"This is a snow rabbit fur, but the color and texture of the fur are quite special among snow rabbits. When I bought it, I thought someone else had deliberately mixed it in.
But no matter how we study it later, except for the hair quality, everything else is completely consistent with the snow hare skin. We guess that this should be a rare snow hare in a certain area, because we have never encountered it again.
This kind of.
When I received this, what should I say? Anyway, I just thought it looked good and felt different from the ordinary ones, so I specially picked it out and kept it."
Sun Jiming took a closer look and touched it in person. Then he held it under the sunlight shining through the door. The color of the coat suddenly became brighter, as if it was attracting attention all the time.
"This thing is good, I bought it." Sun Jiming said directly. To be honest, he was a little reluctant to give it away.
Seeing this, the negotiating man smiled and said: "Rabbit skins are miscellaneous and are quite cheap. I picked these out and kept them mainly because I feel that they are of excellent quality. Selling them at such a low price makes me feel like I am in vain. It's a bit
deficit.
I originally planned to stay and get myself an outfit, but I only got leather gloves and leather hats, so I didn’t use up a few. The main reason is that the north has been chaotic in the past few years, and we no longer dare to take risks in winter..."
Having said this, the negotiating man felt a little emotional, pointed at the snow rabbit, and said: "This is it! A few years ago, the fleet went along the seaside to the mouth of the northeastern river. After landing, they rented horses and sledges.
It was obtained while carrying goods along the frozen river and selling them everywhere.
The leathers from the Northeast are all of high quality, such as mink skins. These are already of inferior quality there. The good ones are too expensive and I don’t have the capital to keep them. I didn’t make much money there back then. It’s a pity.
Now I don’t dare to go, and I can’t go either.”
The negotiating man didn't say much on this issue, pointed to the batch of high-quality rabbit skins next to him, and spoke.
"Although this is a cheap bastard, it is not easy to get so many high-quality ones. I can buy a mattress or something to give to the elders or to the younger ones. It should be very comfortable to use. It is not expensive, but it is also thoughtful."
Sun Jiming nodded, thought about it, and said he would buy it too. He went over to inspect the leather, and suddenly discovered a problem. He looked over it carefully.
"Who tanned this leather? The craftsmanship is extraordinary?" Sun Jiming asked after confirming.
When everyone heard this, their faces looked as if they had eaten a dead fly, and several of them patted their butts and went upstairs.
The negotiating man touched his nose and looked like he was constipated. He said: "The boss of the ship is doing it, and he's trying to take advantage of every opportunity! After the treatment, the selling price is higher, and 90% of the higher amount belongs to him. Many times it's hard to calculate the price. Anyway, it's a lot of money."
Out of it, we probably didn’t get much more than a few pence.”
Sun Jiming was a little embarrassed, but also a little curious. Can the ship boss have such skills? It was difficult to ask, but the negotiating man probably noticed it and explained.
The boat owner's family originally ran a small leather goods processing workshop. His father was not bad at craftsmanship, but he was also stingy. In order to save money on transportation, he set up the workshop on the waterside.
As a result, one year, the water suddenly rose at night, and there was no time to clean up. The saved leathers were flooded and washed away. His family suffered heavy losses. His father learned from the experience and believed that the boat would not be washed away, so he bought a boat and let his son run it.
"...This family...their minds are really different from ordinary people!" Sun Jiming commented speechlessly after hearing this.
"...Uh..." The negotiating man was a little embarrassed after hearing this, and explained: "We made up the reason for running away from the boat and spread it out. We have lost a lot of reputation to him, but it's a pity that he doesn't care much at all.
The real reason was that I wanted to collect the leather goods myself, but I didn’t have enough capital after buying the boat, so I had to sell the goods first. After understanding some situations, I realized that buying and reselling leather goods was not that easy, so I temporarily stopped thinking and started running the boat.
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Later, he started running the starting mountain business because he had inquired about the market price of mountain goods earlier. However, he did not go back to make money. His father could no longer do it and the workshop was passed on to his brothers. Let us run the mountain simply to make more money.
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However, he will still forcefully demand that leather goods be handed over to him for further processing, so that he can use our hands to get more benefits for himself, because he has learned the craftsmanship since he was young, and many ordinary leather goods, after being processed by him,
It can be done very quickly, so we tolerate it.
Another reason for keeping these good leathers is that some good leathers can often be sold at a higher price, but when he calculates the price, he presses hard, causing us to suffer a lot of losses. Therefore, for some good leathers that do not account for a high cost, we often start by ourselves.
Save.
But in the end I let him deal with it, because he had saved a lot, and he was worried about what would happen if he kept it, and in the end he couldn't get anything out of it, so he gave in on the share of the fur goods."
Sun Jiming nodded and kneaded each piece carefully. It was indeed soft and comfortable, and very even. He put it aside if he was satisfied.
The negotiating man continued to open the basket, half of the basket was made of tight and solid yellow wolf skins, and the other half was mixed with fox skins and otter skins. The negotiating man put them together with the previous fox and mink skins.
"These are leathers with higher market prices and are more frequently bought and sold. Ours are also of relatively good quality."
Sun Jiming nodded. Although these were not as suitable as snow rabbit skins to his liking, and there were many of them on the market, they were indeed of higher price, and they would definitely be traded in order to make a profit.
The negotiating man only gave a brief introduction, knowing that the other party did not care too much about these market products, so he opened the next basket.
On the top were two lynx skins, one white and one gray, with excellent coat color and quality. Sun Jiming looked around and nodded, but his eyes turned to the back basket, where there was a white skin with a big furry tail, which looked like fox skin.
"This is a white fox fur that I bought by accident. Just like a snowshoe rabbit, the fur color is eye-catching. The most peculiar thing is the thick, long and very fluffy and soft fur tail."
"...This will probably fetch a good price..." Sun Jiming nodded, acting a bit...
"Brother Sun, it is not recommended or suitable to buy this thing as a gift. The fox is a bit special after all. It is better for you to pass the news to the person who wants it after we sell it and let him buy it himself..."
Sun Jiming thought about it and nodded in agreement. Giving a fox skin to pat a horse would be easy to pat on the horse's hooves, and when outsiders hear about it, it will also make people have all kinds of messy thoughts...
The negotiating man continued to dig out, emptied out the backpack, and took out ten wolf skins, six large wolf skins, three smaller ones, and one half larger than the large wolf skin.
"They were from the same wolf pack. Because they often stole livestock from the village, hunters from several villages joined forces and knocked down the alpha wolf and many big male wolves at once.
I guess they were well fed, their hair was thick, and they were shiny and smooth. The quality was definitely not bad. I happened to go there at that time and picked up all the good ones.
However, wolf skins are also pure leather, and the price is lower than ordinary fox skins, but such a large wolf king skin is definitely rare, and it certainly cannot be sold at a normal price."
Sun Jiming checked it out and replied: "These skins are processed very finely, and even the wolf claws are preserved. They are expected to be sold at a good price. We can only see their price for the Wolf King skin. I have never seen this before.
Don’t understand the market.”
The negotiating man opened the last backpack, and there were two tiger skins on the top, one smaller and one larger, but they looked like they had some signs of use.
"This stuff is a good product everywhere, and it's not cheap if you're willing to sell it. There's not much profit margin. Let's look at this one. We went to a very remote mountain village and exchanged medicines with the hunters in the village.
The other one is also from a remote mountain village. It was hunted by a hunter's father and passed down. However, he could no longer go up the mountain because of his injury. He sold it for land purchase. Such a large tiger skin is rare now, although it is not bad for storage.
But tanned leather is almost boring.”
After taking out the things, the negotiating man put them aside without saying much. It is true that tiger skins are never too cheap, but depending on how they are compared, sometimes their value may not be as high as that of a good mink skin.
"...Hey...why did you let someone carry this thing of yours?" These words were directed at the man leading the way, and Sun Jiming's eyes were immediately drawn into the basket.
The man who was negotiating just now looked inside the backpack and saw an open bag mouth. Inside were some branches of something unknown. They looked like corals, but were very small and thin, and the material was like plants.
There was no fur inside, and Sun Jiming couldn't recognize what it was! But it felt like he had seen it on a tree, and he didn't know what it was used for.
"This is a tree flower. It's edible. It's a delicacy in our area. Brother Sun wants to try delicacies from all over the world! I must make it for him to try."
After the guide man finished speaking, he took it out and packed it into a small sack, but it was very fluffy and light, with no weight.
"...Oh...didn't I remind you several times to put it on top? It's much better to crush it."
After opening it and looking at it, the man leading the way looked distressed and couldn't help but complain.
The negotiating man couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Don't talk about this. You also said that cow dung is edible after being boiled? Don't blindly fool people here with this."
Hearing this, the man leading the way said: "That's not cow dung, that's the undigested grass in the cow's stomach. If you hadn't kicked my pot into the river last time, you would have known it after you tasted it."
The negotiating man was a little annoyed when he mentioned this, but he suppressed it and said: "Even if you really have this dish over there, this thing is not from there. Who knows whether it can be eaten?"
"...I've made it here and eaten it, and it's exactly the same. If it doesn't work, just don't eat it..."
With that said, the man who led the way also became angry and ran into the kitchen angrily carrying his things. The man who negotiated called him several times without paying any attention to him.
Turning his head, he saw Sun Jiming on the side. The negotiating man smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe it was the time when I was running business in the mountains! We came across a forest, and there were a bunch of these things growing on the trunks and branches. He just stabbed a bunch of them.
Bring it back.
We have always stopped him from doing it. Although he cooks delicious food, he often likes to make some weird things. Some of them taste really good, but some..."
At this point, the negotiating man had a grimace on his face and shuddered. Sun Jiming felt a little chill down his back when he saw this.
"There's no need to take these leathers with you. I'll give them a call and ask them to run over! The value of these goods is not low, and some of them may be rare and good goods. It's not appropriate to trade them in the store.
There are a lot of people there, and you can’t hide good things. In Shanghai, there are a lot of rich people, so good things will attract a lot of people, and they will not give them to whom, but it’s a thorny issue, you understand?”
The negotiating man nodded quickly and asked: "Do you need to prepare anything else? After all, you have to bother them with a trip, and..."
The negotiating man didn't say it too bluntly, but Sun Jiming certainly wouldn't understand. After all, the small piece of jade was still lying in his wallet!