Jinxin

Chapter 43 Selling Cloth

Yunniang laughed and said: "I think it's worth it. How much can you sell for a piece of gray cloth? I saw that these pieces of cloth were dyed very well, and the price would have quadrupled if sold. It's not as expensive as yours. Weaving gray cloth is strong? At the beginning, Mrs. Li was still worried, thinking that you were greedy and not enough, but in the end, she was disgraced. Now let her take a look at these pieces of cloth, so she will know that she has misjudged you. Come on, if you think Tired, leave the rest to me."

Ruan Yunsi smiled wryly and said, "Leave it to you? It's really not good. You help me burn the fire and dry the suncloth. It's okay to fight these things. If you are asked to dye and improve the color, you can't do it. You can't control the heat." While talking, Seeing that the heat in the pot started to rise, she tried the temperature of the water, then took Yun Niang's hand and said with a smile, "Come on, help me open this piece of satin and put it in the pot."

While laying the cloth with Ruan Yunsi, Yunniang looked at the pot of water, and said doubtfully, "I didn't notice any change in the color, did you? You're going crazy because the color is used to dye satin?" The words fell, but Ruan Yunsi laughed and said, "It's too early to make a conclusion now, isn't it? Just watch carefully and wait until the cloth is dyed. It's not a good color, am I willing to use this silk satin?"

The two were talking and laughing while working, and after a while, Ruan Yunsi called out: "Okay, let's collect the cloth up." Yun Niang hurriedly helped her to fish out the piece of satin from the pot, and then dried it layer by layer. Going to the prepared pole, when the cloth was unfolded, she almost missed her eyes, pointed at the cloth and said, "This...is this dyed by the water in the pot? This...Sister Yun, You're not fooling me, are you? How did the water in the pot become so purple? It's clearly two colors."

Ruan Yunsi said: "How can I fool you? Didn't you see it from the beginning to the end? As for the difference, the color of the water and the cloth must be slightly different. Otherwise, why can I dye the cloth, but you can't?" What? Okay, let’s dye that piece of yellow cloth again, and let’s go in for dinner, I’m exhausted.”

Yunniang nodded and said: "Yes, you have a good rest. There are always more than a dozen pieces of these cloths, right? You can sell them for three to five days at the market." While talking, she helped Ruan Yunsi pack Another piece of silk satin was put into the pot.Ming yellow and apricot yellow are the clothing colors of the royal family and princes. Dyeing is forbidden among the people, and ordinary people can't dye it.So Ruan Yunsi's so-called yellow cloth is only pale yellow.

After finishing all the work, it was already afternoon. Ruan Yunsi made a simple meal, finished eating for herself and Yuniang, and then fed rhubarb and little black. Then she lay down on the kang, stretched her limbs and said, "I'm so tired." Ah, the seams of the bones are hurting right now, alas, this money is really hard to earn."

"You, don't get cheap and act good, you won't think so when it's time to count the money." Yun Niang curled her lips, thought for a while and said: "No, what do you do when you sell these cloths for money? Invite me to a good meal, too."

"A good meal? What's the standard?" Ruan Yunsi half-closed her eyes and asked with a smile, but she heard Yun Niang counting on her fingers: "Since it is good, why should there be meat, chicken and fish? Well, it’s enough to have these few things, and I’m not greedy.”

Ruan Yunsi sighed deliberately: "Isn't that greedy? You almost asked me to catch a few turtledoves for you. But it's really not difficult. If it's meat, there are twenty or thirty catties of bacon in the jar. Stew it for a while." Kidney beans and potatoes, that’s what you love. For chicken, just go to the market and buy two chicken wings, and you’ll probably be dismissed. Fish is even better, just go to Liuhua River to catch a few. Well, what are you looking at? When it rains, go pick up some mushrooms, Cheng, remember this meal."

Yun Niang asked puzzledly: "Why did I hear you dismiss me so easily? Dare I want to pay you nothing, what is this called inviting me to dinner?" Before the words finished, Ruan Yunsi laughed and said: "Don't talk nonsense, Although two chicken wings are not expensive, they still cost money."

The two were chatting and laughing when they heard someone shouting outside the street gate. Ruan Yunsi sighed and said, "Well, I wanted to take a nap, but it didn't work out." After getting up, she saw several women gathered outside the street gate Needless to say, he was naturally attracted by the cloth in her yard.

Ruan Yunsi dyed for three days in a row, using more than half of the crops she bought from the Yan family, and dyed nearly fifty bolts of cloth in total.Now they are all piled up on the kang in the west room, and it happens to be a big market in Jinfang Township in two days, so she plans to sell them there.

But what she didn't expect was that after the dyeing of the cloth was finished, people from the village came to the door one after another before it could be sold. Ruan Yunsi was embarrassed to take their money, but everyone knew that she was a woman alone. Life is not easy, and dyeing cloth is labor-intensive work.What's more, this cloth is much better than the rough cloth they bought in the city, so the money is not less for her, even the dozen or so bolts of silk satin, except for the ones given to Yunniang Lian's Liu Shi and Orion Village Wang's and others. In addition to some, four or five horses were also bought.This money alone has earned all the cost of buying crops and raw silk.

Looking at the twenty or so bolts of cloth left on the kang, Ruan Yunsi thought secretly.You know, dyeing cloth is just her first step. In her mind, the real career is dyeing and weaving. Hundreds of brocade patterns are enough to set off a storm of brocades in this superficial era. Only then will I be able to truly develop my ambitions and make money, and live happily as a woman in this era.

"The Long March has just taken the first step." Ruan Yunsi stretched her waist, thinking about the three days of dyeing the cloth, her waist was sore and her legs hurt, and she began to seriously consider whether it was time to hire two people as helpers.I just thought about it, now that I am still doing small things, it is not cost-effective to invite people to come, I should save a sum of money in my hands first, and wait until I can make the cloth dyeing business a big one in the future.

Because of thinking like this, he dismissed the idea.

Another two days passed in a blink of an eye, and the neighbors bought a few more pieces of that cloth. Fortunately, the big fair in Jinfang Township finally started.Early in the morning, Ruan Yunsi had just washed up in the room when Yunniang came to call her, so Ruan Yunsi opened the door and called Yunniang in for breakfast, and the two of them used a small cart to push the leftovers. Twenty bolts of cloth came to the market.

The big market in Jinfang Township is held in the large open space at the entrance of Hujia Village, more than ten miles away from Xiaowang Village. When Ruan Yunsi and Yun Niang pushed the cloth to the market, it was already high in the sun. Tired and sweating profusely, Ruan Yunsi untied the water bag and took a sip. Looking at the scorching sun above her head, she couldn't help but miss modern parasols and all kinds of ice cream popsicles in her heart.

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