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Chapter 8
"My family's cloth is imported from the south of the Yangtze River. It's all high-quality cotton cloth. Look at the stitches, which are tight and smooth, without any thorns."

Xu Ruoruo touched it, and it felt really good, much more comfortable than the sackcloth she was wearing now.

"Boss, how much is this per foot?"

"The one you touched in your hand costs thirty cents a foot."

What Xu Ruoruo touched was that this piece of cloth was undyed, the cheapest kind, if you want to have colors or patterns, you may not be able to buy it for more than a dozen dollars.

Xu Ruoruo withdrew his hand from the cloth: "The price is a bit high, boss, please tell me the real price, if it is suitable, I will buy a few more feet."

Necessary skills to buy things - bargaining.

"Oh, this price is already very, very real, and it can't be cheaper." The boss held his chest, as if he would faint if it was even cheaper.

Without saying a word, Xu Ruoruo turned around and left with Lu Xing.

The boss didn't expect Xu Ruoruo to leave as soon as he said it. Isn't there usually a few back and forths in bargaining?

She immediately came out from the counter and grabbed Xu Ruoruo's sleeve: "Young lady is so impatient, you need to talk about business little by little. In this way, if you really want two clothes for each of you, then one foot I'll give you two cash cheaper, 28 cash, what do you think?"

The boss frowned and raised his hand: "This price is really only as cheap as this. No matter how cheap it is, I don't even have half a penny for hard work."

Xu Ruoruo calculated it in her mind, and she was satisfied with the price. She returned to the counter where the cloth was placed, pointed to the slightly yellowed cotton cloth although it was said to be white cotton cloth, and said, "This cloth needs to be twenty feet."

That is to say, two sets of clothes can be made for her and Lu Xing.

Ever since Xu Ruoruo got the six hundred Wen, she made up her mind to spend it all.

Niu seems to have given Xu Ruoruo a handful of money casually, but in fact, she must count it later.

When Xu Ruoruo goes back, Niu will definitely ask about the use of the money one by one.To make four pieces of clothes, which can be seen and touched, and the price is clearly marked, Niu has no reason to ask for the money back.

She doesn't save Niu's money.

The proprietress's eyes lit up. She didn't expect Xu Ruoruo to be willing to buy so much. Twenty feet of cloth cost more than 500 Wen, which was a big deal for her shop.

The location of her shop is not good, it is at the end of Tianshui Lane, the traffic is not too much, the richer and richer people go to the silk shop in the middle, and the poor don't buy much cloth in the town at all.

So her business was mediocre, and Xu Ruoruo's five hundred Wen was worth her money for several days.

The smile on her face was even brighter than when Xu Ruoruo and the two first came in: "I'll pack it for the lady right now."

Xu Ruoruo paid the money readily. After paying, she suddenly remembered something. The clothes here seemed to be made by herself, but she didn't even know how to hold a needle.

Xu Ruoruo glanced at Lu Xing quickly, this big man probably wouldn't work so meticulously.

She touched her nose and asked the boss: "Boss, can your shop help you make ready-made clothes?"

If it's too expensive, she won't do it.

The boss is also a little dumbfounded. In their town, almost everyone buys fabrics and goes back to make clothes by themselves. No one has a girl, so why waste this money.

So her shop is full of fabrics, not a single ready-made garment.

Suddenly, the boss remembered something, and his tone became a little more serious, and he said to Xu Ruoruo: "If a girl doesn't have time to make clothes, I can introduce someone to you. The craftsmanship is not to mention, and the person is clean. You can make clothes to your satisfaction."

Xu Ruoruo just needs someone to make clothes for him: "Boss, tell me, I'll find it myself later."

"Let me take you there. The place is a bit out of the way. I'm afraid you won't find it." The boss was very enthusiastic and called out to the backyard: "Lian'er, mother, go out and look at the shop."

"Okay, mother, go, I'll be right there." A voice came from the backyard, and the boss walked ahead with confidence, leading Xu Ruoruo and Lu Xing to find the clothes maker.

The boss led the two out of Tianshui Lane, turned to the right into a small alley that could barely accommodate two people, and said as he walked, "The person I took you to find is a widow. good."

"Her man died early, and the child was only three years old when he died. There was also an old mother in her 50s. After the man died, she did not remarry and brought up the child herself."

"On weekdays, I mainly do laundry, sewing, and mending jobs. In fact, I do all kinds of jobs. I have worked hard to bring up the children and take care of my mother-in-law."

Xu Ruoruo admired secretly, this woman is not easy.

This alley is really too narrow, and the newly bought cloth can only be hugged vertically, and the road under the feet has been stepped on for many years, and the potholes are not easy to walk.

It wasn't a very long way, but it took them a quarter of an hour to walk.

"But God bless, her son is a promising man. After so many years, it's been hard work."

The boss led them through two more turns: "We're here, I'll call the door first."

"Ah."

Xu Ruoruo glanced around, and saw that the narrow alleys extending in all directions connected these crowded and low houses together, like a broken mirror, he didn't know where the next corner was or where the next fork led.

Compared with the glamorous shop in front, it's like a sky and a ground.

The boss patted the crumbling door: "Ms. Song, are you there?"

"Yes, who is it?" There was a voice in the low room, and there was a creaking sound, but the door was opened by a young man in white starched clothes with a patch on his shoulder.

The boy is not very old, only about twelve or thirteen years old, and his figure is very thin, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.

The boss's eyes lit up: "Boy Pei didn't go to school today?"

The young man bowed his hands towards the boss and Xu Ruoruo and Lu Xing who were outside the door in a gentle manner, and said in a calm tone, "Mr. is in a hurry today, so he gave us morning class. Everyone, please come in."

From the moment he opened the door to now, Xu Ruoruo saw in this young man the strongest bookish spirit since she came to this world.

It's not comparable to two children, Lu Sanlang and Lu Silang.

A widow supporting a scholar doesn't need to think about it, Xu Ruoruo also knows the difficulty and severity of it, and from what the previous boss said, the young man's books are probably well read, so she treats her differently.

The boss walked in and glanced at the narrow courtyard where only four or five people could stand, and saw Mrs. Song wiping her hands on her apron, and hurriedly said, "Ms. Song, I'm here to introduce you business."

(End of this chapter)