HLnovel Chapter 324: The spooky old shop
Chapter 324: The spooky old shop
Shen Youyou said, "I want a lot, are you sure you can make the decision?"
The waiter was obviously smart. His eyes lit up and he introduced the various fabrics to Shen Youyou eloquently.
For example, the cloths that are often purchased by peddlers are generally those with easily acceptable colors and affordable prices, that is, the cloths that are easier to sell, and this was explained in detail.
Shen Youyou knew that the waiter had misunderstood and thought she was a peddler, but she did not interrupt him.
Because this will obviously allow her to understand the prices of various fabrics as quickly as possible, and it will also be easier to find a fabric with a better cost-effectiveness.
This cloth shop sells coarse linen for 200 wen a piece, fine linen for 350 wen, coarse cotton for 500 wen, and the most common fine cotton for 850 wen.
As for the muslin and silk in the back cabinet, the waiter didn't introduce them, but the colors were slightly different.
Moreover, the second brother saw that Shen Youyou was a child, and told her: "It takes about seven feet to make a set of clothes for an adult man, and about five or six feet for a woman. For children, you can calculate based on their height."
Shen Youyou roughly calculated that all the people in their nine clans, especially the little kids,
There are only a dozen people in Shen Luming's group, and the rest are half-grown children. We have to buy at least fifty pieces of cloth to have some surplus.
Even buying coarse linen cost ten taels of silver.
Because during the Daqing Dynasty, a piece of cloth was 40 feet long, which means it could make clothes for about five adults and one child.
And these are all wholesale prices, which means you have to buy a lot. If you buy individually, coarse linen is seven cents a foot, and fine linen is ten cents a foot.
Also, linen itself comes in a few colors. The cheapest is white, and the earthy jute color is slightly yellowish, similar to the color of sand.
Then there are the more common colors: gray, black, indigo, navy blue, and copper green.
The waiter was also dressed in a green cloth shirt, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with black hair tied up with a green cloth strip, and a kind smile on his face: "Sir, have you chosen the cloth?"
Shen Youyou made up her mind: "I need 25 pieces of gray and black fine linen, 5 pieces of white, and 1 piece of khaki linen."
The main reason for this choice was that she wanted to build a tomb for her grandfather, and it would be bad if the clothes were too flashy, so the men wore black and the women wore gray.
It can be worn for daily work and is resistant to dirt.
As for the three white ones, it was because building a cenotaph was equivalent to burial, and people like their family and Li Quan, Dahu and Erhu had to wear mourning clothes.
Although we can't spend so much money, we can make white clothes for everyone and let them all wear white hats, which is also a thoughtful gesture from everyone.
As for why we buy fine linen for white instead of coarse linen, ordinary white clothes are not worn by anyone, and can only be worn as inner clothes. Coarse linen is too prickly, and fine linen can also be used to make cloth bags and things to filter jelly.
They are not rich now, so they have to be prudent. As for this prudent, it does not mean buying the cheapest cloth.
After we build a cenotaph for my grandfather, I won’t be able to wear it outside. It seems to save money, but it is actually a waste.
As for the khaki-yellow coarse linen at the end, it is because the mourning clothes of the Daqing Dynasty were white inside the clothes and pants.
You also have to wear a waistcoat-like thing made of two pieces of khaki coarse linen on the outside, which is the so-called mourning clothes.
The waiter had not expected that the boy in front of him would be so generous and buy so much cloth at once. He was very surprised and asked the shopkeeper for permission when paying the bill.
In total, he received nineteen taels of silver, and said happily that he would charge four hundred and fifty coins less, and that he would come to their cloth shop to purchase goods in the future and he would definitely give him the most favorable price.
Shen Youyou really thought they were reselling cloth. It was true that an ordinary peddler would not need so many pieces of cloth at once, and would never have thought that they were going to make clothes for nearly three hundred people.
After paying the bill, the waiter asked several other waiters to move the cloth, and he was very attentive. After all, he had done a big deal today, and he could get a lot of bonuses.
He even secretly decided in his heart that he must treat every guest well. After all, the people in front of him were dressed so... uh... simply, and they could still buy cloth for nineteen taels of silver.
After loading the cloth into the car, Shen Youyou went to the next shop to buy yellow paper.
This shop was located in a remote area, and they wandered around several alleys before finding it.
This should be located in the southwest corner of Fang County. There is a wooden plaque with four big black characters "Jiang's Paper-Made" written on it.
According to Zhou Qian, this shop has been open in Fang County for a hundred years and is truly a time-honored brand.
But it might be selling yellow paper or something like that, as I could feel a cool breeze when I stood at the door.
Shen Daya held Shen Youyou and said, "Youyou, you are still young. Brother Dabao and I will go in and buy it."
Shen Youyou shook her head. Although it was indeed quite eerie, she still wanted to go in by herself. After all, there was not much she could do for her ancient grandfather in this life.
When you push open the wooden door, a cool breeze mixed with the fragrance of straw paper and wood hits your nose. It feels like entering an air-conditioned room, which is really rare in this hot summer.
The shop is less than two meters wide, but very deep. This is the first time I have seen such a layout.
There are many wooden shelves on the left side of the door, on which are placed various paper money, incense sticks, and various paper objects.
Such as the mountains of gold and silver, the lotus platform, various paper clothes, fairy peaches, and the boys and girls hanging behind, all of which are very realistic.
Shen Youyou and her group felt their scalps tingling when they saw this, and even Taohua and Erya grabbed one side of Shen Youyou's arm.
At the innermost part is a counter, and behind it is a dark blue door curtain. I didn't see the shopkeeper, so there must be a room behind.
At this moment, a pure black big cat suddenly jumped out, scaring everyone, and even some of the sisters screamed.
Shen Youyou was also shocked. You said you want to open a paper burning shop, so just open a paper burning shop. Is it necessary to make it so gloomy and scary, and even keep a black cat?
Perhaps she heard the scream and knew someone was coming to the shop in front. A woman in her forties wearing khaki cotton clothes lifted the door curtain and walked out from the inner room:
"What are you guys doing here? Can anyone come in here?"
Indeed, in this era, most of the customers in this kind of shop are adults. They think that children should not enter this kind of shop because they cannot be controlled.
Shen Youyou also exhaled: "Boss lady, aren't you open for business? We must be here to buy yellow paper!"
When Madam Jiang heard this, she pointed at the items on the shelf and said, "Pick what you want."
You don’t know unless you look closely. Once you look closely, even Shen Youyou has to admire the shopkeeper. Do you know what she saw?
Let’s not talk about the fact that when they decided to buy some yellow paper to take back, the grandmothers had already told them to buy more of the kind that was shaped like big copper coins.
That is the ghost money, which is used in the underworld. Another thing is to ask how much a mountain of gold and silver is worth, so we can buy one for her grandfather.
But no one told her that there are silver bills used in the underworld!