Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Once in a Lifetime_1 Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Once in a Lifetime_1 The shop assistant didn’t look down on their shabby clothes, and An Jing hadn’t even entered the shop called Wanbu Pavilion before she felt a sense of fondness for it. She decided that in the future, she would buy fabric only from here.
Lin Anjing had never been to town before; she had always been enslaved by Lin Daqiang and the others, doing all sorts of farm work at home, which meant that even though An Jing had Lin Anjing’s memories, she didn’t have any understanding of Sixteen Town.
Luckily, she had Xiao Changyi to lead the way, so she wouldn’t take too many wrong turns.
Thinking this, An Jing turned her head and just smiled at Xiao Changyi.
Xiao Changyi nodded slightly and then guided her towards Wanbu Pavilion.
“What kind of fabric would the two honored guests like to buy?” the shop assistant asked politely as he followed them.
An Jing answered, “For wedding clothes.”
As Xiao Changyi was currently supporting An Jing, this behavior was considered extremely intimate for that era. Even if the shop assistant had no perceptiveness, it would have been obvious to him, and this shop assistant was no fool. Hearing An Jing’s words, he smiled and said, “Ah, they must be for the two honored guests’ wedding. Then allow me to congratulate you both, congratulations, congratulations.”
“Over here, please; all the red fabric suited for wedding attire is on this side.” The assistant led them to the left-hand side, where many bolts of fabric were displayed on the counter, including four bolts of bright red sample fabric.
Although they were all bright red, the quality of each was clearly different.
“This one is ten coins per foot, this one fifteen, this one twenty, and this one thirty. Please feel them; it’s very obvious that the quality improves with each one,” the assistant explained.
An Jing touched the fabric, and indeed, one felt smoother than the last, each more comfortable to the touch.
The cheapest at ten coins per foot was just coarse fabric, which was not only rough but also itchy. Considering their lack of money, An Jing quickly picked up the ten-coin fabric and looked at Xiao Changyi, saying, “Let’s just buy this one. After all, it’s only worn once; there’s no need to buy anything too fancy.”
But Xiao Changyi shook his head, “You only do it once in a lifetime.” He pointed to the thirty-coin fabric, “Buy that one.”
The shop assistant was startled. Seeing them dressed in coarse clothes, patched up in many places, he had assumed they would at most pick the fifteen-coin fabric, but this man had gone straight for the most expensive one.
Regaining his composure, the assistant quickly praised An Jing, “Miss, your future husband is very caring. It’s rare for anyone coming here to buy wedding fabric to choose something so expensive.”
Other customers in the store were also somewhat frightened. Those who came to buy fabric at this time were mostly children of farmers. Shocked, they all turned to look at An Jing and Xiao Changyi, including Niu Dahua from Jiuping Village.
Niu Dahua, recognizing them, almost popped her eyes out of their sockets.
An Jing wasn’t frightened, just startled for a moment. Relying on Lin Anjing’s memories, she knew that the fabric for a village girl’s wedding dress was seemingly no more than fifteen coins per foot, and she had never even heard of anything costing twenty per foot.
Now, Xiao Changyi nonchalantly proposed thirty coins per foot, which clearly showed how much he valued her.
Even though she felt a bit heartache over the money he was willing to spend on her, An Jing was very happy nonetheless.
“I’ll listen to you~” An Jing smiled happily and didn’t argue with Xiao Changyi about not buying such expensive fabric. This was a gesture from her husband after all; how could she ask him to spend less? Of course, she would accept it wholeheartedly~
“Hmm.” Xiao Changyi’s usually cool lips barely curled into a smile.