"This batch of materials was delivered yesterday. The purchase quantity is already reported to Wu Niang's manager. This is the materials for this winter. Please check it out."

"Have you made winter clothes so early?" Nian Ruyi took the fabric and looked through it piece by piece.

Madam Lu said respectfully, "It's getting late, I should have done it in early June in previous years." This year, my ancestor was injured, so I delayed it for half a month, and I don't know if I can hurry up.

There are hundreds of servants in the mansion, two sets of ordinary servants, two sets of them, three sets of them, and three sets of them in charge of the mansion. The clothes of servants in the mansion are complicated and embroidered, and the winter clothes are all coats, skirts, and pants, which takes even more effort. There are only twelve embroidery girls in the embroidery pavilion, and one embroiderer makes a set of clothes for two days. By the beginning of October, there are only more than three months left.

If you can hurry up and stay up for a few more nights, you can still make it.

Nian Ruyi suddenly remembered that when watching ancient TV series, the wealthy families said that they made summer clothes in winter and winter clothes in summer. What they said was true.

"Where are cotton used?" Nian Ruyi remembered many unscrupulous owners who made cotton jackets for slaves and were reluctant to use expensive cotton, so she made them with reed wool floss. She didn't keep warm when wearing them, and it was very itchy.

Some people get skin diseases when wearing it.

Lady Lu replied, "We planted large pieces of cotton fields in our farm, and the cotton was not sold. They were all taken back to make cotton jackets for the slaves to wear. The cotton we sent every year was enough."

"Hey, I remember that there was a record of cotton on the purchase list, and the quantity was quite large." Nian Ruyi looked at Yuan Wuniang, and the cotton was purchased by Guiyuan Wuniang.

Yuan Wuniang was blessed and replied, "Mrs. Go back to the young lady, that batch of cotton was not bought for the servants in the mansion to make clothes, but for the soldiers of the Xiao family army to wear cotton jackets."

“Do it every year?”

"Yes, every year in mid-August, the royal family will send people to buy cotton. At that time, the maids and mothers in the mansion who know how to needlework will have to get busy making cotton jackets for the soldiers. They are busy for more than a month. By the beginning of October, the cotton jackets will be sent to the military camp. The young lady first married into the royal family, but she doesn't know about this. After two months, we will start purchasing cotton."

Nian Ruyi understood.

She chose nine brightly colored fabrics from them and handed them to Lady Lu, "That's all, how much is needed, buy them according to the quantity in previous years."

"Yes, young lady."

Lady Lu folded the selected fabric and put it into the tray. She put the other unselected ones away. The fabrics are not big, but they can also be used as insoles.

Next, Shen’s mother, the manager of the warehouse, also came up to report, “Last night, several ornaments from Baixiangyuan were accidentally broken. Madam Li reported it and wanted to pick up a few more from the warehouse to place them.”

"Is it from Baixiangyuan? Why did it break? Is there any reason?" Nian Ruyi raised her eyebrows and did not agree immediately.

Mother Shen's face stiffened and replied, "A maid didn't pay attention when she was sweeping the floor. She fell and threw herself on Duobao Pavilion. All the ornaments on it fell and broke. When Madam Li reported it, she showed the fragments to the old slave. They were indeed six porcelain items registered in Baixiangyuan."

"Since it's broken, then it's gone from the account book. However, I see that Baixiangyuan's ornaments are often broken. In order not to waste these treasures passed down by our ancestors, Baixiangyuan will no longer have to collect them from the warehouse in the future."
Chapter completed!