Jiaohu

Chapter 13
When Li Meng turned around to wipe his sweat with a handkerchief, he noticed a girl came to his shop.

It's a girl who looks like a tiger,
It made Li Meng raise his eyebrows.

"Little girl, what's the matter with you?"

"How much does it cost to shoot an iron gun here?"

"Iron gun?"

Li Meng only felt strange.There were basically no female customers coming to the blacksmith shop, let alone asking a girl with an iron gun in this way.

"Who are you calling? Your father? Or is there an elder brother in your family? Or is it you, husband?"

"Call me myself."

After Zhao Huniu said this expressionlessly, Li Meng's eyes, like copper bells, widened.

He took a closer look at Zhao Huniu again, and the girl took it calmly under his gaze—"Girl, do you want to shoot an iron gun?"

Li Qiang on the side heard this, and came over to join in the fun, wiping his hands.

"Ah."

The father and son looked at each other,
"Girl, may I ask what you want the iron gun for?"

"hunt."

"Hunting? Could it be you hunting?"

"It's for me, of course I use it, so it's possible that it will be used by others."

This conversation completely overturned the common cognition of Li Meng and Li Qiang, father and son. Li Meng paused, and said:

"It's not that I won't hit girls for you, but if you usually hunt down rabbits, goats and other poultry, perhaps lighter tools such as short knives and short swords will be more convenient. The hollow iron gun is easy to break, the solid one , the strength is not enough to play well,
Otherwise, look at our short knives,

There are really special ones made for girls like you, easy to use. "

"Dagger,"

Zhao Huniu didn't rush to refute, but seriously thought about Li Meng's words; of course, it didn't mean that she wanted to give up the spear, but that the scythe she was using now was for mowing grass seedlings, and was used to cut the throats of animals. Not sharp enough.

But the scythe will last a while,
The long gun can't wait any longer.

"Can a short knife kill a wild boar?"

"Wild boar?!"

Zhao Huniu seemed to be sent by heaven to surprise the Li family father and son. At this moment, even the youngest son of the family stopped his work and came to see such a strange scene.

If Li Meng was still surprised just now, after Zhao Huniu finished saying this, he looked at Zhao Huniu with nothing but laughter.He already regarded Zhao Huniu as an ignorant little girl who was naughty and ignorant,

Holding hands in his arms, Li Meng shook his head and said:
"Go back, kid. I don't think you're very old, but you're not too young. Go back and ask your parents to discuss a marriage for you. It's time to stop being stubborn."

Having said that, Li Meng turned around, it seemed that he no longer treated Zhao Huniu as a guest,
The current girl's family is really,

If the mother-in-law had given birth to a girl for him back then, he would definitely not have raised her so naughtily.With this in mind, Li Meng continued to forge the next piece of pig iron.

"Hey girl! You can't touch that one."

His son's blocking voice came from behind him, and Li Meng immediately turned his head to look—he saw Zhao Huniu walk to the wall full of weapons hanging, and reached out to pick the one closest to her.
It was a nine-ring knife,

It was originally built for a swordsman.But the swordsman lost his life in a martial arts competition not long ago, and the knife was gone, and it has been kept in the store since then.

Although it is not the heaviest bite in the store, it still weighs 68 catties.
It was for this reason that he blocked her just now, fearing that she would not be able to bear the weight and get hurt.

A shocking thing happened,

Zhao Huniu took the Jiuhuan Dao off the wall while Li Meng and his son didn't pay attention, Li Chui and Li Qiang hurriedly reached out to pick it up, but they saw Zhao Huniu just holding the big saber in his hand,
Hold it firmly.

It was indeed steady, and the three of them didn't even see the slightest wobble in her footsteps.

"Gu, girl you"

Not to mention Li Qiang and Li Chui, even Li Meng's face darkened because he couldn't believe it; his eyes stayed on Zhao Huniu for a long time, but the latter's face didn't fluctuate at all.

The flushed pant caused by the heavy pressure did not appear on her oval face,

not only no,

Li Meng even felt that he could read the relaxed and freehand expression from that expression.

"Can I do my business now, boss?"

Zhao Huniu handed the Nine Ring Knife to Li Chui and said slowly.

……

"The gun's weight, shape, and the amount of metal used can all be customized. If the customer has a pattern, we can print it according to the pattern requirements. If not,"

Li Meng pointed to the wall, on which were hung several already-made spears, shining coldly,
"It can also be decided by us according to the needs."

Zhao Huniu's eyes scanned the spear on the wall, she squinted her eyes, Li Meng looked at it with inexplicable chills in her heart,
"Do you have a pen and paper here?"

"Have,"

As soon as Li Meng's "Yes" was written, Li Qiang hurriedly delivered paper and a pen soaked in ink; when they were handed to Zhao Huniu, Li Meng and his son saw her spread the paper on the table, picked up the pen and began to draw on it. Patterns come.

It didn't take long to sketch, and it was completed in just a moment. Zhao Huniu put down the pen and brought the piece of paper to Li Meng.The man took it.

The painting on it is in the style of an ancient spear gun, without any decorations on it, except for a circle-like barbed pattern where the gun head connects to the gun shaft, and a slightly raised base at the end of the gun shaft.
Li Meng looked left and right,

"How much is the gun length?"

"Six feet seven inches."

"What iron do you want to use?"

"You think He Tie is more suitable."

Li Meng put away the blueprints, he looked up and down Zhao Huniu,

"It's better to mix cold water iron with semi-refined iron, both hardness and weight are excellent for a girl."

"can."

Zhao Huniu nodded, "What's the construction period for such a long gun? What's the price?"

"Now that you have a design, you can start working today. After quenching the cast iron, it only takes ten days to complete it. As for the wages, cold water iron is a little more expensive.
I'll just charge you two or three. "

three two,

Zhao Huniu took off her purse.Seeing the girl's action, Li Meng frowned,

Three taels is not a small price, although I have lowered the price a bit, but seeing that the girl is not well-off in her attire, she can afford three taels of silver at every turn,
Reminiscent of the way she lifted the nine-ring knife effortlessly just now,
I really don't know how much this girl is surprised that I don't know.

Zhao Huniu took her purse slowly, and under the watchful eyes of Li Meng, Li Qiang, and Li Chui, she opened the mouth of the purse downwards,
Then I heard a "boom",
A string of copper coins fell on the table.

Li Meng: .
Li Qiang: .
Li Hammer: .
"This string of money is used as a deposit, and I will put it here first,"

Zhao Huniu said:
"I'll pick up the gun in ten days, and I'll give you the money."

"Row,"

Li Meng generously agreed.

Zhao Huniu left, and Li Qiang cautiously asked his father: "Father, why did you promise her to fight for her? Although we only collect money when we pick up the goods, but I think she is so young. It's not like a martial arts family, if it's just that she got angry and wanted to fight without telling her family, and her family didn't agree at that time that they couldn't afford the three taels of silver, wouldn't we be at a loss?"

"Don't worry, I believe that girl will come back with the remaining money after ten days,"

Li Meng put away the string of copper coins left by Zhao Huniu on the table—this string of copper coins was less than the usual number, Li Meng roughly counted it, and it was only about five hundred.

This means that when Zhao Huniu comes back later, he has to bring back two and a half pennies.

"At the beginning, didn't we still believe that she could lift the Jiuhuan Dao? How did it turn out?"

After saying this, Li Qiang was speechless.Since his father has said so, then he will not say anything more,
"Come on, my son, the stove is burning hot—"

Zhao Huniu rushed to the gate of the city according to the time agreed with Zhao Ding, and saw Zhao Ding who had sold out the firewood, sitting in his firewood cart, smoking dry tobacco,

"Tiger girl is back,"

Seeing Zhao Huniu come back, Zhao Ding knocked on the cigarette pipe and pot beside the car, and spoke slowly in a hoarse voice.

"Just in time, let's go back now, almost in time for dinner."

"Hey."

When the donkey cart swayed back to Brassica Village, the color of the sky had changed from orange to indigo; Zhao Huniu got off the cart at the entrance of the village, and instead of leaving, she took out ten copper coins and handed them to Zhao Ding.

"Uncle, thank you very much today,"

"Hey baby, what are you doing? We have delivered the car for so many years and haven't confiscated a penny. Don't want you to take it back,"

Hearing what Zhao Ding said, Zhao Huniu didn't insist. She put away the ten Wen coins again, and untied a small gourd from her waist.This gourd was made by her when she came out of Li's blacksmith shop.

"Uncle, this is for you,"

"what is this?"

Zhao Ding took the gourd. He took the gourd and unplugged it. Immediately, a pungent and pungent smell rushed straight to Tianling Gai.

"This is the wine I ordered in the city today. It happens that my father is not in good health recently, and I don't like him drinking. This wine will be wasted. Uncle, if you don't mind, you can drink it."

"Hey, this is good, this is good,"

Apparently, wine is more acceptable to Zhao Ding than copper coins, so he happily took it, and just took a sip from the mouth of the gourd.

Zhao Huniu was walking home,

The money from today's sale has been left in Li's blacksmith shop, and even the usual savings and the money that Zhao Cunwu gave to herself have been put in; but she must have that gun, only if she has that gun, She has more things to do in the future.

The picture given to Li Meng was drawn in the style of the Thunderbolt gun she used to use in her previous life.
Now that I'm too shy to get out of Ben Lei,
As for the fire,

It's better to have a long-term plan.

When I got home, the moon had risen in the east, and Zhao Huniu saw a small oil lamp on the door of her house.

This surprised her quite a bit.After all, she knew that with their family's current economic situation, even such a small oil lamp would be extremely expensive, so when she entered the door, she brought the oil lamp inside.

There were already prepared meals on the table, and when he heard the door open, Zhao Cunwu came out of the room in the dark,

"Good girl, are you back? How is today? Is everything going well?"

"pretty good,"

Zhao Huniu put the oil lamp in her hand on the table,
"Father, why did you put the lamp at the door?"

"Oh, I think you haven't come back so late," Zhao Cunwu said with a simple smile, "I'm afraid you won't be able to find your way home,

With this light,

You can follow the light home. "

(End of this chapter)