"Where d'ya wish t'go next?" Mino asked as they came back out onto the street . Leon's plan for this visit was to purchase kitchen pots to cook in . He also could do with new pottery, seeing as he had to share his eating bowl with Jin Li at the moment . Jin Li had only one destination in mind at first .
"This Lord wishes to go to the Transport Portals . "
Mino tilted his head staring at the man as if he had grown two heads . "You won' find a portal here," he said finally . "Those sor' of things is in the city . " Jin Li deflated slightly, before regaining his proud posture and suggesting a different place to go .
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"A clothing store," Jin Li decided .
"Hmm?" Mino was startled by the turnabout . "Ah, wha' kind?" It was Jin Li's turn to glare at him . What did he mean what kind? Surely there was only one kind, a place that could provide him with quality garments that suited his taste and were tailored to his body, of course .
"What is this?" Jin Li pointed in disdain as he saw the very plain, one size fits all robes on display .
"Clothes," Mino replied, giving him a similar expression as Leon was also . Leon had been checking the workmanship of the clothes rather than the style . As long as it was well made and he could wear it frequently without needing to replace it, that was enough for him . He'd never been one for fashion, usually sticking to cheap, but hard wearing jeans and plain T-shirts .
The seamstress came over and chatted to Leon, who became so comfortable in her presence, his stutter lessened considerably . This irritated Jin Li for some reason, almost as much as the boring outer robes he was examining .
"So plain!" He complained and touched the garment in Leon's hold, surprised by how rough it was . "What sort of material is this?"
"Hemp," the woman told him . "All of the clothes here be made of hemp . ''Tis hard wearin' and cheap . If you be wantin' silk, you be wantin' to go to where the rich folk shop . Nought like that here . "
"Ah, s-silk is too expensive f-for me," Leon said with a slight chuckle . His small laugh gave Jin Li pause, but he dismissed whatever was going through his mind instead he contemplating trying to wear this awful stuff . Leon began to negotiate a price with the woman, though it was a half-hearted barter . The woman did not seem to wish to take advantage of the boy, so the price was fair . "And f-for him . " Leon added to the order .
"Forget me," Jin Li interrupted him . He refused to wear it .
"Y-you n-need it too!" Leon argued . "Or d-d-do you wish t-to w-walk around the w-woods n-naked when I w-w-wash your clothes?" The woman's eyebrows rose upward upon her forehead as she stared at one man then the other . She blinked a few times as they bickered and thought; well, well!
"I have somethin' that might suit your taste," she murmured, before slipping into her back room . She retrieved a long, dark blue robe with simple patterns embroidered about the hem . "It's still hemp, it was mean' for a wedding, but the groom . . well it was called off anyhow . " The three men looked at the robe and glanced at each other with varying expressions . "He ain't dead! And the bride found 'erself another fella, so…" please don't look at it as if it is cursed!
"Alright," Leon agreed . In the end, he spent a couple hundred brass shy of 2 silver in the store, making sure that he had a full set of robes for himself and new inner garments for Jin Li along with the embroidered robe . The man might protest, but that was over the issue with the cloth rather than the fact money was being spent on him .
Leon spent just over a silver purchasing a cooking pot, kettle, cups, a plate and bowl for Jin Li and a pestle and mortar (he currently pounded herbs and seeds between a flat stone and a rock)in a shop selling random housewares . He noticed a metal tripod, to place over a fire and stand a cooking pot on it and realised he already had one in the chest . He had wondered for a while what it was for! Before he could leave, Jin Li began to barter for a large tub, just big enough for a grown man to sit in and take a cramped bath . He had to part with another two silvers as the man never wished to bathe in cold lake water again .
Chapter end
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