Chapter 71 Cotton Quilt
In order to test the effect of the machine, she first poured twenty-five kilograms of cotton into the raw material entrance. Part of the cotton was automatically formed into outer gauze, and part was put into the cotton batting. The machine was like a printer. During the scanning operation, a green light flashed with each press. After about twenty presses, a quilt was ready.
The quilts that have been pressed and sewn by machine are not only fluffy and evenly distributed, but also have fine and tight stitches that are not easy to move.
Su Tai feels like she has found a treasure, and she can't wait to use it tonight.
When she placed the quilt and those cotton cloths in front of Shen Yi, Shen Yi, who felt he had some knowledge, was no longer calm.
"Xiao Moss, this...is this the quilt and cotton cloth you are talking about?"
Su Tai nodded vigorously, "How is it? Does it feel warm, comfortable and light to the touch?"
Shen Yi nodded excitedly, "Not only is it comfortable, I think this cotton is not inferior to satin, but the color is too white and it gets dirty easily."
This is the only flaw Shen Yi can find.
Su Tai sighed, "Satin is white when it is just spun and needs to be dyed the day after tomorrow. The same goes for cotton. But I really don't know what to use to dye it."
You can find an automatic dyeing machine at the media tool vending machine. You can rent it for 500 yuan a time. Money is not an issue. The problem is that she has no raw materials.
Shen Yi looked at the vast mountains, touched his chin and thought, "Let's go to Dahe Town tomorrow. There is a dyeing workshop there. You can ask the master who dyes cloth."
Su Tai was ecstatic and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Before going to bed that night, she processed another batch of quilts and thick cotton cloth for winter.
Shen Yi took her out at dawn the next day.
Because the second aunt's family requisitioned fishing boats, they were sent directly to the other side of the river by Shen Zhuang when they arrived at Daxun River.
Shen Zhuang continued working, while the couple walked straight to Daxun River carrying the rattan basket.
As soon as Su Tai entered the town, she found that the houses here were much better than those in Moshi Town, and the people were more well-dressed. It seemed that they were living a good life.
On the way, Shen Yi also met two or three familiar people who greeted him.
Su Tai joked: "I didn't expect you to be so popular in Dahe Town."
Shen Yi laughed dumbly and led her around a few turns into an alley. At the end was the dyeing shop.
"Uncle Qi." Shen Yi had a clear goal.
The man named Uncle Qi looked up and laughed immediately, "Why are you here? Buying cloth?"
Shen Yi introduced: "Uncle Qi, this is my daughter-in-law, surnamed Su, Xiao Tai. Uncle Qi is an old man in the dyeing shop. I used to ask Uncle Qi for help when I got fur."
"Hahaha, you are so handsome!" Uncle Qi looked at Su Tai, nodded with satisfaction, and led them into the house to drink tea.
Shen Yi hurriedly said: "Uncle Qi, I brought my wife here today mainly to ask about what can be used as dye."
Uncle Qi's action of pouring water stopped, and he looked surprised, "You want to dye cloth?"
Shen Yi smiled sheepishly and said, "How can I do that? It's my wife who wants to ask. Anyway, it's almost winter and there's nothing to do. I just want to bring her here to see her."
Uncle Qi didn't ask any more questions. He sat down and said carefully: "As for what dyes can be used as dyes, there are many. For example, madder can extract red dyes; woad and horse indigo can extract blue dyes; and hematoxylin and cinnabar. Wait, different raw materials have different extraction methods. If you want to dye cloth, I suggest you just buy the dye. It takes too much effort to tinker with it yourself. "
Su Tai felt dizzy after hearing this. She looked at each other and decided to spend money to buy dye. Dyes are priced according to the scarcity of the raw materials, with red and blue being the most common and cheapest, while rarer colors are more expensive.
Su Tai and Shen Yi just wanted to resist stains, so they bought a large amount of blue, cyan, red, and black dyes, and a small amount of yellow and purple dyes, which cost them twenty taels of silver.
There was enough dye to last them several years.
You can adjust the concentration of the dye later to dye fabrics with different shades of color, which is enough.
On the way back, Uncle Qi even called a bullock cart for them because there was too much dye.
Shen Zhuang came to pick them up across the river. He was confused when he saw so many sacks, "What did you buy?"
Before Shen Yi could say anything, Su Tai responded quickly: "Second uncle, we got some soil and went back to dig the ground."
Shen Zhuang shook his head and couldn't understand it at all. He just muttered, "Isn't this because I'm full to hold on!"
Shen Yi laughed dumbly.
Shen Zhuang was helpless and said to Shen Yi: "I'm going to take your wife back to my in-law's house in a few days. When I have time, I'll go to the mountains and set a trap. If I can catch a pheasant, hare or something, I can take it with me. If I can't catch it, I'll find you." If you want to catch a chicken, you can’t go home empty-handed. You can raise some chickens yourself when the weather gets warmer next year.”
Their rule here is that the bride returns to her parents' home on the eighth or twelfth day after her wedding. Shen Zhuang is afraid that it will snow for a long time, so he hopes that they can return home on the eighth day.
Shen Yi nodded repeatedly, "Second uncle, don't worry, I know what's going on."
After the boat docked, Shen Zhuang helped the two of them put the dye on the donkey cart.
On the way back, Shen Yi and Su Tai laughed and said, "Although my second uncle doesn't like to talk on weekdays, he is very good to us."
Su Tai nodded slightly and agreed.
Just now Shen Ping asked Shen Yi to catch chickens at home. If he didn't really love Shen Yi, he would never say such a thing.
"If we succeed later, we will also give two quilts and some clothes to the second uncle and second aunt." Su Tai thought about it.
Shen Yi felt a warm current slipping through his heart, and his eyes looking at Su Tai became more and more gentle.
When the couple returned home, Su Tai immediately sent Shen Yi to burn wheat straw and fertilize the fields. She took the dye to the Gate of Time and Space transfer station. She rented an automatic dyeing machine first, and then Pour in the blue dye and a certain proportion of water, put cotton cloth in the other opening, and ignore the rest.
Dyeing cloth requires several processes and repeated dip-dying. If it is purely manual, it is estimated to take several days. Machines can greatly shorten this time, but it still takes two days.
Su Tai was not idle during these two days. She continued to use the loom and quilt pressing machine, and made another batch of fabrics and quilts. At the same time, she also made cotton-padded clothes based on the figures of Shen Yi and others. Pants liner, and cotton shoe uppers and soles.
Two days later, the first batch of blue fabric was completed.
In order to check the dyeing effect, Su Tai also asked Shen Yi to wash a piece of fabric. After confirming that it would not fade, the two immediately started making a quilt cover.
"Xiao Tai, this material is so comfortable, how about we change all the bedding in the house?" Shen Yi couldn't put it down.
Su Tai also thought the same, "No outsiders come into our bedroom on weekdays. It doesn't matter if we change everything into quilts. It's best to give out one side of cotton and one side of linen to avoid people being curious and asking questions."
Shen Yi thought for a moment and decided to put another layer of cloth on the quilt and sew it tightly so that no one would even notice the inner lining inside.