Chapter 481 [0476] Lux's Entry Point

It is not an easy matter for the Forsbarrow people to accept a group of demon-stricken people. Until now, Lux has concealed the identity of the Dharma Controller, planning to wait until the artificial lake is completed and then make it public to gain access to The identity of the people of Fosbairo.

Before achieving actual results, Lux did not plan to reveal the identity of the Dharma Protector in order to avoid any conflict among the Forsbarrow people.

However, "not intended to be released" does not mean confidentiality.

Those who were relatively well-informed in Forsbarrow also had some guesses about the identities of the members in the temporary camp. However, everyone kept silent and waited to see the consequences.

For example, Grandma Nadine, through Grandma Ling, she vaguely guessed the identity of the Dharma Protector in the temporary camp.

This time, Grandma Ling found her again. On the one hand, she wanted to convey to her that "Count Laxana has sent her most capable men to Freljord to explore the possibility of Freljord trade." On the other hand, she also He hinted that she "sees Count Laxana's attitude. She really wants to build Forsbarrow, so when the identity of the Archon is announced, you have to help."

Grandma Nadine called Sambor in and took the initiative to make a joke with Grandma Ling. In fact, she recognized the other party's request. After all, from the perspective of the Forsbarrow people, she dared to send the most powerful person at this time. The confidant went to Freljord, which had already declared Count Laxana's attitude.

Even though Sambor was still confused, the two old women had already reached an agreement on their next attitude towards the Dharma Protector.

Of course, Lux doesn't know this yet.

At the Chamber of Commerce, she got some answers from Sambor, but there were still many questions that even Sambor was not very clear about.

After returning to sort out the question entries, Lux found that the questions about the fur trade that Sambor didn't understand were basically concentrated in two aspects: one was about the fur trade in areas outside Forsbarrow; Production and processing links.

Regarding these two points, after thinking about it for a while, Lux decided to discuss them in categories.

Outside of Forsbarrow, the only major fur-producing areas in Demacia are Mithril City and Owendale. As for the fur trade situation in these two areas, Lux can write to ask her family.

After all... Mithril City is the fiefdom of the Crownguard family.

As for the production and processing of fur, she planned to visit the Orions' homes, starting from the most basic level, to see what processes the fur had to go through from the beast to becoming a coat and cloak.

So, the next day, Lux found the Hunter Guild.

The guild members who suddenly saw the lord were somewhat at a loss. They immediately informed Lux ​​that "the president has gone out to perform a mission," while Lux nodded with a smile and said that she knew.

"I signed that order!" She looked no different from the little girl next door. "I came here today mainly because I wanted to know about the hunter's daily life - I heard that Forsby The Orion family has the most people. As the lord here, how can I not take a closer look at the living conditions of the Orion family? "

The hunters had obviously never seen such a battle before. They looked at each other in confusion, not knowing how to respond. As a social terrorist, Lux would not let them be embarrassed here anymore, so she randomly chose a middle-aged man who looked neatly dressed. People, she directly asked to go to the other person's home to have a look.

"Your Excellency, it is winter now, and we are under martial law. We will not go out hunting for the time being." The hunter who was named was immediately at a loss. He misunderstood what Lux meant, thinking that the other party wanted to go out to hunt, so he could only bite the bullet. Explaining, “At this time, we usually work with leather at home…”

"Very good, leather processing is also a part of hunting. The Chamber of Commerce will not transport bloody fresh leather." Lux was still smiling, "Let's go, let me go and take a look - don't be too nervous."

Having said that, the hunter could only grit his teeth and lead Lux ​​back home, and introduce his wife and children to Lux.

Then, what he never expected was that Lux actually followed the common etiquette of the Forsbarrow people and gave his wife and children an exquisite but not too precious little gift!

Seeing the children circling around the "beautiful big sister" after receiving the gift, although the named hunter was still nervous, at least he was not trembling with fear or sweating profusely.

After chatting with the hunter's wife for a while, Lux quickly began to visit his small workshop.

Here, Lux saw for the first time the process of fur processing by the Forsbarrow people.

Since it is already late winter, most of the furs at the hunter's home have already undergone preliminary processing - the extracted parts have been washed for the first time and pickled for the second time. It can already be seen that the animal hair is beautiful. It's shiny; the leather has also gone through preliminary tanning and doesn't look bloody.

Although she already knew Lux's identity, the hunter's round-shouldered wife had the unique boldness of a northern woman. When she learned that Lux wanted to know about the hunter's life, she rolled up her sleeves on the spot. The performance started directly with the third soaking and cleaning of animal fur - mineral washing.

"The furs from other places are not as good as ours from Forsbarrow!" The eldest lady explained enthusiastically as she gently took down the large pile of furs from the shelf and transported them to the soaking pool in the small shed in the yard, " It’s because our mines in Fosbairo are good—look, this black decolorized mine is the best nourishment for Fosbairo’s fur!”

After quickly fetching water from the well and filling the soaking pool with water, she took out a small piece of black ore, put it into an old-looking mill, and started grinding it.

"This set of things was left to me by my father. I heard it was made of black iron." She crushed the ore with a bang and said to Lux in a northern accent as usual, "Crushed ore It's easy, other people's rollers have to be replaced every year..."

Lux nodded in agreement while observing the work in her hands. She crushed the black decolorized ores and put some of them into the soaking pool.

"Wash it with water once to remove blood stains, pickle it twice with acid, and wash it with mineral water three times to fix the luster. These are all skills passed down by the old man." She said to Lux while stirring the soaking pool and observing the color of the fur. "After washing, the meat is removed, after pickling, it is pressed, and after washing, it is naturally air-dried. This step requires constant stirring, at least for two days without stopping. The two of us have always worked in shifts."

"It will be easier in two years." Lux said with a smile. "The children are also growing up. When they become sensible, they will understand that their parents are working hard and come to help."

"That bastard of mine only knows how to fight on the streets and talks about joining the army all day long. He doesn't understand how hard it is for his mother!" Although he seemed to be scolding his own child, the smile on the other person's face was even brighter. "He has a good size and a good physique, and is very good at eating. If I can't join the army, all my hard work over the years will be in vain!"

"Yes, yes, more and more people from Fosbairo will be able to join the army." Lux roughly understood the method of stirring the immersion pool, "Can you let me try this stirring process?"

"Okay, okay!" Although she was surprised that the lord would do the work himself, the hunter's wife still nodded and handed over the stirring stick, "Be careful, it's quite heavy."

"no problem."

Lux easily took the heavy pine stick and began to stir the water-soaked furs according to the other party's instructions - at the same time, she stood from the perspective of a mage and observed the stirring pool of water with her magical vision. .

Sure enough, the black ore contains a small amount of magic power. Judging from the properties, it should be close to the shadow energy. After this kind of ore is crushed and put into the soaking pool, the shadow energy will slowly and softly stir for a long time. It erodes the fur and eventually makes the hair on the fur clear and shiny.

Very interesting way to handle it!

After gaining a general understanding of the mineral washing process, Lux handed back the stirring rod and continued chatting with her about daily life. Then, for the first time, she learned about the hunter's specific lifestyle from this talkative elder sister.

Generally speaking, hunters rarely hunt in the spring. During this period, the hunter couple usually does odd jobs, helping miners transport ore that has been stored for the winter. Animals in spring often bring young. Animals cannot be hunted at this time.

When summer comes, hunters from each family will send their own tanned and tanned furs and leathers to the merchant caravan of the Chamber of Commerce. After the statistics are made, a hunting team will be formed to go deep to the north of Forsbarrow. Deep in the Dragon's Back Mountains, the first hunt begins.

This is the most profitable hunt of the year. Hunters from the Hunter Guild gather together to carry out large-scale hunting in the area close to the Freljord, and then divide the prey equally. This custom is that of the Forsbarrow hunters. With a "basic salary", even a newbie hunter can survive this first hunt.

In addition, Chushou is also a "blind date stage" for hunters to show themselves. The family Lacus visited was the one she met on Chushou ten years ago. In Lacus's view, Chushou's blind date really kills two birds with one stone. It not only provides the hunters with It's an opportunity to get out of the market, and it also prevents newbies from losing much profit because everyone is messing up.

After the initial hunt, it’s time to hunt freely.

During the hunting season, hunters' homes will simultaneously process various harvests from the hunt. The meat of the prey will be marinated, and the furs will be processed differently according to different types, and they will be stocked up to wait for next spring.

That night, Lux had a meal of Forsbarrow's special pickled sausages at the hunter's house. Due to the developed blue ocher mining industry, Forsbarrow has many salt wells, and coarse salt is very cheap, but Because coarse salt doesn't taste very good, and eating too much salt can dye your tongue blue, so hunters prefer to eat pickled products.

Meat and sausages marinated with coarse salt will precipitate some blue crystals on the surface after the curing time exceeds one month. This not only extends the storage time of the meat and enhances the flavor, but also avoids the damage caused by coarse salt. Bitterness can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Objectively speaking, Forsbarrow's cured meat tastes good, but the problem is that the soil here is frozen, and the only barley that can be grown is too dry, so it can only be cooked with wheat rice - compared with the delicious cured sausages, wheat rice It's a little hard to swallow.

Just when the Hunter couple thought that Lux would not be able to get used to it and were about to get some "bread for the superior people", they were surprised to find that Lux ate more happily than anyone else.

This lord didn't look like a noble at all, but more like a little girl from a poor family, who could even eat wheat rice with pleasure.

(Obviously, they couldn't understand how a person who had walked tens of thousands of miles in the desert could tolerate such food. In Lux's opinion, the taste of wheat rice was indeed terrible, but it tasted much better than the food she ate in the desert.)

This greatly narrowed the distance between the two sides. After dinner, the hunter asked his friend for a rabbit and performed a preliminary fur processing for Lux on the spot.

Watching the other party easily process a rabbit like a butcher cutting a cow, and turning a rabbit into a piece of roasted rabbit meat and a complete rabbit skin in almost the blink of an eye, Lux couldn't help but sigh at the other party's proficiency.

That day, Lux stayed at this house.

By the evening of the next day, Lux accepted a rabbit fur scarf, and when she returned to the temporary camp, she had a relatively clear understanding of the fur industry of Fosbyro's family workshop.

Hunters hunt and families process furs. This natural division of labor supports the fur industry in Fosbyro very well. At the annual summer trade fair, Fosbyro brings tens of thousands of fur products and thousands of pairs of leather boots to Xiongdu, which are the annual "surplus" of these hunter families.

These surpluses will be used to purchase production tools, to raise offspring, to buy some tobacco and wine, and the above are the favorite leisure and entertainment of Fosbyro hunters.

If the trade in Freljord is launched, whether the furs flooding into the market will lower the price, Lux still needs to wait for her mother's reply, but in addition to the price of the fur itself, Lux is also keenly aware that the fur industry in Fosbyro has a great degree of deep processing possibilities.

The fur produced by Fosbyro is of good quality, but it does not deviate from the scope of raw materials. After purchasing these furs, buyers will make them into various coats and cloaks, and those are the most expensive.

So, if the trade in Freljord is destined to bring more fur, can Fosbyro reach out to the next processing link?

Further processing of fur... fur industry?

Comparing the furs worn by the nobles in the winter banquet she had seen in Xiongdu and the fur coats sewn by the locals in Fosbyro, Lux narrowed her eyes slightly and soon had some ideas.

Perhaps, she should write to the artists in Xiongdu and ask them to design some styles that are more in line with the aesthetics of the nobles?

Karya's small class · Mineral washing:

This step corresponds to the tanning of fur in reality, which is a process to make the leather fiber loose and stable, and to make the combination of fur and genuine leather more firmly.

As a magical world, Runeland naturally has magical erosion in mineral washing.

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