Unconsciously, Lan'er, who was snuggling up to Chen Ying, actually fell asleep. Chen Ying hugged Lan'er and gently placed her on the bed, and he fell asleep soon after.

At some point, the night sky was overcast. The sky was cloudy, the cold wind was howling, and the biting cold woke up the sleeping Chen Ying. Chen Ying looked up and found that Lan'er had shrunk into a ball.

In this day and age, the price of quilts is very high. The quilt is an important "household belonging" of the ancients, and it is also one of the symbols of wealth. According to "Liangshu Pei Zhiheng's Biography", Pei Zhiheng did not study well when he was a teenager, and his brother Pei Zhigao deliberately made a narrow quilt for him to cover in order to motivate him, and only gave him vegetable food. Pei Zhiheng swore an oath: "The husband is rich and rich, and he will make a hundred quilts!" Later, Pei Zhiheng really developed and really made a quilt with a width of 100 widths.

In ancient times, two feet two was a piece, about equal to five five centimeters into a piece, and a hundred pieces were this big quilt can be described as "the first quilt in ancient times", and it can be on the Guinness Book of World Records today, but I don't know how to cover such a big quilt.

Chen Ying was frozen to sleep, and the quilt was covered on Lan'er's body, but Lan'er was still curled up. In the Tang Dynasty, cotton has not yet been popularized, and the filling in the bedding is flocculent, such as reed, willow catkins, cotton (silk scraps), and thatch can be made of flocculents, and Chen Ying's bedding is filled with catkins, although the value is very high, but the warmth is too different from cotton.

Chen Ying got up gently, put on a wolfskin cloak, and came outside the house. At some point, the ground was covered with a layer of snow.

Although he was wearing a cloak, this cloak seemed to be like papier-mâché, and it could not stop the cold wind like a knife in the slightest.

Looking at the falling snow in the sky, Chen Ying suddenly realized the problem, in such a cold weather, I don't know how many people will freeze to death on this night, after dawn, I don't know how many people in Chang'an City will cry.

Although Chen Ying knows that cotton is an excellent material for keeping out the cold, this cotton is still a rare thing such as ornamental flowers in Datang, at least Chen Ying has never seen cotton, even if cotton is promoted, it is not a day or two to be promoted.

However, Chen Ying knew that keeping out the cold was not a means of quilts and cotton clothes, heating stoves, and down jackets.

Suddenly, Chen Ying patted his head and secretly said that he was stupid.

Chen Ying's city, known as one of China's eight major down markets, every summer, the whole town of more than 160 square kilometers of land is stinky, the air is dirty, although the human living environment is very poor, but let Chen Ying see a complete set of down processing and production technology for free.

Although down jackets are very common in later generations, there are not too many people who really understand the processing process, and this down processing technology is actually not complicated, in this era, it can be done by hand.

This can not only keep out the cold, but also open up a source of wealth for Chen Ying.

As soon as the sky was bright, the entire Chen Mansion was called up by Chen Ying. The eighteen subordinates were all shivering with cold, especially Li Chuqi's lips were frozen purple.

Chen Yingdao: "Now I'll leave one thing to everyone, hurry up and go to the West Market to buy duck feathers!" ”

"Lang Jun, what do you want that thing for, you can't eat it, and you can't keep out the cold." As Chen Ying's young and eldest Zhou Mancang, he felt that it was necessary for him to tell Xiao Langjun to be diligent and thrifty in running his family.

"Leave this alone, go out and buy duck feathers!" Chen Yingdao: "As long as it is duck feathers on the market, how many you want, you will be given five cents per catty." ”

Chen Ying felt that this price should be very fair, and in later generations, the down should be more than 100 yuan per catty. Counting the duck feathers of the raw materials, it is only more than 30 catties after being converted to Wuwen, which should be cheap enough.

The six men dispersed in a hurry, each carrying dozens of catties of money to the market to buy duck feathers.

Mo was about half an hour younger, the coachman Lao Zhou was the first to come back, he drove the carriage out, and when he came back, he actually loaded a whole carriage, more than 200 catties of duck feathers.

However, what surprised Chen Ying the most was the money that Lao Zhou brought, which actually cost less than fifty yuan.

Lao Zhou looked at Chen Ying's surprised gaze, and suddenly became proud.

Lao Zhou said: "I didn't buy duck feathers, this thing is dirty and not easy to clean, I bought ten pots of wine, went to a few cooked meat shops, and each gave me their useless duck feathers!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Lan'er, write down, Lao Zhou will make a profit, reward 100 yuan, unload the goods, and continue to buy, more is also good!" ”

When Lao Monday heard that there was a reward, he suddenly laughed so much that his mouth couldn't close it.

"Boss, look at it, I'll bring all the duck feathers from Chang'an City!"

He Liu said: "Lang Jun, what do we want to do here?" ”

"Do as I say, wash these duck feathers cleanly, and put them in a pot to steam for half an hour!"

He Liu's and several maids such as Red Sleeves and Green Beads hurriedly joined hands up and down.

The down processing process is actually very simple, basically it can be divided into three steps, the first step is to clean foreign bodies, the second step is high-temperature sterilization, and the third step is puffing.

Because ducks actually not only have parasites, but also a large number of germs, if there is no such link, it is easy to cause skin diseases or other adverse effects when wearing. Now Chen Ying does not have puffing technology, which is also the most critical high-tech content, in fact, this does not affect the manufacture of down jackets and duvets, at most it is only unpuffed down, which affects the appearance to some extent.

The four cauldrons of the Chen Mansion were neatly filled with washed duck feathers, covered with lids, and heated for high-temperature sterilization.

After the disinfection of these duck feathers was completed, Chen Ying discovered a new problem.

It's snowing now, and it's not easy to dry it naturally. But the weather is too cold, and time waits for no one. Chen Ying asked Ryazan to hire a few masons to transform three sundries into drying rooms according to Chen Ying's design.

After more than 300 catties of high-temperature sterilized duck feathers were dried in the drying room, Chen Ying asked Lan'er, Luzhu, Red Sleeves and other maids to start sewing duvets.

Chen Ying, who was frozen to death, had long been fed up sleeping with a catkins quilt every day, and what he wanted most was to sleep with a light duvet.

Fortunately, these women's female celebrities are quite skilled, and they quickly completed the unskilled quilt sewing work.

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Princess Pingyang's Mansion, although Princess Pingyang has a good system, but in the face of this kind of icy weather, Li Xiuning can only wait in the mansion, and it is difficult to get out of the house.

Li Xiuning, who still insisted on exercising, practiced his sword on the snow until his forehead sweated slightly, and then returned the sword to the sheath.

At this moment, I watched the maid Cui'er walking with a big red package in her arms.

"Lan'er, what is this?"

"Her Royal Highness Princess Hui, this is sent by General Chen!"

Hearing that it was a gift from Chen Ying, a touch of warmth appeared on Li Xiuning's face. Li Xiuning nodded nondeniably.

"What are you?"

"What General Chen is talking about is, what kind of duvet is it."

"Duvet?"

Li Xiuning looked at this duvet that was four feet wide and nearly one zhang long: "Will there be a shortage of this kind of thing in this palace?" ”

Cui'er said: "General Chen, I also specially instructed that you must let Her Royal Highness the princess try it?" ”