Cotton is a Xihan thing, at least in the Guanzhong of the Tang Dynasty. So, in order to show her respect for Xihan's things, Ying decided to make cotton coats by herself. When it comes to needlework, the second daughter is Heying is a first-class level, and all the clothes on my body from the inside to the outside are from the handwriting of the two wives, and I never thought that I could wear the clothes cut by my wife, which is a very happy thing.

Although he has never seen Lanling's craftsmanship, he can hear from Ying's tone that Lanling has super-first-class strength. I don't know Her Royal Highness, the princess of a country, what's the use of learning this, maybe it's the same as when I was a child, I had to learn so many strange lessons, learning well is one thing, and what I don't need to use in the future to enter society is another, irrelevant.

But the cotton has been embezzled, Lanling also began to sum up what style to make for himself, the gown of this era is completely different from the horse gown called by later generations, the design of the horse gown is simple and clear, and it is sharp to wear, I still prefer the latter, and I am pestered to change the style of Ying. After explaining the appearance and function of the horse coat to Ying, my proposal was rejected on the grounds that it was similar to the summer outfit of the farmers, and the family had not yet reached the point of saving fabrics, and it would be embarrassing to wear it at a lower price.

Lanling doesn't care about this, she doesn't have the idea of Ying always taking care of the whole face, the princess, even if she dresses as a rag, she is also a princess, and she doesn't need to cater to anyone's taste, and she is a maverick a lot. I was very fond of the horse coat I conceived, and without saying anything, I took a soft ruler and measured my size, wrote them down one by one, and carefully cut a set for me when I went back. Listening to her thoughts, it means to make a couple outfit.

I'm busy tailoring, and I'm busy playing cotton. drove out all the creatures in the back house, and Wangcai scratched the door outside aggrievedly. Lanling originally wanted to observe, but I was bluffed out of the door, closed the window and locked it, and the peeper shot to death. The tools are ready. The bamboo skin built a cotton bed according to the size of the quilt, and the edge of the bed was filled with bamboo sticks. I put the cotton on it, then tied a leather belt, hung a big bamboo bow, and took a super big pounded garlic with a carved string trough, and I didn't have the courage to look in the mirror. I know that my current image must be very embarrassing, "boom" a few times, I can't find the feeling, and I lack the bright rhythm of watching other people play cotton when I was a child. The rhythm of others, two short and one long, full of rhythm, lasts N hours on one beat, and it sounds soft and steely. Thousands of flavors, around the beam for three days.

It's not easy to do anything, underestimate this skill. At first, I thought it was interesting, and it was the same as chopping dumplings and flipping over and over, but it took a long time. The monotonous action is repeated and repeated, and it is not easy to rely on the angle of bending to grasp the depth of the bowstring cutting into the cotton pile, and to play as evenly as possible. Cotton wool flutters all over the sky. Fortunately, I was prepared, and I wore a silk sweat scarf on my face, although the image was worse, but it was better than choking to death. My back hurts, and my hands are numb and heavy when I smash the bowstring, and I'm tired. If it weren't for the fact that the original strands of cotton have become snow-white and fluffy, which brings a little encouragement, the stall would have stopped working a long time ago. Originally, I wanted to find someone like Erniang to be the main bullet. But Ying is right, the craftsman and the nursing home should be distinguished, if you can't enter the cotton workshop in the future, you can't get involved in this matter, although I don't think that the unskilled craft of playing cotton is necessary to keep it secret, but I still follow her intentions first. Ying was born in a merchant family, and she has a deep understanding of these principled issues, and she is a superb virtuous helper. It's hard to find a flashlight.

Almost. I touched it, and it felt good. The appearance is also good, not in vain, and the white flocculent also recognizes. I cleaned myself up haphazardly, changed my clothes, and finally looked a little human, but fortunately, I covered my head with a sweat towel, and my hair was still clean.

Women love beauty, especially those who have no resistance to seemingly pure things like snow, Ying and Lanling stood next to the bamboo bed and watched, touched, sighed for a while, and then begged me to turn all the cotton into this, I didn't agree. The tired body gave me reason, ignoring the temptation of beauty, and I need to rest now. Fortunately, a large pile of noodles needed to be processed, and there was too little harvest at that time, and now I find that there is too much cotton, not the usual one.

I need someone to help, I need a substitute, I teach Ying to play the net sleeve and beat my waist at the same time, it's too hard. "If it weren't for this, pick some people to come over and let them do it, I wouldn't be able to do it, it's not a human job."

Seeing that Lanling was there, Ying didn't hurry to express her position, and changed the conversation, "Cotton, the flowers are screaming all day long, and I only found out that it looks good today." Husband's method is really good, boxy, the silk thread is a cover appearance, just a satin can do. Soft and soft, whether it is a cover or a cover, it is comfortable to think about. ”

"It's not," Lanling helped draw the silk thread on the side, and praised: "It's still Zihao's ability, how can he make it so white and fine, think about it next year, I will harvest hundreds of acres of cotton, in the future, there will be more planting, anyone can use it, Zihao has done great good." ”

"Hehe," in fact, she can make a lot of money, Ying can't hear it, only I know the meaning of Lanling's words, she never says good things about me, "Yes, do good, I have this hobby of doing good." ”

"Tomorrow I'll call the two of you to come over and finish popping the cotton, and it's not a matter for me to be alone." When Lanling left, he discussed with Ying, "What kind of technical work is this cotton, don't keep it secret, snakes, snakes, scorpions, and scorpions, you can watch everything tightly every day, as if the whole Tang Dynasty people owe money to our family." ”

"Hehe......" Di Ying was amused when he was choosing the material to be faced, "Okay, tomorrow I will call the second lady to make a move, he is a person who practices martial arts, he has a good body, one is enough, there is no need for the two." I took a few fabrics for me to choose, "Which one looks better, husband?" It's all good embroidery, and the second daughter earns it back. Pick one and sew it, and use a quilt at night. ”

"Then let the second daughter pick it later," I pulled the excited Ying to sit on the kang, she didn't know the power of the quilt, the solar term that had not been passed on August 15, and covering such a thick quilt was a suicide. "If you don't cover it today, if you cover it, you will get on fire and have a nosebleed."

"A piece of cotton, it's all said to be fur." Ying stroked the quilt that had just been stretched, and pressed it under her body from time to time, feeling soft, "Take out this quilt, let alone ...... also ......" clapped his hands and hesitated: "Husband, tell me, how much do you have to sell?" ”

"Haha...... "I smiled a little embarrassed." You say, if you see this thing outside, how much are you going to pay for it? ”

"This ......" Ying Xiao's eyes flickered, and she hummed for a long time, "Either two yuan, or three taels of silver cakes, or exchange it for flower water, it's hard to say after this price." Anyway, if it's higher than three times, you will never buy it. ”

"That's right. Because this thing is not the same as toilet water, it can't be smelled and never used. So you have to experience the benefits to know firsthand. No one wants to spend money on something that they don't know if it's good or bad to come back. "In this era, the Guanzhong area has not been cold enough to have a quilt for the winter, everyone does not necessarily think that it is better than a blanket, and it is an experimental project, it is estimated that it will be limited to the aristocratic circle within ten years, counting on the ordinary people to have this blessing. It is difficult to achieve it without more than ten years of promotion. This is a good thing, it is the most profitable stage, as long as the first two years of publicity is rolled out, there is no worry about not making money later.

"The key is that the yield per mu is amazing. Cotton is light. Such a large pile weighed down to less than forty catties, according to the weight of three and a half catties of a quilt, plus the loss of cotton, it can barely fit ten beds. Two dollars for one bed. The gross income of one acre of land is twenty runs, which is still the output of Nanlin Yuan, and the ordinary farmer's work cannot reach the level of the royal nursery, and on the basis of twenty runs, the four achievements have become about 12 runs, and the miscellaneous expenses are reduced again, and the net income of one mu of land is about eight or nine runs. If you get 600 acres a year, you can harvest 5,000 yuan, which is more cost-effective than growing grain. "I don't dare to count. This figure is a bit exaggerated, so much money, how to spend it? Holding back the joy in his heart, he hung the spinning wheel that was fiddling on the kang to the wall, looked back at Ying, who was steaming with golden light, and opened his mouth unconscious.

"The spinning wheel, the spinning wheel smashed." Ying suddenly woke up, like a demonic obstacle. Find yourself out of shape. Blushing and smiling, "Cotton." You want cotton, not spinning. The body of the newly spun cotton thread was compared with the silk thread, and it was very thick. If the same fabric is woven, it will definitely not be dense with satin, but it will waste cotton in vain. Ying was a little excited, "Husband, six hundred acres of land is too little, and the Yun family's more than 1,000 acres must be brought home before the spring sowing before tomorrow, so she can't help but have a respite." As he spoke, there was a cold light in his eyes, and his little hand slapped on the kang table with a 'snap'.

"Melon seeds." Rubbing his hands on her face, she put Yingdi's expression relaxed, "If you are in a hurry, you will talk nonsense, brain, think clearly before speaking." What's the use of taking it this year, you'll have to grow food next year. The imperial court only approved the Zhuangzi of our Fenghe, you try all kinds of things in the Yunjia land, and the fine alone is enough for us to drink a pot, and it is not cost-effective to punish another crime. You manage it well, wait for a bumper harvest of cotton in Fenghe next year, we don't make a penny, and we have been grinding it for experiments until the spring of the next year. I said dry mouth, maybe excited, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, "When they feel comfortable with it, they can't do without, hehe, the quilt in the year after tomorrow is not more than two times, those people don't care about four or five more." Anyway, it's already past spring sowing, but I don't have any thoughts about learning our family's planting, so I can only buy our quilt obediently. It's just 5,000 guan, according to my method, it's estimated to be around 15,000 guan, you just wait to cover the money to sleep, and what kind of quilt to cover. ”

Ying's face was a little spasmodic, and she threw me on the kang head at once, and her little eyes were rubbing on my face with her eyes closed, and she didn't know what to say. I didn't even bother with the second daughter when I came in, and I was numb when I hugged my body, and for the first time I found that Ying still had so much strength.

"God let our family turn over," after eating, Ying took the second daughter in one hand and dialed the abacus in the other, and hit back and forth no less than ten times, "At least five years, as long as our family controls it well, the money earned in five years is enough for several lifetimes." He bowed his head and looked at the second daughter in his arms lovingly, "Didn't you fall in love with the cat's eye hanger in 'Boyan Zhai'?" I want to buy it back tomorrow in a hurry, but it's a pity that a cat's eye hanger will stump the baby. ”

"Okay," I couldn't stand it, and before I could skim it, I began to waste money. 'Bo Yan Zhai' is where people go? The backstage of the Cui family is the kind of shop that has not been opened for three years and has been open for three years, not to kill people, but to live it. "Stop it, I want Maoyan and I ask the caravan of the Cheng family to buy it, whoever mentions the three words 'Boyan Zhai' at home will smoke whom, Cui Zhang's name is called in vain?"

As soon as I heard Cui Zhang, Ying and the second daughter hugged and laughed. The Cui family is the most profitable place in the circle, whether it is knowledge or belongings, the Cheng family is still slightly inferior to the Cui family. Especially when the Cui family is in the hands of Cui Zhang, it will carry forward the advantages of the family. Cui Zhang, the word world, as soon as you read the Guanzhong dialect, it becomes 'Reminder'. Urging people to death'. When you are a friend, you don't say anything, you are righteous enough, you are heroic enough, and you are spending a lot of money. But if you dare to have a business with his family in private, then wait to be rubbed and scattered.

The quilt was spread, Ying and the second daughter fluttered on it, soft, and the two girls rolled into a pile of giggles. I don't join in the fun, the quilt is spread out enough for the two of them to lie on it, and I honestly sleep on the blanket. Since a serious illness, he vowed to cherish his body, never get sick, and think about the taste of Chinese medicine, he is more afraid than doing business with the Cui family, and he must not make trouble.

For a few days. The spirit of the women is very good, Ying and the second daughter are happy about the huge amount of money in the future, and Lanling is happy to make a good horse coat, so I have to wear it to see. Yes, it has Yuan Shikai's posture. The only bad thing is that the weather is still warm and I can't wear it for a long time.

"Why don't you do it these days?" Lan Ling was arranging my horse coat and asked, "What about the spinning wheel?" Didn't you say two days ago that you could spin thread? I haven't seen the line yet. ”

"The cotton hasn't been played yet, what are you anxious about?" Lanling is bent on spinning and weaving. But she didn't understand the mystery of this, "It's not too late to spin when the cotton is finished." Now I'm sending someone to play cotton in the empty yard to the west. ”

"Isn't there just that, don't wait, the spinning wheel will show me." Lanling couldn't get used to the grinding things, so he said he would do it, and stared at me a few times, "Don't be a scoundrel again, you didn't mention this stubble to me yesterday." It's delayed today, what's the unsightly thing? ”

"Okay, spin." What's the way, she's half a mother-in-law now, and she can't do it if she doesn't take care of her. "It's okay to spin, but cotton is less ......"

I took the spinning wheel and put it away, and took a few rolled cotton rolls. Lanling has a good understanding, and after teaching it twice, he spun decently. The spinning wheel also shook faster and faster. Buzzing.

"Great," Lan Ling carefully observed the cotton thread in his hand. "It's thick, much stronger than silk thread, and if you weave the fabric, it's definitely more durable than silk. Small farmers, with a lot of physical work, inevitably have friction, and it is best to wear this. "That's all, all the fabrics are woven after spinning, I want to calculate how much cloth can be woven out of an acre of cotton, just from the yield per mu, it is much stronger than cutting silk." ”

"Okay, do as you say." Lanling said that it was thick and wear-resistant, Ying said that it was rough and not dense, and the two mothers-in-law were right, Lanling was for the sake of the people, and Ying was for the sake of the family. This came out before the disagreement came out, and I had a little bit of that in the middle. Morally, I resolutely support Lanling, and in terms of my own interests, I am more biased towards Ying, perfunctory on both sides, and I can't slap Lanling and the two of them on Ying in the face. It's still two years, and there is time to slowly convince Lanling that it would be good for her to earn more money.

Spinning this matter, Dalai is the most suitable, her injury has improved, just need a little exercise, stretch her muscles, just leave it to her, and it is not a tiring life, there is nothing wrong with exerting the residual heat. Lan Ling saw that this girl was ingenious and liked to see the ground, so she stepped forward and comforted her a few words to express her encouragement. Dalai was so scared when he saw Lanling, he didn't dare to say a word, he climbed on the bed and kowtowed when he met, his hands were not dexterous when he shook the spinning wheel, he broke the thread in a fit of anger, and he was scared to kowtow when he broke it once. I don't feel comfortable looking at the ground, how to say that I am also my own servant, I am too faceless to be a strong kowtow worm in Lanling, and I scolded a few words before I used it, and when I saw that Dalai grasped the main point, I quickly pulled Lanling out, don't scare the little girl again, but it took a lot of money to raise it.

The cotton was finally settled, and after embezzling four sets of covers, and after four cotton coats, there was not much left, and all the cotton rolls were rolled out to spin, and they were all happy. In two days, it will be August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is necessary to buy and do it well. At this time last year, the family conditions were not good, there was not so much spare money to squander, and now it is not what it used to be.

Ying is still settling accounts, she has recently learned abacus, her efficiency has increased a lot, and she pays close attention to the Yun family. The Yun family has eased up a little recently, and Ying is not good at opening up the aid site again, and often complains that this method of raising chickens was made public too early, which made the Yun family grasp the life-saving straw.

"It's not that people are grabbing straws, it's that you're anxious. It's good that she can't turn over the big waves, what are you afraid of? Ying said that the wind is the rain, and if you take an abacus, she is more like a landlord's wife, "Don't you have a plan?" Then don't change and take your time. The weather is cold, you are not nagging for a day: the weather is cold and does not lay eggs, and the wind is cold. It's in the winter that gets the hard time. ”

"Yes, why can't the concubine be breathless, she just feels that this Yun family is wrong." Ying smiled self-deprecatingly, "With her family tossing, she has no confidence, and she is down." Suddenly remembered something, "Husband, the lady of the Qin family will invite the concubine to come over to the table tomorrow, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come back at noon." Did you say that this Qin Yu didn't return to Beijing fifteen years ago? Mrs. Qin was a little anxious. ”

Qin Yu said that he could rush back fifteen years ago, but now that the day has come, he hasn't seen anyone yet, so he can't help but be anxious. It stands to reason that you can leave after paying the formalities, and the news is reliable, so wait, maybe you will be in the capital tomorrow.

。 Three Heads M.