The concubine wants to farm: the alluring wife raises the emperor

Chapter 181 You are a good husband

The next day, Xu Yuan and Chen Pin went to the carpenter's house early in the morning. His wife happened to be weaving in the back room.

Xu Yuan made up her mind to figure out what this is all about here today, so when Chen Yan left, she asked him to take Li Yin away with her, saying that she wanted Li Yin to keep the accounts for him.

When Li Yin heard that he was going to help Xu Yuan, he happily followed Chen Yan away.

Xu Yuanan settled down and sat aside watching the woman weaving.

The principle of the loom is really not difficult for a modern person like her to understand. After a few rounds, she understood the reason.

The woman gave way to let her try it out by herself first, she didn't refuse, just sat on the seat and tried a few times.

"Girl, you are really good. You can do it so neatly just by looking at it." The woman looked at her enviously, "It took me a long time to become proficient."

Xu Yuan smiled: "It's just a little clever."

After learning the most basic weaving methods, Xu Yuan asked the woman to help her wind the thread on another new loom, and decided to try it out first to see if she could become more proficient before thinking about how to have patterns.

After Xu Yuan finished a round of practice in the morning, she had already woven a piece of cloth nearly a foot long. The woman came to see her and praised her skillful hand repeatedly.

But as far as Xu Yuan is concerned, she is not very satisfied. The one she is weaving now is a defective product in her eyes. Not to mention the inconsistent width of the cloth from top to bottom, it is also obvious that it is caused by insufficient force. The problem of inconsistent line arrangement caused by uniformity.

But according to the time she told Chen Changning, there was still half a month for her to practice, so she was not in a hurry.

Stretching and standing up, she moved her stiff shoulders. Sure enough, this kind of labor was still very strenuous.

"Girl, that son came to see you this morning." The woman just went out and said that she was going to prepare lunch, but she didn't expect to see Li Yin as soon as she went out.

When Xu Yuan went out from the back room, she saw Li Yin carrying a huge food box, standing obediently in the middle of the yard, as if waiting for her to come out.

"Why are you here?" She stepped forward and took out a handkerchief to help him wipe the sweat from his face.

"Eat." He raised the food box in his hand.When it was almost time to eat, Chen Fan rotated the people in the grain shop to eat, but Xu Yuan never came back.

Chen Fan naturally knew that Xu Yuan might have eaten with the carpenter's house, but Li Yin kept fussing that Xu Yuan didn't come to eat, and he refused to eat.

He didn't have Xu Yuan's skills, so he couldn't coax Li Yin well, so in the end he could only take him to Zuixianglou to order a few dishes, and then put them in food boxes for him to deliver to Xu Yuan.

"Have you eaten?" She took what was in his hand and put it on the low table in the yard.

"No, let's eat together." He grinned.

Xu Yuan scratched his nose: "Then sit down, and I'll call them over to eat together."

The carpenter and his wife listened to the movement outside, but both of them stayed in the kitchen.

Xu Yuan searched and went to the kitchen. The carpenter's daughter-in-law was lighting a fire, and the carpenter was standing beside him washing vegetables.

"My husband-in-law brought food over, let's eat together, so we don't need to cook anymore." She stood at the door and said.

"How good is this? Just eat it." The carpenter's daughter-in-law waved her hands repeatedly and refused.

"It's okay, he brought too much, it's a waste if we can't eat it." She smiled, "I also need to trouble you to give me a few sets of bowls and chopsticks."

"What did the girl say?" The carpenter put down the things in his hand.

"Then I'll go to the courtyard and wait for you to come." Xu Yuan turned around and walked into the courtyard.

The carpenter and his daughter-in-law looked at each other in blank dismay, finally washed their hands, took the dishes and went out to the yard.

Xu Yuan had already laid out all the things Li Yin had brought over on the table. At first she looked at the size and weight of the food box, and guessed that it should have a lot of food, but she didn't expect that there were ten dishes in total.

The entire small table was crowded, and finally the carpenter and his wife brought the dishes and chopsticks that everyone had to hold in their hands to eat.

"By the way, I haven't asked you for so long, what should I call you?" Xu Yuan looked at the carpenter. The two times she came here, it was Chen Yan who made the arrangements. She really didn't know the carpenter's last name.

"Wu Cheng." The carpenter answered concisely.

Xu Yuan was not surprised, she had already seen that the carpenter was quiet.

"Then I'll call you Brother Ang. As for Madam, I'll call you sister-in-law, how about it?"

"Yes, yes." Wu Shi nodded again and again.

"My name is Xu Yuan, you can call me anything."

"Then I'll call you Yuanyuan, you are about the same age as our younger sister..." Wu suddenly fell silent in the middle of speaking, and was glared at by Wu Cheng. This girl looked different from them, why? Can it be called that?
Seeing the interaction between the two of them, Xu Yuan pursed her lips and said, "Just call me Yuanyuan. I just came from a small village in the south of the county, so I have nothing to see."

Wu Shi glanced at Wu Cheng, and said, "Then call you Yuanyuan."

"Well, there may still be many places that need your help in the future, and I will trouble you then."

"Just say it." Wu Shi responded very readily.

The four of them huddled together on the low table and finished their meal. Xu Yuan put away the plates and put them in a food box, and asked Li Yin to send them back the same way.

Before Li Yin left, he chased her and asked when she would go back. Xu Yuan didn't know for sure, she might have forgotten the time while she was doing it.

In the end, he had to tell him to come to Wu Cheng directly to find her after the grain shop was closed, and he left obediently.

Seeing the interaction between the two, Mrs. Wu kept praising Xu Yuan: "Your husband really cares about you."

In this day and age, how can a man take his wife so seriously and spend all day around her.

In Wu's eyes, Li Yin's actions are unique in the world.

Xu Yuan smiled, as if acquiescing to Wu's words, and then went back to the back room to study the loom.

It is said that weaving patterns directly on the cloth is easy to say, but it is really difficult to do it.

Now the cloth they weave is a whole piece of yellowed cloth made of cotton and linen of the same color. To weave patterns, at least a base material of a different color is needed to show the color, but this base material is not Hard to find.

"Sister-in-law, are all the raw materials for weaving this color?" She put down the work in her hands. If this problem cannot be solved, then her thoughts are useless.

"Well, our farmers use this most basic cotton and linen."

"Then are there any other ingredients?" Xu Yuan frowned.

Wu scratched her head: "I haven't seen this before, but I've heard it from people around me, so it should be there."

Xu Yuan raised her forehead, how could she have forgotten that the cloth of this era should be woven and then put into the dyeing vat to be dyed directly.

Where was she going to find the colored ingredients?
(End of this chapter)