Chapter Eighty-Seven: A Brilliant Plan, Making Clothes for People
"That's a hundredfold difference!" Even Zhang Zi on the side was surprised, she had not dared to talk to Jin Ran just now, but now that everyone had talked to Jin Ran, the atmosphere was warm, and she couldn't help but open her mouth. However, there was inevitably a trace of doubt in this Zhang Zi's tone, but this Zhang Qi did not express it clearly, and Jin Ran was not the kind of stingy person, holding on to what others said.
She smiled generously: "I didn't arbitrarily reduce the price, you only saw the low price, but you didn't think of why I was cheap!" Jin Ran smiled and touched the piles of materials in front of him: "These blue shadow yarns originally used the technique of highlighting and dyeing, and the technology of highlighting and dyeing is controlled in the hands of several big silk merchants, so it is inevitable that the price of this blue shadow yarn will be higher." β
Jin Ran still left a little room to speak, and the others understood in their hearts that the price of this blue shadow yarn was naturally stirred up by which big satin merchants.
Jin Ran smiled confidently: "I got the tie-dye recipe by chance in my hand, and the workshop in my hand is also very large, so naturally I want to lower the price." I myself am also the daughter of an ordinary family, and I also understand that this clothing is too high for us ordinary girls, and we naturally can't afford it. β
Jin Ran's words are easy to say, but everyone understands that this process of price reduction will definitely not be as easy as Jin Ran said, and many big silk merchants are also relying on a lot of power behind them, how could they agree to Jin Ran to sell such a cheap price of Biying yarn for no reason, so that she cut off her own financial route?
For a while, the daughters of the Zhang family had a little admiration for the girl in front of them, and when they were usually thinking about how to find their parents to be coquettish and grind them to let their parents buy expensive silk for themselves, this girl had already started her own business.
Such a cheap blue shadow yarn, you must not miss it! For a while, all the ladies of the Zhang family were full of fighting spirit, and they all silently hugged a blue shadow yarn to the maid behind them, and after seeing that their sisters and their actions were the same, they also nervously accepted a few more.
Good silk is often hard to find, and some are even priceless, such as this blue shadow yarn. The Sheng family's silk and satin ready-to-wear shop is already a rare and complete shop, and even the hard-to-find yarn like Biying yarn can be scraped together a few horses, not to mention other fabrics. But no matter how much cloth there is, there are seven or eight of them today, and there are a number of good cloths, and Jin Ran also temporarily told this silk to prepare a few horses, and those good fabrics and satins will inevitably be less. It's hard to have it for everyone.
There have always been many daughters in the Zhang family, and there is not much harmony between the sisters, and even some rare things are inevitably a little competitive, and today is no exception.
Zhang Qi is just that, she has always had the blue eyes of the old lady of the Zhang family, and the Zhang family's big house is just such a daughter as her, so this draft naturally has a lot of good things. And although Zhang Zi is the daughter of the second room, but there is more than one daughter of Zhang Zi in the second room, the aunts in her family are used to being demons, and her father gave up a lot of good things to her sisters, and the things in Zhang Zi's hands are not as precious and rich as Zhang Qi.
Therefore, Zhang Zi had already asked her mother for a lot of silver, gritted her teeth and planned to buy some good materials to make good-looking clothes and enter the palace draft. Now I look at how glamorous and beautiful I am on the surface, but if Zhang Qi enters the palace, the second room will definitely be suppressed by the big room, and in the second room, Aunt Lan in the second room has also been a little restless recently, for herself and for her mother and the second room, this palace, Zhang Zishi must not enter!
After careful investigation, who of the girls in this room does not have a few reasons why they must enter the palace? Therefore, the selection of everyone is also very fast, after all, a lot of work has been wasted at noon, and it takes a lot of time to make clothes from this cloth and satin.
Therefore, all the girls also made a quick decision, although they inevitably competed, and they had to quarrel a few times, but in the end they were all barely emphasized.
Jin Ran also picked a few pieces of alizarin red sprinkled with gold flowers Ruyi cloud pattern hundred characters blessing silk, she planned to use this satin to sew a waist pillow for her grandmother Mrs. Sheng, she watched her grandmother these days because of the cold in early spring, so Jin Ran was also worried. But her medical skills have not yet been completed, and she can only wait for her master Baihua Liuxian to enter the city before she can heal her grandmother.
Jinran's embroidery work is good now, and the lumbar pillow made is also honest and cute, she originally made a pair to put in her own house, and was seen by her grandmother who came to see her once, her grandmother likes this pair of honest and lovely small lumbar pillows in Jinran's house very much, but the color of this lumbar pillow is light cyan, which is somewhat inconsistent with the decoration in Jinran's grandmother's house, so Jinran did not immediately give the pair of lumbar pillows to her grandmother, but planned to buy some auspicious silk and sit on a pair for her grandmother.
Thinking of doing some needlework for her grandmother, Jin Ran simply bought some lotus-colored fabrics, and planned to make a pair of cushions for her mother.
Since I have already bought it for my grandmother and mother...... Jin Ran groaned secretly, she simply asked the little maid in the store to hug two crow blue satin, Jin Ran looked at this low-key but graceful color and nodded approvingly, this color is very good, and it is also possible to make some underwear for her father and brother to wear under the official uniform.
Now that I've bought it...... Jin Ran unconsciously thought, do you want to ...... Do you want to give Fang Tianji and make a set for Fang Tianji?
Jin Ran's thoughts gradually drifted away, and she remembered the last time she saw Fang Tianji, the obviously torn undershirt under the armor, where the cuffs of the shirt had been worn out with some raw edges, and Jin Ran still found out by accident. After all, the Fang family does not have a hostess now, Fang Guifei is far away in the deep palace, and there is a prince under Fang Guifei's knees, and she is busy with the affairs of the five princes in Su Ri, and Fang Guifei has no effort to worry about the diet and daily life of her younger brother who is far away from the palace.
Thinking of this, Jin Ran simply bought some black and gray cloth, she pondered for a while, and added a piece of azure silk cloth, she had worn this color robe when she saw Fang Tianji and herself go out with her, sky blue...... It is very commensurate with Fang Tianji.
Jin Ran was a little shy holding the beige cloth in his hand, and when he bought the cloth of the underwear, he inevitably wanted to buy some more materials for the outer robe, and after buying the material for the outer robe, he began to worry about his other clothes, and in the end, Jin Ran even bought the muslin cloth for Fang Tianji to make shoes and socks. Jin Ran touched the thick stack of muslin in his hand with some embarrassment, these were enough to make dozens of pairs of socks for Fang Tianji.
Now that the weather is still very cold, Jin Ran plans to make a few pairs of thick soap boots with fluff for Fang Tianji, so that he will not be frozen when he is on an errand in the future.
Jin Ran quickly packed up the things she wanted to buy, except for a goose yellow fine silk for herself to wrap a set of spring clothes, the others were bought for her grandmother, parents and brother at home and Fang Tianji's fiancΓ©, especially for Fang Tianji, who was given to him alone accounted for more than half of all the fabrics that Jin Ran bought.
Jin Ran looked at the fabric that Zhang Qi had picked, and she raised her eyebrows: "Sister Zhang Qi, why did you buy these two pieces of cloth?" That's just enough to make a dress. I'm going to settle the bill for you today, so don't worry. Come, girl, you take Sister Qi in and pick it again. β
The girl was very conscious, originally everyone had gone to the lobby to find the girl to pack up, as soon as Jin Ran's words came out, she immediately stopped the bandaging action in her hand, and ran to the side hall that Jin Ran and the Zhang family had just selected, she opened the door of the side hall, and said to Zhang Qi respectfully: "Miss, you can pick again." β
Zhang Qi smiled and shook her head, she said affectionately: "You girl, aren't you happy if I save you money?" I have a lot of cloth in my hand, but what is there missing? Besides, the two horses I picked are enough, and I'm planning to make a new dress. I've got enough clothes made for me at home, and if I pick up a few more from you and go home, I'll be like this, and I really won't be able to wear them. β
The girl behind Zhang Qi only held two pieces of material, one was the blue shadow yarn that all the women of the Zhang family had, and the other was a plain lilac-colored fine cloth, which looked very gentle, but it was still not eye-catching enough. And this lilac-colored garment is only a fine cloth, although the mesh is fine, but it is still not as smooth as silk.
Jin Ran was still a little dissatisfied, but she still didn't say anything, she secretly decided to go back and make up a few more for Zhang Qi.
And the other Zhang family members are not like Zhang Qi, the other Zhang family's families are not as generous as Zhang Qi's family has only one daughter, everything is used by Zhang Qi, and the other girls' families will inevitably lack one less one, and these girls don't have so much silver when they go out.
Although it was the old lady of the Zhang family who paid for the girls' heads, they couldn't buy everything and go to the old lady of the Zhang family to report the bill, and they had to fill in a few by themselves.
Although their families are all eunuchs, they can't just take out a few hundred taels of silver to buy some draft clothes for their girls, because the requirements for clothes in this draft are different from the habits of the people in the Chinese Dynasty in Suri, so the clothes cut out this time must only be worn once. Therefore, if these girls cannot be successfully selected as concubines, those hundreds of taels of white flowers and silver will only be wasted.
After all kinds of embarrassment, these girls only had one or two hundred silver in their hands. In Kyoto, where a good piece of silk costs a dozen taels, one or two hundred silver can't buy anything good.