Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 338 Su He returns home and tries spinning

Su He said to him again: "Uncle Wang, they are short of doctors over there, and it is not easy to see patients and prescribe medicine. If you send someone over tomorrow, it should be able to exchange a lot of things."

Wang Xiaohu slapped his head, "Yes! How could I have forgotten about this? I've heard that they are short of doctors and medicines, how could I have forgotten to send someone there? How could I miss such a good business?"

He smiled and said, "Then I have to go back and make arrangements, so I won't say any more to you. After this big fair, let's go to the teahouse and talk it over."

Su He's father smiled and said, "Go do what you need to do first. When we are free later, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet each other."

The group of people hurriedly said hello and got on the car to go home. When Su He and his friends arrived in the inner city, they drove directly to the wool shop and unloaded the wool in the backyard. These needed to be processed here, so they would not take them home.

Su He's shop only has a large backyard, and the storefront is not very big. She thought that she would need to hire people to spin yarn and knit sweaters, so it would be nice to have some samples hanging in the storefront.

Su He directly asked Feng Dayuan to find a few women who could spin yarn, either by buying them or hiring them. As long as they could spin cotton, they could spin wool. If they really couldn't, Su He could only teach them himself.

She used to be a lifestyle blogger, and she had learned all these basic skills, including knitting cloth and making clothes, not to mention knitting sweaters, but also hats, scarves, socks, gloves, carpets, etc.

Su He looked at the cloth socks on her feet and suddenly missed her wool and cotton socks. She was so busy that she forgot to knit simple things like socks and gloves.

This winter, she must prepare everything and make some money with it. She excitedly asked her father to take her home to make spinning tools and bamboo needles. She also brought home a large bag of wool, which was processed and she would try dyeing it herself.

Life in the city is very convenient. You can go to the shop to buy dyes and buy all the colors, which are black, red, blue and yellow. Ordinary people sometimes buy some dyes themselves and go home to cook and dye clothes, usually black and blue. You can mix other colors yourself, which is not difficult for Su He.

Add different amounts of yellow to red, and you will get orange, persimmon, and other colors. Add different amounts of blue to red, and you will get purple and blue. Add different amounts of yellow to blue, and you will get green. Adding black to any color will make it look dirtier. If you add a little bit of all the colors in different proportions, you will get all kinds of gray.

Color is so simple. When Su He finished learning it, he was also amazed that just a few colors could be changed into a variety of colors.

In this era, most people don't know how to mix these colors. The dyeing masters mix them in secret and hand them over to the workers to do the work. Most people here only learn one thing and have no knowledge of other skills, and no one is willing to teach them.

Su He just heard that there is a name for this industry in modern times called colorist, and it is used in many industries. Car paint, ceramic glazing, cloth printing and dyeing, advertising color printing, etc., all require colorists.

There is no need to be so precise here, just the approximate color is fine, just use the small scale they use to buy jewelry to measure it. Keep a record in the future, she doesn't want to get so many colors.

Su He went home and asked his father to lead people to make a few spinning hammers. This was simple, and they made a lot of them at once. There was also a thread crook, which was easy to make. Su He drew it, fixed two short wooden sticks at the two ends of a long wooden stick, and twisted it in a cross shape. There was also a spinning wheel and a simple loom, which were all made at the same time, and they would be useful when the time came.

Su He's father always responded to his daughter's requests, and she would just draw whatever she needed. Now the family has carpenters, bamboo craftsmen, blacksmiths, and masons, and basically they can bring people to do all the work at home.

Su He took the spinning hammer and began to twist the wool with one hand and wind the thread with the other. After trying it himself, he called a few skillful women in his family to come and spin together.

Su He's mother and aunt-in-law also joined in. Su He saw that they were doing well and thought of opening a small workshop at home so that everyone could spin yarn when they had free time.

While working, Su He Niang smiled and said, "This job is easy. Why didn't I know this before? Otherwise, my family would have to buy thread and cloth."

Su He smiled and said, "We couldn't afford cotton before, and few people in our town wove cloth, so we never thought about it."

Su He's aunt also smiled and said, "What Su He said is true. At that time, our family had no spare money and could not do anything."

Su He thought, at that time, you can do whatever you want to do to make money. This job pays slowly and you have to pay for cotton. Why would you want to do this?

Aunt Wang said, "Let's spin yarn when we have time! There's not much work to do at home, and we'll be idle anyway."