After buying grain and meat, a few people went to the cloth village again. It is said to be a cloth village, but in the winter, when every household will buy thick clothes, they will also sell cotton and needlework.

Today, the business in the store is not bad, and the people in the town and nearby villages are taking advantage of the New Year to buy cloth for the adults and children in the family to make new clothes. There are also those who work outside all the year round, and they will also buy some good materials for their mother-in-law and children.

So at this moment, the coarse cloth counter is a little deserted, and there is not even a buddy.

Lin Baoru didn't need to be entertained by his buddies, so he just pulled Wang to the coarse cloth counter. She had little experience in making cotton clothes, so she could only ask Wang: "Mother, our family has cotton clothes, how many feet of cloth and a few catties of cotton do we have to buy?" ”

Wang also knew her daughter's plans, she hesitated for a moment and said: "Mother won't do it, I will make you two more decent ones, and then buy some ...... for your brother and two sisters."

As she spoke, her eyes began to redden. The daughter has now exchanged marriage letters with the Liu family, although the date has not been agreed, but it is a sure thing. She can't wait to give all her heart to her daughter to make up for her own sins.

Lin Baoru knew the knot in Wang's heart, but she couldn't persuade her, even if she wanted to persuade her, she didn't know what to say.

"Don't keep thinking about me and the Liu family, let's not talk about whether there is a turnaround, there is no possibility of turnaround, and this family affair is not necessarily bad." Lin Baoru pulled Wang to the edge of the counter, and said with a smile while looking at the coarse cloth, "It is said that the young master of the Liu family is not in tune, and he is a bastard, but Aunt Lu, who helped us specifically inquire about the inside story, said that he walked dogs and cockfights and teased the master." But if he really said anything that hurt the heavens and the great evil, didn't he never do it? ”

"Although he is a gentleman and a joke in the eyes of many people, maybe he is just a little willful." Lin Baoru saw that Wang's face was depressed and seemed to want to say something, so she had to look at her solemnly and said, "Mother, I have survived the days in the old Lin family. I'm not even afraid of my grandmother and aunt, who have been bullying us all the time, and I and my sisters are going to fight, kill, and sell, so can I be afraid of a bastard who can't do things until now? ”

"But my mother is uncomfortable." Wang smashed his heart, and his voice was a little choked.

Lin Baoru knew that the Wang family could listen to these words to some extent, so he smiled and continued to comfort: "He took someone to his grandmother's house to make such a scene, but he didn't involve me, and he still cares about the woman's name and decency, so he shouldn't be a bad person in his heart." Besides, if it's true, he can be regarded as kind to us, didn't the drama say that he promised to repay the favor with his body? ”

If it weren't for Liu Shulai's troubles during the day yesterday, the Liu family and the Zhang family were reined in, and the Lao Lin family lost face in the village, maybe the separation at night would not be so smooth.

Besides, what he did did did make the second room feel happy.

"Okay, okay, so many people, crying and crying makes people laugh."

Lin Baoru was so talkative, and finally coaxed Wang to smile, "You are intimate when you are young, and you will come to persuade your mother at this time." ”

The two of them picked up the fabric, but they didn't notice that Lin Mancang's swarthy face had a bad look.

"Little brother, come and help us pull a few pieces of cloth and get a few catties of cotton......"

Lin Baoru was in a good mood, but unfortunately the guy who had just been idle didn't care about her deal.

The guy glanced at Lin Baoru and the others, and saw that they were all wearing old clothes, and they couldn't see that the clothes were worn. He said in his heart that these people must only be poor peasant households, and even if they buy them, they don't get more than a dozen pennies, and they are not as expensive as buying a foot on the satin counter. So, the guy just pretended not to see it, and turned his head to greet the others again.

Lin Baoru couldn't help frowning when she saw this, she didn't know whether to enter this shop or not. Later, I saw that there were so many people in this shop, and many of them were people who looked like farmers, so I thought that the fabrics and things in the shop should be affordable.

But I didn't think that when I came to buy something, I was cold-eyed.

But she didn't get angry, first, it was useless to be angry in this situation, and second, she really didn't have the capital to be angry.

"Forget it, mother, big brother, let's go to another house to have a look." With silver in her hand, she still doesn't believe that she can't buy something that is kind to her heart, and she doesn't buy anything like dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

Just as she pulled the Wang family and beckoned Lin Mancang outside, she heard a laughing voice coming from inside the curtain in the counter.

"Girl, stay." A slightly chubby middle-aged man opened the curtain and came in, "It's our guy who is ignorant, don't be annoyed, how about I measure your size myself?" ”

Lin Baoru glanced at the man who came out, only to see him looking at this side with a smile, and the young man on the side was also a little pale, and he guessed the identity of the person who came.

"I don't know how to sell these coarse cloths?" Lin Baoru saw that her mother had not made up her mind to buy cloth, and even showed a hesitant look, so she simply looked at the shopkeeper and asked.

The shopkeeper squinted and smiled: "These coarse cloths look rough, but they are actually mixed with cotton, and they are also very soft to wear. Soft. ”

The shopkeeper said while introducing: "The cloth here is 30 yuan a zhang, and the color is 35 yuan and 1 zhang." Look, how much do you want? ”

Lin Baoru touched the cloths, and it was really as the shopkeeper said, it looked inconspicuous, but it felt rough and soft. It's just that the price is much more expensive than she expected, she originally thought that according to the price of buying meat, a zhang of cloth would cost more than ten yuan, but she didn't know that it would cost thirty yuan.

She hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Is there an ordinary coarse cloth?" Or cheaper, I want more. ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he didn't show any contemptuous expression, touched his chin and thought about it, and then said: "There is a horse and a half cloth in the treasury, which is not inferior to the girl's hand, but it was stained when it was transported. If the girl is interested, I will let the girl take it out, and if the girl wants to see it, then I will make the decision to give the girl ten cents cheaper! ”

This price is not unattractive. People, the Wang family even had the heart to agree to come down.

It's just that Lin Baoru didn't nod easily, she grabbed Wang's arm, stopped Wang's move to step forward, and said with a smile: "I wonder if we can take a look at the cloth first?" ”

No matter how excited she is, she has to know what color the cloth is, what stains it is, and whether it will affect her wear.

If it were herself, it would be easy to say, but for the sensitive mind. A new dress may be the last gift they dare to look forward to in a few years. If the clothes have stains that can't be removed, then the surprise is greatly reduced.

Maybe, if you run into the eldest aunt Zhang, you will be ridiculed!

She thinks carefully and speaks loudly. generous, without the slightest cowardice and shame of bargaining.

The shopkeeper didn't feel displeased because she had a lot of eyes, but just smiled: "That's natural, and I can't let you buy things blindly." As he spoke, he turned his head and shouted at the guy who had just given Lin Baoru a cold face at the satin counter, "Junzi, go to the library and take out the stained cloth that was sent from the south before." ”

The young man saw that he had just looked down on the person, and he was talking to the shopkeeper very lively at this time, and his heart was already up and down. Now that he listened to the shopkeeper's orders, he dared to slack off, and ran to the backyard as soon as he slipped away.

Junzi came back quickly, and Xu was worried that he wouldn't have enough to get, so he simply hugged all the unsellable cloth left in the library.

"Shopkeeper, this girl, these are the cloth ...... on our counter."

Lin Baoru didn't mention the guy's previous attitude, and she didn't blame the guy for being slighted.

The reality is pressing, now she just wants to buy high-quality and cheap cloth and cotton, so why bother to regenerate right and wrong for a guy?

If she had enough money to spare, she might have counted better, but now she really didn't have that kind of thought.

The coarse cloth was brown and dark gray, and there were many oil stains and blood stains on it for some reason, and no one noticed when they rubbed it, so that the same position of the whole cloth was penetrated.

Probably because of this, the cloth that can't be cleaned can't be sold. After all, whoever is willing to cut a good piece of cloth into small pieces is not enough to make a belly pocket. What's more, there are old blood stains on it, which is also a bit unlucky.

The shopkeeper saw that she looked down and didn't say a word, so he explained: "This blood is pig blood, a few days ago, the warehouse was cleared, and the store put this cloth in the yard, but it turned out that the butcher shop sent the freshly slaughtered pork over, and the butcher guy was not careful, and put the meat on the side of the cloth, and the blood that oozed out made the cloth even dirtier......

There is a bit of truth in these words, Lin Baoru doesn't know. However, since he could say so, he took the initiative to take out the cloth and buy it, thinking that it was not human blood left behind for evil.

She looked at the stains of oil and rust-colored blood, and thought to herself.

"Shopkeeper, we'll all have these stained cloths. Then I had to work with the shopkeeper to help me pull a seven-foot brown coarse cloth, a six-foot blue background with white flowers, two four-foot white foundations, and a two-and-a-half-foot black background red cloth. She took a turnaround step, looked at the dark gray and turquoise material on the side, and said, "Five feet each." ”

"If you don't bother, find me a softer white cloth." Lin Baoru was not shy and twisted, and reported the brain he planned to add.

The shopkeeper obviously didn't expect her to ask for so much, and while beckoning the guy to help with the cutting, he asked like a homely: "Girl, is this going to be used for quilts?" ”

"Well, I wonder if the shopkeeper is here to make cotton clothes and quilts?"

The shopkeeper obviously didn't expect her to ask like this, and couldn't help but wonder: "Do it on your behalf?" ”

Lin Baoru nodded and explained: "Just like my family is in a hurry, or when I need to buy a new bedding but I don't want to afford the finished product, it is common to find someone to help with needlework." If you have someone here who can do it for you, then we can save some trouble......"

When the shopkeeper heard this, his eyes lit up. If he was just a little polite just now, then there was a little more warmth in his tone now.

"We don't have it in our store now, but the mother-in-law and younger siblings at home are idle, if the girl is not in a hurry to pick it up today, I will let someone help do it?"

Lin Baoru heard that there was no agent in the store, so she didn't mention it again. In fact, she also asked casually, after all, in her previous life, many home textile stores in the mall provided customized quilt business. And she doesn't know how to be a female celebrity, and she wants to add thick clothes and thick quilts to the family as soon as possible, so she has this question.

"If not, then don't bother you. Do the math, how much do these objects cost? Lin Baoru asked in a good mood.

The shopkeeper glanced at the things on the counter, fiddled with the abacus a few times, and said: "This dirty piece of cloth is six zhang, and the normal one is one hundred and eighty wen, and now I count the girl as one hundred and twenty wen." These flower cloths, one hundred and eighteen texts. You asked for a total of fifty catties of cotton, so I will give you another three catties of cotton, which should be one or two or four dollars and twenty-five ......."

As the sound of the abacus in his hand fell, he quoted the final price, "Girl, these have to be a total of one or two six dollars and sixty-three yuan." ”

These plus the copper plates used to buy grain and vegetables before, calculated that there was not much left of the two taels of silver that had just arrived and had not yet warmed up.

However, since the Wang family responded to his daughter, he would never regret it again, so even if he was reluctant in his heart, he still gritted his teeth and paid for it.

Lin Baoru looked at the fabric and cotton wrapped by the guy, and was a little worried for a while. She also planned to buy some food and bones later, and it would be a bit difficult to hold so many things.

When the shopkeeper saw her appearance, he hurriedly said: "Our house is also an old store, if the girl buys something else, just go, come and inform me in a while, and I will ask the guy to send you to the place where you are going." ”

"Then thank you to the shopkeeper." Lin Baoru spoke, paused, and asked as if unintentionally, "I don't know if the shopkeeper has heard of the Liu family in the town?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the shopkeeper's expression was a little weird, but he was also a person who had seen a lot of wind and waves, and that expression was fleeting.

"You said that the young master of the Liu family is very famous in our town." The shopkeeper looked at the guy next to him who was settling accounts and carefully counted the needles and black threads in his hand, and immediately slapped him and said, "It takes so much effort to count so carefully, and those needles and threads are all put together, and I gave them to this girl." ”

After speaking, he smiled again: "That young master of the Liu family is a joke in the town, have you heard of the gentleman who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles and does not do his job in the play, he has more jokes than those people!" ”

"Drill dog holes, climb walls, bet the family's little house to the casino to make money, and once brought spring to the academy. Palace. Picture with incense. Yan's words book. When it came to Liu Shulai, the shopkeeper only told jokes at the time, "Until now, no one in the private school of the academy in the town, even if it is a gentleman, is willing to accept him." One is that he is too stubborn, and the other is that he is not serious at all. ”

"It's light to say that he deviates from the scriptures, last time Mrs. Liu found a distant relative to tell him about his relatives, but before he could say anything, he actually coaxed the eldest young master of the Chen family to meet him for him. After that, the daughter of his relative's family changed to marry the Chen family. ”

"This matter makes Mrs. Liu very angry."

When the two got married, they also posted a post to invite Mrs. Liu and Liu Shu to come to the door. Because of this, Mrs. Liu almost turned her face with the Chen family, and it was even more impossible to go to the banquet.

If Liu Shulai is a competitive person, it's okay, but he is not angry, not only secretly carrying Mrs. Liu to the banquet, but also drinking a lot of wine, which has become a joke for many people after dinner.

"I heard that after returning home drunk, he was taught a lesson by Mrs. Liu, and even used a stick!"

Lin Baoru's mind turned very quickly, and she frowned slightly, "Then I don't know what the relationship between Young Master Liu and the Chen family is?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't know why she asked, but although she had questions, she still said: "The relationship between Young Master Liu and the Chen family is naturally not good, but he and Chen Rong are both people who mingle in restaurants and casinos, and they are often together. ”

"Who in our town doesn't know that he is a well-known fortune boy, but there is no gambling house restaurant that does not welcome him. Naturally, serious people and academies hated to put up the doors when they saw him. ”

Xu saw that she was thinking about it, and the shopkeeper told again: "If you meet that master, it's better for the girl to stay away." If he looks down on it, it's better to fall. If he is disgusted, there will be no good fruit to eat. ”

Speaking of having no good fruit to eat, Lin Baoru thought about him taking someone to Lao Lin's house to splash dung water, although he didn't see it with his own eyes, but he was still quite happy to think about it. Of course, provided that he didn't bully himself......

Lin Baoru felt that what the shopkeeper said made people laugh, but it was not enough to say that Liu Shulai was hateful by nature.

So she couldn't help but sneer and said, "It's not easy for such a character to live so well." ”

The shopkeeper didn't understand the meaning of her words, but he also nodded, he saw that Lin Baoru didn't show a look of panic and disgust on his face, so he subconsciously put this sentence in the category of praise.

After all, in the past, when others talked about Liu Shulai, their expressions were either disdain or disgust, but they were not so kind.

In fact, where would Lin Baoru have any extraneous voices, her words were just a joke about Liu Shulai's thick skin. After all, in this dynasty with a big face, it is not easy for a person like him to be a joke all the time, but he is still living so wantonly.

She didn't think there was anything, but the shopkeeper's words frightened the Wang family enough, so that the Wang family, who had just been coaxed by Lin Baoru, regretted it again.

After the guy packed the things, Lin Mancang hugged him directly, and did not listen to the shopkeeper's advice.

After seeing the people walk away, the shopkeeper wiped a cold sweat that didn't exist on his face, and then slapped his palm heavily on the head of the young man who had just looked at Lin Baoru coldly, "You kid, you're almost in trouble!" ”

After saying that, he didn't care what the young man's expression was, and hurriedly walked to the backyard. looked at his hurried steps, but the expression on his face was inexplicably a little joyful.

"Madam, Madam......" Before the shopkeeper arrived at the living room, he said happily, "The young lady has just come to the store to buy things......