The top priority of coming to Nanyang City was solved, and Cheng Wanwan felt much more relaxed.
The merchant ship was about to return in the afternoon of the third day. She got up early in the morning and took the two boys to visit Nanyang City. Of course she had to buy more things after making money. There were so many people at home waiting eagerly, so at least one person should bring a gift back.
Nanyang City is really lively, people traveling all over the place gather here, and everything is sold.
Cheng Wanwan bought a pipe for Old Man Zhao. His pipe was estimated to be at least twenty years old. It was old and out of shape. It was time to buy a new one. This thing is not expensive in Nanyang City, costing three hundred pennies. I bought a brand new one and it looks very solid.
I bought a forehead wipe for Mrs. Zhao. Usually older ladies would use this to keep out the wind. Seeing that the weather is getting colder, it’s time for the old lady to use it too.
As for the group of children, they were sent away with a bag of snacks each.
Zhao Youyin and Zhao Youcai each bought a pair of shoes, while Wen and Sun each bought ready-made clothes.
Zhao Dawang held the newly paid wages in his hand and said: "When I came to Nanyang, Xia Hua told me to look for colored embroidery threads. There are only twenty-four colors in Hekou County. She thought I want more red, I can’t tell the difference between these colors at all, please help me...”
One red color can be divided into thirty or forty kinds of red. He was completely confused.
Cheng Wanwan laughed. Zhao Dawang was a simpleton from the countryside. It was strange that he could distinguish these colors. This girl Xia Hua couldn't even find the right person.
She walked into the embroidery workshop and found the place where the embroidery threads were placed. When she saw hundreds of colors of embroidery threads, Cheng Wanwan was confused. There were dozens of reds in front of her eyes, and she couldn't tell them apart. Come out, forget it, she is also a naive person... In the end, she chose to buy them all.
Because Xia Hua embroidered all ordinary handkerchiefs, and what she bought was ordinary embroidery thread. The total cost of all the threads was more than 500 yuan. Zhao Dawang rushed to pay the money, and all the wages he finally earned were spent. .
Zhao Ergou looked at the lines arranged in order of color, and something suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Would you like to bring some embroidery thread back to Yingying?" Cheng Wanwan secretly teased her second son, with a hint of gossip in her eyes. In fact, she was very curious about how far the second son and Yingying had developed. .
Zhao Ergou didn't understand it at all. He asked slowly: "Flowers embroidered in so many colors look good, so why does a piece of clothing not look good when there are too many colors?"
"Who said clothes with too many colors won't look good?" Cheng Wanwan shook his head, "It mainly depends on the color matching."
The weaving and dyeing technology has become very mature these days. The clothes of rich people will have embroidered dark patterns and color matching, but the clothes of poor people are made of a whole piece of cloth, just one color, and poor people don't have time to embroider flowers. So the clothes are very simple in color, very dull, and not pretty.
"I met a man at the inn yesterday. He should be from Hekou County, half the same hometown." Zhao Ergou said, "He had a batch of Luosha fabrics in his hand. There was something wrong with the dyeing. This batch of goods broke his hand. If you can’t sell it online, do you think this batch of goods can be saved?”
Cheng Wanwan turned his head and looked at him seriously: "Er Gou, you don't want to buy this batch of Luosha, do you?"
Zhao Ergou shook his head quickly: "Of course not, I just asked casually."
He had suffered a setback in business, but he didn't dare to act rashly again.
Furthermore, the soap business cannot keep my mother busy all day long. He must learn to share her worries instead of letting her worry.
Cheng Wanwan touched his chin.
In the summer, mosquitoes buzzed in her ears every night. She sprayed mosquito repellent but it didn't work. Mosquito nets were the best.
Luosha is a gauze fabric. It is too expensive to buy specially. These ruined fabrics can be used as mosquito nets.
She smiled: "Since we are from the same hometown, let's help reduce some losses. If the price is right, I can buy two or three horses. Let's go and have a look."
The three of them returned to the inn. As soon as they walked in, they saw a chubby man eating in the lobby. The waiter brought two bottles of wine.
Zhao Ergou quickly went up: "Uncle, don't drink yet!"
This man was so drunk that nothing could be discussed.
He said, "I wonder if you still have the gauze cloth in your hand?"
"How do you know I have gauze?" The man stared at Zhao Ergou for a long time. Finally, he remembered where he had seen him before. He stood up and laughed, "It turns out it was you. I asked you that day." I saw the joke, I’m really sorry, come on, I’ll buy you a drink.”
Zhao Ergou shook his head: "No, no, no, I don't drink."
He drank once. He felt very uncomfortable when he was drunk. His head was dizzy and he couldn't remember clearly what happened.
He said, "This is my mother. She wants to buy two pieces of gauze."
The man stared at Cheng Wanwan, somewhat disbelieving: "Your mother is too young, how could you give birth to such a big son..."
Cheng Wanwan smiled lightly and said, "Do you still have Luo Sha?"
"Yes, yes!" The man nodded, not even bothering to drink, and took Cheng Wanwan and Zhao Ergou to the warehouse at the back. "They are all here. There may be unstained cloth in the middle. You need to slow down. Look for it slowly, it’s luck to find it, and there’s nothing I can do if you can’t find it.”
Cheng Wanwan casually tore off two pieces of cloth. The colors were really not good-looking, either dark or light, with no pattern at all.
This is a piece of clothing sold to the upper class. It is a veil covering the outermost layer. It is elegant and elegant. Once the color is too heavy, the charm is lost. No wonder it cannot be sold.
There was no need to choose a color when making a mosquito net. She took two pieces at random and went to check out.
"It's fate that I know you. How can I ask for money?" The man picked up four or five more horses from the ground and stuffed them into Zhao Ergou's arms. "Take them all, no money is required."
Zhao Ergou waved his hands quickly: "How can this be done? My mother has said that you can't take advantage of anyone. You have to set a price."
"To be honest, I plan to sell this batch of cloth as waste textiles. The waste products are calculated by the kilogram. I'm cheating you by charging you." The flesh on the man's face was squeezed together, and he looked like he was crying. "I'll take a look at these things. Just worry about it, if you can take away a little bit, it will be a big help to me."
It didn't matter that he himself lost money. The main reason was that other people in the family also invested a total of 20,000 taels. He didn't know how to explain it to these people. When he thought of this, he had a headache. He just wanted to drink, and drink to relieve his worries. When you're drunk, you don't have to think about these bad things.
Cheng Wanwan originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but this man refused to ask for money, and she wasn't one to take advantage.
She stared at the fabrics and said slowly: "Perhaps there is a way to reduce losses, but it still requires investing a large amount of money. Do you want to hear it?"
The man's eyes lit up.
He left home for more than a month. At first, he was doing other business, and then he went to pick up Luo Sha. Then he transported it to Nanyang by water to make the move. When he made the move, he realized that he had been tricked, and he wanted to find trouble for the other party. No, because he knew that those people must have taken the money and ran away long ago.
During the half month he had been in Nanyang, he begged his grandfather and his grandmother, but no one wanted this batch of yarn.
Finally, this morning, he decided to give up.
If I have this time to spend in Nanyang, I might as well re-energize and do other business.
He, Cao Defu, is still very talented in business.
Cheng Wanwan didn't say anything, but asked Zhao Ergou to spread out all the cloth.
Finally, I found an undamaged sky-blue Luosha.
She put the pure-color gauze on the outermost layer, put the dyed cyan cloth on the second layer, and put the water-red cloth on the bottom layer. It took some time to find the right one, and put pure sky-blue gauze on the fourth layer, in total. It is a four-layer superposition.
She smiled and said: "The dawn is cold outside the green poplar smoke, and the spring is stirring on the red apricot branches. Doesn't it match this poem?"
Green and red are shrouded in azure gauze. The green is like smoke, and the red masses are blooming. They are not just green poplars and red apricots. They have a unique charm in the cold smoke.
Cheng Wanwan changed the color again: "The garden is full of dark and light colors, shining in the green waves. Or, when the sun rises, the flowers on the river are as red as fire, and when spring comes, the river is as green as blue..."
Cao Defu was stunned.
Luo Sha, which was obviously ruined and had become waste, paired with such a poem, inexplicably became elegant and stylish. Even a vulgar person like him was shamefully moved.
If it were a literati or a wealthy lady, they would probably rush to buy it just to show off their own style and aesthetics.
What he needs to do is to buy a large amount of solid-color yarn, match it with the currently damaged yarn, and make yarn skirts or blouses. Instead of selling cloth, he sells ready-made clothes.
A piece of clothing, a poem, is a unique piece of clothing in this world.
By the time Cao Defu came to his senses, Cheng Wanwan and Zhao Ergou had already left with the cloth.
He breathed quickly and said: "Arrange a boat and go back to Hekou County!"
This time, he wanted to find a shopkeeper he knew well to make solid-color gauze, and he must not be tricked a second time!
