Poor family mother and son

Chapter 162

"It was only this year that I brought sheep shearling to me. I think Hong Guogong wore it last year!" the emperor challenged.

"Your Majesty, there was no tiger skin or beeswax last year!" Hu Hengqiu was very stupid, he wanted to ask the emperor to speak well, and it was all money!

"Look at what that box is?" The emperor clicked on the box next to him, which was smaller and looked lighter.

Inside are various Voss-style wool felt ornaments, hanging pictures, and some wool dyed in various colors, steel cones and so on.

"What is this?" the emperor asked, picking up an ornament of a Voss man riding a galloping horse with a harness in his hand.

This ornament is a foot and a half high, and the characters and horses on it are lifelike, and it is full of movement when placed on the table.

"Your Majesty, there should be some 'instructions', right?" Hu Hengqiu reminded that every time Chu Qing sent something, there would be a copy of the "instructions".

Eunuch Li hurriedly checked the box.Sure enough, there was folded stationery at the bottom of each box.On the letter paper in this small box is written the gameplay of "Poking Joy".

The voice of the little eunuch came from the door: "The queen is here, the princess is here."

"Is the queen listening to the letter?" The emperor looked at the queen with a smile.

"Greetings to Royal Father." The little princess stared at the ornament and said insincerely.

"Hahaha," the emperor held the ornament in his hand but did not put it down, and the little princess just stared at it silently.

"This is mine, this is yours!" The emperor pointed to a pile of wool, awl and other parts.

"The concubine heard that Chu Baihu gave a New Year's gift, and wanted to take a look. Zhaohua happened to be there, so she followed." The queen said, looking at the cloaks that Eunuch Li was sorting out, and asked: "These are all ?"

"Queen, these are all sent by Master Chu. There are three cloaks in total, all of which are of the highest quality."

Eunuch Li's words are true, because he has never handled fur like this in the past.

Wool has always been worn directly by hunters. The natural color of wool is still curled up, unlike these cloaks, which are neat and fluffy.

"The concubine guesses, this one belongs to the concubine!" The queen was already staring at the peacock blue cloak, her favorite color.

"Let's go, I will go to the empress's place with you, so that the empress can see what's new." Emperor Qingde said.

This is clear, every time something is produced is always different from others.

Hu Hengqiu was dumbfounded, this is going to the harem, he can't follow, then the task of "beautiful words" entrusted to him by Chu Qing will not be completed.

He couldn't get the emperor to praise these things, and then spread them out and "advertise them widely". What about the sales of these cotton and wool products?Where is the money?money!
I can't wait to beat my chest and stamp my feet, but I can't drag the emperor's robe to prevent me from leaving, can I?

The emperor, the empress and Princess Zhaohua went to the queen mother's palace.

Sure enough, when the queen mother saw these gifts, she liked everything, looked at all kinds of soaps of different colors, picked them up one by one and smelled them: "This one is good, it smells like mint; oh, this one is better, you can ask, Peach Blossom This is, um, the emperor, you use it best, this is sandalwood, queen, you smell it, this is the smell of green grass, it is best for the princes..."

It has become a fragrance meeting.

"Grandmother, can I take these away?" Princess Zhaohua had a chance to ask for something.The emperor hates her the most. If she has good things, she insists on teasing them. She is no longer a child. Can she be less childish!

Zhaohua, who was eight years old during Chinese New Year, secretly cast a blank glance at her father, and begged for something from the emperor's grandmother.

"What is this?" The Queen Mother looked at the steel cone and dyed wool in Zhaohua's hand, curious.

"Grandmother, these can be made into beautiful dolls. I'm going to go back and figure out how to make them." Zhaohua fiddled with these small tools, which seemed a bit difficult.

"Empress Dowager, look!" Nanny Yu, who was beside the Empress Dowager, came over with a shelf.

"This is... a spinning wheel?" The Empress Dowager took it over and looked at it, "It's really small, I don't know if it can be used." Then she turned the crank handle, "It really works!"

"Queen Mother, why don't you give it a try? Look, there is still a spindle here." Nanny Yu pointed to the small spindle next to it, "There is also a small loom over there, but it is piece by piece, so we need to find someone who knows how to Put it on."

Only then did the emperor and queen discover that the largest box contained a spinning wheel and a loom, as well as wool wadding and cotton wadding, and... an assembly diagram!

For the convenience of transportation, these mini machines are disassembled into pieces, but each piece has the words "one, two, three, four, front and back".

On the assembly drawing, the assembly method of each part and each piece of semi-finished product is drawn very clearly, which can be understood at a glance.

Madam Yu summoned the handy eunuchs to assemble everything. From this point of view, it was a hand-operated spinning wheel, a pedal-operated three-spindle spinning wheel, and a simple loom.

The wood is all polished, very smooth, the color of the original wood, without any paint.

It is a bit helpless to pretend that it is installed and no one will use it.

A court lady came in and said: "Queen Dowager, Empress, Mrs. Hong Guogong, please see me."

"Oh, the Ai family actually forgot, yesterday the Ai family asked her to come into the palace to talk." The queen mother hurriedly announced Mrs. Hong to come in and talk.

Among the family members of these foreign ministers, Mrs. Hong was the closest to the Queen Mother in age and temperament, so the Queen Mother often let Mrs. Hong into the palace to accompany her when she was free.Mrs. Hong brought two blood amber bracelets to the Queen Mother and Queen, saying it was an annual gift from Chu Qing.

But I didn't expect the emperor to be there, I was feeling embarrassed that there was nothing for the emperor, and I was seeing all kinds of gadgets on the desk, hehe, the queen mother also received a lot of gifts here!

Now there is no need to be embarrassed: "Is this a spinning wheel? It's really small!"

"Can you use it?" The queen mother looked forward to it.

"Queen Mother, the concubine is an expert!" Mrs. Hong replied "without shame", "It's just that the concubine can spin hemp. I don't know if the wool is made in the same way."

"Quick, try it!"

Mrs. Hong grabbed a bundle of wool, twisted it with her fingers, hung it on one end of the spindle, and then shook the handle, and saw that the wool slowly became slender under her hands, but it broke soon.

Wool is not as tough as hemp fiber. After several experiments, Mrs. Hong finally got it right. She was turning the rope wheel with one hand and stretching the wool bundle with the other. is getting longer and longer.

Madam Hong passed her hand forward, and the woolen yarn was tangled on the spinning spindle.As the hand is raised and passed, the wool on the spindle becomes more and more.

"It's really a master! Let Aijia try it!" The queen mother looked at it strangely, and couldn't wait to get started, so the itchy emperor and princess had to hold back for the time being.

But how could the emperor hold back, and ordered the little eunuch to bring the three-spindle spinning wheel. This spinning wheel is bigger, but it is much more impressive than the small one of the queen mother!
The embarrassment is the embarrassment here. The emperor did not pull out a thread for a long time to let the queen try it, but the queen couldn't figure it out.

Finally, Princess Zhaohua pulled out the first section of thread without making a sound, but she didn't know what to do when faced with the other two spindles.

It's too much fun for a small machine to be difficult for a group of people, Yumao snickered while changing the tea.

When Princess Zhaohua was finally able to use the second spindle, Mrs. Hong had already taught the queen mother how to play "poke fun". Now the little princess couldn't bear it anymore, so she left the spinning wheel and went to play with the awl.

On the contrary, the jacquard loom was neglected. Although it was a miniature version, it was as big as a table.Standing there alone, peerless and independent!

"Queen, these are probably what Chu Qing used to make sweaters and trousers," Madam Hong said.

"Sweater and wool trousers?" The queen mother was confused.

"You haven't seen it yet, have you? Isn't it in this box?" Mrs. Hong pointed to an open box next to her. The palace lady had already untied the fur wrappers, but no one could see what those braided fabrics were inside.

Mrs. Hong walked over to pick up a sweater and gestured: "This thing is really warm. I'm wearing it now. It's still close to the body. Look, it doesn't hinder wearing outer clothes at all. It's not cold when you go out."

While talking, he rolled up the cuffs to show the queen mother: "Just wear it over the obscene clothes, don't wear it against the skin, it will itch if you wear it against the skin, but it's warm."

"So thin? How did you get it in?" The queen mother looked at Mrs. Hong's round waist.

"Queen Mother, this thing is very flexible. You can put it on in one set and take it off easily." Mrs. Hong put her arm into the sweater in her hand, stretched it out, and then retracted her arm, and the sweater returned to its original shape.

"Oh, this is good, let's give it a try!" The Empress Dowager looked at Mammy Yu, who hurriedly supported the Empress Dowager to the back hall.

(End of this chapter)