The son crosses every night

Tang Hua saw the look on his face before retracting, and his heart trembled, feeling very guilty.

His elder brother walked out from the sea of ​​corpses and blood on the battlefield, and the guards beside him were also heroes who had gone through hundreds of battles. Zhang Hua dared not disappear under their noses. Hua Suo is happy to see you.

He sat on the bed, let out a sigh of relief, and planned to see if he could find a chance to go over to the husband's side tomorrow night.

[-]. There was no dream in the night, when Tang Hua woke up the next day, it was just dawn, but his elder brother had brought people back from running around and was practicing boxing in the yard.

Tang Hua saw that they were all sweating profusely, and felt a little emotional in his heart.

Gu Tangyu's eyes were sharp, and seeing his protruding head, he raised his voice and said, "I'll come down when I wake up, and I'll take you to practice."

Tang Hua's heart trembled, so he could only swallow slowly, "Brother."

Gu Tangyu raised his eyebrows, "Didn't the master of Hanhaifang teach you fists and feet?"

Tang Hua was embarrassed, lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I didn't pay much attention when I learned it before, but then, I almost forgot it."

Gu Tangyu stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder blades, "Stand up straight, as much as you can remember. Come on, fasten your belt and sleeves, and I'll see how good you are."

As soon as Gu Tangyu's words came out, a guard immediately handed over a clean ribbon, and tied up Tanghua's sleeves in twos and threes.

Gu Tangyu signaled him to attack, Tanghua knew his brother's ability, his face became extremely serious, took a deep breath, stood firm on his hem, stretched out his fist, and rushed towards his brother.

Gu Tangyu stretched out his hand to block his hand, grabbed his arm and threw it forward lightly, Tanghua couldn't help but staggered forward.

"Too slow, come again."

Tang Hua took a deep breath, heard this and threw his hand at his elder brother, only to be separated again.

Back and forth more than 20 times, Tang Hua didn't even touch the corner of his brother's clothes, but was beaten several times by his brother Shun.

Gu Tangyu didn't expect that his skills were so bad, he felt a little helpless, "What's the matter, you haven't practiced boxing or kicking since you came out of the Hanhai room?"

Zhuanghua's ears were a little red, "Occasionally I practice, but I just don't know how to do it."

Gu Tangyu looked at him, pondered for a moment, and called someone out from the guards, "Lei Xing, from today onwards, you will follow the second son for three years."

A capable young man came out from among the guards, and after obeying the order, he said yes in a deep voice, and then walked behind Tang Hua.

Tanghua didn't expect his elder brother to be willing to give himself to him, so he felt a little nervous on the spot, "Elder brother, don't you need it? How can we need your talents?"

Gu Tangyu glanced at him, "Lend you three years, train a team of guards well, and practice your own skills. What does this fancy fist and embroidered legs look like?"

Tang Hua wanted to cry but had no tears. With such a master, the chances of him going to his husband's help would be greatly increased.

Gu Tangyu noticed that he was unwilling, and his eyes became sharp, "Huh?"

Tang Hua whispered: "Brother, I plan to go to Enkao, and I won't join the army in the future."

"Don't you need to practice your skills when you go to Enkao? Then you will be sent to be an official in a remote place, and there will be no one to guard you. What will you do?"

Their brothers all want to practice boxing and kicking. Even a delicate person like Gu Tanghan hired a boxing and kicking master.

Tanghua was not valued since childhood, and he didn't dare to show his sharpness. Even if he learned from Master Hanhaifang, he only learned a little bit, very perfunctory. up.

Tang Hua didn't dare to refute anymore, so he could only respond in a muffled voice.

He planned to arrange Lei Xing to the Zhuangzi when he returned to the other village, preferably half a Zhuangzi away from his small courtyard.

After being practiced in the morning, Tang Hua had a big appetite for breakfast, eating more than half of his elder brother's.

Gu Tangyu held a bun for him, and said: "This is what a man should do, eat more and exercise more, what does it look like to be so weak?"

Tang Hua protested softly, "Where am I so weak?"

Gu Tangyu said casually: "Let me just say this, although you are not too weak, you are not strong either. You have to step up your training in the future."

Tang Hua looked at him, "I don't want to become that muscular and burly appearance."

"Then what do you want to be like?"

Tang Hua blurted out: "Become a big brother and that's it!"

There was a hint of a smile in Gu Tangyu's eyes, "It's useless to flatter, you still have to practice."

Tang Hua let out a sigh of relief, "I know."

After breakfast, Tanghua and Gu Tangyu went to the other side of the dyeing workshop.

Their dyeing workshop is huge, not so much a dyeing workshop as Zhuangzi.

Twenty or so rooms stand between the sky and the earth, and behind the house is a compound full of large water tanks, which still contain yam juice.

In front of the house, there are more than ten acres of fertile land, and a long river three or four feet wide flows slowly in the middle. Trees are planted on the edge of the fertile land, and fences are surrounded. Outside the fence, wanderers are patrolling, and it is difficult for outsiders to see the scene inside.

It cost Tanghua more than 2000 taels for the yard and fertile land alone. If the fragrant cloud yarn is not dyed in the future, Tanghua will have to pay at least 4000 taels to go in.

Gu Tangyu scanned the courtyard and said approvingly, "This place is not bad."

Tang Hua said: "I searched for a long time, and found this land by chance."

In March of Yangchun, the sun is very strong outside, and most of the farmers who have been basking in the sun are wearing short coats.

Tanghua covered his forehead with his hands, squinted his eyes and said: "The sun is not enough to dry, this yarn needs to be dried again at noon. After it is fully dyed, the yarn is taken out immediately, and once it is dry, it is taken back to be dyed. Every day Choose to expose to the sun twice when the sun is at its maximum, and do not need to expose to the sun for the rest of the time.”

Jiang Pingyuan responded, "I'll let them wait until the sun shines before taking them out."

Tang Hua looked carefully at the yarn they dried, and asked, "But one side faces the sun and the other faces the grass?"

Jiang Pingyuan nodded, "Yes, it has always been like this."

Tang Hua frowned, "Maybe it's because the dyeing is not uniform. You have to let people watch it carefully. Make sure that the dye is even and every small piece is fully dyed before drying."

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Gu Tangyu looked at the cloth they dyed with great interest. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't see anything unusual.

He looked at his younger brother standing not far away who was talking to Jiang Pingyuan, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt a little strange about Tanghua's confidence in this unique fabric.

He reached out and touched the cloth, remembering this matter in his heart.

Tang Hua didn't notice it, and asked, "Do you still have the freshly collected river mud? Put three tubes in bamboo tubes and send them to my room later."

Jiang Pingyuan said: "I haven't collected river mud today, I'll let them collect it later."

Tang Hua patted him on the back, and said apologetically, "Xiangyun yarn is hard to dye, I have worked hard for you these days."

Jiang Pingyuan chuckled, "Sharing your son's worries, how can it be called hard work?"

Tang Hua looked at him, "Let's not talk about the polite words. When we really make the Xiangyun Sha, let's go drink and celebrate!"

Jiang Pingyuan responded with a smile.

Xiang Yunsha didn't have a clue for a while, so Tang Hua asked, "Where is the harvested wool? Let's go and find out."

Jiang Pingyuan waited for him and Gu Tangyu to see the wool.

They collected wool from three warehouses, and as soon as the warehouse was opened, the peculiar fishy smell of wool came to the face.

Tang Hua didn't cover his nose, and Gu Tangyu didn't change his expression either.

Tang Hua saw that they had bundled the wool into big bundles, which were piled full, estimated to be several thousand catties, and said, "Wool is flammable, so put a few more water tanks outside to prevent water from leaking. In addition, after placing the wool, you must You have to put other things in two or three empty rooms, so that if it starts to burn, it will prevent the fire from spreading."

Jiang Pingyuan nodded.

Tang Hua squeezed the wool and asked, "Did you buy Glauber's salt and limestone?"

Jiang Pingyuan said: "I bought it, and I bought the coal, it's on the other side."

Tang Hua, "Let's wash the wool first today."

Gu Tangyu wondered, "Use Glauber's salt and limestone to wash it?"

Tanghua didn't avoid his elder brother when he spoke, and nodded upon hearing the words, "I want these two things, but I don't just use these two things for washing, and I need to prepare them further."

Gu Tangyu looked at him and smiled slightly, "Where did you come up with so many weird methods? I haven't heard of them before."

Tang Hua looked at his elder brother, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "Brother, do you still remember the dream I had before Chinese New Year?"

When Jiang Pingyuan and the guards saw them talking, they took a few steps back automatically.

"Why don't you remember, because of a dream, you are the only face saint, and your reputation is still very loud."

Seeing that there was no one around, Tanghua lowered his voice, "Since I had that strange dream, I have often had some weird dreams. Sometimes it seems unreasonable, and sometimes it makes sense. Actually I got this method of washing wool in a dream, I don’t know if it’s true, I have to try it first.”

Gu Tangyu Surong asked: "Really?"

Tang Hua smiled wryly, "How can this kind of thing be used as a joke? Except in my dreams, I have no other place to know these things."

"Apart from the heavy snowfall in the pastoral area, did the things in the dream come true?"

"Yes." Tanghua said in a low voice, "The method of firing porcelain is obtained in a dream, but it's not easy to show it to others. I always say it is from the book."

Gu Tangyu raised his eyebrows in surprise. He had seen the porcelain made by Tanghua. It was hard to believe that Fangzi got it from a dream like that. However, he had never seen such porcelain from other places. He wanted to come here Should be true.

Gu Tangyu's voice was serious, "What else did you see in your dream?"

Tang Hua was vague, "I can't explain clearly, sometimes I see something and I don't understand what it is, sometimes I see it, and I don't remember it either."

Tang Hua's half-truth and half-false statement made his brother's eyes full of suspicion.

Gu Tangyu patted his head, and said in a low voice: "Don't tell anyone about this. When we return to the imperial capital, we will go to a few Buddhist temples to see what's going on."

The words are strange, and generals like Gu Yuyu don't believe such nonsense. The example is here, and he has no way to refute it, so he has to wait until the matter is clarified.

Tang Hua responded seriously, "I have never told anyone except my elder brother."

Gu Tangyu couldn't help rubbing his head.

Gu Tangyu didn't expect to come here with his younger brother to know such a shocking secret.

Tanghua didn't seem to see the surprise in his brother's eyes, and he did what he had to do. He took Jiang Pingyuan to get out the alkaline noodles.

It's just a very rough alkaline surface, and it's not pure, but it should be enough for washing wool.

He has done related experiments, and this time he did it with ease, but the amount was larger.

Alkaline surface is not easy to get rid of. Before washing the wool with alkaline surface, they washed it with ash.

In many places, ash is used to wash the alkali-faced tanned leather. Tang Hua knew this, but he didn't expect that after washing with ashes three times, the wool was still greasy, and the ash was far from enough to clean the wool.

Tang Hua's complexion was slightly dull, and he asked them to bring over the lye flour, and put the wool into it after lyeing.

With the alkaline surface, their cleaning work went much smoother. When they took the wool in and washed it in alkaline water, and then took it out again, the wool became much whiter to the naked eye.

In addition to the color, the smell has also faded, and the peculiar fishy smell of wool has gone.

Gu Tangyu watched from the side, his heart agitated.

The younger brother did not lie.