Chapter 74: Settling Down

Getting the house done is just the first step to settling down in Bremen City.

After sending Misu away and leaving the luggage in the 437 house, Gao De closed the door and prepared to go to the next destination.

Of course, the money bag must be carried with him.

"Take me to the clothing store with the best price-performance ratio nearby, no problem, right?" He said to Leman.

Clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

Housing is done, the next step is clothing.

Gao De still wears the coarse hemp clothes he wore as an apprentice. It's not that he can't wear them, but people rely on clothes.

Since he is going to work as a restoration craftsman, he is already too young, and if he wears shabbier clothes, people will doubt his level.

Leman's 1 silver guide fee is definitely not collected in vain. Hearing Gao De's needs, he nodded without thinking: "No problem, sir, please follow me."

"Where is the craftsman guild in the city?" While following Leman to the clothing store, Gao De inquired about the news in Bremen City.

"Except for the Mage Association, most guilds in the city are established in the Siren District.

However, if you want to join the craftsman guild, you must either pass the assessment of the craftsman guild, or have a recommendation from a formal member of the guild..."

Leman introduced to Gao De in detail.

After listening to Leman's introduction, Gao De cared again: "How many mage associations are there in Bremen City?"

"Three," Leman counted like family treasures: "First is the Bremen Mage Association belonging to the Bremen government, then the Ancient Book Guardian Association, and finally the Emerald Alliance."

Pierre didn't brag, this Emerald Alliance is indeed one of the three major mage associations in Bremen City... It's just that he didn't say that there are only three mage associations in Bremen City in total.

The Kamond District is a concentration of a large number of small handicraft workshops.

When Gao De followed Lady Misu to the 437 house yesterday, he saw some sparse small workshops along the way.

Clearly, many artisans directly use their homes as workshops, mostly in the form of front shop and back residence, or lower shop and upper residence.

Leman took Gao De to turn a few corners, and while talking, he had already arrived at a street full of workshops.

The workshops on both sides of the street all hung eye-catching signs or cloth curtains, with patterns of bread, hammers, etc., directly indicating the nature of the shop.

Leman took Gao De to a shop with scissors drawn on the cloth curtain.

"Don't look at the small storefront, Old Hatton's craftsmanship is recognized as good, and the materials are solid." Leman introduced to Gao De.

Gao De nodded slightly and stepped into the shop.

The space inside the shop is relatively narrow, and all kinds of cloth products are hung on the walls on both sides.

From rough and heavy coarse hemp to better wool, linen, and even silk, there are all.

In addition, there are several wooden models in the shop, displaying the latest styles of clothes.

The air is filled with the smell of new cut fabrics and tanned leather.

The shop owner is an old man with slightly white hair and beard, sitting at a large wooden table, burying his head in a pile of fabrics and needles.

Seeing customers coming, he immediately put down the work in his hand, "Sir, what do you want to buy?"

Gao De thought for a while and replied: "Two sets of clothes for daily wear, linen material."

Wool clothes and linen clothes are the two most common types of daily clothes.

It's just that it's Flower Flame Month, which is May in the traditional sense, and it can be foreseen that the weather will only get hotter in the future.

Considering this factor, more breathable linen clothes are clearly more suitable.

"Please wait a moment." Old Hatton looked at Gao De carefully, up and down, got up and walked to the back of the shop, and after a while, took out several sets of clothes.

"Are you satisfied with these sets?"

Summer clothing tends to be simple and practical. The upper body is mainly loose-waisted coats, and there is also the option of robes. The lower body is wide hemp pants.

Even in his previous life, the styles of men's clothing were few, not to mention in this world, there was almost no choice.

The colors are even more single, mainly based on the tones of brown, gray, dark blue, etc. that can be provided by natural dyes. It mainly depends on whether it fits.

Clearly, Old Hatton is old but his eyes are not old. The look he gave Gao De before taking the clothes from the warehouse "scanned" his figure.

So the clothes finally taken out were abnormally fit.

Gao De finally chose one set each in gray and brown as regular clothes.

Two sets of linen regular clothes, plus two pairs of low-top leather shoes made of cowhide, cost Gao De 26 silver in total.

After coming out of the clothing store, Gao De asked Leman to take him to the watch shop.

Living in a big city is not like Hogen City. Knowing the precise time is convenient.

So a pocket watch that can be carried with you is extremely important.

Under Leman's guidance, Gao De pushed open the heavy wooden door, and accompanied by the light ringing of the bell, entered a watch shop filled with the mixed aroma of leather and metal.

Compared to the clothing store, the furnishings in the watch shop are much more elegant.

Gold-rimmed mirrors are hung on the walls, and exquisite pocket watches are arranged in the display cabinet.

The staff in the shop greeted politely, and after looking at Gao De's clothes very covertly, asked: "Sir, what do you need?"

"A precise pocket watch."

The staff nodded, bent down, and took out a silver pocket watch from the display cabinet with white-gloved hands.

"Sir, how about this pocket watch? It was made by Master Nide. Look at this carving, how charming!"

It can be seen that exquisite patterns are carved on the watch case.

"How much?" Gao De didn't particularly care about the style, as long as it could be used, he cared more about the price.

"Not expensive, just 1 gold, with a watch strap included."

"In addition, if the watch hands don't move or are inaccurate in the future, you can hand them to our shop for help, free of charge."

Seeming to be afraid that Gao De would think it was expensive, the staff pointed to other gold-cased pocket watches in the display cabinet, "These pocket watches all cost over 5 gold."

"Okay, let's take it." Gao De followed the will of his wallet.

Under the guidance of the staff, he paid at the counter.

When leaving the watch shop, Gao De looked at the newly acquired pocket watch and found that it was almost five o'clock.

"I troubled you today, you can go back." Gao De said to Leman.

"You're welcome, sir!"

Gao De, who sent Leman away, didn't go home immediately, but found a small restaurant nearby to enjoy dinner.

Today is considered "moving into a new home," worth eating a good meal to celebrate.

Shamefully, this was the first time he "went to a restaurant" since coming to this world.

Gao De ordered a roasted pork with apple sauce for 7 copper coins, a large cup of tea worth 1.5 copper coins, sausage with mashed potatoes for 3 copper coins, 1 portion of vegetables for 1 copper coin, and a fried egg for 1.5 copper coins.

Total 14 copper coins, which is 1 silver and 2 copper.

Still unsatisfied after consuming all these foods, he added 1 copper coin and got a portion of bread with butter.

An extremely sumptuous meal.

But also expensive.

"The savings are about to fall below the 300 gold coin mark..."

After paying, Gao De found that the pocket money in his pocket was only 4 three-leaf flower silver coins and a few scattered copper coins left.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 75 =====