Chapter 12 Blacksmith Liu with a Story
Gaolaozhuang is a large village town with 2,000 people. There are blacksmith shops, grocery shops, and cloth shops in the town. You can basically buy daily necessities, so many people never have to leave the village in their entire lives.
Many of these shops are the industries of the Gao family, and some are related households in the county town. The village cannot offend them and can only allow them to come to the village to do business.
However, these businesses are mainly cloth, salt and other commodities. The powerful and powerful in the county will not involve low-level businesses such as ironwork.
Gao Huan and Li Pingyuan moved the thick iron outside the warehouse, while Li Wu called someone and pushed the five-liang wheelbarrow, then loaded the iron blocks and transported them to Liu Tiejiang's house at the entrance of the village.
When Liu Blacksmith received the news, he was already standing outside the door to greet him. He was in his forties, with a very thick and energetic figure, but his eyes were slick and he looked very smart.
This man is said to be a craftsman who fled from Liaodong. He lived in Gaojiazhuang by creating some farm tools for the farm, but gradually became a wealthy farmer in the farm.
"The eldest young master is looking for me!" Liu Tiejiang looked at a few cars of thick iron and greeted him with a smile on his face.
Gao Huan pointed to the wheelbarrow and had some Northeast accent. "These iron ingots helped me make five hundred gun tips, and the rest would be made into forks and big knives."
"Don't worry, my craftsmanship is not as good as the craftsmen of the Shenji Camp." Liu Hui smiled with a smile on his face, but then he turned his eyes and rubbed his hands, "But, the eldest sir, do you know that the master knows that the eldest sir is so many weapons?"
Gao Huan knew that he was worried about wages, "My father naturally knew that if you make things well, you won't lose a penny."
"Haha, the eldest young master misunderstood. I didn't mean that." Liu Hui hurriedly explained, and then promised: "Don't worry, eldest young master, I will definitely satisfy you."
Gao Huan knew that this was what he meant. After all, everyone knew that his situation in the village was all about Wang.
Gao Huan didn't care about him and asked, "You are stronger than the craftsmen of Shenji Camp. Can you build some bird guns?"
The production of bows and arrows is slower, and the training of archers is slower. It is too late to build them now, so Gao Huan hopes to build some bird guns.
After all, without long-range weapons and shooters, team battles are at a disadvantage.
Liu Hui was a little surprised and confirmed that Gao Huan was not a joke, so he said seriously: "The bird gun can be made by villains, but the young master is all rough iron. He can only create some inferior farm tools and big swords. Even qualified rice knife and geese feather knife cannot be used, so don't mention bird guns. The young master insists on it, not to worry about the explosion, so I will make it for the young master to play with it."
"Then you should shoot more guns. I'll find someone to make a spear!" Gao Huan quickly refused, and then instructed: "Tangzhuang and Liuzhuang were washed away by Tugang. The faster you are, the better."
After hearing this, Liu Blacksmith was shocked and suddenly stunned. He seemed to remember something. He came back to his senses when Gao Huan took the people away.
Blacksmith Liu looked at Gao Huan's back and sighed. There was no peace in the world, so he shouted loudly: "Advisor, start the stove in the yard."
The man who was carrying the iron block couldn't help but ask, "Master, do you want to make a furnace and make iron?"
Blacksmith Liu nodded with a calm face, "Why are there so much nonsense!"
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Getting news from the refugees made Gao Huan feel a little uneasy, indicating that the local gangs in Dengfeng County have begun to become active again.
Two years ago, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting fought Li Zicheng in Tongguan, leaving only eighteen cavalry to escape into Shangluo Mountain.
Since that war, bandits and bandits in Henan have surrendered, hiking mountains and hiding mountains, avoiding the encirclement of the government troops, which has made the county peaceful for a period of time.
Li Jiyu hid in the mountains for more than a year and had no news. Now he suddenly came out and snatched Tangjiazhuang and Liuzhuang, which made Gao Huan feel that the situation was critical.
The local bandits did not do production, and after eating the food, they could only continue to loot. Gao Huan felt that Li Jiyu would come soon and cause trouble for Gao Laozhuang.
It is precisely because of this sense of urgency that Gao Huan wants to pull up a team of people as soon as possible.
At this time, Gao Huan left the blacksmith shop and returned to the gravel field. He walked and pondered, but suddenly a loud noise came from the distance.
A woman's sharp shout came from the gravel field, "We have worked hard to catch locusts, why are you going to feed the chickens?"
There were many villagers surrounded by the glutinous stadium. Gao Huan frowned and realized that someone was moving his locusts. He walked over quickly and saw several men such as Yang Shulin blocking the glutinous stadium full of locusts. On the other side was a group of women, led by a shrew with a flesh-faced face, jumping to Yang Shulin and cursing.
Yang Shulin stopped them, "You are so unreasonable. When will you help me when catching locusts?"
Gao Huan recognized these women at a glance. The cousin of Wang Jiaping, who was the leader, did not participate in the fight against locusts at all, and even made trouble for him.
"Wang Jiaping!" Li Wu saw Wang Jiaping watching the show outside the crowd at a glance.
Gao Huan looked at him and saw Wang Jiaping leading a few legs and was smirking, and he knew that this guy was here to cause trouble for him again.
This death-thrusting thing made Gao Huan feel that he had to think of a way to send this guy to the West without knowing it.
At this time, the middle-aged woman was told by Yang Shulin and couldn't take off her face, so she simply acted like a scoundrel, "What's wrong with taking some locusts? This is not from this family."
The woman did not help catch locusts, but was instigated by Wang Jiaping. When she saw Yang Shulin's family feeding locusts, she wanted to take advantage of it and take some locusts back for the chickens and ducks to eat.
After the woman finished speaking, she took a group of women to the ground to grab it. Yang Shulin and other men wanted to stop him but couldn't stop him. She was scratched by the women's face, and each of them filled a bag.
At this time, the surrounding villagers did not mean to help stop them, but were also ready to move.
At first they were afraid of locusts, so they didn't collect much. When they saw several families in the poplar forest, they were fed with locusts and ate them themselves, they were also a little moved.
Although they dare not eat it, feeding chickens is still OK.
Seeing the crowd eager to try and about to form a loot, Gao Huan suddenly roared, "Stop it all!"
When the villagers saw Gao Huan, they smiled awkwardly and retreated to the burger field to show their innocence and not do our business.
"Young Master, that woman snatches the locust!" Someone among the onlookers showed his merits.
Since Gao Huan took the lead in killing locusts and saving crops, the villagers' attitude towards Gao Huan has changed, and they have more respect and fear for this young master.
Many people talked about Gao Huan's evil story when he was a child. As the village spread it, they spread it as the possession of the Demon King of the Mianshi.
When Wang Jiaping was proud, he heard this silence and he felt a sudden cry and he hurriedly slipped away again. However, he did not go too far, but stood in the distance and wanted to see Gao Huan's joke.
He lost the battle with Gao Huan, but the matter has not yet ended. In order to avoid kowtow, he kept hiding from Gao Huan. It was difficult to face Gao Huan directly, so he could only do evil things behind his back.
There are a few women in the village who are extremely difficult to deal with, and Wang Jiaping, the cousin, is famously tough.
Wang Jiaping usually dares to offend this cousin. He wants to see how Gao Huan, a child, can handle it.
Gao Huan's silence caused several women to stop him, but this shrew was shameless and did not feel ashamed. Instead, he smiled and said, "Oh, it's the eldest master!"
"Let me go down the locust!" Li Wu stepped forward and scolded.
The shrews acted like a scoundrel and said, "So many locusts, you can't finish eating chickens and ducks anyway, so let's take a little. Master, don't be so stingy!"
Listening to their words, Gao Huan was wrong.
If they were family members involved in locust killing, Gao Huan might give it a little, but they did not participate in locust killing. It was Wang Jiaping who asked him to make trouble, so Gao Huan would be polite.
After being in the village for a long time, Gao Huan knew very well that it was useless to reason at this time, and command turned into a shrew and scolded the streets.
When doing things in the village, sometimes they don’t talk about who is right or wrong. They look at who has more men and who is more aggressive will be more reasonable.
This is also the reason why in the village, villagers often want to have more sons, because there will be no son at home, and someone will bully you.
To such shrews, reasoning is useless. Only by being stronger than them and more fierce than them can they be suppressed.
"I said that no one is allowed to take these locusts!" Gao Huan's voice was stern, and his eyes were cold to look at the middle-aged women.
The shrews were actually looking at people. When they saw Gao Huan getting angry, several of them felt timid. The shrew in the leader was also a little nervous. However, they turned their heads and looked in the crowd and finally found Wang Jiaping standing in the distance.
Wang Jiaping felt his eyes, squinted his eyes and nodded, cheering the shrew.
The shrew didn't think about why Butler Wang was so far away. After receiving encouragement, he continued to act like a scoundrel: "Isn't it just a little locust? What's so great about it? I won't take it next time."
After saying that, a group of middle-aged shrews wanted to take the locusts and leave directly.
Gao Huan immediately roared, "Stop them and take that fat woman down for me!"
Li Pingyuan stepped forward and grabbed the shrew's wrist, "I'm teasing my good family! I'm acting like a hooligan!"
The shrew shouted immediately, shocking Li Pingyuan and was about to let go. At this moment, Gao Huan stepped forward and slapped the shrew with a big ear on the face. He directly shaved the shrew.
She has been rampant in the village for many years and has never suffered any losses, nor has she been thrust by anyone. After being beaten, her first reaction was to make a fuss.
Gao Huan fired his bow from side to side, slapped the shrew ten times in a row, slapped her cheek before stopping.
Without waiting for the shrew to cry, Gao Huan snatched the bag of locusts and said viciously: "If you dare to provoke me and bully the villagers, I will kill you!"
Chapter completed!