Chapter 233: 233. Chapter 233: Grabbing Wool

233. Chapter 233: Grabbing Wool

The weather was clear and the breeze was gentle.

In the Jiang family's courtyard, Jiang Wei was grabbing wool from the family's sheep. Hearing Jiang Xiaoxiao's words, she, who was always calm, couldn't help but scream: "What? You said the child Li Jinfeng is carrying is not Huang Suntian's?"

Even Shen Que, who was helping to tie the sheep to the wooden stake on the side, couldn't help but look at Jiang Xiaoxiao with a look of astonishment.

Jiang Xiaoxiao shrugged, seemingly not surprised by the two's surprise.

Actually, this wasn't hard to guess. Huang Suntian only liked children, and Li Jinfeng's age naturally didn't fit his preferences.

But since Li Jinfeng could become pregnant, and her status in the Huang Residence suddenly rose, the child in her belly could only be Huang Suntian's father—Huang Wenfeng's.

"No wonder..." Jiang Wei muttered, "No wonder Li Jinfeng would know the whereabouts of that secret chamber..."

She had been wondering before; such an important place, maybe even Huang Suntian didn't know, how did Li Jinfeng, a little daughter-in-law who hadn't been favored for a few months, know... it turned out everything had such a cause and effect...

Thinking through everything, Jiang Wei only felt sighing.

Jiang Xiaoxiao also felt sighing. She remembered that in the original work, the Huang family had once caused such a scandal, but the protagonist wasn't Li Jinfeng, but another young woman Huang Suntian had forcibly snatched into the residence.

Actually, Huang Suntian didn't like women of this age.

Then why did Huang Suntian still forcibly snatch civilian women?

Jiang Xiaoxiao guessed it should be to cover up his special hobby that was different from ordinary people.

Otherwise, Huang Suntian wouldn't have let Cao Wanzhi go so easily, but instead set his sights on her again.

Those young women who were forcibly snatched were also used by Huang Suntian and offered to his own father.

As the saying goes, like father, like son.

Huang Suntian was this kind of person, and his father Huang Wenfeng was no better.

Huang Wenfeng also had an obsession with young bodies.

In the original work, Huang Wenfeng used force on that young woman in the study. The woman couldn't bear the humiliation and bit her tongue to commit suicide. Huang Wenfeng was immediately scared and hid the corpse in the secret chamber of the study.

She didn't know how Li Jinfeng knew about the existence of the secret chamber, but it was nothing more than these situations.

"Lord Shen, with the kind of crimes the Huang family committed, it shouldn't reach the point of exterminating the nine clans, right?" Jiang Xiaoxiao asked.

Shen Que was using a wooden comb to smooth the sheep's hair. Hearing this, he glanced at her: "Why, are you afraid of implicating the Lao Li family?"

"Li Jinfeng can at most be considered a victim." He sneered, "A victim sold to the Huang family by the Huang family with money. As long as someone comes forward to testify for her, she will be released after the case ends."

That's good.

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao felt a little relieved in her heart.

She didn't feel heartache for Li Jinfeng suffering such things. To be honest, Li Jinfeng having such an end was the result of her and the Lao Li family's own doing.

It was just that she didn't want to break her promise about what she agreed to that night.

After all, Li Jinfeng did provide clues for them to find the account book.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at Shen Que, who was smoothing the sheep's hair, using a wooden comb from the sheep's neck, shoulders, chest, waist, back, and buttocks... from top to bottom. Through this step, debris like broken grass and feces in the sheep's wool could be removed, facilitating the subsequent grabbing of wool.

The process of grabbing wool wasn't complicated, but the process required strictness and was operated by Jiang Wei personally.

Grabbing wool required a special iron comb, which was a dense comb. The distance between the steel wires was very short. Using the dense comb close to the sheep's skin, combing against the hair, the direction was opposite to smoothing the hair, so the wool could be taken down.

This process required even force, not too fierce, so as not to break the sheep's skin and cause the flock to get infected and sick.

Cashmere was a very high-quality wool, light, soft, and fine, a white ball, looking like cotton candy from afar.

Fabrics woven from cashmere were comfortable and soft, and the most cold-resistant.

Originally, this season wasn't suitable for grabbing wool. The most suitable season for grabbing wool was around Qingming, and grabbing wool for sheep before summer arrived could effectively help the sheep reduce their burden, so they wouldn't be so hot in summer.

But waiting until next Qingming was too long, so Jiang Wei simply grabbed a small part of the cashmere, leaving a part for them to survive the winter.

Under Jiang Xiaoxiao's conscious reminder, Jiang Wei had clearly known that this winter would be very cold. The family didn't raise many sheep, and grabbing a small part of cashmere from each sheep, hoarding it, could also make two cashmere sweaters.

Jiang Wei also wanted to make two cashmere quilts and a few pairs of cashmere pants, but the family didn't raise many sheep, and the amount of cashmere wasn't enough to grab so much.

She didn't have cashmere in her space, but there were quite a few ready-made cashmere products, such as wool coats, wool sweaters, wool carpets, and wool thermal underwear... there were several large cabinets.

But the problem was, she couldn't take these finished fabric products out to use openly.

The territory of Dayin was small. Except for the Mobei area, there were few places in the local area suitable for sheep growth.

Wool products, not to mention how rare they were, were definitely worth ten thousand gold and extremely precious.

The wool fabrics and clothes in her space were fine to wear at home, but if they were worn out and seen by others, and her family couldn't explain the origin of these wool fabrics, it would sooner or later cause trouble.

To avoid such trouble, only the family could produce a large amount of wool.

To raise a flock of sheep, first of all, there must be a pasture full of large amounts of pasture.

This wasn't difficult. She had improved pasture grass seeds developed by apocalypse scientific researchers in her space.

This kind of pasture was of excellent quality, fresh and juicy, and herbivorous animals like cattle, sheep, and horses almost all liked to eat it, and it was rich in nutrition, providing rich nutrition for these livestock.

With pasture, the next step was the selection of the pasture site.

Pastures were generally chosen in places with higher terrain, dry, open, sunny, and ventilated.

In this era, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there was no shortage of such places. Like the southwest direction of her home, there was a stretch of rolling low mountains. The mountains didn't grow grass or trees, had no mountain rocks, and were barren, most suitable for use as a livestock farm.

The pasture seeds in her space were developed through multiple genetic improvements and could adapt to the worst geological environments. As long as there was soil, they could grow.

Waiting until March of the coming spring to sow the grass seeds, they would mature in four to five months. If the rainfall was sufficient, they would grow faster.

Jiang Wei was planning the low mountains in the southwest direction of her home, and had already made up her mind to buy them before the end of the year. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 234 =====