Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 240 Amazing embroidery work

"Capital?"

Cao Wanzhi paused for a moment, then shook her head, "How could I have been to such a big place as the capital city?"

"But..." A hint of longing appeared on her face, "If I have the chance, I would also like to see the world and see how prosperous and rich the legendary capital is."

The capital is the economic and political center of a country, a prosperous city at the feet of the emperor. As a pancake vendor in a remote small town, it is the dream of each of them to witness the elegance of the capital with their own eyes.

Jiang Xiaoxiao bit into the tofu skin bun and said nothing.

The original work did not detail how Cao Wanzhi was recovered by the royal family, but it was just a routine.

Cao Wanzhi has royal blood flowing through her body, and her appearance is naturally somewhat similar to that of a royal. If one day she encounters an emperor visiting incognito in private, it would be normal for her to be recognized at a glance and taken back to the palace.

Xie Cheng's shock when he saw Cao Wanzhi's appearance just now was completely seen by her.

Xie Cheng, a fourth-rank imperial official, had seen the true face of the emperor, so he naturally knew what this overly similar face meant.

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Since returning to the village, Jiang Xiaoxiao and her mother have not been to the town for several days, so the task of delivering goods to the soap shop fell on Liu Dagang.

There is only one soap shop owned by her family in the entire Yong'an County, so even though the shop has been open for a long time, the soap is still selling well and the supply exceeds demand.

Liu Dagang drove the Jiang family's carriage to the town to deliver goods every two days. After delivering the goods, he returned and continued to be responsible for purchasing firewood.

Soap workshops burn a lot of plant ash and refine lard every day, so the more firewood they need, the better.

The Jiang family has been purchasing unlimited amounts of firewood for a long time, so the villagers naturally seize the opportunity to make money. After all, two kilograms of firewood can be sold for one penny. Going up the mountain to pick up two bundles of firewood every day costs 20 pence. Where can you get such a huge bargain?

Since the busy season of autumn planting and farming has ended, many people have been coming in and out of the soap workshop every day, all coming to deliver firewood. There are many people, but their sight is blocked by the tight concrete walls.

Sometimes there was too much firewood and there was no place to put it, so Jiang Wei asked someone to build several straw sheds next to the soap workshop, specifically for the temporary storage of firewood.

In addition to going to town to deliver goods, Liu Dagang spent the rest of the time guarding the thatched shed, responsible for weighing and calculating the money for the villagers who delivered firewood. When he was free, he had to check around the thatched shed from time to time to prevent any sparks from igniting.

Thatched huts and firewood are both flammable materials. If they accidentally catch fire, it would be a serious sin.

Looking at Liu Dagang who was conscientious and responsible, Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded with satisfaction.

Previously, when Brother Dagang was asked to take charge of this job, her mother-in-law offered him a monthly salary of 800 Wen. He kept refusing, saying that it was inappropriate for him to receive such a high salary since he had never done any work. , until he was asked to help deliver goods to the town every two days, he accepted the salary.

After getting along day and night for more than half a year, Jiang Xiaoxiao can feel that most of the people in the village are honest and simple, enthusiastic, serious and conscientious in their work. Except for a few who like to take advantage of petty gains and make sarcastic remarks, the rest are very good.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked around the soap workshop. Everything was prosperous and she was ready to go back home to practice calligraphy.

As soon as she stepped through the door, she saw Qiu Lianniang walking towards her home carrying a bamboo basket.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stood at the door with a smile on her face: "Aunt Qiulian, why are you here?" These days, many villagers have made money from her soap workshop, and they took advantage of their free time to go to the town to buy cloth and prepare for it. My family makes several sets of autumn sweaters. The ready-made clothes sold in shops in the town are too expensive and far cheaper than buying cloth.

The people in the village were used to living a hard life, so they basically bought their own cloth to make clothes. However, there were also women who were not good at needlework, so they asked Qiulian Niang to help make autumn clothes.

A few days ago, when Zhao Tiezhu arrived with two bundles of firewood, he was still saying that his mother worked day and night to make clothes for the villagers, and Mrs. Zhao complained all day long that she wasted money on the family's oil lamps.

They were all from the village. Qiu Lianniang didn't have the nerve to accept money from the villagers and made clothes for others for almost free. Of course, Old Mrs. Zhao couldn't be angry.

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't say anything about this. When her family asked Qiulian Niang to make clothes, they would secretly stuff some silver into the cloth.

In this era, there were no sewing machines or anything like that. Making clothes was a real hand job, which was time-consuming, eye-catching and labor-intensive. Even though her family had a good relationship with Qiulian Niang, they didn't have the nerve to take advantage of her.

At first, Qiu Lianniang would return the money, but her family would not accept it at all.

Qiu Lianniang gave up at this point and became more and more conscientious in making clothes for her family.

At this time, Qiu Lianniang came to deliver clothes to her family.

In the Jiang family yard.

Qiu Lianniang opened the cloth on the bamboo basket and took out several sets of new clothes, some big and small, some autumn clothes and some winter clothes. The large one belonged to Jiang Wei and the small one belonged to Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly fell on a set of hibiscus-colored narrow-sleeved jacket.

I have to say that Qiu Lianniang's embroidery work is really good. This little jacket fits her figure perfectly. There are exquisite embroideries on the collar and cuffs. It is also inlaid with a white fur collar. The fur is white and velvet. Rabbit fur.

Her family would slaughter some rabbits every once in a while, and after cleaning the remaining rabbit fur, they would send it to Qiulian Niang, allowing her to do whatever she wanted. Unexpectedly, her skillful hands could also embroider rabbit fur on the collar. It's so pretty.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was overjoyed and held this narrow-sleeved jacket in her arms. The material was made of satin and felt very soft to the touch. It would not rub against the skin like coarse cloth when worn.

If the weather wasn't suitable now, Jiang Xiaoxiao would really want to put it on and try it on right away.

In addition to several sets of new clothes, Qiu Lianniang also took out a small rabbit fur hat from the bamboo basket.

There are two round eyeballs embedded in the front of the hat, a circle of rabbit fur is sewn on the brim, and a small rabbit tail is embroidered with rabbit fur on the back. It looks particularly cute and vivid.

Jiang Xiaoxiao played with the rabbit fur hat and couldn't put it down.

This handwork and texture make it a hand-customized high-end product in modern times.

"Aunt Qiulian, with your embroidery skills, if you open an embroidery shop in the future, you will definitely rob all the business around you!"

Listening to Jiang Xiaoxiao's unstinting praise for herself, Qiu Lianniang smiled happily: "Look at what you say, if I have the ability to open an embroidery shop, I will cover all your new clothes in the future. "

"That's what you said." Jiang Xiaoxiao winked playfully, "When I have money in the future, I will buy an embroidery shop in the town and ask you to be the boss of the embroidery shop!"

Qiulian Niang just thought she was joking to make herself happy, and responded with a smile: "Okay, as long as you have an embroidery shop, even if you don't pay me wages, I will be your boss's wife."