Chapter 138

138. Chapter 138: Li Jinfeng Gets Married

Holding the silver money, Qiulian Niang took the opportunity to purchase fabric for making autumn clothes in the embroidery workshop.

There were many embroidery workshops and cloth shops in Yong'an Town. The price of coarse cloth was very cheap, 2 wen per chi. An adult needed about 6 or 7 chi of cloth to make a set of clothes. Her family had five people, and one set for each person would be 30 or 40 chi of cloth.

However, this kind of coarse cloth, although cheap, was of poor quality and rubbed the skin when worn, which was very uncomfortable. It could only be used to make outer garments, and fine hemp cloth also needed to be bought.

Fine hemp cloth was softer than coarse cloth and suitable for making inner garments. The price was also slightly more expensive, 6 wen per chi. Qiulian Niang bought 40 chi of fine hemp cloth as usual.

This alone cost more than 300 wen, and she felt a bit of heartache.

But these were essential clothes for autumn, so she couldn't save on them.

Qiulian Niang gritted her teeth and bought some needle and thread and scraps of cloth that the embroidery workshop didn't want.

She planned to use these scraps to make shoe uppers. After autumn, the weather would gradually get cooler, and she couldn't wear straw shoes anymore; she had to wear cloth shoes...

Seeing this, Jiang Wei thought that the few bolts of cloth she had sent to Qiulian Niang's house were probably not enough, so she also bought some fabric.

Although her needlework wasn't good, she could find someone to help make clothes, so she bought dozens of chi of coarse cloth and fine hemp cloth, and also bought a few bolts of patterned satin.

This satin looked smooth and bright on the outside, the silk surface was dense, and it felt soft to the touch. She planned to use it to make a few inner garments.

Besides this, she also bought two pairs of cotton shoes and cotton socks for herself and Jiang Xiaoxiao... Calculating it, she bought even more than Qiulian Niang.

Finally, when the three of them left the embroidery workshop, Qiulian Niang came out carrying a small bag, Jiang Wei came out carrying a large bag, and Jiang Xiaoxiao walked in front with her hands empty and swaggering.

She pointed to the pastry shop in front and said: "Mother, let's buy some pastries to take back."

Chunya came to her house every day to help feed the rabbits, chickens, and sheep, rain or shine. The little girl was honest in doing things. After feeding the poultry, she also seriously cleaned up the chicken manure and sheep manure in the chicken coop and sheep pen.

She had wanted to call her to eat together several times, but the girl slipped away as soon as she finished her work, not leaving her any chance. Buying some pastries to take back, she could also give them to Chunya as a thank-you gift.

Thus, the three went to the pastry shop again.

There were especially many pastries sold in the shop. The expensive ones were sugar-steamed crisp cheese, chicken oil rolls, pine nut goose oil rolls...

There were even more cheap ones: chestnut cakes, date cakes, wheat cakes...

Besides buying a box of fragrant sugar fruits, Jiang Xiaoxiao also wanted two packs of chestnut cakes and date cakes each.

Qiulian Niang looked at them and felt moved.

The two children at home had never eaten any pastries since they were young. They had been helping to work day and night for the past few days, and even the younger one hadn't been lazy. Should she also buy some to reward the children? Anyway, she had earned some money today...

Thinking about this, she took out more than ten wen from her sleeve and bought a small pack of the cheapest wheat cakes.

When leaving, Jiang Wei decided to go to the pork stall and bought 3 jin of pork.

Pork had risen with the grain price a while ago, reaching as high as 35 wen per jin. Now the price had dropped, selling for 28 wen per jin.

Qiulian Niang looked at it, thinking that her family hadn't touched meat for a long time, so she gritted her teeth and bought half a jin of pork.

This alone cost more than 10 wen.

When Qiulian Niang got on the carriage, she was still counting the remaining silver money in her bag with heartache.

This time coming to town, buying cloth, needle and thread, pastries, and pork had already cost half a tael of silver. Except for the 3 taels of silver for the head tax that couldn't be moved, there was less than 1 tael of silver left for emergencies.

Jiang Xiaoxiao watched and sighed faintly.

This 1 tael of silver looked like a lot, but it was all the money that a peasant family of seven or eight people earned after working hard for a whole year.

Once winter came, this money would have to be divided to buy winter clothing, quilts, etc. If someone in the family got sick and needed medicine, this money couldn't be saved at all.

The carriage drove all the way to Yuhe Village.

When approaching the entrance of the village, the carriage suddenly stopped.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Jiang Xiaoxiao lifted the curtain and poked her head out to look. She saw a carriage blocking the front of their carriage, which seemed to have just come out of the village.

The dirt road in the village was narrow, and two carriages were blocking each other, and neither could pass.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was puzzled. Except for their family, no family in the village had a carriage. Whose carriage was this?

Just at this moment, the curtain of the opposite carriage was lifted, and a familiar face poked out.

"Yo, so it's Third Aunt!" Li Jinfeng covered her little mouth in feigned surprise, but her face carried a trace of provocation and pride, "You and Er Ya are returning to the village? I'm going to the Huang family in town."

She specifically bit the words "Huang family" very heavily.

Jiang Xiaoxiao scanned and knew that this carriage was from the Huang family. Presumably, the Huang family had sent someone to pick up the bride.

She pulled her mother and said: "Since this is the case, then it's not good for us to block the great future of the Li family."

Jiang Wei didn't say anything and gave way to Li Jinfeng's carriage according to her daughter's wishes.

Li Jinfeng saw that Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't even want to call her cousin, and kept calling them the Li family, obviously wanting to draw a line with her. She felt very uncomfortable in her heart.

She was going to marry into a wealthy family, and this dead girl Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't come to curry favor with her!

But thinking about it, both mother and daughter had given way to her, obviously afraid of her future status. Thinking this way, Li Jinfeng felt proud again.

She haughtily scanned Jiang Xiaoxiao's calm face, hummed lightly, let go of the curtain, and sat back, ignoring them.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the carriage that had gone far away, and a trace of mockery appeared on her calm face.

This Huang family was considered a wealthy family with a face in Yong'an County. Marrying a bride, not to mention a ten-mile red makeup, didn't even have a wedding procession. Even if a concubine with a humble status married into such a high-gate wealthy family, she would be carried in a flower sedan from the side. And Li Jinfeng? She went in a carriage.

This Li Jinfeng really thought she was going to enjoy happiness. If she had a little self-knowledge, she would think of the disharmony in it.

Jiang Wei drove the carriage and continued to rush home.

Qiulian Niang closed the carriage curtain and couldn't help but say: "It's also strange. Didn't the village spread that the person marrying into that wealthy family was Li Xiufen? Why is it changed to someone else now, and the Huang family doesn't make a sound?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao pulled the corner of her mouth and didn't speak.

Look, even Qiulian Niang, a peasant woman who hadn't seen the world, could see the clues. Why couldn't the Li family see it?

Qiulian Niang clicked her tongue twice: "If it were my son marrying a wife, and the originally set bride became her sister-in-law, my family would definitely not be happy."

Jiang Xiaoxiao shrugged and said: "Perhaps the Huang family doesn't care who they marry."

Their family only wanted a woman, a yellow-flower maiden, and one with no family background, the kind of woman whose handle was held in their hands.

Jiang Xiaoxiao remembered the girl that Shopkeeper Zhou said was carried out of the Huang family's young master's room. Presumably, she was also a family background similar to Li Jinfeng's, with no power or influence, and didn't dare to find trouble with the Huang family even if something happened.