As soon as Old Mrs. Qi shouted, Old Mrs. Qi's face changed immediately.

"Yes, Miss Ayuan, this...this...this...this...this, what should I do if the color is wrong? The young master of the Jin family is careful! If he was a careless person, I would not have so much trouble asking you to come to your house to carve it."

"Ah, Miss Ayuan, don't just scrub the dust, are you talking? If you don't do well, I can't pay the salary." Old Mrs. Qi urged Lin Yuan anxiously.

Lin Yuan was holding an old dry cloth in his hand, rubbing the wood dandruff stained on the wood carvings.

The eyes are gentle, like treating your own children.

Lu Ziyi asked Lin Yuan softly, "Ayuan, don't you have any ideas?" There was concern between his eyebrows and eyes.

Lin Yuan looked back at him and smiled slightly, "Of course, Brother Lu. There is still a process for this wood carving! I ask you to come and check the details of the carving. The color is just a small problem. If you think that the two statues are exactly the same, I will carry out the last process."

Old Lady Qi and Old Man Qi looked at each other, and there was another process?

Old Man Qi said, "The comparison between the two statues is exactly the same, but what is the final process you mentioned? How long will it take to be completely completed? There is not much time!"

Lin Yuan looked outside the house and said, "The weather is good today. The wood carvings are placed in the sun and blown to dry. I will start to apply lactose on the surface of the wood carvings tomorrow morning. Once the glue is dry, the color will be almost the same."

After hearing Lin Yuan’s words, Old Man Qi and Old Mrs. Qi felt relieved, “So that’s the case, then we’ll feel relieved.”

After breakfast, Old Man Qi and Lu Ziyi went to work as a job in Jin Mansion. Lin Yuan reminded Old Mrs. Qi to be optimistic about wood carvings, but she went out to buy lac coated on the outer layer of the statue.

This kind of shellac is easily available in the chemical market of the modern world, and it is not expensive.

But it is not a real chemical, but a natural product.

It is a purple bug covering the tree. After sucking the sap, the purple natural resin secreted is mixed with alcohol and diluted, and brushed on the surface of the furniture, which can prevent corrosion, moisture and increase luster.

Non-toxic, non-irritating, and can also be used as medicine.

It is a treasure given to mankind by nature.

A few days ago, she asked Lu Ziyi to take the time to go to the market to inquire, but she didn't find out.

Lu Ziyi said that in this era, people only painted tung oil on the surface, not the glue she mentioned.

I think so, tung oil is easier to obtain than shellac.

However, the brightness of shellac is better than that of pomelo oil. Wood carvings are only for viewing and not used. Of course, they are mainly good-looking.

Lin Yuan decided to find lac.

As soon as he walked out of the house, Lin Yuan saw Lu Ziyi coming, "Ayuan, I'll go out with you."

Lin Yuan blinked, "Why are you back? Isn't the Jin Mansion busy?"

Lu Ziyi walked forward, "I finished the work in advance, took a long time off, and they agreed."

Lin Yuan knew that no matter how he asked, Lu Ziyi would not tell the truth.

He was only worried about her.

She had no choice but to nod, "Okay, go together."

Lin Yuan locks up in the house every day, carving day and night. She only takes time to go out on the first day of her arrival and remembers the main street. She only went out for the second time today. So she is not familiar with the street scenes, but Lu Ziyi, who goes out every day.

Lu Ziyi took her through the streets and searched for lac.

I asked several shops that made chairs and stools in a row, but they all said that this was not needed.

Lin Yuan began to get anxious.

In the previous life, people used shellac to varnish and used it in large quantities in carved wood carvings. Isn’t it necessary in this era?

"Ayuan, I remember you said that lactica is still a medicinal material. You can't buy it in a furniture shop. Why don't we go and ask about the medicine shop?" Lu Ziyi looked at Lin Yuan with a frustrated look and suddenly said.

Pharmacy?

Lin Yuan paused, yes, this is still a herbal medicine, why was she so anxious?

"Yes, yes, this is a medicinal herb. Let's ask if there is any in the medicine shop." Lin Yuan received a reminder from Lu Ziyi and his spirit suddenly came back.

In modern times, shellac was processed into two types: industrial and medicinal use, but it was not so particular in ancient times.

It can’t be bought in the market, but it must be available in the pharmacy.

Just in time, there is a large medicine shop not far ahead. It is carried high with a blue guise and a basket of words written on it.

Lin Yuan ran in.

Lu Ziyi shook his head with amusement, took two steps quickly, and followed him into the medicine shop.

Lin Yuan immediately walked to the counter and asked the guy, "Shopkeeper, do you have lactose in your store?"

The guy nodded repeatedly, "How about there, girl, twelve cents per ounce."

Twelve cents per monday?

According to the price of this era, it is twelve yuan per cent, one hundred and twenty yuan per tael, and one thousand two hundred yuan per pound!

It's thirty times the price in modern times!

Lin Yuan took a breath, why don’t you snatch it?

It's simply a black shop!

Another thought, the modern era of shellac is already very large-scale production and can be bought everywhere, unlike in ancient times, which has to be transported from the South China Sea region.

It is reasonable to sell at a high price.

But she never expected that it was so expensive that she almost shocked her eyes.

Lin Yuan endured the helplessness and grinned at the corner of his lips, "My man, can you sell it cheaper, can you make it? I'll buy three pounds."

If twelve cents per ounce, three pounds will cost more than three taels of silver. Where can she find so much money?

There was only 400 cents in her pocket, but it was the Dong family's mother who quarreled with the Jin family who paid her compensation. She planned to buy fabrics and make clothes for Lu Ziyi.

It’s far from three or six hundred cents!

When the other party was about to bargain, the guy's face was not very good. He stretched his face and glanced at Lin Yuan with his eyes slanted.

The little girl in front of her, with a thin face, and she didn't even have any jewelry on her hair. She was wearing a white-washed blue cloth dress and her cuffs were worn. She was obviously a poor girl.

She wants to buy three more pounds?

Can she afford it?

Many people who buy things bargain in this way. First, they say that they buy too much. After cutting down the price, they say that they bring less money and only buy three or five cents, saying that they come back and buy it.

hehe--

He has seen so much!

The guy smiled contemptuously, "Girl, our store has a clear price tag. If you think it's expensive, go to another place to ask. The entire county town, no, the surrounding county towns are also the same price. If you find that we are selling at a penny, I'll pay you two cents!"

Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes, what an arrogant guy!

She was about to bargain again when Lu Ziyi, who was standing beside her, walked around and said, "Ayuan, I told you that the medicinal materials in this shop are the most expensive. You don't listen and you have to come in and ask for the price. Are you surprised? Let's go, there are a few shops in front, so let's buy them elsewhere! Who wants to buy such expensive medicinal materials shops?"

Without saying a word, he pulled Lin Yuan's arm out, "Let's buy three pounds, not three pounds, why do you have to buy expensive ones?"

Lin Yuan understood the look, Lu Ziyi was helping her bargain.

"That's right, go and buy it somewhere else." Lin Yuan curled his lips and smiled, and strode out.

Anyway, there are many pharmacies, so she has just arrived at the first one!

Although the prices of medicinal materials are almost the same, if you buy more, the price is still easy to negotiate and you can get a wholesale price.

But this guy was so stupid that she really didn't want to buy it.

"We are not without money." Lu Ziyi hummed again, and then pulled off the wallet around his waist and shook it casually.

The money inside jingled and made a crisp sound.

Lu Ziyi and Lin Yuan deliberately made the noise louder, which attracted people entering and leaving the pharmacy to look at them.

Before I had time to buy it, I heard that it was expensive and I couldn’t bargain even if I bought it too much, so I turned around and left.

I bought something but had not paid for it, so I found an excuse to say it was too expensive and would not buy it anymore and left.

In just a few blinks, three people left.

The guy was stunned.

The shopkeeper who was sitting behind the counter and was calculating the accounts was so angry that he drew the client with the account book, and shouted in a low voice, "You haven't called the two back yet, do you want me to close the door, right?"

"Ah, yes, yes--" The guy turned pale in fear, pushed open the small door at the counter, and trotted and chased after him.

Lu Ziyi's good ears had already heard the shopkeeper scolding the clerk and immediately slowed down.

After a while, the guy ran to them with a smile on his face, "Two, two, the price is easy to say, the price is easy to say."

"How much cheaper?" Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows and looked at the guy.

Her pocket only has four hundred ounces, so how much you can buy it is counting as much as you can.

"Don't worry, our shopkeeper is here. You bought a lot. Tell us carefully. He will be cheap." The guy smiled.

Lin Yuan tilted his head and looked at Lu Ziyi, blinking playfully, "Brother Lu, should we buy it here?"

Lu Ziyi thought for a while, "Since the guy is so enthusiastic, let's buy some. The price is so high, the price is small, so let's buy less. The price is not decided by the guy, but the shopkeeper, why are you angry with him?"
To be continued...