She bought rice from Sun's Rice Shop and was told to have the quilt covers and sheets delivered there the following day. She then rushed to another store to buy several seasonings such as soy sauce, Sichuan peppercorn powder, and star anise, and twenty jin of white sugar. Carrying all of these items, she went again to buy five beds of well fluffed cotton padding and five covering waddings.
Without the cotton wadding, the sheets and quilt covers bought from Lady Li would have been useless. It was necessary to buy everything.
Only then did she go to where Wang Crippled awaited customers, and she asked him to drive the cow's car to the shop that sold cotton wadding. She loaded up the ten beds of wadding along with all the other goods she had bought and took the cow's car back to the village.
