Chapter 23 Buying Cloth
Hearing Liu Man'er's threatening words, the brocade-robed young man snorted coldly and didn't dare to say more.
Liu Man'er stretched out her hand, "Where's the money?" Bring. ”
The young man was stunned, but the shopkeeper reacted quickly, and took out a small ingot of silver from his sleeve pocket, "Here you go." ”
Liu Man'er took the silver two with her left hand, in fact, she couldn't recognize the authenticity of the silver coin, but she just thought that such a big store should not deceive her, so she took the silver coin.
was about to hand over the snake, and the shopkeeper also trembled and stretched out his hand to pick it up, but Ye Yuan walked up from behind abruptly, "Take a pair of pliers and pull out this tooth, save it from biting." ”
"Hey, who are you, I bought this snake, why are you talking?" The young boy said with some displeasure.
"I'm the owner of this snake, didn't you just say that I bought this snake just to kill it, in that case, I pulled out its teeth first."
He said that he had found a pair of pliers from somewhere, and he was going to come and pull out the snake's teeth.
When the young boy saw it, he hurriedly said, "This snake is mine, I have changed my mind now, I want to use this snake to make wine." ”
Liu Man'er blinked her eyes, and the four big words appeared in her heart: No treacherous business.
This young man really knows how to pretend, even she believes it a little, clinker, he bought it to make wine, the reason why he pretended to be the previous posture should be to lower the price, but unfortunately he was not deeply involved in the world, and he was deceived again.
Five taels of silver sold it, Liu Man'er felt that she had lost a lot of money at the moment, and blamed her for being in a hurry to sell, otherwise, ten taels of silver, this person might also buy it.
"In that case, then take a cage and raise the snake for a month, and then soak it in spirits, which is very useful for rheumatism."
Ye Yuan said and took the snake from Liu Man'er's hand, Liu Man'er instantly felt that her hand was loose, although she had great strength, but carrying this snake, her spirit was highly nervous, and her arms were almost numb.
The young man quickly asked the shopkeeper to bring an iron cage over, and Ye Yuan helped put the snake in and closed the cage, and then pulled Liu Man'er out.
Casually lifted the back basket on the ground, put the tongs on the table of one of the diners, and Ye Yuan took Liu Man'er out of the courtyard.
"You've just been so imposing." Liu Man'er praised.
He was tall with a longbow on his back, and he stood there with a straight back, even half a head taller than the young man in fancy clothes, and even more imposing.
"By the way, didn't I tell you to wait outside? How did you get here? Without waiting for Ye Yuan to speak, Liu Man'er asked again.
"I saw that you hadn't come out for a long time, so I came over to take a look." Ye Yuan replied.
But in fact, not long after Liu Man'er entered, he followed Liu Man'er, but Liu Man'er was nervous and scared, so he didn't see him all the time.
"It really scared the hell out of me just now." Liu Man'er said and took out the silver money from her arms, "You can see if it's true or not." ”
"Don't worry, it can't be fake." Ye Yuan took the silver money, looked at it, and handed it back to her, "You can keep it." ”
"You take it, I'm afraid I'll drop it later." Liu Man'er handed it to Ye Yuan again, and when she saw him accept it, a smile welled up on her little face, "Did I promise too much just now?" Maybe if we say ten taels of silver, he'll buy it too. ”
Soon, she forgot about the unhappiness just now and chatted with Ye Yuan.
"No, you're doing a good job, and the price is five taels more than we thought about just now, isn't it?" Ye Yuan held her hand and felt that her little hand was cold, and he knew that she was pretending to be calm just now.
But he didn't expect that this girl would have such courage to catch snakes to scare others.
"Actually, I don't think five taels of silver is much, think about it, this is a hundred-year-old poisonous snake, one or two snake venom, ten taels of gold." Liu Man'er started talking again.
"Okay, don't think about it, just get rid of this snake, now you should think, what are we going to do? Don't you want to buy food, now that we have the money, we can go. Ye Yuan's tone was doting that he couldn't hear himself.
"But we have such a big amount of silver, they shouldn't be able to find it on the street, right?" Liu Man'er proposed, "Why don't we go buy cloth first?" ”
"It's up to you." When Ye Yuan heard Liu Man'er say this, he was moved, he walked around the street, and pulled Liu Man'er into a silver jewelry store.
Liu Man'er also liked these antique things very much, and when she saw Ye Yuan walking here, she followed as well.
The little second in this jewelry store is not enthusiastic about Liu Man'er's attitude, but it is not bad, Ye Yuan asked anything, and he also agreed without a word.
"How's this silver hairpin?" Ye Yuan picked up a silver hairpin from the tray and put it in Liu Man'er's hair and compared it.
"Beautiful." Liu Man'er also likes this style, but she is wearing two big braids now, and she doesn't need this hairpin.
But when Ye Yuan inserted this hairpin into her head, she still couldn't help laughing, and the expression on her face was quite happy.
"Okay, just buy this one." Ye Yuan said to Xiao Er.
When Xiao Er heard Ye Yuan say that he wanted to buy it, a smile quickly appeared on his face, "Okay, I'll go and weigh you." ”
As he spoke, he took the silver hairpin from Ye Yuan's hand and put it on the scale, "Eight coins, two coins for manual work, and one tael of silver for inheritance." ”
"You bought it for me?" Liu Man'er asked in a low voice.
"Of course, didn't I tell you last time?" Ye Yuan smiled and rubbed Liu Man'er's head, inserted the hairpin into her head, and then paid the money.
Liu Man'er pulled it off and put it in her arms, and she said to the shopkeeper, "Do you have water here?" Can I borrow some water to wash my hands? ”
"Yes." Ye Yuan bought something just now, and the attitude of the shopkeeper immediately got better, and he said to the shopkeeper who was settling accounts on the side, and then led Liu Man'er to the backyard.
This yard is full of organs, Liu Man'er saw the well in the middle of the yard at a glance, Ye Yuan saw that there was a bucket next to it, so he fetched a bucket of water for Liu Man'er.
Liu Man'er felt that her hands were sticky early in the morning, after all, when she touched the snake just now, and when she rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands, Ye Yuan saw the dense goosebumps on her arms.
"Are you so scared?" Ye Yuan also came over and washed his hands with her.
"I'm not afraid, but I just got goosebumps at the time." Liu Man'er still had some palpitations when she thought about it, in fact, the snake was tightly tied and didn't bite, but she just felt slippery and greasy, a little disgusting, she didn't feel it just now, but at the moment she felt more and more uncomfortable, so she rubbed it carefully.
"Okay, don't be afraid, don't be reckless next time." Ye Yuan knew her thoughts, stretched out his hand, and quickly made two mistakes on her hand, "Okay, wash it up, take it out quickly, this weather is easy to catch a cold." ”
"Hmm." Liu Man'er obediently took out her hand, Ye Yuan helped wash the bucket again, and then thanked the little two before going to the front yard again.
After leaving the jewelry shop, Liu Man'er went to the cloth shop, and the basket happened to be empty, which could be used to hold fabrics.
"I knew that I would have washed this basket too." Liu Man'er thought that this basket had once been filled with snakes, and she also felt a little infiltrating.
"Wait until where you buy the cloth and you can wash it." Ye Yuan said, and walked into a cloth shop with her.
Although the cloth shop was not large, there were all kinds of fabrics, and not only that, but there were also some brocades and silk satins, but the willow vines withdrew her gaze after just one glance, and her gaze was on the cloths piled up on the side.
"Hello, guest officer, look at the fabric." Seeing that Liu Man'er was dressed poorly, the proprietress walked over with a smile.
This made Liu Man'er's first impression very good to her, my God, in almost all the shops along the way, she had suffered from the white eyes, only this proprietress smiled at her, which made her feel like a ray of warm sun in the cold winter wax moon.
Originally, I thought that I would have to take a look at it and shop around, but at this moment, Liu Man'er felt that she had identified this store herself.
"How do you sell all these fabrics?" Liu Man'er pointed to the cloths in front of her and asked, she flipped through them and found that there were still many differences in these fabrics.
The proprietress smiled slightly, as if she could see Liu Man'er's ignorance, she came over and patiently told her: "This is cotton cloth, this kind of fine cotton cloth costs ten cents a foot, muslin cloth costs eight cents a foot, and cheesecloth costs six cents a foot; This side is Gebu, which is five cents a foot, and there is sackcloth over there, which is three cents a foot. ”
Liu Man'er didn't know what the concept of this ruler was, she hit Ye Yuan with her hand, "How much is a foot?" ”
In modern terms, it is 33.33 centimeters, but the algorithm is different for each dynasty.
"So much." The proprietress took out a ruler and measured it, and Liu Man'er's heart became cold.
At first, she thought it was cheap, and she could afford it, but when the proprietress showed her a foot of fabric, she was secretly speechless.
It's a little expensive, this foot of fabric is really about 33.33 centimeters long, that is, Liu Man'er's arm is so long, the width looks like more than a meter, but it's still quite wide.
But at least three feet of cloth is needed to make a child's clothes.
In fact, Liu Man'er bought cloth, and she didn't know how to make clothes, so she could only ask the shopkeeper for help, "Boss, look at him, if you want to make a dress, how much cloth do you have to buy?" ”
"If you have a robe, you need more fabric, six feet, and if you have a short shirt, three feet is enough." The proprietress smiled slightly.
"Oh, what about me?" Liu Man'er asked again.
"Girl, you are slender, but you are still tall, if you make a skirt, the skirt needs five feet, and if you wear a skirt, two feet, such as the kind of top you are wearing now, two feet five is enough."
The underskirt is inconvenient for work, Liu Man'er feels that it is still a little far away from her, anyway, she just does it now that she is wearing this ordinary style, the short shirt worn by the countryman, she also feels very comfortable on her body, which is convenient for work.
However, she wanted to make a skirt for Ye He, the little girls love beauty, anyway, now she is a little money, so she simply buys fabrics to make clothes for everyone in the family, just at this time there is not much work in the family, she and Fang Shi study hard, and some sewing work can still be done to help.