"In the town and the county, rose red is usually worn by little girls. This is just right for my second sister. Do you want to wear the same thing as her, a little girl?"
Zhou Lihua glanced at the skinny Erni, and finally took a bite and made up her mind: "Then I will choose the two colors you mentioned."
Erni couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy.
In fact, she fell in love with the rose-red one at first sight, but since her aunt liked it, she didn't say anything.
The clothes of this era were mostly blue, light yellow, white, black and red.
The most commonly used colors among the people are black, navy blue, cyan, snow blue, plain white and light yellow.
Women's clothing mainly includes shirts, jackets, shawls, backs, and upper garments and lower skirts.
The skirt is based on dense pleats, with a belt tied around the waist and hanging down to the ankles, which is somewhat similar to the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, because people in the countryside have to work, most of them choose clothes and pants rather than skirts.
Men's clothing is mostly robes with large fronts, right lapels, wide sleeves, and knee-length. For those who are more particular, the fabric will be embroidered with auspicious patterns, which mostly have auspicious meanings.
Similarly, men from rural families often wear simple clothes and pants when going to the fields, rather than long robes with wide sleeves.
After everyone had made their choice, Su Qiao randomly picked white and snow-blue, then went about his own business.
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Because Su Qiao helped with the work for half a day, the harvest, which should have taken four days, was completed in two and a half days this year.
However, after the wheat is harvested, the ears have to be threshed and exposed to the sun for more than five days. If corn is to be planted in the field, the stumps have to be burned and the soil has to be turned over.
At that time, there was no thresher, only a door and window-like wooden frame, one side of which was placed on a square stool and fixed, and then the wheat was picked up and thrashed hard.
There were wooden plows, but most families didn't have oxen, so everyone relied on their hands.
Su Qiao wanted to help and see if he could research and develop a simple thresher, but it was too late.
And she still had to deal with the tooth powder.
Fortunately, on the morning of the third day, fifty toothbrushes and fifty bottles of tooth powder were made.
During this period, the old lady took time out to collect the brown hair on the toothbrush with copper coins from two nearby villages. Although there were relatively few cows, some families had mules.
As for the tooth powder, after crushing it with a pestle, Su Qiao took it to the grinding wheel in the backyard and grinded it several times, and finally achieved the desired effect.
The first time we sold toothbrushes and tooth powder, the adults were not very clear about it, and the children went there with the mentality of giving it a try, but this time it was different.
Su Qiao and her second brother Su Yihe walked in the morning dew under the adults' eager gaze.
Su Yihe was carrying the basket of toothbrushes and tooth powder with some trepidation, while Su Qiao, carrying a cross-body cloth bag, was walking easily and comfortably.
She is still very confident in what she has made.
It's impossible not to sell it.
When they arrived in the town, Su Qiao took the one or two taels of silver given by the old lady and bought some small porcelain bottles. He exchanged the tooth powder in the bamboo tube, and then the two of them went to the place where they had set up their stall last time.
Things turned out just as she predicted. There were already quite a few people waiting there, some who had bought the product before and some who had not.
As soon as their toothbrushes and toothpowder were taken out, they were sold out.
Before Su Yihe could react, they were sold out.
Su Qiao patted the bag on her waist happily.
She asked Erni to sew this specifically for her to hold silver.
Erni was afraid that the silver would be lost, so she used two layers of cloth, inside and outside, and sewed buttons and buttonholes on the pockets.
The buttons were made by Su Qiao by shaving thin pieces of wood and polishing them, imitating modern buttons.
She felt that buttons were safer than ropes and simpler than buttons.