Infrastructure: I survive in troubled times

Chapter 411 Keeping Warm
"Ah! How come I forgot about it." Hua Sijin patted her smooth forehead and said, "It's still too late..."

"No, no, save those rabbit skins to make socks and gloves." Hong Lianshuo interrupted Hua Sijin's words.

"I know the socks? What are these gloves?" Ye Yunyu looked at her suspiciously and asked.

"It's similar to socks, but they're just put on your hands. It's cold today. Gloves and socks are for soldiers on duty." Hong Lianshuo nodded his hands and said, "It's cold to hold a knife and gun with bare hands in winter."

"Aren't we all bare-handed when fighting? We are not so delicate." Han Qinhu looked at her with a slight frown and said, "The leather is too slippery to hold."

"It's not a matter of being squeamish or not. Non-combat injuries are unnecessary. What should I do if I get frostbite while on guard?" Hong Lianshuo looked at him seriously and said, "There is no condition now. Put on your gloves."

"It's not enough to make all the rabbit skins!" Han Qinhu said worriedly.

"Whoever stands guard wears it." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with bright black eyes and said, he had no choice but to do so.

There is no such thing as athlete's foot in such a cold day, so let's keep your hands and feet from frostbite!

"By the way, the concoction for frostbite has been boiled and soaked at night." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with dark eyes and said, so that his hands and feet would be clean, and he would not feel conflicted in his heart.

"Medicine! We prepared it a long time ago, and I'll give it to you when it's cold." Hua Sijin said immediately after hearing the words.

"Is there still a lottery for those winter clothes?" Lin Nanzheng looked at her with a smile on his phoenix eyes and asked.

"Drawing lots!" Hong Lianshuo looked at him with dark eyes and nodded, "At least it's fair, let's not dislike suits first."

"How come? The most important thing is to keep warm, and a long shirt is worn outside!" Lin Nanzheng said immediately when he heard the words, looked at her with some hesitation and asked, "Is there only a jacket?"

"Only a jacket, no pants." Hong Lianshuo looked at them regretfully and said.

"Ah!" Lin Nanzheng and the others looked at her in astonishment and said.

"Ah, what? There are only so many leather materials." Hong Lianshuo said, looking at them helplessly, spreading his hands.

"We're going to prepare reed tidbits to fill in." Hua Sijin Dan looked at them dimly and said with phoenix eyes.

"The reed tidbits don't keep you warm at all." Cao Huaimin said, frowning.

"But it's better than jackets!" Hua Sijin looked at them with dim eyes and said helplessly, "Apart from reed wadding, is there anything else to fill them with to keep warm?"

"Uh..." They all looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

"I'm always stuffed with reed wadding in my clothes. If I don't fill this, I can't fill anything else!" Sixi muttered, "I'm satisfied with a leather jacket." Nodding heavily, "Really !"

Cao Huaimin said dejectedly, "It's not uncommon for reed wadding to be filled. There is a story in the Book of Filial Piety that Lu Yi obeys his mother. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' disciple Min Ziqian's biological mother died early. Cotton wool; jealousy, clothes with reed flowers.' The two younger brothers' padded clothes were stuffed with thick velvet, but Min Ziqian's cotton padded clothes were only filled with thin reed flowers. Min Ziqian was so cold that he couldn't drive. His father, for some reason, was angry and whipped him , as a result, the clothes were torn and the reeds flew out, so I realized my son’s embarrassment.”

Hong Lianshuo murmured in his heart: the cold weather is the main cause of hunger everywhere, and the second is the poor working and living conditions, and there is no suitable clothing to keep out the cold.

Cao Huaimin gave a wry smile and said, "Reed flowers are the white hairs that grow densely on the reed flower shafts. They are flocculent, soft and thin, and they are stuffed into the interlayer of clothes to keep out the cold. One can imagine how Min Ziqian shivered. The reed shun mother was originally domesticated by the ancients. It is a classic of righteousness, but reading it now, it is more sympathetic to the poor people at that time. Who can afford fur coats for ordinary people, and who can afford velvet for this stuffing.”

The jacket is double-layered clothes, stuffed with velvet, cotton wool, etc. when it is cold, and taken out of the inner stuffing when it is warm, and worn alone.Su Shi wrote in "Send Your Son in Early Autumn": "The west wind is suddenly stern, and the leaves are worn through the door. Ziqi looked for the clothes and sighed and held my hand." It shows that this kind of clothing is indeed worn when the autumn turns cold. Since the development of "裌衣", it has been simplified as "Jingyi".

As for the inner filling and outer weaving, it depends on its economic level and social status.

In the Spring and Autumn Period where Min Ziqian lived, there was no cotton, so ordinary people stuffed their clothes with hemp, kudzu, and grass wadding to keep out the cold, while princes and nobles could stuff them with velvet, and when it was colder, they wore furs.

For example, the allusion of Baili Xi cited in the city, "Baili Xi Yu Di, Di people love sheepskin, Qin Mugong redeemed it with five-color sheepskin." It shows how valuable furs were at that time.

"Then what else is this stuffing other than fur?" Hong Lianshuo asked humbly as he looked at them with eyes as black as ink.

In the interstellar era, this clothing material is not soaked in cold and heat, but also protects against radiation, and can change styles. In short, a piece of clothing can be as you like.

"The gentry has yarn, silk, satin, silk and other fabrics to choose from. After making jackets, they put in fillers of different thicknesses according to different weather conditions." Cao Huaimin thought for a while after hearing the words, "and the cloth clothes Common people, peddlers and pawns, mud-legged jackets can only be filled with cheap and cheap leftovers, as well as sawdust, duck and goose feathers, etc.”

"Duck feathers?" Hong Lianshuo's eyes lit up when he heard the words, "Down!" His eyes darkened again, where did you get the duck down without ducks!
"The one that doesn't keep warm." Jiang Shuisheng looked at her with black and white eyes and said, "I tried it, and the duck feathers were hard and piercing."

"You must have used the outer feathers of a duck." Hong Lianshuo said as he looked at him with long eyelashes and trembling black pupils.

"What's the use of not using feathers?" Jiang Shuisheng looked at her in surprise and said, "I see that those birds with feathers are not afraid of the cold at all."

"People have feathers in winter and summer." Sixi said, looking at him with a smile.

"The duck is close to the down of the skin." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with bright black eyes and said.

"My God, the fluff is so pitiful, how many ducks have to be slaughtered, the point is that there are not so many ducks!" Jiang Shuisheng looked at her dumbfounded and said.

"So! Unless we raise a lot of ducks, don't think about it at this stage." Hong Lianshuo looked at them very regretfully and said.

Regardless of the precious silk and satin, or the cheap mage and reed flowers, these clothing materials are within the imagination of the ancients, but in the struggle to keep out the cold in autumn and winter, they are also forced to survive.

"Besides our common ones, what else can be used to make clothes?" Hong Lianshuo looked at them with raised eyebrows and said.

"Hmm!" Cao Huaimin thought about it seriously, "I don't know if this paper is okay?"

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