79: Chapter 79: Smart Butler_1
79 -79: Smart Butler_1
As for the fabric used for making clothes, there weren’t too many varieties available; commoners basically used cotton cloth, which was categorized into several grades.
The finer cotton cloth was relatively expensive, costing about thirty-five or thirty-six wen per chi, with a bolt of cloth amounting to around one and a half silver ingots.
There was also coarse cotton cloth, which was cheaper, priced around twenty-five or twenty-six wen per chi.
Besides, there were cheaper options such as kudzu and hemp fabric, but even those cost around seventeen or eighteen wen per chi.
Cotton sold for thirty-five or thirty-six wen per jin.
Once she had a clear understanding, it was time to make a purchase.
To avoid drawing attention, Yang Ruxin first headed to a ready-made clothing store located a bit away from the market.
She spent one silver ingot on a new set of clothes and then ducked into her space to touch herself up before re-entering the marketplace.
The difference in her before and after attire was so great that unless someone was exceptionally familiar, they wouldn’t believe the girl now shopping so generously was the same girl in tattered clothes just moments before.
Yang Ruxin first strolled around the market, bought a back basket, then piled it high with various meats and vegetables.
Turning into a secluded spot, she shifted the items into her space, then went to several stores, in the end spending an entire Small Ingot.
Perhaps it was because she used the space so frequently now, Yang Ruxin no longer needed to enter it when putting things away.
Merely by holding the items in her hand and willing it, she could send them into the space.
Gradually, it had even reached the point where as soon as she touched something, it could be moved inside, which was much more convenient.
Because she had put so many things in at once—raw and cooked food, clothing, and even a few chickens and ducks—Yang Ruxin had thought about finding time to organize everything.
However, she was amazed to discover that the space had an automatic sorting feature.
Raw and cooked, edible and wearable, everything was neatly sorted into its own category.
She even had a smart butler, Yang Ruxin was thrilled, thinking that this trip through time might not be so bad after all.
Actually, she would only dare to do this in ancient times.
If it were modern days, with surveillance cameras everywhere, such use of the space might have been discovered and closely monitored, and in minutes she could have been sent to a laboratory for dissection…
After checking her purchases one more time and feeling that she had gotten everything she needed, she changed back into her initial clothes and prepared to head home.
However, after taking a few steps, she stopped again; she still needed to buy some toilet paper.
In this era, everything was natural, including toilet habits, and these past days, what she couldn’t stand the most was squatting.
The rudimentary hardware wasn’t the worst part; it was the items for wiping that drove her crazy.
Without toilet paper, she had to scrape with leaves, twigs, or even stones which were not only inefficient but often left her chrysanthemum bleeding from scrapes and her body reeking.
Although everyone here did the same and wouldn’t normally mock someone for it, Yang Ruxin, coming from a civilized society, couldn’t tolerate it.
She went back to the general store.
Although she had been there before to buy oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, she had changed her appearance, so the shop boy didn’t recognize her.
Nevertheless, he didn’t neglect her due to her clothing and still greeted her with a smile, “Miss, what would you like to buy?
We have everything here…”
“I…” Yang Ruxin was about to speak when she saw a person entering from behind and couldn’t help but frown slightly, but it was only for a moment before she turned her gaze away and pointed to the toilet paper at the side, “Two packs for me.”