After hearing this, the children all had happy smiles on their faces.
Compared to the carefreeness of the children, the sons of the Duan family all looked serious.
Hearing that his mother was entrusted with a dream by his own father, Duan Mingjing's first thought was, why does his father never come to him in his dreams? Does he think his son is useless, so he doesn't come to him?
How much he wanted his biological father to come and meet him in his dream, so that he could tell his biological father about his changes over the years!
He has grown up! He is no longer the second young man of the Duan family who relies on his family for food and drink!
He now earns a lot of money every month by selling chickens and ducks, and he has also published a book. Although he only draws pictures in the book, when he walks out, everyone can call him Mr. Duan!
Duan Mingjing just felt a lot of sadness in his heart, and his eyes swept towards his two younger brothers standing next to him.
Dad didn’t even give them any dreams!
Okay, Duan Mingjing suddenly felt balanced!
After dinner, the children went to play in the village while there was still a little light in the west. Qiao Lan left several men at home behind.
Many things still need to be done by them.
After all, Wang and others are housewives. It is not convenient to patrol Zhuangzi and other things. When the snow falls, there will be more things to be busy with. Qiao Lan handed over these things to Duan Mingchen and asked him to take charge of this area.
something.
As for the purchase of grain, medicinal materials, and coal outside, Qiao Lan left it to Duan Mingqing to take charge.
Qiao Lan knew that Duan Mingqing was a capable person. He had made a lot of money by tinkering outside these years.
Duan Mingqing has been stuffing money into the government these years, stuffing the money he earned. When he was in Duanjia Village, there were so many children to support at home, so Qiao Lan took some. After arriving in the capital, Qiao Lan stopped asking for money and let Duan Ming
Qing saved it by himself.
Duan Mingqing is a smart man. He can earn a lot of money outside while studying. It will definitely be more convenient for him to handle the outside shopping.
After giving instructions to the two sons, Qiao Lan gave Duan Mingjing some other instructions alone.
"Jing'er, have you saved all the things I asked you to save when you were raising ducks?" Qiao Lan asked.
Duan Mingjing listened for a while and was confused, what to save?
Seeing the confusion on Duan Mingjing's face, Qiao Lan knew that Duan Mingjing didn't understand the meaning of her words. The second son was obedient and would not forget her words, so she reminded her, "I asked you to save the goose-feathered duck."
Mao, have you saved it?"
Hearing this, Duan Mingjing suddenly realized!
"Save it, Mom! But it's not much! Mom, do you want to use it now?" Duan Mingjing said, still a little confused in his heart.
"Send those to the house, be careful not to get them wet," Qiao Lan said.
Duan Mingjing nodded and agreed, "Mom, don't worry, I'll do it tomorrow."
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Early the next morning, Qiao Lan returned to the house with her sons and daughter-in-law, leaving Duan Mingchen alone in the village, asking him to take care of the children.
After returning home, everyone started working on their own tasks. Qiao Lan was not idle either. She checked two books on snow disaster prevention and control in the system and read them.
Before noon, Duan Mingjing brought back the duck and goose feathers from the breeding farm.
Most poultry sellers sell them whole and rarely pluck the feathers before selling them, so there is not much hair left.
In more than a year, Duan Mingjing saved five or six baskets.
Ordinary people fill their winter clothes with hemp and wear them every day for decades. The hemp clothes become harder and harder, and may even clump and crack.
The cotton output in Beijing is not high, and wealthy people will use silk floss to fill clothes or leather. Silk floss is expensive and the quantity is not large. Leather is divided into three, six and five grades, and you have to wear it according to your status. The more expensive ones
Fox fur and sheepskin, followed by dog skin, pig skin, etc.
The Duan family wears cotton velvet linings, and the best fur coat in the family is rabbit skin. Among the people around them, fox skin is the most expensive, followed by deer skin. Although the Duan family can also afford it, buying one for the whole family is difficult.
A set is a big expense.
After experiencing the ordeal of having their homes confiscated before, the Duan family has no extravagant thoughts.
People with a large family have to live a careful life, so they will naturally save everything they can.
"Mom, what's the use of these hairs?" Duan Mingjing asked curiously.
Qiao Lan stepped forward and pinched the fluff in the frame very gently.
The fluff was wrapped entirely in linen cloth and placed in a basket, but because of the large gaps in the linen cloth, many fluffs poked out of the cloth, and some had long since escaped.
"Make clothes."
When Duan Mingjing heard this, his eyes widened slightly, "What clothes are you making?"
A wooly sweater?
Seeing Duan Mingjing staring at the basket of down, Qiao Lan smiled and said jokingly: "How about I make some clothes for you?"
Duan Mingjing was leaning down and staring at the fluff in the basket. Hearing these words, he suddenly raised his neck and said with joy on his face: "Really?"
He has grown so big, and his mother hasn’t even made clothes for him yet!
"Of course it's true!" Qiao Lan's answer was affirmative.
Qiao Lan had been thinking about down jackets a long time ago. Later, he learned about the Little Ice Age and even had this idea. There were few people raising geese and ducks in the north, so it was troublesome to collect them. It happened that Duan Mingjing wanted to raise more, so Qiao Lan asked him to raise more.
Collect some.
Although there are many chickens, chicken feathers cannot be used to make down clothes.
Duan Mingjing immediately became happy and grinned widely, as if he had thought of something. He cleared his throat and said with concern: "Mom, it's rare for you to rest for a while in winter. Needlework is taxing on your eyes. Don't be so anxious to make clothes. Take your time.
Come on, I'm not in a hurry."
Qiao Lan also had a serious look on her face: "It's okay, I don't do it myself, I just use my words to teach them how to make these clothes. It doesn't take much effort on my eyes."
Don’t do it yourself!
The smile on Duan Mingjing's face fell a little on the spot, but he still tried hard to maintain his original happiness. "Mom, you don't have to worry about asking others to do it. You still have to have a good rest."
When Qiao Lan saw this, she felt a little funny in her heart. "Mom knows, she will have a good rest." Then she glanced around the room again, "You are here, let the embroiderer in the house measure you. These days
So I made the clothes."
These two simple sentences made Duan Mingjing happy again, and he cooperated with the embroiderer to take the measurements.
After finishing the measurement, Duan Mingjing was a little curious, "Mom, don't we have this size in the embroidery room? Why do we need to measure it again?"
"This dress is different from what you wore before, uh... you'll know when you put it on," Qiao Lan said.
He ordered the servants in the yard to take the baskets of down and wash them, and while there was still sunshine in these three days, they hurriedly dried them to make clothes.
Before it got dark, the people from Zhuangzi rode over and brought two pieces of cloth.
Qiao Lan asked her servants to take the cloth to the embroidery room and hand it over to the embroiderer in the house to cut a winter coat for Duan Mingjing.
That cloth is specially made for velvet fabrics and will not run away.
In the past year's Qiangguo class, Qiao Lan studied tools, which include tools for farming, irrigation and harvesting, as well as the processing of various agricultural and sideline products.
Qiao Lan then changed the tools used for weaving and the process of making cloth.
It took me until now to get two pieces of cloth, which I treasure very much.