Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1547, the money disappeared without knowing it
Here is a bustling commercial street in Xincheng, South District of Beijing.

As night falls, lanterns are first put on, glass technology is getting better and better, and glass lamps of various colors are manufactured one after another. When the whale oil lamps are lit, the whole street is brightly lit and colorful, making countless people linger.

Tomorrow is the weekend, and it is a statutory holiday. Factories, schools, workshops, etc. are all on holiday. A large number of people will naturally flock to the commercial street, making it the most lively and noisy place.

Li Erxiu took Wang Gensheng to stroll around in the street, holding candied haws in his hand, taking a bite, his mouth was full of sweetness.

For them, when they were young, their family was very poor, and candied haws were something that was hard to hope for. Now that they have grown up and the conditions are better, they saw it when they were shopping and bought two bunches.

It's not expensive anyway, it only costs five Wen for a string, and two strings are only ten Wen.

"This candied haws is delicious~"

Li Erxiu was eating candied haws, as happy as a little girl.

Although she is already the mother of several children and is already in her twenties, in future generations, she is just a little girl who just left school.

People in this era get married early. Many people are married and have children at the age of thirteen or fourteen. By the time they are in their twenties, they have already had a lot of children.

The same is true for Li Erxiu and Wang Gensheng, who came from poor rural families. Wang Gensheng married Li Erxiu, who was [-] years old when he was [-] years old. I have given birth to a whole bunch of baskets, that is to say, I have been working outside in the past few years, and the husband and wife have little time to get together, so there has been no rebirth.

Because she got married early, had children early, and recovered well, Li Erxiu still looks very young and beautiful at this time, and her figure is not out of shape in the slightest.

In addition, working in the factory now, although tiring, is still simpler and more relaxed than living in the countryside. In the city, I also pay attention to dressing up like the people around me, so I look completely different from the people in the countryside.

"Eat more if it tastes good, and I'll give you mine too."

Wang Gensheng handed the candied haws in his hand to Li Erxiu.

"Eat it too, I can eat one bunch."

Li Erxiu is very sweet in her heart. Women in this period are all great. They don't have high requirements for their husbands. They just need to work hard and take care of the family. Wang Gensheng is obviously a perfect fit for this.

He is very diligent and down-to-earth in doing things, and never plays with money, drinks flowers and so on, and lives a down-to-earth life. The husband and wife work hard together, and life is getting better and better.

Eating sweet candied haws, Li Erxiu casually looked at the shops on both sides, and soon her eyes were deeply attracted by the clothes displayed at the entrance of a clothing store.

The whole person walked over unknowingly, looking at the clothes inside the glass window, the sky blue color, exquisite patterns, and silky smooth color seemed to have infinite magic power, attracting a large circle of people around. Watch here.

"If you like it, go in and have a look. It's going to be summer soon, and it's time to change some clothes."

Seeing Li Erxiu's appearance, Wang Gensheng also said with a smile.

"Caiyun Textile Factory's clothes are really good-looking, but they are expensive. A girl from Henan in our factory bought one, and it looks really good-looking."

Li Erxiu looked at the recruitment in the shop. Caiyun Textile Factory is the most famous textile factory in Ming Dynasty. It is a textile factory that specializes in manufacturing ready-made garments. It specializes in the mid-to-high-end market. The clothes inside may cost a few taels of silver. , better Cong clothes, clothes made and designed with high-quality silk and high-quality dyes, may cost several hundred taels of silver each.

Even in winter, there are special coats made of fur from the Arctic region, and a piece of clothing can cost several thousand taels or tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But that kind of store is usually opened on Zhuque Street in the old city of Beijing, and it is specially sold to the really rich people in the capital, and ordinary people can't afford it at all.

The clothes displayed in front of me are all middle-grade clothes, with exquisite materials, and the colors printed and dyed are also the unique colors of Caiyun Textile Factory.

For example, the sky blue in front of me, this color can only be printed and dyed by Caiyun Textile Factory, and other factories cannot print and dye this color.

It is said that the chemical printing and dyeing method was developed by the teachers and students of Imperial College of Technology, and Caiyun Textile Factory spent more than [-] taels of silver to buy it.

Not only sky blue, but also several colors that can only be printed and dyed by Caiyun Textile Factory. Even if other textile factories can print and dye the same color, they will fade without washing, and the colors printed and dyed at the same time It is unnatural, and it is difficult to achieve the effect of Caiyun Textile Factory.

In addition to color, Caiyun Textile Factory is also constantly pioneering and innovating in the design of clothes, producing a large number of new styles of clothes. This is also an important reason why Caiyun Textile Factory can stabilize the leading position in Daming's textile industry.

Caiyun Textile Factory has firmly occupied the middle and high-end market by virtue of its unique printing and dyeing colors and innovative designs, as well as its first attempt to make garments.

The same clothes should be sold more expensive than people, and they should be sold faster and better than people.

"Looks good, let's buy it too~"

Wang Gensheng smiled and said, now he is short of money to buy clothes.

In the past, when I was in the countryside, I didn’t pay so much attention to it. A new dress was only available when I got married.

But it's different now, the people in this city are very particular, not to mention the holidays, but the four seasons, and they have to add some new clothes every time the season changes.

In addition, it doesn't matter if you have new clothes, but you also need to look at the color, style, and follow the fashion trend.

For example, it is popular among young people to wear tight underwear nowadays. The original gowns, long-sleeved, and wide-sleeved clothes are no longer popular. A large number of students in new-style schools wear school uniforms that are both good-looking and young and fashionable. , At the same time, it is convenient for work and life, and it has gradually become a trend.

Working in the city, men are relatively better off, especially for Wang Gensheng, who works on construction sites, whose clothes are easily dirty and damaged, so there is no big requirement.

But for the female workers in the textile factory, this woman loves beauty and likes to compare. Naturally, now she not only wants to compare the clothes everyone wears, but even some young girls have to learn from the big families. Like a lady, you need to dress up.

More than half an hour later, Li Erxiu came out with a new dress, feeling satisfied.

"The clothes from Caiyun Textile Factory are really expensive. The cheapest clothes cost 1 tael of silver."

Li Erxiu looked at Wang Gensheng worriedly. It was too expensive to buy a piece of clothing for one tael of silver, and he had never been so extravagant before.

"It's expensive as long as it's expensive, and I don't buy it often, and it's okay to buy one once in a while."

Although Wang Gensheng was so distressed that he was about to die, but considering that all the female workers in Li Erxiu's factory had changed and bought new clothes, and Li Erxiu had been promoted to team leader, it would be impossible to not have suitable clothes.

One tael of silver, this is not ordinary expensive, a piece of cloth is less than 100 yuan, enough to make many clothes, but there is no way, who makes my daughter-in-law like it.

"Gensheng, there is a store that sells men's clothes over there, why don't you go and have a look, and also sell new clothes, so we can wear them when we go out on weekends, it will save face."

Li Erxiu took the new clothes and looked ahead, and soon saw a shop selling men's clothes, and said the same thing.

"Not going, not going~"

"It's enough to have a piece of clothes to wear, not to mention that everything here is expensive, why spend that money."

Wang Gensheng shook his head again and again, but he couldn't hold back Li Erxiu and was dragged into the store.

"It's too expensive, it's too expensive, a piece of clothing costs more than two hundred cash, why don't you grab it~"

"And I only planned to buy one, but now I bought two~"

Half an hour later, Wang Gensheng held two new clothes in his hands and kept talking.

"One piece is two hundred, and two pieces are three hundred. Isn't there a hundred cash left over? This dress fits so well and looks so good-looking. I feel like a student in school."

Li Erxiu said indifferently.

Women have been the same since ancient times. Under the sales routine of merchants, they bought one more item without knowing it, and spent an extra one hundred yuan.

Time is slowly passing by, but the crowds on the street are getting more and more, and they have not become thinner as night falls.

In an inn in the capital city, Li Erxiu and Wang Gensheng walked in with big bags and small bags, and put the things in their hands away.

"It feels like Chinese New Year. I went shopping and bought so many things."

"The clothes, shoes, trousers, and your rouge and gouache, as well as these foods, after all, the two taels of silver are gone."

Wang Gensheng pointed to these things on the table, and after doing some calculations, he suddenly felt distressed.

"What, two liang of silver is gone?"

When Li Erxiu heard this, he immediately screamed.

"What do you think, your clothes are only one tael of silver, my two clothes are three hundred, trousers are one hundred, shoes are one hundred, and your shoes, rouge and gouache are one hundred on the left and two hundred on the right. Yes, it’s almost three taels of silver.”

Wang Gensheng made the calculations for Li Erxiu carefully and said.

"If I had known it earlier, I wouldn't have bought so many things. The money would have disappeared before I knew it."

Li Erxiu suddenly felt distressed. In the past, he was very reluctant to spend money, because he basically didn't have any money on him, but today when he was paid, he habitually bought it like he got money during the Chinese New Year. It cost more than two taels of silver.

"Isn't it? I thought this was not expensive, and that was not expensive. I didn't expect to spend so much money all at once."

"Sleep, sleep, go to see the house early tomorrow, buy a house."

"From now on, I'll be paid monthly. If I'm still as lavish as I am now, I won't be able to keep much money for the Chinese New Year."

　Will everyone spend their wages well?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)