Chapter 27: The Tangmen Blacksmith Shop
The old man, who was still smoking with a dry tobacco pouch just now, heard Qian Motang's words, paused, and looked at her with surprise in his eyes.
Most of the blacksmiths in the blacksmith shop stopped their work, and turned their heads to look at Qian Motang outside the window with a face full of disbelief. Isn't it, a junior student came to customize weapons, not to buy Tangmen secret weapons?
"Little girl, aren't the weapons here and the secret weapons of the Tang Sect not suitable for you?" The old man was full of puzzled questions.
The blacksmith is hung with all kinds of well-built weapons, large and small. Whether it is a senior student or a junior student, you can buy a finished weapon here, so why do you need to build a weapon?
Unless it's a team that needs a large number of weapons, they will come to the blacksmith to customize them. Otherwise, when individual students come here, they usually buy finished weapons.
"Yes, but it's too expensive for me to afford. So I'm going to customize the weapon, which should be a little cheaper. Qian Motang shook her head, it wasn't that she didn't want to buy a finished weapon, but she really couldn't afford it.
"What?!" The old man was frightened by Qian Motang's fierce reason. The dry tobacco pouch in his hand fell from his hand with a clang.
Most of the blacksmiths were also so frightened by this reason that they almost broke off their feet with a large forging hammer in their hands.
"No, this little girl is from that poor and remote place, and she dares to say that the weapons sold in the Tangmen blacksmith shop of Shrek Academy are too expensive."
"Weapons in our blacksmith shop are expensive? Doesn't she know that on the streets of Heaven Dou City, the weapons sold in the Tangmen blacksmith shop are called expensive, and they are simply expensive to die. ”
"You're wrong, this is not the most expensive, I heard that the Tang Sect has also opened a special store specializing in selling all kinds of high-grade and high-quality weapons, so it is really expensive to death."
"So where did this little girl come from, she dared to blatantly say that the weapons sold in the Tangmen blacksmith shop of Shrek Academy were expensive. If it came to Dean Flender's ears, he would definitely take her to the academy's office to have a good and in-depth exchange about the price of weapons in the Tangmen blacksmith shop. ”
"Mmmmmmmm, I'm afraid it's going to take three days and three nights to talk, and it's more than that."
The blacksmiths were talking, their eyes were full of sympathy for Qian Motang, what a poor melon baby. If you can come to Shrek Academy in Heaven Dou City to study, why don't you first understand how expensive the price of the Heaven Dou Empire's capital is.
"Ahem, ahem!" The old man coughed lightly, glared fiercely at the blacksmiths who were lazy inside, and said angrily: "What are you doing, what are you doing, what is there to talk to." Don't hurry up and get to work, be careful that I deduct your wages! ”
Hearing the old man's angry rebuke, the blacksmiths trembled with fright, and hurriedly grasped the large forging hammer and began their work.
At this time, Qian Motang was very embarrassed and blushed, and she was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do, she had to lower her head to cover up her shyness.
"Hehehe, it's okay, it's okay, kid. If you don't know the price of weapons in Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou City, it's no wonder you. The old man smiled and looked at Qian Motang, who wanted to find a hole in the ground, such an innocent and innocent child, it was really the first time I saw it, it was rare!
Since he knew that Qian Motang was short of funds, the old man couldn't go crazy and slaughter customers. Such a cute and soft little girl, as old as her granddaughter, how can she be embarrassed to bully?
"If you want to build any weapons, show the drawings to grandpa, and then consider the price of manual and material costs." The old man tapped the dry tobacco pouch on the wall and knocked out the ash smoke from the pipe.
When Qian Motang heard this, he didn't talk nonsense, and handed the three drawings and all his savings to the old man.
The old man took the drawings and money, weighed the weight of the money bag with his hand, and then looked at the appearance of the money bag.
After carefully touching the fabric of the money bag, I knew that it was not a good fabric, but was sewn from burlap.
Sewing money bags with burlap, just this clue, the old man immediately knew that Qian Motang was not a child from a city or township near the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, but a child from a more remote mountainous area, and only where would this kind of coarse burlap be used.
Then the money used is not gold soul coins and silver soul coins, but copper soul coins.
"Well, I estimate that there are more than a hundred Copper Soul Coins in it. Child, is this all your possessions? The old man asked.
"Well, one hundred and six Bronze Soul Coins, is that enough to pay for the weapons painted on these three drawings? Grandfather. Qian Motang looked up at the old man a little nervously, with a look of expectation and worry in his eyes, and a very complicated look.
"Well, you have to look at the weapons painted on your drawings, and the materials you need are very expensive." The old man didn't dare to give Qian Motang a correct answer, and put the money bag aside. Check for yourself what kind of precious materials are needed for the weapons on the three drawings, and whether they can be created in a short period of time.
"Huh? This weapon is called the Lancet? The material can be made of steel alone. It's just that the weapon you want to build is too thin and too sharp, which will test the skill level of our blacksmith's forging skills. As for the gold needles and silver needles, they also need different materials, but in order to make them more tough, I took it upon myself to add three or four plate crystal hair and dragon whisker needles to the forging process, what do you think? Little girl. The old man pointed out the materials on the drawings one by one, and the forging techniques used.
"Mmmmmm, Mo'er listened to grandpa, grandpa said yes, that's good. Belch...... Grandpa, how much? Qian Motang nodded and said, and then suddenly lowered his head embarrassedly and asked shyly.
"It turns out that your name is Mo'er, so grandpa will take care of you and call you Mo'er. The weapon you want, whether it's the forging technique or the material. Grandpa roughly estimated that ten lancets and about five pieces of steel could be crafted, so only three Silver Soul Coins were enough. The old man said with a smile, but his eyes looked at Qian Motang from time to time, his body was straight, and he kept lowering his head, that nervous look, this was worried that the money was not enough.
"Gold and silver needles. The gold needle needs eighty percent gold and one percent brass, plus one percent of the plate crystal hair crystal dragon whisker needle; Silver needles require seventy percent silver, one percent steel, one percent brass, and one percent plate crystal hair crystal dragon whisker needle. These miscellaneous materials, not to mention, but also test the forging skills of our blacksmiths, this manual cost, can not be too low. These weapons add up, at least one Golden Soul Coin is required, but considering that you don't have much money, Grandpa, I will be generous, six Silver Soul Coins, it can't be lower. The old man gestured to the drawings in his hand, and the time it took for the blacksmith to build these weapons, all of which cost money.
Hearing the old man's final settlement price, within the range he could afford, Qian Motang was really relieved. Fortunately, fortunately, I didn't overspend, otherwise I would really become a poor egg.
The old man looked at Qian Motang patting his chest, and laughed secretly in his heart, this was not lightly frightened by himself. The ups and downs of the mood finally put my heart in my stomach.
"Okay, you pay the deposit first, and you take the rest of the money first. At this time the day after tomorrow, you will come to me again to collect your weapons and pay off the remaining balance of the deposit. The old man first took three Silver Soul Coins as a deposit, and threw the rest of the money to Qian Motang along with the money bag. After that, as if impatient, he drove Qian Motang away like a fly.