Chapter 6: The Leisurely Days of the Dead (Part I)
Wang's fifth daughter-in-law was already forty years old, so Su Lian called her Wang's sister-in-law. Although she is called a cook, she is extremely diligent, and comes to sweep the yard, mop the floor, feed the horses, cows and dogs every day before dawn.
The horse is Su Lian's current mount, a snow-white and flawless Dutch warmblood, in fact, Su Lian prefers the Mongolian Ili horse, but the Ili horse belongs to the tribute horse, she is afraid of being too eye-catching and chose the Dutch horse, because the body size is not tall and tall, so it looks no different from ordinary horses, but Su Lian knows that this horse has sufficient endurance, not comparable to ordinary horses; The cow is a Holsteon cow, and Su Lian also put one in the house; Dogs are naturally dumplings, hairballs, and black balls.
According to Su Lai's requirements, she warmed a bowl of almond milk, a plate of xiaolongbao with fennel filling, a bowl of cucumber pickles, and a vegetarian fried mushroom. The pickles made by Wang Yan taste very authentic, pickled very deliciously, cucumber pickles are sour and spicy, very crispy, and Su Lian eats it very appetizingly.
After another three or five days, Su Curtain saw that he only had two sets of men's clothes, and only a few sets of women's flag clothes, and Su Curtain preferred Hanfu in his heart, and took advantage of the good weather to ride a horse process, and asked Wang Yan, only to know that there was a Shoulong embroidery village on Taiping Street in the imperial city, the silk and satin materials were good, and the tailor-made clothes were handmade, and Su Curtain went.
As a woman, you are born with a genetic obsession with clothing. Wearing men's clothes is purely for convenience, Su Lian doesn't like to be like this all the time.
I didn't go slowly, and I arrived at my destination at about noon, which was also because Su Lian was not very familiar with the capital of this era and took a lot of detours.
Shoulong Embroidery Village is really very lively, in and out are the rich and noble people who wear Ayaluo, Su curtain immediately with the embroidery village staff politely greeted up. There were a lot of people who came, but most of them came by carriage, and there were not many people like Su Lian who came alone.
As soon as you enter the lobby of the embroidery village, you will visit this colorful and colorful material in a piece, such as satin silk and silk silk, and various categories, which can be described as everything.
The person in charge of receiving Su Curtain is a person in his thirties who wears a festive dress with a jujube red blessing pattern, and he is probably a person like a shopkeeper, but he is by no means a big shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was very chubby and festive, and his speech was also very exquisite: "The little boy is coming, do you want to choose materials or make clothes?" ”
Su Lian looked at this scale, and knew that he was afraid that there were only a number of silk villages in Beijing, so he smiled and said: "Buy materials and make clothes." ”
Seeing that Su Curtain really wanted to come to "consume", the fat shopkeeper invited Su Curtain into the private room on the second floor very kindly, and served tea, "The master looks a little blind, but it is the first time to come to the village?" ”
Su Curtain took a sip of tea, and laughed a little in his heart, just after a while, he was respectful of the title, and this fat shopkeeper would look at the dishes on the plate. smiled and exchanged a few words with him, knowing that the fat man's surname was An, and he was a small shopkeeper, and then he was introduced to the material, Su Lian only asked him to recommend a few fashionable things, not to mention his preferences.
An Fat Man Xu saw that Su Curtain was dressed decently, so he called for a satin that was slightly better than what she expected, and introduced with a smile: "This is a good raccoon satin, look at the color, but it is the most fashionable this year, and the color is also fresh and tight!" The material is also extremely thick, and the fabric used to make the clothes is the best! ”
Su curtain is not very like, the satin is inevitably a little fancy, and the touch is okay, only slightly inferior to the Lu silk and Peng satin in the palace. An Fat Man had great eyesight, and immediately pointed to a few horses in the arms of the young man next to him and said: "This is an ancient satin, looking at the luster, like a mirror!" Master might as well touch it, and don't leave your hands slippery! ”
As soon as Su Lian touched his hand, it was really better, but it was not the top material, so he asked, "Do you have Yunjin here?" "There is a horse in the world of Su Curtain Taoyuan, which is given by Wu Yashi, the color is flashy but not glamorous, and a large cluster of auspicious clouds and ruyi patterns are woven on the moon-white background, which is extremely dazzling, and Su Curtain has always been reluctant to use it.
An Zhangsu's face suddenly became bitter: "Master, you can't make such jokes!" That cloud brocade is a special tribute satin in the palace, where do we get such a good thing here? ”
After selling a bitter face, An Fatzi immediately smiled and said: "Although there is no Yunjin, there is something similar to Yunjin!" A month ago, a batch of Suzhou's best gold satin was just come, and the miscellaneous gold thread was woven into it, which was gorgeous! It's just that the price is-" An Fatzi wanted to speak and stopped, obviously hooking Su Curtain and asking.
If there are really good things, it doesn't hurt to be more expensive, so Su Lian asked according to his wishes.
An Fat Man said: "A horse sells gold and colored satin, and the price is more than ten gold!" ”
Ten gold, which is only the price of an East Pearl, is not very unexpected by Su Lai, and it is also that the silver comes too easily these days, and Su Curtain will inevitably be a little bit uneasy to take money as money.
Seeing Su Lian's indifferent expression, Fat Man couldn't help but be happy, so he said flatteringly: "If the master is interested, the contemptible person will ask someone to take it from the library and give you the palm of the palm first?" ”
The gold color satin is offered, unlike other ordinary clothes that are directly picked up, but a box with a yellow rosewood carved quadruple moire, which is very exquisite, and it can be seen that the ancient times also paid attention to packaging.
I only hugged two boxes up, opened them together, and it was really dazzling, such a silk weaving technique has long been lost in later generations, but with this Su curtain I like it very much. The color is also unusual, it is the color of red and purple transition, like a rainbow of clouds, and there are golden lights, which are really dazzling, and look no worse than cloud brocade. It's just that Su Curtain is tentacled, and I feel that this feel is not as smooth as Yunjin, but it is also rare.
"Make a note of this, and you can tell me what other good material there is." Su Curtain Road.
After looking at the good materials, it took half a day's effort, Su Curtain chose the water red, water blue two colors of the plain soft satin, because the weather is still hot, and then selected a few light color patterns of scattered silk, picked some elegant and satisfying ancient satin...... It cost nearly a thousand taels in total. I called the embroidery lady of the embroidery village to measure the size, Su Curtain only instructed, according to her three measurements, men's clothing only made three, and the rest were made into women's clothing, and the ancient satin was used to make quilt sheets and bedding, and the size was measured by Wang Yan in the morning, and it was directly handed over to the embroidery girl.
The style of the clothes has been told to the embroidery girl one by one, the men's clothes tell them to look at the tailoring, and the women's Su curtain has her own plans, she wants to wear a lilac-colored embroidered grape Ruyi pattern of the curved skirt, the palace silk with blue and purple; Use scattered flowers to make two waist-cinching skirts, skirts to be pleated, and so on.
Because they made more clothes, they discussed, and after five days, they would give some of the flowers and silk, and then ten days later, and the rest. plus the manual cost, a total of more than 1,100 taels, but the part of the manual money will be paid after completion.