Chapter 9: Pulling the Tiger's Skin

The city is not actually near the water, and it can even be said that it is a mountain city, because it is not even near the river, and the water is far away on the other side of the mountain twenty miles away. It is said that it is near the water, simply because it is the northernmost and closest city to the water in the two polar countries, and this city is the farthest and poorest, so that the lords of the two poles do not bother to pay taxes here, making it similar to the fiefdom of the city lords, and let it go freely.

Although the city is poor, it is also the richest place within a radius of 100 miles, and when it comes to the market, people come and go, every shop is open, and there is no shortage of merchants on the street, which is very lively.

Everyone here wears linen clothes, there is no lack of silk and satin, there are gentlemen with scarves, and there are also fair ladies. But he doesn't look like a person, and the black baby with a big burden next to him doesn't look like a person.

In the eyes of others, the two of them were covered with animal skins and straw sandals, and although the first Ming had a white complexion, he had a messy hair and a full beard, and the black baby had a darker complexion but gray hair, and an ugly appearance, and his hair was messy, and his face was clean and hairless.

It stands to reason that the outfits of the two are reversed, the first Ming has hair, but the black baby has no hair, which is unreasonable!

But this was deliberately done by the first Ming before entering the city, all in preparation for the sale of the tiger skin in the burden on the black baby's back.

After the first Ming saw the tiger skin that day, he had a plan in his heart.

Tiger skins and other things are luxury goods at any time, and if they are disposed of, they will inevitably be wasted in the hole and hidden, but if they are dealt with well, they may be able to buy a good price, and they may be able to do something to improve their lives with this money!

So, the first Ming began to process the tiger skin early the next morning. But with the tiger skin, he was at a loss. Although the fur on his and Heiwa's bodies was all processed by him, how did he know how to deal with the fur, just wash the fur and then dry it, the fur on their bodies is stiff and prickly, which is as smooth as the legend!

The tiger skin is also different, unlike the supple he imagined, the tiger skin in front of him is extremely stiff, and the hair is hardly smooth, and even exudes the smell of rotten meat.

How can this be sold!

He had heard about nitrate fur when he was on Earth, but he didn't know the exact steps or what ingredients were needed to make it, so he had to do it blindly.

In line with the guiding ideology of 'if you don't have a way, you have to think about it, and if you can't think of a way, you can do it first', the first Ming scraped off the smelly residual tiger meat.

After shaving, the tiger skin was much more refreshing, and the first Ming who was ready to do a big job looked at it, and he was in a daze again, what should he do? After thinking about it for a long time, he had no clue, and suddenly a flash of inspiration reminded him of the quilt, so that he opened the tiger skin and hung it, and kept beating it, and dried it after beating, so as to deal with the little insects.

It's okay not to dry it, but he found that the tiger skin has become as hard as a piece of cardboard, and the effect of the original smooth effect is far away, he was shocked, and thought that he had done something wrong, and hurriedly put the tiger skin into the bucket that was hand-woven one high and one low before.

Seeing that the tiger skin in the bucket was constantly bubbling, and then touching it, he found that it was gradually soft, and he thought that the sun must be a lot of dust! So he used the bucket to rub the tiger skin hard. Rubbing, he didn't think that there was no washing powder or anything that was not strong enough, and he couldn't find the soap corner, so he remembered the almighty plant ash, grabbed a handful and put it in, rubbed it like washing clothes, and then dried.

God is pitiful, after drying this time, he found that the tiger skin has softened a lot compared to before.

After a few days, the tiger skin became so smooth that it folded like a blanket.

He didn't know, unconsciously, he completed the tanning of a tiger skin, although the method was extremely rough, and the effect was not very good, but he had seen a high-quality tiger skin before, and he was overjoyed when he saw that he had made it like this, and he was no longer entangled in some ways to improve.

But after dealing with the tiger skin, there is still a problem that needs to be solved in the first Ming. That's the image problem, his image is okay to say, what about the image of the black baby? So, after careful consideration, he decided to cut off the black baby's hair! However, he was willing, but the black baby was unwilling, as soon as he heard the black baby, he drilled out of the hole, and did not return until late at night, and the first Ming played an intermittent runaway strategy, and the first Ming carefully analyzed, and decided to tell the black baby the purpose. Heiwa has never been in the city, but under the intentional or unintentional mention of the old Chinese medicine doctor, she is also full of illusions about the prosperous waterfront city, so she obediently let the first Ming cook.

The first Ming only has a pair of broken scissors, plus the technique is not good, paused, cut the black hair on the black baby's body for a while, cut the feet on the body after cutting, cut the face on the feet after cutting the feet, and finally if the black baby was not stopped, he was ready to lose even the hair on the black baby's head. The black baby cut off her hair, and the first Ming thought that the black baby was just black hair, but he didn't expect that his body was also quite black, but because he didn't bask in the sun all year round, the black was not normal black, but a white gray. The new image makes Heiwa very novel, but it also adds a lot of jokes to the first Ming.

After disposing of Heiwa's body, the first Ming, who had the idea of not exposing his wealth, made a fake beard from Heiwa's black hair waste. In this way, the image of the two becomes reversed.

Walking in the city, First Ming felt as if he had traveled back to ancient times, but he also knew that this was not ancient times, but probably a dynasty that had not made scientific and technological progress to this day, perhaps a peach blossom paradise-like existence. Anyway, it's better than the primitive era, isn't it!First Ming thought to himself, and turned to Heiwa and reminded: "Follow Heiwa!"

Heiwa is not as happy and active as he imagined, coming here, he became a little cramped, and he was a little overwhelmed in the face of the strange eyes of the people around him, so that the first Ming had to pay attention to whether Heiwa was not keeping up with his footsteps.

Seeing Heiwa's little daughter-in-law, the first Ming was amused, due to the contrast formed by the insynchronization of his figure and age, he attracted more attention from others, but the first Ming was not concerned because he did not act differently.

Seeing the endless shouting on the street, although the march of the two will make people consciously give in, it will not disturb the natural progress of the environment, the two walked, and when they arrived at a restaurant, Heiwa couldn't walk anymore.

Seeing Heiwa holding her fingers and looking forward blankly, the first Ming looked at it and smiled bitterly in her heart, it turned out that Heiwa had fallen in love with the maltose sold by others.

I saw Heiwa holding her fingers, saliva slowly flowing out of the corners of her mouth, and her eyes staring at the translucent yellow wheat candy. First Ming watched, but there was no way, he couldn't buy food for the child like a guardian, because he had no money.

This is a very real problem, the first Ming has not been in contact with money since he came to this world, and there is no way to contact money. As a result, he didn't know what the monetary system of this world was, and he didn't know how much the tiger skin on his back could be sold for, but he vaguely knew that this world also used precious metals as its equivalent as currency.

Although Heiwa wanted to eat, the first Ming had no choice, seeing that the existence of Heiwa had affected people's business, he had to be ruthless and drag Heiwa away.

Heiwa has not been loved since she was a child, and she was pulled by the first Ming, and she didn't play like a child, so she naturally followed.

The waterfront city is located on the plain in the basin, because there is flat land here from far and near, so even if there is no water, such a city was built, and because the ground is flat, so the waterfront city is built square, the two main streets intersect, and along the main street there are many branch-like small streets all over the city. The two walked along the main street for a long time, and the first Ming saw where today's destination was.

Although there are many wealthy families in Linshui City, there are not too many luxury consumers, so the first Ming looked for a long time before he saw a fur shop.

The furs in the store are all custom-made, perhaps in order to show the production ability of the shop, there are many animal skins hanging on the wall, among which there are more dogs, sheep, deer and rabbit skins, and less raccoon mink skins, among which a small amount is mixed with leopard and wolf fur. There was only one old man sitting in the store to settle accounts, and two teenagers were dusting off the wall, thinking that they were the shopkeeper and his buddy.

As soon as the two of them stepped into the house, the old man looked up, then coughed, lowered his head, and then the guy who was dusting outside came forward and greeted, "What do you want to buy?"

First Ming looked around the store, saw that there was no tiger skin, his heart sank, and he secretly said that he was afraid that he would be depressed, and looked at Xiao Si with a reluctant look, thinking that if he said that selling skins would probably be considered to be a countryman who had never seen the world, he groaned for a while, did not reply, but pretended to keep looking at the fur on the wall.

When the guy saw the uncivilized appearance of the first Ming, he despised two points in his heart, and saw that the first Ming did not reply, but said that the savage was afraid that he would not be able to speak, and at this time he saw the first Ming look forward, stretched out his hand to stop it, and said, "If you don't buy it, then please go back." ”

Seeing that there was no way forward, he didn't get angry, so he took two steps back, as if he had finished reading the inventory in the store, and then said disdainfully: "This store is not in the stream, and even tiger skins are not sold!" After speaking, he made a gesture to leave.

The first Ming hadn't taken two steps before he heard a dull voice behind him, "Stay here." When he saw that his goal had been achieved, he turned around and saw that the old man who had just lowered his head and settled the account had raised his head.

The old man's face was thin, his cheekbones were high, and his eyes were drooping, giving him the feeling that he was about to die, and he kept the first two of them, and shouted to the man: "Entertain guests!

The fellow was drunk, swept away his lifeless appearance, and hurriedly trotted up to welcome the two in.

The first two approached, and the old man stood up tremblingly, pointed behind him and said: "If you want a tiger skin, then there is naturally it, but the tiger skin is precious, and it is not usually in the store. ”