Pure hand-made silk reeling is actually a boring and hard job, with sore hands and tired waists.

Fortunately, I have friends together, and everyone talks from time to time, and it doesn’t feel difficult to bear.

Mu Shiwan stayed aside and watched everyone pull their silks with great enthusiasm until they finished pulling the entire cocoon.

"This cocoon is actually a whole continuous thread?"

"Yes, so this silk reel cannot be interrupted once it starts."

Mu Shiwan was a little eager to try.

Seeing this, Qi Lele smiled and handed the ten silks he had just picked out to her and said, "Come and try it?"

Mu Shiwan's eyes stuck to the silk, but she said in her mouth: "It's still not, I'm afraid I'll suck it badly."

Qi Lele smiled and said, "Today's pot was just used to try it out, it's okay to be good or bad."

Mu Shiwan remembered that everyone had broken the wire more or less a few times just now, and then she took it.

Qi Lele took a spindle, wrapped the freshly drawn raw silk, and sent it to Su Yaxian and Grandma Du to see.

As early as Mu Shiwan and the others came, Su Yaxian left, and was chatting with Grandma Du in the room.

Qi Lele handed over the raw silk: "This is the good raw silk."

Su Yaxian touched her and smiled, "I have to ask my mother-in-law this."

Grandma Du took the raw silk and rubbed it carefully for a moment: "Mrs. Young Master's raw silk has a white and transparent color, a silky feel and a uniform thickness. It's really good. If the silk is better, it would be even better."

Qi Lele smiled and said, "This silkworm seed was distributed for free by the county magistrate, maybe to let everyone practice. I got a few more good seeds a few days ago, and I believe the silk will be better in the future."

Grandma Du said, "I'm not hiding it from the young lady. I have seen others picking silk, and most of them use spinning wheels. I just heard of it and never saw it. I wonder what the difference is?"

Qi Lele smiled and said, "When using a spinning wheel to reel, you can collect a few threads at the same time as long as you pay attention to the strength and speed, which is much faster than purely handmade silk reels like ours."

"However, the spinning wheel reel also has its shortcomings. It cannot twist the thread, and the silk produced will be uneven in thickness and have many broken heads, and it also needs to be sorted out after secondary worsted spinning. As for our purely hand-reeled silk, as long as we are skilled in the skill, the quality of the finished product will be more stable and higher than the raw silk produced by the spinning wheel."

Grandma Du smiled and said, "So that's it!"

Qi Lele said, "I've actually prepared the spinning wheel. When I can't wait to draw the silk by hand, I still have to use the spinning wheel. After all, the time for silk cocoons to be drawn is limited. If it is dragged for a long time, the moth will fly out, and the cocoons will be ruined, which will not be worth the cost."

"The young lady is very thoughtful."

Su Yaxian asked, "Does Le'er plan to weave the cloth by herself?"

Qi Lele shook his head and said truthfully, "I don't know how to weave cloth. I plan to sell raw silk, thinking that it is more cost-effective than selling silkworm cocoons. What do you think?"

Su Yaxian smiled and said, "Selling silk thread is more cost-effective than selling cocoons, and selling silk is more cost-effective than selling silk thread."

Qi Lele was quite amused and crying: "Mom, we can sell this raw silk like this. If it is weaved into silk, it will not only have to weave cloth, but also dye it. That is a secret that people don't pass on."

"It's reasonable." Su Yaxian patted her hands: "It's up to you."

"Mom, I have an idea and want to hear your opinions."

"Let me tell me?"

Qi Lele said: "I want to recruit some women in the village to reel their silk."

"oh?"

"This silk is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Several aunts have to work hard. Qiuye Hanshuang also has to help Grandma Du with her work. She can't ask them to do this every day."

Su Yaxian said, "If you teach them, you may not be able to cover up this method."

"This book is not very complicated. Just spread it."

Qi Lele said: "What's more, the quality of raw silk depends on many aspects, and it is not determined by the method of releasing the silk."

Su Yaxian smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then

Let it go. If there is a place where I need me, just come and find me."

"Thank you mother!"

Su Yaxian smiled and patted her hands again.

Qi Lele sat with them for a while before getting up and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to take a look."

"Go."

When the others walked away, Su Yaxian picked up the teacup and took a sip, with a smile on her face.

Grandma Du praised: "The young lady is really kind-hearted and open-minded."

"Zi'an has indeed found a good wife."

Su Yaxian put down the teacup and said, "I remember, you have an old sister who has a good craft heirloom."

As if she knew who she was referring to, Grandma Du responded slowly: "Yes."

"She is still there now?"

"yes."

Su Yaxian said, "I think of a way, bring her out."

"Madam, this is not suitable, right?"

"There is nothing wrong. How many years have passed? Who will stare at an old woman?"

Grandma Du lowered her eyelids and did not respond.

Su Yaxian looked at her: "The current situation in the court and the country is in chaos, and everyone can't take care of themselves, afraid that they can't take care of those idle people. If she missed this opportunity, she would have to die there."

After a long time, Grandma Du whispered: "Thank you, Madam!"

Su Yaxian said lightly: "If you want to thank you, just thank Le'er."

"I understand."

...

During dinner, Mu Shiwan ate a bowl of rice less than usual, but was seen by Xie Sixian beside her and couldn't help asking for it with concern.

"Nothing, I just didn't do anything today, so I'm not hungry."

Xie Sixian said, "Aren't my sister slimming her hair today? Are you tired? She said she should ask me to help."

It would be fine if I didn't mention it, but when I mentioned this, Mu Shiwan felt even more ashamed.

The silk she sucked today may have broken if she couldn't use any force.

She did things at the beginning and end, so she broke down all the way, and after the continuation, she broke down many times. I don’t know how many times she broke, but she was probably more than others combined!

The silk that was pulled out was thin and long, very symmetrical! Her silk was thick, thin and lumpy, and she couldn't take it out at all!

How can she eat this?

No, she also ate two bowls of rice!

This thought is even more ashamed!

Qi Lele watched from the side, laughing. Seeing that Mu Shiwan wanted to get into the crack in the ground, she advised: "It's the first time I'm like this. When I first reeled my silk, I couldn't draw a complete thread."

"Take it seriously?" Mu Shiwan said, "But it was the first time I heard those aunts talking to them."

Qi Lele smiled and said, "Those aunts are all skillful and skillful. I dare not compare them with them. It is normal for my sister to be inferior to them."

Aunt Wang happened to enter the door and heard this and couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled.

Mu Shiwan was skeptical: "Take it serious?"

"certainly!"

Mu Shiwan said again: "Can I try again tomorrow?"

"Of course!" Qi Lele said: "But tomorrow I have a better idea, do I want to try it with me?"

Mu Shiwan then laughed: "Okay."

Xie Sixian hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, I want to try it together too!"

Qi Lele pointed her forehead: "You can't do it, you still have to help me pick the cocoons."
Chapter completed!