Lady Caisang: My husband is a little sweet

Chapter 350 Grass Cotton
Of course, not everyone will come. They feel that they have become Jiang Rongan's staff and lost their status, and just send a manager or something to make a scene.

For other families, it may not necessarily be the head of the family, but it may also send a junior or experienced person to come forward. In short, things are going on like this.

The Qixi Festival is not as lively as the capital, and the customs of the Ghost Festival are also slightly different. After the end of summer, it will be the beginning of autumn, and the weather will gradually cool down.

Counting the solar terms one by one to live, the time passed in a flash, and the autumnal equinox, the weather was relatively cold, and at this time the cotton field was busy and lively, picking seeds and picking flowers, and it looked like a bumper harvest.

Gu Qingya is not familiar with kapok, the cotton or cotton thread she bought before has been processed, but Aunt Ting has been in contact with it, and she was happy to say a few more words when she saw the cotton harvest.

Cotton needs to be seeded and cooked before it can be spun. After the spun thread has to be processed, it can be woven into cloth.

Except for the difference in the preliminary work, the subsequent process is actually similar to silk.

But if you really compare the value of the two sides, silk must be more expensive. In addition to the characteristics of silk, it is also because the harvest and effort in farming are incomparable with cotton planting.

Everyone knows that farming is hard work, but it is really hard to boil silkworms. You can’t sleep much during the day and night.

Now that the family conditions are better, Gu Qingya doesn't want Gu Shi and her younger sister to cook silkworms again, but Gu Shi disagrees, thinking that the position given by the Wu family will give her a sense of accomplishment.

The Su family has its own village with a lot of fields, and there are special tenants weaving. Gu Qingya tried to ask, and after getting the consent, she took Guoguo and Cheng Shui to follow Mrs. Su to the village.

"Hello, Aunt Liang." When Guoguo saw Mrs. Su, she still had some impressions, and she saluted decently, but she didn't stand up properly, and almost fell off her feet. Gu Qingya hurriedly helped her up , a little funny.

"Alright, Qianqian, Qianwen, quickly say hello to Aunt Qing." Mrs. Su pulled the youngest daughter and youngest son aside.

The boy saluted with his hands raised, and then looked around, one staring at the kite in the girl's hand behind him, without the adult's permission, he had to wait patiently.

Qianqian followed Gu Qingya to salute, but her voice was relatively low, and then she held Guoguo's hand tightly, and the two little girls secretly played with each other's fingers.

"Today is good weather, just suitable for kite flying, the children can't wait, let's go." Gu Qingya said with a smile, each got into two donkey carts, and drove slowly to Zhuangzi outside the city.

Let Cheng Shui and other girls from the Su family watch the three children play together, while Gu Qingya and Mrs. Su Shao watched how the tenants played cotton.

Although there are corresponding materials in the library, Gu Qingya is still very interested, and then she looked at how people spin cotton thread. Compared with silkworm cocoons, it needs to be boiled to extract silk, which is really much simpler.

Mrs. Su was very surprised to hear Gu Qingya comparing the difference between cotton and silk like a few treasures, "I heard my sister say so, but she is very good at raising silkworms to make silk?"

Mrs. Su always thought that even if Gu Qingya was not from a wealthy family, she would be a jade from a small family, so she should not be able to do these rough jobs.

"When I was young, my family was poor, so I was familiar with cooking silkworms with my mother every silkworm season." Gu Qingya didn't feel that her background was anything to be ashamed of.

"I'm fine, I can say a few words about these things, if I do it, I won't be able to produce a cotton thread for a long time." Mrs. Su was a little surprised, but she also admired Gu Qingya for being able to say it by herself.

"I have observed that your kind of kapok seems to be different from other places, and the woven cloth should be different. Why are there not many of them?" Gu Qingya has read a few pages of books, and she thinks she understands a little bit.

"My sister must have seen the new kind of cotton. Ours is grass cotton, which feels finer to the touch. The woven cloth is soft and suitable for babies to wear. It is generally only circulated locally and around, and it is relatively rare outside."

The Su family got some new cotton seeds, which were different from the original grass cotton, so she knew something about it.

Gu Qingya was taken aback, she didn't go to the field to see it, and she didn't know what the cotton here looked like, so she said that it felt very unusual to the touch, it turned out to be a problem with the variety, so the one she bought at home should be a different variety up.

Based on the feel, Gu Qingya thinks this kind of grass cotton feels better, "I think this kind of grass cotton is better, and the woven cotton cloth should not be difficult to sell at a high price."

"You don't know, the yield of this grass cotton is lower than that of other seeds, and the yarn and cloth produced by the same ten catties of cotton are much less, and there are fewer and fewer people growing it nowadays."

Gu Qingya was surprised at first and then understood in her heart, when the ratio of cost to profit decreases, everyone will choose something more profitable.

"This grass cotton is only unique to Honghe Prefecture, or is it also found in other places?" Gu Qingya deeply understands that sometimes a unique local variety can often become the foundation of a local people's survival.

"I don't know about this, I have to go home and ask the old man to find out." Mrs. Su shook her head, she really didn't care about this.

Gu Qingya nodded, "I think this grass cotton is very suitable for weaving many kinds of cloth, especially for personal wear, it should be excellent."

"Our weaving skills here are not as good as those in the south, and there are only a few of the most common ones, nothing special." Mrs. Su still has some understanding of this.

Gu Qingya smiled, of course she has a weaving method, as to whether to take it out, it is not up to her to make the decision, it depends on what Jiang Rongan thinks.

"Can I trouble my sister to find me a few catties of this grass cotton? You also know that I am from sericulture, and I am still very interested in cotton spinning."

Going back to study, she suddenly remembered that Li had mentioned a kind of flannelette in a book she had read, but she couldn't find a suitable material. Maybe this could be successfully researched.

Gu Qingya likes very soft quilts and sheets, it would be best if they could be a little fluffy.She knows that people use animal fur, but no matter how well it is handled, she always feels that she can smell that smell, so she doesn't touch fur in her clothes unless she has to.

"It's just a trivial matter. It's really troublesome. If my sister really comes up with something new, I should share it with my sister."

Who said Mrs. Su is not shrewd? Gu Qingya only talked about research and research, but didn't reveal anything. She just came up with the idea of ​​the finished product. It can only be said that some people have sharper intuition.

Gu Qingya smiled wryly, "I don't have much experience, I hope I don't waste this cotton, if there are finished products, I will give some to my sister."

"How can my sister be ingenious? I am very confident." Unlike other families, Mrs. Su would make such enthusiastic contact with Gu Qingya, not only her temper, but also her family's instruction.

(End of this chapter)