Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 107 Wool
Xu Yue and Xu Dalang walked along the field ridge by the river and gradually walked down the hillside.

I saw a boy of twelve or thirteen years old and a little girl of four or five years old, holding long wooden sticks in their hands, driving the flock of sheep over.

Maybe seeing two strangers at once, the two slowed down and looked at them curiously.

Xu Yue and the others also stopped, and retreated to the side of the road, letting the flock of sheep pass by.

The boy looked at them, his eyes kept falling on the scarf on Xu Yue's body.

This is made by Xu Yue with duck down. Because the amount of duck down is too little, Xu Erniang can only make her a scarf.

These days there is no concept of high-necked thermal underwear, and Xu Yue wears a scarf when her neck is a little cold in early spring.

There might be no one around like this, the young man thought it was a novelty, he watched all the way, and Xu Dalang almost beat him up.

The flock of sheep leisurely passed by the Xu Yue brothers and sisters, leaving behind a few piles of wool.

Xu Yue was taken aback, and stepped forward to pick up the smelly wool. It was the innermost layer of fine wool on the sheep.

Spring and autumn are the seasons for sheep to molt. Now it is spring, which happens to be the time when sheep are about to shed wool. If you want to collect cashmere, you can only receive it at this time.

In an instant, Xu Yue seemed to have foreseen all kinds of rich cashmere products that will exist in the future through the cashmere in her hand.

"Hey!" Xu Yue hastily shouted forward.

The little girl who was driving the sheep looked back first, and said timidly, "Huh?"

The boy then turned around, pulled the little girl behind him, and looked at Xu Yue and brother and sister who were chasing after Xiao Pao with some vigilance.

Sensing the young man's vigilance, Xu Yue turned her head and glared at her brother, telling him not to stare at others fiercely.

Turning around, he smiled at the suspected siblings in front of him.

"Don't be afraid, I don't mean any harm, I just want to ask, does this sheep belong to your family?" Xu Yue smiled harmlessly.

It's just that the tall and strong boy standing behind her didn't restrain his fierce look, the boy still took a step back worriedly, and then nodded meekly.

Seeing that he was the owner of the sheep, Xu Yue asked again: "Do you sell your wool?"

"Sell?" The boy gave Xu Yue a weird look, "Can wool be sold too?"

"We only sell sheep." Seeing Xu Yue's gentle and harmless smile, the little girl poked her head out and smiled at her, and sniffed the snot that was about to fall.

"I want wool, won't you sell it?" Xu Yue asked again without giving up.

The young man shook his head. He had never heard of this kind of selling method. Although he was a little moved to hear that the wool thrown away by the butcher could be sold for money, he didn't dare to think about it when he thought that the butcher of the shaved sheep might not accept it.

But seeing Xu Yue's look of wanting it very much, he kindly reminded: "If you want wool, you can go to the butcher's house to pick it up."

The young man said so, and Xu Yue also knew that the rules are not so easy to change, so she nodded and stopped chasing after wool, but asked the young man:
"When will your sheep be sold? Does the butcher's family kill sheep every day?"

She wants a lot of wool, and she doesn't know when she will collect it one by one.

After much deliberation, it was more convenient to be with the flock of sheep in front of me.

The boy shook his head, he didn't know how many sheep the butcher's family killed in a day.

But after holding back for a long time, I still couldn't help asking Xu Yue: "Why do you want wool?"

Xu Yue smiled and said, "Wool can be spun into thread, and then many, many things can be made."

The little girl curiously asked: "What can you do?"

But Xu Yue didn't say anything anymore, seeing that the two of them couldn't decide what to do, she asked the address of the butcher's house, and turned her head to leave.

"Wait a minute!" The boy suddenly stopped them.

Xu Yue stopped and looked back, the young man tentatively asked: "Let me first ask the butcher if he accepts sheep without wool, and if he accepts, I'll sell you all the wool from my sheep, okay? "

This feeling is so wow!
Xu Yue nodded, "Okay, but you have to hurry up, I'm in a hurry now."

Seeing this, the boy hurriedly handed over the long note in his hand, "Then I'll ask, can you help me look after my sheep and my sister first?"

As he said that, without waiting for Xu Yue to agree, he gave her the note for driving sheep, and ran to the village.

Don't look at him being thin and small, he looks malnourished, he runs so fast, Xu Yue didn't even have time to shout, and he ran away.

Looking at the note in her hand, and at the little girl's blank eyes, Xu Yue couldn't laugh or cry.

Isn't this boy afraid that strangers will steal all the sheep in their house?

I really don't know the world and people's hearts are sinister.Luckily she's not a bad person.

"What's your name?" Xu Yue asked the little girl softly.

The little girl paused before answering, "My name is Qiniang."

Xu Yue asked again: "Qiniang, what's your brother's name?"

Qiniang replied: "The third brother is called Yangwazi."

Xu Yue saw that she looked small but answered questions clearly, so she couldn't help being curious: "How old are you, Qiniang?"

Qiniang thought for a while before she said uncertainly, "Six years old?"

Such a small six-year-old?
Xu Yue made a gesture. Compared with the seven-year-old her, the six-year-old Qiniang was a whole head shorter than her.

She turned around and looked into the village, but she didn't see Yangwazi, so Xu Yue asked Qiniang to drive the sheep down the hillside so that they wouldn't block the sidewalk.

After driving the sheep to the foot of the mountain, the three found a piece of grass and sat there waiting for the sheep to come back.

During the period, Xu Yue counted the number of sheep, and there were more than 100 sheep.

I inquired with Qiniang again, and learned that there are many people raising sheep nearby, and they can go to the surrounding villages to collect wool.

Xu Yue estimated the amount of wool and thought it was quite considerable.

The softest layer of cashmere can be used to make cashmere socks, cashmere gloves, cashmere sweaters, and cashmere pants.

The rest can be made into wool felt pads, and if it is matched with rich colors, it will definitely be very popular with the aristocratic family.

After all, people here are used to sitting on their knees, and the winter in the north is long, with bright colors and exquisite patterns. Wool felt mats are more durable and warmer than soft mats made of silk.

Thinking of this, Xu Yue couldn't wait to buy some wool and go back to experiment.

Because of these things, she only knows that such things exist, and she has to try step by step if she wants to turn them into reality.

Now that the weather is getting warmer day by day, there is not much market for cashmere thermal products, and she has enough time to experiment before the arrival of autumn.

If you want to make money right now, you have to think of another way.

Thinking about the future development route in her mind, Xu Yue didn't even notice that her brother was no longer squatting beside her.

When she found out that she was looking for Xu Dalang, Xu Dalang had already run to the bank of the river and was turning over the pile of rocks washed down by the river.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Xu Yue shouted loudly while standing on the hillside.

Xu Dalang looked up, holding a huge stone in his hand, and said:

"Aniang asked me to find a few big stones and take them home to practice my hands. I think the stones here are just right."

After explaining, he signaled Xu Yue to stay where he was and not to run around, and continued to pick out boulders.

Xu Yue froze for a moment, a thought flashed through her mind.

But before she could catch it, it disappeared.

(End of this chapter)