Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 157 Preparing for the Wedding 2

At this moment, the backpack of Song Ersao was full of things. The waiter in the store came forward and helped Song Ersao put the backpack aside for storage.

"What would you two like to order?" the waiter said with a smile.

"We need sheets, quilts, mosquito nets, and we need a lot. We need at least eight beds and four mosquito nets.

The quilts are suitable for the current weather and for winter. At least four quilts are needed, some thick and some thin.

Please recommend some comfortable materials and moderate prices for us." Song Sanniang replied.

The waiter grinned when he heard this, and quickly and attentively took the two of them to the shelf to introduce them.

Song Sanniang asked, "We bought so much, you guys can deliver it to our door, right?"

The waiter nodded hurriedly, "If you really want to buy that much, of course we can deliver it to your door."

Song Sanniang listened to the waiter's introduction while she and Song Ersao were choosing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our store has bed sheets made of cotton, linen, kudzu, and satin." The waiter first introduced the bed sheets to Song Sanniang and her daughter.

The two of them looked through the sheets of these materials. Satin was of course the most comfortable. It felt smooth and delicate. In the summer, it was cool to the body when spread on the bed, but in the winter, it was warm to the touch.

And they come in different colors, embroidered with various exquisite patterns, such as lotus, lotus pods, mandarin ducks, dragons and phoenixes, etc. Of course, the price is not cheap, and the ordinary size costs ten taels per piece.

Next is cotton. Although textile technology was still relatively backward at that time, the cotton material was already very smooth and flat.

There are also many colors to choose from, including solid colors, patterned colors, and embroidered colors. The price is also much cheaper than satin.

Of course, cotton cloth is divided into coarse cotton and fine cotton. Coarse cotton costs about 50 or 60 wen per sheet, while fine cotton costs about 100 wen per sheet.

Song Sanniang touched the kudzu and linen sheets again and felt that these two materials were really not suitable.

In fact, their family used to use linen as the mattress. A linen sheet would be rough at first, but after being washed day after day, it has become soft and fragile, and it can be torn if torn hard.

Ge sheets are rougher than linen sheets, but the prices of both are very cheap. Generally, families with less financial resources will choose these two materials.

Song Sanniang and her daughter chose a pure cotton bed. The bed of Song Laoer and his wife was 1.8 meters by 2 meters, so the size would be a little bigger.

For their bed sheets, Song Ersao chose a festive bright red and a pink. Song Sanniang had never expected her mother to choose such bright colors.

She likes green very much, so she chose a bamboo green and a moss green one for herself.

The bamboo green one has bamboo leaves embroidered on the four corners, and the moss green one is pure color. Mrs. Song smiled and said that the two colors look the same.

Then they picked out dark blue, light yellow, jujube red, and rose red for the four girls. In fact, there were guest rooms at home, but since no one would stay in the guest rooms for a while, they didn't buy any.

Then the two of them picked up the mosquito nets. There were many kinds of mosquito nets at that time. The most common one was the ramie mosquito net. In addition, there were also gauze nets, yarn nets, etc.

Luo tents are made of silk and are relatively expensive, while gauze tents are relatively cheap and come in a variety of colors.

Song Sanniang liked several colors, such as clear sky after rain, autumn fragrance, pine green, smoky purple, and crimson.

The two finally picked out four gauze tents. The one for Song Laoer and his wife's room was autumn fragrance color, the one for Song Sanniang was pine green, and the ones for Si Niang and Wu Niang were the same, light green double-embroidered flower and cordyceps gauze tents.

It's time to buy a quilt. There are many kinds of quilts. The cheapest ones are filled with reed wool, which is not warm. There are also quilts filled with scraps of cloth, which are also cheap, but warm.

The feathers of chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and other poultry have also been used to make quilts, so modern down quilts are not uncommon here. The next is the cotton quilt, and there are also quilts made of animal fur, which opened Song Sanniang's eyes.

In the end, the two of them chose four thick cotton quilts and four thin duck down quilts. The duck down quilts were used for today's weather, and the cotton quilts were used in winter. If it wasn't warm enough, they could use both quilts, so they wouldn't be afraid of the cold.

The quilt that Song Ersao chose was printed with bright red peony, and the duck down was the same color with golden plum blossoms and pink edges.

The quilt Song Sanniang chose was a grass green one with a white crane printed on it, and the duck down quilt was a light goose green one.

Si Niang and Wu Niang's quilts and duvets are the same. The quilts are peach pink with golden chrysanthemums printed all over, while the duvets are light pink with white edges and butterflies printed all over.

The two of them bought so many things, and after a little negotiation with the waiter, they added a little money and gave each bed sheet and quilt a pillowcase of a similar color.

I have paid half of the deposit, and will pay the remaining money to the delivery person after the goods are delivered to Songjia Village tomorrow.

The mother and daughter had been here for quite a while. Mrs. Song put on her backpack and went to buy other things, such as brooms and dustpans.

Because Song Dazhi and Song Laoer went to buy some big things, and those things also needed to be transported back, the store had no car to take them, so Song Sanniang and the others rented a bullock cart to take them back to the village.

When they had finished shopping, they returned to the store to wait for Song Lao Er and his friends to come back. They rented a bullock cart to take the people in the store back to the village first.

It was getting dark when the two of them came back. Fortunately, the bathtub was big enough to stack the water buckets and rice buckets inside. There was enough space in the car for Song Sanniang and the others to sit.

So everyone returned home after dark. When they got home, Song Sanniang went to her grandmother's house to pick up Si Niang and the others.

They were having so much fun at their grandparents' house that they didn't want to leave, but when they heard that Song Sanniang had wedding candy and cakes to eat, they happily took Song Sanniang's hand and went home.

In the past two days, except for the four mothers, the whole family was busy all the time. The villagers were also busy helping to prepare for the banquet.

Song Zhengan and his family built several large stoves in front of the new house in advance. Some villagers came to help after seeing this.

Led by the village head's wife, the women in the village cleaned the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks that had been there for a long time, waiting to use them on the day of the ceremony.

Song Li's mother and Song Datou's mother were also busy with a group of old ladies. Some of them took paper money to fold gold ingots, and some went to tell the people invited by Song Laoer in the village about what they were going to do. Anyway, the whole village became lively because of this matter.

Some people felt that the Song couple were so lucky to be together, while others said some unpleasant things out of jealousy, but none of them prevented the wedding from proceeding smoothly.