A few people looked at the horses for a while, and found a saddle shop on the edge of the horse market, and explained that they wanted to buy a good set of saddle sheaths, as long as they liked it, the price was not a problem.

When the shopkeeper saw that he had a good customer, he hurriedly asked the young man to bring tea and water and snacks, and served him diligently, and ordered him to take out a few sets of high-quality saddle sheaths for them to see.

The so-called saddle is actually a complete set of harnesses including saddle, stirrups, whips, saddles, stirrups, belly straps, and front and rear sheaths.

The saddle was first invented by the northern Xinjiang people, but it is relatively simple, similar to a cushion.

And our modern concave saddle with front and rear axles was invented by the Xian people.

After this saddle is fixed on the horse's back, it can limit the rider's body to slide in front of and behind the horse, ensuring longitudinal stability, so this kind of saddle was first called 'two-axle vertical saddle'.

Later, it was improved to make the front saddle bridge higher and upright, and the rear saddle bridge was relatively downward, which is called the 'rear saddle bridge inclined saddle'.

This style of saddle, which makes it easy for the rider to get on and off the horse without affecting its stability, is a great step forward in design, and it has been shaped and has been passed down to this day.

The components of the saddle include the front saddle bridge, the rear saddle bridge, the front saddle wings, the rear saddle wings, the saddle seat and the saddle ridge, which are generally made of willow and birch, because these two trees are more common in the north and are strong and durable after being dried.

The saddles in the shop are very beautifully made and richly decorated, and are divided into saddles, pack saddles, happy saddles, and chariot saddles according to their use.

And the material of the saddle is also varied, including gilt saddle, silver inlaid saddle, cloisonné saddle, lacquer saddle......

The front and rear saddle saddles of the saddle are also decorated in various ways, either with painted patterns, or inlaid with shell carvings, bone carvings, and even jade carvings.

There are also saddle sheaths, cushions, saddle saddles, saddle flowers, etc., which are decorated with edge patterns or corner patterns. Saddle flowers are mostly made of silver or copper, and some are made of pure gold, but they are also extremely rare.

The upholstered saddle is an embroidery process, which is the later improvement of the Chinese people, and the earliest northern tribal peoples are not so poor and exquisite.

Therefore, the production of a set of saddle sheath includes carpentry, embroidery, fur, weaving, silversmithing and other crafts, among which there are many exquisite.

There are a lot of Xian people, Capricorn people, Wuhuan people in Yanyun County, among which there are many excellent saddle craftsmen, on the basis of their traditional crafts, craftsmen from China have innovated and improved, forming a unique style, which is the world-famous Yanyun saddle sheath.

Someone once described Yanyun Saddle Shavel like this.

'The bridle of the saddle is light and simple, so that it can gallop, and it weighs no more than seven catties, and the wings of the wild goose on the saddle are erect and flat, and the arms are not injured when they are twisted; The stirrup is round, so the foot is neutral and not biased; The stirrup sole is open, so the boot is easy to enter. The leather of the stirrup, the hand kneaded without nitrate, poured with mutton fat, so it was constantly rotten by the rain, only more than an inch wide, and the length was not enough to catch the four, so immediately turned around to Shun ......'

Xiao Chen didn't know much about this thing, he just thought that everything was good, but Tie Kunlun was an expert, and he looked at the selection carefully, and the light in the room was too dark to see clearly, so he simply took it outside to see.

The shopkeeper was extremely shrewd, for fear that he would snatch the saddle away, so he scolded a young man, who hurriedly ran out and stood beside Tie Kunlun to keep a close watch, like a thief.

Xiao Chen sneered, "Boss, we're all sitting here, can he still run away with your baby?" If you are not at ease, I will give you the right to silver as a deposit. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Ye took out a fifty-tael ingot from the silver bag and threw it on the table, with a sonorous sound.

They came out to spend silver, and Xiao Ye had two thousand taels of silver in the silver bag on his back.

The current catty two is the hexadecimal system, which means that a catty of silver is sixteen taels, and the ingots of fifty taels are not five catties, only about three catties.

So two thousand taels of silver is only about one hundred and twenty catties, and Xiao Ye is also fluttering lightly on his back.

"Then where can we?" The shopkeeper smiled shyly, but picked up the silver and looked at it, "This silver looks good, but there are fake silver filled with lead on the market recently, but it has also pitted many people." ”

Does that mean you're really fake?

"Boss, if you don't believe it, just cut it open and see, anyway, I'm going to buy something in your store, I like these sets of saddle sheaths very much, but I don't know what the asking price is?" Xiao Chen took a fancy to them all, and wanted to buy them all, the best one for Liu Ruyun, and the rest for other friends.

"That's different, like the one outside the door, but it's gilt and silver, fine embroidery, fine cowhide, fine birch...... If you like it, uncle, give three hundred taels of silver. The shopkeeper said.

"One hundred taels!" Duan Ling'er raised a little finger.

"How many masters are joking with the little ones?" The shopkeeper's face suddenly pulled the old man.

"Just kidding, in fact, three hundred taels is not expensive." Duan Ling'er immediately softened her mouth, and said in her heart, damn it, this time the bargaining failed again.

"We do business, we are all real people, we don't dare to flatter the girl's joke, although the other saddle sheath is a little less material, but the workmanship is just as fine, they are all the handwriting of our Yanyun master craftsmen, and the price is all up to the master...... It's just that if it's less than two hundred taels, the villain won't be able to obey his fate. The shopkeeper said.

"The boss is right, these saddle sheaths are really exquisite, and this embroidery process alone is extraordinary." Ye Baiqing also liked it very much.

"This master also has a vision, it's not a villain to brag, this huge horse market is the best thing in our small shop, not to mention anything else, the silver inlaid on it is all barefoot......" The boss said that he still suspected that Xiao Chen's silver was fake.

"Your boss is really noisy, you can cut it open and see if you can get it." Ye Baiqing said with a smile.

"That's not embarrassing, is it?" The shopkeeper ordered a young man to fetch clips and cut one open in front of everyone.

Of course, it was Quack Quack, and the good condition made the shopkeeper applaud again and again, and a pleased smile appeared on his face.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man with a majestic and luxurious dress walked in outside the door, and as soon as he entered the door, he said loudly, "Boss, I heard that your saddle is the best, pick a first-class one for me to see!" ”

When the shopkeeper saw that there was another high roller, he was happy, and he didn't know where the sun rose today? Early in the morning, two big businesses came to the door......

Hurriedly invited him to sit down, and asked the young man to fetch a few pairs of fine saddle sheaths for him to see.

This person was extremely bold, his eyes swept away, and he stretched out his finger to point to a pair of cloisonné saddles, "What is the asking price?" ”

"Those who can enter the eyes of the uncle, it is naturally a high-end goods, and the uncle is also a rich man, and the asking price is less than I am afraid of humiliating the nobles, do you think the price of two hundred taels can also be made?" The shopkeeper was busy.

"I like this thing very much, two hundred taels is not much, I want it, only I want to buy a horse, but I don't know if it is suitable or not? In this way, you send a guy to take it to my horse market, if it is Chinese, I even bought all the saddle sheath and horses, and keep this right as a deposit. ”

The hawker also took out a big ingot of fifty taels and threw it on the table, which was much more generous than Xiao Chen......