Chapter 70 Cotton Harvest
"Yes, we can always see you once a year, so don't be sad." Han advised.
When a woman gets married, she follows her husband. When she goes to her husband's house, she becomes a member of her husband's family. It doesn't mean that she can go back if she wants to. Most people only bring their family back to their parents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Usually, they don't have this opportunity. As long as they can come back every year, they can get married. It's not that important to marry far away or close together.
When the three brothers thought about it, it seemed to make sense, and they felt less uncomfortable.
Now that everything has been discussed, Sunizi wanted to go back quickly to get money to settle the marriage, but she couldn't sit still at all. Before leaving, she said to the Ye family sisters: "We will stay in the village for a few more days, waiting for my daughter. Go back after seeing a doctor, and you can take advantage of these few days to sort out things at home. "
The two sisters of the Ye family personally escorted them out and said, "The house we built for our brother is almost ready. It should be finished in the next few days."
Mrs. Han hurriedly said: "Once the beams are put up, the roof can be built. It will be completed before you leave."
The three courtyards of the Ye family are only half the size of the Su family, and there are eight fewer houses. They will be completed soon.
The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief, with a little more smiles on their faces.
Sunizi returned to Su's house and immediately told the man and child about the situation.
Ke Zhengping was so nervous when he thought about the spring flowers he saw that day, while Ke Zhengliang was overjoyed and jumped three feet high in front of everyone, urging Ke Dasong to give him money.
Ke Dasong was even more excited than his two sons. He went back to the house and quickly took out a money bag and handed it to Sun Nizi, "There are twenty-five taels in it. The extra five taels are a little bit of kindness for us. In addition, we will take a sheep." In the past, after the Ye family built a house, we couldn’t come back to congratulate them, so we gave it to them in advance.”
Sunizi nodded. Although she was a little reluctant to part with the extra silver and sheep, she still agreed.
The Ye family was really surprised to receive the silver and goat fruits. Even the three brothers Ye An, who were not very happy, were very happy. The willingness of my sister's future husband's family to give so many things shows that they value her, so that her marriage will not last long. It would be too hard.
After the life-long affairs of the two sons of the Ke family were resolved, the couple had to focus all their attention on their daughter.
Su Chunlin saw how impatient they were, and after thinking about it, decided to take them to the county seat in advance.
At the same time, the ten acres of cotton planted by Su Tai in Tu Shikong were finally ready for harvest.
The weather has become a lot colder recently, and the cold wind coming from the ice field is howling. You can still hear the "whooshing" sound of the wind when you close the door tightly, as if they won't stop until the people in the house open the door.
In this case, she had to do a lot of mental preparation every morning when she went to the stove house. It was difficult to move around wearing a bulky jacket. After entering the stove house, she wanted to take it off when it was warm, but there was no clean place to put it, which was very troublesome. It would be different if I had a cotton-padded jacket.
Because the need was urgent, she couldn't wait for a moment.
Picking cotton is a technical job. If you are not careful, it is easy to be injured by the shells and thorns on the flower branches. Fortunately, there is a gopher who is fully responsible, so she does not need to take action.
They also used professional harvesting tools, which not only harvested cleanly without any debris mixed in, but also did not damage the cotton wool. More importantly, the harvesting speed was so fast that even Su Tai saw a double image.
At this moment, she felt that spending a thousand coins a year to hire a gopher was worth it.
It took a day and a night to harvest the ten acres of cotton fields and transfer them to the Gate of Time and Space transfer station.
Su Tai rented a scale and weighed the cotton. She found that one acre of land could yield about 800 kilograms of cotton. The next step was how to turn the cotton into clothing fabric.
The media tool vending machine has all kinds of tools, including fully automatic looms.
The so-called fully automatic loom is not one machine, but the sum of several machines, including cotton cleaning machines, spinning machines, looms, etc.
As long as the cotton is poured into the raw material inlet, the machine will automatically operate according to the settings, step by step, but the quality of the finished product is unknown. Su Tai was eager to try it, so she gritted her teeth and spent a thousand coins to rent a fully automatic loom.
The amount of cotton required for one operation of a fully automatic loom is between 400 and 500 kilograms, and it cannot be less than 400 kilograms or more than 500 kilograms.
Su Tai poured four hundred and fifty kilograms into it first.
When the machine started running, her heart started pounding and she was so nervous that she forgot to breathe.
When the spun cloth began to appear, she rushed over with lightning speed, grabbed the end of the cloth and carefully felt the touch of the cotton. She was surprised to find that the cotton spun by the machine was not only precise and thick, without lint, but also soft and skin-friendly, like silk. Generally smooth.
She screamed with joy and it took her a while to calm down.
The machine's weaving speed was not slow, but 450 kilograms of cotton was not a small amount. According to the efficiency of this operation, it would probably take a while to finish. She hurriedly left the Gate of Time and Space transfer station and rushed out of the room excitedly to find Shen Yi.
Shen Yicai had just fetched water from the well in the vegetable garden to the kitchen house. When he saw Su Tai was so excited, he couldn't help but curl up his lips.
Before he could ask, Su Tai couldn't wait to shout: "Brother Shen, can you help me make a table bigger than the bed?"
Shen Yi raised his eyebrows in confusion, "What is it for?"
"I want to make a quilt." Su Tai clenched her fist and took out a ball of cotton like a magic spell. "Look, I want to use this to make a quilt."
"What is this?" Shen Yi stepped forward to take the cotton and was shocked to find that it was as light as a feather and could quickly become fluffy when kneaded into a ball.
Su Tai said bluntly: "This is called cotton, and the cloth woven from it is called cotton cloth. I plan to use cotton cloth to make a quilt, and stuff it with this cotton. You have to help me."
Shen Yi was full of doubts, but he was used to it and didn't ask any more questions. He just agreed and went back to find the remaining wood for building the house and started work immediately.
Seeing his quick movements, Su Tai felt sweet in her heart. She followed Shen Yi and asked, "Brother Shen, aren't you curious about how I got the cotton?"
Shen Yi stopped and turned around to give her a reassuring smile, "I am different from ordinary people, and you are also different from ordinary people, as long as it does not bring danger to us."
Su Tai's smile became brighter and she nodded heavily, "Don't worry, you will definitely not bring any danger to us."
While talking, the two of them entered the tool room where the wood was stored.
According to Su Tai's request, Shen Yi moved his working place under the eaves of the backyard.
The table was ready in about a day.
Because Su Tai had explained the purpose of the table, Shen Yi was careful about the worn cotton cloth on the tabletop, so he specially applied tung paint and carefully painted it three times.
By this time, Su Tai had consumed two thousand kilograms of cotton, resulting in four hundred kilograms of thick cotton cloth for winter and five hundred kilograms of medium-thick cotton cloth for spring and autumn.
Su Tai is quite satisfied with this conversion efficiency.
With the cotton fabric, the next step was to make a quilt liner. The media tool vending machine also provided a quilt liner making machine. It cost 500 yuan to rent one, so she decided to rent one.
According to reports, the quilt liner making machine can not only press quilt liner, but also press liner of various shapes, sizes and thicknesses according to user needs. With this machine, many tedious processes can be saved.