Tang Zhi, who claimed to have seen Song Yuyan's previous tricks of deception, had been tempered so hard that his eyes were sharp.

Although she didn't know what Song Yuyan was up to, she nodded cooperatively, pretending that she believed it.

Seeing that she believed her, Song Yuyan didn't continue to talk nonsense. She took out a few pennies and wanted to buy some taels of salt from Tang Zhi.Tang Zhi saw that she had indeed reformed herself, so he was tolerant of her a little, and directly gave her half a catty of salt.

Song Yuyan was "flattered", this little girl is actually quite generous!

Of course, her character meant that she would not take advantage of the Tang family for nothing, so after she made the second mat, she gave it to Tang Zhi.

If Tang Zhi hadn't seen her come back with mats on his back, he would have thought she had bought one, otherwise why would he move so fast!

Only now did she truly believe that Song Yuyan could indeed weave straw mats, and that the technique was not bad, and that the mats would be worth at least [-] cents if sold.If others saw it, they would not believe that it was made by a person who was weaving straw mats for the first time.

But she was used to quarreling with Song Yuyan, and she was used to being caught and scolded by Song Yuyan for making mistakes.All of a sudden, Song Yuyan stopped messing around, stopped stealing her family's food, and gave her various compensations. Why did she feel uneasy?

"No, I can't take her things for nothing, otherwise, if she mentions this in the future, wouldn't I be the one who doesn't care?" Tang Zhi thought about it, and picked some vegetables from his own vegetable garden the next day. Pair it with ginger, onion and garlic, and let Song Yuban take it back.

Song Yuyan found that there were a few more ingredients in the house, so he asked the two little radish heads one by one.Knowing that Tang Zhi gave it to her, she sighed, "Hey, this is a harmonious neighborhood relationship of mutual respect and mutual assistance!"

Of course, although Song Yuyan wanted to change the relationship between the Song family and its neighbors, he would not flatter them with the straw mats he had made.

In the past two days, she has found two little radish heads to help with the grass. The speed is much faster. Basically, she can weave one and a half mats a day. In the past two and a half days, she has weaved a total of four mats.

She sent one to Tang Zhi, and the remaining three were dried in the sun after brushing off the dandruff.

The two little radish heads who made four straw mats with her these days looked at the remaining materials and asked, "Don't you want to weave the rest?"

Song Yuyan said: "Make it up, but it has to be changed."

The patterns made of mats made of rushes are very monotonous, because they are superimposed one by one, and it is not easy to add patterns.

In addition to rushes, cattail grass and salty grass can also be used as forage for straw mats.However, the stems of rushes are round, while other cattail grasses and salt grasses are flat.The process of weaving straw mats with this material is more complicated, but it is simple to weave patterns.

After weighing it all, Song Yuyan decided to use rush grass to weave it first, but she went to the river to get some cattail grass and brought it back, turned it up in the sun, and kept it in a dark place... When she weaved the mat to the right position, she added some cattail grass, and slowly A looming flower appeared.

Although the flower does not look perfect, its color is completely different from the surrounding mats, making it three-dimensional all at once.

The two little radish heads were dumbfounded, but Song Yuban became more determined to steal the teacher.

Song Yuyan breathed a sigh of relief, she was only in junior high school when she learned this:

At that time, the Handicraft Committee was going to shoot a group of videos to promote traditional crafts. She went to make fun of it, and then met Mrs. Yuan, the inheritor of the straw mat weaving craft. She was 80 years old and demonstrated the process of weaving straw mats in person.

Then, in order to reveal the "no successor" of traditional crafts and publicize this traditional craft, the Handicraft Committee asked Song Yuyan to learn from the old man by the way.

The old man chatted with her, knowing that she had been exposed to traditional crafts since she was a child, and felt that she was a material that could be made, so he taught her by hand and told her a lot of techniques for adding patterns.

Later, Song Yuyan didn't have much chance to weave straw mats, but she bought a lot of books on this topic and came back to read, so after seeing that she hadn't forgotten the techniques taught by the old man, she was glad that she had lived up to the old man's teachings.

There were still some cattail grass and cattail fleece left, and she didn't want to waste it, so she simply wove a pillowcase and stuffed cattail catkins into it, and a pillow was made.

She doesn't plan to sell this pillow, after all, she doesn't have a pillow yet!

……

After weaving the four straw mats, it happened to be the market day on March 23. After Song Yuyan told the two little radish heads to watch the house, he went out with the straw mats in his arms.

Although some people come to buy, but the price is often low, she should go out to find business opportunities by herself!

Village fairs and grass markets are all farmers and small vendors selling their own agricultural products or handicrafts. There is no urban management to drive people out, and no protection fees are charged.

According to memory, Song Yuyan found a good place, spread out the worn-out mat he slept on, and then spread out the straw mat he woven.

If she was in the past, she would definitely not be able to yell and hawk, but since she has a part-time job as a consignment seller, she can also yell a few words.

There are quite a few people selling straw mats here, but because of the small quantity, they are basically purchased by those big households who collect straw mats at a uniform price.When he saw Song Yuyan's straw mats, he also accepted them at the price of [-] cents a piece.

Eighteen Wen is the common price, but those are not very good mats, and better mats can be raised to twenty Wen a piece.And when they sell to foreign businessmen, the price will generally rise to nearly [-] Wen.

The reason why it is so expensive is because they have to pay taxes, ten taxes and two, that is, each income has to pay 20.00% tax. After the tax is deducted, the purchaser earns only five or six cents a piece.

But Song Yuyan refused to sell it at such a low price. The other party took a closer look at her straw mat and felt that both the material and the weaving technique were excellent. It would be a pity to sell such a good mat to foreign businessmen.

After some haggling, Song Yuyan clenched his mouth on 22 Wen, and their movement attracted many spectators.

Let's take a look at Song Yuyan's mat—oh, it's pretty good, isn't it made by the workshop in Gulin?

It was not a big deal for the crowd to watch the excitement, and some came to make trouble and offered various bids, but they just refused to buy.

Seeing that the purchaser hesitated, Song Yuyan spread out the patterned straw mat and said, "If you bought the first three mats, I can sell you this one at a lower price."

Seeing the vivid patterns, everyone's eyes lit up, and they were sure that Song Yuyan had worked in the workshop, otherwise how could she have figured out such an ingenious technique!

It's not surprising that people think so, because at this time there is no sophisticated machinery that can mass-produce patterned straw mats, and everyone is mainly to meet basic needs.

It is not ordinary people at the bottom who can afford such beautiful mats.

Only the people in the workshop will try their best to make the mats look better, and sell them to big families to make more money.Farmers who only regard it as a sideline will naturally not have such delicate thoughts.

Someone asked Song Yuyan if he was a craftsman in a workshop, and Song Yuyan smiled and said, "As long as the mat is good, why ask the origin of the person who weaves the straw mat?"

The person who bought it asked, "Only this one?"

Song Yuyan nodded: "Time is running out, I only have time to compile this one."

"If I bought the first three, how much cheaper will this one be?"

"This one takes a lot of thought, and it takes more time and thought than the previous three, so I originally planned to get 27 coins per piece. If you agree, I will only charge you 22 coins per piece."

When everyone heard it, the four mats were all 22 Wen. This one is so beautiful and sold so cheap, isn't it a big loss?

The man didn't think so. Although the first three pieces were also very beautiful, they could only be sold for 27 Wen at most. This piece is 87 Wen, and the total is only [-] Wen.

If the four cards are all 22 coins, then Song Yuyan earned 88 coins. Not only did she not earn less, but she also earned an extra penny, which shows that she is not stupid!

However, that person intends to cooperate with Song Yuyan. After pondering for a moment, he said: "Success! But if you make such a mat in the future, you can sell it to me at a lower price."

Song Yuyan smiled and agreed, and after the man paid the money and left with a pile of mats, Song Yuyan closed the stall.

Seeing that they were all gone, everyone lost interest and dispersed.

The author has something to say: Yam: Is the straw weaving made like this?

Instant noodles: That's right, it was made up.

There are exaggerated elements in the weaving pattern

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