After Jiang Tang returned to Xinliang, he picked up the backlog of matters in the two villages.
From last autumn to this autumn, the number of rabbits in Youcaoling Village has grown to thousands.
A lot of rabbit hair was also collected.
There are also many natural dyes in the mountains in summer.
Before leaving, Jiang Tang met with the old secretary's wife, Grandma Yutian, whom everyone called Grandma Yutian.
I found a few classic colors: gray, blue, yellow, and green.
There isn't much rabbit hair available, so there aren't many colors to dye it in.
Ginger candy did not limit Grandma Yutian's creativity, she could dye any yellow she wanted.
So is blue.
When she came back and saw it, she was almost stunned.
"Grandma Yutian, the color you dyed your hair looks so natural, it's so good."
The blue is not pure blue, not light blue, and not particularly deep.
Grandma Yutian was sprinkling the last handful of hematite powder into the dye vat: "This blue needs to be dyed seven times. First, soak it in plant ash water, then wrap it with green walnut skin, and finally use blue grass as the base - smell it, it has a wild mountain scent."
"Grandma Yutian, does this color look like the clouds in the sky?"
Jiang Tang held the yarn up to the light; the indigo flowing through the fibers had a velvety texture. "Once it's knitted into a sweater, it will definitely sell for a high price."
Grandma Yutian smiled and said, “Before I dyed the yarn, I asked my second child to take me to the department store in the city to look at the yarns on the counter, and I also looked at them on the street.
I found that some of the colors they wore were not good-looking.
I remember when I was young, I worked as an embroiderer for a landlord and dyed many of the fabrics myself.
Rich families dressed elegantly and made a lot of brocade clothes. My master taught me a lot.
Besides the stitching, it’s all about the ingredients and color matching.”
"Good, good, you are indeed an experienced craftsman, Grandma Yutian. Your color matching is amazing."
"Your sister-in-law Mei Zi has already knitted half of the gray sweater. Go and see how it turns out."
Jiang Tang ran to Captain Luo's house and Aunt Mei Zi's house again. There were several young wives sitting in the yard at that time.
Everyone is knitting a sweater.
Seeing her coming, Mei Zi hurriedly stood up and moved a stool for her: "Secretary Jiang is back, come and sit down."
"Sisters-in-law, don't worry about me. I just came to see how your knitting is going."
Mei Zi held up a half-finished sweater and said, "Look, Secretary Jiang, this is the style you chose."
I touched the ginger candy and it was very soft and the weaving was very even.
Look at the other sisters-in-law, they are all pretty good.
"Sister-in-law, we don't have much rabbit fur, so we'd better not waste it if we can. There are no sizes, just one size. Not too small, not too big. Just make it according to the pattern I gave you. Of course, if someone has a custom order, we have to make it according to their measurements.
My friend, reporter Meng, ordered this for her lover. Has she started knitting it yet?
Mei Zi pulled a young wife next to her and said, "I'm weaving it now. It will be finished in another week. In our village, Xiangxiang is the best weaver.
Also, when we first started learning, the thread we used had texture, and Grandma Yutian told us a method.
Use two bamboo sticks, heat them up, and clamp the wool flat."
"That's a good idea. I'm planning to take it to the Canton Fair in October, so sisters-in-law, please pay close attention and try to spin all our rabbit hair into yarn and knit them into sweaters before October."
"What meeting?"
"Canton Fair, doing business with foreigners."
When the sisters-in-law heard about doing business with foreigners, they all found it incredible.
I don't understand why foreigners travel so far to buy clothes from them when there is no rabbit fur there.
But as long as they can sell it, they don’t care who they sell it to, as long as they make money.
August is a busy month.
The vegetables are ripening quickly and the chickens in the chicken farm are ready to leave their roosts.
Some old hens lay eggs every day. Summer eggs will easily go bad if they are not sold quickly.
Jiangtang went to Shaluo Village to take stock of their vegetable problems.
Then I looked at the growth problem of sugarcane.
She will take her traditional brown sugar recipe to the Canton Fair in October.
So what we sell is different from other brown sugar.
It is best to make it into pieces and add various flowers.
So this year, many roses, chrysanthemums, and several acres of ginger were planted in Shaluo Village.
Captain Sun asked, "Secretary Jiang, do you think black tea can be mixed with the black tea from Caotou Village?"
Jiang Tang's eyes lit up: "Captain Sun, your idea is good, we can try it."
"Then give it a try. Talk to Luo Fengquan and we can trade brown sugar for tea."
"Okay, there are many people in the village who want brown sugar."
Although the conflicts between the two villages are not as serious after the road was built.
But they still dislike each other.
Jiang Tang conveyed this matter to Captain Luo.
Thinking it was feasible, Shaluo Village bought 20 kilograms of tea from Youcaoling.
After Jiang Tang finished the statistics, he returned to the city.
Start contacting a few farmers markets.
"Director Liu, the chickens in our village chicken farm weigh about three to four pounds each. Would you like to give us some? We also offer a feather removal service. If you need it, you can tell us in advance and we will clean the chickens and send them to you.
Of course, we charge a five-cent fee for cleaning the chickens, and we also have a lot of eggs in our village."
"Okay, if you clean them up, we can save the trouble of the market. Five cents is five cents, okay? This time, you need to send us twenty live chickens and ten processed chickens. And eggs... one hundred pounds, I guess."
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