The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

At noon, Li Fu brought the children back to the house. Similarly, the cotton picked in the morning was also delivered to the house.

Dozens of sacks were filled with cotton picked. Lao Zhao didn't understand this, so when he delivered it, he could only ask someone to clean up a separate warehouse and put it in first.

Fortunately, the warehouse in the house is now vacant and there is a place to put it.

Otherwise, a guest room would have to be occupied as a temporary storage place.

After lunch at noon, Li Fu asked someone to move a large table and put it in the shade under the tree.

The servants brought a sack of cotton and delivered it, and all kinds of clean baskets were also prepared.

Li Fu stretched and sat at the table.

The children also came out of the house in a daze, and after seeing the white cotton, they all woke up one by one.

"Come on, sit down together and pick all the impurities out of the cotton."

When picking cotton, the leaves and branches are already dry. During the picking process, some small dead leaves will be caught on the side. Therefore, after taking it back, it must be carefully selected and cleaned before clean cotton can be used.

At this time, the cotton is still in a compressed state. It needs to be spread out outside to dry out the moisture, but they can't wait so long at this moment, so they can just pick it up and dry it at the same time.

In the afternoon, people in the fields outside are still picking. When all the cotton is picked, the fields will be directly cleaned out and sowed again next year.

In the house, Li Fu chatted with the children and was busy cleaning the cotton.

After Li Shao prepared food and drinks for them and put them aside, he also sat opposite Li Fu and sat next to Li Lizhi, helping to clean the cotton.

By mid-afternoon, a lot of cotton had been cleaned out.

Li Fu asked someone to bring several brushes.

"The cotton is still a cotton ball, and there are cotton seeds in it. Use a brush to brush the cotton apart, just like this." Li Fu said as he tried to do it, combing the cotton and picking out the seeds.

"In this way, the seeds are picked out, and the cotton balls are scattered, just like this, one piece at a time, pluck them and put them in a clean basket."

From picking cotton to finished products, the process in between cannot be completed in one day.

The children followed Li Fu's example and followed his example. Although they were a little slower, the processed cotton in the basket was increasing. Reaching in and rubbing it, it felt like Xuan~~

When the cotton was almost processed, it was already dark.

Li Fu asked people to properly pack up and keep everything here, and the family was going to have dinner.

In the evening, there were four more small desks in the study. The couple sat in front of the big desk to sort out the accounts, and the four children were reading seriously.

During this period of time, there were more account books in the house.

Because Li Shimin brought a lot of money when he came last time, all from the inner treasury.

Although the inner treasury is now used in several places, Li Shimin does not want the Jingyang Palace to live a tight life because of the court affairs.

Official business is official business. The Jingyang Palace has paid money, whether it is from the national treasury or the inner treasury, it must be repaid, otherwise, as an emperor, he will be robbing his relatives' money all day long.

Therefore, after the inner treasury was counted, it was loaded with a lot of money and followed Li Shimin's imperial carriage to the manor and entered the account office of the house.

After the account office calculated it clearly, it was put into the warehouse and the account book was handed over to the mistress for review.

In the end, there was no problem with the account book, and the various expenses of the family would begin to be settled.

Originally, there was not so much cash in hand, so the outgoing expenditures were naturally less. Now that there is, the original shortages must be supplemented.

Especially in the barracks of the royal guards, they built this and that with great fanfare. Although the bricks, stones and wood were mined by the soldiers themselves, the daily expenses were also a considerable amount.

Before the money from the inner court was transferred, they had been subsidizing the workshops on the farm. There were many confusions when the accounts were transferred. Now, after this month, everything has been sorted out.

Li Fu and his wife were also relieved.

Otherwise, they would not have the leisure to take care of the children on the farm.

The next morning, Li Fu got up and washed.

The children woke up earlier, and they had already followed Wu Liangye to exercise.

This was their tradition every morning when they lived on the farm.

After getting up early and washing, the guards took them to run outside the house for a while to stretch their muscles.

There was no such arrangement when Li Lizhi was in the palace before, but since returning from the farm, Empress Changsun found that sheAfter his daughter was no longer as weak and sickly as before, he allowed her to make trouble in the palace.

After all, she couldn't leave the Lizheng Palace, so she could make trouble. The eunuchs would watch her and she wouldn't get hurt. It would also help her keep fit. Why not?

The children came back, sweating all over. They had to wash and change clothes again, and then sit down in the front hall to eat.

Old Zhao walked into the front hall from outside and bowed.

"My dear, the things you asked the carpenter to make two days ago have been completed and delivered early in the morning."

"Okay, bring out the cotton, tables and so on from yesterday, and find a cool place. The sun will rise and it will be hot soon." Li Fu responded.

"Yes."

Li Shao looked at Li Fu curiously.

"What good thing did my husband ask the carpenter to make?"

"The cotton that was picked up yesterday looks a lot more fluffy, but it still lacks the last step to make the cotton completely soft. I asked the carpenter to make a set of cotton-fluffing tools." Li Fu explained.

"Fluffing cotton..."

Li Shao didn't understand.

But she'll see it after dinner.

Anyway, after getting married, she's seen a lot of things she doesn't understand...

Before fluffing the cotton, you have to pull the line, which is the net that wraps the cotton wool. It has to wrap the fluffed cotton evenly and densely, and pull it horizontally and vertically. After the line is pulled, you can fluff the cotton.

Everyone looked at the cotton-fluffing tool and then at Li Fu.

"Husband, is this okay?"

In Li Shao's impression, her husband has a body, but he is actually a weak scholar who doesn't have much strength.

And this thing, no matter how you look at it, you need a lot of strength to use it.

Li Fu pulled the tendon string, and fine sweat had already seeped out of his forehead.

The weather was too hot.

"It should be fine, I'll try it." Li Fu said.

The cotton that had been processed was spread out flat and loosened with a stick.