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Chapter 560: Red Gold Weaving Material
The housekeeper should be.
Zhou Guo nodded and looked at their house again. It was not far from Wu Jiang and his friends. Although the house was simple, made of thatched grass and mud, it had a kang inside. They had been storing firewood throughout the autumn, so there was enough firewood.
It was snowing heavily outside, but the kang was very warm.
The children gathered on the kang waiting for the meal, and it was almost time for lunch.
After watching for a while, Zhou Guo asked the housekeeper and Wu Jiang to go home with him.
The family has accumulated a lot of rabbit skins in the past two years, several large boxes, which they can't use up all.
Besides, deerskin, badger skin, roe deer skin and rabbit skin are not so popular. They are piling up more and more, and we can't make much money if we sell them at a certain amount. If we keep them there, they will go bad. It just so happens that this will make room in the boxes for Wu Jiang and the others.
She moved out several large boxes in the corner of the east room and took out all the rabbit skins inside.
If she didn't look through them, she wouldn't have known that there were more rabbit skins than she thought. The skins of rabbits caught in the mountains and those raised at home were all here after their furs had been processed.
Li came in and saw her piled all these furs on the ground. She said helplessly, "What are you looking for? Ask me and I'll find it for you. How did you turn it over like this?"
Zhou Guo said: "Looking for rabbit skin."
Li took out the other rabbits from the box and asked, "Looking for rabbit skins? What kind do you want? And pure white ones? Then let me see where they are. I'll keep them for you. Your cloak is too small, and the fur has almost fallen off in the past two years. It doesn't look good anymore. You need to make a new one."
Zhou Guo said, "Mother, it's not for me. It's snowing now, isn't it? There are many people in the village, and we can't leave the fields and mountains alone at night. I want to share these rabbit skins at home."
Li was startled, and looked at the piles of rabbit skins on the floor. "Okay, you all like white and black ones, but these gray ones are piling up more and more. If they keep piling up, I won't have room to store them. I can only put them upstairs."
Together, the mother and daughter sorted out the gray and mottled rabbit skins in the house, and kept the white and black ones for themselves. Although the rabbit skins were not that good, these two colors were really good, and looked much better than the cloaks made from them, so Li was reluctant to give them away.
Even so, after collecting them, there was a full carriage. After all, pure white or pure black rabbits are not that common, and gray rabbits are more common, so naturally there are more of them.
When Wu Jiang and the housekeeper saw so many furs, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed. These were leathers, and they could also wear leathers!
Zhou Guo quickly asked them to get up.
The two of them drove away happily in the carriage.
Li became interested and went back to the house to open the other two boxes. The thing that the family had the most in recent years was boxes, and there were several in each room.
Several shopkeepers gave gifts in boxes, so there was no need to buy them.
Zhou Guo was watching from the side. When he saw her taking out the remaining deerskins, badger skins, and roe deer skins, he squatted down and pried open the box to look. "Mom, what are you looking for?"
Li said, "I wanted to see how much fur we have at home. I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well make some cloaks for you. Your cloak is too small, so I originally thought I could just add a piece at the bottom, but rabbit fur is not strong enough. I'll make you another one. Well, if the white fur is not enough, I'll use bright red material to trim it a circle, so it will be windproof and look good."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You are becoming more and more creative now. Can you think of something like this?"
Li also laughed, "What's so unexpected about that? Your mother hasn't been visiting the cloth shop for nothing these years. I've become sisters with the shopkeeper's wife, and what we talk about most is the appearance of these clothes and jewelry."
A piece of bright red gold-woven fabric was found in another box. This was the most expensive cloth in the house, given by Shopkeeper Yang. Perhaps because she had cheated Zhou Sulu and Zhou Gu, she felt a little embarrassed in front of Zhou Guo, so she gave it to her again later, and Zhou Guo accepted it all.
She watched her mother take out the material, her eyes lit up, "Why, are you going to make a wedding dress for my sister?"
Li said, "It won't be too late for them to make the wedding dress after we tell them. Anyway, we have plenty of red fabrics at home, so there's no need to keep them."
He looked at the cloth for a long time and said, "How about using this material to make a bright red cloak for you two sisters? Although it's not much, it should be enough for you two sisters to make cloaks. If it's not enough, you can add a piece of blue material underneath, which will also look good."
Zhou Guo couldn't believe his ears. "You're going to use this material to make cloaks for us? Aren't you planning to keep it in the bottom of your box? When I first received it, I wanted to take it out to have a look but you were reluctant to give it to me, saying you were afraid it would get dirty."
Li glanced at her and smiled, staring at the sermon in front of her with shining eyes: "You said that I have lived for half my life, and I have never seen such fine material in my dreams. There is even gold thread on it! How can anyone wear gold on their body and weave it into the material? These people are really imaginative!"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "What's the matter? Aren't there gold ornaments on your head, hands and ears? Clothes take up such a large part of our body. Clothes are the first thing people see. How much do wrists and necks take up? It's okay to weave some gold threads on them. It's much more cost-effective than wearing them on your wrists and neck. Others will see them at a glance. It's more impressive than that big gold bracelet of yours!"
Li looked at her with a helpless look, "You are so talkative. In the past few years, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to speak. Now, you have spoken all the words you said in the past years in one breath. You can even make the dead come alive."
Zhou Guo said, "Just tell me if this is the truth. When you look at a person, shouldn't you look at his clothes first?"
Li nodded. "That's what you said. How about I make you a cloak?"
Zhou Guo hesitated, "How about making one for my elder sister? I'm still growing, and the back is still growing. If I make the back now, I won't be able to wear it, and it will waste too much material."
The gold-woven material cannot be worn after two years, what a pity.
Mrs. Li laughed, "You also feel sorry for the material? It doesn't matter, I'll fold it inwards when the time comes, and then let it down when you grow taller. This way, the material won't be wasted, and you can wear it for many years."
If that's the case, Zhou Guo would be very happy, squinting his eyes and nodding, "Okay, okay, mom, you make it for me. If I wear this red embroidered gold cape when I go out to do business, my voice will be louder than others. Not only the girls in the village, but even the girls on the street will look at me with envy!"
Li listened with a smile in her eyes, "The young ladies in the city have seen everything. They have plenty of cloaks at home. Why would they need your cloak?"
Zhou Guo glared, "Why not? Don't you see what this material is? Bright red woven gold."
Shaking his head, "Shopkeeper Yang is really spending a lot of money to send such material to a family like ours. Mom, do you think there was a mistake when they were packing it?"