Chapter 230: Picking Up Old Clothes

Mrs. Si was planning to take her two children to help out of the city today, but she received a call from Jiang Ze.

"Madam, there was another earthquake here last night. I wonder if the city is okay?"

"It's pretty good. The houses haven't collapsed. The farmland has been turned over again?" Although Mrs. Si asked a question, her tone was affirmative.

"Yes, it has been deep-plowed. Now the workload has been reduced. We had planned the time, and by the time the deep-plowing is done, the seedlings should have been grown."

"Now that the time has been advanced, the rice seedlings haven't been cultivated yet, so no one has much to do recently. They can only prune the ridges. You, the young master, and the young lady don't need to come."

Jiang Ze was afraid that they would have made a wasted trip today, so he simply called them to tell them.

"Grandma, are we still going to the farmland today?" Si Jinchen saw her hang up the phone.

"I won't go today. There's no work now. I'll have to wait until the water is released and the rice seedlings are planted." Old Madam Si looked at him and smiled faintly.

Juanjuan changed her clothes and prepared to go out, but was told she couldn't go, and she felt a little disappointed.

"Do you want to go to the workshop with your aunt today?" Si Ning felt uncomfortable seeing her listless look.

"Go." Juanjuan immediately smiled.

"Then let's get ready to go!" Si Ning held Juanjuan and Liu Yueya's hands.

Si Jinchen took Juanjuan's hand and walked out the door with them.

"Aning, I won't go with you. I'll stay at home and clean up the house with Auntie Wu." Old Madam Si was preparing to put away unused blankets and other things.

"Okay, Bai Qiao and I will take them there." Si Ning nodded in agreement.

Bai Qiao sat in the front passenger seat. Before the door was closed, she saw two people rushing up: "Songsong, Ruanruan, are you guys going too?"

"Woof woof. Go away. I'm dying of suffocation at home." Songsong called and wagged his tail.

Ruanruan rubbed Baiqiao: "Woof woof. Go out and play, go out and play."

Bai Qiao watched the two of them get in, and the passenger seat seemed crowded. "Aunt, Brother Huzi and I will go to the car behind."

"Well, go ahead!" Si Ning waited for Bai Qiao to get out of the car, raised his hand and rubbed the heads of the two in front: "Naughty."

Songsong grinned with great joy.

The vehicle slowly drove out of the gate of the Governor's Mansion and headed towards the workshop.

Madam Si watched the car leave the gate and turned to look at Aunt Wu: "With these little ones gone, the house is a lot quieter."

"Yes! I always feel like something is missing." Aunt Wu said with a smile.

"Let's get to work! Put away all the cotton clothes, separate Juanjuan and Achen's. The two children are growing fast, and when winter comes, these clothes will no longer be wearable."

Old Madam Si asked the housekeeper to bring some large boxes and put all the thick clothes into them.

"Madam, do you still want to keep these clothes?" The housekeeper waited until a box was full.

"Send them to the orphanage for the children to wear! Juanjuan and Achen haven't worn these clothes much, and those children grow up so fast."

When Mrs. Si was tidying up, she took out several sets of clothes. One of them was the pink jacket and skirt that Juanjuan wore when she first came home.

One set was the red suit she and Si Jinchen wore during the Chinese New Year.

"Madam, please keep these two sets of clothes!" Aunt Wu also remembered these clothes.

"I thought so too. I'll keep it as a souvenir. This is what Juanjuan wore on the first day he came home. This is the first time he spent the New Year with us. I have to keep it well."

"I save some of Achen's childhood clothes every year. When the weather is good, we take them out to dry in the sun and then put them away."

Old Madam Si sorted out Juanjuan's clothes and found that each set reminded her of an interesting thing.

A smile appeared on her face unconsciously.

Mother Wu also had a smile on her face as she told the stories of these sets of clothes. Some of the clothes had stains that could not be washed off, but they were all happy memories for them.

Juanjuan was held in Liu Yueya's arms and she looked at the fast-moving scenery outside the car window.

The workshop is in the city, not a very remote place.

Now that Liu Cheng'an is back, Lin Jingqiu took the time to come to the workshop and purchase distillation equipment, as distillation and purification of flowers is still needed.

These devices are not difficult to purchase and have been delivered and installed.

But there are no flowers now, so this equipment can only be left idle for the time being.

Juanjuan walked around the distillation equipment curiously: "Brother, what is this used for?"

"This is a distiller, used to distill flowers to extract their fragrance." Si Jinchen added, fearing she didn't understand, "That's how the fragrant water my aunt uses is made."

"Oh!" Juanjuan stood on tiptoe to look into the distiller, wanting to see if there was any fragrant water inside.

"Juanjuan, what are you looking at?" Si Jinchen saw her standing on tiptoe and stretching her little neck to look inside.

"Brother, I want to see if there is any fragrant water in it. Can you hold Juanjuan and take a look?" Juanjuan didn't see anything for a long time.

"There's nothing inside now!" Although Si Jinchen said this, he still tried hard to pick her up so that she could see clearly inside.

"There's really nothing here!" Juanjuan looked at the empty container with some regret.

"There are no flowers now, so this distiller is useless." Liu Yueya came over at some point.

Juanjuan tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Is it enough to have beautiful flowers?"

"Not really. The flowers used for distillation must have fragrance, and the flowers used to make rouge and lipstick must have beautiful colors." Liu Yueya explained to her seriously.

"So that's how it is." Juanjuan asked Si Jinchen to put her down, and went to find Si Ning with her short legs.

Si Ning and Lin Jingqiu happened to be discussing flowers. Making vanishing cream is relatively easy, but making other things requires colored things.

Cinnabar can be used, but Baiqiao recommends not using it. It is better to use other colorful plants instead.

"Aning, what I mean is that we should plant it in the flower garden ourselves, so that we can better control the cost." Lin Jingqiu looked at Si Ning and suggested.

Si Ning nodded: "I thought so too. When I go back today, I will ask my family if they have any unused flower beds. If not, I will buy one."

Lin Jingqiu: "Okay, I'll ask around, but the temperature here is quite low in winter. If I buy a flower garden, I'm afraid I'll have to build a greenhouse."

"The price might be quite high. I've inquired before, and a small greenhouse of 100 square meters would cost 300 to 500 silver dollars using the most traditional craftsmanship."

"If we use a Western greenhouse with iron frames, glass and steam, the price will be ten times more expensive."

Si Ning frowned. Now the Governor's Office and the entire Beiyang City had to save money to buy machine tools for the arsenal, so she would naturally save as much as she could.

"Don't worry about this, let's discuss it later."