Dong Yong watched Lu Sheige classify several batches of fabrics in the library, and assign their dyeing according to color and fabric.

He didn't quite understand what Lu Xiangge was talking about about tie-dyeing, but just because he didn't understand what Lu Xiangge said made him believe more and more that he might have really found the right person this time.

At least, this little brother who was half a head shorter than him didn't talk nonsense, there was still something in his words.

"What do you mean, can these fabrics be re-dyed?"

"Let's do this. You can find some discarded cloth and we can try it first. If it works, you can discuss it with your father and your elder brother."

Lu Sheige couldn't guarantee that she would be able to do it, or that the Dong family and his son would be satisfied with the color she dyed.

She is just a child, and it is impossible to make a big promise.

Because he promised Dong Yong to teach him dyeing.

All she could say was, try your best

Her current method can only relieve the siege temporarily, but it will definitely not last long.

As for the future, if Dong Yong wants to learn dyeing, he still has to find a way to enter a large dyeing workshop.

It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

The two and a half-year-old children made this bold decision and finally became Dong Yong.

The Dongjia Dyeing Workshop became the largest and most famous dyeing workshop in the Great Shang Kingdom of the New Dynasty.

This is a story for later. Now Lu Xiangge has given up even telling when Fushun will come back, and instead concentrates on running around the mountains and fields with Dong Yong, looking for things that can be dyed.

It's May now, and there are still a lot of fresh flowers, but it's not easy to find ripe berries.

Fortunately, Dong Yong's request is very simple, that is, dye some white fabrics to make them easier to sell. There are also some unevenly dyed fabrics, and he needs to find a way to change the color.

Changing the color is actually simple. You can choose to change the light color to dark color and the dark color to black.

However, the most difficult thing is to mix the various ratios of the materials found, and choosing the best color is the key.

Use the dip dyeing method for white cloth, and the boil dyeing method for unevenly dyed cloth...

Since we didn't have a big pot to cook cloth with, we went to Ding's house and borrowed a big pot that he used to kill pigs and boil water.

If you don’t have a big vat, use a wooden barrel.

There are more than a dozen wooden barrels of various sizes arranged in a row, which looks quite impressive.

The red color in the dye house is made from hematite powder, or better yet, cinnabar, but they don't have it, so they can only use fruits or flowers or even vegetables in the wild.

Use rice husk, salt and alkali to color and fix the color...

Ripe mulberries, wild berries, purple grapes... Lu Xiangge muttered something while sorting out the wild fruits he found. He thought that these three fruits, purple iris and dogwood bark could be used to make purple-blue dye.

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If red cabbage is missing, red amaranth should be fine too.

Anyway, it's just dyeing, and I didn't say what color to fix it on.

The two children, playing like a housewife, collected all kinds of flowers and fruits they could collect and began their own great dyeing process.

Except for Lu Xiaoqing who was practicing cooking with the Qiu family, almost the whole Lu family was on the move. Lu Quan not only collected eel cages and sold eels in the eel cages every day, but also helped his two children carry water and chop firewood when he came back...

Lu Xiaoli and Lu Xiaoyu were not idle either. One helped light the fire and watched the time, while the other helped soak and dry them.

On both sides of the Lu family's boat, several lines of hemp rope were pulled up, and pieces of dyed rags were hung up to dry.

Blowing separately, various colors fluttered in the wind, like small colorful flags.

The originally old and dim Wild Pier was rendered bright and beautiful.

Lu Sheige and Dong Yong worked hard for a few days, using up most of the bags of rags that Dong Yong had stolen from home, and finally settled on four colors.

Deep red, ocean blue, ginger, and a light pink dyed with white cotton.

These four colors may be slightly different in color depth in the next dyeing due to the amount of weight. Due to repeated trials by the two of them, Dan has determined the available things and steps. As long as Dong Yong follows their previous methods and

In terms of materials and colors, I can be sure that there won’t be much difference.

Looking at the various shades of fragments spread out and drying in front of him, Lu Sheige sighed slightly: "There are still too few things and too little experience, so I can only dye these four colors first."

Lu Sheige has seen various colors in the new era. For her, these four colors are too monotonous.

If you give her some time, or let her go to a dyeing workshop and learn some basics from those masters, it can be said that she can match a few more colors.

Including printing and dyeing, tie-dying and many other advanced colors that she knew before.

"Enough...enough!"

Dong Yong held the dyeing recipe written down by Lu Xiangge tightly in his arms with trembling hands, "These four colors are enough."

For Dong Yong these days, it is no less than creating a miracle with his own hands.

These four colors were jointly made by him and Xiaosi of the Lu family. The colors are pure, evenly dyed, and do not fade or discolor. Others don't understand, but he knows that these are the most rare things in dyeing.

He just wanted to clear the backlog of inventory in the warehouse. These four colors are already very good colors in the countryside.

In the countryside today, both men and women wear either linen clothes or the kind of khaki clothes that are ugly and resistant to stains.

These four bright colors are only available on expensive silk and satin.

He was able to make these four colors out of the unevenly dyed coarse cloth in the warehouse, which was already a big deal.

At this moment, looking at the color dyed by his own hands, Dong Yong suddenly had an uncontrollable thought in his heart.

He is going to Huaicheng to go to the dyeing workshop to learn more and better dyeing techniques.

Even if he couldn't be an apprentice, even if he could work as a handyman, he would still go.

"Thank you."

Dong Yong bowed respectfully to Lu Xiangge. If his family could cheer up again because of this dye, the fourth child of the Lu family would be indispensable.

"My mother and I scraped together these three taels of silver." Dong Yong's face turned red. "I know this is actually too little. When my father and my eldest brother come back, I..."

"No need."

Lu Sheige pushed back more than two taels of silver ingots and picked up dozens of copper plates scattered on the table, "These are enough."

Dong Yong concluded: "But."

Lu Sheige smiled, wrapped the broken silver and put it into Dong Yong's arms: "Okay, go back quickly, your mother is still waiting for you."

Dong Yong took the dyeing recipe that he and Lu Xiaosi had worked out in the past few days and went back to discuss it with his father and brother.

As for whether the Dong family uses these prescriptions and how they are used, that is all the Dong family's business and has nothing to do with Lu Sheige.

Lu Sheige also confiscated the purse Dong Yong gave her. Even though it contained the most sincerity Dong Yong could show, she rejected it.

She was not helping Dong Yong for profit. Just like that day when she saw Dong Yong being beaten by Luo Guozi, all she could do was throw a piece of mud at him.

As for whether we can help Dong Yong, or the Dong family, it can only depend on God's will.

Not long after, the Dongjia Cloth Store sold a batch of fabrics at a low price.

In order to express their gratitude, the Dong family sent a piece of cloth and one hundred taels of silver to each of the Lu family.

He also told Lu Sige that because of these four color recipes, Dong Yong was going to be an apprentice at the Shen Family Dyeing Workshop in Nanyang County.

This one hundred taels is also what the Shen family paid for these four prescriptions.
Chapter completed!