Chapter 21: You Rascal
Leaving Xiangmanlou, Xiao Ding's mind seemed to be still echoing with Han Luer's happy and crisp laughter, which lasted for a long time......
Counting the fifty taels of silver in the county government, Xiao Ding now has seventy taels of silver in his arms. Although it is more than half of the two hundred taels expected when the list was announced. But after Xiao Ding figured it out, he didn't care about it anymore. After all, even the silver in his hand now has greatly exceeded his expectations when he came.
Xiao Ding decided to go to Beicheng to find a blacksmith shop to build a weapon for self-defense, and at the same time, he also disposed of the rags that Zhao Laixi was holding by the way.
When passing by Luoxia Temple, Xiao Ding saw five or six beggars squatting in the corner outside the temple gate.
Beggars beg outside the temple gate, firstly because there are more people who come to the temple to offer incense, secondly because most of the people who come to offer incense are kind-hearted people, and thirdly because the monks of the monastery will not easily drive them away.
It seems that there is really a way for each to live, and everyone has their own way of life.
Xiao Ding asked Zhao Laixi to distribute all the tattered clothes that he had stolen from the thieves to the beggars. I was so happy that the beggars thanked them again and again, and what they said was some nice New Year's greetings.
In this era, there is no fake beggar who "becomes a beggar in front of people and drives a BMW behind people" in later generations. Seeing that winter was approaching, the beggars were very happy to be able to get some rags to protect themselves from the cold.
"I said, big brother, we might as well not grab these clothes, and we walked such a long way, but we didn't get a penny." Zhao Laixi complained.
"It's still a robbery. Who told them to become bandits if they didn't learn well, we didn't have time to send them to the government to punish them, but we also had to punish them a little. Xiao Ding said solemnly.
After finding the blacksmith shop, Xiao Ding used a few firewood knives and kitchen knives he snatched from the thieves to exchange them for a fairly sharp dagger, which made the blacksmith happy. Everyday tools are naturally easier to sell than weapons, and Xiao Ding only exchanged several iron tools for a dagger.
In this era, iron-making technology was limited, and iron ore resources were also limited, so iron tools were relatively valuable items. It is difficult for an ordinary blacksmith to make good iron. Unless you are a master refining and have high-quality refining materials in your hands, you can create a good divine weapon.
It was not too early to come out of the blacksmith's shop. Xiao Ding thought about the things he needed at home, and there were really a lot of them. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, daily necessities, there is nothing at home, and it is impossible to buy all of them at once.
Because there are more things to buy, and there are a lot of roads to walk, when passing by the carriage and horse shop, Xiao Ding ignored Zhao Laixi's obstruction, and spent eight taels of silver to buy a donkey cart inside, which also has a roof, and it will not be drenched when it rains.
Xiao Ding originally wanted to buy a horse-drawn carriage or ox cart, but later felt that the road leading from the county seat to Luoxia Village was mostly a mountain road, and the car was too big and might not be easy to walk. And the ox cart and horse-drawn cart were almost twice as expensive as the donkey cart, so he chose to buy the donkey cart. I thought that there were still a lot of things to buy today, and I didn't know the market, so I didn't know how much silver I would spend in the end. When you make money later, it's not too late to change to a bigger car.
With a car, it's much easier to get shopping. There were not many people on the street in the afternoon, and the two soon came to a large cloth house. Xiao Ding planned to buy a few clothes for himself and his family first, the clothes worn by these people in the Tian family were too tattered, and they didn't know how many years they had been worn and how many patches they had patched.
When he entered the cloth, the man didn't even bother to raise his eyes when he saw what the two of them were wearing. At first glance, they are two poor sour ghosts, at most they can buy some rags and go home to make do with sewing some torn clothes to wear, and they can't make a lot of money. He has seen a lot of such poor ghosts.
This cloth shop is not small, it not only sells cloth, but also sells finished clothes, hats, shoes and socks, pillows and bedding, curtains, mosquito nets, bed sheets and towels, etc., almost all commonly used cloth products in life, are sold here.
Xiao Ding first asked himself and Zhao Laixi for two sets of ready-to-wear clothes, a cotton robe for wearing when going out; A set of linen jackets to wear while working at home. Then they were given two sets of cotton underwear, two pairs of booties and socks.
When the Bu Yu guy saw that Xiao Ding and the others actually chose cotton clothes, they immediately changed their faces, and began to come over and help introduce them with a smile.
Xiaoding also selected two sets of underwear and underwear for Tian Dabao and Tian Xiaofu, both of which were cotton fabrics. Although cotton cloth is not as gorgeous as satin material, it is more comfortable to wear on the body, and the price is slightly cheaper than satin.
There are also several women's clothes to buy at home, and Xiaoding is a little worried. A man's clothes, he can judge them roughly by comparing himself and Zhao Laixi's figures. But at home, Li's, Xiaoya, Xiao'e, Erniu, and Xiaozhu are all much thinner, and Xiaoding doesn't know which size to buy, and he doesn't know what to pay attention to when buying a woman's dress.
Also, he thought of the second girl he saw last night that the belly pocket was also full of patches, and such clothes must be uncomfortable to wear. It can be seen from this that the underwear of several women in the family also needs to be changed.
Xiao Ding was standing in the women's clothing area and was hesitating to buy a dress, when suddenly he caught a glimpse of a red shadow out of the corner of his eye.
Xiao Ding turned his head to look and saw a girl wearing a red silk pleated satin skirt also choosing clothes in the women's clothing area.
This girl Xiaoding looked a little familiar, and she couldn't remember where she had seen it for a while. Seeing that she is a year or two older than Xiao'e, but she looks healthier and more beautiful than Xiao'e, and her body development is better than Xiao'e's. So I thought about it, it would be better to use her as a reference to choose dresses for the girls in the family.
So he looked at the girl a few times, then chose a Luo skirt, and then looked at the girl a few times, and then chose a belly pocket......
After choosing a few clothes, when he turned his head to look again, he suddenly saw that the girl had come to his side at some point.
The girl stared at a few women's dresses and belly pockets held by Xiao Ding in her left hand, and then looked at a piece of women's pants with a cigarette yarn that Xiao Ding was holding in her right hand, her face was slightly red, and then she raised her hand to slap her, and scolded in her mouth: "You stinky rascal!" Then he turned around and walked out with a grunt.
Xiao Ding covered his left face and looked at the girl's back blankly, and said in his heart, what a brutal woman! Listen to the girl's accent, with a slight Sichuan and Shu accent. He suddenly remembered, isn't this girl the girl who sprayed tea in the fragrant building? But why did he beat me?
Xiao Ding looked at the dirty pants in his hand, and they were actually open crotch. raised his eyes and glanced at the clothes rack again, and found that the women's pants of this era were all open crotch, and the materials were very light and thin.
Xiao Ding had an epiphany, no wonder the girl would beat herself, she was a big man, looking at other girls, choosing the clothes and pants that women wear, and it was strange that she was not regarded as a hooligan!
Xiao Ding hurriedly glanced around the store, and saw that there were not many customers in the store at this time, only three or five, most of them were gathered around the cloth, and it seemed that they wanted to buy cloth. Zhao Laixi was still guarding the counter and waiting for him with the clothes he had picked out before.
Fortunately, not many people see their troubles! Xiao Ding quickly selected two sets of inner and outer clothes and pants for each of the girls in the family, plus shoes and socks. Except for two sets of smaller sizes for Xiaozhu, the rest were selected according to the figure of the girl just now.
Back at the counter, Xiao Ding was worried that the clothes he had chosen for his family would not fit, so he bought two more cotton and one linen. Women in this era have learned to do needlework since childhood, and it will be more fitting to buy fabrics and go back to make their own clothes.
Then Xiao Ding selected a few more quilts, according to the number of people in the family, including Zhao Laixi and his wife, a total of nine quilts. He also thought that it was late autumn at this time, and it was about to enter winter, and the weather would be cold at that time, and there would be no cotton clothes at home, so he bought a lot of cotton and prepared to use it to make cotton clothes to wear in winter.
When the bill was settled and the guy calculated the amount of money, Xiao Ding was taken aback!