Chapter 45: The Story of Zhou Peeling
Lu Jian'an sent these people away, and Xu Mengshan was a little worried beside him.
Since childhood, I have been facing my grandfather! I was still stunned.
"Master, I see that the old man is unhappy, I'm afraid that the second uncle won't give up, since he dares to say that he will take back the courtyard, he naturally dares to do this, I'm afraid that the two days will not be peaceful." Xu Mengshan didn't have a good impression of this second uncle at all.
He controlled the silk reeling technology at home in the hands of him and his second aunt, and several brothers in the family, as well as their children, all occupied the apprenticeship quota for silk reeling, otherwise how could he come out to find other ways.
It's really too much for the second uncle to do.
My father and mother, although they also have careful thoughts, but compared to them, they are far behind.
Old man Xu is eccentric again, the second uncle and the third uncle almost occupy the old man's favoritism, and naturally there is nothing left when he comes to his father.
"What if it's not peaceful? Tomorrow you go to the tooth shop, let's buy a house, I don't want to live in this yard for a long time. ”
Lu Jian'an patted Xu Mengshan on the shoulder arrogantly.
How can I say that they still have six hundred and eighty taels of silver?
Buying a small yard with two entrances is definitely not a problem.
Xu Mengshan was stunned when he heard this.
Really buy it!
But do you still have to buy mulberry fields and fertile fields, plus yards, is there not enough silver!
Master, isn't it uncommon to do business?
Xu Mengshan scratched his head.
Lu Jian'an turned around! Seeing that he was still not moving, he was slightly stunned.
"What? Questions? ”
"Master, you asked me to buy ten acres of mulberry fields and twenty acres of fertile land today, which is already two hundred and twenty taels, plus the twenty taels just given, the rest of our money is probably not enough to buy a yard in a prosperous area."
When Lu Jian'an heard this, he was moved in his heart, Xu Mengshan and those people in the Xu family are still different, at least Xu Yuan has raised a good son even if he has a lot of eyes.
With Xu Mengshan, the Xu family will not fall.
Treat people with sincerity, how can people treat him badly.
"You, the yard should not be in a prosperous area, it is better to have a mulberry field with a yard, so that the price of the yard will not be too expensive, and it is also very clean, and there are few rights and wrongs."
Xu Mengshan looked dazed, "Master! Whose silk mill is not trying to be prosperous, and they all want to squeeze into the 28th Street, otherwise how can they do business? ”
I thought Lu Jian'an was stupid to read and read.
Whose silk mill is open to the edge of the mulberry field.
Silk merchants don't go to the middle of nowhere, so what business do they have?
Lu Jian'an knew what Xu Mengshan was thinking at a glance, "You go and do what I instruct, inform your teeth to touch, hurry back to eat, and wait for you to have a reunion dinner together." ”
Xu Mengshan had no choice but to go out with his head bored.
If you don't understand, you naturally don't want to, Lu Jian'an is a disciple of the silkworm god Niangniang, and he may not have great skills.
Lu Jian'an turned around and went to the warehouse next door, Luo Qing and Wei Ran were still reeling silk, the two of them are now becoming more and more mature, and they can already reel five catties of silk a day in the past few days.
However, it can be seen that the person is a little haggard, it should be because the two of them have worked hard day and night, seeing Lu Jian'an, the two of them hurriedly put down the work in their hands, stood up and gave Lu Jian'an a salute.
"Master!"
"Master!"
"How have you felt about silk reeling lately?"
Lu Jian'an inspected the silk they reeled and saw a lot of joints.
"Master, the silk of this waste cocoon is too fragile, the two of us tried our best, but there are still too many joints."
Luo Qing has a good brain and likes to work silk! But there are too many broken threads, even if she grows ten heads, she can't solve it.
The two of them are also worried, good silk, once there are more joints, the price will naturally not be sold.
Lu Jian'an looked at the silk quality of the waste cocoon and waved his hand, "Starting today, I will teach you the method of cold basin silk reeling, so that the tenacity of the reeled silk will go up to a higher level, and the silk will not be broken so much, and in two days, the silk reeling machine will be brought back, and the two of you can at least double the silk reeling a day." ”
These will have to be shown sooner or later, and Lu Jian'an is not prepared to hide it.
This little bit of skill is nothing at all.
When Luo Qing Wei Ran heard this, he knelt down and kowtowed, "Master, you really treat us like parents again, and the disciple is willing to serve the master for the rest of his life." There are no two hearts. ”
Lu Jian'an naturally didn't know that Luo Qing and Wei Ran had already given up on him, the master.
I thought it was just lip service, and he really didn't take this kind of verbal oath seriously.
As the name suggests, it is to separate the boiled cocoons and reeling, and put the boiled cocoons in a basin with a small amount of warm water, and then reel, which is the "cold basin" silk reeling method.
The silk reeled by this method is "spirited and tough" than the silk reeling method we usually reel, which can prevent the cocoon from being too ripe, the sericin is too clean, and the silk fiber is weak and weak, so that the silk is not easy to break.
You two give it a try and see how? ”
Luo Qing Wei Ran immediately started, this method is simple, but after boiling the cocoon, quickly change to a cold basin with warm water, pick the bamboo skewer slightly, and the silk head will come out, and the two of them will do it immediately, but it is just a stick of incense.
The silk on the hand has been formed.
The two of them stopped, and then they realized that it was really as Lu Jian'an said, this time the cocoon was not broken once, and this raw silk felt very tough.
The colors are all one degree whiter.
It's all a happy face.
"Master, this method is so simple, why hasn't anyone thought of it all along?"
For hundreds of years, their method of reeling silk has always been to reel silk quickly when it is boiling, and there is really no one who uses this method separately.
"Master, the old man said that this method was also discovered by her old man later, so naturally no one knew.
Okay, let's have a reunion dinner today! You also take a break, what to do is also a combination of work and rest, this is not the way, in the future at the latest to the end of the day, I am an apprentice, not a long-term worker, I am not a week. ”
These two girls are dedicated to studying, but they are only twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, and Lu Jian'an does not have the mentality of enslaving child labor.
Who made her a good young man who has received new ideas and new education?
It's completely out of place here, she can find a way to take on the role, the times, but all of a sudden she is called to treat the child as a worker, and she hasn't integrated so quickly.
Even if they are workers, there is no one who is called day and night.
"Master, who is Zhou Papi?"
Luo Qing and Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Zhou Papi is a big landlord, the family has 100 acres of fertile land, the life is rich, the family has a lot of land and naturally needs to invite long-term workers to work, so Zhou Papi in order to let the long-term workers do more work, get up in the middle of the night to learn the rooster to let the long-term workers work (the deed of sale clearly stipulates: the rooster crows to get up to work), the long-term workers are from the rooster crow to rework at sunset, Zhou Paopi in the middle of the night the rooster crows, so that those long-term workers get up early to work for him."
"And then?"
The two of them especially liked to listen to the master's stories, which in their opinion should have been seen by the master all the way from the outside.