The age of rebirth: I became a farmer's little koi

Chapter 62 Dyeing
In addition to writing letters to his family and Zhang Hongyun, Zhang Hongliang also mailed a package to Liu Xinyu.

In the package was a catty of pure white fine wool, a catty of red fine wool and four catties of red thick wool, all of which were pure wool.

The wool is a processed product that Zhang Hongliang asked Gu Changsheng's eldest daughter-in-law to find a relationship to buy directly from the manufacturer.

Don't look at it as a processed product, because the price is less than one-third of the genuine wool, and you can't buy it without a reliable relationship.

When he was in the provincial capital, Liu Xinyu finally accepted the watch, but he resolutely refused to accept the compensation to Zhang Hongliang.

Zhang Hongliang bought all the money into wool and sent it back to her.

Liu Xinyu now has red, white and yellow tricolor threads.

White thread is available in both wool and yarn cotton.

The red thread is only wool thread.

The yellow thread is yarn dyed with dried pomegranate peel boiled in water.

The conditions are limited, and the desired bright yellow cannot be dyed. It is grassy yellow and not particularly bright.

Using alum as a medium, there is no big problem in fixing the color.

Of course, Zhang Hongyun, the messenger bird, told Zhang Hongliang that Liu Xinyu planned to weave cotton clothes.

Zhang Hongliang learned that cheap wool could not be bought in the countryside, so Liu Xinyu had to buy some gauze gloves from a supply and marketing cooperative to remove the stitches and dye the knitting clothes by herself.

While entrusting Gu Changsheng's daughter-in-law to buy cheap wool, she quietly began to collect new gauze gloves.

He is a fitter in the second workshop of the machinery factory. The job of a fitter requires gloves, but the factory manager Ma is a fitter, and he knows the approximate frequency of changing gloves for various types of work.

For the types of work with high glove replacement frequency in the factory, the number of gloves allocated every month is relatively ample.

Most of the gloves saved by Zhang Hongliang in the past were given to Mrs. Gu to knit sweaters for her grandson.

Since Liu Xinyu spends all his money on gauze gloves, Zhang Hongliang must try his best to collect gloves.

Of course, Mrs. Gu still has to give it to her, as a teacher for one day and a father for life.

Fortunately, some people in the workshop are always extravagant, so he picked up the gloves that others didn't want but could use again, and kept almost all the new gloves assigned to him.

Among the wool sent this time, there are eight pairs of gauze gloves.

"Sister Xinyu, what color are these cotton threads going to be dyed?" Zhang Hongyun asked looking at the unwound cotton thread.

Liu Xinyu scratched her head. When she was Xin Yu, she had learned various dyeing techniques. Of course, she also used various natural plants to dye scarves. At that time, she could use various mordants, even if it was just a dog's tail on the side of the road. You can dye the silk scarf into the color you want, and the dyeing effect is awesome.

There are not many things that can be used at hand, and the colors that can be dyed are of course limited. Apart from alum, she can't find other mordants.

If you have the money, be patient and look around and maybe get some usable mordants or even finished dyes.

In this era when most people are still busy with food and clothing, food and clothing are more important than dyeing, beauty, and fashion.

Liu Xinyu only intends to try again, using the most common plants and the remaining alum in the most primitive way, to see if she can dye a beautiful color.

Of course, she doesn't know what color she can dye in the end!
Fortunately, even if the color is ruined, these cotton threads will not be wasted, and can be woven into linen clothes to wear under the padded jacket.

The method of boiling with fire is temporarily ignored.

For more than 20 days during the "double robbing", the Liu family has been operating at Liu Xinyu's house. In addition, Liu Xinyu has to cook mung bean soup twice a day, which consumes a lot of firewood.

Although when discussing the engagement, there was an agreement that the firewood for Liu Xinyu's family would be provided by Zhang's family, but that was only for Liu Xinyu's personal use.

Now from a one-person family to a nine-member family, of course the Zhang family cannot guarantee all the firewood.

The late rice seedlings in the team were finally planted yesterday, and today the production team specially gave the strong laborers a day off.

Liu Houxing and Liu Qingsong didn't rest, they pulled Liu Xinjian out of bed at dawn and went into the mountains to collect firewood.

Of course, the Liu family was not the only one who went up the mountain to cut firewood. The Zhang family, father and son, all went to the mountain to cut firewood.

Originally, Liu Xinyu wanted to go around the mountain with her, but Chen Zhaodi didn't agree, because it was too hot, and if there were many people going, they needed to bring more water, otherwise it would not be enough to drink.

There was no other way for Liu Xinyu to temporarily suppress her thoughts of going into the mountains to have a look.

After Zhang Hongyun asked, she waited for Liu Xinyu's answer, hoping to see the dyeing process with her own eyes.

The last time Liu Xinyu dyed with dried pomegranate peels, she wasn't there. She didn't know that Liu Xinyu had actually dyed the white cotton threads yellow until she saw a few straw-yellow cotton threads hanging under the eaves.

After not hearing the answer she wanted for a long time, Zhang Hongyun was a little disappointed: "Aren't these cotton threads dyed?"

"Dye, but first we have to pick some peach leaves." Liu Xinyu stood up and went to the kitchen to get a bamboo basket, picked up the bamboo hat hanging on the wall, put it on, and looked at Liu Xinyao who was about to move: "Don't follow me." Alright, finish today's questions properly. Xinju, look at him."

Liu Xinyao thought he could go out to let the wind go, but after hearing Liu Xinyu's words, his small face immediately changed, but his big eyes still stared at Liu Xinyu unwillingly, hoping that Liu Xinyu would show kindness.

Liu Xinyu will not soften her heart.

The little guy doesn't like reading at all, if you don't put a curse on him to sharpen his temper, it will be even harder to correct it when he gets older.

So he stretched out his fingers and pointed at Liu Xinyao, and then pointed to the books on the table. His meaning was very clear and his attitude was very firm.

Liu Xinju, who was coaxing the fourth child to eat, nodded repeatedly: "Sister Xinyu, don't worry, I will take good care of him!"

Liu Xinyu and Zhang Hongyun went out together and walked eastward for about 5 minutes. There was a small fruit forest with mixed fruit trees, of course there were peach trees.

At this time, of course, there are no peaches, but the leaves are still very lush.

"Yunyun, don't worry about picking the leaves from that branch, pick these tender green leaves." Liu Xinyu picked a handful of leaves and spread her palms and told Zhang Hongyun.

Zhang Hongyun nodded repeatedly.

Although there were not many peach trees, there were more than a dozen of them. In just a few minutes, two people picked a bamboo basket full.

Picking peach leaves is simple. In this era when there is no cooking machine, or even the simplest juicer, Liu Xinyu has spent a lot of time thinking about making the leaves into juice.

Find a stone mortar in the utility room, smash the leaves bit by bit, slowly add water to the mortar and stir, and finally find a piece of gauze to filter to get the dye solution.

Soak the cotton thread thoroughly with clear water, then twist the water dry, break up the cotton thread and soak it in the dye solution, keep rubbing and turning it while soaking, the dipping time is about 10 minutes, twist it dry, break it up and put it in the alum mordant dye solution prepared in advance Mordant.

After dipping, mordant, dipping and then mordant...

After repeated several times, the color of the cotton thread gradually met Liu Xinyu's requirements. Finally, a basin of clean water was used to wash away the floating color, and the white cotton thread was dyed light blue.

(End of this chapter)