The next day, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng brothers really got up early in the morning, and when they heard the creak of Xie Wang's opening the door, they got out of the bed, and it was Xie Xuan who got up last.

The black paint is dark, Xie Wang and Lin lit the oil lamp and boiled the pot of white noodle soup, beat two eggs into it, and made a meal of white noodle egg soup, this rice is both nutritious and delicious, but because it is a bit of a luxury for the farmers, so they are not often eaten.

Each person drank two bowls of sesame oil mixed with pickles, and then set off in the misty morning light.

When they arrived in Linzhang County, after some advice, Xie Qingshan went to inquire about the tooth shop to find the tooth shop, and Xie Wang and Xie Ping'an took the three children to buy things.

Xie Wang's family hasn't been to the county seat for a year, but he came to the county seat with Xie Qingshan to buy New Year's goods during the Spring Festival last year. Fortunately, this ancient period has hardly changed from year to year, unlike later generations, which have been turned upside down in a year or two.

Xie Wang took a few people to the cloth shop first.

Because it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days, the county is very lively, and there are more people buying and selling things than in the past, Xie Wang held Xie Xuan's hand tightly, and Xie Ping'an dragged Xie Zhiyuan and the brothers left and right. "Don't run around, it's good to be abducted by a kidnapper to sell to others as a slave, the most afraid is to break your hands and tendons, blind your eyes, throw them on the street as a flower child, and if you don't get enough money, you will be beaten......" Xie Wang kept telling the three children not to run around, and at the end he also told a rumor to scare the three of them - mainly Xie Zhiyuan and the brothers, sure enough, the two leather boys listened to this intimidation and immediately gave birth to An.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even in modern society, there are such vicious beasts who "harvest and cut" the kidnapped children, and use knives and axes to turn those poor children into strangely shaped and disabled monsters, so as to win people's sympathy and make money. Xie Xuan did not doubt that this situation would be more in the Ming Dynasty, so he held Xie Wang's hand and followed Xie Wang's footsteps closely.

Xie Wang's buying things is also shrewd, in line with the principle of shopping around, when he goes to a cloth store, he first asks about the price of which fabrics he likes, but he doesn't buy them first, only in his mind. I asked three or four cloth shops like this, and the cloth shop guys were not annoyed, but they were used to it, and it seemed that there were not a few people who bought things like this. Xie Wang finally took everyone back to the second cloth shop, and when the shop guy saw the Xie family and his party turn back, he knew that this time it was done, and the smile on his face became more and more enthusiastic.

"Auntie, I said, our cloth is the most good quality and affordable, you look at this material, it is the best Songjiang cloth, our owner has traveled thousands of miles to sell it from Songjiang in person, without a second hand, so it is sold cheaper than others, if you miss it, it is not as cheap as the second one!" When the shop guy saw people putting down dishes, he knew that he was an ordinary farmer when he saw the clothes of the Xie family and his party, and what they wanted was a durable and affordable fabric, so they vigorously promoted the affordability of the fabric.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Huang Daopo, a native of Songjiang, brought back advanced textile tools and techniques from Yazhou, that is, Yaxian County, Hainan, and promoted the development of the cotton textile industry in the Songgong area. Through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the cotton textile industry popularized the north and south, and the Songjiang weaving technology is particularly refined, the products are sold all over the country, and are exported to Japan and North Korea, there is the name of "clothing is the world". Therefore, Matsue cloth is a very popular good cloth at this time.

"Is this Matsue cloth?" Xie Wang carefully touched a navy blue cotton cloth and looked at it in the sun, and asked.

"Auntie, look at it, isn't this Songjiang cloth? Do you think which of our local companies can weave such a fine cloth? Our family is a century-old store, and what we sell is a reputation, and we have always been undeceived! The man swore as if he had been insulted.

Xie Wang smiled, "Look at you guy, I'm just asking, see you're in a hurry!" ”

After some bargaining, he finally spent three dollars of silver to buy a navy blue cotton cloth to make a cotton coat for the whole family man, and pulled five feet of cotton cloth with green vine entwined branches on a yellow background to make a jacket for Lin's family, six feet of stone blue cotton cloth to make a skirt, five feet of cyan cotton cloth to make a jacket for himself, six feet of brown cotton cloth to make a skirt, and the extra fabric to make two pairs of knee pants. In the end, she touched a cotton cloth with a red bottom and folded branches and plums, and smiled at Xie Xuan: "Xuanxuan, do you think this fabric is good for you to make a jacket and skirt?" ”

Xie Xuan was a little moved in her heart, this light red cloth with yellow flowers is the most festive and beautiful in terms of Xie Wang's aesthetics, and the price per foot is four or five more expensive than the previous three kinds of fabrics.

Moved is moved, let her wear this festive floral cotton jacket, it is really a little unacceptable, so she shook her head, enviously looked at the beautiful silk satin on the other side, and felt that she couldn't afford to wear it with the current standard of living, so she pointed to two tender lotus and green onion white cotton cloth and said: "Grandma, I like this!" ”

"The little girl has a good eye, this color is fresh and tender, with a peach pink skirt, the little girl is the most dexterous and cute to wear!" The guy has been selling fabrics for many years, so he naturally has a certain aesthetic vision, and he can't help but praise.

"That's good, just pull four feet of peach pink, four feet of green onion white, and then pull five feet of tender lotus Songjiang cloth, peach pink and green onion white to make two jackets, tender lotus to make skirts, then our Xuanxuan is the most beautiful little girl in the village!" Xie Wang said with a smile.

The guy also made fun of it, saying that there was a ready-to-wear shop across the street, and there were fashionable girls' ready-to-wear in it, so that Xie Wang could go to see it for reference if he had time.

In the end, he spent two coins of silver and asked for a white cotton cloth to make the lining, and spent a total of nine coins and seventy-six wen. Xie Wang wanted the guy to get rid of the fraction of the six cents, but the guy said solemnly: "Let's sell the rules of the cloth, you can bargain for this fabric before you cut it, but after the merchant price is cut and the cloth is cut, there is nothing to lose!" This rule, wherever you go to buy fabrics, this is the reason! ”

If the seller cuts the fabric, if the buyer bargains or even threatens not to buy it, how does the merchant deal with the cut fabric, and he can't just touch a customer who needs this size to sell to others! Xie Wang's family listened to what he said reasonably, so he had no choice but to give up.

Out of the cloth shop, along the way, there were kneading dough people, kneading clay dolls, selling sugar gourds, selling kite windmills, and candy blowers, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng were dazzled, and finally stayed next to the candy blowing man's stall.

The shelves of the candy blowers were filled with candy figures of different shapes, such as chubby dolls, maids, Wu Song beating tigers, Chang'e running to the moon, as well as tigers, roosters, horses, pigs and other animal shapes, and the vendors guarding the stalls sat on the edge of the charcoal stove, on which syrup was boiling, and a group of children surrounded the stall to watch.

Xie Wang walked to the candy man stall and asked the price, the small one was three cents, and the big one was five cents. Xie Wang felt that it was a little expensive, but looking at the eager eyes of the two beloved grandsons, and thinking that the family was not as good as before, he let the three children choose, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng each picked a Wu Song to fight a tiger and a little doll.

Xie Xuan watched the candy man peddler blow with a wheat straw, I don't know if I have blown it in, I feel dirty in my heart, I only say that there is maltose at home and I don't want to eat this. Xie Wang bought her a sugar gourd.

In the envious eyes of a group of children around them, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng triumphantly pulled the corner of Xie Ping'an's clothes and walked away, Xie Xuan couldn't help but laugh.

Xie Ping'an carried the cloth on his back, Xie Wang went to the meat stall to buy five catties of fat and thin pork, asked for a pair of pig liver and pig blood, bought two carp on the side, and then turned to the grain store to buy red beans and sesame seeds. Fortunately, I brought a backpack with me when I went out, otherwise, I really don't know how to take so many things.

When they entered the dim sum shop, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng, who were licking the sugar man in their hands, suddenly felt that their eyes were not enough, and the rows of dim sum were placed in neat boxes, including steamed dumplings, hemp leaves, twist flowers, Jiang rice noodles, honey three knives, plum beans, hemp balls, sugar cakes, honey cakes, jujube cakes, chestnut cakes, mung bean cakes, osmanthus cakes, peach cakes...... are all high-sugar and high-oil dim sum, if in modern times, for the sake of figure, Xie Xuan turned around and left when he saw these dim sums, but in the poor class, everyone was yellow and thin, lacking oil and salt in the Ming Dynasty, Xie Xuan was a little drooling.

I want to buy everything I see, but the price of these high-oil and high-sugar dim sum is also very expensive, Xie Wang's family according to the children's thoughts, weighed a few catties of honey three knives, twist flowers, Jiang rice sticks, and moon cakes Four common dim sum, spent nearly one dollar and six cents of silver, and made a can of turbid wine, which cost fifty yuan. I went out and looked at the sun, and felt that the time was not short, so I took a few people back.