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 at seventy cents a foot, and the lining of the cotton trousers was ordered to be black muslin.

Just the lining of this body 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. However, it does not matter if the cotton trousers are dark in color. They wear a skirt outside the cotton trousers.

After returning home, she also wanted to make a pair of cotton boots for her granddaughter.

Mrs. Xu was determined to spend money on dressing up her granddaughter.

No matter where a person is, she must be beautiful if there are conditions, and she must be beautiful even if there are no conditions. Otherwise, it would be a pity for her granddaughter to grow up in a blink of an eye. Why is she struggling to start from scratch?

Besides, money is a bastard. If we don’t earn enough, who knows when it will be gone again. In modern times, she was always prepared for danger, and in the end she saved money 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 has pleats on the face, which must be at least seven feet. This dress does not include the lining that wraps the cotton core.

Fourteen feet out. Reserve more, considering the hems and buckles. The color of the skirt is 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 are from a peasant family, there must be at least a scholar in your family, or someone who has provided for a scholar. 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 working in the countryside, but I didn't try to persuade him. I knew that the farmer must be cruel if he wanted to buy new clothes. He couldn't spend money to make fun of it, so he must choose carefully: "Qiubo blue?"

Mrs. Xu doesn't know what Qiubo blue or Jianshi blue is, but she knows that the color of the skirt she chose for her granddaughter is a bit like the blue of the clear sky. It is really beautiful. It would be better if it was satin, but unfortunately she can't afford it now. Her breasts

If you are ambitious, that is your goal for the next year or so. I will 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, so they choose such light clothes."

"Isn't it sewn together with the cotton?" Do we have to take out the cotton again after winter?

"No, just do it alone. The fine cloth I ordered before is just for sewing cotton. Then put this dress on the outside so that it can be washed easily if you change it."

The host’s wife: Huh? Don’t say it, you really don’t say it, this trick...

Mrs. Xu ordered a thick cotton jacket and cotton trousers for Xu Tianxin. The total cost of this outfit was four kilograms 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 one is a bit blue-black in color. This one is worn with a thick cotton jacket and cotton trousers. The upper part is red and the lower part is black. It is festive during the Chinese New Year and the 15th day of the year. The pink one is worn with blue eyes for now or for the beginning of 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 the granddaughter's face is whitened, she will wear it in the spring. It will catch up.

It's cheaper to buy cloth at this time, so I should make two more outfits, but the money...

It was at this time that Xu Tianxin went upstairs.

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 yet 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 it on the whole family.

No.

Fortunately, I haven't cut the fabric yet.

"Milk, come here."

Xu Tianxin pulled her grandma aside and tried to persuade her. Can we be realistic? Is it appropriate for people with colors to cook in a farmhouse and go up to the mountains to collect herbs and serve dishes to others? They are not even suitable for going to the toilet and squatting in a hut. They are still made of whole pieces without patches.

And the bright colors are among the villagers, just like the strange clothes in the village, which are awkward and alienated 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 with some embarrassment: "Now that the good days are about to come, if I don't have your hand for anything, I will spend less for you. What's wrong with buying two sets of dresses? I would rather not buy them bedding."

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Money from live broadcasts, salt production, wine production later, these things made at home to earn money for food, selling cakes, how could her granddaughter be where she is today without her?

Mrs. Xu spoke plausibly, and if she took out any item, her granddaughter would have already earned the money for the clothes. However, as a grandmother, she gritted her teeth many times and said that she would sell sets, cakes, or whatever she wanted to spend on her granddaughter. What happened?

How? I have never bought anything for my granddaughter, why don’t I think about the Xu family as a whole first?

If anyone dared to say no more, she would lead her granddaughter to live alone.

"Nai, 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, and they are made of pure cotton instead of satin.

Don’t you like me to wear pink and red? Well, you listen to me..."

Mrs. Xu was unwilling to be persuaded, so she 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 into account grandma's idea of ​​​​wanting her to wear red and pink.

For example, taking the delicate pink color as an example, Xu Tianxin only allowed his wife to pull it off by one foot.

She took her grandma's charcoal pencil and drew a picture of the style of clothes in the little book she had made. Looking at the clothes, only the color from the collar to the top of the chest was pink, and the fingertips above the two cuffs were also circled.

It has a pink thin round edge, and the rest of the body, including the collar, is black. This makes it easy to take care of, and you can’t tell if it’s dirty.

Xu Tianxin coaxed Mrs. Xu: "Grandma, if there are any rags left after cutting clothes at home, I can ask my aunt to use pink cotton cloth to make me cotton gloves and hat. Is it pink enough? The remaining strips of cloth are also

You can sew me two pink cloth ropes to tie my hair and let it hang down. This outfit will be more pink and less earthy than one made of fine cloth."

In this way, Haitanghong's outfit is also made according to the Yingying pink style. As for the pleated skirt, it is all black coarse cloth skirt, and there is no autumn water blue or indigo color.

Finally, I made two sets of shirts, underwear, pants and vests for Xu Tianxin, including the cloth for buckles, 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 to make decisions.

He urged: "Buy a double quilt and mattress for my second uncle and second aunt." A two-meter double quilt uses five kilograms of cotton, two kilograms of cotton for the mattress, and a total of three taels of coarse cloth.

"Let my third uncle buy bedding according to what my grandma and I have done." This is another three-and-a-half.

Mrs. Xu stopped her and said, "The flowers have gone out. We won't buy more until they get wives. First, give them the bedding that we have eliminated."

The one that was 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 pieces of chess pieces and quilts from the second uncle and second aunt's house, going to be placed in the restaurant? Who will stay there to guard the building for the time being?

"The milk must be replaced by my uncles," Xu Tianxin whispered to Mrs. Xu to spend it first. These are necessities. Next time you earn money, you can buy other things. Others can wait, but making quilts and cotton-padded clothes takes time.

Without delay.

Besides, the uncles’ sack quilts can be used as door curtains and to block windows in winter. They can also be placed in the livestock shed 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. These two colors were different.

One foot of cloth.

Last time, the Bai family sent fabrics to thank their three uncles for their generosity, but it was only enough to make three jackets, so the uncle's inner clothes should be made from the ones sent by the Bai family. As for the coats, Xu Tianxin persuaded Mrs. Xu to make another.

A sixty-and-a-half-foot piece of dark-colored coarse cloth was ordered. In this case, it would be enough for grandma and aunt to make clothes or for three uncles to make clothes. 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 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 and said, "I'll catch up with you soon."

Mrs. Xu almost blurted out: "Lao Zhu, can you lend me some money? I don't want to pay you back so much."
Chapter completed!