Chapter 103: Shark Silk
In addition to the container, Chu Ange also replaced it with three large shells, which looked like giant frying pans, but were slightly deeper than frying pans.
She planned to use these three shells to boil salt. Their large surface area and shallow bottom allowed the water to evaporate quickly and condense salt.
At this moment, an old woman stumbled over and knelt in front of Ange: "Master Envoy, please give me some food."
The old woman didn't have any container to exchange for food with Chu Ange. She was only holding a rolled-up cloth-like thing that was glowing with a light blue glow.
Chu Ange quickly helped the old woman up and asked, "What are you holding?"
Seeing Chu Ange's interest, the old woman trembled and showed the thing in her hand to Chu Ange: "This is the mermaid silk yarn woven by us mermaids. If you put this on your body and go into the water, your body will not get wet. Even orcs who are afraid of water can go into the sea with this on."
Although mermaids can avoid water, no one here will do business with mermaids, because the sea people do not need mermaid silk to avoid water, and the land orcs do not need it unless they go into the sea.
The mermaids transform when they come ashore and grow tails when they go into the sea, so they have no need for mermaid gauze at all.
The orcs are far away from the sea, and they feel they are a burden when they are caught in the river, so they are naturally unwilling to trade.
At the market, you can occasionally see old and weak female mermaids being forced to weave yarn just to get food.
Chu Ange took it and touched it. It was slightly cool to the touch, with a delicate texture, soft luster, thin as a cicada's wing, and slightly transparent.
Is this... really the legendary mermaid silk?
Chu Ange looked at Long Chen with a questioning look, and Long Chen nodded to her: "It's Jiao Xiao."
The legendary Jiao Xiao that exists in modern times... Chu Ange felt his heart was about to jump out: "I will trade my flesh with you, no matter how much you have."
"Really?" the old woman couldn't believe it.
She would go up to every customer who came here and try to sell her silk, but no one was interested in her things and no one was willing to make a deal with her.
"Just a small piece of meat, a very small piece will do, and you can get such beautiful mermaid silk, sir." Even though she lowered the price lower and lower, no one was willing to make a deal with her.
However, this little female was actually willing to exchange her flesh with her and take away all her mermaid silk.
The old woman cried for joy.
"Thank you, guest. The Dragon God will bless you and wish you good health and happiness." The old woman blessed sincerely.
The old woman changed the subject: "But this is the only waterproof shark silk yarn. The others are ordinary yarns that are not waterproof."
It is extremely difficult to make real mermaid silk gauze. A mermaid can only weave one piece of mermaid silk gauze in her entire life.
This is because the mermaid silk gauze that truly has the miraculous effect of being waterproof and moisturizing is made from glue that the mermaids painfully pull out all their own scales, and then stretch the glue into something as thin as silk before it can be woven into the mermaid silk gauze.
These scales will only work miraculously when they are plucked off while the mermaid is alive. The pain of having the mermaid's scales plucked out is just like that of being skinned by an orc. The suffering is unimaginable.
Moreover, when weaving, mermaid tears need to be added so that the mermaid gauze can shine with a pearl-like luster.
However, these tears are definitely not tears of pain.
Pulling out all the scales on the body is a heart-wrenching thing. One must endure the pain and shed tears of happiness while weaving, only then can the real mermaid silk be woven.
If not forced by life, which mermaid would be willing to pluck scales in exchange for food?
The old woman did not weave the piece of shark silk gauze herself, but her daughter-in-law wove it before she died. She asked the old woman to exchange it for some food to raise the two children left by her late husband.
The old woman had always kept this real mermaid silk and was reluctant to take it out for exchange. In the past, the mermaid silk that she asked other salt exchanging teams to exchange with her was all made from a special kind of seaweed boiled into glue and a little mermaid's tears. The result was a fake mermaid silk that did not have the waterproof and moisturizing effects.
When the old woman saw Chu Ange using grub shells to exchange the beach with the Sea Chief, her thought was the same as the Sea Chief's - the envoy was really giving things to the Sea Clan for free.
Later, she was seen asking the beastmen of the sea tribe to exchange some worthless jars for food.
She then concluded that Chu Ange was a good person.
So she hurried back to replace the fake mermaid gauze with real one, and ran to Chu Ange to exchange for food.
If she had to exchange the mermaid gauze woven from her daughter-in-law's scales and tears, she hoped that the person would be Chu Ange.
However, the production process of the shark silk gauze was too cruel, and she didn't want to tell Chu Ange. She hoped that Chu Ange would feel free of burden and happy when using this gauze.
"Are other shark silk yarns also so soft and delicate?" Chu Ange asked.
The old woman nodded: "It's the same, but the glossiness is not as beautiful."
After hearing this, Chu Ange smiled and said, "Great, I'll take as many as you have."
"That, that is fake, not the real Jiao Xiao." The old woman explained. She didn't want to deceive Chu Ange like she had deceived others.
"I would only want a fake one. I wouldn't want to give up the real one." Chu Ange said. She was just worrying about how to filter seawater, and now the solution has come.
The envoy must have been sent by the Dragon God to save her family. The old woman was so moved that she burst into tears and knelt down to Chu Ange again: "The Dragon God really saw us, he saw our suffering, and he sent an envoy to save us. Thank you Dragon God, thank you envoy."
Chu Ange didn’t know what kind of suffering the old woman was going through. She only knew that the old woman’s appearance solved her current problem of seawater filtration.
When the old woman bent her legs and prepared to kneel down, Chu Ange hurriedly supported her, "Grandma, please get up quickly. The Dragon God is watching you, and he will not abandon any of his people." The old woman was not only old, but also very weak, and her bones were just skin and bones.
"We will come here to boil salt every year in the future. You can weave more of this non-waterproof cloth and bring it here to exchange for food from me. I will take as much as you can." Chu Ange said.
"Every year?" the old woman was stunned.
"Every year is fine." Chu Ange said.
"I'll get you the shark silk cloth right away." The old woman wiped her tears and said with a smile.
Although we don't know what kind of hard life the old woman leads, we can guess that her life must be hard from the fact that she has to run around for food while dragging her old and frail body.
Chu Ange said to Lang Lin, "Uncle Lang Lin, take these bacon and a bag of sweet potatoes and follow grandma to get the cloth." So as not to let the old lady run back and forth.
"Okay." Lang Lin said. Chu Ange is a very kind female. No wonder the Dragon God favors her.
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