Chapter 223: Expensive Tools
After Zhang Xiaoxue and Yu Wenze got ashore and got into the carriage, Yu Wenze instructed the coachman to rush to the blacksmith shop as Zhang Xiaoxue said.
The reason why I went to the blacksmith shop was that Zhang Xiaoxue felt that these tools were indispensable and that they might not be sold elsewhere, so she should go to the blacksmith shop to have a look first.
"Master, do you have carpenter's tools here?"
When they arrived at the blacksmith shop, Yu Wenze and Zhang Xiaoxue went straight to the shop, and when Zhang Xiaoxue saw that she was buying a hoe and an iron plow, the master who received her was not far away, so she asked.
"Hey, little girl, why do you want to buy carpenter's tools? Of course we have them here. ”
As soon as the master in the blacksmith shop saw Zhang Xiaoxue, he recognized that it was the little girl who designed the new iron plow, which was very popular in their shop in the past two days.
In addition, I also noticed that the man standing next to Zhang Xiaoxue, the momentum of that body, at first glance, is a nobleman, and his appearance is unforgettable at first sight, there is such a good-looking man in this world.
The master in the blacksmith shop had a good impression of Zhang Xiaoxue, and when he saw that she was asking, he introduced Zhang Xiaoxue with a smile.
"The carpenter's tools are here. ”
The master took Zhang Xiaoxue and Yu Wenze to a pile of tools, pointed to a triangular ruler, and told Zhang Xiaoxue that it was a curved ruler, although this curved ruler was made of wood, but because the other tools were iron, they made them, so in order to make a complete set of tools, they also made some curved rulers to sell together.
After the master finished introducing the ruler, Zhang Xiaoxue introduced the ink fountain, planer, drill, chisel, and saw next to him.
There are several drills, there are thick and thin, there are many types of chisels, large and small, there are several, it looks like it should be a carving tool, listen to the master master to introduce flat chisels, round chisels, diamond chisels, oblique chisels.
To be honest, the tools here, Zhang Xiaoxue thinks they are very simple, if it weren't for the fact that the tools sold here are all new and newly made, Zhang Xiaoxue has a feeling of looking at the unearthed cultural relics, and these tools are really incomparable with the tools used in modern times.
And this whole set of tools is very simple in Zhang Xiaoxue's opinion, and it also costs 12 taels of silver to buy, which is really not cheap, thinking that there are three carpenters among the slaves bought, if you buy three sets, wouldn't it cost 36 taels of silver?
A set of carpenter's tools is so expensive, it seems that if you want to be a carpenter, you can't do it without capital, no wonder there are so many families in their village, there is no carpenter anymore.
Later, I would like to buy some tools for blacksmiths and stonemasons, as long as they are iron, they are not cheap, and the price is estimated to be no less.
Zhang Xiaoxue remembered that there was also a female slave who could spin and weave cloth, and she still wanted to buy a spinning wheel and a loom? Thinking of the silver taels in her hand, she originally thought that it was still a lot, but when she wanted to use it, she realized that it was still too little, and when she thought of the things she wanted to buy, she didn't know if it was enough.
Zhang Xiaoxue thought about it, there is no need for everyone to have a set, right? If you want to make furniture, let them divide and cooperate, no, you don't have much money in your hand, you can buy a set first, and if you don't have enough money in the future, you can buy it again when you have money.
So Zhang Xiaoxue happily asked the master of the shop for a set of carpenter tools, which cost 12 taels of silver, and Zhang Xiaoxue didn't bargain, she knew that the blacksmith shop generally couldn't negotiate the price, so she didn't bother to speak.
The master in the blacksmith shop thought that Zhang Xiaoxue and they were going to leave after buying the carpenter tools, but he didn't think about it, but he heard Zhang Xiaoxue ask him again, are the tools used by the stonemasons sold here?
Although the master in this blacksmith shop was a little puzzled, he was naturally very happy when the business came to the door, and he had it all here.
There are not as many tools used by the stonemasons as there are carpenter's tools, there are two hammers, one large and one small, and several chisels of different sizes and thicknesses, and the price is not cheap, it costs ten taels of silver, and it is sold so expensively, and the iron used for the hammers and chisels is really a lot.
When Zhang Xiaoxue heard the price of ten taels of silver, she didn't dare to buy more, and she only bought one set, which made her feel distressed.
Hearing that Zhang Xiaoxue also wanted to buy tools for blacksmiths, the master was a little surprised, but he still introduced it to Zhang Xiaoxue, there are blacksmith furnaces, wind boxes, hand hammers, anvils, sledgehammers, pliers and grinding stones.
After Zhang Xiaoxue heard the price, her heart was a little throbbing, this was too expensive, it cost 50 taels of silver, but thinking that there were slaves who could strike iron, if they didn't have tools, they wouldn't be able to use it, so in the end, they were ruthless and asked for a set.
However, thinking that I had bought so many things here at once, and the price was so high, I still wanted to try to tell the master of the blacksmith shop about the price.
In the end, after grinding his mouth for a while, he still saved three taels of silver, which can be regarded as a comfort to himself.
After counting the silver in his hand, it was only 26 taels of silver, and I don't know if I can afford to buy a spinning wheel and a loom.
Zhang Xiaoxue finally decided that if the loom could still be bought, she would buy the loom first, and the spinning wheel would be used by her uncle's family anyway, so she would use it first, and when she had money, she would go to the county to buy it.
I don't know where the loom is sold? By the way, I have to go to the cloth shop to buy some cloth so that I can make clothes for the slaves, Zhang Xiaoxue really can't see that her slaves are wearing tatters, and they are not even as good as beggars, so they can't afford to buy looms.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoxue couldn't help but sigh, this silver is really unspent.
"What's the matter? You've bought all the tools here, what are you sighing about?"
Yu Wenze was a little puzzled, I don't know why Zhang Xiaoxue sighed? I have bought everything I want to buy so smoothly, there is really no reason.
Hearing Yu Wenze's inquiry, Zhang Xiaoxue took a look at Yu Wenze, and thought in her heart, as a prince, how could he have such an embarrassment as having no money to buy things?
The idea of borrowing some silver taels from Yu Wenze flashed in his mind, although he was familiar with Yu Wenze, but Zhang Xiaoxue was not embarrassed to borrow money from him, thinking that his house was so far away from the county town, and he didn't know when he would have the opportunity to repay him after borrowing money, so he still suppressed the idea of borrowing money.
Zhang Xiaoxue replied to Yu Wenze, she sighed but felt that it was not easy to be a craftsman, only these tools cost so many silver taels, ordinary people really can't afford to buy them, after a craftsman buys these tools, if he wants to earn back the cost of these tools, it will take a lot of days to do it.