132, lace curtains
It was about to pass noon, and Xiaoxiao returned to Zhuli Pavilion with lots of bags.
Ranbi came up to pick up the girl's bag, and looked happy: "Girl, go and see who is coming."
"Who?" Xiaoxiao was nervous. It could be that Tang Qifan was back.
"I won't tell you." Ran Bi looked mysterious.
Xiaoxiao looked at her like that, and shouldn’t be a very important guest, and said, “Do I need to change my clothes to see that person?”
"I don't dare to take it," Ranbi smiled crisply, and pulled Xiaoxiao to Shanniang's yard: "Miss just go in, and the person is in the wife's room."
Xiaoxiao became more and more curious. She brushed her clothes before entering the door. The fish-watching was bringing tea in, and she smiled sweetly when she saw Xiaoxiao.
The voice of the speech came from the east end, which was my mother's voice: "Business is good this month, but your investment is more than in the past month."
Xiaoxiao looked inside through the full moon gate of the red sandalwood carved with nine-pod orchids. She saw the back of a young woman, sitting slanted on her lower body and talking to her mother, wearing a used honey-coloured long gown, her hair was neatly folded up and tied a snail, and her ear-drawing hairpin with a string of rice beads was inserted into the hairpin. Xiaoxiao naturally recognized it, and couldn't help but speak, "Weaving gold!"
When the woman heard this, she hurriedly looked back and stood up. She was the bride and her face was turned. Her skin was fair and delicate. She had a rice bead earring on her ears. When she saw Xiaoxiao, she hurriedly saluted: "Miss, I should have come here long ago, but there is a big deal in the farm."
Xiaoxiao pulled her up and said, "Let me see how the farm is doing, you are becoming more and more handsome."
Jijin's face turned red: "The girl will make fun of her servants."
Xiaoxiao has only been more than two months since she came to Yuanlong Dynasty, but she has had some feelings for this gold-twisting: "I have sent you a letter before."
"The girl's letter has been read by her servants for more than ten times," Ji Jin smiled and treated her habitually. She also held a pot and poured a cup of tea for the girl. "Especially the patterns of new cloth, I simply pasted it on the wall of the weaving workshop. The plaids looked complicated, but they were not difficult to weave. I brought all the woven shapes."
"Take me up and take a look!" Xiaoxiao was excited when she heard this. It was the first plaid cloth of the Yuanlong Dynasty.
Shan Niang laughed when she saw this: "Forget it, go to the girl's place first. As for the investment this month, I also understand where it is. She will have an idea later, and you will respond to her again. This is also a considerable expense."
"Mom, this is product innovation." Xiaoxiao corrected his mother in a timely manner.
"Okay, innovation, I think the innovation of lace loop is very good." Shan Niang affirmed this. The account in her hand showed that once lace loop was put into production, it had unexpected results. "Your aunt Fang also sent a letter to her and asked her to make some lace tea tables, and she was preparing to return to Beijing to give it to others."
"What do we weaving workshops do with lace?"
Ji Jin has been busy at the weaving workshop recently, and I am familiar with these things: "Tea mats, coasters, and clothes accessories, sachets, edgings, collar wipes, etc. The best seller is the collar wipes. Now the orders we receive are enough for these weaving women to be busy until autumn."
Xiaoxiao thought of the fourth aunt Ruan's words, and her heart moved, and said, "According to me, it is important to recruit more embroidery and weaving girls and make production and distribution. In addition, in addition to these, there is another thing that we must do."
Shan Niang looked at her daughter with a smile.
Xiaoxiao kept it a secret: "Didn't you weaving girls think about innovation?"
"Of course they followed the arrangements of their boss," Ji Jin thought for a while, and then smiled unconsciously: "It was the naughty seal who used ramie to firmly tie a pair of bamboo-leaf shoes. It was said that they were wearing it in their house in summer. It was cooler and more beautiful than clogs and feet, and looked pretty."
Xiaoxiao still had some impression of the Yin'er. It seemed that there were more people and more ideas: "This is a smart person. I should reward her. I will give her two taels of silver from my monthly money. If these lace hollow shoes can be sold well in the future, they will get a profit and give it up again." With such a temptation to reward, other people who don't think have to follow it.
Zhijin nodded and remembered what the girl said just now: "I just don't know what the girl said again..."
"Curves." Xiaoxiao was reminded by Ruan, and she had long thought of using lace to make curtains, but she forgot about it these days.
Glazed windows have only become popular in recent years. In the past, people used window paper and could not use curtains at all. Even in summer, they still used bamboo rolling curtains to block the sunlight.
"Does the girl want to use lace to replace the window screen?" Zhi Jin was puzzled for a moment.
"With such a big hole, aren't all those mosquitoes and flies flying in?" Guanyu couldn't help but interrupt.
Xiaoxiao looked at the glazed window in my mother's room. The orchid patterned panes clearly penetrated into the sunlight. The courtyard view outside the window was close to me: "Grandma's room still uses corner windows. The old man's house is not used to being so transparent in the room. He has been used to using Korean paper, sheep horns, and bright tiles all his life. Suddenly, he changed to today's brightness, and always felt unsafe... Even I felt it was too bright. There was a small embroidered screen in front of the window of the bedroom. If there was a curtain that could be opened and closed, it would be cheaper."
Shan Niang looked at the gauze hanging on the Moon Gate thoughtfully, and vaguely thought of her daughter's intention.
"Bamboo curtains are only suitable for summer. The cloth curtains are too dense. It is better to use translucent gauze curtains or hollow lace curtains. They are woven with soft light-colored silk threads and hang them softly from the windows. They can be hung with curtain hooks during the day, and they fall down at night or during lunch breaks to cover the windows. If you want to see outside, you can only get a glimpse of the lace holes, and there is no need to open the curtains. This is the advantage of gauze curtains." Xiaoxiao found that several people in the house began to imagine the effect of lace curtains hanging on the windows. "This thing is easy to dismantle and wash, it is much easier to remove and wash than the bamboo curtains, and it is also convenient to roll up."
Chapter completed!