In addition to writing a letter to his family and Zhang Hongyun, Zhang Hongliang also mailed a package to Liu Xinyu.

In the package is a pound of pure white fine wool, a pound of red fine wool and four pounds of red coarse wool, all of which are pure wool.

The wool is a processed product that Zhang Hongliang asked Gu Changsheng's eldest daughter-in-law to buy directly from the manufacturer.

Don't look at it as just a processed product, because the price is less than one-third of the genuine wool, and you can't buy it without a reliable relationship.

When he was in the provincial capital, Liu Xinyu finally accepted the watch, but resolutely did not accept the money that was compensated to Zhang Hongliang.

Zhang Hongliang bought all the money into wool and sent it back to her.

Liu Xinyu now has red, white and yellow threads on his hands.

White threads have both wool and yarn threads.

The red thread is only the wool thread.

The yellow thread is a yarn and cotton thread dyed with dried pomegranate peel boiled water.

The conditions are limited, and I can't dye the desired bright yellow, which is grass yellow, and not particularly bright.

With alum as a medium, there is no big problem in terms of color fixation.

Liu Xinyu planned to use cotton thread to weave the thread, of course, it was Zhang Hongyun, the messenger bird, who told Zhang Hongliang.

Zhang Hongliang learned that cheap wool could not be bought in the countryside, so Liu Xinyu could only buy some yarn gloves from the supply and marketing cooperative, remove the threads, and dye the yarn clothes by himself.

While asking Gu Changsheng's daughter-in-law to help buy cheap yarn, he began to quietly collect new yarn gloves.

He is a fitter in the second workshop of the machinery factory, and the job of a fitter is more glove-intensive, but the director of the Ma factory is a dry fitter, and he knows the approximate frequency of glove replacement for each type of work.

For the types of work with high frequency of glove replacement in the factory, the number of gloves allocated each month is still relatively generous.

Most of the gloves that Zhang Hongliang saved in the past were given to Mrs. Gu to use to knit clothes for her little grandson.

Since Liu Xinyu has to buy yarn gloves for money, Zhang Hongliang must try his best to collect gloves.

Of course, Mrs. Gu still has to give, one day as a teacher and a father for life.

Fortunately, there were always some people in the workshop who were extravagant, so he picked up gloves that others didn't want but could still use, and kept almost all the new gloves assigned to him.

Among the woolen yarns sent this time, there were eight pairs of gauze gloves.

"Sister Xinyu, what color are you going to dye these cotton threads into?" Looking at the unwound cotton thread, Zhang Hongyun asked.

Liu Xinyu scratched her head, she had learned various dyeing techniques when she was Xin Yu, of course, she also used various natural plants to dye the scarf, at that time, you could use all kinds of mordants, even if it was just a dog tail on the side of the road, you could dye the silk scarf into the color you wanted, and the dyeing effect was very good.

There aren't many things she can use on her hands now, and of course the colors she can dye are limited, and she can't find any other mordants other than alum.

If you have the money, be patient and look for some usable mordants or even finished dyes that you may be able to buy.

In this era when most families are still busy with food and clothing, it is more important than dyeing to be beautiful than fashion or food and clothing.

Liu Xinyu only plans to try again, using the most primitive method to use the most common plants and the remaining alum, to see if she can dye a beautiful color.

Of course, she doesn't know what color she will dye in the end!

Fortunately, even if the color is damaged, these cotton threads will not be wasted, and can be woven into threads worn under cotton jackets.

The method of boiling over fire is still forgotten for the time being.

In the past 20 days of "double robbery", the Liu family has been working at Liu Xinyu's house, and Liu Xinyu has to cook mung bean soup twice a day, and the consumption of firewood is quite large, Liu Xinyu's firewood has long been run out, and the firewood in the Liu family's old house is almost bottoming out.

Although there was an agreement when the engagement was discussed, there was an agreement that the firewood of Liu Xinyu's family would be provided by the Zhang family, but that was only for Liu Xinyu's personal use.

Now from a family of one to a family of nine, of course, this firewood cannot be guaranteed by the Zhang family.

Yesterday, all the late rice seedlings in the team were finally planted, and today the production team specially gave the strong laborers a day off.

Liu Houxing and Liu Qingsong did not rest, and as soon as dawn they pulled Liu Xinjian up from the bed and went into the mountains to collect firewood and chop firewood.

Of course, it was not only the Liu family who went up the mountain to chop firewood and collect firewood, but the four fathers and sons of the Zhang family also went into the mountains to chop firewood.

Originally, Liu Xinyu wanted to follow him into the mountains, but Chen Zhaodi didn't agree, because the weather was too hot, and the more people went, the more water they needed to bring, otherwise it would not be enough to drink.

There was no way, Liu Xinyu had to temporarily suppress the thought of going into the mountain to see.

After Zhang Hongyun asked, she waited for Liu Xinyu's answer, hoping to see the dyeing process with her own eyes.

The last time Liu Xinyu dyed dried pomegranate peel, she was not present, and it was not until she saw a few cotton threads dyed grass yellow hanging under the eaves that she knew that Liu Xinyu had actually dyed the white cotton threads yellow.

After not hearing the answer she wanted for a long time, Zhang Hongyun was a little disappointed: "Aren't these cotton threads dyed?" ”

"Dye, but I'll have to pick some peach leaves first." Liu Xinyu stood up and went to the kitchen to get a bamboo basket, picked up the hat hanging on the wall and put it on, and looked at Liu Xinyao, who was about to move: "Don't go with it, finish today's question well." Xinju, you look at him. ”

Liu Xinyao thought that he could go out with him, but after listening to Liu Xinyu's words, a small face suddenly stepped across, but a pair of big eyes were still staring at Liu Xinyu unwillingly, hoping that Liu Xinyu would be kind.

Liu Xinyu will not be soft-hearted.

The little guy doesn't like to read in the first place, and if you don't put a tight spell on him and sharpen his temperament, it will be even more difficult to correct when he is older.

So he stretched out his finger and pointed to Liu Xinyao in the void, and then pointed to the books on the table, the meaning was very clear, and the attitude was very resolute.

Liu Xinju, who was coaxing the fourth child to eat, nodded again and again: "Sister Xinyu, don't worry, I will take a good look at him!" ”

Liu Xinyu and Zhang Hongyun went out together, and walked east for about five minutes, which was a small fruit forest, and the fruit trees in it were more mixed, of course, there were peach trees.

Of course, there are no peaches anymore, but the leaves are still very lush.

"Yunyun, don't worry about picking leaves on that branch, picking this tender green leaf." Liu Xinyu picked a handful of leaves, spread out his palms and told Zhang Hongyun.

Zhang Hongyun nodded again and again.

Although there are not many peach trees, there are more than a dozen, and it only takes a few minutes for two people to pick a full bamboo basket.

Picking peach leaves is simple, in this era when there is no cooking machine, even the simplest juicer, to beat the leaves into juice, but Liu Xinyu has a lot of brains.

Find a stone mortar in the utility room, pound the leaves little by little, slowly add water to the stone mortar and stir it, and finally find a piece of gauze to filter it to obtain the dyeing solution.

Soak the cotton thread with clean water, then twist the dry water, break up the cotton thread and soak it in the dyeing solution, keep rubbing and turning it when soaking, the dipping time is about ten minutes, twist and scatter it in the alum mordant solution prepared in advance for mordant dyeing.

After dipping, mordant, and then dipping and mordant......

After repeating it several times, the color of the cotton thread gradually met Liu Xinyu's requirements, and finally a basin of water was brought to wash off the floating color, and the white cotton thread was dyed pale cyan.