[029] Customize a puppet worth one thousand taels
Most of the people who can open shops in Qianji Pavilion are not ordinary people.
According to the regulations of the Fumoshi, only a certain path above the sixth rank can be applied for the qualification to open a store in Qianji Pavilion.
In other words, if you open a pharmacy, you must be above the sixth grade of medical science.
If you open a weapon and armor store, you must be at the sixth grade or above of the casting artifact.
Similarly, the same is true for the shopkeeper who runs a puppet shop. On the road three thousand miles, the puppet road is actually not an unpopular.
In the folk arable land and cargo, wooden ox and horses are often used to help. These things are made by puppet masters.
Speaking of the Puppet Tao, it is actually a relatively emerging avenue, and it originated from the Carpenter Tao.
Later generations took a different approach and specialized in the puppet field. Only in more than 300 years did they complete the emergence and lay a unique style and foundation.
The Puppet Tao has completely emerged from the category of carpenter Tao, and finally has its own school and practice method.
In the past, puppet masters needed to use carriers such as iron wire and copper wire as media to control the puppet movements, but nowadays, ways to control puppets have become numerous and endless.
Therefore, many puppets have become commodities and spread to the people, becoming helpers of the people's daily work.
After wandering around in Qianji Pavilion, Ning Xiu finally discovered a very deserted puppet shop.
When he walked into the store, he didn't see a clerk coming to greet him. Instead, a woman sitting behind the counter was not sure what was going on.
He didn't even raise his head, and didn't even look at his eyes.
Ning Xiu was curious and immediately leaned over, intending to see what this person was fiddling with.
The woman looks familiar and looks like she is about twenty-six or seven years old, and her hair is tied with a braid on her shoulders.
Ning Xiu looked down from high. The woman had a tall nose bridge, a cold eye shape, and extremely delicate facial features everywhere. She was a naturally cold beauty.
She kept changing tools to fiddling with a small wooden man of three feet on the table. Slowly, no matter how the woman used any tricks, she saw that the small wooden man danced on the table.
The woman immediately smiled knowingly. Even if she created such an inconspicuous little thing, she could feel the joy from the bottom of her heart.
"I guess this is the spirit of craftsmanship." Ning Xiu sighed in his heart.
Seeing that the other party stopped, it must have been completed, Ning Xiu then asked, "Are you the shopkeeper of our store?"
The woman looked up at him and nodded: "That's right, my name is Nie Ying, what do the customer want to buy."
"That's right. I want to ask you to customize a puppet that can be stored in your body based on my Weng Jinhammer. The puppet's requirement is to resist the attack, the movement speed cannot be slow, the control is convenient and realistic."
Ning Xiu raised the thunder hammer in his hand and immediately expressed his requirements for the customized puppet.
Nie Ying's expression was plain, without any surprise. After hearing Ning Xiu's request, he took a soft ruler and walked out of the counter.
He began to measure Ning Xiu's thunder hammer in a very professional way.
"How heavy is your weapon?"
"Three hundred and twenty kilograms."
After measuring all aspects of the Thunder Hammer, Nie Ying put away the soft ruler and asked: "Customized puppets are not difficult to make, and the usual price is not too expensive, but there are two points in your requirements that are customized, and expensive materials are required, otherwise you will not meet the requirements of anti-attack and quick action. Can you accept it?"
Ning Xiudao: "How much silver is needed?"
"To be conservative, at least one hundred taels of gold." Nie Ying thought for a while, and finally stretched out three slender fingers.
When Ning Xiu almost choked up when he heard the other party’s offer.
When Huang You bought this thunder hammer, he spent 4,000 taels of silver.
In the Dashang Exchange Measurement System, one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver.
I planned to wear a hammer sheath for the Thunder Hammer, but I had to spend another thousand. This money is really profitable.
"Shopkeeper, what are the requirements for puppets worth a thousand taels? You might as well introduce them to me so that I can understand them too." Ning Xiu said.
"Of course, I help others customize puppets. Most of them are made of wood, which is cheap, light and durable. The main reason is that those people use these puppets to move goods and carry goods.
If it is sent to the battle with evil spirits or others, it will basically end up breaking when touched. Therefore, our puppet masters usually use ore materials such as iron and bronze to create puppets for combat.
But this material has a disadvantage, that is, the speed of movement is not very fast. If you are in a hurry to travel, it will even delay your trip.
To address this situation, our puppet masters came up with many solutions, which are to choose those light and hard special materials to make puppets.
But good things usually have one disadvantage, that is, they are expensive. If you want to have a puppet that resists fighting and acts quickly, you will definitely not be able to avoid spending more money.
The most commonly used special materials are the Yinhui Meteorite Iron in Nanjiang Prefecture and the Tianteng Dragon Wood in Daliang Prefecture. They are not afraid of fire or water, and can withstand about three thousand kilograms of force.
They are all good materials that are light and hard, but the price is there, both are very expensive."
Nie Ying's introduction was very detailed, which completely allowed Ning Xiu to deeply understand why this customized puppet can be worth 1,000 taels.
After hearing this, Ning Xiu couldn't help but feel a little moved. If this is the case, it would be a perfect container that can store the thunder hammer every day.
But Ning Xiu has just joined the Demon Fushi, but he is a little short of money.
The only money he had on him was the three hundred taels of silver notes he had ever touched the body of the three-sided demon.
Thinking of this, Ning Xiu asked, "Shopkeeper, can I pay you a deposit of 300 taels first? After the puppet is completed, I will give you the remaining 700 taels."
Nie Ying waved his hand: "Okay, then I'll start creating it for you."
"I'm working." Ning Xiu nodded, and after talking in detail with Nie Ying about his requirements for the appearance of the puppet, he left the store.
Previously, in addition to three hundred taels of silver notes, he also obtained two bottles of unknown pills and three skull darts on the three-sided demon.
Ning Xiu had always thought about selling all these things, but he had never had the chance to take action.
Today is rare to have free time and is in a trading place like Qianji Pavilion, Ning Xiu naturally would not miss this opportunity.
When the Demon-Fuwei goes out to investigate tasks on weekdays, in addition to encountering evil spirits, it is common to find that demons fight with him.
Things that were found from the demons were either used with the conditions themselves, or they would get them to Qianji Pavilion to sell some silver.
Ning Xiu first wanted to sell elixirs, so he walked into a elixir shop on the same street.
The business here is much more lively than Nie Ying's puppet shop. The store is filled with a fragrant spice smell, which makes people unable to help but smell it a few more times.
"Please help me see these two bottles of elixirs." Ning Xiu took out the elixirs she carried with him and put them on the table.
The goatee-bearded alchemist reached out to take it, pulled out the plug and sniffed it gently, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Dragon Tiger Essence Pills! It is a rare and excellent quality. One can go from night to day. One can go from sunset to dusk, and the next one will be dawn. It makes people feel tired at all. And the more you fight, the more you fight, the stronger you fight."
The alchemist raised his thumb and asked, "Little brother, your thing is so high-quality. I don't know which one you started with, can you disclose the location of the store?"
Although this person's words are somewhat obscure, Ning Xiu couldn't hear the meaning of it.
I originally thought that something extraordinary was contained in the bottle, but I didn't expect it to be a serious thing at all.
I never expected that the demon would be so good at this.
Ning Xiu had no choice but to ask, "These two bottles were just my accidental gains. I don't know who the alchemist is. Are you collecting them?"
"Cache! It's rare to see such high-quality Dragon and Tiger Jing Meng Pills. I must collect them. Let's do this. I'll give you one hundred taels of silver for two bottles."
Suddenly, Ning Xiu looked at the other party with a smile, without responding.
Although he didn't understand the market value of this Longhu Jingmeng Pill, he had been with Lu Hao and others to Chunman Pavilion to drink before.
The other party once mentioned to him that the things used by princes and nobles always extend for one or two hours, and the price of a bottle is usually more than fifty taels.
Those who are in this or two hours can sell for more than fifty taels. The other party’s words “the last look at sunset and dusk, the next look at dawn” violates the scientific prohibition of human health operation.
Can it be worth only two bottles and one hundred taels?
What a big kickback this requires. The profitable businessman is simply a profitable businessman.
"Brother, tell the truth, let's continue to talk about this transaction."
Ning Xiu patted his chest and raised his fingers: "I have a friend who is so rated as a prostitute. In the past, the regular customer of Chunman Pavilion used to eat this as candy every day. I have bought it for him several times. I know the price very well. Don't just look at my dough and want to kill me a few times."
"This..." the alchemist hesitated.
Seeing this, Ning Xiu grabbed two bottles and wanted to leave, but he was not panicked at all. This huge capital of the sky was still worried that there would be no place to sell the Dragon and Tiger Jing Meng Pills.
"Three hundred taels per bottle! I'll give you this price." The alchemist was anxious and shouted quickly.
This price has met Ning Xiu's expectations. I think it's not that much more expensive. He turned around and put the bottle back on the counter and said, "Isn't that right? I'm so happy. If I have something similar in the future, I'll take it here."
After receiving 600 taels of silver notes from the alchemist, Ning Xiu carried the thunder hammer and walked out of the elixir shop.
Now he only had those three skeleton darts left on him. He thought he could sell them for some money, so that he could make up for the 700-two-ounce sum of the customized puppet.
After Ning Xiu left, the alchemist reached out and poured out all the Dragon and Tiger Pills in a bottle, and counted them in detail, as many as seven.
Chapter completed!