After Aunt Li left, Jiang Miao continued to discuss cooperation with Li Dajiang. Jiang Miao's conditions were already generous, saying that they could have a stable residence in Qingquan Village. Li Dajiang couldn't help but be moved. The thatched huts they lived in were everywhere.
Wind leakage is okay in spring and summer, but in winter the whole family will freeze to death.
"I promise you."
"Well," Jiang Miao was still very happy after finding a helper.
"Then when will you move there?"
"We'll discuss it when Xiaoshan's mother comes back, and we should move it as soon as possible."
"Okay," Jiang Miao nodded understandingly. She hadn't seen Li Dajiang's wife in the long time since she'd been here. She must have gone out.
When Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrived, Ms. Chen and Li Xiaoshan came around the corner of the road. When she saw the carriage and the stranger at the door, she hesitated in her steps.
"Ms. sir, what is this?"
"Mom, this is Mrs. Jiang. My father and I went to deliver potatoes to her before. Mrs. Jiang also gave me a candied haws, which is so sweet!"
Before Li Dajiang could reply, Li Xiaoshan said everything like he was pouring beans.
"Are you Xiaoshan's benefactor?" Mrs. Chen's face was so excited that she actually wanted to kneel down to Jiang Miao.
"Thanks to Mrs. Jiang's kindness for saving my Xiaoshan, otherwise his father and I would have to follow..."
Thinking of the hardship at that time, Mrs. Chen couldn't help but shed tears. Li Dajiang, an honest and honest man, was also a little moved. Jiang Miao couldn't bear her kneeling and quickly helped her up.
"Sister-in-law, please get up. Paying for shopping is a matter of course. It's all thanks to Xiaoshan's good fortune. I don't deserve your thanks."
The two of them were polite for a while, and with Li Dajiang's comfort, Mrs. Chen recovered.
"Ms. Jiang, are you here to buy potatoes?"
As expected of a family, Chen and Li Xiaoshan asked the same question as Li Dajiang, and Jiang Miao smiled and explained it again.
When she heard that she was going to move, Mrs. Chen was a little excited. Of course she didn't want to live in a thatched house if she could have a house to live in. Moreover, Aunt Li's family came to collect debts all day long. She was cowardly and did not dare to fight back when being bullied, so she could only let them destroy the house.
After everything was taken away and she could stay away from them, Chen was very happy, but she looked at the duck feathers on the ground.
"We also took over work in a restaurant, but before the work was finished, our deposit was suddenly cut off and we couldn't get it back..."
The Li family had to pay a deposit of half a tael of silver to pick up the duck at the restaurant, otherwise they would not be able to trust the duck to them.
Li Dajiang also knew this. He thought for a moment and said, "We will move this batch of ducks after we have finished processing them!"
"good."
Mrs. Chen felt reassured, her whole spirit changed, and she became more hopeful about the future.
Jiang Miao looked at the duck feathers piled randomly on the ground, and an idea flashed in her mind. She thought of modern down jackets. The raw materials in front of her were just there. These duck feathers could be stuffed into clothes and quilts after being processed.
She was about to make winter clothes. Jiang Miao was not used to the bulkiness of ancient cotton-padded jackets and the inconvenience of doing work. The down jacket was light and warm, making it much more comfortable than cotton-padded jackets.
Jiang Miao's eyes shone brightly, looking at this pile of "garbage" like a treasure.
"Sell me all these duck feathers."
"Ah, what do you want this for?" Li Dajiang scratched his head. The duck feathers were fishy and smelly, and they couldn't be used as firewood. He planned to burn them when he had saved up enough. Who would have thought that Mrs. Jiang would buy it again.
"I bought it for use. If you get it from now on, you can send it to the Shen family. I'll take whatever you have."
If she succeeds, the family will have all their winter clothes, and she can make two duvets for herself.
"Okay," Li Dajiang said. Although Li Dajiang didn't know what this thing was for, since Jiang Miao wanted it, he gave it to him and refused the money Jiang Miao handed over.
"These duck feathers are just taking up space here. If you help me move them, you are doing me a favor. How can I have the nerve to ask for money?"
"Keep it, you will have to spend time and energy on delivering goods in the future, and I can't take advantage of you in vain."
Jiang Miao tried hard to talk, but Li Dajiang only accepted 50 pieces of paper.
Several people packed the duck feathers in packages and stuffed them into the carriage. The smell of the duck feathers was so bad that Jiang Miao couldn't bear it and sat outside the carriage. When she got home, she felt like she was about to faint.
"What the hell did you buy? It stinks!"
Mrs. Zhang was already used to seeing Jiang Miao bringing strange things home all day long, but she still couldn't help being smelled by the smell of duck feathers.
She opened the package and saw the duck feathers inside, and there were black lines on her face.
"Why do you need this? It's not like we don't have firewood at home."
"Mom, this is for making clothes." Jiang Miao explained, covering her nose.
"How do you make clothes? If you want fur clothes, I'll ask your father to go look for them at Orion's place. I can't make this stuff. I'm afraid you've been deceived."
Mrs. Zhang tried her best to persuade her, but Jiang Miao had a look of being deceived, and Jiang Miao smiled helplessly.
"It's like stuffing into the clothes like cotton, but it's warm. Mom will know when I finish it."
"Really?" Mrs. Zhang was dubious, but Jiang Miao did not lie. She had done what she said before. Mrs. Zhang would wait and see.
It took a long time to process several large packages of duck feathers. First, wash the duck feathers with water, and use alkaline water to remove the grease. Jiang Miao couldn't find alkali, so she rubbed it several times with plant ash. The dirt on the feathers was basically cleaned away, and the smelly smell was basically removed.
The smell is also greatly eliminated.
The next step is to disinfect and sterilize. Put the washed duck feathers in a steamer and steam them. This way, the cleaned duck feathers will have better warmth retention.
In order to steam the duck feathers, Jiang Miao specially built a stove in the yard and asked Shen Erlang to help make a big steamer, so as not to get confused with the snack maker in the kitchen.
Jiang Miao and Mrs. Zhang worked hard for several days, and finally processed several large packages of duck feathers. After disinfection and sterilization, the duck feathers were dried in the sun. Only the finest and softest down was left, and the white flowers were light and soft as clouds.
"Don't tell me, this dried duck down is really just like cotton." Mrs. Zhang couldn't put it down, and now she believed that it could be used as clothes.
While they were washing the duck feathers, something big happened in the Zhou family.
After listening to Jiang Miao's words, Aunt Li dragged Li Dahe to ask for someone. She found out the location of Zhou's house, banged the door of his house, and yelled curses while standing outside.
"Shameless little whore, come out to me. You have had sex with my son and you still dare to marry someone else. How shameless are you!"
"Ayuan, madam, I am Dahe, I am here to take you home!"
Li Dahe is a man in his thirties, with a tanned face, a flat nose, thick lips, and pockmarks on his face. Ever since he learned about Zhao Yuan's whereabouts, he couldn't wait to find her, and he was knocking on the door eagerly.
Close the door.
Zhao Yuan in the room turned pale when she heard the shouting outside, and almost couldn't stand.
