Li Xiaonan was only one step away from the door of the wing, when the door of the wing opened.
Li Xiaonan stepped into the side room, looked at the blushing Sister Zhi, stepped back half a step, and looked at her carefully.
Sister Zhi usually wears very plain clothes. Now she is wearing a thin pine-colored silk cotton jacket, a peach red muslin skirt, and a long crimson silk jacket on top. Her rosy face looks as delicate as a half-opened flower.
Peony flowers.
"What are you looking at? I came to this house to weave cloth." Sister Zhi forcefully explained.
Li Xiaonan groaned, stood in front of the window, and looked out through the crack in the window.
"It's not like I don't know you." Sister Zhi's face turned redder when she saw Li Xiaonan looking out the window.
"My brother has grown taller, and I have grown taller too." Li Xiaonan raised the window higher.
"It hasn't grown much." Sister Zhi sat down in front of the loom.
"My brother is so happy. Sister San said he was so happy that he was so happy." Li Xiaonan sat down next to Sister Zhi.
Sister Zhi lowered her eyes and looked at the shuttle in her hand, but did not answer.
"Hey, you changed the loom." Li Xiaonan stretched her neck and looked at the long loom.
"This is a six-harness jacquard machine." Sister Zhi immediately put down the shuttle and stood up to introduce it to Li Xiaonan, "These six are flower heddles and these are ground heddles. I just started weaving and I am weaving very slowly." "It's so beautiful. What pattern is this?" Li Xiaonan looked carefully at the piece of jacquard muslin in front of the scroll.
"It's only six heddles, so I can't weave anything, it's just a single thread or something." Sister Zhi's words were extremely vague.
Li Xiaonan understood immediately when she heard it. Bingdi, Sister Zhi is weaving a dowry.
Li Xiaonan walked around the new loom again, "Isn't this difficult to weave? There are so many pedals, what should I do if I step on the wrong one?"
"That's right, this one is made of ground heddles, these are made of jacquard heddles, the flower heddles are all arranged, you see, just like this, step on the floor heddle board twice, then step on the flower heddle boards one by one, step on the flower heddles twice
Heddle board, then step on the floor heddle board, and then step on the flower heddle board twice, it's quite simple."
Sister Zhi sat down and demonstrated to Li Xiaonan.
The thin thread flew past and passed through. Li Xiaonan watched Sister Zhi step on the pedal more than a dozen times, but the piece of cloth didn't seem to grow at all.
"This thread is too thin, how much can we weave in one day?" Li Xiaonan looked at the thin cotton thread carefully.
"Sister-in-law Zhou, who helps me with the threading machine, can weave one piece in three days, but I can't. I have been knitting for almost ten days. The front is always damaged, but it has become faster recently. You see, it is damaged.
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Sister Zhi took a piece of cloth from the thread rack next to her and handed it to Li Xiaonan.
Li Xiaonan touched the piece of cloth, shook it off and looked at it. The cloth was particularly fine and soft.
Li Xiaonan touched her skirt, and then touched Sister Zhi's piece of cloth.
Sister Zhi laughed and said, "I bought Yangsi thread from Yangzhou and twisted a silk thread into it. Yours is fine cotton."
"Isn't that expensive?" Li Xiaonan looked carefully at the threads on the loom, and sure enough, there was a faint sheen of silk.
"It's not that expensive." Sister Zhi pursed her lips and smiled.
"What are you going to do with this that sister knitted?" Li Xiaonan touched the fine cloth on the scroll.
This cloth has a white background and gray-green jacquard pattern, which is simple and elegant.
"I can do anything, quilts, lined clothes, curtains. If I don't do anything, I just knit for fun." Sister Zhi tried her best to look natural.
"You must be weaving faster and faster. You are almost as fast as that sister-in-law Zhou. You can't weave one piece every three days. You can't weave every day. Let's count it as five pieces a month. If it's more than five, let's count it as three. Then you can have four pieces a year.
Ten pieces of cloth, two years..."
"What are you talking about!" Sister Zhi's face turned red again, interrupting Li Xiaonan's calculation.
Li Xiaonan glanced at her sideways and said nothing.
Sister Zhi was stunned, sighed, and her face turned even redder.
"Our family has opened a preserved egg shop, have you heard about it?" Li Xiaonan changed the topic.
Sister Zhi lowered her eyes and sighed.
"The business is very good and very profitable. We took stock last year and found that we were allocated 76 taels of silver and Sister-in-law Yin was allocated 51 taels. Sister-in-law Yin and I share 40-60 shares." Li Xiaonan was sitting next to Sister Zhi, leisurely.
They started gossiping.
"But, last year, we only got one penny in the account. Sister-in-law Yin and I didn't get a single copper coin, because the money had been spent long ago. A new workshop was built, many new people were recruited, and
Anyway, there are so many places to spend money.
"The eldest sister said that the money earned this year will be available to her. The eldest sister and the second sister settled the accounts and said that if the business this year can be as good as last year, the money earned this year and next will be enough to buy a serious house.
I have already entered the big house.
"The eldest sister said that when the time comes, Mr. Gao and his wife will live in the main courtyard, and you will live in the front yard. The second sister said that it would be best to have a small garden to grow vegetables and so on."
"What about you?" Sister Zhi listened attentively and asked.
"We have a five-year lease on this house now. If we cancel the lease early, half of the lease payment will be deducted. The eldest sister will definitely be reluctant to part with it. We will definitely have to live in it for five years." Li Xiaonan sighed old-fashionedly.<
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Sister Zhi wanted to laugh but held back, "I heard from people that your eldest sister can live a good life."
"Yeah!" Li Xiaonan said with absolute certainty, moved closer to Sister Zhi, and lowered her voice: "One time, the eldest sister told the second sister: Look at how big this copper coin is, if you can break it apart.
Okay."
Sister Zhi burst into laughter.
"My brother has grown a lot taller. He used to be as tall as me, but now he is a head taller than me. I think he looks better than before." Li Xiaonan continued to chat.
"Yeah." Sister Zhi said vaguely.
"I heard that the lantern festival in the county is very lively this year. We also set up a lantern shed at home. We also have a lion dance team. The dance is very beautiful. Do you want to go and watch?" Li Xiaonan looked at Sister Zhi.
"Yeah!" Sister Zhi smiled.
"Do you have company? Why don't you come with us? There are me, Third Sister, Sister Aiye, and Cuiye. We won't go with the eldest sister and the second sister." Li Xiaonan invited.
"Okay." Sister Zhi's face turned red again.
The Gao family's New Year's Eve dinner was divided into two tables, inside and outside, and the meal was lively. Li Xiaonan followed Li Jinzhu, said goodbye to Mr. Gao's family with a smile, and climbed into the car.
When the car started moving, Li Jinzhu stretched out his hand to Li Xiaonan, "Bring it to me and let me take a look."
"You can't celebrate the New Year without a piece of copper!" Li Xiaonan clutched the small profit bag tightly.
"If I have copper coins, I will give you a New Year's greeting." Li Jinzhu patted Li Xiaonan's hand.
Li Xiaonan reluctantly opened her fists and watched Li Jinzhu pick up the profit bag, open it, pour out a small silver coin, weigh it, and put it into his purse.
"Keep this for fun." Li Jinzhu patted the embroidered profit bag into Li Xiaonan's hand.
