Baby brings his own shopping mall to travel through

Chapter 109 Filling Materials

The work at the furniture workshop was progressing in an orderly manner, and the work at the embroidery workshop was also put on the agenda.

The embroidery workshop is run by the village chief's wife and daughter-in-law. It is not as complicated as a furniture workshop. You can just choose the right people and start. The difficult part requires filler materials.

Cotton was a precious commodity in this era, and for ordinary people, changing a quilt was considered a big item.

Xiaocao'er had a lot of usable materials, but she didn't dare to take them out.

There are also fabrics and embroidery threads that will be used. If you open an embroidery workshop, you will definitely use a lot of these materials, so you need to find an embroidery workshop that is cheap and of good quality to supply them.

Li also discussed this issue at home. Thinking that Manager Wu must know a lot of people since he had been in the county for so long, she wanted to ask him for help.

That day, Yang Dashan drove a horse-drawn carriage, taking Li, Xiaocaoer and the village head's wife, and after breakfast, they slowly headed towards the county town.

Again, Simao was not brought along, so Simao was very dissatisfied and said, "Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. I read at home every day and have never been out to see the world. How can I gain more knowledge?"

Old Lady Yang: "You can go with them. There are so many people. When your brothers get out of school, they will have a day off tomorrow. How many people can sit in the carriage? Isn't it easy for you to travel thousands of miles? You run in the village every day now. If you run a few more laps every day, you will almost get the money."

Simao: "Granny, that's not how you calculate a thousand miles."

Old Lady Yang: "It doesn't matter how he calculates it, as long as it's ten thousand miles, that's enough."

Simao: Nai, should I praise you for what you said? It makes a lot of sense.

When we arrived at the Jixiang Restaurant, they were preparing to welcome guests. The waiters were wiping the tables and chairs and sweeping the floor. Everyone was busy and orderly.

Shopkeeper Wu came out to greet them when he saw their carriage, and Xiao Cao called out sweetly, "Uncle Wu."

"Hey, our Xiaocao'er is here. Come on, everyone come in and sit down." Shopkeeper Wu carried Xiaocao'er down from the carriage and asked everyone to sit down.

It has been several days since they last saw each other, and Shopkeeper Wu felt that the little girl in his arms had become heavier.

Shopkeeper Wu led everyone to sit down in the lobby. Since there were no customers yet, it was not inconvenient to sit in the lobby.

After everyone sat down, Yang Dashan explained the purpose of his visit to Manager Wu.

After listening to Yang Dashan's explanation, Shopkeeper Wu smiled and said, "It's not difficult. We have our own embroidery workshop. I'll take you there to have a look. You can get whatever kind of fabric and thread you need from them. The price is definitely affordable. As for other materials, you have to ask them if they have any suitable ones."

Li and the village head's wife were very happy to hear that the cloth and silk thread were affordable: "That's great, this way our costs can be lower."

After sitting for a while, Shopkeeper Wu took everyone to his own embroidery workshop. Although it was his own, it was not under Shopkeeper Wu's management, as it was all Qi Xingyun's property.

When they arrived at the door of the embroidery workshop, Li and the village head's wife saw a plaque, "Nishang Embroidery Workshop". They knew this embroidery workshop.

This embroidery workshop is the largest one in the county. I heard that it serves the wealthy families. The patterns in it are the latest from Kyoto and they will be snapped up by the wealthy families as soon as they are on the market.

Ordinary people like them can't afford it, and they don't dare to go in. Many wealthy families look down on others, so why go in and make things uncomfortable?

Seeing Shopkeeper Wu coming in with a group of people, a woman in her thirties came forward and greeted them, "Shopkeeper Wu, you are a rare guest. How can a busy man like you come in person? If you have something to say, just let someone come and tell me."

Seeing that she had a businessman's face, Manager Wu whispered a few words in her ear. She still had a smile on her face, and then took Manager Wu and his group into the reception room at the back.

Seeing that all the customers in the store were women, Yang Dashan did not go in. Instead, he found a tea stall outside the embroidery workshop, ordered a bowl of tea, and sat down to wait.

Shopkeeper Wu introduced the shopkeeper of Nishang Embroidery Workshop to everyone. Her name was Yunniang. Perhaps Zheng Huaming had informed them in advance, and Yunniang knew that they were the family that wanted new dolls, and the smile on her face became even warmer.

"I heard from Master Zheng that the novelty dolls were made by your family?"

Li: "I haven't started yet. I have this idea, but I haven't found all the materials needed to make the doll. Once all the materials are ready, I can start making it."

Yunniang looked curious. The materials were not even ready yet, and Mr. Zheng came to tell her that he was ready to launch a new product?

"I don't know what materials you are missing."

The village chief's wife: "It's the stuffing used to fill dolls."

Li took out a little rabbit from Xiao Cao'er's bag and handed it to Yun Niang, saying, "This is the doll we made. Now we need the stuffing inside."

Yunniang's eyes lit up when she saw the doll that Li took out.

In modern times, such little dolls are everywhere on the streets, but in ancient times they were rare. If you have never seen one, wouldn’t your eyes light up, right?

Yunniang took the little rabbit in her hand and looked at it, thinking it was so beautifully made.

"I want as many of these as you can get." Yunniang said excitedly.

Li reached out and pulled the little rabbit back and said, "This is for my daughter. It's just a sample. I just had this idea now. The materials haven't been gathered yet, so I haven't started making it yet."

"We will find the materials here. You can do the work you can do first and then fill in the gaps when the materials are found. How about that?" Yunniang asked.

The village chief's wife whispered, "If we can't find the materials, all the work we've done will be in vain."

Li: "How about we see if we can collect some scraps of cloth and use them to fill the hole first?"

The village head's wife said: "How many scraps of cloth will that take? We can make some for now, but we won't have that many scraps of cloth in the long run."

Yunniang: "What did you use to fill this?"

Li: "It's made of cotton. It's OK if you just play with it yourself, but if you sell it, it's too extravagant."

The village head's wife said: "Yes, it's hard for ordinary people to buy cotton. If we use it to make dolls, won't we be hated by others?"

Yunniang: It’s not that ordinary people can’t buy cotton, but that they don’t have the money to buy it. For rich people, buying a doll stuffed with cotton is nothing; they can even afford one stuffed with gold.