History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

Fujin was quickly invited over, and saw the two confronting each other as soon as they arrived, Minning reacted the latest to greet Fujin, Li Gege also quickly greeted Fujin, and quickly explained the matter.

Fujin didn't listen or believe, she sat down first, and turned to Xiang Minning, "Angege, what explanation do you have?"

Minning immediately knelt down, "If you go back to Fujin, it's all because I'm weak and can't adapt to the cold weather. I don't have any experience. In a blink of an eye, the charcoal allotted is almost burned, and it seems that there is no end. The concubine is also poor. Bian thought that ducks and geese are not afraid of the cold in winter, it should be because of the feathers. I wondered if I put feathers in my clothes, I would not be afraid of the cold, so I bought some poultry feathers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Fujin froze suddenly while holding the hand of the stove, but she didn't expect that Ange would give her this reason.

As for the case of charcoal, Fujin is somewhat wronged, the fourth master is not here, so he still has a share, and that share can be used by the women in the backyard. You can't just watch people freeze, but Fujin chooses to give this matter to him. forget.

She didn't mention it, since no one dared to touch fourth master's charcoal.

"Fujin, elder brother and Gege live in our courtyard, who knows if there will be any pickled things in it, Fujin, don't let it go easily!" Li Gege covered his nose and squinted at the sack, then gave Fujin put on eye drops.

"Okay, it's just poultry feathers. Don't be alarmist anymore. I remember the duck pot was made in the kitchen at noon. Didn't you return it? Since you are afraid that there will be problems with the duck feathers, then don't eat the duck at all! "You must know that duck and geese are the most common ingredients in the palace. If Li Gege really wants to cross it out from the menu, he will have to cancel more than half of the dishes.

Li Gege didn't expect the fire to burn himself, so he stopped talking embarrassingly.

Fujin stood up, and the court lady Fang Fei beside her supported her to go out. When passing by Li Gege, she said, "Okay, stop making trouble for no reason, and go back to Ansheng to take care of Er Gege and Er Gege."

As soon as Fujin left, Li Gege continued to stay to make fun of himself, and left after glaring at Minning.

Biying helped Minning up, "Gege, what should we do next?"

Minning looked at the sack of fluff on the ground, and curled his lips, "What else can I do? Fujin didn't object, just keep taking it down and do as I ordered."

"Yes." Bi Ying quickly responded, carrying the sack down.

It took two days to clean the feathers. First, soak them in soapy water to wash away the blood, and then boil them in water. Add soil alkali during cooking. The soil alkali can clean the remaining oil on the feathers and reduce the fishy smell.After cooking, rinse with clean water repeatedly until there is no peculiar smell and dry.Asking Zhang Qilin for help, he found an empty palace with a kang, spent some money to buy coal, and put the fluff on the kang to dry.

After drying, put it in a cloth bag and hang it under the eaves for ventilation.

When the people below were busy, Minning was not idle either. In order to choose a style of clothing she wanted, she drew many patterns.

When the pattern comes out, the fabric must be selected. After testing and eliminating a large number of fabrics, it is discovered that only plain fine muslin and poplin can prevent fleece.

In the end, we chose fine cloth as the inner liner, but this kind of cloth is not durable, just in case, Minning asked someone to cut it and brush it with a layer of cooked tung oil to dry in the shade.

After drying in the shade, Mo Shu came over to help sew the liner of the down jacket together.One small grid and one small grid, one after another is filled and one is sewn.Moshu's female red is very good, the stitches are neat and dense, and the stitches are densely packed, no worse than those sewn by machines.

This time Minning got a lot of down, but after cleaning and removing the feathers and grease mixed in, it shrank by [-]%.

The down is only enough to make one down jacket, and there is not enough left over to make a second one, let alone the duvet she has been thinking about.

After thinking about it, she simply made a down jacket in the shape of a quilt, with wide sleeves and a long hem that can reach her ankles. She remembered that when this kind of down jacket was first worn by a queen in later generations, the media ridiculed her as if she was wrapped in clothes. quilt.

The reason why Minning came up with this is that it is powerful enough to keep warm. It can be used as a down jacket and a duvet, and it can be used for two purposes.

The inner liner is made of fine cotton, and the outer coat is changed to poplin. Originally, he wanted to choose white, but was dissuaded by Bi Ying and Mo Shu. Minning only chose the pleasing ermine color.

The jacket is relatively easy to make. It borrows from the practice of the inside and the surface of the quilt and makes it detachable. The jacket can be taken off for cleaning when it gets dirty.Then Biying sewed the liner and the coat together like sewing a quilt, and when it was time to wash, just untie the thread ends, and then they could be taken off for washing.

After it was finished, Minning put it on her body directly. She felt that she was finally alive, and happily said to Bi Ying and Mo Shu, "The remaining down, you each make a small jacket and put it on your body, which is comparable to yours. It’s much easier to wear cotton clothes.”

Bi Ying and Mo Shu glanced at each other before thanking each other.

The next day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent another batch, and Min Ning ordered the people below to clean them up, and put them away after they were cleaned up, so she was going to scrape together enough to make a quilt.

After being busy for a few days, Minning almost forgot the date when Fourth Master would come back.

On November [-]th, the emperor's Luanjia had already arrived in Tongzhou, and the fourth master came back one day early to help the prince prepare to welcome Shengjia.

After working hard for a long time, all the things were sorted out in order, and the officials of the Ministry of Rituals left with the finalized welcome plan.In fact, there is nothing controversial, the only point of controversy is whether to go out of the city to meet the driver or to wait for the emperor to return in ***.

After the final quarrel, it was settled at the Daqing Gate, which is the outermost gate of the imperial city, so it would be appropriate to welcome them there.

As for why the decision to go out of the city was rejected, it was because the weather was so cold that it was not suitable to welcome the emperor, and no one dared to let the emperor suffer from the cold.

After they parted, Su Peisheng put a black bearskin cloak on the fourth master, and the fourth master took the mink fur warm hat and put it on. The prince had already left the official office of the Ministry of Rites, and the officials from the prince's faction also left together. As for the remaining three Gua Erzao Fourth Master just nodded at them, and then followed.

Back in the palace, Fourth Master didn't let anyone report it, and went straight back to Elder Brother's place and went straight to the main courtyard.

In the main courtyard, Fujin was sitting on the kang copying scriptures, when the fourth master walked to the door, the little eunuch sang.

Fujin looked up and saw Fourth Master walking in, she put down her pen and quickly stood up to help Fourth Master take off his coat.

"Master, are you back? Why didn't you send someone to inform you first?"

"I don't know when it will be over. Sending people in advance is just to make you suffer from the cold in winter."

The two asked and answered, Fang Fei served tea, and Fujin ordered her to bring the new cotton shoes made for Fourth Master this year, and she helped Fourth Master take off his snow-stained boots with her own hands.

Touching his feet, they were hard and red from the cold, Fujin felt a little distressed, "Master, let's soak your feet first to refresh yourself?"

Sitting on the kang, fourth master nodded when he heard this.

There was no need to help her in and order, Fang Fei walked out quickly and asked someone to bring hot water and a basin.

After the water came, Fujin put fourth master's feet into the water, fourth master hissed fiercely, and said, "It's so itchy, so exhilarating!" Even though he felt hot, his feet didn't come out of the water.

"Master, how long have you been freezing outside? It's almost frozen into ice cubes."

Fourth Master said: "I got the news last night, and rushed to the capital at midnight, and discussed matters with the crown prince and the officials of the Ministry of Rites all morning, and didn't even have time to rest."

Having said that, Fourth Master stopped talking, and asked Eldest Brother, "Where's Hong Hui?"

Fujin poured water on the fourth master's ankle, and replied with a smile: "The nanny just nursed and saw that he was a little sleepy, so I asked the nanny to coax him to sleep in the side room."

The fourth master gave a "hmm" and only said, "Don't just eat milk, you should also eat milk."

The elder brother was only born in March last year, and now he is only two years old. Not only is he the eldest son, but he is also in better health than the second elder brother who is weak.Fourth master naturally attaches great importance to it, and comes to see his son from time to time.

Since then, with the eldest brother, the relationship between Fourth Master and Fujin has warmed up, and the relationship is not as rigid as before.

When Fujin first entered the palace, he was still young, afraid of making mistakes in the palace, he always followed the rules.The fourth master was exactly the age of the young Mu Ai, so he would not care about the immature Fujin, so he doted on the beautiful Li Shi a little more.

At that time, Fujin hadn't grown up yet, and the two of them hadn't consummated their marriage, so Li Shi inevitably became a little crazy, and Fujin couldn't stand up in front of Li Shi, which caused the relationship between Fujin and Fourth Master to be cold.It wasn't until Fujin officially got married that the two got married.

The young husband and wife supported each other. Although the fourth master was a Manchu, he studied Sinology and respected his first wife very much.

Respecting each other as guests is the way this couple gets along.

It was not until I gave birth to my son last year that I began to change to my relatives.

After drying his feet and putting on new shoes, fourth master got up and walked to the side room. He looked at his sleeping son before leaving lightly.

"Master, are you hungry? I'll let Fang Fei eat."

The fourth elder brother only had some snacks and a cup of hot tea at the official office of the Ministry of Rites in the morning, and the food had already been digested. He nodded when he heard what Fujin said, and walked out with Fujin.

The maid at the outer table was setting out the meals. The fourth master saw that they were all steamed bowls that looked beautiful but tasted the same for ten years. The bright red ones looked good, but they had already been served and there was no heat left, so they lost their appetite.

Fourth master just took a bite of the hot soup in the pot.

Fujin didn't think there was a problem, the dishes in the palace were served like this, she was used to it long ago.

As for fourth master eating less, it seemed normal to her, this was fourth master's usual appetite.

After an unsatisfactory dinner, Fourth Master couldn't help but think of An Gege in the backyard. With An Gege's attitude towards food, he probably wouldn't wrong him.

Originally, he didn't think about his family when he was away from home, but when he came back, because of an unsatisfactory meal, fourth master remembered that there was Ge Ge who was the best eater in the backyard.

"Master, you have been tired since last night, do you want to lie on the kang for a while?" Fourth Master put down his chopsticks, and Fujin put down his chopsticks, and then suggested to him.

After his thoughts were interrupted, fourth master also felt a little sleepy, so he nodded.