HCB Chapter 350: Assembly Line
Chapter 350: Assembly Line
The old lady's words left Da Ya and Er Ya stunned, and they didn't know how to react.
But grandma spoke again: "Oh, no, I haven't told Youyou yet, I have to tell her too. This girl is the kindest and she doesn't hide any recipes from others."
Erya said quickly: "Grandma, you'd better not go. Go tomorrow. Yoyo has been exhausted these past two days. When we came back, she said she just wanted to take a shower and go to bed."
The old lady finally persuaded them to stop, but she did not forget to ask the two of them to convey these words to their sisters when they went back to make flowers with them tomorrow.
At this point she sighed again, as if talking to herself: "Just for this, grandma, I hope our flower business can be successful. It would be even better if it can last for a long time. By then, you girls will be able to make a living when you get married."
After breakfast the next day, the nine tribes were busy according to their respective division of labor.
At Shen Zhiqiu's house, Shen Youyou and her sisters cut colored plastic sheets into different shapes and placed each shape in a different wooden drawer to avoid confusion.
At first, she didn't plan to teach anything too complicated, nor did she plan to have too many types.
The girls from the Nine Clans also watched Shen Youyou's actions very seriously, without any impatience.
Shen Youyou took out a pair of bamboo tweezers, picked up a piece of plastic, roasted it over fire, and explained: "When roasting, keep a distance from the fire to avoid burning the plastic.
Plastic becomes soft when heated. I believe you all know this. At this time, you can bend it into the shape of a petal. "
She explained slowly while talking, trying to make sure every sister could understand. She started with the simplest one, the pink peach blossom.
The first is that the curvature of the petals is not very large. The sisters are relatively familiar with peach blossoms, and there are only five small petals. Of course, she not only made a few blooming ones, but also several with buds and some that are about to bloom but have not yet bloomed.
Finally, the petals were tied together with copper wire, which was also recently brought back by my brothers from the silver shop in the county. There wasn't much, so I only bought it for two taels of silver.
Now, those who go to the county town to set up stalls are all young boys from all walks of life, and girls no longer go there.
So today, all the girls from the nine clans followed Shen Youyou to make hairpin flowers.
Shen Erya and the others looked at her sister and kneaded her for a few times, and finally tied her up with thin copper wire, and it became a peach blossom.
But the pistil was a bit troublesome, so Shen Youyou mixed some white liquid plastic, then used a thin bamboo stick to pick it up and pull it into thin filaments. She then applied pink plastic stamen heads to the filaments.
Add a few green leaves to decorate it, and even without touching it, it looks just like the real thing.
The second time, she let the sisters take the lead, and she guided them step by step.
Explain while doing
"Sister Taohua, don't let your hands shake. There's nothing to be nervous about. These wires, whether copper or plastic, can be reused. If the copper wire breaks, we can save it. When we have enough, we can ask Uncle Tietou to make wire for us. I think he has tools for making thin wires."
"Sister Erya, you did a great job on the first one, but the curve is a little too big. Pay more attention to the next one."
"Aunt Yaya, the petals don't have to be bent exactly the same. Just be casual. There are no flowers in the world that are exactly the same, and no petals that are exactly the same."
Mrs. Hua hasn't started selling yet, so she's been in charge of cooking recently. She'll take some time to come and take a look, just like a leader inspecting.
While walking around watching the girls making flowers, I was also teaching them:
"Study hard, girls like you will get married sooner or later. There are people in our tribe who can embroider flowers, but their skills are far inferior to those of the embroiderers in the city.
Now I have the opportunity to teach you this, so you should cherish it. It is much easier to pinch a flower than to embroider anther,
Do you sometimes feel your hands getting pricked when you embroider? This is much easier.
I also tell you that the embroiderers can embroider a lot, but other people can't imitate our flowers.
Because they don't know how to make it, this is a unique business. You can't tell everyone about it after you learn it, and you can't tell anyone the secret recipe.
If you want to do this business after you get married, it's OK. You can come back and take our finished plastic sheets back.
When the time comes, we can make some flowers and bring them back, and we can still make money. As long as we have the plastic sheeting recipe in our hands, no one can imitate it."
After hearing these words, Shen Youyou looked up to the old lady. She didn't expect that her grandmother could think of this.
But no matter what, there are people who are really good with their hands and people who are really clumsy with their hands, and there are also people who are not clumsy with their hands but have really poor aesthetic sense.
For example, Shen Jinxing, the eldest granddaughter of Grandpa Dalin, has a poor aesthetic sense, so Shen Youyou taught her one-on-one, and the flowers she combined are full of craftsmanship.
Shen Youyou was quite helpless: "Okay, we can only divide into groups."
The two most clumsy ones only made plastic sheets of various colors, and the second to last one who was not the best cut petals of various shapes.
Later, people like Shen Xingya and another person with poor aesthetic taste specialized in making plastic silk stamens.
There is no problem with roasting the remaining petals, so just roast the petals. And a few skillful ones will combine each roasted petal into a flower.
With a job, Shen Youyou was much more satisfied, and Old Lady Hua also left with satisfaction.
In the middle, Shen Youyou also taught how to make plum blossoms and crabapple flowers.
They were all relatively simple. When she was teaching her sisters and aunts, she was still using plaster to make molds for hairpins.
These flowers will eventually be fixed on the hairpin, but she doesn't plan to make wooden hairpins as that would be too troublesome.
He made several hairpin molds and directly mixed different colors to make plastic hairpins.
In fact, hairpins can be made in many colors, including red, yellow, jade, black, brown, sky blue, similar to the color of Hetian white jade, and jasper.
By then, this hairpin can be purchased separately at a lower price. Even peasant women will not need to wear only wooden hairpins.
Moreover, the hairpin mold is easy to make. When the plaster has not yet solidified, they can take some wooden hairpins that they had bought and kept for themselves, and press out the imprints one by one.
At that time, they made a lot of hairpins in various styles.
In order to make some simple bead flowers, she also wanted to make some simple petal molds, such as those small ones that can be used directly, cherry blossom petals, cabbage leaf petals, five-petal flowers, four-leaf clovers, and tree leaf molds of various shapes.
Especially Shen Youyou's favorite osmanthus mold,
These molds are easy to make. Shen Youyou first makes a plastic petal shape by hand, and then, following the method of making hairpins, presses a large piece of plaster to create the imprint of the small petals.
The only regret is that it cannot be bent for now. When I really need to use it, I still need to bake it a little.
However, Shen Youyou has been thinking about using the Eucommia ulmoides seed skins they collected before to extract rubber and make soft rubber models. Then they can make curved petals that are more realistic.