my grandmother

Chapter 78

Li Xiaonan was only one step away from the door of the wing room, and the door of the wing room opened.

Li Xiaonan stepped into the wing room, looked at the blushing sister Zhi, took half a step back, and looked at her carefully.

Sister Zhi usually wears very clean clothes, but now she is wearing a small thin pine-colored silk jacket, a peach-red muslin skirt, and a crimson silk long jacket on the outside, with her flushed face, she looks as delicate as a half-opened flower Peony flowers.

"What are you looking at? I came here to weave." Sister Zhi forcefully explained.

Li Xiaonan groaned, stood in front of the window, and looked out through the crack of the window.

"It's not that I don't know you." Sister Zhi blushed even more when she saw Li Xiaonan looking out the window.

"My brother has grown, so have I." Li Xiaonan raised the window higher.

"It doesn't grow much." Sister Zhi sat down in front of the loom.

"My brother is so happy, the third elder sister said he was so happy." Li Xiaonan sat down next to Zhi Zhi.

Sister Zhi lowered her eyes and looked at the shuttle in her hand, but didn't answer.

"Hey, you changed the loom." Li Xiaonan stretched her neck, looking at the long loom.

"This is a six-shed jacquard machine." Sister Zhi immediately put down the shuttle, stood up and introduced to Li Xiaonan, "These six are the flower heddles, and this is the ground heald. I just started weaving, but weaving is slow."

"It's so beautiful, what kind of pattern is this?" Li Xiaonan carefully looked at the piece of jacquard muslin in front of the scroll.

"There are only six sheds. If you can't weave anything, it's just tying." Sister Zhi's words were very vague.

Li Xiaonan understood as soon as she heard it, Bingdi, sister Zhi is weaving a dowry.

Li Xiaonan walked around the new loom again, "Isn't it difficult to weave, there are so many pedals, what should I do if I step on the wrong one?"

"It's not wrong, this one is for the floor heddles, these are the jacquard heddles, and the flower heddles are all arranged. You see, just like this, step on the floor healds twice, and then step on the flower healds one by one, and step on the flower healds twice. Heald board, then step on the floor heald board, and then step on the flower heald board twice, it's quite simple."

Sister Zhi sat down and demonstrated to Li Xiaonan.

The thin thread flew past and through, and Li Xiaonan watched as Zhi'er stepped on the pedal a dozen times, but the cloth didn't seem to grow at all.

"This thread is too thin, how much can we weave in a day?" Li Xiaonan carefully looked at the thin cotton thread.

"Sister-in-law Zhou who helped me pull the thread on the loom can weave one in three days. I can't do it. It's been almost ten days since we weaved like this, and the front is always broken. Recently, it's faster. You see, this is the weaving. "

Sister Zhi took a piece of cloth from the thread rack next to it and handed it to Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan touched the piece of cloth, then shook it out and looked at it, the cloth was very fine and soft.

Li Xiaonan touched her skirt, and then touched the cloth of sister Zhi.

Sister Zhi laughed, "I bought Yangsi thread from Yangzhou, twisted a silk thread into it, and yours is fine cotton cloth."

"That's expensive, right?" Li Xiaonan looked carefully at the threads on the loom, and there was indeed a hint of silk luster.

"It's not that expensive." Sister Zhi pursed her lips and smiled.

"My sister knitted this, what are you going to do?" Li Xiaonan touched the fine cloth on the scroll.

This cloth has white background and gray-green jacquard, sober and elegant.

"You can do anything, quilts, lining clothes, and curtains. If you don't do anything, I just knit and play." Sister Zhi tried her best to look natural.

"You must be weaving faster and faster, as fast as that sister-in-law Zhou. You can weave cloth every three days, and you can't weave every day. Let's count it as five in a month. If there are more than five, count it as three. In that year, you can have four." Ten bolts of cloth, two years..."

"What are you thinking about!" Sister Zhi blushed again, interrupting Li Xiaonan's calculation.

Li Xiaonan glanced at her sideways, but said nothing.

Sister Zhi was stunned, then heyed, her face turned even redder.

"Our family opened a preserved egg shop, have you heard about it?" Li Xiaonan changed the subject.

Sister Zhi lowered her eyes and hummed.

"The business is very good and very profitable. We took inventory a year ago, and we got 76 taels of silver, and Sister Yin got 51 taels. We and Sister Yin got four or six shares." Li Xiaonan talked leisurely next to Sister Zhi. gossip.

"However, last year it was only one point on the account. We and Mrs. Yin didn't get a single coin, because the money had already been spent, a new workshop was added, a lot of people were recruited, and Whatever, there are so many places to spend money anyway.

"The elder sister said that the money earned this year will be in her hands. The elder sister and the second elder sister settled accounts, saying that if the business this year can continue to be as good as last year, the money earned this year and next year will be enough to buy a decent house. I have entered the mansion twice.

"The elder sister said, when the time comes, Mr. Gao and his wife will live in the main courtyard, and you will live in the front yard. The second elder sister said that it is best to have a small garden to grow vegetables or something."

"What about you?" Sister Zhi asked, listening attentively.

"Our current house has been rented for five years. If we cancel the lease early, half of the rent will be deducted. Eldest sister will definitely not bear it. We must live in it for five years." Li Xiaonan sighed old-fashionedly.

Sister Zhi wanted to laugh but held back, "I heard people say that your elder sister will live a good life."

"Yeah!" Li Xiaonan hummed with great certainty, moved closer to Sister Zhi, and said in a low voice: "One time, the eldest sister told the second sister: Look, this copper coin is so big, if it can be broken, it will be fine." All right."

Sister Zhi burst out laughing.

"My brother has grown a lot taller. He used to be as tall as me, but now he is a head taller than me. I think he looks better than before." Li Xiaonan went on to gossip.

"Hmm." Sister Zhi hummed vaguely.

"I heard that this year's Lantern Festival in the county is very lively. Our house has also set up a lantern shed. We also have a lion dance team. The dance is very beautiful. Would you like to go and see it?" Li Xiaonan looked at Sister Zhi.

"Hmm!" Sister Zhi pursed her smile.

"Do you have any companions? Why don't you go with us? There are me, Sister San, Sister Ai Ye, and Cui Ye. Let's not go with Elder Sister and Second Sister." Li Xiaonan invited.

"Okay." Sister Zhi's face turned red again.

The Gao family's New Year's greeting wine was divided into two tables inside and outside, and they had a lively meal. Li Xiaonan followed behind Li Jinzhu, said goodbye to Mr. Gao's family with a happy smile, and climbed into the car.

When the car started to move, Li Jinzhu stretched out his hand to Li Xiaonan, "Let me have a look."

"You can't live without copper coins!" Li Xiaonan tightly clutched the small profit bag.

"If it's copper tin, I'll give you a New Year's gift." Li Jinzhu patted Li Xiaonan's hand.

Reluctantly, Li Xiaonan stretched her fists, watching Li Jinzhu pick up the profit bag, pull it open, and poured out a small silver pouch, weighed it, and put it into the purse.

"Let's keep this for fun." Li Jinzhu patted the embroidered profit market bag into Li Xiaonan's hand.

(End of this chapter)