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"Then we say they are cowards! They are afraid because they can't learn." Zhao Chengyi said.

"What if they skip class and don't want to come?"

"Let's go to their house to look for someone!" Wang Erya said firmly. She had been lying in bed and didn't want to get up, so the teacher brought many friends to watch her sleep. It was so embarrassing!

Everyone asked and answered questions, and time passed quickly.

Li Yin asked about all kinds of unexpected situations she could think of, and the children gave serious answers. Although the solutions were rather naive, they might produce miraculous results.

"How about you go back and prepare for the next few days and start next weekend?" Li Yin said, "I will write down the teaching method for you, and the rest is up to you!"

"Okay!" The children shouted loudly and rubbed their hands eagerly.

……

The official newspaper template was sent to the village, along with Li Shimin and Empress Changsun.

"Sister-in-law!" Li Shimin walked out of the carriage, turned around and helped Empress Changsun get off the carriage.

"Brother, sister-in-law." Li Yin walked forward, took the newspaper template from Li Shimin's hand, and then handed it to Uncle Sanxi.

"I have brought you something good today!" Li Shimin had a mysterious look on his face. Behind him, Wang De and Su Qing were carrying a large bamboo basket covered with thick silk cloth.

Sizi also came today. The three-year-old girl can't speak fluently yet, but she has a cheerful and generous personality and smiles at everyone she sees.

Li Yin liked it when she saw it. This is the legendary Jinyang!

So he asked Xiaochun to get a white cotton rabbit doll, which was soft and extremely cute.

Sizi also likes it. He won’t let go once he holds the rabbit. He chews on the rabbit’s ears and then smiles at people.

"Sister, this baby is good. Do you have any more in the farm?" Empress Changsun also liked it, but the first thing she thought of was the other children in the palace.

You can’t give Sizi only one, otherwise the other children will be sad.

"Of course!" Li Yin nodded: "There are many."

There was not much cotton at that time, so Zhuangzi asked someone to go to the border to get it, and also found people who went to the Western Regions to do business.

The cotton cloth was originally used to make cotton clothes and for sampling, but it was not used up, so the villagers filled it with wool, rabbit hair, etc. and made some dolls, in the shape of several kinds of animals, which were very cute.

When several people entered the manor, Li Shimin's tense nerves somehow relaxed.

"Sister, I always feel comfortable on the farm." Li Shimin walked on the path in the field, not caring at all about the mud that got his clothes dirty.

Looking into the distance, the endless fields are refreshing.

"Brother, looking at the distance and the green plants more often can always make you feel better."

Li Shimin disagreed. He went outing or hunting elsewhere, and was never as happy as when he came to Zhuangzi.

Everyone went directly to the cafeteria.

I made rice noodles at noon today. As the weather gradually got hotter, everyone started to slurp the noodles to cool off. First, I put the milky white noodles into a pot and cooked them, then rinsed them with cold water, took them out, added broth, cucumber shreds and fried beans.

The stew is beef stew, and the crispy and spicy pancake is baked. The crust is dotted with sesame seeds. If you want to add bean curd skin, kelp or sausage, you can make it yourself.

Women with small appetites can feel full after eating only noodles, but they get hungry easily. If they feel hungry for a while, they can have a cup of iced milk tea.

"The food at Zhuangzi's restaurant always makes people feel comfortable." Li Shimin ate comfortably.

He had just come here after attending court, and was wearing thick clothes, feeling hot all over.

So my sister-in-law made some noodles that had been soaked in cold water, and some oven-baked skewers, which made the sweat on her body disappear.

"Ade, take Su Qing and the others to wash the lychees, and put a plate on each table." Li Shimin saw that it was almost time for dinner, and people from the village came to eat one after another, so he gave instructions to Wang De and the others.

Over there, Li Yi and Li Er put down their chopsticks and followed.

Today they will return to the palace to report on their work, and two new people, Li Yi and Li Er, will come to take their places.

You can’t let fixed people stay in the village for too long, as they might have ulterior motives.

"Brother, there's no need to trouble Brother Ade, just ask Xiaochun to take people to wash them." Li Yin suddenly realized that the good things her brother brought were lychees!

That's really precious.

In this case, how can we let others wash lychees for the people in the village?

"Sister, just ask them to go. Besides, Li Yi and Li Er are also half of the people of the farm. We can't let them come here every time with just their mouths to feed, and leave with a lot of bags." Li Shimin stopped Li Xiaochun from getting up. He couldn't let the people of his sister's farm do the work all the time, making them act like masters.

Wang De and others: "..."

They really only brought their mouths with them, and they couldn't help much with the main things on the farm.

Sizi is still young, so Li Yin took out the baby food for the youngest child, including small milk cakes and other things, which are nutritious and delicious.

"Sister-in-law, what's in that rabbit doll? It feels so soft and comfortable." Empress Changsun held Sizi in her arms and rubbed her cheek against the belly of the rabbit doll from time to time.

"It's cotton, also known as white cotton." Li Yin said. At that time, cotton was not popular in the Central Plains, but many people in the Western Regions planted it, and cotton fabrics had even become popular in many places in the subtropical zone.

Feng Sanxi went to get a few preserved flower plants.

"I've seen this thing." Li Shimin's face changed. He looked down on this kind of flower that was presented as tribute from the Western Regions before because it was ugly and had no fragrance.

The people of Gaochang said that it could be used to make clothes, but he thought it was not as good as silk, so he planted it in a corner of the imperial garden.

Later, no one took care of it, and it died...

Oh, he regrets it!

If he had known that dolls made of this stuff would be so comfortable to the touch, he would have planted a few acres of it.

"Actually, the biggest use of this thing is not to make dolls." Li Yin took out a few cotton jackets and printed cotton cloth from a box nearby.

"Brother, cotton has a high yield, keeps you warm, is cheaper than silk, and more comfortable than linen." Li Yin took out a military coat and a flowered cotton jacket for Empress Changsun, motioning for the two to go to the next room to try them on.

The two looked at each other and took their clothes to change.

Soon, the two of them came out wearing cotton jackets, their faces flushed and hot.

"Sister, this dress... is too warm." Li Shimin was too hot to wear it for another quarter of an hour. He just showed up and then pulled Empress Changsun to change.

A few people sat on the stools again and slurped noodles.

"Brother, do you know how much cotton is produced?" Li Yin said to herself, "Each acre can produce 150 kilograms of cotton, and to make a thick piece of clothing, at most two kilograms of cotton are needed."

"In this way, every acre of cotton can enable 75 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to move flexibly in the cold wind."

Li Yin knew how to arouse Li Shimin's interest, so it was better to talk about soldiers than civilians.

Nowadays, most clothes worn by ordinary people are made of linen, ramie, etc., which are very different from the cotton and linen worn by Li Yin at that time.

This kind of cloth is extremely rough, with large pores. It often needs to be pounded with an anvil before it can become soft enough to wear. The lining is not warm either, mostly reed and willow fluff, filled with chicken and duck feathers.

How could the imperial court afford to provide soldiers with fur coats? But how could straw quilted clothes keep warm?

There is a moon over Chang'an, and the sound of clothes pounding can be heard in thousands of households. This describes the scene where the people are making winter clothes for the soldiers on the front line overnight. Li Yin felt sad while reading it.