Chapter 216 Shopping (8)_1
The group continued walking until they reached the furniture market, where they finally stopped to look around.
Once inside the furniture city, Ruan Jianguo, fearing she might get lost in the crowd, bent down to pick Jiaojiao up. Ruanlin Family also told Xiu Xi to stick closely to them, as times were somewhat chaotic and there were many tricksters around. Their two children were both good-looking, and they feared ill-intentioned people might take an interest in them.
The furniture city they visited was the only one in the city and also the largest, with two floors – the lower floor was for hard furnishings, and the upper floor was for soft furnishings.
They started with the hard furnishings first. Ruanlin Family didn’t understand these things, so it was Ruan Jianguo alone who did the looking.
After a while, Jiaojiao lost interest, so Ruanlin Family took the two children upstairs to look at the soft furnishings.
In the past, most soft furnishings were custom-made, and they looked very good after being painted. But now it was said that city dwellers no longer commissioned custom pieces but rather bought ready-made ones because these soft furnishings were very diversified. They were no longer the few conventional options available in the past. Many had adopted foreign styles and were incredibly attractive.
Ruanlin Family wanted the best for Jiaojiao, so for her room’s dressing table, bed, desk—she wanted to buy the best available, not custom-made and then painted.
Hard furnishings were very important and Ruan Jianguo wanted to look carefully. He instructed Jiaojiao and Xiu Xi to follow Ruanlin Family closely and not to run around, then let them go upstairs.
As soon as they got upstairs, Jiaojiao was dazzled by all the beautiful furniture on display.