Traveling through time with a house, I teach people all over the country how to farm

Chapter 516: Making Clothes with Duck Feathers

At the same time, Zheng Sisi had also returned to the Princess's Mansion.

On the other hand, the third prince, in accordance with Zheng Sisi's request, was taking Zheng Zhiyuan and Zhong Ruiyu to look for a suitable store to open a hot pot restaurant.

As early as the summer, they had already discussed it, so the requirements for the store were simple - the store must be large.

However, it is not easy to find a large store in the capital nowadays. After all, most of the stores on the main streets are open for business, and people will not use their status to force others to transfer their stores, so they can only look for a store in a slightly more remote street.

"I think as long as it's a store opened by Sister Sisi, it will be very popular no matter how remote the place is. So we don't need to consider whether the location of the store is on the main street, we just need to find a store that is large enough." This is Zhong Ruiyu's real thought.

It was precisely because of this mysterious confidence in Zheng Sisi that they finally found three connected shops two streets away from Yuyan Beauty Salon.

After some discussion, it was decided to connect all these stores during the renovation, which would form a fairly large storefront.

After deciding on the location, Zheng Sisi gave the three people the drawings of the supplies and utensils needed to open a hot pot restaurant and asked them to find craftsmen to make them according to the drawings. These supplies included tables and chairs, clay stoves, pots and pans, and even small items such as colanders and saucers.

When Zhong Ruiyu got the picture of the colander, he couldn't help but feel very surprised: "Sister Sisi, what kind of utensil is this? It's full of holes. What is its use?"

Zheng Sisi immediately understood what he was asking about, but she did not answer directly. Instead, she smiled mysteriously and said, "You can experience it slowly by yourself."

Zhong Ruiyu studied the blueprint for a long time, but still couldn't understand the specific purpose of the colander. The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. He kept thinking about it.

Seeing Zhong Ruiyu so obsessed with the purpose of the colander, Zheng Zhiyuan couldn't help but patted his shoulder with a smile and comforted him: "Don't think about it! Wait until the thing is ready, and you will know once you try it."

After hearing this, Zhong Ruiyu was still a little unwilling, but he had to put aside his doubts for the time being.

In the next few days, they were busy running around outside, purchasing the necessary supplies.

The preparations for their new store not only brought hope to themselves, but also boosted the income of some people living around the capital.

Among them, the customization of exquisite small bamboo colanders aroused the interest of the surrounding people and set off a weaving craze.

Zheng Sisi herself was teaching the cook how to make bone soup and red soup, and carefully prepare various sauces and seasonings.

Due to the shortage of staff in the kitchen, she had to find Zhou Yapo again and buy a group of people who were good at cooking. The waiters were recruited nearby because they would not be exposed to the core recipe of hot pot.

After more than 20 days of hard work, all the preparations were finally completed. During this period, Zheng Sisi also took time to go to the cloth shop to do an important thing.

As the temperature gradually dropped, Zheng Sisi suddenly realized that there was still a problem that needed to be solved.

It turned out that the duck feathers prepared by several food shops when they killed ducks had not been properly processed. So, during the interval between the decoration of the shops, she took time to go to the cloth shops and teach the embroiderers how to use duck feathers to make winter clothes.

The owner of the cloth shop had long known that the princess had asked them to wash and dry the duck feathers collected from each branch. Now the duck feathers had piled up like a mountain, filling up two warehouses.

However, she never expected that the princess actually made clothes with duck feathers!

Zheng Sisi patiently taught them to sort the duck feathers, remove the coarse parts, and then cut off the fluffy parts, leaving only the finest and softest parts. In this way, the duck feathers can be used to make warm and comfortable winter clothes.

Next, they put the duck feathers into water with alum and boiled them, repeating this process many times. They then added flower petals and spices and boiled them together until the duck feathers had no fishy smell at all, then took them out and dried them in the sun.

Since the down used are all fine fluff, which is very light and will fly away with the slightest wind, Zheng Sisi deliberately covered them with gauze, resulting in a lot of duck down being dried in the backyard of the cloth shop. The embroiderers would turn them over with sticks at irregular intervals every day, and after drying them for several days, they would start to teach everyone how to make clothes.

She spent a lot of time in the cloth shop carefully selecting the fabric, which made the shopkeeper and the embroiderer very surprised. They all suggested using Hangzhou silk, believing that it was the best, softest and the most favorite fabric among the nobles in the capital.