my grandmother

Chapter 212

Li Xiaonan and his party had a tight schedule, from Yuezhou to Hangzhou, and when they were about to rush to Mingzhou, the letter handed over to Pingjiang City by Jiaxing's tooth shop was transferred to Li Xiaonan's hands, and Jiaxing's weaving workshop entrusted a batch of weaving to Yaxing The workers have to let go.

Li Xiaonan immediately turned around and rushed to Huating County, Xiuzhou, which is next to Jiaxing County.

Wan Qing was very puzzled, there were weavers in the dental shop in Jiaxing, how did they go to Huating County?
Li Xiaonan asked Wan Qing to guess with a smile, but Wan Qing flatly refused, she had too few eyes to guess.

"As the saying goes, shopping malls are like battlefields." Li Xiaonan poured herself a cup of tea.

"I've never heard of this common saying. It's not a common saying. It's what Ah Nan said!" Wan Qing rudely interrupted Li Xiaonan's words.

"Your family son thinks this makes sense." Li Xiaonan stopped with a smile.

"Even if the shopping mall is a battlefield, the weavers you want to buy are in Jiaxing, but they run to Huating. What's the plan? Surround Wei and save Zhao?" Wan Qing asked with a curled lip.

Her family's elder son knows how to fight wars, but he can't do business. The elder son thinks it makes sense, but it doesn't necessarily make sense.

"Basically. First, your family's acquaintance has seen that the weaving workshop stopped working because they wanted to compete with your family's master. In this case, they stopped working as a trick. Selling weavers may also be a trick." .”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wan Qing kept nodding.

"Then before we come forward to pick up the weaver, should we inquire first?"

"Of course, do you know yourself and your enemy?"

"We have been to Jiaxing, and my second cousin and I have also been to a dental shop. The dental shop in Jiaxing knew that we were going to buy weavers, so the weaving workshop in Jiaxing must also know who the buyer is.

"The tooth shop supports two companies, we and Zhi Fang, if we have to favor one family, the tooth shop must favor the weaving house, right?"

"We have never been to Huating! So! Let's go to Huating to know ourselves and our enemies!" Wan Qing clapped her hands excitedly.

"Yes, and also, Huating's dialect is similar to our Lijiaji's, while Jiaxing's dialect is far behind, and I can't understand many words." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"Huh? Aren't they all in Wu dialect? Huating is not the same as Jia?" Wan Qing was surprised, she couldn't understand anything, let alone tell the difference.

"Five miles have different sounds, ten miles have different customs, have you heard of this saying?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"That means Southern Fujian."

"The same goes for Jiangnan."

"You're really thoughtful." Wan Qing exclaimed, "No wonder you're not afraid of seeing Mrs. Shi, you're no less thoughtful than her."

Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at Wan Qing.

"I'm complimenting you. When I was young, I couldn't understand the words, so I told my mother: So-and-so has too many thoughts, and my mother said to me: Listen to you, it is possible that being stupid is an advantage." ?
"It's good to have a good heart, and a bad heart is nothing." Wan Qing said with a serious face.

"I know how to do business, not too much!" Li Xiaonan corrected.

"You don't want people to say you have a lot of eyes, you really have a lot of eyes." Wan Qing pursed her lips.

The next day, when the sun began to slant to the west, a group of people entered Huating County and found an inn to settle down. Li Wenru and several elders went around to inquire. Li Xiaonan found her own clothes from the box and asked Wan Qing to change.

Wanqing is a little taller than her, and her frame is also a little bigger. Fortunately, when Sister Mei makes her clothes, she always cuts an extra two inches to prevent shrinkage, to prevent her from gaining weight, and to prevent excess clothing in cold weather. Wearing one, in short, it must be one inch bigger and one inch fatter. Wan Qing's clothes fit her better than hers.

Seeing the two coming out, Ah Wu, who was grooming her precious horse in the yard, hurriedly put down the comb and followed.

"I don't need you, we'll just wander around in the next few streets, and we'll be back in a while." Li Xiaonan hurriedly stopped Ah Wu.

After taking two steps, Wan Qing approached Li Xiaonan, and asked in a low voice: "Our elder son told me to let Ah Wu follow you at any time, take him with you."

"She doesn't speak the local dialect, so it's inconvenient to take her with you." Li Xiaonan replied with a suppressed voice.

"I do not know either!"

"You pretend to be dumb." Li Xiaonan patted Wan Qing.

"Then..." Wan Qing carefully pointed to the inn, and before she could finish speaking, Li Xiaonan looked at her speechlessly, "You are dumb, and she is also dumb, why are there so many dumb?"

"That's true." Wan Qing suddenly realized, "Where are we going?"

"Let me ask. From now on, you will be dumb. No matter what people tell you, just laugh and don't talk." Li Xiaonan confessed.

Wan Qing rushed to her lips with a good word, and hurriedly slapped it back, looked at Li Xiaonan excitedly, and kept nodding her head.

She's going to pretend to be dumb!

Li Xiaonan pulled Wan Qing, walked twenty or thirty steps, saw a middle-aged woman sitting at the door of the shop, embroidered shoe uppers and looked at the shop, pulled Wan Qing over, laughed in local dialect: "Sister."

The woman suddenly laughed, "You little girl, at my age, you are an aunt, not a sister."

"You look similar to my elder sister, don't blame me." Li Xiaonan hurriedly smiled to accompany the ceremony.

"How old is your elder sister?" the woman asked.

"26." Li Xiaonan replied with a smile.

"I'm more than ten years older than your elder sister!" The woman narrowed her eyes as she smiled, "What's the matter calling you elder sister?"

"I want to ask my sister, do you know where I can buy a small piece of cheap silk, or not very good silk, it's cheaper."

Li Xiaonan lowered her voice and bit the three words "cheaper".

The woman let out an oh, and laughed in a low voice: "Go ahead, see the signboard of that tea shop, pass the signboard and go east, walk for a quarter of an hour, and when you see a grocery store, turn north, and arrive at Enter the second alley.

"The people in that alley are all weavers from Ruifu Weaving Workshop, you can buy from them!"

The woman smiled.

"Yes! I see. Thank you, sister, you are as good as my elder sister!" Li Xiaonan smiled happily, thanked the woman, and led Wan Qing forward.

"What did you say to her? It's really nice, like Huang Ying'er." Wan Qing was confused when she heard it.

"Didn't I tell you to pretend to be dumb?" Li Xiaonan slanted Wan Qing sideways.

Wan Qing choked, gritted her teeth and nodded.

Li Xiaonan pulled Wan Qing, turned right and then left, and entered the second alley.

In a long alley, one courtyard is connected to another courtyard.

The scale of the weaving workshop of the Ruifu old brand in Huating County is larger than that of Xiangyun Weaving Workshop, which is known as the first silk in the south of the Yangtze River, with [-] to [-] weavers.

The gate of the courtyard is open, people come and go, and the alley is filled with the smell of food.

While making dinner right now.

Li Xiaonan dragged Wan Qing through two or three courtyards, picked one, and dragged Wan Qing into the courtyard.

A dozen or so families live in this compound, and the kitchens are set up outside. There are old people and men who cook. Some housewives do laundry, some do needlework, and children run around to play.

Seeing Li Xiaonan dragging Wan Qing in, the children gathered around first.

"Who are you looking for?" A middle-aged woman in the yard raised her voice and asked.

"My sister and I want to buy some scrap silk." Li Xiaonan walked a few steps closer, slightly bowed to the woman, and laughed in a low voice.

"What is it for?" The woman looked at Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing.

"My older sister is going to get married next year, and she wants some silk clothes." Li Xiaonan moved closer to the woman, her voice low, "My older sister is dumb, and her life is very hard. Tin, our family is poor, and there is too little copper tin."

Li Xiaonan's voice became lower and lower.

"Your sister is so well-born that she is dumb, can she hear it?" The woman looked at Wan Qing with pity.

"I can hear it, maybe I can understand it, maybe understand a little bit." Li Xiaonan looked at Wan Qing who had a smirk on her face.

"Mute people are deaf, alas, this child was born so well, poor.

"I don't have anyone in my family who can make clothes. Let me ask for you." The woman stood up and raised her voice and asked, "Who has clothes materials? They want delicate and festive colors."

"My family has a piece of apricot yellow dress material." A woman next to him answered.

"I have a piece of plain material at home, it's best to make small clothes." Another woman answered with a smile.

"Apricot yellow dress material." Li Xiaonan replied with a smile, then continued in a low voice: "Small clothes are fine."

The woman patted Li Xiaonan, "You wait here, I'll ask you in the yard over there."

The woman went out, and the woman who sold the apricot-yellow skirt material went in and took the material out, handed it to Li Xiaonan, pointed to the material and said: "Since you come to our place to buy, you must know our rules here, this material is similar to the material of the silk and satin factory. They can’t be compared. These two pieces are trial-knitted materials, and the front is uneven about a foot, and these uneven places will not be visible when they are made on the waist of the skirt.”

"Thank you sister-in-law, how much copper tin does this material cost?" Li Xiaonan held the material carefully.

"Give me half a tael of silver. This is the market price."

Li Xiaonan nodded hurriedly, handed the silk to Wan Qing to hold, took out the purse from her skirt, took out the silver coin, and gave it to the woman.

"Sister-in-law, do you accept apprentices in your weaving workshop? How can I work in your weaving workshop?" Li Xiaonan asked enviously.

"There are no apprentices in the weaving workshop, they are all slaves bought from Ren Yazi." The woman's face darkened.

"It's fine, slaves. You live in the city and eat well. You can smell the smell of meat as soon as you enter the alley. How wonderful!" Li Xiaonan was envious all over her body.

"Oh, what a fool. Look at those girls, they will be sold somewhere in two days." The woman pointed to a few girls who were about the same age as Li Xiaonan.

"Ah? Why are you selling it? What about their family?" Li Xiaonan's eyes widened in shock.

"Then who knows." The woman looked very upset, and entered the room holding a silver coin.

Li Xiaonan was standing next to Wan Qing, standing in the courtyard, looking at each house carefully, halfway through, the woman who went out to find silk for them came in, and gave Li Xiaonan two pieces of silk, Li Xiaonan counted out a silver coin and gave it to the woman. Several pieces of silk material pulled Wan Qing out of the courtyard.

Turning around the grocery store, and then the tea shop, Wan Qing looked around and asked in a low voice, "Can I talk?"

"No, go back to the inn and talk."

Wan Qing pursed her lips tightly, quickened her pace, and trotted all the way to the inn.

It's so uncomfortable to be deaf and dumb!
(End of this chapter)