If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

The little tiger named Ah Hu is good at reading people's faces and knows what is beautiful and what is ugly. As soon as he arrived at the Liu Mansion, he learned how to be cunning and captured the hearts of two middle-aged beauties. When Meixiang was busy, he would stick to the beautiful woman or Nanny Chen. Others who wanted to get close to him had no door, let alone windows, so they were stopped within ten steps.

Haoyue's current dyeing technology is still at the level of the early Tang Dynasty. Red is mainly made of safflower, ochre and cinnabar, while green is mostly dyed by mixing blue and yellow pigments, and it is very rare to use a single plant to make green.

If Meixiang succeeds in dyeing with dragon blood tree resin and frost green, it will be a pioneering work in the dyeing and weaving industry.

Chen San, Mei Ying and others bought white cloth, brushes, iron pots and basins of various sizes as per Mei Xiang's request. They also set up a special area in the northwest corner of the courtyard for boiling dyes, testing dyes and drying them.

The innermost layer of the white towel that Xiao San used to wipe the scattered resin of the dragon blood tree that day had turned dark brown, and the color that was soaked in the back became lighter and lighter. This is equivalent to the brush dyeing method. Meixiang first asked Xiao San to wash the cloth with clean water. Except for some slight fading the first time, the fading on the second and third times was minimal.

Meixiang poured the first basin of water used to wash the towels into the pot, and then poured a little dragon blood tree resin into the pot. After stirring evenly and boiling it, she put the first piece of white cloth in to soak, then washed it with clean water and hung it to dry.

The second piece of white cloth was soaked twice, rinsed in clean water and then hung to dry.

The third piece of white cloth was soaked three times, rinsed in clean water and then hung to dry.

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As the number of repeated soaking increases, the red color of the cloth becomes darker until there is no visible difference in color between the last soaking and the previous soaking and washing.

Using the same method, put the washed frozen green into a pot of clean water and boil it, then scoop out the frozen green residue, soak the white cloth and put it in, continue to boil at high temperature, and stir evenly. The first color obtained is goose yellow, then gray-green. Similarly, with the more repeated soaking times, the darker the color of the cloth will be.

Everyone was looking at the different shades of red and green cloth hanging on the drying line, especially the particularly eye-catching goose yellow one. The brave Little Fifteen grabbed Aunt Li's hand and kept asking for a dress of that color. Little Ten and Little Eleven also looked around at their favorite colors.

"I've never seen such a beautiful color, miss. That light pink color suits your skin tone very well." The children's liveliness also infected Nanny Chen, and she was rarely interested in joining in the fun.

"Yes, that light green color is also good. It is just right for this season. Xiang'er's birthday is coming soon, so let's make new clothes for everyone." The beautiful woman also happily joined in the fun.

"Yeah, yeah, mom, Xiao Shiqi wants new clothes too." Xiao Shiqi raised her neck and shouted. Everyone had taught her many times about addressing others, but Xiao Shiqi just couldn't change, especially when she was happy or sad.

Looking at the lively and cute little Seventeen, the beautiful woman and others couldn't really bear to reject this little boy who was only a little over two years old. After this period of time, everyone just acquiesced.

"Okay, miss. I'll go back and look for other dyes and ask Aunt Li to make a beautiful dress for our little Seventeen, okay?" Meixiang teased little Seventeen.

"Okay, thank you, miss." Little Seventeen bowed and saluted like a little adult. His clever look made everyone laugh.

Meixiang looked at the cloth floating in the wind, and then at the smiling faces of the people in front of her. She felt a sense of satisfaction and happiness that she had never felt before. She had more knowledge and vision than others, and it seemed that she could do a lot of things. But from the bottom of her heart, she didn't ask for much. She just wanted to protect her relatives and friends around her and let them have a stable and smooth life within her ability. As for those relatives she had never met, she didn't force them, nor did she refuse.

A piece of cloth of each color was cut and sorted into a backpack according to color from dark to light. Meixiang took Chen San, Meiying and Xiaosan into the city again in the early morning mist that had not yet dissipated.

The waiter at Sunjia Cloth Shop at the northernmost end of Fuya Street was cleaning the counter and tidying up the shop when four people stepped into the shop.

"Welcome," the waiter instinctively greeted without even raising his head when he heard the footsteps coming in.

Meixiang stood in front of the counter and asked the waiter who was busy, "Waiter, is Manager Sun here?"

The waiter looked at Meixiang in a daze for a moment, then greeted her warmly: "It's you, young lady. Come, please sit down. Manager Sun has gone out." This was a distinguished guest that Manager Sun had repeatedly invited, and she must not be neglected in the slightest.

"Looking at the time, he should be back soon. Miss, would you please wait in the store for a while?" The waiter replied after looking at the clepsydra.

Meixiang thought about it and the most important thing to do in the city today was to come to this cloth shop: "Then I will wait here for a while, Xiaoer brother, don't worry about us, you are busy."

The four of them sat down on chairs in the store. The waiter politely brewed tea and went about his business. Meixiang looked at the colors of the cloths on display in the store. Haoyue's current colors are mainly dark, red, and white, with occasional crimson and bright yellow. Ochre and yellow are explicitly stipulated to be used exclusively by the royal family, and the regulations on other colors and cloths are relatively generous. As the effects of various measures taken by Haoyue to restore national strength gradually become apparent, people's lives are stable and their surplus money increases, so more and more will be invested in food, clothing, and daily necessities, and there will be much more to do than now.

"Miss Mei is here? Where is she?" A hearty middle-aged male voice came from outside the door, interrupting Meixiang's thoughts.

Manager Sun walked slowly into the store with a young man of about fourteen or fifteen years old. The man was tall and thin, with delicate features, but his face was slightly unhealthy and pale.

Meixiang and the other three stood up when Steward Sun's voice came, and when they saw him, they raised their voices to greet him: "Hello, Steward Sun, nice to see you again."

"Hahaha, shall we go into the inner hall to talk?" Following the hearty laughter of Manager Sun, Meixiang brought Xiao San into the inner hall of the cloth shop.

After the guests were seated in the inner hall and the waiter served them tea, Steward Sun pointed to the young man sitting at the main seat and introduced him to Mei Xiang, "Miss Mei, this is our young master, Young Master Sun." Then he turned around and introduced Mei Xiang to Young Master Sun, "Young Master, this is the Miss Mei I mentioned to you a few days ago. Don't underestimate her young age, her knowledge and experience are beyond the reach of you and me."

Upon hearing this, Meixiang unconsciously looked at the young man in front of her twice more, comparing him with the image she had formed in her mind through the introduction of the pharmacy owner.