Chapter 218: A chance encounter on the street
Although Steward Yue repeatedly shirked, Ye Hao still stuffed the silver ticket to him.
After the renovation of the weaving workshop, she only needs to urge the craftsmen to make enough weaving mechanisms as soon as possible.
However, since it is a cloth workshop, you have to prepare the next batch of cloth first, otherwise it will be embarrassing to have nothing to sell after opening?
Fortunately, she had already taken this into account and asked Fu Ru'an to purchase a batch of silk from Jiangnan in advance, and as for the jute needed for linen, it could be purchased locally.
At present, the weavers on the other side of the new house are practicing how to use it, and listening to Li and Aunt Liu, almost all of them are already operating normally.
As soon as the silk arrives, everyone can start weaving.
Now everyone is using linen as a practice, not to mention anything else, at least the linen has saved a good batch, just waiting for the backyard of the weaving workshop to start, and can carry out operations such as dyeing cloth.
As for the embroidery girls, before they had any work, Ye Hao asked the Li family to organize them to use their ideas and paint some of the beautiful ornaments they wanted.
If you are selected, you can also get a bounty.
This is what modern design fees are called, and Ye Hao is not stingy with them.
It's just that the embroiderers who were born in peasant families have never mentioned a pen, and few people can draw.
As soon as this problem appeared, Ye Hao thought that she was not good at drawing before, so she asked Xie Yunshu to write for herself.
It must have been impossible to send Xie Yunshu to do this work in the past, but she was able to hire some painters who could draw.
Considering that the new house is all women, Ye Hao asked Lin Bin to keep an eye on when looking for a painter and try to choose women.
It's just that the women of this era don't show up to work, and they haven't been looking for a suitable painter, and now they can only let the girls who are from a decent background in the embroidery girl barely support it.
This is a real problem.
Now everyone is still restrained, there are not many people, and there are quite few ideas that come up with them. Yes, Ye Zhen will definitely expand her recruitment, so these girls will not be used.
For the sake of the safety of the girls, Ye Hao will definitely not lower her requirements and let the male painter enter the room.
After coming out of the weaving workshop, Ye Hao first went back and stayed in the craftsmen's yard for a while, and then left the house to rush to the new house.
The equipment of the new house is actually not much different from the old house, and the daily necessities on both sides are arranged by Lin Bin, except for the newness and grandeur of the house, it is the same in terms of life.
In order to facilitate the weavers to learn the improved version of the loom, Ye Hao first saved a batch of cloth, and Ye Hao also bought a small courtyard next to the house.
Although the alley where the house is located is very close to North Street, it is not noisy, and most of the residents in the whole alley are some large families with some local assets.
Although it is not a *** aristocracy, it is much more prosperous than ordinary people, so it will not be messy.
The courtyard that Ye Hao bought later was next door to the new house, and the yard was not big, just two wings.
After buying it, she found someone to knock down the wall between the two courtyards and connect them directly.
In this way, the girls are free to go to the next door to weave without having to go out.
The two wings of the small courtyard were converted into weaving rooms and embroidery rooms respectively, both of which were temporarily arranged.
However, this is a relatively small area, and even the improved version of the loom can only fit a maximum of four. So the old loom that was transported before was directly abandoned and left in the yard and left unattended.
The two looms sent from the palace were sought after by the girls, and the rotation of personnel had to be stipulated every day, otherwise everyone would want to operate them by themselves, and it would be a mess.
At present, the weavers are full of twenty people, and under the guidance of Li and Aunt Liu, they can all use the loom to work alone.
It's just that the number of looms is limited, and each person can only use them for a short time a day, and everyone is reluctant.
On the contrary, the atmosphere of the embroidery room next door is much more harmonious, after all, they have not worked at the moment, so they can only use their imagination to study some beautiful and delicate patterns.
After several days of research, I really handed in a batch of patterns that Ye Hao liked quite a lot.
It's just that she knows that she is a modern person's thinking, and there is still a gap between her and the ancients, and she can't use her own preferences as the standard....
And the Li family and Aunt Liu are ordinary people, and they don't know the preferences of *** nobles.
Coming out of the house with the pattern sketch, Ye Hao sighed silently, feeling that it was difficult to dismantle it.
There are either no high-level people around him, or the people around him, Lin Bin and Xie Yunshu, who used to be admirable existences.
But they're men!
Even if it is in the palace of Cheng'an, there is not even a hostess, where can she find a noble lady to investigate?
On the way back, she thought about it for a while, except for Zhao Yunqing, who was fighting with her right now, there seemed to be no nobles?
She suddenly remembered that on Zhao Yi's birthday, there was an official's daughter who spoke for herself.
The other party seems to be from the capital, she should know a little, right?
It's just a pity that I was busy scheming with Zhao Yunqing at that time, and I forgot to get to know the girl.
No matter how you say it, the other party also helped himself speak twice, and this kindness is on the surface.
Ye Hao didn't expect that the person she was thinking about was also thinking about her right now.
The father and daughter of the Wei family, who lived in the post station, were a little anxious and helpless in their hearts for the past two days.
This time, in order to participate in the birthday banquet of the prince of Cheng'an, Wei Zhangke took a half-month vacation.
That is to say, his official position as a scholar is really idle, and he fishes in troubled waters on weekdays, and he has nothing serious to do, so he invited him down during this holiday.
Now that the Fan family is dominant in the capital, Wei Zhang's real power is not real power, and there is no backing force, so he will never be noticed.
Even if he came to Lingnan, the others were just desperate.
After the banquet was dispersed, Wei Zhang did not rush back to the capital, but continued to stay in the post station, thinking of contacting King Cheng'an.
Lingnan is far away from the capital, and he finally had the opportunity to make this trip, and he can't waste it in vain.
"Didn't you swear before that if you helped that lady, you would definitely be favored by King Cheng'an? Now that my father's post has been sent to Cheng'an Wangfu several times, I don't even have a chance to enter the door!"
Seeing his daughter, Wei Zhang couldn't help but complain.
Zhao Yunqing didn't go back, he also knew about it, of course, he was a little worried about whether he would offend the Ruixian Mansion because of his daughter speaking for Ye Hao at the banquet.
In addition, King Cheng'an's reaction to him has always been extremely flat, and his goal has not yet been achieved, so he is inevitably anxious.
Wei Hange was silent and did not speak.
She believed in her own judgment, and the importance of that son and stepmother to the Cheng'an Mansion must be extraordinary.
It's just that maybe I didn't let the other party remember it when I spoke at the beginning of the day.
Silently sighed in her heart, she knew that her father brought her here this time to allow herself to marry into the palace and pave the way for the family to move to Lingnan.
But, let's not talk about whether I want to marry or not, can King Cheng'an really look down on the daughter of a little five-grade official?
Even if she is just a side concubine, Wei Hange knows very well in her heart that she is far from qualified in terms of talent, appearance, and status.
Among the official ladies of the same class in the capital, she may be regarded as a leader, and she can show her hands on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
But if you compare it further, it's far worse.
Wei Hange felt a little bitter in his heart, he worked hard, why did he still not meet expectations?
was upset, and she didn't want to continue to listen to her father's complaints, so she went out with her personal maid.
Ye Hao sat on the carriage and was rushing to the palace, still wondering where to find the woman who knew the goods.
Looking at the drawings in her hand, she suddenly stopped the coachman.
"Let's go visit the other cloth mills in the city first."
Taking Lin Bin out of the carriage, she walked along the street.
Since there is no one who can provide advice, it is better to go to other cloth workshops to learn from the field on your own.
Even if you can't figure out the direction of the wind in the capital or Jiangnan, at least the aesthetics and preferences of this part of Lingnan can be seen.
Ye Hao didn't think about becoming fat in one bite, she must have to open up the market from Lingnan first, step by step.
The place where she got off the carriage happened to be the North Street she was more familiar with, and with Lin Bin by her side, her safety was guaranteed, so she was much more relieved to go shopping this time.
In addition to shopping around the cloth shop on the street, if she encounters any interesting gadgets, she will also buy some and prepare to go back to Zhao Yi.
Since returning to the Cheng'an Palace, this child seems to have no freedom, learning literature in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon. The rest of the time was almost in the palace, and he couldn't leave even half a step.
This kind of life is the daily life of children in this era, but in Ye Hao's view, such a childhood is still incomplete.
But she can't change anything, after all, the other party's father is a prince, and the responsibilities he has taken since he was a child are not ordinary, and he can't be as free and happy as ordinary children.
Therefore, Ye Hao could only give him as many surprises as possible in these details.
The things he bought were all thrown to Lin Bin to carry, but Ye Hao herself was relaxed and stopped.
As she stopped in front of a stall and picked out the clay figurines on it, a voice with a sense of surprise sounded.
"Mrs. Fu?!"
Seeing the veiled woman in front of him, Wei Hange was stunned, and he couldn't wait to wipe his eyes, wanting to see if he was wrong.
I just went out for a trip, I want to relax, and I can also meet the son and mother?!
Although Ye Hao's dress today was only completely different from that day's banquet, it was very simple and ordinary, and she didn't look like a person of high status.
But Wei Hange was very impressed with her, and she could recognize the other party just by showing half of her face outside.
When someone called Mrs. Fu, she didn't react at the first moment, after all, except for someone at the banquet, few people would call her that on weekdays.
When a familiar figure walked in front of her, she realized that it was coming for her.
Handing over the money of the clay figurine to the stall owner, Ye Hao raised her head slightly, and when she saw the other party's face, she was also shocked.
Who do you want to see?
Before she came back to her senses, Wei Hange on the other side smiled lightly and greeted her.
"Mrs. Fu, I didn't expect to meet you on the street."
This is a surprise for Wei Hange.
However, she was also a little uncertain in her heart, and she didn't know if the other party still remembered who she was.
And Ye Hao, who reacted, was also full of joy, and responded with a smile:
"If you have nothing to do today, you will go to the street for a walk, haven't you returned to the capital yet?"
She thought that the other party had already left, so she dispelled the idea of looking for someone.
After all, it takes a lot of time for officials to come and go from the capital, and the officials have to go to work.
"The little girl liked the scenery of Lingnan quite much, so she stayed for a few more days."