Sign in and get rich in farming

Chapter 29 Xu's big purchase for the family

Yu Hongdou opened the sign-in system panel and looked directly at the backpack.

The step-out bed, a piece of furniture of this extraordinary level, is a symbol of status and wealth both in ancient times and in modern times.

Country bumpkin Yu Hongdou used her consciousness to rotate 360 ​​degrees in her backpack and looked thoroughly inside and out the bed that was like a small house. Then she held her chin in her hand and worriedly wondered if she would ever have the chance to take this thing out of the system backpack and use it in this lifetime?

Xu, who had been following her husband since they left the house and had not spoken much, seemed like a different person when she entered the furniture store. She took out a list and scared the clerk so much that he called the shopkeeper over.

"Boss, my family is moving to a new house, and we want to put together a set of furniture for the house. Please show me this list, which ones are ready-made, which ones need to be custom-made, how long it will take, what kind of wood and carpentry, and how much it will cost. Please give me an estimate."

Xu handed the list in her hand to the shopkeeper. The fat shopkeeper looked at the four members of the Yu family, then took the list and started reading it with a smile.

"Sir, I have read your list. Except for the bunk bed, all the other items you need are already available. However, the patterns are just ordinary auspicious ones."

"Our store mainly sells two types of wood: elm and red fir. Elm is slightly cheaper and is strong but heavy. Red fir is more expensive, light and beautiful, but requires daily maintenance. If you want to specify a woodworking style, the price will follow the style."

"It's good to have good luck." Xu nodded. Farmers don't need fancy patterns, and they are also difficult to take care of and keep.

He also asked how long it would take to make the bunk bed, whether delivery would be provided, etc. The shopkeeper answered his questions one by one, and Xu started bargaining again.

Yu Hongdou watched her mother shopping everywhere and sighed with a smile, saying that women are indeed most confident when shopping. Xu is like a queen now.

She was no longer sleepy and was curious about the furniture store that could sell rosewood but had no rosewood in the entire store. So she asked Yu Song, who was studying the wood grain on the furniture, to take her out of the backpack.

Seeing that his sister was in high spirits, Yu Song was also afraid that she would catch a cold after sleeping during the day, so he carried her out to study the wood grain on the furniture together. He had recently learned some skills in identifying wood from his master, and wanted to show off to his sister, but Hongdou ran away as soon as she got off the ground.

"Dad! Mom! I want this, buy this for me!" As soon as Yu Hongdou got off the ground, she was fascinated by a set of mini furniture that the furniture store used to show furniture styles to customers.

The palm-sized small table, the thumb-sized small stool, plus the small wooden bed and small wooden table instantly brought Yu Hongdou back to her childhood.

Perhaps because she had always been boarding and living in dormitories during her student days and had no space of her own, Yu Hongdou fell in love with miniature models after receiving her first birthday gift from a high school classmate, a set of DIY mini house models.

After graduating from college, the first thing she did was to rent a house and place the various miniature models she had assembled during college. Unfortunately, she became busy with work later and did not assemble them for a long time.

The mini furniture in front of her instantly revived Yu Hongdou's almost dead hobby.

Yu Song looked at his sister speechlessly, pinched the two little bumps on her head, and told her earnestly: "No, this family won't sell it."

Yu Hongdou: “…”

But in the end, Yu Hongdou got what she wanted. There was no other way because her parents had spent too much.

The total price of buying furniture for a whole set of houses is more expensive than building a house.

It had been a long time since the furniture store received such a large order. The shopkeeper was so happy that he gave the model of the mini furniture as a gift.

After paying the deposit and making an appointment with the shopkeeper to pick up the goods seven days later, the four members of the Yu family walked out of the furniture store and headed for their next destination, the cloth shop.

For Yu Hongdou, the cloth shop was very new. She had never bought cloth before, and there were basically no physical stores selling cloth in her era.

On the tall counters and shelves, rolls of fabrics of various colors, materials and patterns are arranged in rows, giving a sense of regular beauty.

"Sir, our shop has coarse cloth and fine cloth. Which one would you like?" The clerk with a triangular face, who looked a bit like a fox, came up with a smile and pointed at the counter to introduce them to the Yu family.

The cloth shop is still Xu's main business. As the hostess, she is responsible for the budget and making winter coats and summer clothes, shoes, socks and underwear for the family of four. After the new house is built, she will also have to make curtains, drapes, bedding, etc.

"Bring me one kind of coarse cloth and one kind of fine cloth." Xu didn't know the quality of the cloth in this cloth shop. Before, she followed the villagers to the market in town to buy some cloth woven by farmers themselves.

Yu Hongdou didn't know the difference between coarse cloth and fine cloth, she only knew about the Northeastern old flowered cloth.

The waiter did as Xu said and swiftly brought two pieces of cloth, one indigo and the other light red, and began to introduce them enthusiastically.

He did not say that the coarse cloth was bad, nor did he say that the fine cloth was good. Instead, he praised the colors: "Indigo coarse cloth can be worn by men, women, young and old, and is the most suitable for making coats. We don't produce much water-red fine cloth locally, so we import it from other places. It is soft and beautiful when used to make clothes for ladies."

This young man is really a talented salesman~ Yu Hongdou exclaimed, then raised her hands and grabbed Yu Sanlang's arm, lifted herself to the same height as the counter, and got close to the fabric to take a closer look.

The indigo fabric is the same material she is wearing now, and the aqua red one is much denser and more delicate, probably because of the different thread thickness and warp and weft density.

Yu Hongdou nodded as if she understood, which made Yu Sanlang and Yu Song, who were silent as wooden men, laugh.

Xu asked about the price. No matter if it was coarse or fine cloth, it would cost two cents more to buy it loose. There were four people in the family making clothes. It would be inappropriate to be unfilial to my parents-in-law...

"Then give me a batch." Xu calculated in her mind, and finally gritted her teeth and ordered a batch.

"Okay, sir. The cloth in our store is the best dyed. It's not like the ordinary home-dyed ones that fade easily. We have other colors here. Would you like to take a look?" It was a rare occasion to meet a generous customer. The waiter tried his best to sell him a piece of sky blue cloth.

"Is it fine cloth? Give me a piece." This time, Yu Sanlang agreed without waiting for Xu to speak.

Indigo is mature and can be used as outerwear for men, but it always makes women look old-fashioned. Light red is too tender and my wife won’t wear it even if she can, for fear that it will attract attention and make people laugh. It would be better to choose another one for her.

Xu and her husband were in perfect sync, so she naturally knew what he was thinking. However, since her husband loved her, she would definitely not refuse. She just gave Yu Sanlang a reproachful look.

In addition to these three rolls of cloth for making clothes and bedding, Xu also asked for two rolls of the cheapest plain hemp cloth and three quilts of cotton.

The young man praised the cloth repeatedly, saying that the cloth was perfect for making summer clothes and mosquito nets. Then he was very tactful and gave four or five pieces of cloth as gifts to Xu.

The final bill was four taels of silver for two pieces of fine cloth, one piece of coarse cloth one tael and two hundred wen, plus two pieces of hemp cloth one and a half taels, and three beds of cotton one and a half taels, totaling nearly ten taels of silver.

Yu Hongdou sighed as she calculated, saying that the house was expensive and the decoration would also cost money, which was fine, but she didn't know how much money her parents had left.

Should she hand over the twenty taels she had just "picked up"?

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