Chapter 47 The story of the dyer and the barber-4

Wearing gorgeous clothes, Aipi Gou sneaked out and wandered around the city.The city is beautiful and neat, but the people dress in nothing but blue and white.He walked to the door of a washing and dyeing workshop and saw that the dyed fabrics were all blue.He took out his handkerchief, handed it to the boss, and asked, "I want to dye this handkerchief, how much does it cost?" "Twenty bucks." "What? In our hometown, it only costs two dollars." "Then take it to your hometown and dye it. Here, we can't lose a penny." "What color can you dye?"

"blue." "I'm going to be dyed red." "I can't dye red." "What about green?" "I don't know how to dye either." "What about yellow?" "No." Aipi Gou counted many colors, and the dyer could not dye them, and said impatiently: "We have a total of forty dyers here. If any of these forty people dies, we will teach his son how to wash and dye. Let him inherit his father's business. If there is no son, we would rather be short than make up for it. If the deceased has two sons, we will only teach the eldest son the craft, unless the eldest son dies, the younger brother can learn to wash and dye. We have always been conscientious in handicraft work , only dyed blue, and the rest of the colors are not dyed."

"To tell you the truth, I am a colleague of yours, but I can dye all kinds of colors. Now I plan to work for you as a hired worker. I can teach you to dye colors, and you can use it to boast in front of your colleagues." “There is no room for outsiders in our industry.” "Then can you open another dyeing workshop and run it for me?" "Absolutely not." Aipi Gou left this dyeing house and went to another dyeing house to find a job, but he got exactly the same answer as the first one.Unconvinced, he asked the bosses of forty dyeing workshops in the city, but still found nothing.Finally, he found the leader of the dyer and recommended himself.The chief dyer said to him:

"I'm sorry! Our business has never accepted outsiders." Api Gou felt hopeless and indignant, and almost passed out.Finally, he rushed straight to the palace without any scruples, begged to see the king, and complained to the king.The king received him.He said to the king: "Your Highness, I am a foreigner and have always been a dyer. I have searched all over the city for dyers, intending to cooperate with them, but they all refused me. I can dye rose and purple among reds; Grass leaf color, pistachio color, vegetable oil color, parrot color in green; charcoal color, eye drops color in black; fragrant orange and lemon color in yellow.” He counted all kinds of colors in one breath , Then said: "Your Majesty, none of the dyers in the city can dye these incomparably beautiful colors, they can only dye blue, but they don't hire me as a master, and they don't even want to hire me as a servant."

"Oh, you're right. Leave them alone. Well, I'll build a dyeing workshop for you and give you the capital. If anyone interferes with you, I'll have him hanged in front of his dyeing workshop." After the king finished speaking, he immediately Call the architects and order: "You and this master go to the city to look for any place he likes, whether it's a store or a hotel, let the original owner move away immediately and build a dyeing workshop on the spot. If you command, you must obey and do not disobey." The king gave Aipi Gou a set of gorgeous palace clothes, and gave him a thousand gold coins, saying: "You take it first." At the same time, he also gave him a well-saddled and bridle horse and two servants.

Aipi Gou then put on palace clothes, rode on a steed, and served the servants as if he were an official.