"You'll know when the quilt is made."

"A cotton quilt?" Xie Xiao held the ball of snow-white, soft cotton with obvious delight. "Cotton is very expensive. We couldn't afford it in the past. How much do you have?"

Li Ruo then remembered that cotton quilts were not yet common in the Dayin Dynasty. To keep warm in winter, people mainly used animal fur. Only wealthy families could afford that. Poor families could only use straw stacks stuffed with cloth as quilts.

No wonder everyone was so excited when she gave Lin Dazhu a quilt on Ziyang Peak.

“A lot,” Li Ruo said with a smile. “The box of gold and silver we sent last time was exchanged for 100,000 catties of cotton.”

"One hundred thousand jin!" Xie Xiao was so shocked his soul almost flew away. "Is your father still short of people?"

"Get out!" Li Ru glared at him. "Come back!"

Xie Xiao closed the door, then turned around and looked at her with a slightly dark expression.

Li Ruo's heart suddenly raced. "What? In broad daylight."

Xie Xiao curled his lips into a roguish smile, "What are you thinking? I'm afraid that if someone sees you suddenly conjure something up, it would scare them to death."

"Then why weren't you scared to death?"

"This young master is protected by Vajra, impervious to all evil."

"Who are you calling evil?" Li Ruo pinched his firm abs.

Xie Xiao's blood boiled, his Adam's apple bobbed, "Trying to stir things up, huh?"

Just as he was about to hug her, Li Ruo waved her hand, and the nearly 100-square-meter house was instantly filled with cotton. It was everywhere—on the floor, the kang (a heated brick bed), and the table—almost drowning the two of them.

Xie Xiao opened his eyes wide. Despite having seen it twice, he was still as shocked as he had been the first time!

So much cotton just appeared out of thin air!

"Wife, are you a fairy?"

He grabbed a handful, unable to hide his excitement, "With this cotton, those who just harvested can get through this winter!"

Li Ruo watched as he acted like a fool, tossing cotton into the air, and the fluffy cotton fell down, covering his head and face.

"stupid!"

Suddenly, Xie Xiao grabbed her and shoved her into his arms. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, he fell backward onto cotton, and Li Ruo was pulled onto him.

The fluffy cotton collapsed downwards, instantly engulfing them.

Their eyes met, and the air between them instantly heated up.

Li Ruo looked at him and said, "Hey, don't we look like we're lying on a cloud?"

“It’s like that.” Xie Xiao’s eyes shone brightly yet remained deep. “Like a dream.”

Ignoring the snow, rain, wind, and frost outside, he sighed, grabbed the back of her head, and pressed her heavily against him.

Their lips pressed tightly together, and he pried open her teeth more skillfully than the previous two times, fiercely ravaging and teasing her like a storm.

Li Ruo's eyes widened, and the next moment she responded to him enthusiastically.

His senses were amplified infinitely in the limited space. Xie Xiao's mind went blank for a moment. He flipped over and pinned her down, plundering her even more ruthlessly.

Completely instinctively, he lifted her skirt with his hand.

"Are you sure?" The woman, who always remained alert, nudged him.

Her face was flushed, as if she had been drinking, and her starry eyes were hazy. Xie Xiao let out a low, hoarse "Damn," pinched her waist, and pulled his hand back.

Damn, we almost consummated our marriage ahead of schedule.

Just then, there was a loud knocking on the door. "Boss, boss, are you there?"

It's Leonardo DiCaprio.

The moment the door opened, Little Li was so shocked his hair stood on end. "What happened! Holy crap, this is cotton, it's cotton!"

Two people emerged from the cotton pile; one looked sullen and unsatisfied, while the other was calm and nonchalant.

"Sister Ruo is here too! Where did all this cotton come from? There's so much!" Little Li looked over and saw that both of their lips were red. "Hehe, are you two feeling hot again?"

"That's it, you guys continue, I didn't see anything."

Li Ruo grabbed him by the collar and said, "Go and find the skilled craftsmen in your village. We're going to make cotton quilts today."

"Make a quilt!" Little Li exclaimed.

This day was especially lively in Black Wind Village, as the prospective wife was going to teach them how to make cotton quilts!

Li Ruo was also very young when her grandmother made quilts for her by hand, and she is now teaching them entirely from memory.

The most important part of making cotton quilts is cotton carding. She had the carpenters of Black Wind Village make cotton carding tools, which looked a bit like a large bow, although the craftsmanship was not as complicated as that of a bow.

Dozens of middle-aged and elderly men, along with the Ziyang Peak girl group, learned the technique in no time. Later, many more people joined in, and the scene was incredibly lively.

The snow-white cotton was fluffed until it was soft and fluffy, and then sewn together with plain-colored cotton cloth, with two rows of stitches to prevent the cotton inside from shifting. Before long, a quilt was finished.

The onlookers exclaimed in admiration, "Miss Li is truly amazing; she can do everything!"

"That's right, otherwise how could she become our bandit's wife?"

Sun Ergou asked excitedly, "Sister, once this quilt is finished, can you give us one?"

"You, how could we leave you out?"

Leonardo DiCaprio: "Me too, me too, I think."

Yes, yes, yes, we have them all!

"Yay!" Cheers erupted one after another.

They have quilts!

Xie Heng and his wife, Fang, who were squeezed at the back of the crowd, stared wide-eyed.

"He actually has so much cotton?" Xie Heng found it unbelievable.

Fang was extremely envious. "Our quilts are made of haystacks. You can ask him for a few of them later."

Each quilt weighs seven to eight jin (3.5-4 catties), and 100,000 jin of cotton can make more than 12,000 quilts. Li Ruo will support 5,000 quilts to Black Wind Village, leaving 7,000 quilts to go.

Of these 7,000 beds, 5,000 will be used to recruit able-bodied men—the Black Wind Army plans to add 2,000 men, and the Purple Sun Army 3,000 men.

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