Mrs. Xu first decided on her granddaughter's clothes.
She took off the charcoal pen stuck in her head as a hairpin and wrote down in the small notebook she carried:
My granddaughter wears a thin cotton-padded jacket and trousers in winter, and has to buy two and a half kilograms of cotton as core.
As for the lining used to wrap and sew the cotton, it was ordered to be white muslin cloth worth seventy cents a foot, and the lining of the cotton trousers was ordered to be black muslin.
The lining of this body alone requires thirteen feet of cloth, and one piece is forty feet of cloth.
If you were an ordinary farmer, you shouldn't buy a light color like white for your top.
However, Mrs. Xu considered that if the color of the blouse worn outside the cotton-padded jacket was too light, the darker color of the lining would show through, making it unsightly to wear. But the cotton trousers didn't matter. She wore a skirt outside the cotton trousers. When she got home, she would make a pair of cotton boots for her granddaughter.
Mrs. Xu was determined to spend money to dress up her granddaughter.
No matter where the person is, she must be beautiful if there are conditions, and she must be beautiful even if there are no conditions. Otherwise, her granddaughter will grow up in a blink of an eye and her youth will pass away. What is the point of her struggling to start from scratch?
What's more, money is a bastard. If we don't have enough money to make it, who knows when it will be gone again. In modern times, she is wary of danger in times of peace. In the end, the money she saved is at an advantage.
Mrs. Xu plans to choose a pink color for her granddaughter's cotton-padded jacket, which requires seven feet of pink muslin. The skirt is pleated and must be at least seven feet tall. This piece of clothing costs another fourteen feet, not counting the cotton lining. Reserve more, taking into account the wrapping and buckles. The skirt is set to be blue.
The host's wife was surprised by Mrs. Xu's choice of color. Then she thought again, no wonder the old woman in patches had such a calm demeanor.
I guess even if you come from a peasant family, there must be at least some scholars in your family, right? Or it once served scholars or something like that. After all, only people with a high spirit can still care deeply about beauty, otherwise it would be too unrealistic.
This kind of pink and blue is not suitable for work in rural areas, but I didn't advise him. Knowing that the farmer wanted to buy new clothes, he must have been cruel. He couldn't spend money to make fun of it. He must have chosen carefully: "Qiubo blue?"
Mrs. Xu didn't know what Qiubo blue and Jianshi blue were, but she knew that the color of the skirt she chose for her granddaughter was a bit like the blue of the clear sky. It was really beautiful. It would have been better if it was satin, but unfortunately she couldn't afford it right now. She has big ambitions, that is her goal for the next year, to wear pure cotton for the time being.
Mrs. Xu said in a low-key tone: "It is not easy for people in the village to make clothes. They have to consider that they can be worn in spring and summer."
"Isn't it sewn together with cotton?"
"No, just do it alone. The fine cloth I ordered before is just for sewing the cotton-padded jacket. Then I put this clothes on so that it can be washed easily if I change it."
Hostess: Huh? Don't say it, you really don't say it, this trick...
Mrs. Xu ordered another thick cotton jacket and cotton trousers for Xu Tianxin. The total cost of this outfit was four pounds of cotton, and the lining naturally required thirteen feet of fine cotton.
As for the second set of clothes, the coat should be begonia red, and the skirt underneath should be dark-colored.
This dark color has a bit of a bluish-black meaning. This suit is worn with a thick cotton jacket and cotton trousers. The upper part is red and the lower part is black. It is festive to wear during the cold weather, Chinese New Year and the 15th day of the year. That pink and blue outfit can be worn now or in spring.
In fact, it depends on Mrs. Xu's aesthetics. She prefers palace red with a jade white skirt, or goose yellow with light green. As long as I can make my granddaughter's face whiter and look beautiful in spring clothes, and I can buy cloth cheaply at this time, I should make two more outfits, but in terms of money...
Xu Tianxin went upstairs at this moment.
I heard that these two clothes plus the cotton lining cost a total of 5,340 copper coins, more than five taels of silver, and grandma has not made her a quilt, shirt, underwear and vest pants to wear underneath. If all are included, this cost How much does it cost?
Spend more money on her and save money on the whole family.
No.
Fortunately, the cloth has not been cut yet.
"Milk, come here."
Xu Tianxin pulled her grandma aside and tried to persuade her. Can we be realistic? Are those colors suitable for cooking in a farmhouse and going up to the mountains to collect herbs and serve dishes to people? Even squatting in a hut is not suitable for using the toilet. It is still a piece of solid material with no patches and bright colors among the villagers, just like the strange clothes in the village, which are very awkward.
Get away from the masses.
Xu Tianxin didn't understand. She had obviously been persuaded by Nai last night, but why did she regret it when she arrived at Buzhuang today? No wonder she was asked to wait downstairs and not allowed to follow him.
Mrs. Xu was caught in the act by her granddaughter, and she explained in a low voice: "Now that the good days are about to come, if you don't help me, I will spend too little money on you. What's wrong with buying two sets of dresses? I would rather not buy them bedding." Read a book. La
Live broadcast money, salt production, wine production later, these things the family does to earn money for food, and selling cakes. Without her granddaughter, what would she be like today?
Mrs. Xu spoke plausibly, and if she just took out any item, her granddaughter would have already earned the money for the clothes. How many times had she gritted her teeth and said that she would sell cakes or something else, and then she would spend all the money on her granddaughter. What happened in the end? I have never bought anything for my granddaughter, so I should first consider the Xu family as a whole.
If anyone dared to say no more, she would lead her granddaughter to live alone.
"Miscellaneous, my uncles have never said no. Now when I call my third uncle, he will only say yes. But I feel awkward. The tops are all pink? Or is it pure cotton instead of satin? Don’t you like me to wear pink and red? So, you listen to me..."
Mrs. Xu was reluctantly persuaded, and was dragged by Xu Tianxin to order a lot of black coarse cloth with her employer's parents' family. In this way, the cost was reduced from seventy cents per foot to thirty-five cents per foot.
Moreover, Xu Tianxin also took her grandma's idea of wearing red and pink into consideration.
Taking the delicate pink color as an example, Xu Tianxin only allowed his wife to pull it off by one foot.
She was taking her grandma's charcoal pencil and casually sketched a pattern of clothes in a small notebook she had made. Just looking at the outfit, only the bottom of the collar to the top of the chest is pink, and there is a thin pink circle around one finger above the two cuffs. The rest of the body, including the collar, is black. So easy to take care of.
Xu Tianxin coaxed Mrs. Xu: "Grandma, after I finish cutting the clothes at home, if there are any remaining rags, I can ask my aunt to make me cotton gloves and a hat. Is that enough powder? You can also give me the remaining strips of cloth. Sew two pink cloth ropes to tie the hair and let it hang down. This outfit is so beautiful."
In this way, Haitang Hong's outfit is also made according to Yingying pink. As for the pleated skirt, it is all black coarse cloth skirt, and there is no autumn blue or indigo color.
Finally, I made two more sets of shirts, underwear, pants and vests for Xu Tianxin, including the cloth that was fastened, and the total cost was only three and a half taels.
Mrs. Xu changed two more single quilts and two single mattresses for her granddaughter and herself.
A quilt costs four pounds of cotton, and the mattress costs one and a half pounds of cotton. Including the coarse cloth quilt cover here, it costs another three and a half taels.
At this point, Xu Tianxin dared to spend money.
He urged: "Buy a double quilt and mattress for my second uncle and second aunt." The two-meter double quilt uses five kilograms of cotton, the mattress two kilograms of cotton, plus the coarse cloth, the total cost is three taels.
"Let my third uncle buy bedding according to what my grandma and I have." This is another three-and-a-half.
Mrs. Xu stopped her and said, "The flowers have gone out. We will wait until they get wives to buy more, and give them the bedding that we have eliminated."
The one eliminated was the double quilt. It was hard for Xu Tianxin to imagine the scene of his third uncle and his younger uncle sleeping together.
Besides, aren't the discarded quilts, together with the chess pieces and quilts from the second uncle and second aunt's house, going to be placed in the hotel? For a while, who stayed there to guard the shop and build it?
"The milk must be replaced by my uncles," Xu Tianxin whispered to Mrs. Xu, spend it first. These are necessities. Next time you earn money, you can buy other things. The most important thing is to live well this winter. Making quilts and cotton clothes takes time, so there is no need to delay.
Besides, the uncles’ sack quilts can be used as door curtains and to block the windows in winter to keep out the wind. They can also be placed in the stable next to the shop and used as door curtains, so there is no waste at all.
Finally, Xu Tianxin followed the same pattern as her clothes and chose "colored" clothes for Mrs. Xu and her aunt. Mrs. Xu's was dark purple, and her aunt's was lilac-lilac. The two colors were different. One foot of cloth.
Last time, the Bai family sent fabrics to thank three uncles for their generosity, but it was only enough to make three jackets, so the uncle's inner clothes should be made with the ones sent by the Bai family. As for the coats, Xu Tianxin advised Mrs. Xu I ordered a piece of dark-colored coarse cloth that was sixty and a half feet long, like this
In other words, whether it was grandma, aunt, or three uncles making clothes, it was enough, and it cost more than two taels of silver.
In addition to the money to make a set of thick cotton-padded clothes and trousers for my grandma and uncle, including two small clothes for my aunt, I spent a total of six and a half taels.
This is under the premise that Mrs. Xu spends money and sweats, and refuses to buy thin cotton-padded jackets and trousers for everyone, so that she can continue to use catkins to deal with them.
Thirty taels of silver, by the time Liu Laozhu came in again, he had already spent twenty-three taels.
Liu Laozhu was shocked: "I'll catch up with you soon."
Mrs. Xu almost blurted out: "Lao Zhu, can you pay me back some money? I don't want to pay you back so much."
