“是什么料子奴婢不知，不过奴婢听畅春园伺候的下人说，那料子看着极为漂亮，正红的颜色，却比寻常料子看着更亮丽，上头用金线绣着极为精美的团花图案。 The slave couldn't tell what was so different about this material. Cui Ping replied.

Then he said: "I don't know who sent the slave maid, but I said that a carriage stopped at the back door early this morning, saying that there was something for the eldest lady, and the eldest lady's maid went and carried some things back." ”

Hearing this, the Yun clan pondered for a while: "Come with me and have a look." ”

Yun got up and took Cui Ping to Changchun Garden.

When she arrived, she found that her second sister-in-law, Bai, was also here, and the two happened to meet.

Bai said with a smile: "I heard that someone gave Ruo'er a lot of rare things, do the third brother and sister know who gave them?" ”

Yun Shi was slightly stunned, she had just heard Cui Ping talk about the fabric, and she didn't know that there were other things.

"Ruo'er had a lot of good friends with ladies and young ladies of the family before, maybe they gave them gifts." Yun Shi Dao.

"In this way, I don't know if the third brother and sister can take me to see it, I also want to see those precious objects."

"Okay." Yun's face was not good, but he still agreed.

The two came to Wei Ruo's residence together, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw a few boxes at the door.

The bright red horse that Cui Ping said just now was placed on top of the box.

The color is bright, and the flower pattern embroidered with gold thread on it is exquisite, and the flowers look like they have just bloomed in the garden in early spring.

Inside the open box next to it were some other fabrics of various colors, which were not satin, like ordinary cotton.

The other boxes had not been opened, and the Yun and Bai clans did not know what was in them for the time being.

Seeing the Yun clan and the Bai clan enter the door, Wei Ruo stopped what he was doing.

Yun walked over and asked, "Who gave these things?" ”

"An old friend in Huzhou Mansion once upon a time learned that I was going to get married, so he sent some fabrics over." Wei Ruo replied.

"This material...... It looks very different, and your friend has a lot of heart. Yun said.

When the Yun clan and Wei Ruo were talking, the Bai clan had already started to touch it.

She first touched the satin embroidered golden flower fabric, and then showed a look of surprise and joy: "Ruo'er, your material is very smooth and delicate, it can't be Yunjin, right?" Or brocade? No, this material is lighter and thinner than cloud brocade, and smoother and more delicate than brocade. ”

The Bai family has also seen a lot of good materials, and she has basically seen all the materials that can only be used by high-ranking officials and nobles, but none of the materials match the horse in front of her.

"No, it's a very small workshop that doesn't yet have a common name and isn't officially named." Wei Ruo replied.

"I see! Then you can help the second aunt buy a few more horses, I don't think it's worse than the precious fabrics of Yunjin and Sujin. The Bai family immediately wanted Wei Ruo to help her buy it.

"The output of this material is small, so it will not be sold for the time being." Wei Ruo replied.

She won't use this material for public sale for the time being, and it took more than half a year to get less than ten horses.

Except for this one, which was dyed red, the others were basically dyed purple, indigo, and other uncommon colors.

Hearing this, Bai Shi looked disappointed and said, "Ruo'er, you shouldn't have deliberately not bought it for my second aunt, right?" ”

Wei Ruodao: "Where, didn't the second aunt say that she wanted to buy it?" What can I not help with real money? ”

Bai Shi was very disappointed, and then reached out and touched the fabric on the other side, this fabric is cotton, the color is not as beautiful as satin, but the material is extremely soft to the touch.

"What is this fabric? It's soft to the touch. Bai asked Wei Ruo again.

"It's cotton, and it's just right for intimate clothing." Wei Ruo replied.

"This cotton cloth is so soft?"

In Bai's impression, cotton cloth is stiff and dry, far less soft and comfortable than silk.

"The cotton cloth that is of good quality is softer." Wei Ruodao.

"Is this cotton still good and bad?"

"Naturally, the length of a good cotton fiber is long, the longer the fiber, the better the strength of the yarn spun, and the dryness, hairiness, nep, etc. are also better than that of short fibers, so that the fabric made of it has good luster, good dyeing effect, and is soft, skin-friendly, breathable and elastic."

Wei Ruo's explanation to the Bai family was stunned.

Bai Shi smiled a little embarrassedly: "Ruo'er is worthy of living in the countryside for more than ten years, but she knows a lot of things that we don't know. ”

Bai's gaze moved to the two boxes that had not yet been opened.

"What's in your two boxes?"

Wei Ruo hooked his lips and smiled, and then gave Xiumei a look.

Xiumei opened the boxes in turn in front of the Bai family and the Yun family.

The first box contained two jars, which looked much better than the two jars that Wei Ruo had brought over in the carriage, white porcelain wine jars.

The second box contained a pile of rouge gouache and a lot of bottles and jars.

"Why are there two jars of wine here?" Bai couldn't help but ask.

"These two jars are thyme." Wei Ruo replied.

"Thyme?" This name Bai is familiar, Wei Mingyong told her about this thyme after he came back from Taizhou Mansion.

Wei Mingyong also said that he once wanted to get two jars to go back to the capital to honor the high-ranking officials in the capital who loved wine, but the wine was expensive and difficult to buy, and he couldn't even get a pot.

"Ruo'er, where did you get two jars of thyme?" Yun asked.

In Taizhou Mansion, she had naturally heard of thyme, and she also knew that this liquor was not only expensive but also very difficult to buy.

"Like these materials, it's a gift from a friend." Wei Ruo still replied with this answer.

"Who is Ruo'er's friend, who is sacred, he is so generous, and he has sent so many rare good things to you at once." Bai's tone could not hide envy.

Wei Ruo didn't answer positively, but just said: "Gifts between friends are important. ”

Bai Shi looked at Wei Ruo's liquor, and did not take his eyes off it for a long time.

From time to time, the Yun clan looked at Wei Ruo's red cloth.

Wei Ruo took the expressions of the two into his eyes, but pretended not to see it, and continued to be busy with Xiumei.

Bai thought that he was acting so obviously, Wei Ruo should take the initiative to ask when he saw it, but Wei Ruo didn't open her mouth for a long time, she was a little anxious.

In the end, I couldn't wait any longer, so I asked Wei Ruo: "Ruo'er virtuous nephew, your second uncle has been looking for famous wine for a while, and wants to give it to a nobleman, and the second aunt heard that this thyme is very rare, why don't you sell it to the second aunt?" ”

(End of chapter)