42. After the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are broken.
"Ah, it's him!" Wintersweet woke up from a big dream.
"It's not a bit similar, it's almost the same! But you haven't even met my sister, how do you know?" Lamei added.
"He is just one person. Without this Taoist priest, the old rich man would not have given copper coins to his concubines, and he might have continued to extract oil from them." Bai Haitang said with a smile while dyeing the cloth.
"Now not only is there no oil extraction, but it has brought me business. But sister, I still don't understand...how did a jade seller become a Taoist priest and be so good at calculations all of a sudden?" Lamei said.
"You, think about it carefully."
It turned out that when Bai Haitang went out for a while that day, he went to the market. Although the market had dispersed, the jade sellers were still there all year round. It was not difficult to find him and tell him some about the situation in the village, pretending to be a Taoist priest or something.
"Then why is he willing to do it?" Lamei asked after listening to Bai Haitang's explanation of the cause and effect.
"He earned a tael of silver from the old rich man, and he was so happy that he wished he could do it a second time." Bai Haitang replied with a smile.
"I see."
The grass green and oil green have been tested, and there is no problem at all. I dyed a few pieces of wintersweet and white crabapple and dried them and put them on the shelf. Including the previous four, there are six colors in total.
"Have you seen the color of the sky?" Bai Haitang raised his head and pointed at Cloud Break.
"I saw it, what a pure color." Wintersweet looked up.
"Now, we will dye it this color, sky blue. It is also called virginity after the rain and the sky is clear and the clouds are clear." Bai Haitang said.
"What? Can it be done?" Wintersweet didn't know what Bai Haitang was dyed with, so she had to watch obediently.
I saw Bai Haitang pounding the dried khaki hematoxylin bark into powder, adding warm water to dissolve it, stirring, and at the same time pouring it into a jar of spare indigo dye, continuing to stir and heat, until the heat from the dye vat reaches the
At a certain point, Bai Haitang quickly threw in a piece of original color gray cloth.
I rotated the bamboo pole in the dyeing vat and burned the incense. When I took it out, the cloth had turned azure.
Lamei looked at the piece of cloth and then looked at the sky. It was really like the moment when the clouds broke through the sky after raining. No wonder the clouds broke through the sky after the rain.
"Sister, you are like a god descending to earth." Lamei hugged Bai Haitang excitedly. She admired her talent so much.
Now I no longer expect to be half of what Sister Haitang is, becoming one-tenth of her will make this life in vain.
This azure color is also over-dyed, but it is made by adding indigo dye and hematoxylin over-dying instead of secondary dyeing.
Now, there are three more colors, sky blue, oil green, and spring grass green.
The shelves are even more colorful.
Wintersweet and Begonia then dyed a piece of sky-blue cloth.
At this time Tian Niu and Tian Er came over together.
"Sister Haitang, this is what you asked for. We got it all back." After the two of them finished speaking, they placed a pile of birch bark in front of Bai Haitang and cut it neatly, a little smaller than a palm, into a square shape.
"Is this also for dyeing?" Lamei asked.
"No, this is for making business cards." Bai Haitang picked up a piece of bark at random. It had dried in the sun and was just in use.
"Name, what is a business card?" Lamei felt that she was stupid again, why couldn't she think like Sister Haitang?
"It's just to let others know that we have a dyeing workshop here, and then people who buy cloth will come back here." Bai Haitang explained.