Chapter 16 Magical Oddities in the Grocery Store

There is a shop specializing in leather processing in During Town, and the owner of the shop, Mr. Longfellow, is the most outstanding leather craftsman in the town. If the fur of the beasts that Joan usually hunted in the woods was well preserved and the texture was decent, he would always take the prey to the leather shop as soon as possible and sell the hides to Mr. Longfellow. The peeled raw hides become soft leather after washing, tanning, drying and many other processing procedures, which can be used to make dresses, purses, boxes or accessories for ladies.

Thanks to Mr. Longfellow's skillful hands, the leather shop's business is booming. The wolf fur cloak that Joan was wearing was custom-made in this shop, the raw materials were provided by himself, and he only paid Mr. Longfellow two gold coins for processing.

Joan had also sold badger skins in a leather shop before, and he knew the market quite well, but the ferocious badger was much bigger than ordinary badgers, and the peeled skin could be used to sew three cloaks, even Mr. Longfellow They were all amazed, and repeatedly sighed that this was the biggest badger he had seen in the past two years.

With the assistance of two tanner apprentices, it took Mr. Longfellow more than half an hour to peel off the whole leather intact, and finally paid Joan exactly 10 Gold Duga.

Joan was very satisfied with the price, and hurriedly left with the sled without haggling with Longfellow. There were two blood-stained sacks piled on the sled, which contained the flesh of a ferocious badger that had been stripped of its fur and decomposed into two large pieces. Joan wanted to take advantage of the freshness of the meat to send it to the "Golden Trout" tavern run by Uncle Baker, and try to sell it for a good price.

The ferocious badger was skinned, and there were about 300 pounds of clean meat after removing the bones and internal organs. The purchase price of the tavern was 5 copper coins for a pound of badger meat.

A ferocious badger brought Joan an income of 26 gold Duga in total, which was an unprecedented amount of extra money. According to Joann's original intention, half of the money should be given to Kandy, but Kandy refused firmly, and even found a reasonable excuse, saying that he would use the money to cover his boarding expenses at Joann's house. Kandy was born in a noble family, so she is not short of money, but Qiao An has to collect enough tuition fees before April, and the financial pressure is quite high, so she is not polite to her.

With some cash in hand, Joann's first thought was to go to the grocer to find Aunt Barbara and pay off the bread and honey she had bought on credit that morning.

Aunt Barbara was surprised that he came to pay the debt so quickly, and repeatedly asked Joan if she really made money, and she couldn't go hungry just to save face. Joan had no choice but to briefly describe the process of hunting the ferocious badger, so as to reassure the over-enthusiastic Aunt Barbara.

Out of gratitude to Aunt Barbara, and also considering that there is still a guest at home, and she cannot let Kandy eat dry bread with her all day, Joanne purchased many foods that she usually would not eat at the grocery store, including ham, Sausages, bacon, butter, and whole cheese wheels shaped like wheels, all in one basket. The food cost less than 5 Gold Duga in total, and there were 20 gleaming gold coins left in Joan's pocket. This amount of money is still far away from the thousands of tuition fees, but the expenses of a family of three seem to be relatively well-off.

The purse jingled, and Joan's thoughts came alive. He couldn't help but walk to the side of the food counter, staring at the counter dedicated to displaying books and magical objects.

Aunt Barbara's grocery store is also a currency exchange and pawn business. Adventurers who pass by the town often send the rare things they get during the trip to the grocery store for consignment. If they have good eyesight and a little luck, there will be It might be possible to find good things among those messy consignment goods - that's how the scroll of magic that led Joan to the mage's path was found in this way.

Joan is a frequent visitor to the consignment shelves, but because of his limited pockets, he usually just looks at them and doesn't buy them. In fact, most of the various sundries displayed on the shelves have no practical value, and the prices are generally high, so they are rarely sold.

Qiao An glanced at the shelves, and saw many old and second-hand goods as expected, which did not deserve too much attention, but there were a few new goods that aroused his curiosity.

Joan first picked up a white linen roll, brought it up to his nose and sniffed it, there was a faint fragrance of herbs. After asking Aunt Barbara, I found out that this is a new invention of the town’s pharmacist and doctor, Mr. Kelandil. It is called “First Aid Bandage”. The price is five gold coins.

If Aunt Barbara's introduction didn't contain too much bragging, Joan would think that this kind of bandage is quite practical, but unfortunately the price is too expensive, and he has no plans to go out for adventure, so he doesn't need this kind of bandage.

The next thing that aroused Joan's interest were three strange objects that exuded a slight magical aura. The shelf labels said "Veteran's Cane", "Human Face Shield" and "Magic Hat".

The veteran's cane looks like an ordinary wooden crutch. When the holder recites a specific activation spell, the crutch will automatically turn into a sharp long sword forged from fine steel. The price is 15 gold coins.

Compared with ordinary small round shields, the human face shield is slightly flatter, and has an oval shape. There are two straps on the back, which are used to tie the shield to the arms to fix it, which hardly hinders the wearer from waving weapons or casting spells. The shield is made of hardwood skin, which has a certain blocking effect on arrows and swords. The peculiarity is that the surface of the shield is painted with a serious face with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Perhaps because of having to adapt to the oblate shape of the shield itself, this supposedly majestic face was squeezed into a pie face, adding a bit of humor—the more funny thing is that when the shield bearer recites a specific The incantation, this pie face also changed, showing different expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow and joy.

Joan shook his head, suspecting that the shield was a prank by the maker, and then shifted his gaze to the slightly worn-out pointed hat decorated with golden stars next to the "Human Face Shield".

According to Aunt Barbara, this "magic hat" is a performance prop of a street performer, which can show some simple magic effects. For example, if the hat is dirty first, it will become clean instantly after chanting a mantra; in addition, this hat can also emit a dazzling flash of light, or conjure up the sound of several people arguing...

Joan picked up the magic hat out of curiosity and tried it, and it really had the wonderful functions described by Aunt Barbara.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these magical effects are mysterious, but in the eyes of a spellcaster like Joan, this hat is just enchanted with three 0-ring tricks. After a long period of observation and pondering, Joan guessed that it was a "magic trick" that could make the hat instantly clean from dirty, and shooting a dazzling strong light was the special effect of the "flash technique". The sound was probably due to the "phantom sound technique" at work.

These little tricks are both interesting and useful, and Joan is tempted by the magic hat, even if it is used as a guest performer to perform magic tricks to earn some extra money. However, when he saw that the price tag was as high as 25 gold duga, he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​buying the magic hat for the time being. He regained his self-awareness as a poor man, and turned away from the consignment shelf holding his pitiful money bag.

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