Chapter 513 Granny Huang teaches

"Cousin! Why did you let someone hit the chair just now? It made my stomach hurt."

Princess Ningyang pouted, somewhat resentfully.

Mo Beihan glanced at her and could only explain patiently: "I'm trying to save you! Didn't you choke on the pastry? If I don't help you get the pastry out, you will choke to death?"

Princess Ningyang suddenly realized: "Oh, you were trying to save me like that just now? Hehe, this method is quite unique. Cousin, who taught you this? It really works. I can't get it out no matter how hard I pick it out. I thought I was about to choke, but luckily you saved me!"

Mo Beihan didn't want to explain more to her, so he just said: "I learned it from others."

He walked out of the main hall, ignoring Princess Ningyang who looked dissatisfied at being left behind.

After leaving the door, Mo Beihan's steps slowed down.

The method just now was taught by Miss Qiao.

It's just that he didn't teach him specifically, but he happened to be nearby when Qiao Ran was teaching the ghost doctor, and he just stole the teacher's teaching openly and openly.

However, Miss Qiao said that this method is called the Heimlich maneuver, which can save lives at critical moments. She passed this method on to other doctors in the hope of saving more lives.

At that time, Miss Qiao taught several methods, and the one he just used was actually a self-rescue method.

To rescue someone, you need to hug that person from behind, wrap your hands around the other person's waist, make a fist with one hand and place it on the other person's abdomen, grab the fist with the other hand, and quickly punch upward to compress the other person's abdomen, so that the foreign body can be expelled. come out.

It's just that in that case, there was bound to be close contact, and he never liked being too close to outsiders, especially young women, so he had an idea and used a self-help method, but he pushed her from behind.

Just now, he just grabbed the clothes on Princess Ningyang's back. The situation was critical and it was not considered close contact. He was not worried that Princess Ningyang would use this as an excuse to blame him.

Thinking of the kind girl who selflessly taught such methods to save people in critical moments, a smile appeared on Mo Beihan's face again.

Just thinking that someone would compete with him for fish and meat later, his smile fell again.

Why does Ningyang come here at this time?

If the unruly and willful Ning Yang hadn't come, maybe Miss Qiao wouldn't have left so quickly. Maybe he could still see her when he came back?

Not knowing anything about what happened in Prince Dingbei's palace, Qiao Ran was about to say goodbye and go home after lunch.

Butler Zheng had already asked someone to bring back the two silk reeling carts she ordered and put them on her carriage.

In addition, people asked around, and finally hired an old silk reeler who was already enjoying the filial piety of her children and grandchildren at home. The General's Mansion gave her fifty taels of silver and said that she would be hired to teach the silk reeling craft in Devil's Valley.

When he heard that he could earn fifty taels of silver by teaching for a day and a half, the old man naturally agreed and asked his grandson to accompany him to Devil's Valley.

Qiao Ran wanted to give the fifty taels of silver to General Zheng. The old man glared and said displeasedly:

"You and grandpa are still so quarrelsome? Then do I still have to pay you for consultation and medicine? Doesn't it mean that grandpa still owes you?"

Qiao Ran quickly smiled and said: "No, no, grandpa, please don't misunderstand. I was wrong, so I won't be polite to grandpa, hehe!"

If you really think about it, the weapons my grandpa gave me are worth a lot!

Qiao Ran returned to Qingshui Village with two reeling cars and two people.

The villagers all knew that Qiao Ran was going to teach everyone how to reel silk today. Several skillful women, led by Wu Qianqian, had already been waiting in the open space outside Qiao's tent, and each moved a small bench to knead. Guazi chatted mostly about future life, and everyone’s faces were filled with happiness and expectation.

Some villagers also stopped going out to work and were waiting with these women to see if reeling was difficult.

Maybe they will learn it faster than these women who were selected first? Then they can also be Qiao Ran's good helpers!

More than a dozen people were sitting in the open space chatting. As soon as they saw the carriage coming back, everyone stood up and looked longingly at Qiao Ran who was driving the carriage.

"Sister Ran, are you back? I have selected some handy sisters-in-law and aunts, can you take a look?"

Seeing the carriage stop, Wu Qianqian took the lead to greet it.

Qiao Ran raised her eyes and looked at the people she pointed at. Sure enough, they were all village women who usually worked more efficiently, including Mrs. Qin, Widow Zhao, and Li Daqiang's daughter-in-law.

Qiao Ran nodded with satisfaction: "Well, that's good. Wait a minute, I'll put things away first, and then I'll let Granny Huang teach everyone how to reel silk."

Zheng Huiniang and Lin Guizhen also came over, and Lin Guizhen helped lead the horse to graze by the stream.

Zheng Huiniang said: "Ranran, the hot water has been boiled, using two stoves from our house and Wu's house."

"Okay, thank you, mother!"

Qiao Ran helped the old man off the carriage, and then moved the two silk reeling carts down.

Everyone hurried forward to help. Everyone was at a loss and quickly moved the two reeling cars to two similar furnaces and placed them.

Two baskets of silkworm cocoons were also brought over, as well as a bench of a suitable height, and Granny Huang was helped to sit on it.

Everyone looked at Granny Huang eagerly. Although Granny Huang had been working as a silk reeler for most of her life, she was still a little nervous and her hands were shaking when facing the eager eyes of so many people.

"Grandma Huang, don't be nervous. I will show you how you used to reel silk. It doesn't matter if you are a little unfamiliar at first. You can do it a few times. These cocoons are for everyone to practice. Don't be afraid of wasting it. Yes. Tell us what needs attention."

Qiao Ran comforted the old woman, and her words calmed down Grandma Huang's heart a little.

Thinking that those fifty taels of white money were more than what she had earned from working as a silk reeler for several years, so that she could fulfill her wish and send her great-grandson to the church. She made up her mind that she must spend most of her life. Hand over all your thoughts.

She calmed down, adjusted the position of the silk reeling car, and directed her grandson to pour the complete cocoons in the bamboo basket into the pot of hot water.

After the silkworm cocoons were cooked in hot water, Granny Huang picked up a small hand-held broom and swept the cocoons a few times, and some silk stuck to the small broom.

Granny Huang demonstrated and explained the steps:

"The first step in reeling silk is to pick out the silk thread. That's it. Use the thread broom to sweep the surface of the silkworm cocoon and pick out the silk thread, which is called thread thread."

"The second step is to sort out the messy silk on the surface of the cocoon."

Then, she used her old wrinkled hands to pick up the silk from several cocoons from the silk threads stuck on the small broom.

"This step is called gathering threads. The threads of several silkworm cocoons are gathered together, led out through the axis hole, and then passed through this..."

Granny Huang operated step by step and explained bit by bit.

It can be seen that although Granny Huang has not done this job for several years, she is not too unfamiliar. Perhaps because she has done it for too many years and too many times, she has formed an instinct and firmly It was engraved in her mind, and as soon as she touched it, her previous skills were awakened.

A group of women watched and listened very seriously.

This is a rare skill to learn. The master Qiao Ran paid for it and let them learn it for free. Naturally, they will not miss this rare opportunity. They wish they could learn it immediately after Granny Huang taught them. Don't learn it in vain. After one game, he still knows nothing.