Chapter 15 Shopping Shopping
The woman saw that she had chosen so many fabrics that her teeth were exposed. She said, "Miss, you haven't bought any red fabric yet. The red fabric in our store is the best in town."
"Are there any other fabrics?" Jiang Hongyu looked at the red cloth and felt it was a bit ordinary.
"This is the best red cloth in our town," the woman said, her smile fading as she tentatively asked, "We have a ready-made wedding dress here, made by a new embroiderer. It uses the latest embroidery techniques. How about I show it to you?"
Jiang Hongyu nodded: "Go get it."
The woman tried her best to control her brisk steps and went to take out the wedding dress hanging in the inner room.
Before the New Year, a piece of particularly fine red cloth came into the store, it was very colorful, but their store was too small to afford a large one, so no one bought it after two months of display.
The new embroiderer encouraged the shopkeeper to make the red cloth into a wedding dress and sell the finished product directly.
The shopkeeper was also worried at the time, but he agreed immediately. After the wedding dress was embroidered, everyone was stunned. It was beautiful, really beautiful!
However, it is even harder to sell. In such a small town, everyone makes clothes with a piece of red cloth, and few families are willing to buy ready-made wedding dresses.
The shopkeeper was ready to lower the price, but still no one was willing to buy it.
When the woman took out the wedding dress, Jiang Hongyu and Ye Mingzhu were stunned.
The red wedding dress was made of the finest silk, and was embroidered with colorful threads of blooming peonies. The petals were layered and lifelike, almost as if you could smell the fragrance of the flowers. Below the neckline was a row of pearls, adding a touch of elegance to the dress.
The hem of the wedding dress is embroidered with bats, Baoxiang patterns, etc., representing wealth, good fortune, beauty and happiness.
Although it was Ye Mingzhu's first time buying a wedding dress, she knew that such a wedding dress would be very expensive. If she bought it, it would definitely cause a sensation in the village, which was not what she wanted to see.
"This wedding dress is really exquisite. I guess it's not cheap. Let's just buy the red cloth we just saw." Ye Mingzhu pulled Jiang Hongyu's sleeve and shook her head.
Jiang Hongyu understood what Ye Mingzhu meant, but he felt that although the wedding dress was beautiful, Ye Mingzhu was definitely worthy of it.
The woman felt a little regretful and sighed as she looked at the unsaleable wedding dress, but when she heard that Ye Mingzhu still wanted to buy red cloth, the smile returned to her face.
"I wonder when you two will get married. Miss, you bought so much cloth. If you are short on time, you can get the clothes made here."
Ye Mingzhu didn't expect the service at the cloth shop to be so good. "How much does it cost to make a wedding dress?"
"Different designs have different charges. For example, the wedding dress just now was exquisitely embroidered, and the labor cost alone was two taels of silver. If it were an ordinary wedding dress, it would be much cheaper. The fabric you bought in our shop only cost fifty coins."
Ye Mingzhu calculated in her mind that the fifty cents included the cost of embroidery thread, and the labor cost was only twenty or thirty cents, which was not that expensive.
The original owner's craftsmanship was not good, which could be seen from the patches on Yun An's body. Although she was good at drawing and handicrafts, and could also cut fabrics, she did it all with a sewing machine.
It is not known how many days it will take to hand-sew the wedding dress and embroider it.
"I'll do it in the store." Ye Mingzhu simply made all the fabrics she had just selected in the store, and only wrapped the sky blue fabric she chose for Jiang Hongyu.
The woman's face was full of smiles: "Miss, you have been making clothes in the shop for the past few years. I am in charge. I will give you some scraps of cloth. You can take them back and pick out some good ones to make handkerchiefs."
Ye Mingzhu didn't expect that the people she met today were all good at sales. The price was not cheap, but after giving a bonus, it was cheaper for both parties.
After agreeing on a time to pick up the clothes, Ye Mingzhu and Jiang Hongyu walked out. The woman pulled her aside and asked quietly, "Girls, are you going to buy jewelry next door? My boss and the boss next door are sisters-in-law. I'll ask someone to go over and tell them, and they'll give you a better price."
"Buy." Ye Mingzhu smiled. This woman is so good at business that she can even attract customers to other stores.
The woman said a few words to another clerk in the store and took Ye Mingzhu and Jiang Hongyu to Linglong Pavilion next door.
"Girl, what kind of jewelry do you want to buy? I'll definitely ask the waiter to give you a cheaper price."
Most of the jewellery displayed outside Linglong Pavilion are lightweight silver hairpins and silver cloves.
Jiang Hongyu picked out a silver hairpin and a silver bracelet and asked the clerk to pack them up. He also wanted to buy a silver necklace, but Ye Mingzhu stopped him: "You are not a child, why do you wear a silver necklace?"
The two of them bought a lot of things this time, but one of their families had no parents and the other was exiled, so it was really not appropriate for them to be so high-profile.
Jiang Hongyu thought Ye Mingzhu didn't like the other looks: "I'll buy it for you somewhere else when I have the chance."
He paid the money, took the jewelry box and handed it directly to Ye Mingzhu.
"Sister, everyone calls me Sister Chunhong. Come to me next time and I will definitely give you the lowest price." Sister Chunhong sent the two of them out of Linglong Pavilion and only returned to her own shop after watching them walk away.
At this time, both of them had things in their hands. Jiang Hongyu went to the roadside to buy a bamboo basket and put the things in it: "Let's go eat first. We can buy cakes next time we come to town to pick up clothes."
Ye Mingzhu looked up at the sky. It was probably noon, and she was a little hungry. "Let's just find a place to eat something."
After spending half a day together, she could see that Jiang Hongyu was a loose-handed person. It seemed that the Jiang family was doing much better than everyone imagined.
Jiang Hongyu nodded and took her around to find a small shop: "Boss, give me two bowls of shredded pork noodles and a smoked chicken."
"The noodles here are very chewy, and the smoked chicken is very famous."
Ye Mingzhu nodded and sat down on a stool near the inside.
There are only four tables in the whole shop, and the tables and chairs are very clean. At another table, someone is eating noodles.
The two of them sat down and soon after, Kung Fu noodles and smoked chicken were served.
Jiang Hongyu used chopsticks to tear the smoked chicken apart and picked up a chicken drumstick for her: "Try it."
Ye Mingzhu looked at the large bowl of noodles and felt a little worried. She seemed unable to eat so much.
"Can't you eat so much?"
Ye Mingzhu nodded quickly. Leftovers are not popular nowadays, so she thought of giving some to Jiang Hongyu.
Jiang Hongyu picked up some noodles from her bowl with chopsticks: "Eat the chicken drumstick first, and then the noodles."
Jiang Hongyu took a few bites and said he had to go out for something. He waited until Ye Mingzhu finished eating the chicken leg before coming back with a bag.
This restaurant is so generous that even after giving half of the noodles to Jiang Hongyu, Ye Mingzhu still didn't finish it.
Jiang Hongyu first asked the store owner for some oil paper to wrap the untouched smoked chicken, then he took Ye Mingzhu's bowl and ate all the noodles in it.
Ye Mingzhu: ...
Jiang Hongyu said nonchalantly: "You will be my wife soon. It's not shameful to eat my wife's leftovers."
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