029 Men are clothed and horses are saddled
Mike was pleasantly surprised when he received the gift, and Mike himself was reluctant to buy such a valuable item. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Seeing that Li Mu bought it for five yuan, Mike was shocked, and he also had an extra layer of understanding of Li Mu.
Mike has seen more people who can make money than Mike, but there are not many people who can spend money like Li Mu, and it is even rarer to be so generous to the servants around him.
For Mike, Li Mu's behavior only surprised him, but for Lao Yantou's family, this is not something that can be described as grateful.
When he was on the boat, Li Mu had already described his plan to Lao Yan's family, but it was just talking, even if Li Mu didn't fulfill his promise, Lao Yan's family had no position to accuse Li Mu.
In the depths of their hearts, Lao Yantou's family must have fantasized about the bright future after Li Mu fulfilled his promise, but that was all in the future, no matter what, Lao Yantou's family never imagined that Li Mu's fulfillment would come so quickly.
The clothes that Li Mu selected for Lao Yan and the three of them were three dollars each, two sets per person, plus a pocket watch, the total price was 114 US dollars, if you add the fare from the dock to the Golden State Hotel and the cost of opening a room, Li Mu spent more than 130 dollars on the Yan family, and if it was converted into silver, it would have been more than one hundred taels.
When it came to terms with how much money Li Mu had spent, the Yan family felt uneasy again, although as an employer, Li Mu was responsible for the Yan family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but Li Mu had now done far more than an employer should do, which was indeed too unusual.
However, this was not enough, after finding the right clothes for the men, Li Mu took the Yan family to a women's ready-to-wear store again and continued to buy clothes for the $10,000 lady and her wife.
Compared with men's clothing, women's clothing is much more troublesome, and the key is not the style of the clothes, but the attitude of the Miss Ten Thousand dollars.
At this time, women's clothing has blocked the exaggerated and cumbersome Rococo style, and began to pay attention to simplicity and grace, specifically, the exaggerated hip pads and the complicated floral decorations at the back of the skirt have been removed, and only the puffed sleeves have been retained to set off the slender waist and smooth curves, and the overall effect is straight and dignified and fluent and delicate.
Li Mu felt pretty good, but when the Xue mother and daughter saw these long skirts made of silk, Chu Xue's mother and daughter refused almost at the same time, for the simple reason that if they wore this kind of clothes, they basically couldn't work.
This is also the case, although the trousers and shirts that Li Mu chose for Yan's father and son are very different from their previous robes and horse coats, but after wearing them, they are more convenient to move and people are more energetic, so Yan's father and son did not have much resistance, Yan Hu and Yan Shun even accepted Li Mu's arrangement very happily.
The long skirts of the mother and daughter are different, although the popular long skirts are quite simple compared with the Rococo style long skirts, the length still has to reach the ankles, which is really not very convenient.
What's more, there are still several days of trains to come, and it is a sin to wear such a long dress to take the train.
Fortunately, there are also maid outfits available in the ready-to-wear store, so Li Mu had to choose two sets of maid outfits for Chuxue's mother and daughter.
Uh, don't think crookedly, it's not the short, exaggerated maid costume in the Japanese comics, although the length doesn't reach the ankle, but it also reaches the calf.
After choosing clothes, coupled with leather shoes and stockings, Li Mu was finally satisfied.
No, he was not satisfied, Li Mu found a gun shop again, bought four pistols in one go, and then returned to Jinshan Hotel.
The United States is not very safe in these years, the distance from San Francisco to Springfield is nearly 4,000 kilometers, and the road is basically wilderness, often through large areas of no man's land, and there will be accidents, so it is better to be careful.
When he returned to Jinshan Hotel and passed through the lobby, Old Man Chen was still talking about his "Heaven, Earth, Jun, Parent, and Teacher", and when he saw Li Mu and others walking through the lobby in a grand manner, Old Man Chen ignored it as if he hadn't seen it.
Li Mu still has to rely on Old Man Chen to help, after all, it can't be too much, so Li Mu asked Yan Shun to listen to the "sage's teachings" instead of Li Mu.
It's not that Li Mu is deliberately slacking, after all, the little fat man is not there, and it is already very good that Li Mu can send someone to replace him-
It seems that the Young Boy's Overseas Career Bureau has been dead to Li Mu, and for a whole night, except for Mike who came to Li Mu to send a ticket, no one came to Li Mu, as if there was no Li Mu among the international students.
Li Mu didn't feel that he was left out, so it was okay, not to interfere with each other, and to settle their own destiny, Li Mu planned to let Yan Shun go to class instead of him in the future, anyway, for Old Man Chen, it was the same whether Li Mu himself came or not, as long as he didn't make trouble.
After a night of silence, breakfast was eaten early the next morning, and more than a dozen carriages went straight to the train station, and after a period of chaos, Li Mu and his party finally got on the train and embarked on the journey to Springfield.
The trains of those days were still steam locomotives, and the locomotives did not have enough horsepower, so there were only five carriages on one train, one of which was filled with coal and water, and the rest of the carriages were full of people. The style of the carriage is similar to the green car that Li Mu has seen in his previous life, of course, the details are still different, such as the seats in the carriage are wrapped in cowhide, and they are all genuine leather, from this point of view, 28 US dollars per person is still worth the money.
Each carriage can accommodate about 100 passengers, but fortunately the Americans don't sell standing tickets now, so the carriage is not crowded, although there is no equipment such as air conditioning fans, but because the windows can be opened, the ventilation effect is still very good, but there is no peculiar smell.
The number of officials of the Bureau of Young Children Going Overseas has now increased to nearly 40, plus 30 international students, nearly 40 servants of the little fat man, Li Mu and his party filled a full carriage and a half, after the train started, they suddenly exclaimed, not only these children are interested in the new thing of the train, but even the officials of the Bureau of Young Children Overseas have endless dioramas.
After getting into the car, Li Mu did not have the opportunity to enjoy the natural scenery of the nineteenth-century United States outside the window, because Mike pestered Li Mu and asked Li Mu to give Mike some advice on his business plan.
After Mike bought Li Mu's drawings, he did not plan to resell them, but planned to open a factory by himself, and when he arrived in Springfield, Mike would first apply for a patent, and then prepare an arsenal to specialize in the production of this double-action pistol designed by Li Mu.
Li Mu now knew that the Springfield they were going to was not Springfield, the capital of Illinois, but Springfield, Massachusetts, which was the center of the American machine building and arms industry, and where the famous "Springfield Rifle" was produced.