Farmhouse Golden Phoenix

Chapter 65

Although the things Su Qinghe chose were easier to make, the cotton was not easy to handle.Fortunately, the weather in the past few days was good, and the sun was shining every day, so the cotton was dry enough to dry out. However, to make something, you had to remove the cotton seeds inside.

This is not a later life. As soon as it is stuffed into the machine, the cotton seeds and cotton are separated.At the moment, it is completely by hand. There is a lot of cotton, and the cotton seeds have to be picked out one by one.In addition, there is not much cotton, so Su Qinghe has to be stingy and request that there is no trace of cotton on the cotton seeds, which is a lot of work.

The two sisters had just been busy for half an hour, when they heard Su Zhang shouting outside the door: "Xiao He, Xiao Lan, what are you two doing? What time is it, why don't you hurry up and go to bed? Hurry up, blow!" Turn on the light and go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow."

Su Qinghe replied hesitantly, Su Zhang didn't know what the two of them were doing, and was worried that the two of them were doing something bad, so she simply opened the door to take a look.As a result, it was found that the two people were barely buried in the cotton pile.

"What are you doing?" Su Zhang asked in surprise. Su Qinghe was busy, and was almost taken aback. When she came back to her senses, she wanted to hide the cotton. In the end, she found that there was too much cotton. I couldn't hide it at all, so I had to smile embarrassingly: "Mother, we are busy."

"What are you doing?" Mrs. Su Zhang became even more skeptical, and directly stretched out her hand to pull Su Qinglan up: "Xiaolan, tell Fourth Aunt, what are you two doing? Are you doing something bad? What are you planning to do with so much cotton?" ?”

Su Qinglan was a little embarrassed, looked at Su Qinghe, then at Su Zhangshi, and said, just now Xiaohe said that this is a secret between the two of them.Don't tell me, the fourth aunt usually cares about her so much, she is not used to lying to the fourth aunt.

"Come on, be good, tell my fourth aunt, what are you two doing?" Su Zhang asked again, Su Qinghe couldn't bear it, and explained in detail: "Xiaohe said, to make something, put these The cotton is folded and sewn into the cloth cover."

Su Zhang frowned and looked at the pile of cotton on the table: "Xiao He, what are you doing with this?"

"Mother, this, didn't I see that reed catkin a while ago?" Su Qinghe racked her brains, originally thinking that she wanted to secretly give this thing to Mr. Shen, and when he realized the benefits, he wrote a letter to ask for it. As for the planting method, at that time, she happened to tell her family that Mr. Shen had told her about the effect of the cotton.

Anyway, her parents may never have the chance to contact Mr. Shen again in their lifetime, so what to say when the time comes, isn't she the one who has the final say?Concealment at both ends, as long as both ends have an account.

However, I never expected that the item would be dismantled before it was sent out.

"What's wrong with the catkins?" Su Zhang asked again, Su Qinghe hesitated for a while, and had no choice but to drag on: "Didn't I ask you last year, that catkins are so light, why don't you use them to make clothes in winter?" ?”

Su Zhang frowned and nodded: "The reed catkins are light and fluffy, and they are strangely soft when crumpled, but they don't keep warm. Why do you think of this one again?"

"I saw that the cotton was very similar to the reed catkins, and felt soft and very comfortable. I wondered if this cotton was better than the catkins. It should be very warm, so I wanted to try it. .If it's really warm, don't we find a use for cotton?"

Su Qinghe hurriedly smiled and said that she originally thought that this statement was full of loopholes, so she planned to coax her at both ends, but she didn't expect that after she finished speaking, Su Zhangshi would actually think about it seriously: "What you said is quite reasonable, This cotton is soft and warm to the touch, if it is made into clothes, it may be better than reed catkins, if it is hidden, it will be warmer than reed catkins, maybe it can be sold.”

After finishing speaking, he looked at the things on the table: "What is the cover you made for? It's so small, isn't it clothes?"

"Mother, these are gloves." Su Qinghe quickly picked up the gloves on the table, put them on her hands and showed them to Su Zhang, showing off, "Mother, am I smart? You see, if people are cold, they have to wear clothes, then If your hands are cold, you have to wear clothes, and if you put this on your fingers, your hands will definitely not be cold."

Mrs. Su Zhang took a look around and nodded with a smile: "You have a lot of ghost ideas, this is really good, but, can't you do it during the day? You have to wait until this night, in the middle of the night, you two stay up all night to do this ?”

"Mother, I have an idea." Su Qinghe leaned close to Su Zhangshi and muttered: "I see, Mr. Shen is either rich or noble, he must be capable. Dad is not worried that Mr. Shen is gone. After that, will no one in our family be able to protect us? I thought, make this glove and give it to Mr. Shen tomorrow, and then let him know the effect of cotton."

Mrs. Su Zhang didn't understand: "What use does he know? Are you planning to sell all our cotton to him? Also, you don't know if your gloves can keep you warm. If you don't keep warm, Tomorrow you give it to Mr. Shen, isn't this something that offends people?"

"Mother, listen to me. The reason why I want to make this glove right now is because I plan to sleep with it when I'm done. If it's not warm, I'll know tomorrow morning." Su Qinghe rolled her eyes. Turn around, and hurriedly said, originally it was in a hurry, but now in order to fool Su Zhang, he hurriedly found a perfect excuse for himself.

Su Zhang frowned: "Your child's house, if this one doesn't keep warm and freezes your fingers, wouldn't it be worse? I'll make it for you, and I'll take it with me when I'm done."

As Su Zhang said, he picked up the needle and thread on the table, and then stared at the two pieces of cloth for a long time: "How did you do this?"

As soon as she finished asking, Su Jingsen from the back room shouted: "Mother, what are you doing? You don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you talking about there? And Xiao He, go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow. "

Afraid of waking up the two sons next door, Mrs. Su got up and went to the back room again, repeating what Su Qinghe said before: "I think Xiaohe's idea is very good. If this cotton is really useful, we will give away all the cotton at home. For Mr. Shen, he has accepted our favor, so he will definitely contact us in the future, right?"

On the contrary, Su Jingsen thought more, sat on the bedside and thought for a while, then frowned and said, "Mother, think about it, the corn seeds before were given to Xiaohe by Mr. Shen, and the cotton seeds were also given by Mr. Shen." Xiao He's, let Xiao He plant them all."

Su Zhangshi also felt that something was wrong.Corn is something that everyone didn't know what it was, but it was only when Xiaohe was planted that everyone knew it was a kind of grain.As for cotton, if it can really keep warm, it may play a big role in the future.

The common people have a hard time, the weather is cold in winter, and without fur coats, they can only use grass to fill their clothes, but that grass, no matter how warm it is, how warm can it keep?For example, one family lives in a thatched cottage, while the other lives in a brick house.It was all winter, and the family living in thatched cottages wore extra-thick winter coats made of straw, which were no more warm than the three-layer linen clothes of the family living in brick houses.

Every winter, tens of thousands of people freeze to death in the entire Taiyuan County, even in their town, there are always a dozen or so. Think of the warming effect of the grass-made winter clothes.

If what Xiao He thinks is true and cotton really keeps warm, then for ordinary people, it is a life-saving thing in winter.

This thing was planted by Xiaohe.

"You also said that Mr. Shen's family is either rich or expensive, and our little He is beautiful..." Su Jingsen's train of thought had already turned to a very strange path, and Su Zhangshi also opened his mouth wide in a daze, that's right, my family The girl is so capable, so smart, so beautiful, if Mr. Shen takes a fancy to him and insists on letting Xiao He be his concubine, wouldn't Xiao He be finished for the rest of her life?

Su Jingsen and Su Zhang's are still very self-aware. Although their own family has a little money now, compared with Mr. Shen, it must be a world difference. Their own family can't climb up to Mr. Shen, so Xiaohe will follow Mr. Shen. There is only one way to be a concubine.

They don't want to, being a concubine can enjoy the glory and wealth, but, outside the town's Huang Yuan, the concubine in the family was beaten to death by the big woman, who dares to say anything?

"Father, mother, what are you talking about?" Su Qinghe was about to come to Su Zhangshi to get lamp oil, when she heard what her father said, she burst into laughter immediately: "Father, mother, I didn't grow this corn and cotton , if it wasn't for my father, I wouldn't know how to grow it. It has nothing to do with me. Besides, Mr. Shen looks like he is seventeen or eighteen. Maybe the family got married early. I am only eight years old, so far away Now, Mr. Shen won't be looking at a yellow-haired girl like me."

"Who said, why is my daughter a yellow-haired girl? My daughter is beautiful." Su Jingsen retorted, and Su Qinghe smiled and shook his hand: "That's why father loves his daughter, so he sees me as the most beautiful, Mr. Shen Coming from a big place, I must look down on a country girl like me. Dad thinks too much, and tomorrow he will say that this cotton is grown by dad, can’t you just get it? Besides, this cotton doesn’t necessarily keep warm or not, I’m thinking about it too early."

Su Jingsen patted the bed board: "That's right, I planted this cotton. There were aphids before. If it wasn't for me, this cotton would have been eaten by insects long ago. I planted it. It's a matter of keeping warm." , or your mother came up with it, it's nothing to Xiaohe."

Mrs. Su Zhang also reacted, and nodded with a smile: "Well, then I'll make those gloves in a while, try to see if it's warm tonight, and talk about it tomorrow."

"Actually, Dad misunderstood what I meant. Dad planted corn before, and now he planted cotton. These two seeds were all given by Mr. Shen. I mean, to make Mr. Shen feel that our family is useful, he gave them Our family can figure out what the seeds are for, and we can plant them for him.”

Su Qinghe was also afraid of Su Jingsen's wild thoughts, so he quickly explained a few words: "I see, Mr. Shen seems to be very concerned about these things, maybe, for the sake of our usefulness, he will often contact our family in the future, as long as he If you still contact our family, then you don’t have to worry about being missed.”

Su Jingsen thought for a while, then smacked her lips and nodded: "That's the truth. Our family is useful, and Mr. Shen won't let people take our family away at will. It's my daughter who is smart, and she figured out this truth after thinking about it. .”

Su Qinghe twisted her body in embarrassment, and lay in Su Zhang's arms: "I can see it from the book, and the stories in the book are all written like this. If a person is useful to others, then he will be protected by others." stand up."

"It seems that reading more is good." Su Jingsen nodded and said, Su Zhang said with a smile: "Okay, reading is good, and we should let my daughter read more in the future. It's getting late, you go to bed quickly, I will go first Make that glove, it really keeps warm, and our family will be saved. If it really doesn't keep warm..."

At this point, Su Jingsen only frowned, but did not continue.Su Zhang got up directly: "Then I'll pass, you go to bed early."

Subconsciously, the couple were unwilling to think about that possibility.They talked for a long time before, but they only focused on the possibility of cotton keeping warm, and didn't mention the consequences in case of failure.It's like, if you don't mention it, that might not appear.

Su Qinghe understood their thinking. Although she wanted to comfort her, she couldn't cite any examples or proofs other than dry guarantees, so she followed Su Zhang back to the house, gritted her teeth, and planned to get the gloves off as soon as possible. Make it out, so that parents can feel at ease.

(End of this chapter)