Chapter 12 Buying Cloth as a Jacket
Xu Jiaoxing directly took Aman to a cloth shop with many customers in the East City. After she chose the gray gauze cloth and negotiated the price, the shopkeeper immediately asked someone to measure Aman's size.
Perhaps because of the long-term lack of nutrition, Aman is not tall and does not waste materials. Three or four-foot cloth is enough. But the child grows fast. In order to make him still wear it next year, Xu Jiaoxing asked the shopkeeper for four or five-foot cloth.
It is still March, and the weather is not warm, and Aman's clothes don't have any interlayers. Xu Jiaoxing looked at the cotton and prepared to let Sang Sanniang sew it into the clothes when she made the clothes.
However, after the shopkeeper took out the cotton, she felt something was wrong no matter how she looked. After asking the shopkeeper, she realized that this was not modern cotton at all, but a big tree called a kapok tree!
There is no cotton at all in this era!
Xu Jiaoxing suddenly remembered that there were still many cotton seeds in her pharmacy. It was originally a medicinal herb that she had stored at the beginning. Now that I think about it, if I planted the cotton seeds in the ground, I don’t know if I could grow cotton.
Thinking of this in her heart, she originally planned to buy some sweet potatoes in the East City and go to plant them, but now she has given up the idea.
She wanted to go back and take out the cotton seeds and try it out to see if they can sprout!
"Girl, do you want it?" The shopkeeper saw Xu Jiaoxing playing with kapok in his hand, and saw that the rag linen on her body was almost covered by crooked patches. He suddenly felt that she might not be able to afford it, and immediately lost some patience.
"How much?" Xu Jiaoxing just asked, and saw the shopkeeper squint her and said, "It's not expensive. Now the weather is warm, and your child is not big. It's enough to buy thirty cents."
Thirty cents are indeed not expensive.
However, what made Xu Jiaoxing uncomfortable was that the shopkeeper's attitude was clearly looking at people through the crack in the door!
She wanted to leave now, but when she thought that she had to choose a new one after going to the next one. If she was delayed, she would miss Uncle Chuan's ox cart. She could not guarantee that the next one would be better than this one... Xu Jiaoxing immediately gave up this idea.
Seeing that Xu Jiaoxing was rubbing the kapok with his hands, the shopkeeper told her not to buy it and not to touch it. Unexpectedly, Xu Jiaoxing had already reached out to pay in her pocket. For a moment, he felt unhappy and was glad that he didn't say the words of the accuser.
After leaving the cloth shop, Xu Jiaoxing bought two small bags of brown rice at the rice and grain shop, each with six kilograms of wheat bran. He also bought half a kilogram of wheat bran for chicken food, and spent a total of twelve cents.
She originally wanted to buy some candied fruit for Aman as snacks, but Aman refused to do so. She only said that it had cost a lot of money to buy cloth today, so she pulled her to the end of the street.
Xu Jiaoxing was funny, and she felt more and more that Aman was sensible. Thinking that it was not a good thing for a boy to eat too much snack, she simply did not continue to be a stalemate with Aman. Her mother quickly went to the city gate to find Uncle Chuan.
Uncle Chuan's ox cart is extremely slow, and it makes people feel more uncomfortable when they encounter more stones. Xu Jiaoxing has never been a motion sickness, but now she is also physically and mentally exhausted by the ox cart.
Thinking of her reciting so many things, Aman was too young, and her many discomforts finally made her endure it.
When she returned to the village, it was already drizzling in the sky. Xu Jiaoxing wanted to take Aman to hide at the entrance of the village, but the things she brought were so eye-catching. She was afraid that people would find that it was not a good thing for her to have money to buy things. She also saw that the rain was not very heavy, so she did not delay any longer and rushed back in the light rain.
Even so, Aman's long gown was a lot wet.
Xu Jiaoxing hurriedly found clean clothes, wiped Aman's hair and changed the wet clothes.
This rain comes quickly and goes quickly. After my mother and her meals, the sky clears up.
Xu Jiaoxing soaked her clothes in a basin, and then went to Sang Sanniang's house with cloth and brown rice. Now that spring is in trouble, Sang Sanniang is sitting in the yard making shoes and is drowsy. It is not until Xu Jiaoxing enters the house that she wakes up a little.
"Sanniang, please keep this brown rice and cook porridge later." Xu Jiaoxing said, and had already handed the brown rice to Sang Sanniang. Sang Sanniang was stunned and confused, "Amanniang, what are you doing? It's so good, why are you giving me this?"
Xu Jiaoxing smiled, patted the cloth in her arms, and couldn't help saying, "I have to bother Sanniang to help me make clothes for Aman. I'm clumsy and can't do any sewing work."
Sang Sanniang suddenly realized that she had asked her to make clothes for Aman. Unexpectedly, she bought cloth and kapok so quickly. She was still a little surprised for a moment.
"It's just to help Aman make some clothes. You don't have to bring so many things over. It's not easy for you and Aman to be an orphan and widowed mother. Hurry up and take it back." Sang Sanniang took the brown rice bag and pushed it into Xu Jiaoxing's arms.
Xu Jiaoxing shook her head and couldn't help frowning and said, "Sanniang, it's just a little bit of heart. If you don't accept it, I'm so embarrassed to ask you to help."
This is just a small favor. Her own man is hunting outside, and Sang Sanniang is fine at home. In addition to cooking some food for the man and his son, she also has a lot of time to spend on weekdays. She can also help Aman make clothes and pass the time to spend her free time.
If she asked her to collect the food for this reason, she would not want to. At this moment, Aman poked his little head and said softly: "Grandma Sang, just accept it, otherwise my mother will not be able to get over it."
"Yes, Sanniang, if you don't accept this, I won't let you make this dress." Xu Jiaoxing insisted very much.
Sang Sanniang was a little helpless, and finally sighed for a while: "Forget it, then I will accept it. I can't do this again next time. We are neighbors, so it's time to help each other."
Xu Jiaoxing nodded and smiled, then said something to Sang Sanniang for a while, and then took Aman back.
After that, Xu Jiaoxing did not go up the mountain again.
She went back to the space and found more than two kilograms of cotton seeds. She thought that she could just plant more than one acre of dry land, and Xu Jiaoxing was in a good mood.
After leaving the space, she went to the river to wash Aman's clothes, fry some grass nearby, and dug some wild vegetables, then went back to the house to cook wild vegetables and gnocchi.
The stove that Xu Dali set up for her was already useful. Xu Jiaoxing stirred the dough lumps and then moved a large stone from outside to put it on the stove, so that Aman could sit on it and watch the fire.
She chopped the vegetables and fed the pheasant with very little wheat bran.
In the past two days, the pheasant cubs broke out one after another. Xu Jiaoxing looked at Huanxi. In order to prevent the pheasant from flying around and hurting the chick, she found a short rope to tie it to its feet.
This was also quite effective. After the pheasant failed to fly repeatedly, he became tired and honestly hatched the chickens.
Xu Jiaoxing finally felt relieved and specially prepared clean water for it.
It didn't eat it yet, but after a long time, it glanced at Xu Jiaoxing and tried to peck at some food. Seeing that Xu Jiaoxing was just looking at it and did nothing else, it became more bold.
When they came back, the wild vegetable dough was out of the pot. My mother was guarding the square table and eating dough dough. The sky outside was getting darker, and a slight barking of "woofy woofy" came from the barking. Xu Jiaoxing thought secretly that it was time to feed a puppy in this yard to watch the house.
The moonlight was hanging high, and Xu Jiaoxing had a dream, dreaming that her dead man and Liu Guixian came over, and the two of them snatched Aman away.
Xu Jiaoxing woke up with a sensation and subconsciously touched the bun beside her. She felt Aman's existence, and then she breathed a sigh of relief and felt a hot feeling coming from him.
Xu Jiaoxing frowned, immediately turned over from the bed, lit the light and touched Aman's forehead.
Chapter completed!