After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

After the Double Ninth Festival, all villagers in Dongchen Village peeled cotton seeds at home, including Jiang's family.

Ying Bao thought about it all night, sorted out the plot in the book, and found that it focused on the heroine, and did not describe much about the marginal characters.

He didn't even say a word about his parents and younger brother, let alone Chu Chu and others.

However, the book narrates a process of cotton farmers ginning and weaving, saying that they use a drive-by cotton gin to remove seeds from the seed cotton, which is much faster than manually picking them one by one.

It is said that a bookshelf is fixed on the table, and a wooden shaft and an iron shaft are placed across the top of the shelf.

The iron shaft is on the top and the wooden shaft is on the bottom.There is a crank on the right side of the wooden shaft.A flywheel cross-shaped wooden frame is installed on the left side of the iron shaft.

During operation, the two shafts roll together, and the left hand puts the seed cotton into the shaft, the cotton is taken out of the front of the car, and the cotton seeds fall behind the car.

Ying Bao took a charcoal pencil and drew the shape of the cotton gin on the paper. Some details probably meant that, and the carpenter probably needed to figure it out a lot.

"Father, let's use this to squeeze out the cotton seeds, it should be faster than picking them up by hand." She handed the picture to her father.

There is too much cotton in the house, and collecting cotton seeds is a big project. The whole family will be involved in the battle, and it will not take a month or two to complete it.

Jiang Sanlang took a closer look at the picture handed by his daughter, and nodded: "I'll ask Wang Ke to try it out, and if it works, let's make a few more."

Now that he is the head of the village, he has to take care of the big and small things in the village, and cotton ginning is also considered a big deal.

Because Sun Li was urging him all the time, telling him to sort out all the cotton seeds as soon as possible, some of them would be kept by the villagers, and the other part would be sold to the county government.

It is said that the imperial court valued this batch of cottonseed very much, and asked the county magistrate to send a batch of cottonseed cotton to the Kyoto household department.

Yingbao suddenly remembered something and asked, "Father, why haven't the two looms that our family ordered with Manager Zhou arrived yet?"

"I asked Manager Zhou about it, and Zhou Mao said that he will definitely bring it when he comes to collect the golden ears this time."

Jiang Sanlang often took his wife to the county to visit his eldest son, so he had more contacts with Zhou Mao.

Ying Bao nodded.

Her own golden ears can be harvested in half a month, so she will go to the county first, stay there for a few more days, and come back after finishing the business of the shop.

At noon, Jiang Quan loaded several baskets of chestnuts into the carriage, and hung several large gourds on the roof.

Each of these gourds was as big as a bathtub, and it was terrifying to hang on the sides of the carriage.

Erni climbed into the carriage with a bundle on her shoulders, and sat with her little cousin.

Today Uncle San asked her to accompany Yingbao to the county seat, and Erni was overjoyed.

She grew up so big that she hadn't even been to the county town once, so she had to spend a few days in the county town right now.

"Bao'er, take Xiao Hei there. Da Cheng said there is a dog at home that can guard against thieves at night." Chun Niang carried Xiao He into the carriage and instructed, "Xiao Jie also wants to see Xiao Hei, so I will leave him in the house in the future." The county seat."

"Okay." Ying Bao held Xiao Hei in his arms, and waved to Chun Niang: "I'm leaving, Ma'am."

"Be careful on the road."

"understood."

Jiang Quan drove the car away with a whip, and quickly left the village.

I hurried all the way, and finally arrived at the gate of the county shop before dark.

The shop was closed at this time, but fortunately Jiang Quan still had a key in his hand.

Jiang Quan and Erni unloaded the chestnuts and gourds and put them into the shop. Then they closed the shop door and led the carriage into the backyard.

A lot of bricks and tiles were piled up in the backyard, almost filling up the huge yard.

"Where's the elder brother?" Erni walked into the thatched hut, but didn't see Jiang Cheng, so she couldn't help asking Jiang Quan, "Does he stay here at night?"

"Brother should go to Plum Blossom Lane." Jiang Cheng slept in the shop on weekdays, probably knowing that his second brother was coming back today, so he went to Plum Blossom Lane by himself.

Jiang Quan lit the oil lamp with a torch and said, "You guys will stay here tonight, and return to Plum Blossom Lane tomorrow."

"En." Erni had no objection, took the oil lamp and looked around.

The house is fairly tidy and clean, with a wooden bed and complete bedding, barely enough for two people to rest.

"Don't people in the county build kangs?" Erni asked, "Isn't it cold in winter?"

"I don't know, anyway, we don't feel cold without sleeping on the kang."

Jiang Quan: "You and Yingbao don't run around in the house, I'm going out to buy something to eat, what do you want to eat?"

Yingbao said, "I want to eat sweet-scented osmanthus rice balls, and donkey meat."

Turning around to ask Er Ni: "What do you want to eat, let the second brother buy it for you."

Erni didn't know what else to eat, so she said, "Just be like you."

"All right." Jiang Quan took out three hundred Wen, and Le Diandian went out.

The advantage of living in the county is that you can eat many kinds of delicious food every day. As long as you have money, you can buy everything.

The little black dog barked behind him, as if saying that there was another one.

Ying Bao ran to the door and shouted in the direction where Jiang Quan disappeared: "Second brother, buy some more food for Xiao Hei."

"Got it!" Jiang Quan ran away in a hurry.

Erni sat down by the bed, touched the edge of the bed, and asked the little cousin: "Yingbao, where shall we go to play tomorrow?"

Yingbao thought for a while: "I won't go anywhere tomorrow. I want to tidy up the shop and order some things. I'll take you out to play the day after tomorrow."

"Okay." Erni didn't mind either.

Being able to go to the county seat is already very satisfying.Besides, she really didn't know any fun places in the county town.

After a while, Jiang Quan bought back a lot of delicious food.

There are donkey meat fire, sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice balls, mutton buns, pepper kebabs, and mutton wontons.

Except that Erni had eaten glutinous rice balls and mutton buns, she had never seen the rest.

"Wow! It's delicious!" Erni picked up a mutton bun and took a bite.

Jiang Quan brought a few clay bowls, each containing glutinous rice balls and wontons, and handed them to his two cousins, while he himself ate wontons from the clay jars.

A mouthful of pepper kebabs and a spoonful of wontons, not to mention how beautiful it is.

Yingbao picked up a bowl of glutinous rice balls and ate them, and said to the second cousin: "Where did you buy those fruit baskets from? I want to order a batch of bamboo boxes to pack those preserved fruits."

Jiang Quan took a bite of the meat skewer: "I bought it from a peddler before, but I found out that the price at the bamboo shop is about the same, so I bought it at the bamboo shop, and I'll take you there tomorrow."

The next day, Jiang Cheng rushed over from Plum Blossom Lane, bringing a basket of steamed buns he had steamed himself.

Seeing that the second brother spent money to buy food outside, he couldn't help but say to him: "There are rice, noodles, and eggs at home, and a lot of vegetables are grown by the courtyard wall, so you don't know how to make something yourself?"

Jiang Quan muttered: "Isn't it that Yingbao and Erni are here, and I didn't buy too much."

Jiang Cheng snorted, took the steamed buns to the stove to cook porridge, and Erni hurried to help light the fire.

After dinner, Jiang Cheng took care of the shop, while Jiang Quan took his two cousins ​​to the bamboo shop to order bamboo boxes.

Yingbao took a fancy to a delicate bamboo box as big as a book, and asked the bamboo craftsman to make it bigger and bring a delicate cover.

"If it's compiled according to your requirements, it won't be worthwhile to make a piece of Bawen." The master bamboo craftsman said.

Ying Bao: "Then how much do you want?"

Bamboo Carpenter: "At least it takes 25 Wen each."

"It's too expensive." Yingbao said seriously: "My family has to order hundreds of pieces, and it's still a long-term order. Your price is too outrageous, forget it, I'd better go to another place to see. The county is not just your bamboo shop. "

Turn around and leave.

Erni and Jiang Quan followed closely.