Chapter 15 Preparing for Winter
When Gu Tang came through, the weather had turned cold, and she had been secretly preparing supplies for the winter.
For example, this fur blanket.
When she was collecting herbs, she would also set traps to catch rabbits in the mountains and exchange the captured rabbits for their fur.
She traded twenty rabbits for this rabbit-skin blanket, which was a bit of a loss after all the calculations.
Rabbit meat is also expensive.
But there was no way. She didn't know how to tan fur, and neither did her father. If they wanted to tan fur, they could go to Bei'an City to find the fur dealers. They had good skills, and the tanned fur they tanned was soft and shiny.
The price is just too high.
The second option is to look for hunters who live in the mountains and forests. Most of those who are hunters know how to tan fur.
However, the hunters’ craftsmanship was not very good, and the tanned fur was too rough, stiff and not close-fitting to the skin.
And the price is not low.
Gu Tang had asked her father to help her make some inquiries before. She learned that most of the fur dealers in Bei'an City supplied goods to large trading companies, and few people would take on such small, scattered jobs.
Unless you use silver to buy the tanned furs they have.
Gu Tang had no intention of using the money left to her by the original owner. If she had to use it, it would be in accordance with the original owner's last wishes and used for Gu Ping'an's studies.
She could use the money in her own hand, but she had no clear way to use it. If she took it out like this, she couldn't explain where the money came from.
After much hesitation, Gu Tang simply offered a barter and directly exchanged a whole unskinned rabbit, which was equivalent to supplying those fur dealers.
But she didn't want silver. After accumulating a certain amount, she could just use the tanned furs as collateral.
The fur dealers were reluctant at first, thinking it was too complicated, but it was only after her father suggested they could get a discount that they finally reached an agreement.
In this way, she would suffer a loss, but there was nothing she could do. Craftsmen are in short supply and in great demand everywhere. If you want someone's things, you have to follow their rules.
With a stable source of fur, and an easy way to get it from her father, Gu Tang sold the sheepskin she got by signing in first.
After all, working hard to accumulate money is the most important thing. When you are really in dire straits, money is the safest thing.
Gu Tang lifted the blanket and put on his clothes, shivering with cold.
The filling of the dress is reed fluff, which the original owner had secretly saved up and prepared for herself long ago. She also saved up one for her father and Gu Ping'an, each of them getting one.
A thirteen-year-old girl had to take care of all the housework for the Gu family on weekdays, find time to go into the mountains to collect herbs, and secretly collect reed flowers. Even an iron man could not bear it.
Whenever Gu Tang thought about it, he felt so angry that his teeth itched. The Gu family just took advantage of the original owner because she was good-natured and didn't know how to complain. He just endured everything by himself.
If it had happened to her earlier, the old woman Feng would have been pissed to death by her!
He put on his straw sandals, fumbled for the oil lamp on the bedside stool, took out the dragon-shaped lighter from the space and lit it.
Afterwards, Gu Tang put the rabbit skin blanket back into the system backpack.
No one except her father knew about the fur change.
Every time she was away from home, she would put the rabbit skin blanket into her system backpack. She would only take it out and use it as a quilt when she went to bed at night.
In the system backpack, in addition to a rabbit skin blanket that could wrap her, there were also twenty or thirty tanned rabbit skins, all of which she exchanged for rabbits.
For these rabbit skins, she almost plucked all the rabbits near the back mountain!
As for the sheepskin and deerskin she obtained by signing in, Gu Tang was reluctant to use them. It was obvious at a glance that the ones given by the system were high-quality products. When the weather gets colder, she can take them to Bei'an City to sell them, and the price will increase a lot.
When he opened the door, the cold wind instantly penetrated his clothes. Gu Tang's teeth chattered and he closed the door in an instant.
She originally wanted to go to the kitchen to boil water for washing, but now she didn't want to go anymore.
I'd better wait for Gu Ping'an to get up. When he gets up, I can ask him to boil water.
Back in bed, Gu Tang took out the rabbit skin blanket again, wrapped it around himself and sat cross-legged to keep warm.
After her body warmed up, she called up the system panel. She couldn't wait to wash her hands, so she signed in now.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing today's sign-in! Obtained a set of 'Endless' sewing set! ]
[Thirty days is a cycle, the old thirty days have passed, and the new thirty days are about to begin. Dear host, please look forward to the surprises that the sign-in system will bring you every day! ]
Gu Tang: ...Surprise, a huge surprise. The luck I prayed for yesterday is all gone today!
With a sigh, he clicked on his backpack to check out the "Endless Supply" sewing set.
After watching it, I suddenly felt it was okay.
As the name suggests, the endless sewing set means the silk thread will never be seen from its source and will be inexhaustible.
Because it is a set, it comes with all known colors, needles of various thicknesses and lengths, and scissors of various models, etc.
If this thing falls into the hands of a tailor, it will definitely be a treasure.
But in her hands, it seems to be of little use?
No, it is useful.
Gu Tang got up from the bed, took out the original owner's clothes, and took off the clothes with the help of the light.
He removed the loose threads, spread the untied clothes flat on the bed, took out the fine cloth he had bought in Bei'an City from the system backpack, and imitated how to cut them.
Because I couldn't find a pair of scissors, the rabbit skins in my backpack had been left unused.
Now that I have a pair of scissors, I can try to make a fur coat for myself.
In his previous life, Gu Tang had followed the trend and worn ancient Hanfu, ancient Manchu clothing, etc., so he could be considered to have some experience.
She first cut out a robe similar to a Manchu dress, leaving room for buttons when sewing it, then cut and sewed the rabbit skin, and finally put it into the robe and fastened the buttons, and a very simple fur coat was completed.
The idea was good, and she also did a good job in cutting the robe, intentionally cutting it looser so that it could be freely gathered and adjusted when sewing it.
But when it came to sewing rabbit skin, I was stumped.
She thought of sewing the cut fur coat first, and then sewing the robe according to the size of the fur coat.
But she had never sewn this thing before and didn't know how to start. After trying a few stitches, she found that there were too many bulges at the seams. Not only did it affect the appearance when she wore it, but it was also very uncomfortable!
After trying various sewing methods, Gu Tang finally declared failure.
After such a long time, it was already bright outside. There were sounds of doors opening in the yard. The Gu family members got up one after another, and she could hear voices talking in the house.
"Second sister?" Gu Ping'an's voice came from outside the door, and he knocked on the thin door twice.
Gu Tang paused, looked at the rabbit skin on the bed, hesitated for a while, and did not choose to put it away.
"Come in; the door is not fastened."
Just as he finished speaking, there was a creaking sound from the door and Gu Ping'an pushed the door open and walked in.
A gust of cold wind blew in through the gap, and the temperature in the room dropped instantly.
"Close the door quickly!" Gu Tang shivered a few times and wrapped himself tightly in the rabbit skin blanket.
Gu Pingan hurriedly closed the door. He also felt cold. "It's very cloudy today, and the wind is blowing. Dad said it might rain."
Muttering to himself, Gu Ping'an shivered as he walked towards Gu Tang with his arms folded, trying to warm his hands with the fire from the oil lamp.
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