Tang Junliang is very diligent and has good eyesight, but he is not a good talker. Chen Jiu's personality is similar to Tang Dongzi's. He is chubby and looks very festive. Although he came late, he quickly started chatting with them.
Those people from Lanzhou didn't guard against him much and basically answered every question he asked.
Chen Jiu was really curious, so he asked them: "What fun things are there in Lanzhou? How is it different from here?"
"There are many differences," the man said with a smile, "in border towns and grasslands, there are many people coming and going, many merchants, and many soldiers..."
"Oh! I know!" Chen Jiu said, "I heard that your place is close to the border! There is the invincible Huo family army!"
“What Huo Family Army?” the man laughed, “There is no Huo Family Army now! They have all become Du Family Army!”
After hearing this, even Han Yi became curious: "Didn't I hear that the Huo family has been guarding the border for generations? Isn't it said that the Huo family army has always been guarding the border?"
"No more!" The man lowered his voice and said, "The commander at the border now is named Du! General Du!"
Chen Jiu asked, "What about General Huo?"
The man whispered, "Dead!"
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Chen Jiu was startled, "Oh!"
The man couldn't help gossiping, "Before, the Huo family did have great generals from generation to generation. General Huo Bo was known as the Victorious General. He was truly a brave man! But... good things come out of bad things. His son Huo Yi is a useless man. It is said that he only knew how to write poems and paint all day long in the military camp, and he didn't do his job properly. In the end, it was heard that his wife died, and he was so sad that he committed suicide in front of the battlefield... He was a passionate man."
"What a sentimental guy!" Han Yi couldn't help but say, "If you do this on the battlefield, you'd be a loser!"
"Hush!" the man said, "Be careful with your words, be careful with your words! Don't talk about state affairs! Drink!"
Tang Shiyue listened with great interest.
I didn’t expect that there are people in this world who commit suicide for love?
But if they really died for love on the battlefield, then it would be like what Han Yi said, which is a bit unacceptable, right?
She turned around and was about to gossip with Qi Jing, but she saw Qi Jing's expression at a glance.
He had drooped eyelashes, slightly lowered eyebrows, and pressed his lips into a straight line, sitting upright as always.
However, she had that feeling again, that inexplicable sadness when Qi Jing said, "Even if you learn it, it may not be a good thing."
He must be a descendant of a military family, right? Has he ever seen a battlefield? Was his father also a member of the frontier expedition?
The man holds the Wu hook in one hand, and his spirit is higher than a hundred-foot building.
Battles on the battlefield have always been cruel. People only see him being awarded a title thousands of miles away, but who has ever seen his blood-stained uniform?
Tang Shiyue immediately lost interest in listening to gossip and called him with a smile: "A Jing?"
Qi Jing raised his head quickly: "Hmm?"
Tang Shiyue smiled and said, "Before I told you that I had something for you to do. Do you want to know what it is?"
His dark eyes stared at her steadily, and the corners of his mouth curved: "I want to."
Ahhh! This word is so damn nice! My heart is melted by his words!
Young man, you are so cunning! You look so heroic and yet! Selling! Cute! What a great treasure this is!
All right, I'll give it to you, I'll give it all to you! I'll give you my entire kingdom!
She was roaring inwardly, but on the surface she was very calm as she took out a piece of paper and said, "It's still winemaking, but if you use my method, the wine you make will be several times stronger than the current wine."
She took out the drawn blueprint from her sleeve pocket, spread it out, and explained it to him in detail.
Qi Jing listened more and more attentively. From his expression, one could tell that he had definitely ignored what the group of people outside were saying.
Tang Shiyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She felt that if she became the emperor, she would definitely be a tyrant, so just to distract him, she released such a big move... Damn, Qi Jing was really lucky to meet her! You got it for free, you little brat!
The two of them talked excitedly, and when they got excited, they went out to find a coppersmith and ordered two small sets according to the drawings, and told the craftsman to keep it secret.
In fact, she still believes in the professional ethics of this era.
Because in this era, skills are extremely valuable, and what you learn almost determines what you will do for the rest of your life, so many unspoken rules of the industry must be followed, otherwise you will be regarded as a traitor by the entire industry.
When the two came out, it was already dark, so they went straight back to Jubao Village and came back the next day.
Those people left early in the morning, and Han Yi took them to see the goods and then found the best Lin family dyeing workshop in town.
The wool needs to be washed and dried first, and then dyed using the cloth dyeing method.
Yellow and purple are taboo colors, and light colors are too easy to get dirty. For the time being, Tang Shiyue only chose red, blue, green, and black to dye, and each color was divided into light and dark colors.
In fact, red and blue fabrics were the most common in ancient times because safflower and indigo were readily available.
There are no ready-made chemical pigments for dyeing these days. For example, to make bright red, you need to use safflower cake, boil it with black plum water, and then clarify it with alkaline water several times. The more times it is clarified, the brighter the color will be.
Purple is made from Su wood as the base and alum as the main ingredient.
Dark color, use indigo water to dye it dark blue, cover it with water boiled with equal parts of reed wood and bayberry peel.
Green and bean green are dyed with cork water and covered with indigo water. Oil green is dyed with a thin layer of locust flowers and covered with alum.
Phellodendron chinense, like safflower and indigo, is a plant.
Although this is probably true, the dyeing workshop naturally has its own secret recipe, which is probably using salt to brighten, lime to fix the color, and alum to color.
In fact, wool is easier to color than many other fabrics. Try a few times and dye a few balls of it. Only after all the tests are OK will Tang Shiyue nod and then start dyeing in large quantities. The key is to dye it evenly.
This is a big project and also a big business for the dyeing workshop. It will be a long-term undertaking, so they must be very concerned about it.
I guess by the time everything is dyed, the workshop will be almost finished and we can start working.
When the time comes, we will first recruit people to spin the yarn. All the country girls can spin hemp. Wool is easier to spin than hemp, and it doesn't hurt the hands, but it takes a lot of time.
When Tang Shiyue returned to the village, it was getting dark again.
The nine-year-old grandson of the clan leader was waiting at the entrance of the village. When he saw her coming, he stepped forward and said, "Sister Yue! Grandpa wants to talk to you about something, so he asked me to wait for you here!"
Tang Shiyue pulled him up with a smile, gave him some snacks to eat, and then the mule cart went directly to the clan leader's house.
The old clan leader and the village head were both there, and it looked as if they had been waiting for a whole day.
Tang Shiyue said quickly: "I'm sorry, I had something to do today, so I went to town. I didn't know that my cousin and the head of the village were looking for me."
"It's okay," the clan leader said with a pleasant face, "but do you want to eat?"
Tang Shiyue was not polite and said with a smile: "Not yet, I want to ask my cousin for a bowl of soup noodles."
Seeing that she was not shy, the old clan leader's expression became more gentle, and he said with a smile: "When you come to your cousin's place, I naturally can't let you go hungry."
Of course he couldn't just send her away with a bowl of soup noodles, so he quickly asked his daughter-in-law to cook, and said to her: "Yuer, I discussed the workshop matter with the head of the village. Let me tell you about it."
He looked at her expression.
Tang Shiyue smiled and said, "Yuer is young and inexperienced, so I may not have considered it carefully. Uncle, please feel free to tell me."
The head of the Tang family laughed and said, "You are indeed kindhearted to ask unmarried girls to learn this, but once this craft gets out, how can we compete with those wealthy families? The wealthy merchants? Some well-established cloth and embroidery shops already have women with skillful hands, and we country girls are even more unable to compete with them."
Tang Shiyue thought about it and said, "That's right! I didn't think of this! The clan leader is really insightful!"
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