I trade in both worlds

They arrived at the city gate slowly in a mule cart. Xu Xu jumped off the cart first, then turned around and supported Xu Ziqing.

The first time Xu Ziqing rode in a donkey cart, he felt that his entire buttocks had lost feeling and were numbed by the shaking of the cart. After getting off the cart, he could not stand up straight. He half hunched over and slowly moved his legs.

Xu Xu supported her as she walked and said, "Walk, don't stand, just walk. This is your first time sitting. Once you get used to it, you won't be like this again."

"I don't want to get used to it." Xu Ziqing said with a sad face.

The two of them walked forward slowly for a while before Xu Ziqing began to feel a little better. He supported his old waist and moved like a pregnant woman in her seventh or eighth month.

Thinking that he would have to take a car to go back later, Xu Ziqing asked with some resistance: "How long will it take to walk back?"

"One hour." Xu Xu didn't care whether to take a car or walk. She was used to it anyway. The main thing was Xu Ziqing. Although they had not been together for a long time, after Xu Xu fully understood the comfort and convenience there, she didn't think Xu Ziqing could walk such a long distance.

"Two hours." Xu Ziqing looked at Xu Xu with a look of despair: "Is there anything else? Like a carriage?"

Xu Xu said with a smile: "With a horse carriage, it is indeed not so bumpy, but it is still far inferior to the cars you have."

"That's fine. Let's take a horse carriage when we go back." Xu Ziqing thought that as long as it was better than a donkey cart, it would be fine.

"Okay, then let's go to the Embroidery Pavilion first and then I'll take you around later." Xu Xu suggested.

Xu Ziqing nodded and asked as they walked, "Xuxu, do you want to embroider a fan or a screen and take it to Xiandai to sell?"

"Yes." These past few days, Xu Xu has been thinking about how to make money from both sides. It is impossible to spend only Xu Ziqing's money in Xiandai, but he cannot just focus on making money in Xiandai. Dayun Dynasty is their home, so they still have to focus on this place.

After thinking for a while, Xu Xu asked again: "Sister Qing, do you think I can make money if I buy cloth here and sell it there?"

"How should I put it?" Xu Ziqing replied, "Just like I calculated the price of the embroidered screen with you yesterday, it depends on how you calculate it. I thought about it and actually you can make Hanfu and sell it."

"Nowadays, many young people like to wear Hanfu. I'll open a video account for you, and you can shoot a video of you making clothes and post it, and also sell the clothes you made. You can buy some cheap silk fabrics here, make Hanfu and sell them there."

"Can you make money by making clothes?" Xu Xu asked.

Xu Ziqing nodded: "Yes, you can make a set of clothes in one day. An ordinary set of Hanfu will sell for several hundred yuan. The ones with better fabrics are more expensive, and they can be customized. The price of customized ones is a little higher. When you make money, you can buy cloth to make clothes in modern times. Modern cloth is woven by machines and the price is not expensive."

Xu Xu was tempted. It was really quick to make clothes with a sewing machine. As long as the cutting was done, it could be done in half a day. It wouldn't be difficult to make two sets a day.

"Okay, then we'll make clothes together to make money." Xu Xu said happily: "I'll be responsible for making them, and you'll be responsible for selling them. We'll split the profits 50-50."

"Ah." Xu Ziqing had no intention of interfering. He glanced at Xu Xu, thought about it, and finally agreed: "Okay, then I wish us a prosperous business and lots of money."

"Business is booming and money is rolling in."

The two chatted and laughed as they walked slowly along the street towards Jinxiu Pavilion. There was no market in the county today, and the streets seemed a bit deserted.

Walking in the quaint streets, Xu Ziqing looked around the ancient town and saw that the streets of the county town were not paved with large stone slabs as seen in costume TV dramas, but were paved with cobblestones.

Everywhere you look, there are bumps and unevenness, a bulge here, a slope there. If you walk on such a road in high heels, your ankles will probably bend a lot.

Before coming here, Xu Ziqing thought that the ancient county town would be like a quiet historical scroll, with simple bricks and stones, vigorous green tiles everywhere, and the narrow ancient alleys paved with bluestone slabs polished by time, and the lingering sounds of morning bells and evening drums coming to his ears.

But in fact, most of the buildings in Guoyue County are earthen brick houses covered with gray tiles. They are not as simple and vigorous as she imagined, which made her feel quite disappointed.

Xu Ziqing turned his head to look at the shops on the street and saw that some of the shops had blue bricks on the floor. Although the bricks looked rough, the floor was very flat, not as bumpy as he had imagined.

Some shops use square bricks, which look a bit like the small ceramic tiles commonly used in modern bathrooms, but the bricks are darker in color and do not have the luster of ceramic tiles. They are much smoother than blue bricks, and they must have been coated with oil or something.

She remembered watching a documentary about the Forbidden City on TV. One episode mentioned that the gold bricks in the Forbidden City could not come into contact with water and had to be maintained with kerosene, while the floor tiles had to be coated with tung oil or something like that.

The streets of Dayun Dynasty are not divided into different areas like the modern ones. The shops in this street sell all kinds of things.

Taverns, restaurants, teahouses, tile shops, clothing shops, coffin shops, steamed bun shops, porcelain, bronze, silk, jade, lacquerware, calligraphy and painting, preserved fruit shops, silver shops, salt shops, pawn shops, etc. are basically all unique businesses on this street. I don't know if there are similar shops in other streets.

When they arrived at Jinxiu Pavilion, Sister Feng was entertaining clients. She glanced at Xu Xu, nodded gently at her, and continued to busy herself with her own business.

Xu Xu also smiled at her, turned around and took Xu Ziqing to choose cloth. The cloth in the store was arranged according to categories. Cheap cotton and linen cloth were placed at the entrance, and other gauze, satin, brocade, gauze, silk, kesi, etc. were placed to the left in order of price.

The two of them went straight to the counter near the end and looked at the colorful fabrics piled on the top. Xu Ziqing became excited like a mouse seeing rice. He glanced around and started flipping through the pretty patterns.

I turned it over, but it didn't move. I used more strength and just lifted the cloth a little. It still wouldn't turn over. I was dumbfounded for a moment. What should I choose?

The clerk standing next to her hurriedly stepped forward and moved the cloth she was flipping to one side. He smiled and said to her, "Miss, which cloth do you want to see? I'll find it out for you. These cloths are quite heavy and difficult to move."

Xu Ziqing smiled at him awkwardly and pointed at a few patterns that he liked: "I want this, this, this, and this..."

After some selection, the two finally chose four types of jacquard brocades, one was a light yellow brocade with lotus pattern, one was a light green brocade with flower pattern, one was a light purple brocade with orchid and butterfly pattern, and one was a dark blue brocade with peony branch pattern, as well as plain brocade of the same color.