After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Every detail of the items for the royal family must be perfect. It is definitely not possible to let the embroiderers in the town do it. It must be embroidered by the royal embroiderers in person, in order to make the most perfect gift.

She explained her request in detail, and took out a few drawings, and explained it to Nanny Li in detail, emphasizing the details.

This matter is related to the royal family, Madam Li did not dare to be sloppy, and carefully wrote down every word of Gu Qing.

"Okay, this servant knows." She looked serious, "This matter must be handled beautifully by this servant."

"Then it's hard work for Nanny Li." Gu Qing said with a smile, "If you need anything, just ask."

While the two were talking, a patter of rain began to fall.

As the saying goes, one autumn rain and one cool, after the rain, summer will really pass.

Fortunately, the cotton in the field has almost been harvested, otherwise it will be worrying when it rains.

The warehouse in her home was so full of sun-dried cotton that it couldn't even fit in it, and some of it was transported to her newly opened weaving workshop for storage.

At present, it is estimated that there are at least more than 5 catties, and some will be collected sporadically in the future. The final figure should be [-] to [-] catties. This is a huge number. As long as it is made into quilts and clothes, it will be useless. silver.

But if it is made into an inner garment, it has a great advantage, because silk and satin are not skin-friendly and do not gather heat. In the cold winter, wearing a cotton inner garment next to the body is comfortable and warm, and I believe it will be easily accepted.

When it rained, the villagers would be free. Gu Qing called the village woman to the weaving workshop, and she wanted to teach everyone how to play quilts.

"This cotton is well elasticated." Gu Qing's eyes were full of approval, "It's very fluffy and comfortable. It must be very warm in winter. Next, we need to press the elastic cotton into a good quilt."

Yang Pei was in charge of the demonstration process. He tied a strong belt around his waist and tied a bamboo strip behind his waist, which was about two and a half feet higher than the top of his head. He then hung a slingshot on the top of the bamboo strip so that the bamboo strip would It will bend forward, just in time to flick the cotton.

"In this way, the quilt is very strong, the cotton inside will not run around into a ball, and it will not be woken up by the cold at night."

The last step is to flatten the quilt again, use a wooden circular grinding disc to smooth the corners, put it into the quilt cover, and a thick quilt is made.

A while ago, Gu Qing asked Mr. Gu to help him make a simple tool for picking cotton.

The beds of the people in the village are generally about 1.8 meters wide. It is almost enough to make a quilt with a width of [-] meters and a length of [-] meters.

Last year's snow disaster did not know how many people froze to death. She had lingering fears and hoped that with her meager strength, she could help the people at the bottom survive the severe winter.

If it’s a quilt covered in heavy snow in winter, it’s about eight catties for two people. If it’s an autumn quilt, three or four catties is enough. It all depends on personal choice.

After Gu Qing's introduction, Yang Pei finally started to work officially.

One person pulls it with bamboo strips, and the other holds the cotton thread, and fixes the thread on the cotton. This step is delicate work, and it needs to go back and forth four times to completely fix it.

The wooden hammer struck and vibrated the bowstring. The bowstring moved left and right, up and down on the soft cotton, and the cotton was bounced up and flying. The cotton like flying catkins recombined. , There were a lot of flying catkins in the room, and it didn't take long before the cotton was finally finished playing.

Those women who didn't have time to learn saw how difficult it was, so they gave up and decided to spend money for those who had learned to help pick cotton.

In this way, a new occupation was born in the village—cotton plucker.

Yang Pei changed tools and took a round dustpan in his hand. The bottom of the dustpan is flat. He used this thing to press all the cotton. After pressing neatly, he needed to use cotton thread to fix the cotton. This required the cooperation of two people.

"My God, if I didn't come here to study today, I thought I would just stuff the cotton into the quilt cover."

The women in the village temporarily pressed this matter and started to prepare cotton. Because the tools are simple, it seems that it is not difficult to do it, so they went back to make their own tools one by one. If there is anything they don’t understand, they all come to ask Yang Pei. , Yang Pei did not hesitate to share his experience and taught everyone seriously.

"Princess, how did your brain grow, why is it so powerful, I will grow whatever your family grows in the future."

But how to put it, the tool is easy to make, and the process of playing it is actually a test of technology, otherwise, how can someone say that half a catty of cotton is played in eights and twos? , Only in this way is the real success of bombing. In the end, only three or four women and men in the village have learned.

"We used to stuff the quilt with catkins and catkins. We sewed the quilt into small grids, stuffed some in each grid, and then after a winter, the things in each grid became a lump, which was troublesome and still not warm. "

While the villagers were playing cotton, Gu Qing and Madam Zhang decided on the style of cotton clothes, making autumn and winter underwear.

A large slingshot made of fir and a handy small hammer are the two most basic tools.

It's just that it's already autumn, and we can only wait until next year to plant.

"By the way, it seems that the princess planted a hundred acres of something a few months ago. He said it was pepper?"

The women who watched were stunned.

He holds a slingshot in his left hand and a small hammer in his right hand, and hits the slingshot with the hammer to soften the cotton.

At present, the market in Nanzhou Province is only so big. Gu Qing plans to use [-] catties of cotton to make clothes, and use all the remaining cotton to make quilts and padded jackets.

But before that, the dried cotton needs to be neatly laid out on a large table with a length and width of two meters, and the flowers are manually torn into cotton wool, which will make the quilt softer.

Women always chat over a long period of time. Just now they were talking about quilts, and then they started talking about planting chili peppers. The countryside would borrow seeds from each other. This thing is very cheap in the mall, and Gu Qing would not know it either. Reluctant, I distributed some to each household.

The ladies of this era are accustomed to wearing satin clothes. Before they accepted cotton cloth, it was risky to make cotton jackets and cloaks.

"There are still seeds, no, my house happens to have two points of land..."

She decided to make two kinds of quilts, the four-jin quilt and the six-jin quilt, and make more winter clothes, the price of which will not exceed [-] Wen.

"Princess, the price is too low." Madam Li exclaimed, "Silk quilts are also sold in the town, and a quilt of one catty costs at least two taels of silver. This quilt is no worse than silk quilts, even if it sells for three For four taels of silver, there are many people vying for it."

Gu Qing shook her head: "Madam Li, do you know how much this quilt costs? More than 100 acres of land, more than ten people,

The output is more than 6 catties, and the cost of all aspects is included, and it does not exceed a hundred taels of silver. Even if I make all of them into quilts and sell them, I can earn close to ten thousand taels of silver.

Not to mention, some of them have been made into inner garments. Adding up all the sevens and eights, this cotton field can bring me 2 taels of silver.