"You only sent me sheep shearlings this year. I think Hong Guogong wore them last year!" the emperor reasoned.

"Your Majesty, there were no tiger skins or beeswax last year!" Hu Hengqiu was a bitch. He wanted to ask the Emperor to say something nice, but it was all money!

"Look what that box is?" The emperor pointed at the box next to him. That box was smaller and looked lighter.

Inside are various Voss-style wool felt ornaments and paintings, as well as some wool dyed in various colors, steel cones and so on.

"What is this?" the emperor asked, picking up an ornament of a Voss man holding a harness and riding a galloping horse.

This ornament is a foot and a half high. The characters and horses on it are lifelike, and it is full of movement when placed on the table.

"Your Majesty, there should be some kind of 'instruction manual', right?" Hu Hengqiu reminded that every time Chu Qing sent something, there would be an "instruction manual" accompanying it.

Eunuch Li hurriedly checked the boxes. Sure enough, there was folded letter paper at the bottom of each box. The letter paper in this small box said "Poke and Poke Fun".

The little eunuch's voice came from the door: "The queen has arrived, the princess has arrived."

"Did the Queen listen to this?" The emperor looked at the Queen with a smile.

"Greetings to Father." The little princess stared at the ornament and said insincerely.

"Hahaha," the emperor held the ornament in his hand and refused to put it down. The little princess just stared at it without saying a word.

"This is mine, this is yours!" The emperor pointed to a pile of wool, awls and other parts.

"I heard that Chu Baihu sent a new year's gift, and wanted to come and take a look. Zhaohua happened to be there, so she followed." After the queen said this, she looked at the several cloaks that Eunuch Li was sorting and asked: "These are all

?”

"Back to the queen, these are all sent by Master Chu. There are three cloaks in total, and they are all top quality."

What Eunuch Li said is true, because fur has never been treated like this before.

Wool has always been worn directly on the body by hunters. The true nature of wool is that the hair is in curls, unlike these cloaks, which are all smooth and fluffy.

"I guess this is my concubine's!" The queen was already looking at the peacock blue cloak with stars in her eyes, her favorite color.

"Let's go, I will go with you to the Queen Mother's place, so that the Queen Mother can see what's new." Emperor Qingde said.

This is clear, every time the things I come up with are always different from others.

Hu Hengqiu was dumbfounded. He was going to the harem and he couldn't follow him. Then he would not be able to complete the "good words" task assigned to him by Chu Qing.

He couldn't get the emperor to praise these things and then spread the word and "advertise them widely." So what about the sales of these cotton and woolen products? Where's the money? Money!

I wish I could beat my chest, but I can't hold on to the hem of the emperor's robe and refuse to let him go, right?

The emperor, the queen and Princess Zhaohua went to the Queen Mother's Palace.

Sure enough, when the Queen Mother saw these gifts, she liked them all. She looked at the soaps of various colors and picked them up next to each other to smell them: "This one is good, mint flavor; oh, this one is better, you ask, peach blossom"

The fragrance; this, well, it is best for you, Your Majesty, it is sandalwood, Queen, you smell it, it is the smell of grass, it is best for the princes..."

It became a fragrance tasting party.

"Royal Grandma, can I take these away?" Princess Zhaohua has a chance to ask for something. Her father hates it the most. He insists on teasing her with good things and refuses to give them to her. She is not a child anymore, can she not be so childish?

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Zhaohua, who turned eight during the Chinese New Year, secretly glanced at her father and asked for something from the emperor's grandmother.

"What is this?" The Queen Mother looked at the steel cone and dyed wool in Zhaohua's hand, curious.

"Grandma Huang, these can be made into beautiful dolls. I'm going back to figure out how to make them." Zhaohua fiddled with these small tools, which seemed a bit difficult.

"Queen Mother, look!" Aunt Jade next to the Queen Mother came over holding a shelf.

"This is... a spinning wheel?" The Queen Mother took it and looked at it, "It's really small, I wonder if it can be used." She turned the handle as she said, "It can really spin!"

"Queen Mother, why don't you give it a try? Look, there is a spindle here." Aunt Yu pointed to the small spindle next to her, "There is also a small loom over there, but it is one piece after another. You need to find someone who knows how to do it.

Put it on."

Only then did the emperor and queen discover that the largest box also contained a spinning wheel and a loom, as well as wool and cotton batting, as well as... assembly diagrams!

In order to facilitate transportation, these mini machines are disassembled into pieces, but each piece has the words "one, two, three, four, positive, negative" on it.

On the assembly diagram, the assembly method of each part and each semi-finished product is clearly drawn, making it easy to understand at a glance.

Aunt Jade called in some skilled eunuchs to assemble them all. From a glance, it turned out to be a hand-operated spinning wheel, a pedal-operated three-spindle spinning wheel, and a simple loom.

The wood is polished brightly, very smooth, natural wood color, without any paint.

Even if it is installed, no one can use it, which is a bit helpless.

A palace maid came in and said: "The Queen Mother, the Queen, Mrs. Hong Guogong wants to see you."

"Oh, Aijia actually forgot that yesterday Aijia asked her to come into the palace to speak." The Queen Mother hurriedly announced that Mrs. Hong came in to talk.

Among the family members of the foreign ministers, Mrs. Hong was the most similar in age and temperament to the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother often asked Mrs. Hong to come to the palace to accompany her in her spare time. Mrs. Hong brought two blood amber bracelets to the Queen Mother and the Queen, saying that they were sent by Chu Qing

New Year's Eve.

But I didn't expect the emperor to be there, and I was feeling embarrassed because I didn't have anything to give to the emperor. I saw all kinds of gadgets on the table. Hey, the Queen Mother also receives a lot of gifts here!

Now there’s no need to be embarrassed: “Is this a spinning wheel? It’s so small!”

"Can you use it?" The Queen Mother looked forward to it.

"Your Majesty, I am a master!" Mrs. Hong replied with no shame, "I am just good at spinning flax, but I don't know if the method for spinning wool is the same."

"Quick, try it!"

Mrs. Hong grabbed a bunch of wool, twisted it out with her fingers, hung it on the end of the spindle, and then shook the handle. She saw that the wool slowly became slender under her hands, but soon broke.

Wool is not as tough as linen fiber. After several experiments, Mrs. Hong finally got the hang of it. She was seen shaking the pulley with one hand and stretching the wool bundle with the other hand. The wool was spinning evenly between her thumb and forefinger.

are getting longer and longer.

Mrs. Hong passed her hand forward, and the wool was wrapped around the rotating spindle. As her hand was raised and passed, more and more wool was wrapped on the spindle.

"You are really a master! Let Aijia try it!" The Queen Mother looked at it with curiosity and couldn't wait to get started, so the emperor and princess had to endure it for the time being.

But how could the emperor hold back? He ordered the young eunuch to bring the three-spindle spinning wheel. This spinning wheel was bigger and much more impressive than the small one of his mother!

This is where the embarrassment lies. The emperor tried his best for a long time without even pulling out a single thread. He asked the queen to try, but the queen couldn't figure it out either.

Finally, Princess Zhaohua pulled out the first piece of thread quietly, but she didn't know what to do when faced with the other two spindles.

It's so funny that a small machine can't help a group of people. Aunt Yu snickered while changing the tea.

By the time Princess Zhaohua was finally able to play the second spindle, Mrs. Hong had already taught the Queen Mother how to play "poke fun". Now the little princess couldn't bear it anymore, so she dropped the spinning wheel and went to play with the awl.

On the contrary, I neglected the jacquard loom. Although it was a mini version, it was as big as a table. Standing there alone, it was unique and independent!

"Your Majesty, these are probably the things Chu Qing used to make sweaters and trousers," Mrs. Hong said.

"Sweater and woolen pants?" The Queen Mother was confused.

"You haven't looked at it yet? Isn't that what's in this box?" Mrs. Hong pointed to an open box next to her. The palace maid had already untied all the wrappings, but no one could tell what the knitting was inside.

Mrs. Hong walked over and picked up a sweater and gestured: "This thing is really warm. I am wearing it now. It is close to the body. You see, it doesn't hinder you from wearing outer clothes at all. It's not cold when you go out."

As he spoke, he also lifted up his sleeves to show the Queen Mother: "Wear it like this over your obscene clothes. Don't wear it against the flesh. It will itch if it is against the flesh, but it will keep you warm."

"So thin? How did you wear it?" The Queen Mother looked at Mrs. Hong's round waist.

"Your Majesty, this thing is very stretchable. You can put it on once and take it off easily." Mrs. Hong inserted her arm into the sweater in her hand, expanded it, then retracted her arm, and the sweater returned to its original shape.
Chapter completed!