Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 195 The Loom

   Brocade is famous for its bright colors. Shu Brocade has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is known as the Four Famous Brocades in China together with Zhuang Brocade in Guangxi, Yun Brocade in Nanjing and Song Brocade in Suzhou.

   The rose-red Shu brocade that Aunt Qing was reluctant to part with had a gorgeous pattern. It was woven with various brightly-colored silk threads into clusters of flowers and birds. The color was mainly rose-red.

   This kind of brocade can be made into clothes to wear in winter... Zhao Hanzhang tilted his head and thought about it, and he thought it was pretty good-looking.

  Especially in the snow, it looks good in a pleated skirt.

   This sentence flashed in Zhao Hanzhang's mind. Aunt Qing had already removed her hand from the rose-red Shu brocade and put it on a plain brocade next to her, saying, "This one is good."

   This was also what she saw early in the morning.

   This plain brocade is made of moon white, with a large pattern woven on the top, small flowers and auspicious clouds intertwined in the middle, and the silk thread is drawn with three-color light yellow to highlight the color difference.

  Wang didn't take it to heart at first, but when he saw this Su Jin, he couldn't help but go to see his daughter.

   She also likes this one, and the color of this Sujin matches her daughter well.

   She kept going to see Zhao Hanzhang.

   Zhao Hanzhang didn't want to make new clothes. Seeing that no one was fighting with Aunt Qing, they chose the color they wanted. Zhao Hanzhang asked the document, "What's the price of these Shu brocade and satin?"

  The price of the document was raised in a serious manner, and the quotation for each horse was different. He also said: "This is the price that the county government bought."

   He is not as thick-skinned as Chang Ning and Zhao Hanzhang, and he still felt a little guilty after speaking, so he explained more, "The reason for the high price is that the distance from Shu to this place is far away, and the road is not peaceful, and we have very few businessmen in Xiping."

   Zhao Hanzhang glanced at him, and the clerk realized that he had said too much, and immediately shut up.

Fortunately, aunts and aunts have little experience in bargaining, and what he said is true. Now there are very few Xiping merchants, even if there are, most of them are selling grain and ordinary cloth. They all heard that they are buying a lot of goods and delivering them. Here, there is not a single precious silk and silk brocade.

  How dare the small merchants transport such precious things at this time?

   If you are robbed on the road, you will be bankrupt.

   So now good fabrics are very expensive in Xiping.

  Although the price of the paperwork was indeed too expensive, it was still within their range, so everyone bought it without blinking an eye.

   Zhao Hanzhang smiled slightly and asked the clerk to collect the money. It was getting late, so he simply got up and said, "I'll take my aunt and auntie back."

   Aunt Qing and others laughed and said, "You are busy, you don't have to send them off."

   Wang also said: "We still have to go shopping."

"Alright," Zhao Hanzhang asked the little maid to take them out to play, and gave Wang a money bag, "A-niang will buy whatever she likes, and then buy something for me to honor my aunts and aunts, Hanzhang will not Stay with me."

   Wang received the money in person and was very happy, "Alright, alright, go get busy."

   When Zhao Hanzhang was far away, Aunt Qing dared to let go, "Brother and sister, why don't you see your good son-in-law?"

   Wang said calmly, "People like them are busy."

  Fu Tinghan was indeed busy. As soon as Zhao Hanzhang left, he took a pen and meditated among the piles of dismantled wood.

   When Zhao Hanzhang came back, his drawings were almost done.

   "You came back just in time, take a look at the picture." Fu Tinghan showed her the finished picture.

   "I got the carpenter, let's try it out first."

"it is good."

  The two were addicted to making looms. Mrs. Wang brought everyone back after shopping and saw them. After hesitating for a while, they didn’t bother them anymore.

  Xiping County got the eight carts of cotton wool from Zhu Chuan, and the number of winter clothes and quilts filled with cotton wool increased.

The winter clothes and quilts that were made were distributed one after another, first to the orphans and the elderly in the Yushan Hall, then to the severely damaged families in the county town. First, the children and women were given their share, and then the children and the refugees who had defected. woman...

   When it was the men’s turn, most of them turned into winter clothes and quilts filled with reeds and catkins, and some of them had not been obtained yet.

   But no one was dissatisfied, everyone was waiting quietly, and happily accepted the gift from the county government.

The    county government is still making people work harder, so the refugees know what they have.

  Ji Yuan sent people to deliver five carts of winter clothes and quilts, all of which were left over from Shang Cai.

   The steward who came to deliver the things bowed and said, "Mr. Ji said that the manor can spend the winter safely this year."

   There were also a lot of refugees gathered there, but because the rebel army didn’t get there, they kept on their feet and kept building houses. Up to now, the brick houses they built are basically enough to accommodate everyone.

  Although it takes a dozen people to squeeze into a room, it's still quite warm.

   Zhao Hanzhang envied for a while, thinking that Shangcai Manor was also her site, envy turned into relief.

  The last group of people also received winter clothes and quilts, the temperature began to drop sharply, the north wind was blowing, and the improved version of the loom that Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan worked together to do was also ready.

  The two looked at the loom, which had grown a lot, and finally Zhao Hanzhang squeezed his fingers and said, "I'll try it."

   Fu Tinghan also looked expectantly.

Listening to He hung the thread for her and pulled it up, Zhao Hanzhang stepped on the loom and pulled it a few times, and then he woven a finger-length cloth. The roller in the middle fell off.

   Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan smiled stiffly, squatted down quickly, and half of their bodies got under the loom to see.

   Fu Tinghan said with a headache: "This position is unstable."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "It seems that we have to change."

   But looking at the finger-length cloth, Zhao Hanzhang was still very happy, "I just pulled it a few times and it became a cloth. Obviously we succeeded."

  Fu Tinghan, "It's a pity that the time is too short, don't you know what else is lacking?"

   Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and said, "It's not light enough, it takes a lot of effort."

   She said: "I have a lot of strength, so I can pull it down smoothly, but with another woman, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort to pull it."

   Fu Tinghan thoughtfully, "So I have to find a way to reduce the force..."

   Zhao Hanzhang let him think, and when he finished writing and drawing on the paper, he came out of the state: "Today Xiaoxue, my mother told us to go back to Wubao for dinner. Let's take Erlang back later."

  This loom improvement is not something that can be done in a day or two, Fu Tinghan nodded and said, "Okay."

   So in the afternoon, Zhao Hanzhang called Zhao Erlang, and the group rode back to Wubao.

   It was just too cold and the wind hurt his face, so the three of them were not riding fast, so they ran forward slowly.

   There were almost no people on the street. When it was cold, everyone stayed at home and didn’t come out. The shops were only half-opened. When they applied, they immediately closed the door when they saw that no customers came.

   There is still one chapter that I can't finish halfway through, and I'll update it tomorrow morning

   (end of this chapter)