Chapter 229: How much is underwear worth?
Du Mei looked at her slender and white neck a little unbearable, it was not easy for them to live, and Huayan was living in the cracks, and it was like walking on thin ice.
"Sister Hua, if underwear can really help you, I'll make it for you." Du Mei patted her thin shoulder and comforted.
"Really?" Huan Yan raised his face, and his eyes were shining.
"Just one point, this underwear is worn close-fitting, and it needs to be measured close-up, are you willing?" Du Mei didn't know about her past, and asked tentatively.
"I'm so familiar with you, it's okay, it's just ......" Hua Yan wanted to speak and stopped, as if there was something unspeakable.
"What's wrong?" Du Mei frowned and asked when she saw her slurping.
"Meizi, I have a few sisters who have a good time, they also want to make underwear, but they are not familiar with you, I am afraid that they will ...... by then." Hua Yan looked up at Du Mei and said hesitantly.
In order to keep her benefactors, the girls of Chunxiang Pavilion are not beaten and scolded by the bustard, and they don't mind being touched by Du Mei, but those high-ranking and reserved ladies will definitely not be willing to untie their clothes in front of outsiders.
"I don't have a good idea for the time being, after all, it's close to the body." Du Mei was a little embarrassed.
If Deng is willing to help, with her more than ten years of experience in tailoring, she may be able to use the visual method, but now it is still undecided whether she can come, so Du Mei does not dare to agree casually.
"They don't care for now, you can measure it for me first." Hua Yan said a little shyly.
Undressed the coat, measured the size, and chose the pattern and fabric. Du Mei couldn't help but beg her again and again, so she had to make it for her first.
Du Mei has also made a lot of underwear before and after, and her skills are becoming more and more proficient, and she has already made a prototype of underwear when Huayan is talking and drinking tea, and because Huayan is beside her, she let her try it once.
The underwear looks like a vest, but the dress is still very particular, Du Mei personally helped her, which made Hua Yan blush.
"It's really comfortable!" Hua Yan, who put back on her coat, whispered, and then covered her face and laughed.
"The size is just right, I'll embroider the pattern in a while, and then put some cotton, you will feel better." Du Mei took a step forward in the grasp of the size, and this time there was no need to change it, and it was done once.
"How much do you have for this?" Hua Yan looked at Du Mei's embroidery and asked casually.
"Ten taels." There were already two people asking the price today, and Du Mei didn't have a score in her heart, so she told the price quoted by Qingwu.
"Ten taels!? Meizi, you're not mistaken, produced by Luo Meixuan, as long as ten taels, aren't you afraid that the threshold will be broken? Hua Yan said in surprise.
"That'...... So how much do you say it's worth? Du Mei was frightened by her tone, ten taels is not too little, how rich the women in the imperial city are.
"It's not a question of whether it's worth it or not, it's rare and expensive, I think at the beginning, the seven little ones of the fire beaver were able to sing and sell 1,800 wen because they were unique, and now, there are still people who want to let me transfer it for 2,000 taels."
Moreover, buying Mei Xuan's objects is not only practical, but also a status symbol, which is only worth ten taels, isn't it too cheap? Hua Yan crossed her waist and stood in the middle of the room and said.
"But ......" Du Mei thought of the thrill of the night of the sale, and couldn't say it for a while.
She raised ducks in Dujiagou, sold duck eggs and opened a grain shop, relying on down-to-earth production. Now what Hua Yan said is rare and expensive, she doesn't understand, she already understood this truth when she was making dolls. But the money was so easy to earn that she felt dizzy and uncomfortable when she stepped on the clouds.
"But what, do you know how many people out there are jealous of your embroidery? Especially in Jinxiufang, Luomei Xuan directly crushed them to death because of you. If your underwear doesn't sell for more than fifty taels, don't do it. Hua Yan tilted her head to look at her and smiled.
"Fifty taels!" Du Mei Xingxing's eyes widened and she said in surprise.
"Produced by Luomei Xuan, it must be a high-quality product. If it weren't for such a high price, others wouldn't believe it. Moreover, Du Mei, not to mention for the time being, your embroidery work alone is enough to exceed this price. Ye Dan was probably attracted by the startled sound in the room, and he stood at the doorway.
"Ah...... All right. "Boutique is reflected in price, and that seems to be true. Seeing that they all thought so, Du Mei naturally couldn't set the price of the imperial city based on the price of her countryside.
Since I no longer worry about the price, Du Mei flew the needle and ran the thread, but for most of the hour, I made a pink-embroidered peony underwear, and Hua Yan watched from the side, praising it.
In the end, she cared about her identity in Shangshu Mansion, and she didn't have exaggerated cotton, but she was still much taller than before, and she looked more slender and long.
Hua Yan got the treasure of underwear, she was overjoyed, and when she saw that Du Mei had other things to do, she said goodbye and went back. She hurried to the sisters' room to show off.
Du Mei cut the size of several girls in the Chunxiang Pavilion on the selected fabric, and she sent the rest to the embroidery girl downstairs to sew except for the one she left behind.
As for the patterns, some embroiderers will do it, some won't, and Du Mei will inevitably delay another pointer.
In this way, the sky gradually darkened.
At the dinner table, Mrs. Xia made some good dishes to treat Du Mei, Ye Dan came because Du Mei came, some things went well, and she wanted to drink for the first time tonight.
Xia Pozi knew that he had a shallow amount of wine and couldn't drink soju, so he went to the cellar to find a bottle of last year's grapes.
The grape wine is fruit wine, the entrance is sweet, Ye Dan is in a happy mood, and he unconsciously drank two more glasses. After a while, his cheeks turned crimson and he began to speak.
"Meizi, now, although the dolls can't be sold for the time being, if you do well this time, we will make a lot of money!" Ye Dan waved his hand in the air indiscriminately, as if grasping something.
"Shopkeeper Ye, I was busy in the afternoon and forgot to tell you something." Du Mei suddenly remembered Lin An's family, she hadn't discussed it with the main owner yet.
"What's the matter, you can watch it, Luo Meixuan, you are half a master, so you naturally do the master." The wine made from grapes was surging, Ye Dan shook his head, and felt that there was a haze in front of him.
"Aunt Deng is here, I want her to help me, as for Uncle Lin, do you see if you can arrange a job, such as a buddy or something?" Du Mei didn't know that he was drunk, and said to himself.
"Okay, okay!" Ye Dan replied casually, but he didn't listen to Du Mei's words in his head.
After Du Mei ate, she went to work on the demon girl, but she didn't expect that Ye Dan, who had only drunk a few glasses of grape wine, was so drunk that she didn't even have time to wash up, so she fell asleep on the bed.
It rained in the night, and although it was sunny in the morning, it was a little cold, and Du Mei got up early in the morning and found a gown to put on in his baggage, so that he felt better.
Du Mei washed, and the sound of peach and willow green talking to Xia Pozi came from the kitchen, and she knew that they would never ask her for help, so she went back to the house and continued to draw all kinds of patterns on the paper, she had already drawn more than ten sheets, and if she sketched it with colored paint, it would be vivid.
I ate millet porridge and shortbread for breakfast, Ye Danjiu woke up, but he had a little nasal congestion, he should have caught a cold last night. Du Mei wrote a prescription and told Peach to grab the medicine, while Liu Lu was busy lighting the small clay stove on fire.
With a stuffy nose and heavy head, Ye Dan rarely hid in Luomei Xuan for half a day, drank a hot decoction, and then fell asleep with his head covered.
Although Du Mei was making the underwear of the demon girl in her hands, she was worried about Lin An's family in her heart, she hoped that the Deng family would come to help share the burden, but she was afraid that they would be separated.
A young man on duty at the door suddenly came to Du Mei and told Du Mei that someone was looking for him outside.
Du Mei was overjoyed, thinking that Deng was coming, so she didn't have time to ask carefully, closed the door, and hurriedly went downstairs.
When he arrived at the gate, Du Mei saw that it was not the Deng family, but Xiaobai, who sold seafood.
"Girl, you live here!" Xiaobai naturally remembered Du Mei, and he smiled and waved his hand.
"Xiaobai, are you here to give Xiaozhu a gift?" Du Mei has not been idle since she called, and she has not had time to ask about Peach and Willow.
"That's right, the two girls who were with you last time agreed with me to send them today, why didn't they come?" Xiaobai rubbed his hands and said a little embarrassed.
"Come in, they're probably busy right now, and it's the same if you give it to me." Du Mei let him in.
"I'm not going in." Xiao Bai looked at the imposing gate and swallowed his saliva.
"We can't always hand over at the gate~ handover, you come from afar, you always have to drink saliva." Du Mei said with a smile.
"That'...... All right. Xiaobai wiped his hand on his pants and whispered yes.
Walking into the room, Xiao Bai was shocked by the magnificence in the hall, and he stared at the night pearl again and again.
"Let's have tea." Du Mei led him to the private room on the second floor, poured him a cup of tea, and brought him two plates of snacks.
"Thank you, this is the pearl you wanted." Xiaobai came back to his senses at this time, smiled a little embarrassedly, and took out a half-old purse from his arms.
"Today, I'm only as small as last time." Du Mei found a tray and dropped all the pearls out of her purse.
Jingle, large and small beads fell into the wooden tray, making a very crisp sound, a color of rose gold pink, shiny.
Du Mei picked one up and looked at it, and sure enough, the hole had been made, and the size of this time was neater than the last time, most of them were only a little larger than red beans.
"Yes, I'll do it all." Du Mei flicked it casually, and the bead spun up, flashing with a gentle light.
"The last time I talked to the two girls, they were all selected small particles, and our whole village selected these, and the price was naturally more expensive, a total of 300 Wen." Xiao Bai cautiously stretched out three fingers, he had seen Du Mei bargain, so he hurriedly said the reason.
"Three hundred is three hundred." Du Mei was very satisfied with these pearls, and she did not bargain, and took three hundred wen from her purse and gave it to him.
"Do you want it next time?" Xiaobai saw that she paid the money happily, so he asked.
"It's hard to say, but if we want to, we'll go to you." There are at least 200 in the tray, enough to last for a while.
"Every five and ten every month, I deliver goods to Sanniang's house, if you look for me, go to Sanniang's place." Xiaobai was afraid of missing the business, so he hurriedly said.
"Got it." Du Mei said with a smile, it seems that this Xiaobai is also a sincere person.