In addition to writing letters to his family and Zhang Hongyun, Zhang Hongliang also mailed a package to Liu Xinyu.

Inside the package were one pound of pure white fine wool, one pound of red fine wool and four pounds of thick red wool, all made of pure wool.

The wool was a processed product that Zhang Hongliang asked Gu Changsheng's eldest daughter-in-law to find connections to buy directly from the manufacturer.

Don't think it's just a processed product, because the price is less than one-third of the genuine wool, so you can't buy it without a reliable relationship.

When she was in the provincial capital, Liu Xinyu finally accepted the watch, but she resolutely refused to accept the compensation money given to Zhang Hongliang.

Zhang Hongliang bought all the money into wool and sent it back to her.

Liu Xinyu now has red, white and yellow threads on her hands.

The white thread has both wool thread and yarn cotton thread.

The red thread is only wool thread.

The yellow thread is yarn and cotton thread dyed with dried pomegranate peel boiled in water.

Due to limited conditions, I couldn't dye the bright yellow I wanted, it was rather straw yellow and not particularly bright.

Using alum as a medium, there is no big problem in color fixation.

Liu Xinyu planned to use cotton thread to knit sweaters. Of course, Zhang Hongyun, the messenger bird, told Zhang Hongliang.

Zhang Hongliang learned that cheap wool was not available in the countryside, so Liu Xinyu had no choice but to buy some gauze gloves from a supply and marketing cooperative and cut out the stitches to dye and knit her own clothes.

While asking Gu Changsheng's daughter-in-law to help buy cheap wool, he quietly began to collect new gauze gloves.

He is a fitter in the second workshop of the machinery factory. This job requires gloves, but Director Ma is a fitter and knows the approximate frequency of replacement of gloves for various types of work.

For jobs with high glove replacement frequency, the number of gloves allocated in the factory every month is relatively generous.

Most of the gloves Zhang Hongliang saved in the past were given to Mrs. Gu to knit clothes for her grandson.

Since Liu Xinyu spends money to buy gauze gloves, Zhang Hongliang will of course try his best to collect gloves.

Of course, Mrs. Gu still has to give her money. Once a teacher, you will always be a father.

Fortunately, there were always some people in the workshop who were extravagant, so he picked up the reusable gloves that others didn't want and kept almost all the new gloves assigned to him.

Among the yarn sent this time, there are eight pairs of gauze gloves.

"Sister Xinyu, what color are these cotton threads going to be dyed?" Zhang Hongyun asked as she looked at the cotton threads unwound into coils.

Liu Xinyu scratched her head. She had learned various dyeing techniques when she was Xin Yu. Of course, she also used various natural plants to dye gauze. At that time, she could use various mordants, even just dog tails on the roadside.

?You can dye silk scarves into the color you want, and the dyeing effect is excellent.

There weren't many things on hand right now, so the colors that could be dyed were of course limited, and she couldn't find any other mordant besides alum.

If you have the money, you may be able to buy some usable mordants or even finished dyes if you search patiently.

In this era when most people are still struggling for food and clothing, food and clothing are more important than dyeing, beauty, fashion, and food and clothing.

Liu Xinyu only planned to try it again, using the most primitive method, using the most common plants and the remaining alum, to see if she could dye it into a beautiful color.

Of course, she doesn’t know what color it will be dyed in the end!

Fortunately, even if the color is ruined, these cotton threads will not be wasted and can be woven into threads worn under cotton-padded jackets.

For the time being, forget about the method of boiling over fire.

During the "double robbery" for more than 20 days, the Liu family has been cooking at Liu Xinyu's house. In addition, Liu Xinyu has to cook mung bean soup twice a day, which consumes a lot of firewood. Liu Xinyu's family has already run out of firewood, and the firewood in the Liu family's old house is almost running out.

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Although it was agreed when the engagement was first discussed that firewood for Liu Xinyu's family would be provided by the Zhang family, it was only for Liu Xinyu's personal use.

Now from a family of one to a family of nine, of course the Zhang family cannot provide all the firewood.

Yesterday, all the late rice seedlings in the team were finally planted. Today, the production team specially gave the strong laborers a day off.

However, Liu Houxing and Liu Qingsong did not rest. At dawn, they pulled Liu Xinjian out of bed and went into the mountains to collect firewood.

Of course, it was not just the Liu family who went up the mountain to chop and collect firewood, the four Zhang family members also went into the mountain to chop firewood.

Originally, Liu Xinyu wanted to follow her into the mountains, but Chen Zhaodi didn't agree because the weather was too hot. If there were more people going there, she would need to bring more water, otherwise there wouldn't be enough to drink.

Liu Xinyu had no choice but to suppress her thoughts of going to the mountain for the time being.

After Zhang Hongyun asked, she waited for Liu Xinyu's answer, hoping to see the dyeing process with her own eyes.

The last time Liu Xinyu dyed dried pomegranate peels, she was not present. It was not until she saw several cotton threads dyed straw yellow hanging under the eaves that she realized that Liu Xinyu had actually dyed the white cotton threads yellow.

After not hearing the answer she wanted for a long time, Zhang Hongyun was a little disappointed: "Aren't these cotton threads dyeable?"

"Ran, but first we have to pick some peach tree leaves." Liu Xinyu stood up and went to the kitchen to get a bamboo basket, picked up the bamboo hat hanging on the wall and put it on, and glanced at Liu Xinyao who was about to move: "Don't follow me.

Come on, finish today's questions. Xinju, look at him."

Liu Xinyao thought he could follow Liu Xinyu out for fun, but after hearing Liu Xinyu's words, his small face suddenly became cross-eyed, but his big eyes were still staring at Liu Xinyu unwillingly, hoping that Liu Xinyu would be kind.

Liu Xinyu will not be soft-hearted.

The little guy doesn't like reading. If you don't put a tight spell on him and temper his temper, it will be more difficult to correct him when he gets older.

So he stretched out his finger and pointed at Liu Xinyao, and then pointed at the books on the table. His meaning was very clear and his attitude was very firm.

Liu Xinju, who was coaxing the fourth child to eat, nodded repeatedly: "Sister Xinyu, don't worry, I will take good care of him!"

Liu Xinyu and Zhang Hongyun went out together and walked east for about five minutes. They found a small fruit forest with a variety of fruit trees, including peach trees.

Of course there are no more peaches at this time, but the leaves are still very lush.

"Yunyun, pick the leaves from that branch, pick these tender green leaves." Liu Xinyu picked a handful of leaves and spread her palms to tell Zhang Hongyun.

Zhang Hongyun nodded repeatedly.

Although there were not many peach trees, there were more than a dozen, and in just a few minutes the two of them picked a basket full of peach trees.

Picking peach leaves is easy. In this era when there are no food processors or even the simplest juicer, Liu Xinyu has to spend a lot of time to make juice from the leaves.

Find a stone mortar in the utility room, mash the leaves bit by bit, slowly add water to the stone mortar and stir, and finally find a piece of gauze to filter and obtain the dye solution.

Soak the cotton threads in clean water, then twist the water, break up the cotton threads and soak them in the dyeing solution. Keep rubbing and turning while soaking. The soaking time is about ten minutes. Twist them, dry them and put them into the alum mordant dyeing solution prepared in advance.

Mordant.

After dip dyeing, mordant dyeing, dip dyeing and mordant dyeing again...

After repeating it several times, the color of the cotton thread gradually reached Liu Xinyu's requirements. Finally, a basin of water was used to wash away the floating color, and the white cotton thread was dyed light cyan.
Chapter completed!