After hearing Zhao Feng's words, Chen Rou, who was still immersed in excitement, couldn't help but roll her eyes at Zhao Feng.
"Husband, you are talking nonsense again. We live well here, why should we go to the county town?"
"I think, let's save this one hundred taels of silver for a rainy day!"
Hearing Chen Rou's words, Zhao Feng couldn't help but open his mouth, and then pointed to his somewhat shabby house.
"Even if we don't buy a house in the county, we still need to rebuild this house, right?"
Chen Rou clasped her fingers and calculated.
"It's not that our house cannot be inhabited now. I'll ask my father to open two more wooden doors. Husband, just repair the roof!"
"This year is a year of severe drought. We still need to save a little more money to survive the winter. Even if we want to build a house, we have to wait until the autumn harvest, right?"
After hearing Chen Rou's words, Zhao Feng suddenly sighed helplessly.
Unexpectedly, not only could I not live in my new house, but I would not even be able to rebuild it if I wanted to.
However, Zhao Feng had no choice but to nod. Chen Rou felt happy when she saw that Zhao Feng actually listened to her words.
Then, Chen Rou came over and said to Zhao Feng.
"Husband, it's not that I won't let you build a house, but I will wait until after the autumn harvest."
"If this year is really a drought year, it will be cheaper to wait until after the autumn harvest to build a house."
Zhao Feng smiled and nodded, hugged Chen Rou and kissed Chen Rou on the face.
This intimate move made Chen Rou blush, and then she heard Zhao Feng praise her.
"As expected of my wife, she is indeed a virtuous and virtuous housekeeper!"
Chen Rou looked ashamed and angry on the surface, but she was very sweet in her heart.
Zhao Feng, on the other hand, arranged the affairs at home and put the one hundred taels of silver at home, so that Chen Rou could stay at home well while he went to the county seat again.
After arriving at the Shen family's dyeing workshop, Shen Chuchu saw that Zhao Feng had finally arrived, and she immediately said excitedly to Zhao Feng.
"Mr. Zhao, you are finally here!"
"Look, this is the cloth we dyed using the method you told us yesterday!"
As Shen Chuchu said this, she directly brought a lot of brightly colored fabrics.
After seeing these fabrics, Zhao Feng asked in surprise.
"Have you found alkali ore and limestone?"
Shen Chuchu shook her head.
"We haven't found large quantities of it yet, but we have recently purchased a lot of limestone from pharmacies in several counties and arranged for people to dig at the place of origin."
"Mr. Zhao, the quality of these fabrics is really great!"
Zhao Feng smiled and nodded, then looked at the brightly colored but still very rough fabrics and said directly to Shen Chuchu.
"Now that the dyeing matter has been settled for the time being, take me to the weaving workshop to have a look!"
Shen Chuchu was suddenly shocked.
"Does Mr. Zhao even know how to weave?"
Zhao Feng scratched his head. He didn't know anything about weaving, but he had seen some older loom prototypes in his previous life, so he knew a little about these things.
Shen Chuchu was urged to take herself to the weaving workshop, where she saw many weavers constantly weaving with various raw materials spun into threads.
Not only do they have their own dyeing and weaving workshops, they even have thread spinning workers.
This is also the reason why although the Shen family has declined, the family business is still very large, because they can be completely self-sufficient, and no link will be restricted by others.
But after Zhao Feng looked at those threads, he couldn't help but shook his head.
"These silks are quite good, but this mulberry linen thread is too rough, isn't it?"
Shen Chuchu walked over and glanced helplessly at the threads made of mulberry and hemp.
"Mr. Zhao, you should know that mulberry and hemp are relatively hard. If the thread is too thin, there is no way to ensure the strength."
"This kind of clothes will be worn out after only a few days of wear!"
Hearing Shen Chuchu's words, Zhao Feng smiled and shook his head.
"What you said makes some sense, but not everything."
"The fiber of mulberry fiber is indeed relatively hard, but as long as other impurities are removed more cleanly, the mulberry fiber can be made softer while maintaining its toughness."
Zhao Feng said this and walked directly to a pile of mulberry and hemp raw materials. The people here were pounding these raw materials and extracting as much fiber as possible.
These fibers are then softened and can be used for spinning.
Zhao Feng looked at it and then shook his head.
"You see, the fibers of your mulberry linen have not been processed too much, so the threads produced in this way will definitely be very rough."
"Just cooking it with the alkaline water I made before will soften the fibers a little bit."
"There is no other good way now, we can only do this first."
Shen Chuchu quickly wrote down the matter, and then asked those people to try it.
Zhao Fengcai said to Shen Chuchu.
"Let's go, go see your father first and decide on the future business direction of your family."
When Shen Chuchu heard this, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
"Mr. Zhao, as soon as I go to see my father, my father will definitely urge me to get married."
"When the time comes, you must say a few words for me!"
Zhao Feng smiled and nodded, and then Shen Chuchu took Zhao Feng to find Shen Baochuan.
On this side, Yu Wen, who spent one hundred taels of silver to buy the waterwheel blueprint from Zhao Feng, hastened back to the magistrate's office with the blueprint.
The prefect, Yu Ruhai, has been worried about the drought recently. At this time, those people who were sent to various places to investigate the drought came back to report. Yu Ruhai quickly asked them.
"How is it going?"
A yamen servant came up and cupped his hand towards Yu Ruhai.
"Master Magistrate, according to our inspection, people in almost every county in the entire prefecture have been affected by the disaster!"
"Among them, the drought in Zhao County, Liu County and Meng County is the most severe!"
"Those villagers have been in extreme drought for a long time. Although some villagers are carrying water to remedy the situation, it is of no great use!"
Hearing this, Magistrate Yu Ruhai sighed deeply, and the wrinkles on his forehead deepened a few more times.
"Oh, what can we do?"
"If it really doesn't work, I can only write a memorial to report to the court and ask the court to allocate funds for disaster relief!"
While Yu Ruhai was thinking this, Yu Wen's cheerful voice suddenly came from outside.
"Master Prefect, there is good news, there is good news!"
Yu Wen said this and ran in excitedly. Yu Ruhai looked at Yu Wen and couldn't help but frown.
"That's enough, what's the point of being in such a hurry?"
"Don't think that because you are a member of my race, I won't punish you!"
Yu Wen still said with a happy face.
"Prefect, I have found a solution to the drought!"
