Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Skin
Sogo Fang, Lu's leather goods store.
Lu Dayuan burped after dinner, and sat in the corner of the shop slowly blowing tea and drinking.
Their family is already the fourth generation of the leather goods store, the fame has already been opened, this Lingzhou to the northwest, to the southwest is a good piece of continuous mountainous area, although the mountain is not high, but there are a lot of mountain goods, eat the mountain goods this bowl of rice naturally there are many people, Lu's leather goods is one of the leaders, and even can directly with the Chang'an side of the big goods bank.
Up to now, there is an account room in the counter and a guy outside the counter, so there is no need for Mr. Lu to do anything in person.
And decades of four generations of business, Lu's leather goods store has already passed the stage of receiving goods in the mountains, many small goods stores in the nearby counties, all like to give them the goods, and often have greedy for the cheap of the hundred and ten copper coins, go a long way to this county to come, follow the fame, prefer to sell the goods to the hunters of Lu's leather goods.
These are all businesses, but Master Lu only needs to sit down.
Coincidentally, early this morning, the shop had just gotten off the board and opened the door, and a young man dressed as a scholar came with a big bag, and a guy received him.
Senior Lu watched coldly while drinking tea.
Looking at him from a distance, he knew that this fox was big, his fur was shiny, although the coat color was slightly mixed, but the markings were very beautiful.
There are many wealthy families in Chang'an, and the weather is much colder than Lingzhou, and the best fox skins and mink furs are sky-high, like this leather, if there is a storefront in Chang'an, waiting to sell, it is okay to sell twenty or thirty times, and wait until it is done and then sell it, and I am afraid that it will have to be fifty times up.
Each floor eats each floor's meal, and Chang'an's fifty guan is not enviable.
Mr. Lu drank tea, looked coldly at his guy and turned the fox in his hand over, and began to speak, "This is a good skin, the whole body is unharmed, it can produce things, how much do customers sell?"
The scholar was obviously a little immature, and asked, "How much do you give?"
As soon as he heard this, Mr. Lu knew that this deal was done, and he couldn't make any money.
Whoever knows the price will ask this.
Sure enough, his buddy hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll give you the money." You are the highest price in this Lingzhou city, and if you go elsewhere, you can't get this price!"
The scholar hesitated for a moment and said, "One thousand wen is too little, fifteen hundred wen!"
Hearing this, the corners of Mr. Lu's mouth twitched, and he didn't even bother to listen to it anymore.
Lu's leather goods store has always been known as Tong Suo no deception, doing a fair deal, but this does not deceive also depends on who is right, if this leather is a familiar hunter to take, the market is familiar, there is no one three or four through, how can he be willing to put with you? But this person is a scholar at a glance, I don't know what good luck he has done, where he picked up a dead fox, rashly ran to sell skins, has always been money Tong Su is not deceiving.
Sure enough, he had almost finished drinking a cup of tea on his side, and the negotiation had already been completed over there.
Although the scholar also bargained, he didn't seem to be persistent, and was emphasized by the guy that it was not a dry skin, but also a manual peeling, which was one more job, and the fox was thin and thin, and he couldn't peel three catties of meat from his whole body, which was not enough for wages, so he sold it for 1,250 yuan.
It's a good deal.
The account was put into the account and the money was disbursed, and the scholar put the money in his original pocket and carried it away.
After drinking the tea, Mr. Lu sat in it and watched for a while, then got up and went to the backyard, rummaged through and looked at the half-processed skins in the yard, and stared at the two guys for a while.
He caught a glimpse of the fox again, and the more he looked at it, the more beautiful it became, he casually ordered: "This fox can produce good material, be careful when peeling the skin, if the skin is damaged, you need to pay for it!"
The guys agreed, and he turned around and was about to go out, planning to go to the workshop to wander around, or go to the pier over there in Guangshoufang.
But before he could take a few steps out, he heard a sudden snort behind him, which startled him, and he was about to start scolding, when a guy shouted: "Come on, master!
Lu Dayuan frowned, and walked back in a few steps, "Let your mother's fart!"
The man trembled, pointed to the dead fox on the ground, and said, "This ...... This...... This is the fox fairy master!"
"Huh?"
Lu was taken aback.
In the industry of dried leather goods, it is inevitable to deal with these beasts every day, ordinary things, they can't be scared, but there is one exception, that is, fox fairy, Wong Tai Sin and the like.
There are many rumors about fox fairies in this world, and ordinary people naturally listen to and tell stories as stories, but over time, there will always be a real one who has hit the evil, and it is impossible to say it by the rules, but some legends really exist. Most of the time, it is naturally untouchable, but once it does, it is not a good situation.
The fox fairy has all the good ones.
A certain county and a certain county, the family is poor, unintentionally for a fox fairy to take a fancy to form a marriage, the legend that the fox fairy has five ghost carrying skills, in the fox fairy secretly helped, less than two years, the scholar's family on the mansion, another two years, actually got the county guard blue eyes, ordered the Maocai master, and then became an official.
Isn't this a great luck? Isn't this a good fox fairy?
But there are also fox fairies who are ferocious.
A certain person in a certain county, a hunter in the mountains, hunted one day, accidentally shot a fox, was overjoyed, because of the excellent color of the coat, sold a good amount of money, but only three days, a family of seven died at home, the deceased everyone carried arrows, just like the beasts he shot and killed. On the second day of the following day, the leather goods store that received fox skins died violently, and then caused a sensation within a radius of 100 miles, and the local government could not solve the case, and finally it was closed.
This is not done by the fox fairy master, who can it be?
It can't be the relatives and friends of the fox fairy who was shot to death!
Of course, this is all a legend, in reality, the Lu family has been running a leather goods shop for four generations and decades, but they have never encountered such a thing - then again, the fox fairy master is a Taoist, where can anyone kill him?
When I went to Chang'an to ship, I chatted with people, but I also heard a lot of stories about noble people, including legends, the top and precious people in Chang'an City really like to buy the skin of the fox fairy at a high price - they are all masters, naturally not afraid, but how many of the leather goods stores below are brave enough to buy and sell this?
Mr. Lu was born five big and three rough, and he was good all the year round, and he was bold, but he was also a little stunned at this time, and asked: "Where can I see that it is the fox fairy master?"
The fellow hesitated for a moment, and was so frightened that he took the skinning knife in his hand and carefully opened the fox's ear, pointed behind the ear, and said, "Look......!
When Lu took a closer look, he saw that the fox had two more slender and crystalline white hairs behind his ears than ordinary foxes.
I was stunned for a moment, and then I suddenly remembered the characteristics of the legendary fox fairy in my mind, and he was so frightened that the spirit was covered in white sweat, and he almost squatted down on the spot.
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