four and a half year old farm family pet

A short coat that used to cost only about one tael of silver could now be made at least two taels of silver, and the cotton used was not necessarily new cotton.

"It's so irritating!" Wei Chun said angrily after helping Yuan Bao get on the carriage and sit down, "It's so expensive, how can ordinary people survive this cold winter?"

Yuan Bao took his hand out of the hand warmer bag made of fox fur and responded to Wei Chun's words: "Those cotton-padded jackets are not sold to ordinary people. How many real ordinary people can afford this money?" of?"

"Usually, they just buy cloth and cotton, tailor the clothes themselves, and sew them themselves. Farmers who grow cotton outside the city save even more money, and usually leave part of it to make clothes."

Wei Chun: "Then those farmers who don't grow cotton, if they want to make coats, don't they have to spend this money to buy cotton?"

Yuan Bao nodded, shook his head, and explained: "Ordinary people don't make new clothes every year. If you look through the winter clothes from previous years, you should be able to survive this cold winter. However, the increase in cotton prices will not help those who really need to make new clothes. For ordinary people who cannot afford the money, a coat can indeed kill them."

As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage that had been driving for a short time suddenly came to an abrupt stop.

There was noise.

After Wei Chun caught Yuan Bao's look, he opened the window and looked out.

Right in front of the carriage, a man wearing thin patchwork clothes fell on the ground where the snow had been swept away and new snow fell.

In front of the man stood a domineering man dressed like a waiter.

Directly above the waiter's head, there is a plaque with the words "Common People's Publications" hanging.

"Get lost! If you still want to buy things to make clothes when you don't have money, go ahead and dream!" The waiter pointed to the distance and then turned around and entered the store, keeping the door tightly closed.

The man who fell to the ground was shivering with cold and stood up holding the money bag in his hand.

After patting the snow on his body, he angrily shouted at the closed store door: "You are obviously taking advantage of the heavy snow to increase prices indiscriminately! I came to ask half a month ago, and you told me that the cloth and cotton used for a coat are only Charge me 750 coins. Now that I have finally collected the money, you are asking me for [-] taels of silver! You black-hearted things!"

After saying that, the man realized that he was blocking the passing carriage, nodded to the coachman sitting on the shaft, then quickly rushed to the door of the cloth store and slapped the door hard.

The carriage started moving again, and Wei Chun, whose face was cold from the cold, retracted his head and closed the window.

Before Wei Chun and Yuan Bao could report what they saw, they heard a man knocking on the door and shouting: "Open the door! If you don't sell me this cloth and cotton today, you'll pay for my wife! I'm waiting to get this new one." Yao is going to propose marriage!"

Wei Chun looked at Yuan Bao. From Yuan Bao's expression, he guessed that Yuan Bao had already figured out the whole story of this little farce from what he heard, so he didn't say anything else.

Yuan Bao was a little absent-minded, inexplicably thinking of Xizhou and Liangzhou, his elder brothers and sisters-in-law, General Pei, and many soldiers stationed at the border.

It’s so cold in the capital, so the climate in the frontier fortress should be even worse, right?

The cold-warming supplies for the soldiers will be another major expense for the court.

After returning home, Yuanbao asked people to move the purchased farm tools and cotton seeds to the warehouse. He planned to go to the warehouse quietly in a few days and send everything into the space.

Before she walked through the long corridor and returned to the courtyard where she and Pei Yu lived, she saw Pei Yu striding towards her wearing a black lambskin cloak.

"Where have you been in such a cold weather?" Pei Yu ignored the fact that there was a maid behind Yuan Bao, unfolded his cloak, and wrapped Yuan Bao completely in his arms.

(End of this chapter)