The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

When they arrived at the town, the villagers separated. This town is called Heqiao Town. It is not big, and the buildings are relatively old. There is only one main road in the town, called Baisha Street. There are a lot of people on the street. Xia Mianwan asked around and found out that this town is the only one close to the town among the dozen or so villages nearby. There is also an official road, so although Heqiao Town is not rich, it is still quite lively.

There were not many shops in the town. Xia Mianwan walked along the way and saw grain stores, grocery stores, cloth shops, dental clinics, inns, restaurants, pawn shops, silver shops, and blacksmith shops.

Xia Mianwan walked into Li's Cloth Shop. The owner of the shop was a middle-aged man with a simple and honest smile. When he saw a customer coming in, he greeted Xia Mianwan with a smile.

"We have a full range of fabrics here, please feel free to take a look." Shopkeeper Li said with a smile.

Xia Mianwan took a look at the cloths here. Most of them were cotton, linen, and coarse cloth. Only a few brocades were placed on the cabinet.

When Shopkeeper Li saw Xia Mianwan looking at the brocade, he said, "Young lady, you have good taste. This is our most expensive fabric. I will take it down and show it to you."

Xia Mianwan shook her head and said, "The village doesn't need these. I wonder how to sell these pieces of cotton cloth?"

"500 wen a piece. These are new materials that have just arrived. The colors are all good. If you have good fabrics, I will buy them."

There have always been many exiles in the North, so there are quite a few former nobles living here. Some of them had their entire families confiscated, and when they came here, they really had no money and had to rely on themselves for everything. But there are also some who still have some wealth at home. The former nobles are used to spending money lavishly, so naturally they want to use the best of everything. Of course, there are also people who come to sell good materials.

Xia Mianwan's temperament was obviously not that of a country woman, so Manager Li said a little more, and the business would naturally be done.

"Give me two pieces of indigo cotton cloth, one piece of goose yellow cotton cloth, one piece each of lotus root and purple, and two pieces of moon white cotton cloth." Xia Mianwan said.

Shopkeeper Li was delighted when he heard this. Xia Mianwan asked for seven pieces of cloth at once, which was considered a big customer. In the north, because of the land, the people lived a very hard life. If there were no exiled prisoners coming here, the local people would have lived even harder. The rich families in the town made their fortunes by doing business, but once they made their fortunes, who would continue to stay in this bitter and cold place? Therefore, Shopkeeper Li could not always make business like Xia Mianwan's.

"The total is three taels and five cents of silver." When Manager Li picked up the abacus, Xia Mianwan had already taken out the silver and asked Manager Li to weigh it.

"Young lady, you are very good at arithmetic." Shopkeeper Li praised.

Xia Mianwan smiled and then asked, "Do you have needles and thread?"

"Yes." Shopkeeper Li said as he took out two packs of needles and thread from the cabinet.

"Please provide me with everything needed to make clothes, including scissors." Xia Mianwan had no idea what tools were needed to make clothes, so she could only ask the shopkeeper to provide them for her.

So, in the end, Xia Mianwan spent another 200 coins to buy all the tools for making clothes.

"Shopkeeper Li, I didn't see the embroidery shop in the town just now. Do you sell embroidery products?" Xia Mianwan asked.

Shopkeeper Li stroked his beard and said, "Embroidery in our town is not very expensive. The county will buy these things. There is a wharf in the county, and there are more merchants and rich people than in the town. If it were here, your embroidery would have to be sold to a pawnshop."

Xia Mianwan knew what was going on when she heard this. The town was poor, so embroidery would not sell well and no one would buy it. Even in the county, it was estimated that it would not be so easy to sell. It seemed that the idea of ​​making a fortune by embroidery in time-travel novels was not feasible. She would find a chance to go to the county to have a look.

Zhu was an excellent embroidery worker. Before Xia Mianwan left, she asked her to find out the price of the embroidery here, hoping to contribute to the family.

Xia Mianwan asked Manager Li to deliver the cloth to Liu Daniu's ox cart, and then went to the grain store.

There are mostly coarse grains here, and refined grains are very expensive. White rice costs 20 wen per jin, and white flour costs 15 wen per jin. Xia Mianwan bought some seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, just for the sake of showing his appreciation.

There are quite a lot of these things on the shelves in the supermarket, not to mention in the supermarket’s warehouse.

There was nothing else to buy, and Xia Mianwan had almost learned about the situation in the town. She spent a total of 4 taels of silver today, and Xia Mianwan felt that at this pace, she actually had enough money on hand.

However, they are still exiles and can only live here. There may be other opportunities in the future.

The women in the village were a little envious when they saw Xia Mianwan bought so many things. Zhang Qingqing even stared at him, "Why did you buy so many things? It's such a waste!"

Xia Mianwan glanced at Zhang Qingqing indifferently and sneered, "What does it have to do with you how much I bought? Did I spend your money?"

Zhang Qingqing didn't expect Xia Mian to respond so directly, and said unhappily: "How dare you, a foreigner, be so arrogant?"

"What's the difference between a foreigner and a foreigner? Once you settle down in a village, you are a villager. All the uncles and aunts are warm-hearted people. Why do you have to talk so much?" Xia Mianwan was not polite when he spoke.

When Zhang Qingqing saw the other aunts looking at her with disapproval, she turned her head away.

"Aunts, there are many people at home, and we just arrived. We don't have anything, so we naturally need to buy some."

"Yeah yeah!"

Next, they chatted about some trivial matters. Xia Mianwan just listened and didn't say anything, but even so, Xia Mianwan learned a lot about the village.

After arriving at the village, everyone said hello to each other and went back to their homes.