"Ah, this is not a restaurant, this is Good Luck's Embroidery Shop, which specializes in collecting handkerchiefs, purses and the like." Ma Siyan helped Jiang Qingran get out of the cattle driveway.
Jiang Qingran said, "It's really rare for an embroidery shop to have a restaurant name."
She carried her bag into the Good Luck Lai Embroidery Shop.
"Sister, I've been waiting for us for a while, and I finally have you here." said a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a light yellow dress and delicate makeup. She was an embroiderer. Shopkeeper Yu.
"Sister Yu, I guess there must be a new order." Jiang Qingran took off the baggage and put it on the counter.
Shopkeeper Yu gave you a look that said you were right.
She first accepted the five hundred handkerchiefs brought by Jiang Qingran.
There are five hundred handkerchiefs, and she only needs to randomly check a few to know who embroidered them.
The craftsmanship of female celebrities in their country is divided into upper, upper, middle and lower levels.
The craftsmanship of the native female embroidery is of the highest quality, and one embroidered handkerchief can be sold for eighty cents.
The embroidery work of Qian Qiujia, Qian Rourou and Su Yuchen was of high quality and could be sold for fifty cents each.
A medium-level embroidery job is worth 30 coins a piece, while a low-level embroidery job can be sold for 15 coins.
Jiang Qingran brought one hundred handkerchiefs, and the shopkeeper settled eight taels of silver and gave them to her.
Qian Qiujia and the four of them had a total of twenty taels of silver.
Shopkeeper Yu put four fifty-tael silver ingots into his purse and handed them to Jiang Qingran.
"Sister, my boss' mother, our old lady, will be celebrating her 60th birthday next month. What gift should I give her?
In this way, if your sister pays you fifty taels of silver, you can help her embroider a painting that will please the old lady. "Shopkeeper Yu called Jiang Qingran aside.
"Sister, what does the old lady like?" Jiang Qingran knew what the old lady liked, and then she knew what she should draw.
Shopkeeper Yu thought for a moment and said, "You old lady likes lotus flowers and eats hawthorn."
"Sister, do you have a portrait of the old lady?" Jiang Qingran had an idea. She planned to embroider a scene of the old lady standing in the lotus pond admiring the lotus.
"My sister is really good at teasing her. How can she look like an old lady?"
Jiang Qingran leaned in the shopkeeper's ear and spoke out all her thoughts.
"Let me see if I can come up with a pair, sister, don't have too much hope." Shopkeeper Yu said.
She is just a small person. She can get whatever she asks for, so she should do her best.
"If my sister is in trouble, it's okay. I just need to describe the old lady's appearance, or my sister can draw a portrait of the old lady from her memory." Jiang Qingran provided a solution.
Without the pattern, no matter how superb the original embroidery skills are, there is no guarantee that the old lady’s appearance will be perfectly restored.
If something went wrong even slightly, the consequences would be unbearable for her.
Shopkeeper Yu didn't dare to describe the old lady's appearance rashly. She hadn't seen the old lady in two years. Who knew whether the old lady was fat or thin?
In previous years, she followed suit and gave whatever others gave her.
This year she wanted to give something different to please the old lady.
Increase the good impression of the old lady and her employer.
"Sister, how about I wait for a few days before letting you know?" Shopkeeper Yu plans to take some time to go back to the capital soon.
She would find a way to meet the old lady, or find out from other shopkeepers whether the lady was fat or thin recently, and then she would know how to draw the old lady's portrait.
"That's fine, sister. This matter is of great importance, so don't be careless." Jiang Qingran didn't care whether the shopkeeper's flattery was flattering or not. The problem was that he didn't want to be implicated in this matter.
After collecting twenty silver coins, Jiang Qingran and his family left the shop.
Su Yuchen stared straight ahead.
Jiang Qingran followed his line of sight and saw a young man buying and selling candied haws.
"Third brother, do you want to eat candied haws on a stick?" Jiang Qingran asked with a smile.
Su Yuchen licked his lips and said, "Mom, the candied haws on a stick is delicious. Yuchen wants to eat it."
"The third one wants to eat. I want to buy you one, okay?" Jiang Qingran walked towards the little brother selling candied haws.
Su Yuchen said okay, okay, and followed Jiang Qingran closely.
"Brother, here are four candied haws on a stick." Jiang Qingran opened her purse, took out eight cents and handed it to the candied haws of sugar brother.
The little brother took the coin and said enthusiastically: "Auntie, please wait a moment."
Jiang Qingran didn't think there was anything wrong with the name of her aunt, so she didn't call her grandma directly.
After all, given her age, it's not an exaggeration to call her grandma.
Jiang Qingran took the candied haws and handed it to Su Yuchen, "Lao San, eat one candied haws, and give the rest to Xiaoxiao and the others, okay?"
"Okay, Xiaoxiao is my niece, Wenbao and Caibao are my nephews, Yuchen won't steal them." Su Yuchen ate his own one and took the other three candied haws.
"Our third child is really obedient." Jiang Qingran gently pinched Su Yuchen's cheek and went to buy rice.
"Shopkeeper, how much is a pound of rice?" Jiang Qingran asked, touching the round rice.
The shopkeeper of Mipu put down the brush in his hand when he heard the price.
"Sir, the rice you are touching is the most expensive rice in our shop, priced at fifty cents per catty.
The long-grain rice around it is much cheaper than it, some cost 20 cents, and some cost 30 cents. "The shopkeeper of the rice shop explained the price of rice.
Fifty cents is really expensive.
Long-grain rice is more suitable for making porridge. Steamed rice or round-grain rice tastes more delicious.
Jiang Qingran looked repeatedly between the round-grained rice and the long-grained rice.
Ma Siyan saw that her mother-in-law was undecided and said, "Mom, how about we do both?
My mother used to eat long-grain rice worth thirty cents when cooking porridge, and round-grain rice worth fifty cents when steaming rice. "
Ma Siyan didn't lie. The food in her mother-in-law's family has deteriorated in the past two years and they no longer eat rice.
I heard her father say before that her mother-in-law only eats the rice she grows herself or buys expensive rice from the shop. She doesn't eat cheap rice.
Jiang Qingran searched through the original memory and found that it was true.
When the original land was used as a gambling house for his family, he planted two kinds of rice.
If you don't have enough food, go to Mipu to buy expensive food.
"Let's get ten pounds first."
"Okay, wait a moment, sir." The shopkeeper of the rice shop told the waiter to pack the rice and go back to the counter to settle the account.
While he was planning the dishes, he said: "Sir, round-grain rice is fifty cents per catty, and ten catties is five hundred cents.
Long-grain rice costs thirty cents per catty, and ten catties is three hundred cents, adding up to a total of eight hundred cents.
The guest officer paid me eight hundred pence, which is very good. "
Jiang Qingran fished out a tael of silver from his purse to pay the bill, and waited for the shopkeeper to find the copper and leave the shop.
"Is there anything else missing at home? Buy it all now." Jiang Qingran didn't go to the kitchen and didn't know what she was missing.
"Mom, it seems like there is nothing missing. We have everything including food, oil, soy sauce and vinegar at home." Ma Siyan recalled the things at home.
"Okay, you go buy cloth for your in-laws, and my mother will take the third child to buy cakes."
"Mom, why don't you let your husband come with me?" Ma Siyan was afraid that Su Yuchen would make trouble and annoy her mother-in-law.
