jdhmnovel Chapter 373: The Old Man Talks Nonsense
Chapter 373: The Old Man Talks Nonsense
After seeing Secretary Zheng off, Han Shunde asked Li Lanzhen.
"Sister Lanzhen, what are you doing in the city?"
Li Lanzhen told him that Han Mingjiang was going to bring back 113 wounded soldiers.
Han Shunde said with a smile without even frowning.
“Oh, that’s great, the Peach Blossom Land is short of manpower!
Are you coming to town to buy something?
You make a list and ask them to run errands for whatever is needed."
Buffalo also grinned and said, "Auntie, you are here. What do you want to buy? I will help you."
Li Lanzhen patted his shoulder and said, "No need, I'll go buy it myself, you guys just do your thing.
I will buy something later and have the car take it directly to the Moon Bay Pier. I will not come here again."
Li Lanzhen went to the porcelain shop slowly.
It was here that she ordered the small porcelain bottles for pills and powder when she first came to Youzhou City.
"Auntie, you are here. Let me see what I need." The waiter saw that it was Li Lanzhen. He knew this lady. She had bought a lot of bowls, plates and small porcelain bottles in their store.
"Let me see the coarse porcelain bowl."
Everyone in Taohuayuan has two wooden bowls and two wooden plates.
The adults also have a coarse porcelain large bowl. There are more than 100 people coming this time, so Li Lanzhen wanted to buy some more coarse porcelain bowls and plates.
There are more than 1000 wooden bowls and wooden pallets in the woodworking room, which is enough.
"Waiter, I need 300 coarse porcelain bowls and 300 plates of this size.
1000 of the little ceramic bottles I ordered last time."
The waiter was delighted when he heard this and kept saying it.
"Okay, okay, Auntie, please sit here for a while. I'll go move the goods for you."
After checking the quality of the bowls and plates and counting the numbers, Li Lanzhen paid the silver and then said to him.
"Waiter, please leave these in your shop first. I'll go to the cloth shop across the street to take a look."
"Okay, okay, Auntie, don't worry, I promise to take good care of it for you. Go ahead and do your work, and I'll take it away later."
Li Lanzhen wanted to go to the cloth shop to buy some coarse cloth and cotton cloth.
She kept the cloth in the space for Zhang Yu Niang to make sofa cushions, pillows, and dolls.
There is still so much blue work protection clothing cloth in the space. Li Lanzhen plans to design it into overalls, overall skirts and backpacks for children.
It will definitely sell well.
The female shopkeeper of the cloth shop saw Li Lanzhen walking towards her shop from a distance.
He stood at the door and greeted her with a smile on his face.
"Auntie, you are here. Please come in. What do you need this time? Ready-made clothes or cloth?"
Li Lanzhen smiled and said, "I want to buy cloth, and I want to buy a lot, so you have to give me a discount."
"Okay, okay, what kind of cloth do you need?"
Li Lanzhen walked directly to the table where the coarse cloth was placed.
At first glance, they are still the same colors: blue, gray, black, and a earthy brown.
Li Lanzhen thought that after taking the cloth back, each of the 113 people would have to be given two sets of spare clothes.
As for the clothes she bought for the people at the vermicelli factory and Lishu Village, they now have enough to wear for all four seasons.
Li Lanzhen no longer provided free cloth or clothes to other people in Taohuayuan.
Because people had already earned work points and received money, whoever needed something could go to Youzhou City to buy it.
The female shopkeeper watched Li Lanzhen wandering among the cloths, touching and thinking, but she never said how much she wanted.
I smiled and said, "Auntie, do you mind if there are flaws on the cloth?
But don't worry, there are no holes, just uneven dyeing."
Li Lanzhen was quite surprised to hear such a good thing.
"Okay, how many do you have? Let me see."
"How about this, ma'am? Please follow me to the back. There are too many pieces of cloth. We will put them in the storeroom."
Li Lanzhen followed her through the back door of the store and into the backyard.
The warehouse was quite large, and the female shopkeeper took her to a pile of cloth covered with waterproof and moisture-proof oilcloth.
The black oilcloth covering the outside was lifted and the female shopkeeper patted the cloth with a smile.
"Look, Auntie, there are 120 pieces of defective cloth here."
Li Lanzhen took a look and saw dark blue, light blue, black, a small amount of maroon, and gray.
These cloths were indeed unevenly dyed, just as the female shopkeeper had said.
In some places the dyed area was quite large. Li Lanzhen grabbed the cloth and pulled it hard, but the cloth was still quite strong.
Anyway, these are not taken back to be made into clothes, but just worn when working, so uneven dyeing does not affect wearing.
Li Lanzhen knew that the prices of grain, cloth, and salt had stabilized.
Fine cotton cloth costs about 160 coins per piece, and ordinary cotton cloth costs about 120 coins per piece.
The coarse cloth should be around 95 to 110 wen.
Thinking of this, she asked.
"Shopkeeper, how are you going to sell these defective cloths?
If the price is right, I’d take them all.”
The female shopkeeper was overjoyed when she heard this. If all the cloth could be sold, it would solve a big problem for her.
If you put the defective cloth in a shop and sell it outside, even rich people would not even look at it if they bought it for their servants.
Even if poor people don't mind, they can't afford such a large quantity.
"Auntie, if you can buy all these bags, 95 wen per piece of cloth, what do you think?"
Li Lanzhen shook her head and said, "No, you see, the dyeing of these fabrics is not even.
The larger the blemishes, the more like white flowers are printed on them, which is very unlucky! ”
The shopkeeper almost choked on her saliva. What white flowers? What unlucky? This lady was just talking nonsense to lower the price.
She coughed twice and still spoke with a smile.
"How about this, Auntie, you name a price, and if it's suitable, we can discuss it."
"80 wen a piece of cloth, I want all these defective cloths."
The proprietress calculated in her mind that at 80 cents, she wouldn’t make much, but fortunately she could use all of it to sell off the goods.
The new sample fabrics from Jiangnan were about to arrive, and she was worried about where to put them.
"Okay, Auntie, we are old acquaintances, and you bought so much, so 80 cents is fine."
Li Lanzhen was secretly delighted but did not show it on her face.
I clicked the number and paid half of the money.
"Boss, put it here first. I'll go get the carriage up here, and then you can have the guys load it for me. I'll pay you the remaining money."
"Okay, ma'am, I'll wait here."
When Li Lanzhen was about to leave, she caught a glimpse of piles of cloth piled up in the corner of the warehouse.
She felt puzzled and asked.
"Boss, what's wrong with that pile of cloth? They're not dyed properly, so why are they piled up in such a mess?"
The proprietress frowned and sighed, "Oh, don't mention it!
Look at that area in my warehouse, there was a water leak somehow and I didn't know it, and as a result, all these cloths were wet.
By the time I found out, the fabrics had already grown mold spots.
I quickly found someone to renovate the entire warehouse roof.
These cloths with mildew spots cannot be sold.”
"Oh, let me see, is it still usable?"
The proprietress's eyes rolled around, she laughed and quickly walked over to bring a piece of cloth.
"Why can't it be used? Look, ma'am, this cloth is still very strong!"
As she spoke, she grabbed both ends of the cloth and pulled it a few times.
Li Lanzhen's eyes flashed. Even if you want to get these cloths so badly, you can't use so much effort.
Li Lanzhen was afraid that she would tear the cloth into two pieces.
Fortunately, these fabrics are indeed strong.
She looked carefully and found that there were not many mold spots on the cloth. She thought that after going back to deal with them, there should be no problem.
"Madam, how many of these cloths do you have?"
"There are 82 pieces of cloth in total. Auntie, if you need them, they are 60 coins each. I will give them all to you."