Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 64 Enough
Dong Yong watched as Lu Yange sorted several batches of fabrics in the library, and assigned their dyeing according to the color and fabric.

He didn't really understand what Lu Yange said about tie-dyeing and printing, but just because he didn't understand what Lu Yange said, he believed even more that he might really have found the right person this time.

At least, this little brother who was half a head shorter than him didn't talk nonsense, and there was still something in his words.

"What do you mean, can these fabrics be re-dyed?"

"How about this, you find some discarded cloth heads and let's try first. If it works, you can discuss it with your father and your elder brother."

Lu Yange can't guarantee that it will be successful, or that the Dong family and his son will be satisfied with the color she dyed.

She is just a child, and it is impossible to make promises with big words.

Because I promised Dong Yong to teach him to dye.

All she can say is try

Her current method can only relieve the siege for a while, and it will definitely not last long.

As for the future, if Dong Yong wants to learn dyeing, he still has to find a way to enter a large dyeing workshop.

It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

Two and a half-year-old children made such a bold decision, and finally made Dong Yong.

Let the Dong family dyeing workshop become the largest and most famous dyeing workshop in the Great Shang Kingdom of the new dynasty.

This is a later story, the current Lu Yange even put down the news of when Lai Fushun will come back, but concentrates on running in the mountains with Dong Yong, looking for things that can be dyed.

It is May, and there are still many fresh flowers, but it is not easy to find ripe berries.

Fortunately, Dong Yong's request is very simple, that is, to dye some white fabrics so that they can be sold.There are also some fabrics with uneven dyeing, try to change the color.

Changing the color is actually simple, you can choose to change the light color to dark color, and the dark color to black.

However, the most difficult thing is to match the various materials found, and the key is to choose the best color.

Use the dip dyeing method for white cloth, and the boil dyeing method for unevenly dyed cloth...

I didn't have a big pot to cook cloth, so I went to Ding's house to borrow his big pot for killing pigs and boiling water.

If there is no large tank, use wooden barrels.

There are more than a dozen wooden barrels, large and small, lined up, and they look decent.

Dyeing workshops use hematite powder for red, or cinnabar is better, but they don't have any, so they can only use wild fruits or flowers or even vegetables.

Color fixation with rice husk, salt and alkali...

Ripe mulberries, wild berries, purple grapes... Lu Yange was muttering words, sorting out the wild fruits he found, thinking in his mind, it seems that these three kinds of fruits, purple iris flowers and dogwood bark can be used to make purple blue dye .

Without red cabbage, red amaranth should be fine.

Anyway, it's just dyeing, and it didn't say what color to fix.

The two children, like playing house, collected all kinds of flowers and fruits that could be collected, and started their own great dyeing process.

Except for Lu Xiaoqing, who was practicing cooking with the Qiu family, almost the whole family of the Lu family was dispatched. Apart from collecting eel cages and selling eels in eel cages every day, Lu Quan came back to help the two children carry water and chop firewood...

Lu Xiaoli and Lu Xiaoyu were not idle either, one helped to light the fire and watch the time, and the other helped to soak and dry.

Several hemp ropes were tied on both sides of the Lu family's boat, and pieces of dyed rags were hung up to dry.

As soon as it is blown, various colors flutter in the wind, like small colorful flags.

The original old and bleak wild pier is also rendered brighter.

Lu Yange and Dong Yong were busy for several days, used up most of the bag of rags that Dong Yong stole from home, and finally fixed four colors.

Crimson, sea blue, ginger, and a light pink dyed in calico.

These four colors may vary in depth in the next dyeing due to the amount of weight.Because of the trial and error of the two people, Dan has already determined the available tools and procedures. As long as Dong Yong follows their previous methods and materials, the color difference will not be too big.

Looking at the fragments of various shades spread out to dry in front of him, Lu Yange sighed slightly: "There are still too few things and too little experience, so I can only dye these four colors first."

Lu Yange has seen all kinds of colors in the new era. For her, these four colors are too monotonous.

If you give her some time, or let her go to the dyeing workshop to learn some basics from the master masters, it can be said that she can match a few more colors.

Including printing and dyeing, tie-dyeing and many other advanced colors that she knew before.

"Enough...enough!"

With trembling hands, Dong Yong hugged the dyeing recipe written by Lu Yange tightly in his arms, "These four colors are enough."

For Dong Yong these few days, it was no less than creating a miracle with his own hands.

These four colors were jointly made by him and Xiaosi of Lu family.Pure color, uniform dyeing, no fading, no discoloration.Others don't understand, but he knows that these are the most rare in dyeing.

He just wanted to clean up the backlog of inventory in the warehouse. These four colors are already very good colors in the countryside.

In the countryside now, men and women, regardless of gender, wear either sackcloth, or the ugly and dirt-resistant khaki.

And these four bright colors are only available on expensive silk and satin.

He was able to make the unevenly dyed coarse cloth in the warehouse into these four colors, which is already a great event.

At this moment, looking at the color he dyed with his own hands, Dong Yong suddenly had an irresistible thought in his heart.

He is going to Huaicheng, to the dyeing workshop to learn more and better dyeing techniques.

Even if he couldn't be an apprentice, even if he could be a handyman, he would still go.

"Thank you."

Dong Yong saluted Lu Yange respectfully. If his family can regain their strength because of the dyeing, the Lu family's Xiaosi would have contributed a lot.

"The three or two taels of money was pooled by my mother and I." Dong Yong blushed, "I know it's too little. When my father and my elder brother come back, I..."

"no thanks."

Lu Yange pushed back two or two taels of silver ingots, and picked up dozens of copper plates scattered on the table, "These are enough."

Dong Yong concluded: "But."

Lu Yange smiled and wrapped the broken silver and put it into Dong Yong's arms: "Okay, go back quickly, your mother is still waiting for you."

Dong Yong took the dyeing recipes he and Lu Xiaosi had made in the past few days, and went back to discuss with his father and brother.

As for the Dong family not using these prescriptions and how to use them, that is the Dong family's business, and has nothing to do with Lu Yange.

Lu Yange also confiscated the money bag Dong Yong gave her, and even though it contained the greatest sincerity that Dong Yong could show, she rejected it.

She didn't help Dong Yong for profit, just like that day when she saw Dong Yong being beaten by a hunchback, all she could do was throw a clod of mud.

As for whether it can help Dong Yong, or the Dong family, it can only depend on God's will.

Not long after, Dong's cloth shop sold a batch of cloth at a low price.

In order to express their gratitude, the Dong family sent a piece of cloth to one member of the Lu family and gave 100 taels of silver.

He also told Lu Yange that Dong Yong was going to be an apprentice at Shenjia Dyeing Workshop in Nanyang County because of the four colored prescriptions.

The 100 taels was also the price for the Shen family to buy these four prescriptions.

Deep red sea blue turmeric light pink, these four colors have also become the most common clothes colors in Jiangjiaba for a long time.

(End of this chapter)