After eating the wontons, Chi Yan went to pay the bill.
When Gu Jianian heard the number reported by the proprietress, he was surprised to find that her savings had a strong purchasing power in Yunmo.
After leaving the breakfast shop, grandma took them to the cloth shop to buy some cloth to make a skirt for Gu Jianian.
Gu Jianian had never been to a cloth shop. Nowadays, very few people in the city make their own clothes, and most of them buy ready-made clothes.
As soon as you enter the door, you will see a lot of scraps of cloth neatly arranged in the glass cabinet, each with a different color and pattern.
Grandma took several pieces and tried them on her, some with rose-red plaid, some with dark green floral patterns... and some with royal blue ripples.
She couldn't decide, so she asked Gu Jianian which one he liked.
Gu Jianian looked at the cloth and couldn't imagine what they would look like as a skirt. She shook her head and said, "It seems like either one would work. I don't know."
So grandma asked the other two people for their opinions.
He Jitong obviously had no interest in girls' clothes. He said a few words casually and then stood at the door looking around, trying to find the old-fashioned game hall on the street that Gu Jianian mentioned.
Chi Yan helped his grandmother with reference seriously.
After a moment, he pointed at the dark green floral cloth and said, "She has fair skin, so dark green should look good on her."
Upon hearing this, grandma picked out the dark green one and tried it on Gu Jianian. After a long while, she nodded affirmatively: "Sure enough, Xiao Chi still has good taste."
She looked at Gu Jianian, reached out and touched her hair, and murmured, "Our daughter is so beautiful."
Gu Jianian blushed and couldn't help but turn sideways to look at the mirror in the store.
In the mirror, the girl was wearing a standard beige knee-length skirt and standing among the crowded pieces of cloth of various colors.
The skin exposed at the neckline and cuffs was white and translucent, and even under the warm light indoors it still appeared to have a faint cool white hue.
She seems really white.
Among the compliments I have received since I was a child, besides my nice name, the other one is my fair skin.
Gu Jianian never took it seriously or paid too much attention to it, thinking that everyone was the same.
But when it came out of his mouth at this moment, it was different.
She curled the corners of her lips unconsciously.
When grandma saw the smile on Gu Jianian's face, she thought that she also agreed with Chi Yan's words, so she decided on the dark green color.
She picked out a few buttons and skirt hem fabrics of the same color but different materials, and then asked the proprietress to help measure Gu Jianian's size.
Gu Jianian suddenly became nervous.
She had just been forced to eat a bowl and a half of wontons, and now her stomach was bloated. Fortunately, when Chi Yan was measuring the size, he walked to the door to talk to He Jitong and didn't look at her.
After buying the cloth, several people accompanied grandma to buy the seedlings, seeds, dried fish for Gulu, and some flour and sweet potato flour for making snacks listed on the list.
After shopping, I only walked half of the street, not to mention the other two more bustling streets.
Seeing that her grandmother's eyes were tired, Gu Jianian suggested that she accompany her grandmother back to the car first, and let Chi Yan and He Ji go shopping with her.
But her grandmother didn't want her to accompany her and her attitude was quite tough.
She walked into the rice shop and sat down. She then called Chi Yan and He Jitong over and asked them quietly, "Xiao Chi, you two can take Tingting out for a walk. She's been feeling a bit depressed these past few days. Can you accompany her to relax?"