Su Qingci noticed Su Changzhi's unease. "His hair is getting a bit long. There's a guesthouse at the street corner ahead, and a barbershop next door. You can even take a shower at the guesthouse. How about it?"
Su Changzhi immediately chimed in shyly, "Shall we go over and tidy up?"
Seeing his cautious manner, Su Qingci felt a pang in her heart. "Alright, let's go."
Su Changzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "Isn't this too much trouble? If it is too much trouble..."
Su Qingci shook her head, "Uncle, it's no trouble at all, no trouble at all."
"That's good. I don't want Mother to worry too much."
"Fengmei, later find the clothes we used to wear for Chinese New Year and let the children change into them."
"I'll change into it too, hehe~"
The clothes I wore for Chinese New Year were basically only worn during the Chinese New Year. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I would take them off and put them away. There weren't many patches on them.
Su Qingci led everyone to the guesthouse and checked them in. She asked Liao Fengmei to take Sixiang to wash up first, while she took Su Changzhi and his two sons to the barbershop in the next alley to get their hair cut.
After the father and sons finished getting their haircuts, they followed Su Qingci to the guesthouse to wash up.
Liao Fengmei and her daughter had finished washing up and awkwardly said to Su Changzhi, "Changzhi, those clothes for the New Year are so thick, and it's only October now, the sun is still strong."
Su Changzhi was taken aback, only then realizing what had happened. He looked at Sixiang's pants, which were covered in holes and patches on her buttocks and knees, and his face fell.
That last bit of pride I wanted to hold onto shattered instantly.
Before being swindled out of his money when buying the long-distance voyage boat, he could be described as stingy with his wife and children... After being swindled out of his money when buying the long-distance voyage boat, his family didn't spend a single penny on food for two years.
Seeing Su Changzhi's trembling hands, Su Qingci comforted him, "Uncle, don't worry, don't worry. You take Sigui to wash up first, and I'll go downstairs to the tailor shop to see if they have any clothes for rent."
Su Changzhi's eyes lit up, and he shakily reached into his pocket. "You can rent it? Great, great, Uncle has money, he has money!"
Su Qingci waved her hand, "Uncle, renting clothes is cheap, it won't cost much, so don't worry about it, just go take a shower!"
"I'll be right back!"
Su Qingci hurriedly ran outside, having only thought about bringing her uncle back to see her grandmother and hadn't considered anything else.
At this point, she could understand Su Changzhi's thoughts.
He wanted to make himself look presentable so as not to appear in front of his mother in such a disheveled state.
Su Qingci left the guesthouse and ran into a nearby alley. She remembered seeing a tailor shop there when she was shopping with Kong Yuzhen before, and wanted to try her luck to see if they sold any ready-made clothes.
Seeing the tailor shop open from afar, Su Qingci breathed a sigh of relief.
A wooden board hung at the entrance, with the words "overlock" and "cutting" written in large black ink.
When Su Qingci approached, she saw that there were indeed ready-made clothes hanging inside, but there were basically no styles to choose from.
At that time, even in a place like Kyoto, ready-made clothing stores were rare; people usually went to tailor shops or department stores to buy clothes.
The styles of ready-to-wear clothing are very limited, and the prices are outrageously expensive, so very few people buy them.
When people buy clothes, they usually choose the fabric they like, take it to a tailor shop to select the style, and then have the tailor cut it for them before taking it home to sew.
Or they can simply have a tailor make it for them, or some who are reluctant to spend the money will do the cutting and sewing themselves.
"Serving the people, comrade, are you here to have clothes made?"
Su Qingci smiled slightly, "Learn from the spirit of model workers and be a pioneer in the industry. Hello comrade, I would like to take a look at ready-made garments."
The person who greeted Su Qingci was a boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old, presumably an apprentice.
Su Qingci was a little surprised to hear that she wanted to buy ready-made clothes. Without waiting for the other person to say anything, Su Qingci went into the shop on her own.
Upon seeing the few pieces of clothing scattered around the shop, Su Qingci finally understood why the other person had been surprised.
A men's shirt is priced at 30 yuan, a women's shirt at 20 yuan, a tracksuit at 54 yuan, and the cheapest pair of pants at 18 yuan.
What made Su Qingci's eyes widen the most was a fashionable dress priced at 100, and a suit hanging in the store, priced at over 300...
This is just the price; each piece of clothing also requires additional cloth coupons. A set of sportswear costs fifty-four yuan, plus ten feet of cloth coupons.
In addition to the price listed on the shirt, an extra five feet of cloth coupons were required for each garment.
Su Qingci gasped. At that time, most workers only earned around thirty yuan a month.
Is this how you save up for a month without eating or drinking to buy a shirt? Or for a year without eating or drinking to buy a suit?
This is even more amazing than what people live in later generations... There are more of these styles on Pinduoduo for 9.9 yuan with free shipping than this one.
After glancing at it twice, Su Qingci turned and left. It wasn't that she was stingy with the money, but this shirt didn't look right on Su Changzhi. And what about dressing Liao Fengmei in a fashionable dress? The whole family was dark-skinned and thin like sticks; wearing shirts and dresses would just be frightening.
At this point, even if you take a bus to the department store, you might not be able to buy suitable clothes, and the tailor shop wouldn't have enough time to make them. Besides, Li Yueniang might still be eagerly waiting for them.
As if she had thought of something, Su Qingci found a public toilet and secretly went into the farm.
Sure enough, they found quite a few clothes on the Ghana ship.
Wearing a suit, vest, and suspenders, he looks exactly like the captain.
The tattered, coarse linen clothes clearly belonged to those sailors who had perished.
There were also some clothes that looked relatively normal, probably left by crew members on the ship, such as tall people like Da Long who had a certain status.
Su Qingci, following everyone's figures, picked out quite a few clothes from the pile, and also picked up a few pairs of shoes.
After quickly drying it, I stuffed it into a sack, carefully carried the sack out of the farm, and ran towards the guesthouse.
When Su Qingci arrived at the guesthouse, Su Changzhi's family was already waiting eagerly.
Su Qingci put the burlap sack on the floor. "I don't know if it's suitable or not. I brought a lot. Everyone, please try it out."
After tidying up, Su Changzhi was wearing a military green work shirt with four pockets and black pants.
Since Liao Fengmei didn't have any suitable women's clothing, Su Qingci simply put on the smoky gray long-sleeved home clothes that Aunt Cheng, the nanny in the villa, had given her.
Aunt Cheng was in her late fifties, almost sixty, and had a thin figure, similar to Liao Fengmei. Her clothes also had a vintage feel, which suited Liao Fengmei perfectly.
The three siblings, Sigui and his sister, would tuck the hems of their clothes into their trousers if they were too long, and fold up the sleeves if they were too long.
Since there were no suitable pants, he wore the kind of casual sports shorts that Su Qingci wore in later generations.
In later years, she often ran and practiced martial arts, and she stocked up on a lot of unisex sports shorts. When Si Gui wore them, they didn't look out of place at all, except that they looked a bit too big on the two little ones, and they had to pull up their shorts from time to time.
"Alright, I'll return the clothes I didn't pick out. You guys take your things and wait for me downstairs. We're going home!"
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