Chapter 76: News from the tailor shop, cloth tickets and cotton tickets
Even the eldest sister and the second sister ate three sesame seed cakes, as well as pig head meat and pig ears.
After eating, Li Jiayi said: "Eldest and second sisters, please clean up! I'm going out."
"Okay, you go!" The eldest sister nodded and said.
After coming out of the courtyard, Li Jiayi was not in a hurry to find someone to exchange his things, because he had just finished eating and no one would come out.
He first came to a tailor shop, which was very famous in this area and belonged to the street office industry.
The few tailors in the tailor shop are also old tailors, who have been working for many years.
After arriving at the tailor shop, I saw an old man with no work on his hands. He quickly went up and said, "Hello, uncle?"
"Hello, little comrade, what can I do for you? asked the old man.
“I would like to ask, do you know anyone who knows how to tan cowhide?”
"Tanning cowhide? What, do you have cowhide to tan?"
"Yes, my grandpa lives in the countryside. I went to my grandpa's house some time ago and happened to receive a piece of cowhide. I wanted to find someone to tan it. Make clothes.”
“It’s quite luxurious for you to make clothes from cowhide.”
Li Jia touched his nose and said: "It's useless to keep it. It's better to make clothes to keep out the cold in winter."
The old man nodded in agreement and said: "This That’s true.”
After speaking, he looked at Li Jiayi and said, "Bring the cowhide over here! We all know how to tan it."
"Ah! You all know how?" Li Jiayi glanced at the old man in surprise, and then I looked at a few others who were busy.
"Yes, we can do it. Not only that, we can also color and paint cowhide. If you make clothes, we can do it too."
"That's great, like this Uncle, I have something else to do today. I will deliver it to you tomorrow afternoon at the latest."
"Yes!" The old man nodded.
"By the way, uncle, is there anyone here who can use goose down to make clothes? I'm talking about pure goose down."
"Goose down?" The old man looked at Li Jiayi in surprise.
I feel that this little guy is so valuable. It is made of cowhide in the front and now it is made of goose down.
“Yes, goose down, no one here can do it?”
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the old man smiled.
What Li Jiayi didn't know was that in the early 1950s, down jackets had begun to appear in the domestic market, although they were not common at the time.
Down jackets entered the domestic market in the early 1950s and were initially called "baking jackets" because of their rough fabrics, lack of texture, low velvet content, monotonous styles, and gray colors.
However, as time goes by, down jackets gradually improve and become a good choice for keeping warm in winter.
In the 1950s and 1960s, down jackets were not mainstream winter clothing.
At that time, the mainstream for people to keep out the cold in winter was heavy cotton clothing, and the emergence of light down jackets was regarded as a new thing.
Despite this, down jackets have gradually gained recognition among certain groups, especially in specific occasions and people who require lightweight and warm clothing.
Of course, the specific group mentioned here belongs to a very small number of people.
Let’s put it this way, without a certain relationship or a certain background, don’t think about it at all.
But anyway, down jackets have been in China for several years and have undergone certain improvements.
“Of course we can do it, and if the velvet is better, we can also prevent the velvet from running off.”
Now Li Jiayi was even more surprised. The old man even knew how to run away from clothes. It seemed that he could indeed do it.
In fact, in this era, it is normal for down jackets to have velvet, the fabric is rough, and the velvet processing is not so detailed.
There are a lot of stems left on it, and it is normal for the velvet to stick out.
The goose down provided by Li Jiayi does not have these, there is no trace at all, it is absolutely pure goose down. "Don't worry, my goose down is all pure velvet, the kind without stems."
"That's no problem."
After asking clearly, Li Jiayi left here. Since the tailor shop can do it, he doesn't have to run around.
In the park next to the compound, this is where he trades with the children living in the compound, and it is also where he met his master.
Li Jiayi came early, but it didn’t matter, he could still take a nap.
Driving into the woods, he entered the space.
When he came out of the space, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon. He first recruited Ah Sheng, Ah Cai and Ah Quan.
Leave Ah Cai and Ah Quan in the woods, and then take Ah Sheng out of the woods.
As soon as he came out of the woods, Li Jiayi was stunned for a moment, not because of anything else, but because there were too many people.
Yes, it was densely packed, with at least twenty or thirty children, led by the ones named Jianguo.
Seeing him coming out, the five teenagers from before quickly prepared their hands, but when they saw Asheng, the teenagers stopped.
There is no way, Asheng is too scary!
"Why are there so many people here?" Li Jiayi asked.
Hearing his question, several teenagers scratched their heads and said, "They saw us eating. No, that's all."
"Okay! We're still the same old people. Rules, hurry up and come here when you change.”
There is no way, there are too many people, and if he changes slowly, he is worried that it will be dark by the time the change is completed.
"Okay, I just don't know if you have brought enough today?" The boy named Jianguo scratched his head and asked.
"Don't worry, the amount is sufficient. As long as there are the tickets I need, you can exchange them for as many as you want. By the way, I will also exchange cloth tickets today."
"Cloth tickets?"
"Yes." Li Jia nodded and asked, "Why, you don't have any tickets?"
"It's not that you haven't. You didn't say you wanted to release tickets before, and neither did I. Do you know if anyone can take it?”
"It's okay. It doesn't matter if you didn't bring it today. Today is the last time to change before school starts. It will be the same when you bring cloth tickets next time."
The next time will be Sunday after school starts, otherwise he won't have it. Time comes.
“Yeah!”
This afternoon, Li Jiayi was exhausted. He didn’t even know how many times he ran into the woods.
There is no way, these teenagers brought too many tickets, more than you can imagine, they are all big dogs!
If he hadn't been making spicy strips during this period of time, he probably wouldn't have enough money to replace them.
What made him more happy was that he actually got an eighty-three-foot cloth ticket. You must know that this was without saying that he wanted cloth tickets!
Yes, when buying cloth in this era, it’s not about the meter, but the ruler.
I guess more cloth tickets will be exchanged on Sunday.
The cloth tickets are also time-sensitive and have an expiration date on them.
But it doesn’t matter. I bought the cloth and put it in the space. I can take it out when I use it.
Anyway, this stuff can't be wasted, and cloth will become harder to buy in the future, and the quantity is too small.
Not only did he get cloth tickets, he also got fifty-three pounds of special-grade cotton tickets. This was a special grade!
To be honest, he has not used special-grade cotton in this era for more than ten years.
No way, this thing can't get into the hands of ordinary people.
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(End of this chapter)