latelenovela Chapter 300 Loom and Spinning Wheel
Chapter 300 Loom and Spinning Wheel
Last month's sales were about the same as the first month's, probably because the conditioner was more expensive.
Last month's net income was more than 10,000 taels. By this calculation, just from doing business, she earned more than 30,000 taels of silver.
Adding the beans given as rewards by netizens, if converted into silver, it would be nearly 100,000 taels.
I haven't thought of any use for this money yet, so I'll save it first and take it out when my family needs it in the future.
After checking out Zuihongzhuang’s business situation, Shen Wanning rode back to Qinghe County.
She has been so busy that she hasn't been back to Daqing Village for almost two months.
The milk tea shop is still the same as before, and the milk tea is sold out before sunset every day.
Maybe because everyone had harvested a lot of wheat and had a little more money, there were more people coming to drink milk tea these days than before, so the milk tea was sold out around 4pm.
Shen Wanning took a carriage and returned to Daqing Village with Lin Jingcheng.
Walking into the yard, she called out, "Dad, Mom, Eldest Sister-in-law, Second Sister-in-law, Mingzhu."
It was a familiar scene. Lin Dashan and Lin Jiang were working on a carpentry project in the yard. There was a huge, unfinished wooden object in the yard, and she couldn't make out what it was. Yue Mingzhu squatted nearby, watching Lin Jiang work on the carpentry, chattering away.
Aunt Zhang and Mrs. Xu were busy in the kitchen, while Mrs. Wen took Lin Hai to play the wooden horse in the yard.
"Wan Ning, you're back. You haven't been home for a long time. You must have been very busy recently!" Mrs. Wen walked forward holding Lin Hai.
"It's okay. I'm finally done with my work and can rest for a few days." Shen Wanning stretched out her hands and clapped them, but Lin Hai looked at her curiously for a few seconds, then licked his right hand and turned his head away.
Shen Wanning was surprised, "Wow, I've only been gone for a few days, and Xiaohai doesn't even recognize me anymore."
Mrs. Wen put Lin Hai in Shen Wanning's arms, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Auntie. I guess you're angry with me! Why haven't you come to play with Xiao Hai for a long time?"
Shen Wanning held Lin Hai and weighed him a few times. "He's become a lot heavier now. After a while, I won't be able to hold him anymore!"
"Yes, he will be one year old in more than a month, and it's almost time for him to learn to walk. Now he can stand for a while by himself with the help of the bed! He wants to walk around since he can stand, but he always falls down, haha." Mrs. Wen wiped Lin Hai's saliva and said.
"Second sister-in-law, you take a rest. I'll hold Xiaohai and play with him for a while." Shen Wanning said.
"Okay, I'll go collect the clothes first." As she said that, Wen walked into the yard, collected the clothes one by one, and carried them back to the room.
Shen Wanning carried Lin Hai to Lin Jiang and the others, pointed at the huge wooden object, and asked, "Dad, Xiao Jiang, what is this? Why is it so big? It's square, what's its use?"
Lin Dashan frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Xiao Jiang said it was a loom. It's used for weaving, right?" Then he asked uncertainly, "Isn't that right, Xiao Jiang?"
Lin Jiang nodded. "It's a loom. It can weave threads into sheets, clothes, and other items. If this thing is really made, it will be much faster than our card weaving method."
He had learned how to make a loom from the book Shen Wanning had given him. The book described it as very easy to use, but he had no idea how it would actually work.
When he said that, Shen Wanning understood. "How long will it take to finish this?"
"It will be done in about three or four days. The big frame and some necessary accessories have been made. Now it's just assembly and adding small accessories. It will be quick." Lin Jiang thought for a moment and replied.
"Now that you have made a loom, why don't you make a spinning wheel first? To weave thread into cloth, you must have thread first. Now that we are growing cotton, it won't be long before cotton will be popular throughout the Great Xia Dynasty. By then, everyone will definitely hope for a simpler way to make cotton thread." Shen Wanning gave some guidance.
She didn't know all this originally. It was the netizens in the live broadcast room who taught her about the spinning wheel and the process of making cotton thread, so she thought of this.
"What my aunt said makes sense. Nowadays, everyone uses hemp thread, but they can only twist it with their fingers, which is indeed too slow. After my grandfather and I finish making this loom, we will start trying to make a spinning wheel." Lin Jiang replied seriously.
Yue Mingzhu looked up and asked curiously, "What's a spinning wheel? Is it the same as a horse-drawn carriage?"
Shen Wanning shook her head. "No, it's something like spinning cotton into thread."
"I know about cotton. Last year, Sister Ning... my aunt grew cotton. I heard from my uncle that the emperor specially displayed cotton in the court. It was white and soft, like clouds." Yue Mingzhu described with her eyes wide open.
Then she looked at Lin Jiang again, "Brother Jiang, is cotton like this?"
Lin Jiang nodded, then stood up, looked at Shen Wanning and asked, "Aunt, can I go to the warehouse and get some cotton out for her to see?"
"Of course, go ahead!"
Lin Jiang went to the warehouse, and Yue Mingzhu couldn't wait and followed him.
After a while, Yue Mingzhu came out with a small ball of cotton in her hand. "Wow, this is cotton! It's really white and soft. Put the cotton in the quilt, it should be very warm!"
She had heard that Shen Wanning had given a quilt to the emperor, so she knew that cotton could be put into the quilt as filling.
Lin Jiang nodded and said, "Yes, it's really comfortable. I've never had such a comfortable quilt since I was a child. But you came too late. It's almost summer, so our quilts are all put away. Otherwise, you can also experience it."
"It doesn't matter. I can live here forever. Then by this winter, can I cover myself with a quilt?" Yue Mingzhu said excitedly with shining eyes.
Shen Wanning held her forehead with her hand. This girl really didn't treat her as an outsider. She probably liked the life in Daqing Village and was reluctant to leave.
Lin Jiang nodded, "Okay."
Lin He just happened to be coming back with a slingshot and a turtledove. "Then aren't you going back to the capital to celebrate the New Year in winter?"
Yue Mingzhu's face fell, and she said, "It seems so. The New Year is coming in winter, and I have to go back to the capital to celebrate the New Year."
This place is quite far from the capital, and it would take more than half a month to get there by carriage. So if she wanted to go back to the capital for the New Year, she had to leave early.
Lin Jiang frowned slightly and comforted him, "It's okay. When late autumn comes, we will take out the quilts. My aunt made some thin quilts just for autumn."
Yue Mingzhu's face, which had just fallen, immediately became cheerful again, "Well! Then I'll also cover myself with a quilt."