The items used by the royal family, every detail must be done to the extreme, let the embroidery girls in the town to do it is definitely not good, it must be embroidered by Mama Li, the royal embroidery lady of the palace, in order to make the most perfect gift.

She carefully explained her requirements, took out a few drawings, and explained them to Mama Li in detail, and the details were also emphasized.

This matter is related to the royal family, Mama Li did not dare to be sloppy, and carefully wrote down every word of Gu Qing.

"Okay, the slaves and maids know." She looked serious, "The slave must be able to do this beautifully."

"Then it's hard Mama Li." Gu Qing smiled and said, "If you need something, you just ask."

While the two were talking, a rain came down.

As the saying goes, an autumn rain is cool, and after this rain is over, the summer will really pass.

Fortunately, the cotton in the field has been almost harvested, otherwise it would be sad when it rains.

Her family's warehouse was so full of sun-dried cotton that it couldn't fit enough, and some of it was transported to her new weaving mill for storage.

At present, it is estimated that there are at least more than 50,000 catties, and some more will be collected sporadically in the future, and the final figure should be 60,000 or 70,000 catties, which is a huge number.

As soon as it rained, the people in the village were idle, and Gu Qing called the women in the village to the weaving workshop, and she wanted to teach everyone how to play the quilt.

A while ago, Gu Qing asked Old Man Gu to help make a simple tool for playing cotton.

A large slingshot made of cedar wood and a small hammer are the two most basic tools.

Yang Pei was in charge of the demonstration, he tied a sturdy strap around his waist, tied a bamboo stick behind his waist, about two and a half feet above his head, and then hung the slingshot on the top of the bamboo stick, so that the bamboo stick would bend forward, just enough to play cotton.

He holds a slingshot in his left hand and a small hammer in his right, and when he hits the slingshot with the hammer, he can make the cotton bullet soft.

However, before that, the sun-dried cotton needs to be neatly spread on a large table with a length and width of two meters, and the cotton flowers are manually torn into cotton wool, which will make the quilt more soft.

The beds of the people in the village are generally about 1.8 meters wide, and it is almost the same to make a quilt that is two meters wide and 2 meters long.

If you are making a quilt for heavy snow in winter, the double is about eight catties, and if it is an autumn quilt, three or four catties is enough, it all depends on personal choice.

After Gu Qing's introduction, Yang Pei finally started his official work.

The wooden hammer struck, vibrating the bowstring, the bowstring flickered left and right, up and down on the soft cotton, and the cotton bounced up, and the flocculent cotton was reassembled, and the strings sounded, and the flying flowers were flickered in the room, and it didn't take long for the cotton to finally finish.

"This cotton bullet is very good." Gu Qing's eyes were full of approval, "It's very fluffy, it's very comfortable, it must be very warm to cover in winter, and then you need to press these elastic cotton neatly to make it a qualified quilt."

Yang Pei changed the tool, held a round dustpan in his hand, the bottom of the dustpan is flat, and took this thing to press all the cotton, and after pressing it neatly, it is necessary to use cotton mesh thread to fix the cotton, and two people need to cooperate here.

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One person pulls with a slice and one person holds the cotton thread to fix the thread on the cotton, this step is meticulous work, and it takes four times to fix it completely.

In the last step, the quilt is flattened again, the corners are smoothed with a wooden circular grinding disc, and a thick quilt is made by placing it in the quilt cover.

The onlookers were stunned.

"Oh my God, if I hadn't come here to study today, I would have thought I would just have to stuff cotton into a quilt."

"In this way, the quilt will be very strong, and the cotton in it will not run around, and it will not be awakened by freezing at night."

"We used to stuff reed catkins in the quilt, and we all sewed the quilt into small grids, stuffing some into one grid, and then after a winter passed, the things in each grid became a lump, and it was troublesome, and it was not warm."

"County Lord, what is your brain, why is it so powerful, I will plant whatever your family grows in the future."

"By the way, it seems that the county lord planted a hundred acres of stuff a few months ago, saying that it was a chili pepper?"

"There are still seeds, no, my family just has two points of land......

The span of the women's chat has always been very large, just now they were still talking about the quilt, and then they started to talk about planting peppers, the countryside would have borrowed seeds from each other, this thing is very cheap in the mall, Gu Qing will not be reluctant, and give it to each family.

It's just that it's already autumn, and we can only wait until next year to plant it.

The women in the village pressed this matter for the time being, and began to prepare to play cotton, because the tools were simple, and it didn't seem to be very difficult to do, so they went back one by one to make their own tools, and if there was anything they didn't understand, they all came to ask Yang Pei, Yang Pei did not hesitate to share his experience and teach everyone seriously.

But how to say it, the tool is simple to do, and the process of playing is actually a test of technology, otherwise how can someone say that half a catty of cotton is bounced into eight or two, not that the catty is increased, but visually it feels fluffy and soft, so that the real play is successful, and in the end, there are only three or four women and men in the village who have learned.

The women, who had not had time to learn, saw that it was so difficult, so they gave up and decided to pay for the people who had learned to help them play cotton.

In this way, a new profession was born in the village - cotton emerator.

While the people in the village were playing cotton, Gu Qing and Mama Zhang decided on the style of cotton clothes, and made autumn and winter underwear.

The ladies and ladies of this era were accustomed to wearing satin clothes, and there was a certain risk in making cotton jackets and capes before they accepted cotton.

But if it is made into a lining, it has a great advantage, because the silk is not skin-friendly, and does not gather heat, in the cold winter, wearing cotton underwear close to the body, comfortable and warm, I believe it is easy to accept.

At present, the market in Nanzhou Province is so big, Gu Qing plans to take 10,000 catties of cotton to make clothes, and all the remaining cotton will be used to make quilts and cotton jackets.

Last year, I don't know how many people froze to death in the snow disaster, and she has palpitations, hoping to help the people at the bottom survive the cold winter with her meager strength.

She decided to make two specifications of quilts, four catties of quilts and six catties of quilts, and make more winter clothes, the price will not exceed 200 yuan, this part is not to make money, but to "reach and help the world".

"County Lord, this price is too low." Mama Li exclaimed, "The town also sells silk quilts, a one-pound quilt is at least two taels of silver, this quilt is no worse than a silk quilt, even if it is sold for three or four taels of silver, there are many people rushing to ask for it."

Gu Qing shook her head: "Mama Li knows how much this quilt costs, more than 100 acres of land, more than 10 people,

The output is more than 60,000 catties, and the cost of all aspects is calculated, and it does not exceed 100 taels of silver, and even if I make all the quilts and sell them, I can earn close to 10,000 taels of silver.

Not to mention, some of them are made into underwear, and when they add up, this cotton field can bring me 20,000 taels of silver.

Nine days to catch the rabbit