Chapter 107: 107 buy clothesl
Translator: 549690339
The sets in the middle are two taels each, and the ones at the farthest ends are four taels for a set…Your wife is too skinny, any set would be too big for her, but that’s not a problem. These displayed sets are just models. Once you choose a set and put down a deposit, we can tailor it to her size. You can come to pick it up in a few days.”
Upon hearing the explanation, Xiao Yuchuan was calculating in his heart. Second brother sold his catch for three taels of silver. The Xiao Family had a surplus of one hundred and forty-eight copper coins last time. One tael was spent on buying silver needles and another tael for ten days’ worth of medicine for the fourth brother. Both Doctor Sun and Baohe Hall Pharmacy were each paid a medical fee of ten copper coins.
Now all the money totals only more than one tael and a hundred and twenty-two copper coins, plus the fifty-four cents from the sale of embroidery.
There are only more than ten days’ worth of food left at home, which should be used to continue buying food. He and his second brother had previously agreed at home to use all the silver first to cure the wife’s deafness. If the wife’s ears can’t be cured in earnest, the two men decided unanimously to buy her two sets of clothes first after leaving the pharmacy.
With a little over one tael, only one set of clothes can be bought.
Xiao Yishan was similarly calculating in his heart. If he only buys her one new dress, then along with the one she is wearing, there would be only two sets total. If one of them got wet, dirty, and the other hadn’t been cleaned yet…
He has heard from his third brother that his wife has become particularly clean, taking a bath every evening.
It would be best to get her two new sets of dresses.
Regardless of whether or not there is enough money.
He took Su Qingyue’s hand and led her to the line of ready-made lady’s dresses hung on the wall, pointing at the line of dresses, “Which one do you like?”
Su Qingyue saw the motion of her second brother and knew that he wanted to help her buy clothes and let her pick.
Xiao Yuchuan also came over, ‘Yes, just say which one you like.” If she turns out to like the ones that cost one tael, it’s fine; they can still afford one. If she selects an expensive one and if the money is truly not sufficient, he would awkwardly ask Lady Li for a loan, just hoping that Lady Li wouldn’t reject him and save him face.
Xiao Yishan wasn’t anxious at all. In case his wife took a liking to an expensive one…he thought that if they didn’t have enough money today and couldn’t buy it, he’d have a sincere conversation with his wife, and hopefully, after he has hunted more prey and made money, they can come back to buy it for her.
Lady Li looked at Su Qingyue’s coarse cloth dress with more than a dozen patches, washed to the point where you couldn’t even make out the color. She also knew about the Xiao Family’s situation, “Yuchuan, the ready-made dresses hung on the wall are all made of passable material and have embroidery on them, so naturally, they are a bit expensive. If other people came to buy, the price would surely go up. I didn’t ask you for a higher price, nor is this price easy to reduce. If your wife likes any style from these sets, she can choose the inferior material to save some money. However, differences in color and fineness of the fabric will affect the look of the embroidery.”
Both Xiao brothers were extremely ashamed, having a heavy burden at home and no fields, they didn’t even have the money to buy their wife a good set of clothes.
Su Qingyue just took a look around the store, there wasn’t much variety of fabric in the cloth shop, and it was easy to identify the quality. The styles of the ready-made lady’s dresses hanging there, were just too vulgar and outdated, she didn’t like any of them.
She dared to say, that even if she casually drew a few styles from memory, even those seen on television’s ancient costumes, they would absolutely be more beautiful than these vulgarity.
From the dresses hung, the material used got progressively finer from left to right, the cheapest should be the three sets on the left. Yet, these weren’t made from the most inferior material either, and they all had embroidery, so for her second brother and his younger brother, these sets were surely pricey..