Wear to the Ming Dynasty to farm

In Qian's house, the looms were ringing one after another, and Qian's mother looked at one woman's loom for a while, and another woman's loom for a while.She did the important things by herself. Although the skills of the six women in weaving the linen clothes were uneven, after Qian's mother's appraisal and cutting, the quality of the linen clothes woven passed the standard. Everyone said that they were better than the clothes in the tailor shop. .

At the same time, Qiao Jiwei and Qian Dayong were preparing various dyes.The dyes produced by mashing various plants are different. For example, indigo can be used to make blue or cyan dyes, and weed grass can be crushed to make yellow dyes. Safflower madder contains a lot of red pigments, and perilla is naturally the raw material for purple dyes.

Qiao Jiwei bought aqua regia from a craftsman and dug some alkaline soil from the saline-alkali soil.He prepared the enzyme dye according to the ratio. The technique of adjusting the enzyme dye seemed simple, but it took a whole day to adjust it. After all, there was no technology to identify acidity and alkalinity at this time.

When everything is ready, more than a dozen pieces of clothes here have also been woven.Qian Dayong put the sackcloth into the dye and boiled it on the fire.Cook halfway before adding the enzyme stain.Various dyes need to be added in different amounts of enzyme dyes, and the cooking time is also different. If the heating time is long, some dyes are easy to fade.

After several failed experiences, Qian Dayong and Qiao Jiwei basically mastered the way of dyeing linen clothes, and some of the linen clothes were dyed very well.

Qian Dayong and Qiao Jiwei then went to the county again to buy threads of various colors.After buying silk thread, some women competed to watch at the entrance of the village.There are yellow, purple, orange, green, red in the silk thread... In short, there are all kinds of colors, and women can see them freshly for a while.

Although the women piled up next to the bullock cart knew that these were Qiao Jiwei's ideas, they were not used to greeting Qiao Jiwei, so they asked Qian Dayong together: "Dayong, what do you do with these threads?"

"Weaving clothes." Qiao Jiwei replied.

Qiao Jiwei specially finds girls with [-] flower tins to weave linen clothes. They can weave any pattern of landscapes, flowers, plants, birds and animals, but they are not allowed to repeat the same pattern.At this time, the young girl's heart sprouted, she was full of fantasy, and she was taught by her mother's heart. The patterns she wove must be very beautiful.

After weaving a piece of clothing, Qiao Jiwei gave them twenty cents, but even so, there were only four girls of this age in the village.It was Qian Dayong who went door-to-door looking for this. The parents of these girls didn't want their daughters to work in a bachelor's house. Qiao Jiwei was so sensible to them that his words were almost worn out.

But embroidery is a delicate job, and four people are far from enough.For a whole day, the four girls didn't have a single piece of clothing tattooed, and their faces were dripping with sweat.At this rate, I am afraid that the weather will turn cold before the linen clothes are sold.

Cuihua often heard the sound of locomotives in her yard, and she couldn't help but want to weave some clothes to earn some copper coins.She saw four little girls struggling to embroider the linen clothes outside Qian's house, so she thought that she would also embroider the linen clothes with the four girls.

Although she is past this age, she still has confidence in her embroidery skills.Qiao Jiwei happened to pass by the courtyard, and Cuihua hurriedly reached out to stop him.Glancing at Qiao Jiwei, he pointed to the four little girls in sackcloth, "Ji Wei, I want to embroider these sackcloth."

Cuihua looked at Qiao Jiwei with the same expression as that of ordinary neighbors, and there was a hint of boldness in the calmness.Obviously he had let go of what happened that day, and didn't want to pester him. Qiao Jiwei thought of what happened that day, but felt a little ashamed in his heart, regretting that he didn't comfort her afterwards. These people have been focusing on business and forgot about it , He couldn't help but look at this woman differently. In his impression, women in ancient times were the kind of people who were used to swallowing their anger, were soft and could not withstand the blow of a bad reputation, and would not easily express their inner thoughts.Cuihua is obviously an exception.

"Okay, that's what I'm looking for!"

With the addition of Cuihua, the progress of sewing linen clothes has been significantly accelerated.If the four little girls don't understand anything, they can ask the eldest sister.Although Cuihua is domineering in front of men, she is gentle towards her younger sisters and willing to teach them.Soon Cuihua went to a neighboring village to find two girls who were about the same age as herself, and the process of embroidering linen clothes was further accelerated.

After accumulating more than a dozen pieces of sackcloth, Qiao Jiwei and Qian Dayong drove the bulls on the road.These dozens of linen clothes are of different colors, half of them are for men, and more than half are for women.

In front of the stall, Qiao Jiwei and Qian Dayong took each side, while Qian Dayong's aunt was washing a dyed linen dress in front of the stall.Qiao Jiwei just wanted to be honest and let the people on the street see the dyeing effect of dyed linen.

People on the street looked at the stall from time to time, and saw that the linen was woven with fine lines, which was comparable to or even better than the linen in the tailor shop on the street.Moreover, these linen clothes were also dyed with various colors, and embroidered with various patterns of flowers, insects, birds and animals. Although the things embroidered on them were a bit rustic, they were really beautiful.Look at the sackcloth that was washed. Although the water in the basin is also colored, it is very shallow.

They all know that sackcloth is not easy to stain and fades when washed.They didn't expect to have dyed linen clothes. It was the first time they had seen this kind of craft, so they couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Brother, how much is this sackcloth?"

When the man looked up, he couldn't help being slightly surprised. Aren't these the two who sold mashed potatoes that day?He also bought two bowls of mashed potatoes from here that day.He didn't come to the county for the past two days, so he thought that these two people had moved to another place.Why are they selling sackcloth again now?

Qiao Jiwei smiled at the man and replied, "Two hundred Wen."

Hearing the price, some people who wanted to buy this kind of linen clothes were discouraged.The most expensive clothes in the clothing store are only 150 Wen, and just such a piece of clothing costs [-] Wen?These people thought about not being cheated, and then wandered to other stalls.

My aunt washed the clothes, found a clothes rail to hang the clothes, and then returned to her house.

The sun rose higher and higher, and Qian Dayong's forehead was covered with sweat.He bought a fan just now, but he didn't fan it himself, so he gave it to Qiao Jiwei.People on the street went to the stalls one after another to admire the dyed sackcloth, but no one paid for it.Qiao Jiwei looked at the clothes of these people and guessed that they were ordinary civilians, and they didn't seem to be able to afford such clothes.

Seeing that no one bought the linen clothes for a long time, Qian Dayong felt a little anxious, so he quietly said to Qiao Jiwei: "Why don't you lower the price?"

Qiao Jiwei shook his head.Qiao Jiwei was a businessman in his previous life, and he is well versed in business in this life.He is taking the route of luxury goods, and the hemp clothes are durable and well dyed, plus labor costs, the price cannot be lowered no matter what. "It can't be surrendered. Our sackcloth is in good condition, so I don't believe that no one will buy it."

Soon there was a young man who bought a women's sackcloth, which was embroidered with lotus flowers, which was fresh and refined.This person looks to be the same age as Qian Dayong, but in fact he is two years younger than Qian Dayong.This man just got married the day before yesterday and was about to please his wife.

Later, a few people came to buy linen clothes, but after all, they still saw more and bought less.

I don't know when the sun is already westward, and it's time to go.The sackcloth is still not sold out.Among them were four men's sackcloths and one women's sackcloth.Qiao Jiwei specially left this for Qian Dayong's aunt.The sackcloth was dyed green at the time, with a few orchids embroidered on the back, not very showy, just right for a woman of Qian Dayong's aunt's age.

When Qian Dayong's aunt saw the sackcloth Qiao Jiwei had left for her, her face was beaming with joy and she smiled brightly.But I don't know how to praise Qiao Jiwei, say that he is a nephew and daughter-in-law, but it is a pity that he has the same handle as Qian Dayong, and say that he is Qian Dayong's brother, but in fact he is not related by blood.Qian Dayong's aunt felt that there was nothing to give away. It happened that a businessman friend of her husband sent six piglets a few days ago, and she couldn't raise so many piglets herself, so she gave Qian Dayong four.

The other four pieces of sackcloth Qiao Jiwei specifically confessed that the price could not be reduced, and then drove out of the city with Qian Dayong in an ox cart.

The two returned to the village at dusk, and the weavers were all looking forward to it at Qian's house.After all, these sackcloths were woven by them.Seeing that there was not a single sackcloth left in the car, and there were four more piglets, smiles appeared on their faces.

They were still not used to talking to Qiao Jiwei, so they raised their heads and smiled at Qian Dayong: "Dayong, have all those clothes been sold?"

"There are four left."

"Where did this little piggy come from?"

"My aunt gave it to me."

Everyone was stunned, the word "Gu" was a taboo of Qian's mother, these years, the aunt and sister-in-law were at odds with each other, and they seldom moved around.After all, they are now under the leadership of Qian's mother, and if they make Qian's mother unhappy, they will definitely feel bad too.So the women stopped talking about the little piglets, Changgui's daughter-in-law was clever, she changed the topic directly, and turned the question to the price of the sackcloth, or asked Qian Dayong which sackcloth to sell first.

"Hey, I wove that lotus sackcloth!" Changgui's daughter-in-law laughed sharply.

Some women were not convinced: "It's still embroidered by my girl."

There were so many piglets in the family suddenly, and the Qian family had nowhere to raise them.Then put them in the yard.The piggies are easy to feed. Qiao Jiwei feeds them corn or vegetable leaves for three meals a day. The four piggies still eat with gusto, but they eat a little too much.