Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 335: Rong Jin is beaming with joy

Next, Pei Jingyang described the scenery of Mobei in vivid detail, which made Madam Han feel that the most beautiful scenery of the Great Sheng Dynasty was in Mobei.

After talking about the scenery, Pei Jingyang began to imagine the future with Madam Han, and described to Madam Han the life that the two of them would live freely and without any constraints in Mobei in the future.

It was not until Madam Han felt that she had to go to Mobei to have a look no matter what that she did that Pei Jingyang stopped talking, turned over and fell into a deep sleep.

After a few days, under Pei Jingyang's repeated "plea", Mrs. Pei finally gave in and agreed to let her son take his wife to Mobei.

Madam Han breathed a sigh of relief, but she also felt that something was out of her control. However, after thinking for a long time, she still couldn't remember anything. So she told the people around her to pack up and prepare to go to Mobei with Pei Jingyang.

By the end of April, Zhenzhu's marriage had been arranged, and she had returned home with her new son-in-law. Almost everything was done. Pei Jinyang, along with his wife, Madam Han, bid farewell to Marquis Pei and Madam Pei, and set off for Mobei.

But before leaving, he unexpectedly kicked Pei Rongjin, who had been standing silently by the side, which made Madam Han confused and heartbroken at the same time.

Of course, when Pei Jingyang turned around, he did not avoid the merciless kick from Marquis Pei, which made Madam Han even more confused.

The day after Pei Jingyang took Madam Han away from Shangjing City, Rong Jin once again came to Huaying Manor happily.

Hua Lei was really puzzled by Rong Jin's beaming face. When he won the third place in the imperial examination in early March, he didn't seem so happy.

When Hua Lei learned from Rong Jin that Madam Han had followed Pei Jingyang to Mobei and would not come back easily, she was also very surprised. This was indeed something she had not expected. It can only be said that although Hua Lei is very smart, she is not dark enough.

The evil Rong Jin was like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, riding the horse with Hua Lei and running wildly on the road. When he finally stopped, Hua Lei on the horse's back was already dizzy.

He glared at the complacent Rong Jin, grabbed the reins, turned the horse around, and returned to the farm. Pei Rongjin, with a gloomy face, also followed behind him, holding his horse with a flattering look on his face.

At the end of May, when the fish in the rice fields at Yuanying Village were growing well, ships loaded with raw wool from Mobei arrived at Yuanying Village.

Because the rough selection of wool had basically been completed, Hua Lei arranged to start rough washing of the wool as soon as the ship arrived at Yuanying Village.

Because arrangements were made in advance and all personnel were in place, although the process of rough wool washing was rather tedious and laborious, it was carried out in an orderly manner.

After more than half a month, a batch of raw wool has been cleaned and dried, and it is ready for rough brushing. After using a wooden brush with coarse wooden teeth to brush the wool, the action is indeed much faster. After the rough brushing is completed, the wool is carefully brushed several times with a boar bristle brush before spinning.

As early as the end of March, Boss Yu had transported nearly a hundred spinning wheels to the workshop in Huaying Manor, and all of them had been debugged. Dozens of women began to spin yarn. Soon, circles of wool yarn were spun.

Meanwhile, Hualei was in the kitchen of the workshop, mixing various vegetable juices and herbal juices. She was preparing to dye the wool yarn with herbal dyes.

The first thing to be dealt with is the spinach on the farm. Clean up all the rotten leaves of the spinach, remove the roots, wash it with clean water, then chop it into pieces, put it into a stone mill to grind out the juice, and filter out the spinach residue with clean gauze.

Then put the wool thread into the filtered spinach juice, rub it repeatedly until all the wool thread is soaked in the juice, and take it out after about quarter of an hour.

Then put it in a pot and add salt to cook for about a quarter of an hour to fix the color. In order to make the color purer, Hualei also specially chose edible coarse white salt instead of cheap fish salt, because fish salt has its own color.

Finally, wash it with clean water and let it dry naturally. In order to avoid fading, the flower buds were not exposed to the sun. After the wool yarn was dried again, it was dyed into a very fresh grass green color.

Aunt Fu looked at the wool thread in Hualei's hand and was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. Hualei was also very satisfied. Since several families signed the contract last year, Hualei has been thinking about dyeing wool sweaters.

Because the color of undyed wool thread is too monotonous, there is only one white color, which is not only ugly, but also not resistant to dirt. However, in the Great Sheng Dynasty, there were no industrial dyes, so Hualei came up with the idea of ​​using plants to dye wool thread.

Now, the color dyed with spinach is really good. So Hualei started to try to find other dyes to dye the wool yarn.

I picked fresh and ripe May plums at Baihua Zhuang, washed them, and put them into the pot to boil with the skin. After three quarters of an hour, I turned off the heat, crushed the plums slightly, took them out, and filtered out the juice with clean gauze. Because there were more red plums in the pot, the boiled juice was also redder.

After the juice has cooled, put the wool yarn into the juice, scrub it carefully several times, soak it for a quarter of an hour, add some salt to fix the color, and then take it out to dry. This time, in order to fix the color, Hualei changed the coarse white salt used before and chose the red fishing salt.

In order to make the wool yarn more colorful and beautiful, the buds repeated the soaking process several times. Soak, dry, soak again, dry again, repeat four or five times, and finally dry in the sun. The wool yarn showed a light pink color. It looked very soft and warm, and very beautiful.

In this way, while making dyes, Hualei also dyed wool yarn. In order to achieve color diversity, Hualei tried many plants, including mugwort in the fields, cypress branches and leaves in Baihua Village, bamboo leaves, loquat leaves, etc., which were all added to the dye team. Even the red mud in the mountains of the northern city area was used by Hualei.

Of course, many dyes prepared last fall and winter were also used. In order to fix the color and achieve color diversity, Hualei used water from burning plant ash in addition to salt. Later, he consulted Master Pei and found alum stone, using various media to dye the wool thread into various colors.

Except for the bright yellow series that was taboo in the Great Sheng Dynasty, Hualei dared not dye it, but Hualei tried a lot of other colors. Of course, during the dyeing and weaving process, some yellow colors would appear uncontrollably.

The flower buds that could be repaired were changed to other colors, and those that could not be repaired were all dyed black or blue and prepared to be sent to the soldiers in Mobei.

Although there will always be color differences in each batch of dyed wool yarn, Hualei no longer cares about it. With the gimmick of being unique, she knitted these wool yarns into sweaters. She plans to sell them in the Flower Fairy Shop when the weather gets colder.