Fast Wear: A Different Life

Chapter 170 Ancient Times (24)

Not long after they walked out of the inn, they bought a lot of things, including food and entertainment.

At this time, the two walked to the door of a cloth shop called Fanghua Pavilion, and saw ready-made clothes placed at the door. The fabrics looked like they were just made. Because when Ji Xiao and the others left Qingyun Town, they had not seen any clothes for sale in the town, so Ji Xiao took Li Xiangyi to walk over. Obviously, the two planned to go to the North City first, but now half an hour has passed, and the two have not left the South City, and Li Xiangyi already has a lot of things in his hands.

As soon as the two of them arrived at the door and had not yet entered, they were spotted by the sharp-eyed shopkeeper, who came over to greet them. She looked at them with a smile on her face and asked, "Please come in, is there anything I can help you with? I'm the owner and shopkeeper of this store. My name is Hua Rong, and you can call me Shopkeeper Hua or Boss Hua."

Since the shopkeeper was a woman in her thirties, Ji Xiao went forward to negotiate, and Li Xiangyi stood quietly aside and waited.

"Hello, Shopkeeper Hua. I'd like to look at some fabrics. Do you have any recommendations?"

"Please follow me. We just got some new fabrics these days. We just put them on display today. Most of the fabrics in our store were launched this year and are currently only available locally. We have our own weaving and dyeing workshops, so some fabrics are only available in our store."

Shopkeeper Hua brought the two of them in. When Ji Xiao asked to see the fabrics, he took them directly to the counter on the left side of the first floor. They saw that the side near the window and the area directly opposite the window were filled with all kinds of fabrics.

"Really? Then we should take a look at it, since summer is just around the corner."

Although Shopkeeper Hua didn't see anything on Ji Xiao's face, he could guess from the tone of her voice that Ji Xiao was quite interested in the new fabrics.

So Shopkeeper Hua picked up a piece of brightly colored cloth and said to Ji Xiao, "Miss, this piece of cloth is made of gold, silver and silk threads. However, there are few finished products. So far, only two pieces have been woven. One is the black one I am holding, and the other is silver-red."

Ji Xiao took it, looked at it, and then said to Li Xiangyi, "Xiangyi, come here, please, Manager Hua, bring the other one over for me to see."

"Okay, please wait a moment while I ask the guy to get it out."

"Ah."

Hearing Ji Xiao calling him, Li Xiangyi walked up from behind her, then stood beside Ji Xiao and asked, "Xiaoxiao, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Well, stand still so I can see if it looks good."

"Oh."

Then, he let Ji Xiao hold the cloth and gesture on his body, raising his hands when asked and turning around when asked, without any complaints. After all, he was the kept one.

After a while, Ji Xiao finally said, "Okay."

Afterwards, Ji Xiao looked at a lot of fabrics, all of which were relatively rare. Besides, Ji Xiao was not short of money, so she bought a lot of fabrics, all of which were fabrics that could not be produced in modern times and had low production volumes.

Finally, Ji Xiao said to the clerk beside her who was called by the shopkeeper, "Please help me pack all these and send them to Yue Man Lou."

"Okay, is there anything else you need?"

"Gone."

"Please pay the bill here."

Ji Xiao and Li Xiangyi then went to the counter to pay. Soon, Shopkeeper Hua recorded the clerk's description on the abacus and said, "Since the two pieces of brocade are made of gold and silver cut into silk threads, they cost 200 taels of silver each, a total of 400 taels. The other miscellaneous items add up to 50 taels, so the total is 450 taels of silver."

After hearing the price calculated by Shopkeeper Hua, Ji Xiaojue was okay, after all, she bought a lot. She took out a silver note of 500 taels from her sleeve and handed it to Shopkeeper Hua. In fact, it was Ji Xiao who took it out from the space. After all, it was not safe to keep money on one's body, so Ji Xiao put it into the space.

Shopkeeper Hua took the banknote and found it was from Qingyun Bank. After verifying its authenticity, Shopkeeper Hua said to Ji Xiao, "Do you want cash or banknotes?"

Ji Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Cash, and also help me change some small change and copper coins."

"OK, just a second."

Afterwards, Shopkeeper Hua let Ji Xiao check it first to make sure there were no mistakes, then he packed it in a purse and finally gave it to Ji Xiao.

The reason why Ji Xiao wanted the cash was because she just remembered that Li Xiangyi only had 10 taels of silver on him, which should have been almost used up when he was outside just now, so she asked for the cash.

After Ji Xiao took it, she did not put it away, but handed it directly to Li Xiangyi who was standing beside her.

"It's too heavy. Please help me carry it."

"Okay (????????)."

"Take care, both of you. Welcome to come again next time."

"Okay, thank you for your help, Shopkeeper Hua."

When Ji Xiao and the shopkeeper said goodbye, Li Xiangyi had already put the money in the bag he carried with him. This was the snack Ji Xiao gave him this morning. Now he had almost eaten all the snacks in it, so it was just enough to put it down. After Li Xiangyi put the money away, he patted it, but he didn't think too much about it. He really thought that Ji Xiao let him hold it because she disliked the weight of the money.

So, watching the two people walking away, Shopkeeper Hua thought to himself that the two were really a perfect match. The young lady must be in charge of the money usually, and only occasionally gave the young man some pocket money, and not directly.

But the young man was also very nice to her. When he was bored and eating snacks, he never complained or urged her. He just did whatever she asked him to do. The most important thing was that he was so handsome. The relationship between the two of them must be very good.

Then he thought of his own wife and thought, forget it. The two cannot be compared in this way. After all, there is really no comparison. Although she is not as pretty as that young man, she is still obedient and there is no concubine in her family.

But in a moment, Shopkeeper Hua came to his senses and continued to do his own thing.

After all, there are thousands and millions of people in the world, and the lifestyle of each person or each family is different. If you have to compare this and that, then such a life would be too tiring. It is better to live in the present.

The two people here, after leaving Fanghua Pavilion, went straight to North City.

Although most of the shops have moved to the south city, there are still many restaurants, teahouses and food stalls here. Moreover, it is close to the vegetable market specially designated by the government, so business should be good on market days.

However, it was already late when the two arrived, and there were not many people in the vegetable market. Only a few restaurants were still open, but it looked like they were about to close.

After all, it gets dark early here, and most people are reluctant to light the lights, so they eat dinner early and go to bed early.

The two of them were just walking around and looking around casually, and it would take more than one day to fully understand the place, not to mention that they would have to rest here for a few days, so they were not in a hurry.

It happened to be dinner time, so the two of them randomly found a restaurant that was relatively clean and had more diners and walked over.

"Jiang's Restaurant." Li Xiangyi whispered the name of the restaurant, then leaned over slightly and said to Ji Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, let's go to this Jiang's Restaurant. I observed that this restaurant has more customers, and it is much cleaner than other restaurants."

"Well, it's up to you."

After all, for someone who is a little bit of a germaphobe, it is acceptable, which proves that this store is really good.