Chapter 70 Cotton Harvest
"That's right, we can always see each other once a year, so there's no need to be sad." Han advised.
After a woman gets married, she obeys her husband. Once she arrives at her husband's home, she belongs to that family. She cannot go back to her parents' home whenever she wants. Most of them only go back with their families on the second day of the Chinese New Year. There is no such opportunity at other times. As long as she can come back once a year, it doesn't matter whether she marries far away or nearby.
The three brothers thought about it and it seemed to be true, so they didn’t feel so bad anymore.
Now that everything was settled, Su Nizi wanted to go back quickly to get the money to settle the marriage. She couldn't sit still at all. Before leaving, she said to the Ye sisters, "We will stay in the village for a few days until my daughter has seen the doctor. You can take advantage of these few days to sort out the family affairs."
The two sisters of the Ye family personally escorted them out and said, "The house we built for our brother is almost finished. It should be ready in the next few days."
Han said hurriedly: "Once the beams are put up, we can build the roof. It will be completed before you leave."
The three courtyards of the Ye family are only half the size of the Su family, and there are eight fewer houses, so they can be completed soon.
The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief and smiled more.
When Su Nizi returned to the Su family, she immediately told the man and child about the situation.
When Ke Zhengping thought of Chunhua he met that day, he became so nervous that his face turned red. Ke Zhengliang was so surprised that he jumped three feet high in front of everyone and urged Ke Dasong to give him the money.
Ke Dasong was even more excited than his two sons. He returned to the house and quickly took out a money bag and handed it to Su Nizi. "Here is twenty-five taels. The extra five taels is a small token of our appreciation. Also, take a sheep with you. After all, we can't come back to congratulate the Ye family after they built a house, so we'll give it to them in advance."
Su Nizi nodded. Although she was reluctant to give up the extra silver and sheep, she still agreed.
The Ye family was really surprised to receive the silver and sheep. Even the three brothers Ye An, who were not very happy, became much happier. Their sister's future in-laws were willing to give so many things, which showed that they valued her, and that her life would not be too difficult after she got married.
After the lifelong affairs of the two sons of the Ke family were resolved, the couple had no choice but to focus all their attention on their daughter.
Seeing how impatient they were, Su Chunlin thought about it and decided to take them to the county town in advance.
At the same time, the ten acres of cotton planted by Su Tai in the earth time and space can finally be harvested.
The weather has suddenly become a lot colder recently. The cold wind coming from the ice field is howling. Even if the door is closed, you can still hear the whistling sound of the wind, as if the wind will not stop until the people in the house open the door.
In this situation, she had to do a lot of mental preparation every morning before going to the kitchen. It was difficult to move in her heavy jacket, and when she warmed up in the kitchen, she wanted to take it off but there was no clean place to put it. It was very troublesome. It would be different if she had a cotton jacket.
Because the need was urgent, she couldn't wait a moment.
Harvesting cotton is a technical job. If you are not careful, you can easily get pricked by cotton shells or stabbed by flower branches. Fortunately, the groundhog is in charge and she doesn't have to do it herself.
They also used professional harvesting tools, which not only harvested cleanly without any debris mixed in, but also did not damage the cotton wool. More importantly, the harvesting speed was so fast that Su Tai could even see double.
At this moment, she felt that hiring a mole for a thousand coins a year was a great value.
It took one day and one night to harvest the ten acres of cotton fields and transfer them to the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station.
Su Tai rented a scale and weighed the cotton. She found that one acre of land could yield about 800 kilograms of cotton. The next step was to figure out how to turn the cotton into clothing fabric.
The media tool vending machine has all kinds of tools, including fully automatic looms.
The so-called fully automatic loom is not a single machine, but the sum of several machines, including cotton cleaning machines, spinning machines, looms, and so on.
As long as you pour the cotton into the raw material entrance, the machine will run automatically according to the settings, running step by step, but you don't know what the quality of the finished product will be.
Su Tai was eager to try it out, so she gritted her teeth and spent a thousand coins to rent a fully automatic loom.
The amount of cotton required for a fully automatic loom to operate at one time is between 400 and 500 kilograms, which cannot be less than 400 kilograms and cannot be more than 500 kilograms.
Su Tai first poured four hundred and fifty kilograms into it.
When the machine started running, her heart began to beat rapidly and she was so nervous that she forgot to breathe.
When the woven cloth began to emerge, she rushed over at lightning speed, grabbed the cloth and carefully felt the texture of the cotton. She was surprised to find that the cotton cloth woven by the machine was not only fine and thick, without lint, but also soft and skin-friendly, as smooth as silk.
She screamed with joy and it took her a while to calm down.
The machine's weaving speed was not slow, but four hundred and fifty kilograms of cotton was not a small amount. According to this operating efficiency, it would probably take a while to finish. She hurriedly left the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station and excitedly rushed out of the room to find Shen Yi.
Shen Yi had just fetched water from the well in the vegetable garden and was in the kitchen. Seeing Su Tai so excited, he couldn't help but curl his lips.
Before he could ask, Su Tai couldn't wait to shout, "Brother Shen, can you help me make a table that is bigger than the bed?"
Shen Yi raised an eyebrow in confusion, "What is it for?"
"I want to make a quilt." Su Tai clenched her fist and took out a ball of cotton like a magician. "Look, I want to use this to make a quilt."
"What is this?" Shen Yi took the cotton and was shocked to find that it was as light as feathers and could quickly regain its fluffy shape even when squeezed into a ball.
Su Tai said bluntly: "This is called cotton, and the cloth woven from it is called cotton cloth. I plan to use cotton cloth to make a quilt and stuff it with this kind of cotton. You have to help me."
Shen Yi was full of doubts, but he was used to it and didn't ask any more questions. He just agreed immediately, turned around to find the remaining wood from repairing the house, and started working immediately.
Seeing his quick movements, Su Tai felt sweet in her heart. She followed Shen Yi and asked, "Brother Shen, aren't you curious about how I got the cotton?"
Shen Yi stopped and turned back to give her a reassuring smile, "I am different from ordinary people, and you are also different from ordinary people. As long as it doesn't bring us danger, it's fine."
Su Tai smiled more brightly and nodded heavily, "Don't worry, it will definitely not bring us any danger."
As they were talking, the two of them entered the tool room where the wood was stored.
According to Su Tai's request, Shen Yi moved his work place to under the eaves in the backyard.
The table was completed in about a day.
Because Su Tai had explained the purpose of the table, Chen Yi was careful not to wear out the cotton cloth on the tabletop, so he specially got some tung oil paint and carefully painted it three times.
At this time, Su Tai had consumed two thousand kilograms of cotton, and obtained four hundred kilograms of thick cotton cloth for winter and five hundred kilograms of medium-thick cotton cloth for spring and autumn.
Su Tai is quite satisfied with this conversion efficiency.
Now that she had the cotton cloth, the next step was to make the liner. The media tool vending machine also provided quilt liner making machines. It cost 500 coins to rent one, so she rented one without hesitation.
According to the introduction, the quilt liner making machine can not only press quilt liner, but also press liner of various shapes, sizes and thicknesses according to user needs. With this machine, many tedious processes can be saved.
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