After the Double Ninth Festival, all the villagers in Dongchen Village peeled cottonseeds at home, including the Jiang family.

Sakura thought about it for a night, sorted out the plot in the book, and found that it focused on the heroine's affairs, and did not describe much of the characters on the edges.

Even his parents and younger brothers, who are tool people, didn't mention a word, let alone Chu Chu and others.

However, the book describes the process of ginning and weaving cotton farmers, saying that they use a kind of chapel ginning machine to deseed the seed cotton, which is very fast, much faster than manually picking up one by one.

It is said that a bookshelf is fixed on the table, and a wooden shaft and an iron shaft are placed horizontally on the upper part of the shelf.

The iron shaft is on top and the wooden shaft is on the bottom. The right side of the wooden shaft is equipped with a crank. A flywheel cross-shaped wooden frame is installed on the left side of the iron shaft.

During the operation, the two axes are rolled together, and the left hand adds the seed cotton into the axle, and the cotton is taken out of the front of the car, and the cotton seed falls behind the car.

Sakura took a charcoal pen and drew the shape of the gin on paper, and some of the details probably meant that, and it was estimated that the carpenter would have to ponder a lot.

"Dad, let's use this to roll out the cottonseeds, it should be faster than picking them up by hand." She handed the drawing to her father.

There is too much cotton at home, and taking cottonseeds is a big project, and their family is all in battle, and it won't take a month or two to complete it.

Jiang Saburo took the picture handed by his daughter, looked at it carefully, and nodded: "I'll ask Wang Ke to try it, if it works, let's do a few more." ”

Now he is the head of the village, and he has to take care of all the big and small things in the village, and cotton ginning is also a big deal.

Because Sun Lizheng urged him vigorously, let him hurry up and sort out all the cottonseeds, part of his own villagers kept the seeds, and the other part was sold to the county government.

It is said that the imperial court valued this batch of cottonseeds very much, and asked the prefectural order to send a batch of cottonseed cotton to Kyoto.

Ying Bao suddenly remembered something and asked, "Dad, why haven't the two looms set by our family and Steward Zhou have arrived yet?" ”

"I asked Steward Zhou, and Zhou Mao said that he would definitely bring it when he came to collect the golden ear this time."

Jiang Saburo often took his wife to the county seat to visit his eldest son, so he had more contact with Zhou Mao.

Sakura nodded.

Her own golden fungus can be harvested in half a month, so she will go to the county seat first, stay there for a few more days, and come back when she has dealt with the shop.

At noon, Jiang Quan loaded several baskets of chestnuts onto the carriage and hung several large gourds on the roof of the carriage.

These gourds are the size of a bathtub and are simply scary to hang on the sides of the carriage.

Erni climbed into the carriage with a bag and sat with her little cousin.

Today, the third uncle asked her to accompany Yingbao to the county seat, and Erni was so happy.

She has grown so big that she has never even been to the county seat once, so she has to go shopping in the county seat for a few days now.

"Bao'er, bring Xiao Hei over, Dacheng said that there is a dog at home that can prevent thieves at night." Chunniang carried Xiao Hei into the carriage and instructed: "Xiao Jie also wants to see Xiao Hei, so he will leave it in the county seat in the future." ”

"Okay." Ying Bao held Xiao Hei in his arms and waved his hand at Chunniang: "A-Niang, I'm leaving." ”

"Be careful on the road."

"Got it."

Jiang Quan whipped the car away and quickly drove away from the village.

Hurried all the way, and finally arrived at the door of the county store before dark.

At this time, the shop was closed, but fortunately, Jiang Quan still had a key in his hand.

Jiang Quan and Erni unloaded the chestnuts and gourds, put everything into the store, closed the door of the store, and led the carriage into the backyard.

The backyard was piled up with bricks and tiles, almost filling the huge yard.

"Where's the big brother?" Erni walked into the thatched hut and didn't see Jiang Cheng, so she couldn't help but ask Jiang Quan: "Does he not live here at night?" ”

"Big brother should go to Plum Blossom Lane." Jiang Cheng slept in the shop on weekdays, probably knowing that the second brother was coming back today, so he went to Meihua Lane.

Jiang Quan lit the oil lamp with a fire fold and said, "You guys will stay here tonight, and then go back to Plum Blossom Lane tomorrow." ”

"Hmm." Erni had no opinion, took the oil lamp and took a look around.

The house is quite neat and clean, with a wooden bed and complete bedding, barely enough for two people to rest.

"Don't people in the county build kang?" Erni asked, "Isn't it cold in winter?" ”

"I don't know, anyway, we don't feel cold if we don't sleep on the kang."

Jiang Quan: "You and Yingbao don't run around in the house, I'll go out and buy something to eat, what do you want to eat?" ”

Ying Bao spoke: "I want to eat osmanthus glutinous rice balls, and I also want to eat donkey meat roasted." ”

Turned his head and asked Erni: "What do you want to eat, let the second brother buy it for you." ”

Erni didn't know what else to eat, so she said, "Just like you." ”

"Okay." Jiang Quan took out three hundred dollars and went out in a frenzy.

The advantage of living in the county is that you can eat a lot of delicious food every day, as long as you have money, you can buy anything.

The little black dog barked at him, as if to say that it was still there.

Ying Bao ran to the door and shouted in the direction where Jiang Quan disappeared: "Second brother, buy something for Xiao Hei to eat." ”

"Got it!" Jiang Quan ran away with a smoke.

Erni sat down on the edge of the bed, touched the edge of the bed, and asked the little cousin, "Yingbao, where are we going to play tomorrow?" ”

Sakura Bao thought for a while: "I'm not going anywhere tomorrow, I'm going to tidy up the shop, and I have to customize something, and I'll take you out to play the day after tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Erni didn't mind.

It's very satisfying to be able to get to the county seat. Besides, she really didn't know what was fun in the county.

After a while, Jiang Quan bought back a lot of delicious food.

There are donkey meat roasted, osmanthus glutinous rice balls, mutton buns, pepper kebabs, and mutton wontons.

Except for the glutinous rice balls and mutton buns, which Erni had eaten, the rest had never seen before.

"Wow! It smells so good! Erni picked up a lamb bun and took a bite.

Jiang Quan brought a few clay bowls, filled them with rice balls and wontons and handed them to his two cousins, while he ate wontons in clay pots.

A bite of pepper kebab and a spoonful of ravioli, not to mention how beautiful.

Ying Bao picked up a bowl of rice balls and ate them, and said to the second cousin, "Where did you buy those fruit baskets from?" I'm going to order a batch of bamboo boxes and pack those preserved fruits. ”

Jiang Quan took a bite of the meat skewer: "I bought it in the hands of a vendor before, and then I saw that the price in the bamboo shop was about the same, so I bought it in the bamboo shop, and Ming'er will take you there." ”

The next day, Jiang Cheng rushed over from Meihua Lane and brought a basket of steamed buns by himself.

Seeing that the second brother spent money to buy food outside, he couldn't help but say to him: "There are rice, noodles and eggs at home, and there are a lot of vegetables planted on the side of the courtyard wall, so you won't make some by yourself?" ”

Jiang Quan muttered: "Isn't it that Yingbao and Erni are here, and I didn't buy much." ”

Jiang Cheng snorted, carried the steamed buns to the stove room to cook porridge, and Erni hurriedly went to help light the fire.

After eating, Jiang Cheng guarded the shop, and Jiang Quan took his two cousins to the bamboo shop to order a bamboo box.

Sakura Bao took a fancy to a fine bamboo box the size of a book, so that the bamboo craftsman could make it bigger and bring a delicate lid.

"If you make it up according to your requirements, it won't be cost-effective to have a Bawen." The master craftsman said.

Sakura: "How much do you want?" ”

Craftsman: "If you don't say anything, you have to write twenty-five wen each." ”

"It's too expensive." Ying Bao said seriously: "My family has to be customized into hundreds, and it is a long-term subscription. Your price is outrageous, forget it, I'd better go and have a look elsewhere. There is more than one bamboo shop in the county. ”

Then turn around and leave.

Erni and Jiang Quan followed.