Chapter 33: The Gospel of Women in the Tang Dynasty
Whining...... I haven't had a ticket in the past two days.,I'm going to be thrown farther and farther away.,Ask for collection.,All kinds of tickets)
All day the next day, Xiaoxiao was in a restless mood. Knock-offs are knock-offs, and the absorption performance is too far from the products of later generations. And it is extremely uncomfortable, and it is inconvenient to walk. The worst thing is that the flow of this body is very large, and I don't know if it has accumulated two months together......
stayed up like this until the afternoon, Xiaoxiao couldn't bear it anymore, and called Qing'er to the room:
"Qing'er, go to the town to see if you can find new cotton, if there is, buy some back, and buy some white cotton cloth too."
is also a woman, Qing'er certainly knows what she has to do. I didn't say much at the moment, but nodded and went.
As soon as Qing'er walked with her front foot, Jiang Zhixuan entered the bedroom with her back foot. There was still a strange stack of paper in his hand, and when Xiao Xiao saw this, he asked strangely, "Husband, ...... are you?" ”
Jiang Zhixuan's expression looked a little twisted, but he quickly adjusted it again:
"Xiaoxiao, in the past, the family was poor and couldn't afford to buy good things, so you suffered those few days every month. Now you have money in your house, but you always spend it on your husband, who doesn't want to see you suffer that kind of sin again. This is the straw paper that my husband bought when he just arrived in town, so you can change it yourself! After speaking, he looked at her with concern a few times, and then quickly left the room.
A little confused, what's the matter? So he picked up the pale yellow papyrus paper and looked at it carefully. This sight made her almost cheer. It turned out that this straw paper was similar to the paper towels of later generations, but it was rougher and the color was not so good-looking. But looking like that, it should have a strong water absorption effect, so she immediately asked the mustache to get some water.
The beard quickly brought in the basin, but she didn't know what the young lady was doing. When she saw the pale yellow straw paper, a look of surprise and envy flashed in her eyes, and then she asked:
"Miss, Qing Shui is calling, what do you need to do, let the slave come!"
Xiaoxiao picked up a piece of straw paper and handed it to her: "Mustache, you get some water, pour it on it and I'll see!" ”
She was a little surprised, and then reacted: "Miss, do you want to try the absorbency of this straw paper?" ”
Xiao Xiao nodded: "That's right!" ”
The girl took the straw paper and said distressedly: "My eldest lady, this paper is very expensive!" What a waste of it! ”
It's a little strange, isn't it just a piece of straw paper, how expensive can it be? When she saw her expression, she immediately understood, I'm afraid that Miss has never used such a good thing. So he explained to her:
"Miss, this kind of yellow straw paper is specially used for those noble ladies during the period of geranium. One side costs ten taels of silver, and the gold is expensive, and even the lady uses it very little! Uncle is so kind to you......"
"Ten taels of silver for one side?" Xiao Xiao exclaimed, "Then these have to ......" She didn't know how much one side was, but she knew what ten taels of silver meant in this era.
"This small square gets two taels of silver!" , Juan'er understood what she meant, and immediately replied with a firm interface.
Xiaoxiao was finally a little moved, in her previous life, she heard that Luoyang paper was expensive, and she thought it was an exaggeration. Now I know that this is not an exaggeration, but it has shrunk a little. This small square of yellow straw paper, with a length and width of no more than 30 centimeters and a thickness of no more than 10 centimeters, costs two taels of silver. It is estimated that on average, on each piece of paper, you will get more than ten copper coins...... That's almost a day's worth of living for a strong laborer.
"Beard, this ...... Yellow straw paper, how to use? "There's a little confusion in my little brain.
The beard did not speak, but took the yellow papyrus paper in his hand, folded it in half several times, and folded it into a long strip. Then he handed it to Xiaoxiao: "Miss, just put this in the kind of cloth bag you are using now." The slave has never used it, but the slave can think of it, and it must be much more comfortable than the one you use now! ”
Of course, it's much more comfortable, ten copper coins a piece of consumables, if it's uncomfortable, who will use it? But then it occurred to her that if the paper was placed on her body like this, a large part of it would be wasted if it could not perform its function. So, she began to think about how to make use of such an expensive thing as much as possible.
Not long after, Qing'er came back with the cotton and cotton cloth she bought. At this time, it was already dark, so Xiaoxiao asked Yan'er to prepare dinner, and she herself took Qing'er to study it carefully in the room.
Xiaoxiao recalled the style of those women's products in later generations, and first asked Qing'er to cut the cotton cloth she bought back into small squares about five centimeters wide and more than ten centimeters long. He cut the yellow papyrus into smaller squares than the cotton cloth. The snow-like cotton is first pulled into cotton balls, and then pressed into uniform thick cotton pieces.
After that, a piece of cotton cloth is used as a base, two pieces of yellow straw paper are placed on top of the cotton cloth, and then cotton pieces are placed on top of the paper, and finally a piece of white cotton cloth is covered, and the perimeter is sewn together with fine needles and threads. In this way, an epoch-making ultra-thin and large-absorbing women's product was born in the Xie Yuan Mansion in Zhenlong Town, Huayin County, Jingzhao Prefecture.
When she made dinner and came over to invite Xiaoxiao out to eat, Qing'er had already processed more than ten pieces of these things. Xiaoxiao immediately took a piece and replaced it, although it is still a little inferior to the one in terms of comfort and the later generations, but compared with the kind of carbon ash used before, there is a difference between cloud and mud.
After a rough calculation, a piece of yellow straw paper can be cut into forty small pieces of paper to make twenty pieces of this new type of pad. Add to that the cost of cotton and cotton, and a piece of this new type of pad costs at most a penny. But the comfort level has been raised by an infinite number of notches, which is her own personal experience and has the most right to speak.
During dinner, Jiang Zhixuan kept observing the small colors. Finding that the anxious and anxious look that had been lingering between her brows all day was gone, replaced by a look of relief and joy. The heart that was in pain because it cost a whole two taels of silver finally got the greatest comfort - as long as it can make my wife easier, it is worth spending more silver! Seeing his appearance, Xiao Xiao knew what he was thinking. He smiled tenderly at him, and the gratitude in his eyes was about to overflow.
After the meal, the mustache washes the pots and dishes in the kitchen. Jiang Zhixuan let go of what he was worried about, and went back to the study and continued to chew words with Li Qin. Xiaoxiao, accompanied by Qing'er, first checked the effect of this new product and found that its absorption effect was even better than expected. Immediately excited, He Qing'er returned to the bedroom and continued to process her new products.
At this time, what she thought in her heart was to make more for herself and Qing'er, and use it for her hair. Then she gave some to her godmother to see, she never expected that after this thing was manufactured, it would become the gospel of tens of millions of women in the Tang Dynasty......