Chapter 91: Women Wear Brocade Clothes
This street was originally called Satin Street, but Satin and Duanzi were homophonic, so it was changed to Duanzi Street. This change was simply a trick, because from then on, whenever people in Yangzhou City got married, the sedan chair would have to be carried from Duanzi Street.
Why?
Good omen!
Isn’t this a traditional concept?
Therefore, Duozi Street is often blocked, especially on the good days on the almanac. There are many families who get married, and one sedan chair after another is like performing, blowing and blowing through the streets. If you stand on the street for no reason, you can make a living by grabbing wedding money.
In May, when the stone slabs on the street are so hot that they can fry eggs. Therefore, when people in the market shop, they only choose morning and evening. Although it is Si, it is almost noon, but there are not many people on the street.
Kang Fei shook his fan and led dozens of Luoli. Every time he passed by a garment shop, he would ask, "Why do you want to have two clothes for each person here... When the shopkeepers saw the dozens of small radish heads behind Kang Fei, they would immediately shake their heads.
To be honest, even a clothing store five hundred years later may not be able to take out hundreds of sets of the same style of clothes, let alone the ready-to-wear shops of the Ming Dynasty.
After asking four or five stores, when he arrived at the next one, Kang Fei felt that there was no chance, so he thought in his mind whether he wanted Ergouzi to go and take Luo Li and the others to the ready-to-wear shops... He was thinking, and walked to the door of the store under his feet, and opened his mouth and asked again.
There was no answer inside, but a woman said in surprise: "Isn't this Kang Fei? Come in quickly and come in quickly..."
As he spoke, a middle-aged woman quickly walked out of the inside. She wore a Yangzhou-like white gauze jacket on her upper body, and a twelve-pleated thread-skirt with green onion and white teeth. She tied her three-shaped silver shapes on her waist, a silver tart bun on her head, and a pair of high-soled embroidered shoes under her feet. She grabbed Kang Fei with a smile on her face.
Kang Fei was startled and subconsciously wanted to break free, but he always felt familiar with the middle-aged woman. Then he suddenly remembered that this was the big man who spoke to Zhang Ji Yaozhang when he was quarreling with scholar Zhang Ji Yaozhang at the doorstep!
He quickly smiled on his face, "So it's a big man..." But he still couldn't calculate it in his heart. His third aunt, Dai Chunlin, is this sixth aunt, so what kind of relative he has with this person.
When the middle-aged woman was shouted like this, she suddenly laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. She let out a long voice. Then, she pulled Kang Fei to the door and shouted at the top of her voice, "I usually tell you that Kang Fei is my nephew, and you don't believe it. Now you can take a look, my nephew is here to see me!"
Many people came out of the shop on both sides. When they saw her pulling Kang Fei, they immediately flattered her, "Qian, I never thought of you, Dai Xiaogong and his relatives... No wonder the magpies were called this morning..."
Kang Fei was dragged to show off by her, and she couldn't help laughing and crying, but she was embarrassed to really throw her arm away and run away. She quickly said, "Big Boss, I have a business..."
As soon as he said that, Qian clapped his hands, "What's the hard thing?" She said, then dragged Kang Fei into the store, and then called dozens of Luo Li to come in, and filled the store with a lot of stuff. He asked the shop's staff to make tea for Kang Fei, and then said to Kang Fei: "Big nephew, wait, I'll go and arrange for you now, and you don't need to run one by one..."
Speaking of this, she felt proud on her face and said, "We are in the streets of Duozi, and we have clothes for the whole of Nanzhili! Don't mention that you, dozens of girls, swaying each one, even hundreds or thousands of them, I'll get you all together. If it doesn't fit, you can slap my big-mouthed face with a big mouth."
Kang Fei was ridiculous and ridiculous by her. However, women who do business are so popular. It is called "swipe" in Yangzhou dialect. Otherwise, a woman who is thin-skinned and cannot continue to do business.
He sat down and drank a cup of tea, and Luoli and others squeezed together to look at the clothes and cloth satin.
Kang Fei saw that the store was not so hot, and he was a little curious, so he couldn't help asking the guy. The two guys were secretly looking at Luo Li and the others. After hearing his question, he quickly lowered his head and answered him, saying that I had ice on the beams in each store!
Kang Fei couldn't help but talk a lot when he heard this. Ice in ancient times was not cheap! Only those officials had [Bing Jing] and [Carbon Jing]. Why can these clothes sellers make ice?
Looking at his eyes, the mate explained that every shop in our Duozi Street was involved in the cloth and satin shop, and paid a sum of money. The cloth and satin shop took ice from the river in winter and hid it in the ice cellar in summer. In summer, each shop had ice... Kang Fei heard, oh, this is a similar guild organization. I heard that the earliest escort agency was created by selling cloth. That's right, in this year, cloth can be used as a silver.
While talking, Qian came in outside at this time, followed by a group of people, including men and women. The men carried cages in pairs. After entering the door, they were placed in a corner. One box after another opened, and the cages were all ready-made clothes, all of which were painted with green satin, and the embroidered pythons were embroidered. Of course, you have to check it out and say that this is a transgression. People will tell you that this is not a python robe, because the embroidered one is called a grass beast. What? Do you think it is a python? It is impossible, it just looks a little like a little...
As for women, they are all female workers with solid needlework. At this time, Qian clapped his hands, "Girls, ten of them follow me upstairs. Let's try clothes upstairs. If there are those that don't fit, let's change it now..."
Kang Fei looked at it and couldn't help but exclaim that this was a specialty in his profession.
After a moment, the mai girl among the first girls who went up came down. Perhaps because of the first time wearing such expensive clothes, she felt a little shy on her face.
This scatter is never cheap. When Taizu Hongwu Grandpa, the guards wore scatters very delicately. Grandpa Hongwu asked him, how much does it cost to wear this scatter? The guard replied, "Two hundred scatters." Grandpa Hongwu sighed and said, "Your scatters are not eaten or drunk for many years."
Grandpa Hongwu had an example of corrupt and incompetent law, but that was a civil servant. Confucian civilization had different requirements for civil servants. As the saying goes, civil servants do not love money and generals, and they are not afraid of death.
Of course, Grandpa Hongwu was indiscriminately given out treasure money. At that time, the 200 guan was definitely not as valuable as two hundred taels of silver, but no matter how valuable it was, I'm afraid that dozens of taels of silver would be inevitable.
Miss Maisse used to go around the world with me, but she had never worn such expensive clothes? She was naturally a little restrained.
Kang Fei didn't care, and his eyes lit up as he looked.
Why?
He is so heroic!
This is the style of the Jinyiwei.
He immediately reached out and slapped the handle of the Nanguan hat chair, "Okay, okay, very good, big man, this is the dress, everyone is in two styles, by the way, this..." He said, pointing at Sun Ziling casually, "This girl, make her look red."
After saying that, he said to Sun Ziling, who was a little dazed, "From now on, you will be the chief of the female soldier in our Yangzhou Volunteer Camp."
Chapter completed!