The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

Behind the door was an empty room, Lou Hua signaled everyone to take off their cloaks, warmed their bodies by the fire, and then lifted the heavy curtains.Ruoda’s room behind the curtain is neatly and orderly filled with wooden frames, on which are layers of bamboo mats used to hold silkworms.It was cold and there were no silkworms, so Lou Hua introduced a few words and then led the group to continue inside.The house rebuilt according to the modern factory, from the classification of silkworm cocoon quality to specification, a series of assembly line projects to the final statistics, quality specification and then affixed a seal and sent to another room for spinning to make raw silk.

The division of labor is clear and orderly, each checkpoint has data as evidence, and there will never be data confusion.

Pei Sheng smiled: "It's convenient to check the account."

Eunuch Fei remained silent, a meaningful smile flashed across his face.

The pure and flawless raw silk is sent to another room for dyeing, unlike ordinary people who weave and then dye the cloth, which is dyed one by one. The dyed color is bright, bright, well-proportioned and smooth.

"Isn't it easy to cause uneven color after dyeing first and then weaving?" Unless the color is deliberately made uneven to match the embroidery pattern, the rest of the silk should pursue uniform color.

"These silks are not woven into cloth in the usual way, but into brocade."

"Brocade?" Pei Sheng raised his eyebrows.Before the Yuan Dynasty, there were brocades, but the colors were monotonous and the pictures and texts were monotonous and it took a long time to be favored by dignitaries. Finally, they were forced out of the stage of history by more and more exquisite embroidery techniques.

Lou Hua naturally knew that Brocade had been defeated, so he didn't speak eloquently, and led the group through the corridor to another locked room.There were two locks on the door, Lou Hua and Lou Ming took out the key wrapped around his hand to open it, and then pushed open the heavy door.

The room is empty, and four skylights are purposely raised high. The skylights are made of glazed tiles. Afterwards, several strange huge bronze mirrors are fixed in every corner. In the middle of the room are four large looms that are more than ten feet high. The cabinets divided into small compartments under the glazed windows on the wall are stacked with silk threads of various colors that have been dyed before, and each silk thread has a code number to mark the color number.

Lou Hua clapped his hands, and immediately a servant went to the bronze mirror to adjust the angle, and the light cast by the glass skylight was reflected and magnified by several copper mirrors, and finally cast to the four looms respectively.Another eight young nugeers lined up to salute the crowd, and then four of them climbed onto the weaving frame, and the other four sat in front of the weaving frame, followed Lou Hua's 'start', and bowed their heads to start weaving.

There are already half-woven brocades on the four looms, and the graceful and majestic patterns are woven out of bright and bright colored silk, showing off dazzling and lifelike, as if by magic, and those who can't help but want to touch them immediately.

"Sir Xu, stop!" Lou Hua hurriedly stopped, bowed his hands and said, "We need to concentrate our mind, hands, and eyes together, the slightest mistake may cause the brocade to fail, so I ask Master Xu to just look at it."

Master Xu, who was stopped, withdrew his hand with lingering fear on his face, and the rest of them who wanted to touch immediately calmed down and took a step back.

After dismissing those who want to get started, Lou Hua then introduced the operating principle of the large loom, of course it is an introductory version, but this introductory version is also confusing.

Pei Sheng, who didn't understand, asked the result directly: "How long does it take to weave one?"

"Two weavers work together to weave for four hours a day. Those with complicated colors, such as this one," Lou Hua pointed to the pattern in front of him and said, "There are more than twenty kinds of colors, and the medicine spoon There are 27 flowers and 61 lining leaves, and it takes one year and one month to weave one. If the colors, medicine spoons, and lining leaves are all reduced by half, one can be woven in eleven months."

Hearing this, Pei Sheng was also tongue-in-cheek: "In this case, an inch of cloth and an inch of gold can't be overstated."

"Why don't we extend the weaving time?" It's a pity that such a beautiful and luxurious brocade can only be produced once a year.

"The reason why only four hours are arranged is that one is to make the weavers full of energy and can concentrate on the work at hand, the other is because of the light problem, and the third is to protect the eyes and hands of the weavers. Every weaver must It requires heart, hands and eyes to concentrate on brocade, and long-term high concentration will definitely cause damage. Only by combining work and rest with relaxation and relaxation can the weaver work wholeheartedly. If not, the weaver will make mistakes. The brocade weaving time will come to an end in ten years." It is not easy to train a weaver. The daily squeeze can only weave for ten years and the reasonable operation time can last for two to thirty years. A fool knows to choose the latter.

After the introduction of the loom, Lou Hua led the crowd to the side, and Lou Yuzhu and Lou Ming unwrapped the woven moiré brocade for the crowd to appreciate.

Seeing the amazed people who want to touch but dare not touch, Lou Yuzhu smiled and said: "My lords, you can touch it with your hands. The biggest difference between brocade and embroidery is that brocade has no needle corners, and the arrangement is tight, so it won't snag easily. Collapse the line."

Hearing this, Pei Sheng and Eunuch Fei touched it with their hands, and even the well-informed and well-informed two had no choice but to boast about their extraordinary workmanship.

From that compartment, four nugeers brought four brocade boxes, and inside the brocade boxes were four bolts of brocade with different patterns.Lou Hua said: "Here are four bolts of brocade and four weavers, please trouble Eunuch Fei to present to the emperor." It's not that they are stingy, the total finished product is only five bolts, one was opened for people to appreciate before, only four bolts are left.Then he handed out the iron box in his hand: "Here are the patterns and weaving methods of the loom, and please also please Eunuch Fei to present it to the emperor."

The loom and weaving method need not be thought about, and it takes a lot of money from research and development to production, and then it is a hen that only lays golden eggs!Such a valuable thing will be paid tribute if it is said to be tribute?Don't they want to do this business to make money?

"To tell you the truth, Eunuch Fei, after developing this method, we never thought about doing brocade business."

The matter of brocade weaving was started by Lou Yuzhu, who guided the craftsmen to make it with the method in the documentary that he had seen. It is the result of a family discussion not to do this business.One is that brocade weaving is indeed too complicated and wastes life and money. Making money from it is profitable, but it is too eye-catching, which is not in line with the reputation of "Gongde Loujia"; second, no one will inherit it.Lou Chengyi's husband and wife are not expected to be in business, Lou Hua will definitely become an official, even if Lou Ming doesn't take an official career, he probably won't be able to play with these things, it's appropriate for Lou Chen to worship Mu Lao's family and go on an official career, and the rest of Lou Yuzhu is a brother I will always get married in the future, so I can't take care of my family's business for the rest of my life, can I?

"Business with raw silk is enough." A profit of tens of thousands of taels a year is enough for Sanfang.

It is said that those who don't know the consideration of Sanfang only think that they understand righteousness and don't want to be rich.

Eunuch Fei looked at Lou Hua deeply, and said with a smile: "Governor Lou has really created a problem for the emperor. With only four pieces of brocade, how can there be enough for so many princes in the palace?" After speaking, he blinked and said: "Fortunately, this is something the emperor should worry about. Our family just delivers it."

Eunuch Fei has served the emperor with great affection since he was a child. It doesn't matter if he says a few funny words, but others dare not answer them.

Lou Hua saluted with both hands: "Please trouble Eunuch Fei."

Eunuch Fei waved his hand to show that it was all right.

Afterwards, the group visited at random, went down the mountain and had a sumptuous lunch. Those who were not qualified enough got two bolts of high-quality silk as gifts and headed back home. Shengyi and others took a boat from Linnan Bay to Beijing.

In the parting speech, Pei Sheng looked at Lou Yuzhu with complicated eyes and said, "Guanying is engaged to be the first son of Xiaoguo's mansion, and we will get married in October next year." I don't want to misread a building family in middle age, let alone a villager's family with such good luck, the emperor bestows merit and virtue on the building plate is remembered by the emperor.He was also appointed by the emperor as the son of Jingyang Hou because of his meritorious deeds. When he left the house, what his father said probably meant that he would ask to resign from the throne. By then, he would be the new Jingyang Hou, and Pei Guanying was his only legitimate son. , the name of the son of the world will fall on him.

"Second brother should have gotten married a long time ago," Lou Yuzhu smiled, pretending not to understand the strangeness in the other party's eyes, and said, "It's just that the journey is far away, so I won't join in the fun." Seeing each other is worse than seeing each other, until the knowledge grows and the experience deepens Today's young Aimu will fade away, leaving only a wisp of lingering warmth or a wisp of lingering warmth.

Not only Pei Sheng regretted it, but also Li Zhifu and others.Looking at the different Lou family today, he said with regret: "An ordinary farmer's family has such a good luck. The emperor doesn't remember that there is Li Zhifu in Nanyang Prefecture, but he must remember that there is Lou Chengyi in Yanjia Village." After finishing speaking, he sighed. : "If I knew it earlier, I would be more than enough to match you, let alone my second child."

Li Yue also smiled wryly.The ridiculous thing is that they guessed that the other party was greedy for wealth and clinging to the powerful, but they didn't think that the other party didn't need to cling to them at all. The feeling of meeting people. "...Fortunately, the friendship is still there."

Yes, but it is certain that there are cracks in the relationship between the two Oolong families before.It's a pity that time can't be turned back. The cracks already exist, so I look forward to repairing them slowly in the future.

"The second child is married, let him come over and deliver the post in person, and then let your father apologize to Brother Lou."

"...Yes, father."

After the [-]th day of the Lantern Festival, the number of people who came to pay their respects gradually stopped. On this day, Lou Hua went to the old house to ask the old man about the matter of the Liu family's concubine replacing his first brother.

Old Man Lou looked at Lou Hua, who was full of energy and dressed in fine clothes, with cloudy eyes, and when he thought of Lou Wen who was in a trance, he felt sore.The big house he was looking at did nothing, but the third house he abandoned was thriving and he was awarded a merit card by the emperor himself, attracting everyone from the magistrate to the county magistrate to worship in official uniforms. good talk.The eldest grandson who was brought up from a young age failed in the examination, but the second grandson, who was studying halfway, bravely advanced in the examination, and was granted the rank of nine-rank magistrate by the emperor.The stark contrast between the two sides made Mr. Lou wonder, what went wrong?

Lou Hua woke up the wandering Mr. Lou, and asked again: "What do you mean by grandpa?"

"That's all," Mr. Lou sighed: "It's been decades, so what can we pursue if we pursue it?" Both of them have four children, and their grandsons are about to get married. Do you abandon the old man's joke?

Mr. Lou was not in the mood to investigate, but Lou Hua was. The first to bear the brunt was the cousin who had dirty thoughts about Lou Yuzhu. It was only after this question that he realized that someone had already dealt with it.The cousin who was locked in the big cell was beaten three times a day, and the cousin was also thrown into the big cell after being beaten with a board, and his leg was broken and disabled. As for Jing, he was locked up. After only a few days in prison, I became a little mentally disturbed.

Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows when she heard the news.It has only been more than a month since the three good people have been locked up, and they are crazy, crazy, and useless. How bad is the idea to make this happen?And the three of them are relatives, making him believe that this is a coincidence?hehe.

"I didn't expect you to be so bad." Xun Zhoucheng studied in silence for a long time, and Lou Yuzhu commented.

Zhou Cheng, who was checking the accounts, stopped what he was doing, looked up at Lou Yuzhu studying his own eyes, and asked amusedly: "Brother Yu has stared at me for so long and come up with such a comment? I really want to ask, what's wrong with me? "

He looked at him contemptuously: "How dare you say that's a show? Didn't you let someone clean up the three of you?"

Zhou Cheng lowered his eyebrows and drank tea, which was his default.

"Beating three times a day, you are not afraid of killing people." But for a man, it is more uncomfortable to have that thing disabled than to kill him.

Zhou Cheng raised his eyebrows.What he wanted to say was that if he didn't kill him, he would live in pain for the rest of his life!Some people can't imagine it extravagantly, otherwise they will be restless at home and restless all their lives!

Lou Yuzhu who understood the meaning between his brows and eyes: "...well done..." I feel so ashamed for no reason.