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Chapter 128 Cotton is a Good Thing

Lin Wanwan took Hua Nong into the courtyard of Patriarch Lin's house with a piece of cotton cloth in her hand.As soon as she stepped in, she was warmly welcomed into the house by Mrs. Niu: "Wanniang is here to see your uncle? You sit down for a while, and I'll get you dried shrimps, which are just right in the sun, and are good for snacks. "

After she finished speaking, she yelled in the direction of the simple study on the right: "An Lang, Wanniang is here!"

After shouting, he hurriedly ordered his daughter-in-law to make brown sugar water, while he walked to the main hall with a bamboo woven basin filled with dried shrimps.

Lin Wanwan looked at Niu with a smile and said, "Thank you, Auntie, this dried shrimp is indeed well dried! Then I will not be polite."

After speaking, he sat cross-legged on the futon and peeled off the dried shrimp without any notice.After a while, Qian Shi, the patriarch's daughter-in-law, put a bowl of soaked brown sugar beside the bamboo woven basin, and smiled shyly at Lin Wanwan, and the patriarch Lin also came over at this time.

Patriarch Lin glanced at Hua Nong as soon as he came over, and asked, "Wan Niang, what is Hua Nong doing with the cloth in his hand?"

Lin Wanwan took the cloth from Hua Nong, put it on the mat, stretched it two meters away and said to Patriarch Lin: "Uncle Patriarch, Aunt, Sister-in-law, how do you guys think this cloth compares to linen or Gebu?"

Niu Shi and Qian Shi stepped forward, wiped their hands on the clothes, and rubbed the cotton cloth to check.After a while, Mrs. Qian glanced at Mrs. Niu, who nodded, and Mrs. Qian said, "Wanniang, this cloth has a soft texture and fine grain. How can linen and Gebu compare? I don't know what it is made of." I don't look like silk or paper."

Lin Wanwan said: "This is called cotton cloth, and it is made of Gaochang cotton. Uncle Patriarch, when you helped me carry the goods yesterday, you saw Gaochang cotton! It is made of that."

Patriarch Lin suddenly said: "It turns out that the cloud-like thing is Gaochang cotton. This is a good thing for the nobles, right?"

Although the Patriarch Lin's family is in a remote place, and he doesn't go to Xiaoxi Town where the county government is located all year round, it's easy to distinguish the good from the bad, even if you haven't seen it before, it doesn't affect your judgment.

Lin Wanwan nodded and said: "The cloth made of cotton is light and soft, warm, breathable and moisture-absorbing. The pure cotton cloth is suitable for babies to wear next to their flesh. It is in short supply in big towns and is very popular with nobles. It is an absolute luxury. , the selling price is considerable.

The most important thing is, Uncle Patriarch, the production and weaving of this cotton are more advantageous than planting mulberry and silkworms, and such low-priced products as Gema are even more incomparable.If our people can grow cotton, in less than a year, we will have enough food and clothing. "

Patriarch Lin pondered: "But the people in the clan have never seen this thing, and no one knows how to weave it."

Lin Wanwan smiled: "Uncle patriarch, this is not a problem. This time, my senior brother brought me a lot of cotton seeds, as well as the actual spinning wheel for spinning cotton, and the blueprint of the mixing machine for removing seeds. We will grow cotton in the spring, and I will teach you ,how?"

Patriarch Lin worried: "I'm afraid there are not enough fields in the clan."

Lin Wanwan had thought about this problem a long time ago: "It's true that there are too few fields. The fields in the clan are just enough to grow some vegetables and rice for the family. What I mean is, it's better for the patriarch uncle to merge the fields of Lujiazhuang and Dafengzhuang together. Let them not grow hemp this year, but instead grow cotton, and then our Linjiazhuang will buy them at a high price."

Patriarch Lin stroked the short beard on his chin, and sighed, "The fields are the lifeblood of the farmers in the field, and it will be difficult for them to hand over the fields!"

Lin Wanwan said confidently: "It's not handing over, it's just letting them grow cotton instead. Uncle patriarch, just tell them that the price of buying cotton will be three times, or five times, ten times that of hemp, I think they will agree." , no one will have trouble with copper coins."

Patriarch Lin thought for a while and didn't speak. Niu looked at the cotton cloth with longing eyes, and said hesitantly, "Wanniang, is this thing easy to grow? Is the yield really more than hemp?"

Lin Wanwan affirmed: "Don't compare with hemp. The value of hemp is too low. Cotton cloth is rarer and more valuable than ordinary silk and satin! But it is much easier than raising silkworms and weaving silk, and the output is much larger."

"Hiss!" Niu Shi and Qian Shi both gasped when they heard the words.

Patriarch Lin tapped the table with his fingers, stared at Lin Wanwan and said, "Wanniang, are you sure this cloth is worth more than silk?"

Lin Wanwan said decisively: "I'm sure. My senior brother has extraordinary vision, and he will never make a mistake. I even picked two horses as tributes for the cotton cloth that was sent to me this time and presented it to the imperial court."

Patriarch Lin sighed and said, "I'm afraid that you will be let down for your enthusiasm. People in this area are poor and stupid."

Lin Wanwan was very optimistic, after stuffing a dried shrimp into her mouth, she muttered: "It's okay, uncle patriarch, don't worry, at worst, I will still plant it in my field next year, well, Xiao Chong might also be interested. When everyone sees the real gains, their brains will turn around."

Patriarch Lin said: "When the New Year is over, I'll go for a run. How many houses can I talk to?"

Lin Wanwan nodded: "Okay, then I will work hard on Uncle Patriarch. I will work out the planting techniques and specific plans when I have time. These cottons, as long as they can be grown, will not worry about selling them. The blessing of our clan is yet to come! "

Patriarch Lin looked at Lin Wanwan with a sense of relief, thinking that it would be great if Wanniang was a man, and the next patriarch would be selected.However, it doesn't matter if she is a girl now, anyway, she will always be our waiter for Tao Lin's family.

After talking about this matter, Lin Wanwan still didn't leave, she sat in the main room and continued to peel dried shrimps. Seeing this, Qian Shi and Niu Shi smiled and said they had something to do, and retreated.

After a while, Lin Wanwan suddenly said: "Uncle patriarch, why did you do this last night? Don't you want to leave a life and ask the people behind it?"

The elders of the Lin clan said in an authentic way: "There is no need. We don't know about the ghosts and snake spirits behind us, and we don't need to know. Let's fight one by one, and fight one by one. Their lives are precious, and they are not willing to fight with us."

"It's just a thief, it seems that the crime is not worthy of death."

"If they didn't have knives, they could just beat them up and throw them out, but if they took knives, it would be provoking my Hou Taolin's bloodliness, and there's no reason to let them go out alive. Wanniang, you can't be soft-hearted towards the enemy. In the past, when meeting pirates at sea, the comparison was who was ruthless, and whoever was ruthless would survive, and it is the same now."

"But what if the person behind it reports to the official?"

Patriarch Lin let out a "huh" laugh, and patted the desk a few times: "A few years ago, we fought with people from the upper reaches for water. Nearly a thousand people fought with weapons in two miles, and dozens of people were killed or maimed. The government is not only a government official, but a bad one. No one has stepped into the village, but we are the chiefs of the two villages, and we have to deal with it separately. Wanniang, forget what happened last night, that's not something you should think about, I have uncle here!"

(End of this chapter)