Chapter Twenty-Seven: Uncle Liu
After being a poor peasant girl for five years, she was finally able to make a big move.
Even if none of them were for himself, Liu Chenxing was interested in buying them.
The thrill of spending money shopping is indescribably good.
However, the heavy ten catties of money really looks like a lot, and it sounds even more amazing, but in fact, it is not spent at all.
No way, who makes everything they buy an ancient luxury?
A good piece of paper costs three articles, which is naturally impossible to buy, so I buy the cheapest one, which is yellow and rough. It's not cheap, a hundred pieces of coarse paper cost sixty wen, enough to eat twenty bowls of mutton soup.
Then there is the brush, which is also the most ordinary kind, and it costs twenty wen for one tube.
Ink, fifteen wen, but only one or two, or not even strips of ink ingots, just a pile of black fragments.
Finally, there is the inkstone, of course, the inkstone is indispensable, and you can't use your fingers to stir toner to make your hands black, so I bought an inkstone, and I want to buy an inkstone.
At this time, most of the inkstones were made of pottery, which belonged to handicrafts, and the price could be imagined.
Think of a stoneware bowl, it costs thirty wen.
An inkstone is not expensive compared to an inkstone, one hundred and eighty Wen.
Therefore, at this time, reading is a luxury, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are all bought, and they are still the cheapest inferior goods, with a total of 275 Wen.
The rest of the money is not custom-made clothes, the tailor outside will cost 500 wen to make a men's robe, Liu Chenxing decisively chose to pull the cloth, his own lady is popular, I believe that A-Niang is reluctant to spend money to make clothes outside.
A better quality silk costs 500 wen a horse, a horse is 1 foot 8 wide and 40 feet long, and it is no problem to make two sets of clothes, but now to make four sets of clothes, this money is not enough to buy silk.
Although the coarse cloth is cheap, only 100 yuan per horse, it is not much stronger than the homespun cloth woven by itself, and the color is almost off if it is washed with less than two waters, so it is better to buy it than to use your own homespun cloth.
At this time, the clothing fabric of the common people is mainly based on kudzu hemp, and there are regulations that the clothes of the common people are white and yellow, which is exactly the true color of kudzu hemp, so most of the people seen on the road are wearing white or yellow clothes. However, it is not the beginning of the founding of the country, and now they have gone through three or four emperors, and they are not as strict as the regulations at the beginning. Especially for women, the colors of their clothes are becoming more and more colorful, and they are all bright and bright. It's just a poor family, and they can't afford to wear the brightly colored silk and satin, and most of them are coarse linen clothes of their own color.
Thinking of this, Liu Chenxing gritted his teeth and bought a red coarse silk.
Liu's is less than thirty, and she is still a light mature woman in modern times, so if you don't dress up at this time, will you wait until you are seventy or eighty to dress up?
Thinking about his mother-in-law like a Jiangnan person, wearing a red Luo skirt, Liu Chenxing felt that the coarse silk of three hundred and sixty wen was really worth a thousand dollars.
As for Aya and Brother, they are both men, and the clothes don't need any fancy colors, and the white of the rotten street is enough, which saves a lot of money, and you only need to choose to wear them comfortably.
Two hundred wen a horse of muslin is just right, and if you buy two for four hundred wen, you can make four men's robes.
Aya usually has a lot of farm work, and has to do carpentry and hunting in the mountains, but it is convenient to wear short clothes and leggings, and the robe is only worn once in a while, and one is enough.
If my brother wants to go to school, he wears a robe a lot, and he needs to change at least two clothes.
Uncle Liu is also a scholar, usually wear more robes, every time he comes back from the academy over the years, he has to teach his brother, she also audited a lot, this extra robe for Uncle Liu's uncle is just right, as the so-called has come and gone.
Money is limited, but Liu Chenxing is careful and careful.
One horse of coarse silk and two pieces of fine cloth are seven hundred and sixty words.
plus the two hundred and seventy-five that bought pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, a total of thirty-five texts.
Shanzhen sold one hundred and twenty wen, half of which she picked, so it should be divided into sixty wen, and the consistent money of dendrobium flowers, a total of sixty wen.
In other words, after deducting the money to buy these, she still has thirty wen left.
Of course, the money is still in Aya's place, but in addition to the meals and the things that Grandma Liu asked her to buy, Aya's there is only one hundred and thirteen Wen left now, and the weight of one pound is almost there, and it is no problem to hide it in the waistband of Aya's clothes.
Even if there is a third aunt to watch, there is always a difference between men and women, and it is impossible for the third aunt to search Aya's body.
Ay.
A little bit of money has to be counted by the authorities.
Liu Chenxing also felt tired.
Fortunately, I finally bought what I should have bought, and I thought about the countermeasures one by one.
At this time, the sun in the sky was gradually sinking in the west, seeing that the city was about to close, Liu Qianshan carried three silk cloths and the things that Grandma Liu asked to buy, Liu Qingshan carried his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Liu Chenxing also carried her empty basket, and the father and daughter hurriedly went out of the city and returned home.
Liu Baili stepped out of the city first, and was waiting under the elm tree outside the city gate, as soon as he saw the father and son, he hurriedly beckoned them to come over, and then, as Liu Chenxing thought, he was surprised, and asked repeatedly: "Two muslin?" And this is still silk!? ”
"What is this!? Sky! A complete set of pen, ink, paper, inkstone! ”
"Didn't Ah Weng A-Niang say that there is no money? Where did you get the money for my brother to buy these? ”
It seems that she will be surprised when she guesses the Liu family, but she doesn't guess that the Liu family doesn't suspect that it is the things that their second room bought with their own money, or everyone simply thinks that it is impossible for their second room to earn money to buy these.
This is also good, so that it is convenient for them to save private houses.
Liu Chenxing was not sullen at all for being looked down upon by her family, she replied with a smile and preemptively: "Third uncle, just a pound of salt, a liter of vinegar, and half a pound of lamp oil, which Grandma asked me to buy, and I also advanced eighteen yuan!" ”
If you suffer a loss, you have to let people know.
What's more, this is also good to block the mouth of the Liu family first.
Liu Chenxing thought of a countermeasure, so he told Grandma Liu's calculation as it was, which made Liu Baili suddenly silent, with an embarrassed and embarrassed face.
Liu Chenxing didn't see it, so he explained the source of the cloth and said: "We met my uncle in the city, and my uncle's words are the same as those of my uncle, and they are praised for having everyone's style and selling for a lot of money." So I bought silk for A-Niang, and muslin for Aya and A-brother, so that they could make clothes! ”
Then he explained the source of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, "My brother has been enlightened for several years, and my uncle said that my brother is a reading material, and he hopes that my brother can read, so he specially bought this set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone for my brother." ”
After listening to Liu Chenxing's explanation, Liu Baili's suspicious eyes turned and turned on the father and daughter, and then asked: "That Liu Xiao......" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly coughed and changed his words and asked: "What about Liu Dalang?" ”
Liu Chenxing said as a matter of course: "My uncle is studying in the school, so of course he went back to the school." ”
Liu Baili was choked by the words, and then asked again, "The money from your uncle's Mobao sale is enough to buy a roast goose and a woman's ...... Small things, why did your uncle sell them for so much money? ”
Liu Chenxing replied more fluently, "Do you still need to ask?" It must be my uncle's words that are better than my uncle's! ”
Liu Baili was choked again, and saw that he couldn't ask anything, and the second brother and son avoided talking about it, and let Liu Chenxing reply to him, thinking that the second brother didn't plan to solve the puzzle, or was it really bought by Liu Xiaolang?