"Shopkeeper, what kind of cloth is this?" Someone asked about denim. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"This is called labor cloth, and it is very strong and suitable for wearing while working." Ruiqian said.

"This face is very wide, really four feet five?"

"I'll give you a measure in person, you see, four feet five inches wide, not bad at all.

"This cloth is thick, huh?"

"It's really thick and hard-wearing. It's no cure to wear it for work. ”

"Just tell me how much a foot is."

"Thirty Wen."

"You say thirty words? Are you sure it's thirty wen? ”

"Do you mean it's expensive or cheap?"

"Naturally, it's cheap, and you have to buy twenty feet for such a wide format. Just buy twenty feet, enough for the three of us brothers to make three robes. ”

"This guest officer, if you don't like to hear something, this kind of cloth is best made of pants, which is wear-resistant, and it is a bit wrong to make a robe, and it is not easy to wash."

"Then buy the fabric for three pairs of pants, but then you can sell half less."

"That's nothing, if you don't think it's appropriate to wear a robe, don't turn around and scold it for profit."

"No, no, no."

Rui Qian measured twelve feet for the guest officer, and then compared the two sides, and another guy helped cut it.

"Wouldn't you just rip it off? Where is it so strenuous? ”

"This guest officer is trying to pull it?"

The guest officer was not polite, he came up and pulled it, it was too hard to pull, and he was happy now: "The shopkeeper's character is good, he is not blind, this cloth is really strong." ”

Three days later, the guest officer came again, and brought several men of his age, all of whom had come to buy denim.

"Shopkeeper Chen, I'll make that fabric into pants when I go back, guess what? My woman wore a tailor, twelve feet of cloth made of three large men's trousers, and there were two vests left. These brothers also came to buy it because they saw it, and they caused you trouble. ”

"Polite, polite, you recommend the guests below, and I am grateful for the following."

"What's your name for this fabric?"

Ruiqian didn't dare to say that it was denim, for fear that they would misunderstand and think that they were herding cattle. I had to say: "This kind of cloth comes from afar, it is called labor cloth, it is worn for work, it is very strong, but it is not easy to rub when washing, and it has to be brushed with a brush, which is a bit troublesome." ”

"What's the trouble with this, just be sturdy."

So a few friends brought by the guest officer also bought labor cloths ranging from eight feet to ten feet, and left satisfied.

"Hurry up and go to Yulong Cloth Village to buy a new kind of fabric." Old customers who live near Ruiqian Cloth Village and often come here to buy cloth run to tell each other. This is some pure cotton cloth that Ruiqian sent to Tian Liang and Nalan after he sold out all the other fabrics sent to him. Inspired by denim, the number of people who thought that the capital of the Qing Dynasty was also the majority of ordinary people. Many of the urban poor live at the bottom of the ladder, barely making ends meet, and they have no right to enjoy it and no money to buy it. So he took out the cotton cloth he had bought from a foreign land and sold it. Of course, the three princes don't know what kind of cotton cloth there are in foreign lands, but the eldest sister understands. All kinds of cloth have various uses, and the textile method and quality are not the same. Let's say plain weave. Plain weave is woven with plain weave and is divided into coarse plain cloth, medium plain cloth and fine plain cloth. Coarse plain cloth, also known as coarse cloth, is characterized by a rough, thick, firm and durable cloth body, mainly used as clothing interlining, and it is also used as a shirt and quilt in mountainous areas, rural areas, and coastal fishing villages; The medium flat cloth is also called the city cloth, the white market cloth, which is characterized by a tight structure, a smooth and plump cloth surface, a firm texture, and a hard feel. Most of them also make shirts and quilts in mountainous villages and coastal fishing villages, and some make pants after dyeing; Fine plain cloth, also known as fine cloth, is characterized by a fine and soft cloth body, light and compact texture, and few impurities on the cloth surface. It is mostly used as a blank of bleached cloth, colored cloth and flower cloth, and is processed to make underwear, pants, summer outerwear, smocks, etc.

There is also a poplin cloth made of pure cotton or polyester-cotton fine yarn. The weaving color is divided into a variety of poplins such as hidden stripes, satin lattices, jacquard, color stripes, flashes, bleaching, variegated, and prints. It is characterized by a clean and smooth cloth surface, a fine texture, a smooth and soft luster, and a soft and smooth feel. It is mainly used as shirts, summer clothes, and pants.

Then there are hemp yarn, twill, khaki, serge, gabardine, henggong, labor cloth, oxford cloth, youth cloth, thread and other fabrics suitable for the common people. The hemp gauze has a light texture, clear stripes, is refreshing and breathable, and is comfortable to wear; Twill is mainly used as quilt lining and underwear, flower twill is used for women's and children's clothing, and large twill is used as quilt surface. Khaki, serge, gabardine all belong to the category of twill, which is used in spring and autumn clothes, windbreakers, raincoats, etc. Henggong is very similar to satin, with a smooth surface and a soft feel, and is used as spring and autumn clothes for men and women; Labor cloth is also known as strong tweed, denim, clear texture, tight texture, firm and firm, stiff feel. It is mainly used as factory work clothes, protective clothing, especially suitable for the production of jeans, women's dresses, and all kinds of children's clothing; Oxford cloth has a soft color, a soft body, good breathability, and is comfortable to wear, and is used as a shirt, pajamas, etc.; Chambray is a plain cotton fabric. Soft in color, light in texture, smooth and soft, used as shirts, underwear and duvet covers; There are many types of thread, according to the use of the object to divide the male thread, the female thread, the raw materials are not necessarily pure cotton, as well as polyester cotton, polyester viscose, polyester nitrile, etc., the representative products of the male thread are Palis, breeches, etc., the representative products of the women's thread are checkered tweed, strip tweed, jacquard tweed and silk women's tweed. It has a thick feel, firm texture and strong hair, and is used as a fabric for various outerwear and pants in spring, autumn and winter. However, the shrinkage rate is relatively large; Others such as velveteen, corduroy, flannel, crepe, seersucker, ginger, leos, glass yarn, etc. have their own characteristics. For example, crepe cloth has a light texture, natural and long-lasting wrinkles, elasticity, a refreshing feel, softness, and comfortable wearing, and can be used for all kinds of shirts, skirts, pajamas, bathrobes, and children's shirts; Seersucker is a thin cotton or polyester-cotton fabric with concave and convex bubbles. The appearance is chic, the three-dimensional sense is strong, the texture is light and thin, the wearing is not close, cool and comfortable, and there is no need to iron after washing. used as summer shirts, skirts, pajamas, etc. for women and children; Most of the patterns of strip lattice cloth are strips and lattices, with a wide variety, mainly used for summer clothes, underwear and pants, etc., and the shrinkage rate of pure cotton strip gingeze is relatively large; Leno cloth is also known as mesh cloth. Good air permeability, clear yarn holes, smooth cloth surface, and cool cloth body, used as summer clothing, shawls and mosquito nets; Glass yarn is a thin transparent fabric that comes in many types. It feels very cool, the holes are clear, transparent and breathable.

Ruiqian's Yulong Cloth Village put so many kinds of fabrics on the counter at once, and the shopkeeper and the guy don't know how many times they have to answer the customer's inquiries in a day. The features of these new products were briefly introduced on a similar lightbox advertisement at the door. In particular, there is a fear of hot characteristics, and it is not hidden at all. There are not many civilians in the Qing Dynasty who are literate, and although the product introductions are written in regular letters, most people still don't know how to read them. At this time, there were men dressed as soldiers and literate to read it in turn. If it is read by one person, I am afraid that my voice will be too hoarse to speak at the end of the day. Tian Liang discovered this drawback, and when he went back, he got a tape recorder and asked Nalan to introduce the fabric, and then handed it to Ruiqian and played it over and over again. Tian Liang installed a loudspeaker on the window of Ruiqian Buzhuang, turned on the tape recorder, and then taught his cousin how to play it, just such a thing attracted a lot of people to watch the excitement. Surrounded by a jade dragon cloth village, it seems that something big has happened here.

The young man was curious, and quietly asked the guy in the cloth shop, "Big brother, why haven't you seen anyone talking in that trumpet flower-like thing on the window?" ”

"You ask me, who do I ask? We shopkeepers don't understand. ”

"Where did you buy this baby?"

"No comment."

There are really advantages and disadvantages, everyone understands the price and characteristics of the cloth, but the horn on the window is attracted, and of course, the number of people who come to buy cloth has also increased a lot. It would not be too much to describe it as a crowd of people, crowded, and shoulder to shoulder. Ruiqian was worried that it would affect the passage of passers-by, so he led the buyers to the backyard. Anyway, there are personal soldiers and guards in the house as bodyguards, and they are not afraid of someone smashing the field.

There weren't many people on the first day, because I didn't know the news because of the far away accommodation, and on the second and third days, it would be a bit of a robbery. Tian Liang was a little scared and went back to the house to ask the prince. The prince said, "It's good to close the door." In the future, they will be sold in the same or two ways. Don't squeeze Young Master Chen, change your tactics. ”

So, dozens of plainclothes soldiers came and forcibly closed the gates. The gate reads "Temporarily closed." ”

It's easy to get stampedes, lost wallets, and women being molested when it's so crowded.

Tian Liang came up with a way to evacuate the crowd: the cloth buyers stood in line to receive the number plate, and each time they entered the cloth village according to the number, ten people bought in the cloth village, and the others sat and waited in the chair behind the cloth village. A soldier called the number to enter from the back door of the cloth village, and after buying the cloth, he went out of the store through the front door.

With such an arrangement, it will not be crowded, and the speed will be faster. It's like the people who crowd the bus in a foreign land, the more crowded they are, the slower they get on the bus. Tian Liang also had to admire that the people of the Qing Dynasty had always appeared as poor, why did all the money come out now? In fact, many of these people are preparing for marriage for the people in the family. No matter how poor and bitter you are, you can't stop getting married. Try to be as beautiful as possible. Many of these fabrics can be used to make quilts, mattresses, and clothes. Everyone knows that the wide-faced cloth of Yulong Cloth Village is strong, does not fade, can be cut, and is cheap.

Chen Ruiqian admires his cousin's resourcefulness very much, and admires the prince's quick decision. Possible stampedes and various thefts were prevented in time. Now it's not a lot of cloth sold every day, but it's not crowded at all. In addition, the purchase limit of one zhang each time makes the guys who measure the cloth a lot easier. Customers buy and go, but there are very few people in the store. After half a month of excitement, the cloth sent was almost sold out. In the future, I won't be able to send so many varieties. Experience teaches.

There are also some of the little Libu heads that are not very good in color, black, black gray, gray and gray, of course, they are still very strong. The prince told Tian Liang that these bad colors and not very easy to sell would be left for refugee clothes and beggar clothes, and the cotton ones would be left for patchwork, and the rest of the cloth would be sold as soon as it was new. It's still that method, after inspection, cut the size and write it, and you can sell it according to the quality price.

Fu Jin told the prince that the people in the house have opinions, except for those who eat the emperor's grain and the monthly rate is high, the others are also civilian families, and they are embarrassed to say that they want to buy the cloth in the house. We also have to take care of the people in front of us. ”

Tian Liang blushed: "My subordinates really didn't think of this, and I didn't think about it." ”

"Where is your responsibility? It is the king who cares about one thing and loses the other. The people in the house should also take care of it. In fact, these cloth heads cannot be regarded as real cloth heads, they are genuine cloths bought with the capital of cloth heads, so set up a domestic store in the house and sell some to the people in the house. Everyone is busy all day long, how can they have the time to go out and walk on the street? Do you have things in your house and let everyone buy them outside? You and Nalan Zhang Luo. ”

"Huh."

In the afternoon of the next day, a variety of exotic traditional fabrics were displayed on the counters of the domestic sales store opened in Fushang Yimen, and men, women, and children from all courtyards came to see the new fabrics. Because there were many varieties of cloth and there was no cloth in the Qing Dynasty, no one knew what the fabric was used for, so the literate soldiers read the notice to everyone, and someone immediately bought it. Especially those whose family is more difficult, they take care of those sturdy cloths. If the relatives want to buy it in advance, they will say hello to the head of Tian or the head of Nalan, and then the number plate will be issued by Nalan, and the people in the house will bring the relatives into the house. Buy cloth with a license plate, and you are not allowed to enter the inner house. The fabric was bought at the domestic store at the Yimen location, and then sent out of the gate by relatives in the house, so as to prevent bad people from sneaking into the house. Making money is important, but safety is even more important.

The girl took the seersucker she bought to Fu Jin to show off, and Fu Jin also wanted to buy it, but he was embarrassed to come forward. The beard said, "If you want to buy something, just tell the beard, and the beard will come forward and buy it for you." ”

She didn't get any license plates, so she directly said to Tian Liang: "It was Fujin who asked me to buy it for her." ”

Nothing else, even if she was an impostor, she had to sell it to her.

At the beginning, everyone was still a little stunned, knowing that the fabric in the house was good, and they were afraid that the prince and the two Fujin would have an opinion: if they see a bargain, they will go up. Later, when I saw that Mama Fucha and Mama Wu Ya in Fujin's room and Mama Zhou and Mama Zhang in Master Yun's room all went to buy them, they were still Mrs. Xuan, so they came to buy them. In fact, Fujin let the mustache, bun, fish, and water take the lead.

Then someone quietly asked Mama Zheng if they could help their relatives buy some cloth and things for those little women? Fujin said yes, and Yun'er also said yes, but it had to be bought, and no one could bring anyone into the house.

Gradually, the girls and grandmothers in the house are not so timid, they can buy whatever they want, and they can buy whatever they like, as long as they don't spend their monthly money, because any goods in the house are not on credit. Several masters don't want to pay this foundation, and it will be a trouble to ask for accounts in the future. I don't care if it's shallow, but if I'm in a hurry, I'll offend people. They have learned the lesson of not playing white in foreign lands, anyway, the goods will not be unsold, it is just a matter of time or time, so why bother to make trouble for yourself? It was originally my own thing, and I still asked my grandfather to sue my grandmother?

Word of the domestic store gradually spread outside the house, and many residents in the neighborhood wanted to buy things in the house. They thought that the inside of the house must be cheaper than the outside. But it doesn't work from Tian Liang. For the sake of safety, this opening cannot be opened. A light box billboard was erected in the archway a few zhang away from the gate of the palace, and people who bought goods were invited to buy it at the Nalan Department Store on Front Street, and the price was the same. The palace is the palace, not a folk courtyard that anyone can enter if they want to. (To be continued.) )