Chapter 214 Cotton
The shop assistant heard the man's voice and was afraid that the extra money he had earned would be gone. He tied the bundle of cloth in a knot and handed it to Shen Qingqian. "Here, young lady, your things are packed."
Shen Yong took the bag and turned to ask Shen Qingqian, "Why do you buy so much? Do you have enough money?"
While he was talking, Shen Qingqian handed the silver flower to the shop assistant with her palm facing down. The shop assistant immediately held it tightly and ran to the counter to change the money.
"Miss, here is your change of two hundred copper coins, please count them." The shop assistant's heart almost jumped out of his chest for fifty copper coins.
Shen Qingqian took it, actually counted it, and then smiled and said, "That's right."
In order to avoid being exposed, and also because of the inconsistent attitude of the store clerk, she will not come to this store next time.
When the brother and sister came out of the store, they happened to meet Ling Yun. This time, the three of them went directly to the place where the mule cart was stored and drove out of the city.
Chen Yong had long forgotten about asking Shen Qingqian what she bought. Moreover, in his mind, as long as Shen Qingqian wanted to buy it, it must be useful, and it made no difference whether he asked or not.
After Shen Qingqian got into the car, she deliberately fixed the curtain before opening the big bag.
After searching for a while, Shen Qingqian finally found what she wanted. She took it in her hand and looked at it carefully. She was immediately delighted and whispered to herself, "It is indeed cotton."
There is cotton in this world, but it is not the kind used to make clothes and quilts in later generations. It is just an ornamental plant and is not called cotton.
What Shen Qingqian is holding in her hand right now is the upland cotton that is widely planted in later generations.
In Shen Qingqian's memory, this kind of cotton was not introduced to her country until after the 19th century.
This kind of plant didn't exist in Dajin before, and I don't know where the grocery store just now found it.
Nowadays, the means of keeping warm in winter in the Jin Dynasty are very simple. There are no quilts. Rich families can use fine textiles as fillings for their quilts, but ordinary people do not have this treatment.
Most people have linen quilts at home. In winter, they sew reed catkins, tree roots or soft plants into the linen. Rice is produced in the south, so rice straw is also one of the fillings of quilts in the south.
After traveling through time for so long, Shen Qingqian's biggest wish is actually a quilt and a cotton coat, but unfortunately, there is no such thing as cotton in her memory.
Not to mention cotton, there is not even the word "棉". At this time, there is only the word "棉".
She had just seen some small yellowish white flowers in the grocery store and she had thought she was seeing things, but only after a closer look did she confirm.
She was so happy at that time. In order not to arouse suspicion, she originally wanted to pack up the things and take them away, but she didn't expect the shop assistant to bring them to her himself.
Shen Qingqian couldn't let go of the cotton flowers in her hands, and the information she had seen before about how to process cotton to obtain cotton seeds popped up in her mind.
She did it as soon as she thought of it. She removed the flowers on the surface in a few seconds, revealing the cotton seeds inside. These were not the final cotton seeds, and the short lint on top had to be removed.
However, this task did not pose a problem for Shen Qingqian. It didn't take long for her to process all five cotton flowers and obtained more than thirty cotton seeds in total.
An ordinary cotton flower has about seven or eight seeds. Modern hybrid cotton is quite special, with each flower containing more than thirty cotton seeds.
For Shen Qingqian, with the thirty or so cotton seeds in her hand, she can grow a large field of cotton.
"Sixth sister, we're here." Shen Yong shouted from outside the car.
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