Wen Family Has a Wife

   Chapter 74 Dyeing Cloth

   Mrs. Zhao wiped her hands and hurried out, "What's the matter? Wait, I'll call someone right now, and come here, bring something, you don't have to keep the children's mouths in their mouths."

   Zhao's temperament at home is really hot, and Chen Ningya has already pulled Huang Ergou out of the studio.

At this time, Huang Ergou was like being sprayed with flour. From head to toe, he was missing two eyeballs. Seeing that Chen Ningya really came, he hurriedly wiped it with his hands, but the more he wiped, the more buried he was." Sister-in-law, what wind brought you here."

Chen Ningya was amused, they really deserved to be a couple, and they all said the same thing, "I want to order some lime from you, now I will take some away. I want to renovate the front yard in a while, and I still need a lot. No, I think you are also familiar with the doorway here, so I will come over and tell you first."

Huang Ergou's lime business was the most popular last year. Although there are a lot of orders this year, most of them are in summer. At this time, there are fewer guests. Chen Ningya said, Huang Ergou immediately assured: "This It's all up to me, but sister-in-law, does my brother agree to this?"

   Don't blame Huang Ergou for being so talkative, it's true that such a major event is rarely spoken by women, and it's not that there are no men in the family.

Chen Ningya nodded slightly, "He agreed, but he was too busy. I just need some lime right now, so I mentioned to you by the way. Back then, there were sixteen rooms in my backyard, and I randomly found one for the main room. This time, I want to make the front yard more spacious. The main house is on the south side. There should be two rooms in the back, one wing room on each side, a row of four-room houses on each side of the east and west, and a house on each of the two ends on the north side. , the middle is made into a moon gate, which can also be separated from the courtyard gate. On both sides of the courtyard gate, I use one side to grow vegetables, and the other side to raise chickens and ducks, and build a donkey shed. If possible, I would like to use it. Tiles make roofs."

Zhao shi listened silently on the side, his eyes widened when he heard the words, "A Ning, according to what you said, there are only seventeen more houses, so many houses can't live in it! And the tiles It's not easy to buy, I'm afraid I have to go to the town to settle."

Chen Ningya said, "Fortunately, although there are many rooms, they are all useful. One is a stove house, one is a bathing room, one is a room for sundries, and one is a wood for Youshan. For living, one is for firewood, and the other side is full of wing rooms. The kitchen house in the backyard does not move, and the next door to the kitchen room is to be converted into a bathroom.

   As for the tiles, it is best to have them, and if not, you can repair them as they were. "

   "Tsk tsk tsk, you are so particular about it!" Zhao Shi teased: "Don't worry, we will take care of this. By the way, your family is so busy, are you ready for the wood?"

  Chen Ningya shook her head honestly, "I didn't prepare anything, I just took a mouthful."

   "Pfft!" Zhao Shi really laughed, "Chengchengcheng, so, we have arranged for you, how?"

"Thank you so much. Here are twenty taels of silver. You can look at it. Just ship the materials directly to your home. I won't get enough." Chen Ningya proudly left a purse and brought Huang Ergou to A small bag of lime is gone.

   Until the people withdrew Huang Ergou, he still couldn't come back to his senses, "Is this promised?"

Zhao shi rolled his eyes at him, "If you don't agree, you want to refuse. I see that the Youshan family is really getting up. Look, how long did it take for the backyard to be repaired, and now even the front yard is going to get up, and the tiles have to be put on it. , This is the first share of the eight villages in ten miles. I thought that your family will become the richest man in the village by throwing this lime. Now it seems that people are only capable of making a fortune in silence.

Don't talk so much, go and greet a few people to go up the mountain to get wood, and also, ask about the tiles, I seem to remember someone who came to our house and said that someone was burning bricks and tiles in the town, you hurry up and ask ask. "

   Huang Ergou was in a state of embarrassment, clutching the purse in his hand tightly, neither entering nor retreating. He was a little panicked by Zhao's urging, so he washed his face casually and went to greet his brother.

  Chen Ningya returned home leisurely. She thought it would take a while for the children to go out, but when she came back, she saw a pile of bluegrass in the center of the yard, which seemed to be enough.

  The next main work is to hammer out the juice of these bluegrass, and at the same time degumming the silk, bluegrass dyeing does not require high temperature, these two steps can be carried out at the same time.

Chen Ningya assigned Wen Yuanzhen the job of tinkering with the bluegrass, and she was responsible for degumming the cloth. The mother and son spent two days dyeing a piece of silk cloth. Don't look at the bluegrass juice, which is green. After cleaning, the cloth is blue-green, perhaps due to the amount of use, the color on the silk cloth is light, this color is not only suitable for men, but also suitable for women.

   Chen Ningya knew it was successful after drying the silk cloth. Such a piece of cloth should be sold for five taels of silver in the county seat. If it was sent to Fucheng, the price would be higher, but Fucheng was too far away and was not within her consideration.

When Wen Youshan came back that night, Chen Ningya directly packed the dried silk cloth and handed it to him, "Take it to the cloth village in the county town and ask to see what price the other party is offering, remember, it is not sold for less than five taels of silver. ."

  Wen Youshan shook his hands and hugged the burden tightly. This was five taels of silver. The result of his wife's hard work for so long had to be protected.

The next day before dawn, Wen Youshan drove the donkey cart with a cart of seafood and the baggage to the county town. First, he delivered the seafood to Cui Niang. Originally, he wanted to sell the silk cloth directly to Cui Niang. After thinking about it, she held back, but she didn't forget the lady's confession that she couldn't put all the treasures in the same place.

Since it is not sold to the brothel, it is natural to go to the cloth house. There are seven or eight cloth houses in the entire county, but the largest is the He's house opened by the Hejia. Thinking of this, Wen Youshan sighed and looked at it. You still can't get around the home.

He's Cloth House is just above the main street of the county town. The location is the best and the location is the most spacious. You can see it without looking. When Wen Youshan entered the door, the shopkeeper and the second were greeting the guests. Seeing that the fabric on the shopkeeper's body was good, Wen Youshan thought about his two sons again, if they were not expected to go into official careers, would they be able to find a job as a shopkeeper in the future, looking decent without looking at God's face to eat.

   "Guest officer, what would you like?"

  Little Er's voice pulled back his thoughts, Wen Youshan coughed twice, and blurted out without thinking, "Are you collecting silk?"

   As soon as these words came out, all the people in the shop looked over, and even the shoppers stopped.

  Xiao Er frowned, staring at Wen Youshan with a suspicious look, "Guest officer, we have the silk cloth, but do you really have it?"

   (end of this chapter)