The three of them walked to a ready-to-wear shop, where on the left side were a few fancy clothes, on the cabinet were other ready-to-wear garments of different styles and fabrics, and in the rest of the shop were several large tables with fabrics of different colors and materials neatly stacked on top of each other.

The white-skinned and wealthy proprietress stood behind the counter, and her sharp voice shouted, "Eldest sister wants to be dressed or torn cloth?" I've got everything in this store, you can take a look at it. ”

Jiang Yan nodded, pulled Xiao Si Xiaowu to the cloth of coarse linen, and carefully looked at these fabrics, the color is too bright and conspicuous, and the quality is too good, otherwise it will be too dazzling in the village.

She chose and chosen, and finally picked three pieces of linen and half a piece of satin, the three pieces of cloth were dark blue, goose yellow and palm, which were used to make clothes for the family, and as for the half of the silk, she chose indigo, which was used to make underwear and underwear inside, and the fabric that touched the skin was better and better for the skin.

"Boss, how do you sell this cloth?"

The proprietress of the ready-to-wear store smiled with a smile on her face: "Eldest sister is really good-looking, this is a new linen cloth that has just come out, you can see it at a glance, our fabric, one foot 9 Wen, a piece of cloth 360 Wen, this silk is more expensive, one foot 30 Wen." ”

Jiang Yan calculated in her heart that a piece of cloth in this era is 40 feet, and an adult man can make three sets of summer clothes, which is almost 120 Wen and a dress per person.

She pointed to the ready-to-wear on the side and said, "How much is a set of ready-to-wear made of linen?" ”

"This is my own embroidery lady made, ready-to-wear 140 Wen set, short dozen is cheaper, 50 Wen -100 Wen are available, you can take a look."

Jiang Yan nodded, feeling so expensive in her heart! But it's understandable to think that people here don't generally buy ready-to-wear clothes, and it's rare to buy clothes once a year.

She wants to give the children a set of full-body ready-to-wear, although this short dozen is cheaper, but many are made of leftovers, the effect is poor, and it is not comfortable to do, since the conditions are better now, then buy it back and make it yourself. The leftover scraps can also be used to make a few pairs of socks.

"Boss, I want these three pieces of fabric and half a piece of silk, you can give a good price, I can take them all."

Hearing this, the proprietress hurriedly walked out from behind the counter and took out the cloth for Jiang Yan.

said with a smile: "Eldest sister, don't worry, you will definitely give you a real price for so much at one time." ”

The business of the store has been poor recently, the price of rice, flour, grain and oil has risen outside, and her garment shop has little business a day, she mainly sells low-priced linen ready-to-wear garments, and most of the people who come and go are nearby villagers.

Now that everyone can't afford to eat, who is willing to spend money to buy fabrics to make clothes, so Jiang Yan can be regarded as her biggest customer these days.

She diligently packed the fabric and counted the money: "Sister, your fabrics add up to 1680 Wen, which is cheaper for you, one or two or six hundred yuan, suitable for you to buy more next time!" ”

Jiang Yan shook her head and said: "The drought has not been completed, I can understand the price increase of grain, the boss lady, you are not kind, at this time, not many people will spend money to buy fabrics to make clothes, you still give it to me according to the previous price." ”

"The linen cloth is 7 wen a foot, and the silk is 28 wen a foot, just one or two or four hundred yuan."

The price of the fabric in the original memory is worth so much, she pulled ten feet of cloth for her eldest nephew not long ago to make new clothes, and theoretically the price should not fluctuate so much.

"It's not the first time I've pulled cloth in your shop, the proprietress is more cheerful."

The proprietress laughed and said: "Sure enough, it's an old acquaintance in the store, I still remember the previous price, and now the prices have risen, but for the sake of the eldest sister, you are an old acquaintance, and I will give it to you according to the previous price, and I will pack it for you." ”

The proprietress called out to the inner hall, and a guy with a cloth hat came out and packed and bundled all the fabrics Jiang Yan wanted.

Jiang Yan asked the two children to follow the guy, and after the guy packed, he walked to the door, Jiang Yan returned to the counter, took out two taels of silver to find money for the proprietress.

The shops in the town usually buy a lot of things, and they will help to send them to the gate of the town to ride the ox cart, or give some carriage and horse fees to help send them to the village.

Jiang Yan asked the proprietress for two sets of needlework, this thing is not expensive, the proprietress happily sent two pairs, took the good things, Jiang Yan took the two children to the stall.

Lin Dong and the others had already packed their things, and the family bought some meat and vegetables on the street before hurriedly going to drive the ox cart.

The guy from the garment store was already waiting at the gate of the town, and Jiang Yan instructed Lin Dong and Lin Xi to help load the cloth onto the ox cart before going up.

"Uncle, aren't you leaving?"

Lin Gui shook his head and said, "Wait, there are many people in the village going to the town today, maybe they will take an ox cart when they go back, you came early today, and I haven't left at this time in the past." ”

Jiang Yan nodded, and saw Lin Bei take off his shoes and muttered: "Four texts of rice rolls... It seems that there are twenty-six bowls, and twenty-two bowls with eggs...... That's... Hey, how much is it......"

The more Jiang Yan listened, the more frightened she became, if this little guy figured it out, then it would be okay, the money from the stall in the past two days was enough to buy cloth and cut pork! Fortunately, I bought the fabric just now and broke him out, otherwise it would not be clear to explain it in the future!

"Little four, you can't figure it out."

Lin Bei looked puzzled: "Mother, I used my fingers and toes, and I also added Xiao Wu's fingers and toes together, but I still can't figure out how much money we made." ”

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That's not a reason to take off your shoes and count your toes! It's not over if you take it off! Take off someone else's!

It seems that she is looking for time to teach a few children to do arithmetic, not to mention anything else, at least she can collect money and keep accounts.

Jiang Yan endured the smoky smell, and said with a serious face: "Little four, don't take off your shoes casually in the future, neither can Xiao Wu, let's walk for a day, our feet are sweaty, you smell it yourself, if the customer smells this smell, who wants to eat at our house?" ”

Lin Beixiao's face turned red, and he hurriedly put on his grass shoes, his straw sandals were hung on his feet like this, and his feet were basically exposed, and it was not much different whether he wore them or not, but as soon as his mother said this, he couldn't wait to hide his feet!

"I bought cloth today, and I asked my sister-in-law to make you a few pairs of shoes so that you don't have to wear straw sandals in the future!"

"Got it, mother! In the future, I won't take off my shoes indiscriminately, and I will wash them cleanly, so that many customers in our family will come to eat cheong fun! ”

Lin Bei blushed, looked at the cloth on Lin Xi's ox cart, and couldn't help but touch it for a while, he also wanted new clothes and new shoes!

Before the Chinese New Year, their family can wear new clothes!

After waiting for a while, two people came up from the ox cart, it was the people from the old house of the Lin family, Jiang Yan had a cold face, the other party didn't speak, and she didn't speak.

Lin Gui saw that the sky was about the same, spurred the old cow and began to return to the village.

At this time, the sun was drying, and several people put the leaves prepared early on their heads and on the ox cart, and the car board that had been dried for a day was very hot, but the daughter-in-law of the Lin family's old house was not a safe person, taking advantage of everyone's inattention, she always quietly reached out to touch the cloth on the ox cart, and was burned by the car board, and secretly sighed who bought it.