Chapter 531 Buying cloth to make clothes

When the villagers heard that the money was about to be divided, everyone in the village was in high spirits. When they gathered at Si's house, there was uncontrollable excitement in their eyes.

After Si Jinsong settled the accounts, it was almost midnight. Si Qing yawned several times, waved his little hands and said to Si Jinsong: "You and Mrs. Wu can go and divide the money. I'll go to bed first."

"Hey, grandma, just go to sleep, and leave the rest to me and Si Jinsong." Mrs. Wu also felt sorry for Si Qing's harm to her health by staying up late, so she hurriedly agreed.

So Si Qing, under Li Daya's care, washed up and went to bed to sleep.

Si Jinsong took the calculated account book, and Wu took the money and came to the front yard.

First, I reported to everyone the amount of silver sold today, which was a total of two hundred and seventy-four taels. My aunt took 30% and was divided into eighty-two taels of silver.

In front of everyone, Mrs. Wu counted out eighty-two taels of silver, put it into a wooden box, and put it aside.

Then he started distributing money to the villagers.

"Si Zhengping, three taels and five cents of silver."

"Liu Dali, three taels of silver."

"Si Shanhe, three taels of silver."

"Chen Shitou, two taels and nine cents of silver."

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This time everyone got a lot of money, the lowest was 20 taels and 6 taels of silver, and the highest was actually Chen Laoshi's family, who got a full 3 taels of 9 taels of silver, almost 4 taels of silver.

Of course, this is mainly because when he went to the mountains for the second time, Chen Laoshi’s wife also went in. His family had an extra labor force, and they worked more carefully. The vegetables they grew were big, tender, and heavier.

The people in the village saw this and thought to themselves that they should hire more people next time so that they could grow more vegetables.

However, everyone is already very satisfied with the money distributed this time.

If you save two or three taels of silver on weekdays, you may not be able to save even half a tael of silver in half a year.

Everyone took their allotment of money and went home happily.

With extra money on hand, a group of girls and wives from the village got up early the next day and went to the county town to buy cloth.

It’s hard to celebrate the New Year. In previous years, it’s okay if you don’t have money. If you have money this year, of course you have to buy a few feet of cloth and new cotton to make some clothes for your family.

Therefore, almost all the women in the village went, and even many women rarely went to the county town with them.

They walked into the county town instead of taking an ox cart. Firstly, it was already thirty and the men were busy killing chickens. Secondly, no one could go into the city like Si Qing who always took an ox cart.

Most people still have to rely on their legs to go to the city.

It takes about five hours to go back and forth.

In addition to buying cloth and selecting, it was already dark when we returned to the village.

Mrs. Wu didn't go, she was afraid that if she left, Si Qing would be hungry if she couldn't eat the food to her liking.

She only asked Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li to go to the county town to buy a few feet of good cloth and two pounds of new cotton for her to make new clothes for Si Shanhe and his two children.

At night, Mrs. Wu packed up the dishes and boiled a large pot of hot water. She and Li Daya took care of Si Qing Meimei and took a bath before leaving.

After returning home, Mrs. Zhao brought the newly bought cloth and cotton.

Wu quickly asked them how much they spent in total.

Mrs. Zhao smiled and said, "It's not much. We bought a lot of people this time. We negotiated the price with the shopkeeper. Your few feet of cloth and cotton only cost three hundred Wen."

"The price is indeed not expensive. I remember last year cotton cost fifty cents per pound." Wu said with a smile, counting out three hundred copper coins and handing them to Zhao.

Mrs. Zhao took the copper coins and said, "No, but cotton is not expensive this year, at forty cents per catty. I heard from the shopkeeper that there seems to be no snow in the north this winter, so the price of cotton has dropped."
Chapter completed!