Nongmen Space: Farming lady is not easy to mess with

Chapter 73 Don't Disturb the Spinning Wheel
The enthusiasm of the villagers for their work outweighed the bleak autumn wind. Centered on the big drying yard, the past few days can be described as bustling.

Dozens of brand-new spinning wheels and looms are neatly arranged, women gossiping about their daily life, and children under the age of five play in groups.

Yuan County is a poor place, and a family with a hundred taels of silver can be called a rich household.Most of the more than 200 households in Huanshan Village are poor and hungry. Not to mention saving money, some of them have never even touched a dime in their entire lives.

The gap between rich and poor is huge.

Ordinary crafts don't make much money.

Bamboo craftsmen like Wei Dafu used to weave daily utensils such as baskets, dustpans, rice sieves, bamboo plaques, etc. during the slack, and they would spend a day in the market on big market days, earning only a dozen cash.

Sometimes you can't even earn this copper coin, and you have to pay two pieces of tax.

Most of the time, people in the village are short of these, and they take rice to Wei Dafu's house to exchange.

Yao Shi used to go to the town to set up a stall in every market, making clothes for people.Received the fabric, asked about the style, measured the size, and agreed on a time for delivery.

I have accumulated word of mouth for seven or eight years, and I don't accept more than six sets of clothes every month.A set of clothes costs [-] yuan by hand, and it takes three or four days to complete, because farm work has to be done during the period.

Ordinary craftsmanship is not good, so it can only be used as a job to supplement the family.

The embroidery shop in the town employs a special embroiderer, and the embroidery work of the farmers is passed down from hand to hand by the elders, so the skills cannot be superb.

Unless you set up a stall by yourself, you can't get into the shopkeeper's eyes at all if you send it to the embroidery shop.

Most of the people without craftsmanship can only earn some scattered copper coins except for farming.

Affected by drought, the yields of hemp and kudzu were not high.In the past, the Yao family led people to harvest everywhere every day, but the women from Beiying who came later could get less.

They can only settle for the next best thing, picking and cutting Suga and Kuai.The woven fabric is not as fine as linen and Gebu, and is usually used to make mourning clothes, shoes or twisted into rope.

But now they can't allow them to pick and choose, as long as they can wear it.

"Girl, hurry up and get Yuli away..."

After inspecting the land reclamation process, Shu Yingtong was about to go to see the construction site, but Yao yelled to stop him as soon as he stepped into the large drying yard where the noise of machines and people was loud.

"what happened?"

His gaze skipped over Yao Shi who was frowning, and fell on Zhu Yu who was pedaling the spinning wheel like a hot wheel.

"Look at..." Yao Shi grabbed a ball of thread and moved forward, feeling distressed and regretful, "How can this thread weave cloth..."

After taking the ball of thread and turning it back and forth, even a layman can see that the thread is of different thickness, and there are broken knots everywhere.

Not to mention weaving, it would be shabby to hang yourself.

"Zhu Yu, don't trouble the spinning wheel." Shu Yingtong walked up to her collar with a headache.

The weather is getting colder every day, so the women rush to weave the cloth early to make winter clothes.

Making new clothes is one of the most important things for the villagers in a year. Spinning thread and weaving cloth is not only quick and careful.

Only this idiot, with a serious face, made people feel bad.

"Ah? I'm spinning so fast, I can spin beautiful threads after I practice again! Hey, hey? I want to try again~"

Zhu Yu, who was dragged away from the pony by the collar, reluctantly looked at the spinning wheel that was getting farther and farther away from her.

"There is a specialization in art, fine work is not suitable for you." Shu Yingtong let go of his hand and continued to move forward.

"That's true." Zhu Yu shook her body and kept up with the pace and whispered, "It seems that girls can't spin and weave clothes, so I can rest assured."

Anyway, she's not the only one who can't, she has a companion!

Shame together!
"The weather is getting colder, prepare to make winter clothes and quilts, you go to the county to buy cotton."

"Should I go alone? I don't know the way. How much cotton do I need to buy? Many people in the village don't have thick cotton clothes and quilts, and I don't know how the cotton price is now. In the past, it cost 250 yuan per catty, but now I don't know what it will cost. That's it."

When she heard about buying cotton, Zhu Yu was both happy and worried, and counted with her fingers how much cotton the 200-odd cash from the Huang family could buy.

Unlike others, she followed the girl empty-handed at that time, and those things were given up to the villagers when they robbed the yellow landlord's house, and she didn't even have a quilt.

It's been cold recently, and she sleeps in the same bed with Zhenniang, mother and son.

She doesn't sleep well and likes to roll up the quilt. When she wakes up several times in the morning, she sees that Zhenniang is covered with cotton clothes.

A thick quilt is at least five catties of cotton, she doesn't have enough money...

"Are you a fly?"

Shu Yingtong stopped, and the fly next to him kept his head down and kept thinking along the way.

"My money is only enough to make a quilt of this thickness, what should I do..."

With a bitter face, Zhu Yu raised her fist, stretched out her thumb and index finger and squeezed a gap for her to see.

"I don't need your few words." Shu Yingtong replied lightly, beckoning Nie Kaicheng to come over.

"Girl looking for me?" Nie Kaicheng put down the big stone, patted the ashes on his hands and stepped forward, pointing to the enclosure under construction with eyes filled with admiration.

"I saw the drawings you gave Uncle Dachun, this house is so interesting! It is windproof and earthquake-resistant, warm in winter and cool in summer. It is usually a house. If outsiders invade, once the door is closed, it will become an iron bucket! I can't wait to see it. Let's see what it looks like after it's built!"

"It will take at least a year to complete, before it can only be a residence." Shu Yingtong glanced at the busy craftsmen, and answered calmly.

A large enclosure would take four to five years. This small enclosure was not intended to allow the Beiying side to live together, and the construction time was shorter.

The villagers over there are very scattered, and their clans don't use each other. Strictly speaking, they are not of one mind. It is more worry-free to build a house for each family.

The enclosed house here can be used as an administrative center, and it can also be used as a fixed assembly point in case of major events.

"You know the way to the county seat. Tomorrow, I will go to the county seat with Zhu Yu to buy cotton. The quantity is relatively large, which is easy to attract attention. Stop by the county government office and ask Mr. An to give me some rope made of beef tendon."

"The girl said the quantity is large, how much cotton do you want to buy?"

"I don't know the price of cotton, let's make a preliminary decision of two shi."

Nie Kaicheng's eyes flashed, and he smiled with the tip of his tongue against his molars.

"I'm afraid two people are not enough. At least two carts, there must be someone to protect them. If there is a fight, things will not be taken care of."

If you go in the morning and return in the afternoon, you must walk at night.

This black light is blind...

Hmm... best for young people chatting or something.

Shu Yingtong quietly looked at the inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, "You really want to fight?"

"No!" Nie Kaicheng withdrew his smile, and suggested solemnly: "Girl, look, why don't you add Populus euphratica."

"Alright." After finishing speaking, he stopped talking and walked to the construction site.

Because the village is built next to the river, the soil is relatively soft, and the rammed composite soil for the foundation cannot achieve the effect she expected.

When the foundation is rammed, dense pine plum blossom piles are driven in. The lateral pressure of the soil on the wooden piles increases the friction between the piles and the soil. At the same time, the bottom of the piles also has a certain bearing capacity to support the superstructure together.

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