Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 12 Self-sufficiency
After having breakfast, Caiwei, together with Concubine Xu and Meiren Liu, cleaned up a side room and moved the spinning wheel and machine to that room. They would work in that room from now on.

After cleaning up the house, it was already noon. Caiwei used a casserole to cook rice on the stove, and used a small iron pot to make braised pork with dried bamboo shoots and stir-fried vegetables.

After the meal was ready, Caiwei first gave one to Leng Luoyue, and then ate with Xu Taibi and Liu Meiren on the stone table in the yard.

Xu Taibin and Liu Meiren have not eaten white rice for a long time. They just think that this white rice is simply delicious in the world. They can eat half a bowl of rice with just one piece of meat.

Because the food was limited, Mrs. Xu and Meiren Liu only ate eighty cents full, but this was also the most filling meal they had ever eaten.

After lunch, the two of them rushed to wash the bowls.

Leng Luoyue assigned them the task of spinning wool into thicker thread, and then weaving the thread into cloth.

Liu Meiren tilted her head and asked, "Can this wool be spun into thread? Weaved into cloth?"

This was the first time she had heard someone say that this wool could be used for spinning and weaving.She had only heard that the sheepskin was useful, and wool was something no one wanted.

Leng Luoyue smiled and said: "Cotton can be spun into thread and woven into cloth, so why not wool?"

"Luoyue said it can be spun into cloth, so it must be possible. Let's go do something quickly!" Concubine Xu pulled Meiren Liu away.

They went to the side room, and Caiwei took out the milk bottle and milk powder, and prepared milk powder for the kitten.After preparing the milk powder, he hurried to the side room to teach Liu Mei and Xu Taibi how to spin.

Xu Taibin rolled the wool into a ball and said while doing so: "This wool is really soft! It's softer than cotton. If you use it to make clothes, it will definitely be very comfortable to wear." .”

"This wool has no smell at all, and it smells fragrant, with a hint of gardenia." Liu Meiren looked at Caiwei who was spinning thread and said, "You went to pick it in that rotten garden. Gardenias, boiled into water, can wash these wools?"

There is also a garden in this cold palace, and there are flowers, plants and trees planted in it, but because no one takes care of it, it is overgrown with weeds. Those flowers and plants should have died long ago, and only a few gardenia trees are left, which are still strong. alive.

Naturally, Caiwei couldn't say that she washed the wool with things used by gods, so she nodded and said, "Yes!"

Caiwei taught Liu Meiren how to spin thread, and in just half an afternoon, all that bag of wool was spun into thread.

After the wool was spun into thread, Caiwei asked Xu Taibin to weave. After half an hour of teaching, Xu Taibin mastered the skills, but the weaving movement was much slower than Caiwei's.The cloth was woven until dark, but it was not finished.

In the evening, Caiwei made four bowls of noodles with flour and had a simple dinner.

Caiwei had no money at hand, just two hundred coins, and couldn't ask Guard Zhang to help buy groceries, so they could only save some food before they earned money.

In the evening, Concubine Xu and Meiren Liu left. Caiwei was making clothes under the lamp while talking to her empress.

"Madam, we have no money on hand, so we can't let Guard Zhang bring vegetables in. I still have a small piece of meat hanging in the well, and there are some dried bamboo shoots left. I will finish it at noon tomorrow and there will be nothing left. We have to wait. With income, we can ask Guard Zhang to help buy groceries."

To be honest, she was a little worried. Now that she had two more mouths, she was consuming everything quickly.

There are only four guards on duty in this cold palace, divided into three classes, with one person in each class, and one to take over when the other three are resting.If there are two more people to eat, there will be more food for Guard Zhang to buy for them, which will cause more trouble for them.And the guard Zhang is not always available every day, and when it is his turn to be on duty at night, it is not convenient for the grocery shopping agent to come in.There is a well outside the yard where Caiwei and the others live. The well is only used by them and the old concubine. They buy meat or stew soup and hang it in the well.

Leng Luoyue was not worried and said very confidently: "Don't worry, the dolls we make will definitely sell for a good price. As long as they are done, we will make money soon."

Caiwei said: "It's just inconvenient to be in the cold palace. The weather is hot now, and the vegetables you bring in can't be kept for a long time. The vegetables you bring in will wilt after a long time, and the guard Zhang can't bring us vegetables every day." ." Moreover, one purchase of groceries costs [-] yuan, and she also felt a lot of pain.

"This is indeed a problem," Leng Luoyue lowered her eyelids and thought for a moment, then looked at Caiwei and asked, "Is there any open space outside our yard?"

"Yes! There is a flower garden outside the yard, but the flowers in it have died long ago. Now they are all weeds." There is not much in this cold palace, except for the most weeds.

That's easy to handle, Leng Luoyue said: "Next time we ask Guard Zhang to bring some things, we can ask him to bring some vegetables in and use the flowerbed outside the yard to plant vegetables. When the vegetables grow, we can You don’t have to ask Guard Zhang to bring you back. By the way, you can also ask him to bring in a few chicks. Chickens lay eggs, and eggs lay chickens. We don’t need anyone to bring in meat, so we can eat meat.”

Caiwei thought for a while and said with a smile: "This is a great idea. We farm our own land, raise our own chickens, and are self-sufficient. Not only do we save money, but we don't have to bother others."

Caiwei thought that if she could be free tomorrow, she would go and weed the flowerbed first.

The next day, Mrs. Xu and Meiren Liu came directly for breakfast. Although they only had white porridge, it was better than the food in the imperial kitchen. They didn't say anything.

In half a morning's work, the woolen cloth was woven, and it was soft and comfortable.

Xu Taibin touched the woolen cloth and said, "If this is made into clothes, it will be very warm when worn under a cotton coat in winter."

Caiwei smiled and said: "Anyway, my concubine, you can weave cloth. When the weather gets cold, you can weave a piece of cloth and make yourself some clothes."

The three of them entered the inner room and showed the knitted cloth to Leng Luoyue.

Leng Luoyue touched the cloth and felt that it was much softer than the wool sweater she bought before.She asked Caiwei to bring the brush and gently brushed the wool cloth with the brush. The fine plush was brushed out in an instant.

Seeing that her idea was correct, Leng Luoyue felt relieved and gave the cloth to Caiwei and asked her to brush one side to make it fluffy.After brushing, trim the fluff of different lengths to the same length with scissors.

Caiwei spent half the morning brushing out the fluff.At noon, I made lunch and asked Concubine Xu and Beauty Liu to trim the hair.

During the process of brushing, a lot of hair was lost, but they did not waste it and collected it all.

After lunch, Leng Luoyue asked Caiwei to borrow pen and paper from the old concubine, and drew several dolls, and asked Caiwei to pick one to look at first.

Caiwei chose a lop-eared bunny. She was clever with her hands and brain, and she made the lop-eared bunny in less than an hour.

The rabbit's eyes and mouth are all embroidered with needlework. The outside is fluffy and snow-white, and the inside is filled with soft cotton. It looks very cute.

(End of this chapter)