help laughing out loud, and his face was red.

"She said she was herding cattle, but it turned out that the cow was herding her! Hahaha, one day she rode on the back of a cow because she was curious, but she was carried by the ox and ran half of the field. Hahahaha-"

"Poof-it's really Xu Jingyou, this style is like her."

"I was the one who took her as an apprentice that day, probably to comfort her."

"Then, why didn't you raise cattle later?" He also wants to see the picture of Xu Jingyou being carried-

Master Song smiled and said indignantly:

"Xu Jingyou was stingy, and later took advantage of our absence to buy the cow."

Ji Cheng: ...... Poof—ruthless.

Laughing enough, Master Song began to do serious things.

"I'm teaching you tie-dye, which is the easiest one. Indigo dyeing is actually divided into wax valerian, twisted valerian, clamped valerian and blue calico. The intangible cultural heritage of our Sioux City is blue calico, also called gray valerian. ”

Ji Cheng looked serious and nodded in agreement.

Master Song took out a few glass marbles from the tin box and spread the cloth out.

"You can use a lot of little things around you when you tie-dye it, and guess what this marble can do?"

The master threw a few over, and Ji Cheng took it in his hand and played with it.

"Marbles? Can you make a circular pattern?"

"Well, you're pretty smart. It's just to make a ring. ”

Master Song spread the cloth in the palm of his hand, hugged a marble, tied it with a leather band, and wrapped the beads in all four corners in turn.

He trumpeted Ji Cheng and asked him to try it too, tie-dye is indeed a little simpler, as long as it is not clumsy, it can basically be done.

Ji Cheng quickly got it right, and he was quite proud.

"What other patterns do you want to learn?"

Ji Cheng looked up and pointed to a moire shirt,

"The pattern."

"Oh, moire."

The cloth was spread flat, and Master Song grabbed it from the center with one hand and twisted it up one by one, like the annual rings of a tree trunk.

"The moire is more casual, you can grab it casually, twist the cloth into a ball, and then tie it up."

Ji Cheng learned to screw one, and became more and more interested. Master Song did not hesitate to praise:

"If you show up early, I won't accept Xu Jingyou-"

"Master praised it falsely."

——

"The most primitive dyeing method has to make indigo clay first. Pick the indigo back, soak it for two or three days, then add plant ash or lime water to stir, precipitate overnight, remove the water, and the bottom layer is indigo mud. ”

"But there is another kind of plant pulp, which needs to be faster, directly crush the indigo, and filter the juice to dye it."

Waiting for the cloth to be colored, Master Song spoke a lot with great interest.

"I finally understand why Xu Jingyou likes indigo dyeing so much."

"Hey, wouldn't that one who actually touched it like it? That touch of blue is enough to refresh people's hearts. ”

Blue is the sacredness imprinted in the hearts of indigo dyeing craftsmen.

"It's a pity that something so good in our country has never been able to shine in the world."

"Master, don't worry, our ZV will let it go out."

Master Song supports his knees,

"Jing You's mind I can see from when she learns art, she pays attention to the original, but Ji Cheng, I, an old man, is not rigid, I respect the craft in my hand, and I am willing to let it develop."

Ji Cheng pursed his lips and saw the glint of anticipation in his master's eyes.

"Why hasn't it been slow to develop? Are we the craftsmen who don't care? No. It's that it's almost out of touch with the times. "Master pointed to the house,

"Look at the clothes inside, we older generations like it, but what about young people now? And they hated the earth. Therefore, if you want to develop indigo dyeing, you have to cater to the market, and you have to change. ”

Ji Cheng was amazed, he didn't expect that as an older generation of craftsmen, Master Song's mind was so open-minded.

"Well, I understand, because of one thing, it has no market, and it will only weaken in the end."

"Jing You's intentions are good, but if you can't adapt to the commercialization of indigo dyeing, no matter how good the design is, no matter how much money you invest, it will be in vain. She's a designer, but you're a businessman, so it's up to you to run everything. ”

"ZV is the first time I've come into contact with this category, and I hope to do well. You can rest assured, in fact, I already have a set of plans, but it is still being improved, in short, I will not let the indigo dye lose its original flavor, but also let it adapt to the market. ”

There was a rumbling thunder in the sky, and the conversation was interrupted.

Master Song got up and asked Ji Cheng to help carry the cloth from the yard into the house. The two of them went up to the corridor on one side, two of them on a high shelf.

Ji Cheng's face was worried,

"It looks like it's going to rain heavily, and Xu Jingyou hasn't come back yet."

Master Song continued to clean up,

"You don't have to worry, she took an umbrella with her when she left."

"Did she say where she went?"

"Don't look for it, she's more familiar with this place than you, don't get lost by yourself then."

Ji Cheng hesitated, praying that it was just thunder, and that it would not rain.

The master in the back room was telling him to fish for cloth, and he came back to his senses and entered the house.

——

Xu Jingyou leaned over, pulled a protruding stone, stepped up the dirt slope with his right foot, and exerted his left foot and hand at the same time, and his body went up to the small slope together.

She climbed all the way up to the little top.

There are still people living on the top, and two rice fields are connected together.

She looked around twice for something, and when she saw the small red and white flowers growing on the edge of the field not far away, she immediately walked around cautiously.

The sickle was thrown into the basket, and she bent down to pick it, leaving ten centimeters of stems, and picked them with the flowers and leaves.

"Sure enough, I'm not mistaken, but fortunately the flower wasn't dug up."

One flower, pick half and leave half.

There is a tall cypress tree growing on the edge of the field, which is green.

Xu Jingyou stood on tiptoe to check its leaves, the leaves were scattered, one scattered, each like a small tree.

She nodded, threw the flower to the basket, and reached out to break the branch. She didn't know that on the dirt slope at the edge of the field, a black dog was slowly approaching from behind.

"Wang !!"

The barking of the dog resounded in the sky, Xu Jingyou's heart trembled, his whole body stiffened in an instant, he stopped the movements of his hands, and did not dare to move.

"Woo !!"

Two more times, she turned her head to look, the dog grinned and bared its teeth, a pair of fierce eyes, kept purring, ready to go.

Xu Jingyou: It's over.

The way down the hill was on her left, and the dog on the right.

Depending on the distance, she should be able to run to the intersection before the dog catches up with her.

Can...... What to do if the dog catches you at the intersection? The mountain road is steep, and if one is not careful, it is possible to ...... directly

She took a deep breath, or she froze with it, and if I didn't move, it wouldn't move.

She silently glanced at the dog again,

"Wang!"

Xu Jingyou: What is it called? Don't move—

While praying, the black dog took a step on her front legs, and her head spiked one hundred and eighty miles, kicking her legs and running.

As soon as she ran, the dog chased after her.

Obviously a short distance, obviously about to go down the road to the intersection, obviously winning the roll.

However, the soil on the edge of the field was loose, and she stepped on her feet, and fell directly into the rice field, turning sideways, poof-

The mud splashed on her face, and she was alone.

Half of the back basket is slimy.

"Boom—"

There was another thunderclap in the sky, and the dog stood tall and stood on the edge of the field.

Xu Jingyou struggled, and in the clay of rubber shoes, his right foot fell into his left foot.

Her anger had reached its peak, and by chance the black dog barked again.

So, the dog was scrapped......

Xu Jingyou stepped over the basket, dug two hands of mud from the field, gritted his teeth,

"Dog! You've got what it takes! Why don't you come down? Isn't it dirty?...... You know it's dirty and it's driving me down??? Bastard!"

With a roar to the sky, Xu Jingyou dragged a lump of mud onto the black dog.

The dog was probably frightened by her, and spread his legs and ran.

So, for the next five minutes, you can see her running around the fields like crazy, chasing a dog.

While chasing, he said cruel words to the dog.

It wasn't until he chased the dog into the field and stuck in mud.

The war ended, but the heavy rain came.

A rare rain was pouring down, and Xu Jingyou quickened his pace down the mountain.

The heavy rain hit her body and it was cold and painful, she held the trunk of the tree with one hand to prevent slipping, and vacated the other one to cover the rain.

The rubber shoes were sticky with mud, and it rained downhill, and it was even more slippery, and she almost slipped and fell several times, flashing her old waist.

The rain became heavier and heavier, forming a curtain of water, and she couldn't open her eyes, so she could only squint.

Ji Cheng probe wait-and-see,

"Master Song, it's raining too much, do you have a raincoat? I'll pick up Xu Jingyou. ”

"Bang-"

"Ouch, Ji Cheng, come on, come on-"

The crisp sound of tiles falling to the ground in the house was accompanied by Master Song's cry for help. Ji Cheng hurried over to take a look,

It was the roof tiles of the workshop that fell off and fell down, and the rainwater leaked in through the hole, and most of the fabric was already wet.

Master Song hurriedly cleaned up, his face full of distress and anxiety.

Ji Cheng couldn't care about so much, so he hurriedly rescued the fabric, moved the table at the leakage and moved it aside.

Master Song was in a hurry, and his eyes were red.

Xu Jingyou stumbled down the mountain, the wind blew on her face, she slowed down a little, waited for the route to be clear before walking, and rushed in the direction of the town in one go.

All the fabrics were evacuated to the hall, and Ji Cheng went to the toilet to get a few large basins and received the leak.

"Click, click—" The water splashed.

This side is considered to be temporarily controlled, and he comforted Master Song with a few words,

"Master, there's no problem now, just wait for the rain to stop and make up for it, I'll go to Xu Jingyou now, just look at the basin over there."

After saying that, he rushed into the rain with an umbrella.

"Ahh

Ji Cheng didn't react, and a black shadow passed by him, accompanied by a heart-rending roar.

Ji Cheng: ???

He turned around, and the dark shadow leaped lightly into the courtyard.

Ji Cheng: The black shadow is Xu Jingyou?

He immediately turned around.

Xu Jingyou slammed his head and sat down in the corridor regardless of the steps of the courtyard.

"Master-Ji Cheng-I'm running for my life and coming back-"

She wiped the water on her face, and when she saw Ji Cheng walking into the yard with an umbrella, she was instantly stunned.

He's out?

Ji Cheng looked at Xu Jingyou, who was wrapped in mud, and ...... unkindly Laughed.

"You...... What's the situation?"

Xu Jingyou's eyes were resentful,

"Laughing at what? I don't blame you!"

"Blame me?"

The answer that was about to come out was stalked back by her, and she couldn't say.

She stretched out her hand,

"Pull me along."

"I'm going to say that I was going to look for you, but I just ...... The roof is worn. ”

Xu Jingyou got up, dumbfounded,

"The roof is worn? Is Master alright?"

"It's okay, just wait for the rain to stop repairing the roof." He looked at Xu Jingyou and urged:

"You go change your clothes, I'll do your laundry later."

……

"This ...... Don't use it~ "Underwear, how can you let others wash it?"

Ji Chengs understood what she meant, and added,

"Just give me what you can wash me."

"Oh-"

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