Chapter 8 Simplicity and elegance

The ready-to-wear store is not big, but the hanging clothes and stacked fabrics occupy the space in the store very full, and the customers mostly buy fabrics and go home to make their own after choosing clothes, and after listening for a while, Lan Yi knows that the price of buying good fabrics and sewing them according to the hanging clothes is much lower than buying ready-to-wear clothes.

From the clothes hanging in this ready-to-wear store, it can be seen that the clothes of the Great Zhou Dynasty are different from the Han or Tang costumes that Lan Yi saw on TV in terms of style and color. The undergarments and jackets worn on the upper body are shorter, the waist and cuffs are looser, the color of the jacket is light, there are light green, pink purple, silver gray, green onion white and other colors, and the color of the skirt is usually brighter than the top, there are green, blue, green, blue and white and apricot yellow, etc., most of the clothing will be matched with a belt around the waist, which is called "waist", the color is mostly goose yellow, and the store calls this "waist yellow". This light-colored skirt is paired with a goose-yellow waist, the color is not as gorgeous as the clothing of the Tang Dynasty, and the matching is very coordinated, and it is more simple and elegant.

"I can't buy fabric, and I don't have the skills." Lan Yi looked at the ready-to-wear clothes hanging all over the wall and gritted her teeth, how could she buy clothes. Lan Yi chose two shirts to wear after shopping around, one was black and purple, one was light green, the skirt was also a common blue-green for rural women, and the baby's small clothes also picked two delicate ones, plus the shoes of the two, and after some bargaining, they shared 900 yuan.

The proprietress of the ready-to-wear store saw that it was inconvenient for Lan Yi to take the child, so she generously gave her a piece of navy blue cloth to make a furoshi, and by the way, she wrapped the string of 100 copper coins along with the clothes and Lan Yi's small package.

When Lan Yi came out of the ready-to-wear store, she had already taken off her sister-in-law's clothes, put on a newly bought purple and black shirt, with a cyan long skirt, a girdle around her waist, and her shoes were also replaced with white thick-soled linen shoes.

There was a woman on the side of the road who was selling women's jewelry, and Lan Yi went over and chose an inconspicuous carved wooden hairpin and a pair of small earrings, a total of eighteen wen. The women who come to play on the street are all dressed in decent clothes, and they wear real flowers on their heads except for hairpin rings, with peonies and peonies as the most, they wear purple hairpins and white flowers, goose yellow hairpins and purple flowers, and red hairpins and yellow flowers, which are very particular. But Lan Yi still can't appreciate this kind of beauty, and she doesn't have the idea of joining the ranks of such flowers, so buying a wooden hairpin can be regarded as eye-catching.

Although she is on the run, but if she wants to stay in a hotel for dinner, it is not appropriate to always dress up as a down-and-out peasant woman, such an ordinary dress will not attract the attention of others, but it will not make people look down on her, which is just right.

Look at the baby wrapped in Erniu's clothes in his arms, he is gnawing on his little fist with taste, and he looks no different from the baby on the street.

Lan Yi smiled and wiped the saliva that flowed outside, "If you go to rent a carriage or take a boat now, it will be noticed, so it is better to stay in Qingshan Town for a few days, understand the basic situation and then rush to Dengzhou." ”

The clothing is solved, and the key to the rest is the travel fee. This thumb-sized piece of silver is one or two pieces of silver, which is equivalent to the usual thousand copper coins, and she still has a piece of silver and more than a hundred copper coins, and it is enough to find an ordinary inn for two days, and the travel expenses must be prepared.

Although there are 100 taels of silver as the base, it still can't be moved until the critical time. All she could do now was find a pawnshop to exchange her jewelry for some silver. It is a bit risky to go to the pawnshop now, but if you don't go to the pawnshop, you have to take out the one hundred taels of silver on your body, which is more risky.

Yirou's things can't be moved, but the hollow carved silver hairpin with tassels and the earrings inlaid with red gravel on Chun Tao's head are supposed to be a few taels of silver. Chun Tao is just a maid next to her wife, and her jewelry should not be very precious and not easy to be recognized.

In addition to these jewelry on her head, Chun Tao is also worth some silver is the white jade bracelet on her hand, this jade bracelet looks warm, and the word "Zihui" is engraved on the inside, the logo is very obvious, Lan Yi will not consider it for the time being.

In order to avoid mistaking the jewelry into the hands of the enemy, Lan Yi chose a pawnshop that looked small in scale, but was clean and tidy, and walked in, such a small shop should not have a strong backstage.

Lan Yi walked into the pawnshop and found that there was a wooden fence on the counter separating the inside and outside, and there was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy wearing a cyan towel outside Mulan who was greeting guests, and the author in the wooden fence was a man in his forties who was slightly chubby and red-faced, and was stretching out his hand to let the pawnbroker see what bills.

Lan Yi walked to the counter and waited for the Confucian student in front of him, who was wearing a Tang scarf, a purple robe with a collar, a red silk Lu Gongqi, and black boots, to finish his things.

The young man didn't come to greet Lan Yi, but just made a grimace three or four steps away and teased the baby in her arms, making the baby grin and a string of saliva flowed down. Lan Yi naturally took out a handkerchief to wipe it off for him, and nodded slightly at the guy.

At this time, the man at the counter finished dealing with the Confucian and asked, "Madame, but do you want to be responsible?" ”

Lan Yi nodded yes, and pretended to be very hesitant to take out a hairpin and a pair of earrings from his arms and put them in front of the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took it up with a cotton handkerchief and examined it carefully, weighed it, looked at the jewels on the earrings in the sunlight, and after making a general judgment, asked, "Are these to be dead or alive?" ”

Lan Yi lowered her head and hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly replied, "Die." ”

"Although these two things are exquisite, the style is a little old, and they can be used as ten taels." The shopkeeper looked at Lan Yi's dress, and saw that she was weak, her complexion was sick, and her face was distressed and reluctant, thinking that this jewelry should be her dowry, and if the woman still had a way, she would not make her dowry a dead dowry.

"Is it only ten taels?" Lan Yi glanced up at the shopkeeper, she still had this look in her eyes when she studied business administration, although her voice was not high, but she said firmly, "Although my jewelry is a little old, it is worth fifteen taels." ”

"Well...... For the sake of the lady's urgent need for money, let's just fifteen taels. The items after the death will be disposed of by our shop, and the lady cannot redeem them. The shopkeeper took out a piece of paper, quickly wrote a few words with a brush, and handed it to Lan Yi for her to draw. Lan Yi looked at it carefully, the handwriting was sloppy, and he didn't know everything, to the effect that he had dropped some kind of ornament, so he tapped cinnabar and pressed his handprint.

Lan Yi asked the shopkeeper to give her fifteen taels of broken silver horns, and then carefully put them in her arms and walked out of the pawnshop, she now felt that something was wrong.

"Chun Tao is Yirou's personal maid, and her two pieces of jewelry are worth fifteen taels of silver, which is not a small amount. The baby's family should be a large family with a lot of money, but the relatives of such families were forced to flee with their children, and the strength of the opponent should not be underestimated. "Lan Yi has a big head," Yirou looked like a lady, a weak woman, she came out with her child, how did she plan to avoid and face such a powerful opponent? ”

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