President, give me back my body!

Chapter 480 Learning Dyeing

Ever since Song Huaiyue established a relationship with Zhao Xunyu, she finally stopped pestering Ruan Yu every day, and ran to the hospital every day. After he got off work, the two had a sweet date again.

Song Huaijin was not very supportive at the beginning, but turned a blind eye later, and now began to sympathize with Zhao Xunyu.

Let’s not talk about these things first, let’s talk about Ruan Yu’s. The three new products launched by Ruan’s have been welcomed by consumers, and some noble schools want to cooperate with the company’s “Honeysuckle Vine” series to make school uniforms for the four seasons.

Ruan Yu entrusted this matter to Jiang Wen, and she devoted herself wholeheartedly to the design of the costumes for the visit of the mother of the country in June.

First, according to the skin color of the mother of the country, she chose lavender, which can show the complexion and aura.According to the body shape of the mother of the country, the skirt of the dress was adjusted to a loose style, inlaid with lace.

After completing the design draft, she began to make clothes, but she still couldn't find the lavender in her heart.

The ready-made purple is either darker, a little old, or the texture is not good.After struggling for a while, Ruan Yu decided to dye it by herself.She bought the fabric and tried it once, but found that it would smell a little after coloring, and the color was difficult to control.

When she mentioned this to Song Huaijin, the man thought for a while and said, "Why don't you use the ancient Chinese coloring techniques?"

Ruan Yu smiled wryly and said, "I've been in contact with it before, but I've only learned a little bit."

"How about it." Song Huaijin patted her hand, "I know a professional in Jiangnan, I'll ask him what he means. If possible, let's go to Jiangnan to learn dyeing tomorrow."

After a phone call, the other side learned the purpose of coming, and agreed without saying a word.The next morning, Ruan Yu and the two packed up their things and set off for Jiangnan.

Walking through a deep alley, pushing open the dilapidated wooden door, you can see a large tank full of yards.An old woman was holding a wooden stick, fiddling with the tank, and sprinkled some red powder from time to time.

Hearing the sound, the old woman raised her head, greeted with a smile, and shouted into the room: "Old man, the guest is here."

When the old man heard the words, he said with great anger: "Xiao Song, you are here."

"Grandpa Bai, Grandma Bai." Song Huaijin nodded politely, took Ruan Yu's hand and introduced, "This is my wife, and she is also the main designer of the costumes for the mother of the country's visit."

The two old men, surnamed Bai, are the seventh-generation heirs of Bai Family No.30, a dyeing family.Nowadays, with the advancement of technology and the fast pace of society, few people are willing to spend a day dyeing a piece of clothing, so the Bai family began to decline.

All the other heirs of the Bai family have changed their careers. Only Grandpa Bai still stays in Jiangnan, doing dyeing work day after day. His biggest hobby is discovering different colors.

"Grandpa Bai, Grandma Bai, hello, I'm Ruan Yu, just call me Xiao Ruan." Ruan Yu said sweetly, "I chose lavender for the clothes I designed for the mother of the country this time. But the finished fabric is not satisfactory to me. The color dyed with fuel is not satisfactory, so I want to learn ancient dyeing techniques from you."

After hearing her finish, Grandpa Bai couldn't help laughing and said, "The color made by the chemical is not very active, not as good as our natural ones."

"How do you say that?" Ruan Yu's eyes lit up slightly, and under the guidance of Grandpa Bai, the two entered the backyard.

There are colorful yarns floating in the yard, drying according to the color from light to dark.These colors are very clear, not superficial, and look full of texture.

Ruan Yu pulled a piece of purple fabric, "Grandpa Bai, I've never seen this color before."

"This is dyed with wisteria flowers." Grandpa Bai said, "We also added some grape skins, alum for coloring, lime to fix the color, and fine salt to brighten it. This is how it looks."

Ruan Yu marveled at the wisdom of the ancients. She looked carefully and suddenly stopped in front of a seemingly pure white veil.

In fact, if it wasn't for the bright sun at noon, she might easily overlook this light veil.

Its pure white is different from ordinary white. Under the sunlight, this color emits colorful and thin rays of light.Ruan Yu leaned over to check, there was no fine sand sprinkled on it, nor any sequins hidden.

Seeing this, Song Huaijin raised her eyebrows and said, "I dyed it."

A few years ago, he came to the south of the Yangtze River, walked to this place of treasure, and studied with Grandpa Bai for a period of time. He accidentally dyed this veil, which shocked the Bai family couple and pestered him to ask him how he did it.

Ruan Yu also asked, but Song Huaijin shrugged, "At that time, I threw a few kinds of plants at random, and I didn't know that it would have such an effect when dyed."

Grandpa Bai also sighed, "My wife and I have studied it for three years, and we only found out that there are perfume lilies, fluorescent sandalwood and gardenia among them. Our dyed ones are similar, but they can only glow at night."

Ruan Yu wanted to add this kind of fabric to the design, but Grandpa Tingbai said so, so she had to give up regretfully.

They stayed in the backyard for a long time, and Ruan Yu studied with Grandpa Bai for a while, while Grandma Bai made lunch and came out to call the three of them.

"Eat first, and you will have the energy to study when you are full."

Ruan Yu came back to her senses, smelled the aroma of the rice, and then felt hungry, and said with a smile: "Grandma Bai cooks herself, we are lucky today."

Before coming here, Song Huaijin had specifically said that Grandma Bai used to be the chef of Tianxiangzhai, and after meeting Grandpa Bai, she resigned and moved to Jiangnan.

As soon as Ruan Yu entered the room, she heard a strange welcome voice, "The guest is here, the guest is here."

"This is the parrot raised by Grandpa Bai. It's called Duoduo." Song Huaijin didn't know what to think, and said in a low voice, "It's very courageous."

Surprised, Duoduo answered Ruan Yu's question with his actions.It flew around the room, landed on Song Huaijin's shoulder, poked his head, and said pointedly: "Smelly man, I'm hungry."

Grandpa Bai laughed, "Duo Duo has a great memory, I still remember you after so long."

Hearing his master boasting about himself, Duoduo flew around twice happily, shouting "stinky man" incessantly.

Ruan Yu laughed, "How did you mess with it before?"

"When Huaijin came here before, we just raised Duoduo." Grandma Bai explained with a smile, "Duoduo is afraid of strangers, so he often attacks Huaijin. At that time, he said a stinky bird angrily, and Duoduo remembered it."

"At that time we also raised a bird named Jiaojiao. Jiaojiao really liked Huaijin and kept pestering him. Duoduo thought that Huaijin had kidnapped Jiaojiao, so he attacked him." Grandpa Bai laughed, " Jiaojiao protects Huaijin, and Duoduo poked off a few feathers!"

In their narration, the scene of two birds fighting alone was vividly presented to Ruan Yu.She looked at the man jokingly, raised her eyebrows and said, "I didn't expect you to be welcomed by female parrots."

Song Huaijin shrugged, looked at Duoduo who was circling around Ruan Yu, "Each to each other."

After tapping Duoduo's head, Ruan Yu asked again, "By the way, where is Jiaojiao?"

Grandpa Bai sighed, "Jiaojiao left two years ago, but the lifespan of the color-changing bird is not long, Duoduo is considered to be old and dead."

After hearing this, Ruan Yu immediately grasped the key point.

"Color-changing bird?"