"Brother, those patrols have been following us!" Liu Wanliu turned around to see the patrols following us, and whispered in Liu Xin's ear.

"Just follow us! They must be careful when we enter the rich area. They are also afraid of chaos coming into the city." Liu Xin said.

The two finally found a ready-made clothing store. This store looked much taller than the stores in the west of the city. Liu Xin took her elder sister to the door of the store, and a clerk wearing fine cloth walked out.

"Sir, would you like to show the clothes to yourself or to this lady?" The waiter in the shop did not have a bad attitude towards the two of them because they looked poor.

"Show us a set of coats and a set of underwear, and then show my sister a pair of shoes!" Liu Xin replied when she saw that underwear was sold here.

"Please come in, sir. The fabrics here are all of the best quality..."

Liu Xin walked into this clothing store and saw all kinds of exquisite clothes in different colors. They were all made of fine cloth and silk brocade, and there was not much fine cloth.

"How much does this suit cost?" Liu Xin asked the waiter when he saw a simple gray ready-made suit.

"Sir, this is made of fine cloth from the south of the Yangtze River. The edges of the clothes are all added with silk. It is not only comfortable but also warm. It only costs four and a half taels of silver!" said the waiter.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the main currency was the five-baht coin, with gold as the auxiliary currency. There were also other copper coins, and silver was also used by some. For some large-scale transactions, because there were too many five-baht coins, gold or silver would be chosen as currency transactions.

The exchange ratios of five baht coins, silver, and gold are different throughout the Central Plains.

In Zhuoxian County, one tael of gold can be exchanged for about 7 taels of silver, and one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,600 yuan. However, there are very few people who trade with silver. Unexpectedly, this tailor shop actually trades with silver directly.

Liu Wanliu shivered when she heard the waiter's quote, which was four and a half taels of silver, which was enough for their family to eat for half a year. She pulled Liu Xin.

Liu Xin just asked what was the use of wearing such fine clothes as a tenant. Seeing a plain blue fine cloth in the corner, he asked and it cost 800 yuan.

"Where are the underwear?" Liu Xin asked the guy!

"There are cheap underwear. A layer of fine cloth is added inside the coarse cloth. It will keep you warm when you wear it. You can buy it for about 500 yuan for your body shape. You will only know how much it costs after you try it." Looking at Liu Xin, the waiter also picked the cheap one.

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Liu Xin showed himself a set of underwear and a set of outerwear, totaling 1,320 yuan. He asked Liu Wanliu to try it, but Liu Wanliu held Liu Xin's hand and refused to let go.

"Didn't you agree to buy clothes?" Liu Xin looked at her sister and asked.

"This is too expensive!" Liu Wanliu said in a low voice.

"Why is it expensive? I will bring my mother and sister to buy one in a few days. From now on, if I follow my brother, I have to listen to him, you know!" Liu Xin said to his sister.

Liu Wanliu then lowered his head and let go of Liu Xin's hand.

"We want these two sets of my sister's, as well as the red cloth shoes she tried on just now!" Liu Xin said to the store clerk.

Liu Xin and his sister both put on new clothes. He wanted to throw away these old clothes, but Liu Wanliu disagreed. Even her broken straw sandals were reluctant to throw away.

My sister's two sets of clothes cost 970 yuan, and her shoes cost 280 yuan. Liu Xin spent 2,570 yuan on this trip. Liu Xin took out two ounces of money from the basket on his back, and then took out a string of money and untied the money rope and counted 570 yuan.

No wonder this ready-made clothing store can use silver for transactions. It only took half an hour to count the money after writing a business trip. It seems that in the future, you will need to prepare store silver when you live in the city, otherwise you will have to carry such a heavy back to buy something.

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Putting on the fine cloth, the smile on Liu Wanliu's face never stopped. She had been wearing coarse cloth for so long, and most of them were old clothes worn by her brother. Putting on a white underwear, Liu Wanliu felt that her whole body became warm.

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"elder brother!"

"What's wrong?" Liu Xin replied when his eldest sister called him.

"We have spent more than two thousand yuan today. How can we live after all the money is spent? You give all the land to the eldest brother and the second brother!" Liu Wanliu asked somewhat sadly.

"Third brother has many ways to make money. We will look for craftsmen when we go there. I will soon be able to build a village in our wasteland, and then we will build a big mud house!" Liu Xin said.

"That's good! From now on, when we build our own house, we don't have to look at my sister-in-law's face anymore, and we don't have to be bullied by Guisheng!" Liu Wanliu said happily, holding her brother's arm.

"The good times are yet to come! Let's go, let's go have dinner first, and then go to Carpenter Sun's house to see how we will build our new home in the future." Liu Xin said as he took his sister and walked towards the West Market.

With the beginning of spring, the number of people in Xishi City has begun to increase. On the ninth day of February, the Zhuoxian County will open a large market, and the carriage and horse fees into the city will be waived for seven days. At that time, people can buy and sell livestock in the south of the city. That is the busiest time.

After walking around the market, Liu Xin only found one selling sesame cakes and jujube cakes. The inn sold food, but ordinary people couldn't afford it. The restaurant was in the east of the city, and Liu Xin couldn't even afford it!

I had no choice but to take my sister to eat a portion of jujube cake. This jujube cake is made of rice and various grains, with some red dates added to it. It costs 5 yuan a portion, and it tastes pretty good.

A serving of jujube cake weighed a small catty. After eating, Liu Wanliu patted his belly with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Brother, this is my first time to eat such delicious food. When I go back later, can you bring one to my little sister?" Liu Wanliu looked at Liu Xin with hope after eating.

"Of course it's no problem. Let's bring two copies now, and bring them to mother too. It won't be good if the date cake seller leaves later!" Liu Xin said, buying two more copies and putting them in his own basket.

With full stomachs, Liu Xin and his sister walked south. Carpenter Sun lived in the south of the city. It was Liu Xin who knew the best carpenter in Zhuo County. He also knew many masons and bricklayers. Most of the big houses outside the city came to him to build their houses.

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Arriving at Carpenter Sun's house, Carpenter Sun was leading his apprentices to make furniture. His yard was about 2 acres in size, and there were wood everywhere. The sound of axes and saws could be heard from time to time in the yard. Liu Xin saw that there were at least 20 people here.

Most of them are poor people wearing coarse cloth.

When he found Carpenter Sun, Liu Xin told him his idea of ​​building a house on the mountain.

"The uphill location you mentioned covers an area of ​​about ten acres. It would be a big project to enclose it all with a wall. With only five houses built in such a big yard, wouldn't it be a little empty inside?" Carpenter Sun saw Liu Xin standing there.

Draw a picture on the ground and discuss with him how the new yard should be built.

"This house needs to be about two feet wide and six feet long. I plan to raise chickens here. I will also need you to make some chicken coops. I will give you the shape of the chicken coops later.

The other four houses, like this chicken coop, need to have fire walls built. How much will it cost?" Liu Xin asked.

“If five houses are mainly made of adobe bricks, and only wooden pillars and beams, plus doors, windows, furniture, and chicken coops, it will cost about 20,000 yuan.

But if you fence these 10 acres, it will cost at least 50,000 yuan. This does not include the cost of workers’ meals.” Carpenter Sun thought for a moment and said.

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