Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 23 Buying Cloth
Hearing Liu Man'er's threatening words, the brocade-robed young man snorted coldly and dared not say more.

Liu Man'er stretched out her hand, "Where's the money? Here."

The young man was startled, but the shopkeeper reacted quickly and took out a small silver coin from his sleeve pocket, "Here you are."

Liu Man'er took the silver with her left hand. In fact, she could not recognize the authenticity of the silver, but she just thought that such a big store should not be able to deceive her, so she took the silver.

Just as he was about to pass the snake over, the shopkeeper also tremblingly stretched out his hand to pick it up, but Ye Yuan came up abruptly from behind, "Take a pair of pliers and pull out this tooth, so that it won't bite. .”

"Hey, who are you? I bought this snake. Why do you speak?" The young man said a little displeased.

"I am the owner of this snake. Didn't you just say that you bought this snake just to kill it? If that's the case, I'll pull out its teeth first."

As he said that, he didn't know where he found a pair of pliers, and he was about to pull out the snake's teeth.

The young man saw it and said quickly, "I bought this snake and it's mine. I've changed my mind now. I want to use this snake to make wine."

Liu Man'er blinked her eyes, and the four big characters appeared in her heart: no evil, no business.

This young man really knows how to pretend, even she believed it a little bit. He bought the clinker to make wine. The reason why he pretended to be like before is to keep the price down. Deep, cheated again.

He sold it for five taels of silver, and Liu Man'er felt that he was losing money at the moment, and she blamed her for being eager to sell, otherwise, this person might also buy it for ten taels of silver.

"In this case, you should bring a cage and raise the snake for a month, and then soak it in strong wine. It will be very useful in curing rheumatism."

As Ye Yuan took the snake from Liu Man'er's hand, Liu Man'er felt her hand loosen instantly. Although she had great strength, she was very nervous when holding the snake, and her arm was going numb. At this moment, seeing When Ye Yuan came, he felt that he had someone to rely on.

The young man quickly asked the shopkeeper to bring an iron cage, Ye Yuan helped put the snake in, closed the cage, and then pulled Liu Man'er out.

He casually picked up the pannier that was placed on the ground, put the tongs on one of the diners' tables, and Ye Yuan took Liu Man'er out of the yard.

"You were really majestic just now." Liu Man'er praised.

With a longbow on his back, he was tall and tall. He stood there with a straight back, even half a head taller than the young man in the fine clothes, and he was even more imposing.

"By the way, didn't I tell you to wait outside? Why did you come here?" Without waiting for Ye Yuan to speak, Liu Man'er asked again.

"I saw that you haven't come out for a long time, so I came over to have a look." Ye Yuan replied.

But in fact, not long after Liu Man'er entered, he followed behind Liu Man'er, but Liu Man'er was nervous and afraid, so she never saw him.

"I was really scared to death just now." Liu Man'er said as she took out the money from her pocket, "You can see if it's true or not."

"Don't worry, I can't fake it." Ye Yuan took the money over, looked at it, and handed it back to her, "You keep it."

"Take it, I'm afraid I'll lose it later." Liu Man'er handed it to Ye Yuan again, and seeing him accept it, a smile appeared on her face, "Did I agree too readily just now? Maybe if we say ten taels of silver, he will buy it too."

Soon, she forgot the unhappiness just now, and chatted with Ye Yuan.

"No, you did a good job. The price is five taels higher than the two taels we thought just now, isn't it?" Ye Yuan held her hand and felt her little hands were cold, so he knew that she was just pretending Calm.

But he didn't expect that this girl would have the guts to scare others by catching snakes.

"Actually, I don't think five taels of silver is too much. Think about it, this is a hundred-year-old poisonous snake. One tael of snake venom is worth ten taels of gold." Liu Man'er started talking clichéd again.

"Okay, don't think about it, just get rid of this snake. Now you should think about it, what are we going to do? Don't you want to buy food? Now that we have money, we can go." Ye Yuan's tone has a pampering that he can't hear himself.

"But we have such a large amount of money, they shouldn't be able to find it on the street?" Liu Man'er suggested, "Why don't we go buy cloth first?"

"It's up to you." Hearing Liu Man'er say this, Ye Yuan became emotional. He walked around the street and dragged Liu Man'er into a silver jewelry store.

Liu Man'er also likes these antique things very much, and when she saw Ye Yuan walking inside, she also followed.

The waiter in this jewelry shop couldn't say that he was enthusiastic about Liu Man'er, but it wasn't bad either. Ye Yuan asked whatever he asked, and he answered without a word.

"How about this silver hairpin?" Ye Yuan picked up a silver hairpin from the tray and put it in Liu Man'er's hair for comparison.

"It looks good." Liu Man'er also likes this style, but she has two big braids now, so she doesn't need this hairpin.

But when Ye Yuan inserted the hairpin on her head, she still couldn't help laughing, the expression on her face was quite happy.

"Okay, I'll just buy this one." Ye Yuan said to Xiaoer.

When Xiaoer heard Ye Yuan said he wanted to buy it, a smile quickly appeared on his face, "Okay, I'll weigh it for you."

With that said, he took the silver hairpin from Ye Yuan's hand, and put it on the scale, "Eight cash, two cash for handwork, and one tael of silver for the benefit."

"You bought it for me?" Liu Man'er asked in a low voice.

"Of course, didn't I just tell you last time?" Ye Yuan smiled and rubbed Liu Man'er's head, inserted the hairpin into her head, and paid for it.

Liu Man'er pulled it out and put it in her arms. She said to the waiter, "Do you have any water here? Can I borrow some water to wash my hands?"

"Yes." Just now when Ye Yuan bought something, the store waiter's attitude improved immediately, he talked to the shopkeeper who was on the side to settle the accounts, and then led Liu Man'er to the backyard.

The courtyard is full of internal organs, Liu Man'er saw the well in the middle of the yard at a glance, Ye Yuan saw a bucket beside it, so he brought a bucket of water for Liu Man'er.

Liu Man'er felt that her hands were sticky early in the morning. After all, she touched the snake just now, and when she rolled up her sleeves to wash 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 that time." Liu Man'er still had lingering fears when she thought about it. In fact, the snake was tied up tightly and didn't bite, but she just felt greasy and disgusting. She didn't feel it just now, but now she felt it. I felt more and more uncomfortable, so I rubbed it carefully.

"Okay, don't be afraid, don't be brave next time." Ye Yuan knew what she was thinking, stretched out his hand, and quickly swiped twice on her hand, "Okay, it's clean, take it out, this weather , easy to catch cold."

"Yeah." Liu Man'er took out her hand obediently, Ye Yuan helped wash the bucket, and then thanked the little girl before going to the front yard again.

After leaving the jewelry shop, Liu Man'er went to the cloth shop, and it happened that the basket was empty and could be used to hold cloth.

"If I had known, I would have washed this basket too." Liu Man'er thought that this basket had once contained snakes, and felt a little creepy.

"The place where you buy cloth can be washed later." Ye Yuan said, leading her into a cloth shop.

Although this cloth shop is not big, it has all kinds of cloth, not only that, but also some brocade and silk satin, but those Liu Man'er just took a look and looked away, and her eyes were on the cloth piled on the side.

"Hello, guest officer, look at the fabric, right?" Seeing that Liu Man'er was poorly dressed, the proprietress came over with a smile.

This made Liu Man'er's first impression of her very good. Oh my God, she was all stared at in almost all the shops along the way, okay? Only the proprietress smiled at her, which made her It feels like a ray of warm sunshine in the cold winter months.

Originally, she thought that she would have to look more later and shop around, but at this moment, Liu Man'er felt that she had already identified this store.

"How do you sell these fabrics?" Liu Man'er pointed to the fabrics 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 walked over and told her patiently: "This is cotton cloth. This kind of fine cotton cloth costs ten cents a foot, fine cotton cloth costs eight cents a foot, and coarse cotton cloth costs six cents a foot." A penny is a foot; here is Gebu, this kind of Gebu is five Wen a foot, and there is linen, which is three Wen a foot."

Liu Man'er didn't know what a foot was, so she bumped Ye Yuan with her hand, "How much is a foot?"

According to modern words, it is 33 centimeters, but the calculation is different in each dynasty.

"So many." The proprietress took out a ruler, and when she measured it, Liu Man'er's heart became cold.

At first, she thought the price was cheap and she could still afford it, but when the proprietress measured out a foot of fabric for her to see, she was secretly speechless.

It's a little expensive, but the length of this foot of fabric is about 33 centimeters, which is about the length of Liu Man'er's arm. The width seems to be more than one meter, but it is 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 was not very good at making clothes, so she could only ask the shopkeeper for help, "Miss Boss, look at him, if he wants to make a dress, how much cloth will he buy?"

"The cloth for the robe needs to be more, and it needs to be six feet long. For the short shirt, three feet is enough." The proprietress smiled slightly.

"Oh, what about me?" Liu Man'er asked again.

"Girl, you are slender, but still tall. If you want to make a skirt, you need five feet for the skirt, and two feet for the underclothes. Like the jacket you are wearing now, two feet and five feet is enough."

Liu Man'er felt that these inconvenient clothes for work were still a little far away from her. Anyway, she just wore the ordinary style on her body now. Very comfortable and convenient to work.

But she wants to make a skirt for Ye He. Little girls love beauty. Anyway, she has a little money now, so she simply buys fabrics to make clothes for everyone in the family. It just so happens that there is not much work in the family at this time. Well, she studied hard with Fang Shi, and she could still help with some sewing work.

(End of this chapter)