Chapter 2056 Bai Yujing is not necessarily a good place
Chapter 2057: Expensive Cotton
"Yes, ma'am, it's very cold at night. I suggest you and your ma'am both sew thicker cotton-padded clothes."
In fact, Gu's mother is worried about her two children.
When Mengyu saw the confusion in Gu Ma's eyes, she blamed herself for being careless. How could she be so careless and reveal that she didn't know about Ye Tian's situation?
She patted her forehead: "Oh, look, how could I have forgotten this matter? I didn't use cotton-padded clothes in the Black Forest, so I thought there was no need for cotton-padded clothes here. I didn't bring the big woolen clothes with me.
The cotton coat should be re-sewed.
Mother Gu, look at our family of six, plus two babies. Each of us is sewing a new cotton-padded coat and cotton trousers.
By the way, you also need to buy quilts. The covers I bought in the past were all based on daytime standards, so they will definitely not work at night.
You figure out how much cotton, how much cloth, and how much silver you need to buy. I will give you the silver, and you and Gu Da can buy it back."
"Do we have one too?" Gu Ma's eyes widened.
Mengyu was surprised: "Since it's very cold at night, how can you spend the winter without quilts and coats?"
"In the past, at home, we all wore leather coats. The ones that were cheap, you could buy all the covers for just two or three taels of silver. The same goes for clothes. You could sew a fur coat with just one tael of leather.
But cotton, even the thinnest five-tael cotton coat, cannot be made well without five or six taels of silver, and it cannot be made into a quilt without dozens of taels of silver."
Mengyu was shocked: The fur here is cheaper than cotton?
"Cotton, how much is a pound?"
Gu Ma stretched out her hand: "One tael of silver"
"One tael of silver per catty? That's so expensive!" Mengyu said.
"No, ma'am, it's one tael of silver!"
"To make cotton-padded clothes, even if it only costs five taels of cotton, it still costs five taels of silver."
Cotton is so expensive?
Mengyu remembered that buying clothes was very expensive when she first came here. She thought that was because textile technology was difficult here, but it turned out that the cotton here was expensive. On the contrary, textiles only increased labor costs.
Cotton costs ten taels a pound, but you can't do without it, because, no matter what, cotton is the warmest thing.
There are no down jackets for sale here, let alone artificial cotton, so cotton has naturally become the favorite.
But, how can five taels of cotton-padded clothes keep you warm? It takes at least two kilograms to make one set, right? A set of cotton-padded clothes costs two kilograms of cotton, plus the cloth, it costs more than twenty taels of silver, and a quilt costs hundreds of taels of silver.
The money is really worthless.
Gu Ma hurriedly said: "Madam, these cotton coats are suitable for adults, wives and future young masters. We can just buy some leather coats."
"Leather coats are good-looking, but they are not warm and they need cotton. If you want to look good, make a small cotton-padded coat and wear it underneath, and wear a big fur coat outside."
Gu Ma said cautiously: "Well, madam, the leather coat I'm talking about is made of wild boar skin. If you want a large fur coat like fox fur, it's more expensive than cotton. A set of cotton coats only costs two or three dollars."
Ten taels of silver, but a big woolen garment costs two to three hundred taels of silver."
Mengyu breathed a sigh of relief: Let me tell you, cotton is more expensive than fur clothes.
"Okay, let's make cotton-padded clothes. Each person will make one suit first, and then make two blouses to wear outside the cotton-padded clothes. Six people plus two children, eight quilts, and eight cotton-padded clothes, a total of eighty
Come back with the kilograms of cotton. Just buy the fabric according to the quantity of cotton-padded clothes and quilts."