Chapter 75: Pipes
The free trade zone almost occupies two blocks, with a total of eight entrances, and since the mercenary group's headquarters is located at the junction of the slave and slum quarters, the first one to enter is the sales area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
And the shopping area he wants to go to is in another block.
Looking at these people who were sweaty and trying to shout 'lose money and make money', his mood gradually calmed down. In his opinion, although these people live a hard life, they are also people who eat with their own hands, and such people can still win some of their sympathy.
He stopped when he passed a stall selling pipes.
There are more than a dozen pipes of various styles on the burlap, and judging from the workmanship of these pipes, these are all hand-carved products. Of course, there are no mechanical products in this world, except for dwarven engineering.
As you can tell from these beautifully crafted pipes, this craftsman is definitely a master carver, and every pattern is carved to life with great vividness. But why are they all flowers, birds, fish, and insects, Payne thought.
These patterns caused the value of the pipe to plummet, and it became a stall.
But then again, a poor man who hasn't seen much of the world, can you expect him to carve a dragon?
"What's the price?" asked Payne.
The stall owner was a gray-haired girl of twelve or thirteen years old, her face was full of freckles, and her appearance was very ordinary, she looked relatively thin, and it looked like she was suffering from long-term malnutrition.
"These are all made of the finest ebony roots," the girl's tone was a little unconfident, "so the price will be more expensive, and they will need two...... Two silver coins. ā
"Two silver coins?" Payne frowned.
He is no stranger to ebony wood, which is used for many sword hilts, which is hard-wearing, non-slip, well-striped, beautiful, and most importantly, hard. The roots, in particular, are as hard as stone. He thought that being able to carve on such a hard material was not an ordinary effort.
After all, no matter how hard it is, it is not a rock, it can't withstand the chisel at all, and it is difficult to carve it through knife carving, so he thought, this price should not include the manual cost of carving, if it is changed to the previous life, just the carver will be more than this price.
"If you can buy it, I'll count you as one silver and eighty copper coins, no, one silver and fifty copper coins. The girl saw and heard Payne's tone, and quickly said.
"No, no, no," Payne smiled and waved his hand, "I'm not too expensive, I mean, forget it, there are other patterns, I don't really like them." ā
"I'm sorry," the girl bowed her head in frustration, "so the patterns are all here." ā
"Really?" Payne pinched his chin, "Do you accept the order?"
"Made-to-order?" the girl's eyes lit up, "Of course, as long as you can provide a pattern, there's nothing Frank can't carve." ā
"Of course, the pattern was ...... by me. Said that before he finished speaking, Payne regretted it, his painting level is the same as that of the children in the kindergarten class, and he clearly thinks of a dragon, and when he draws it, it will be similar to an earthworm, and what to give others a pattern.
As for the wolf pattern on the corner of his clothes, he didn't think about it, but considering that he was afraid of scaring the children, and he didn't plan to join the mercenary group at all, he simply ignored it.
But the words are all said, and it is obviously not his character to take it back.
What's the matter?
Payne touched his chin and hesitated, thinking about it, it seemed that he could only pick some simpler and more energetic patterns, and all he could think of was a pattern that was not available in this world, I am afraid that the only one was 'cross'.
Thinking back to all the cross patterns in my previous life, the pattern of the cross was directly thrown away, and I did not believe in religion in my previous life, and it was obviously not appropriate to move the Western religious emblem out in this life.
He quickly had an answer in his mind, and he found a stone from the side of the road and drew it on the rocky pavement.
After a moment, Payne looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, but his expression seemed to be sad, "Damn, I'm really not used to carving on rocky roads, but that's about it, you let that ...... What's coming. ā
"It's Frank, sir. ā
"Yes, it's Frank, this pattern can be used as a reference, and the rest is free to play," Payne affirmed, "and if you play well, there is an additional reward." ā
After saying that, Payne took out his money bag from his body, put four silver coins on the sackcloth, and then picked up a pipe casually and said, "The remaining two silver coins are considered deposits, and I will order two pipes." ā
"Thank you, my most generous lord. The girl nodded heavily and said with tears in her eyes.
It was still Mr. who had just come, Payne thought. "Okay, I'll pick it up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, okay?"
"Of course, I'll be here for you. The girl said.
"Then I'll see you tomorrow the day after tomorrow. Payne waved his hand relaxedly, and was about to leave, when he happened to see the stall next to him selling tobacco paste, and the addiction to cigarettes was attacked, and as a result, he accidentally bought three pounds of tobacco paste for a silver coin.
This is the rhythm that is going to kill me!
Filled with smoke paste, he lit it with a fire fold and took a sharp breath, and spit out a puff of smoke in satisfaction, Payne instantly regained the feeling of his previous life, although his mouth was full of dry smoke.
As a result, I almost fell down after taking a step. Payne was a black line in his head, dizzy, sucking hard.
But fortunately, he swept around with his peripheral vision, and no one noticed his embarrassment.
I puffed my pipe all the way through the sales area and came to the shop area.
The feeling of this area is obviously different, the neat streets, the shops with floor-to-ceiling windows, and even the people who come and go are very decently dressed.
Payne straightened his chest, ignoring the strange gazes cast by everyone, for no other reason, and the sound of gold coins clattering on his waist made him full of confidence.
Brother is rich, what's the matter!
"Where's the hillbilly?"
"Who knows?"
Payne sneered, not bothering to talk nonsense with these people who were tightly covered on a hot day. Passing by a magic paraphernalia shop, he swaggered in under the disdainful gaze of the crowd.
A moment later, he had an earthy yellow palm-sized waist bag around his waist, and a pained expression on his face.
This storage bag, which was less than two square meters, actually cost him two gold coins, and it was the cheapest one in the store, not one.
Brother can't be so hokward if he is rich, Payne feels that his heart is dripping blood, no, it is bleeding. He thought, let's get down to business first, lest I go back and lose the money to buy equipment.