Big Joe, Little Joe loves me

Chapter 3 Finding a Master Iron Smelter
Day after day, Liu Gan lived in Qiaofu for a month without knowing it.

During this month, Liu Gan tried his best to integrate himself into the culture and life of the Eastern Han Dynasty.After observation, Liu Gan discovered that the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty were seriously lacking in nutrition at this time, resulting in poor physical development. The rich and noble families were fine, while some poor and lowly families were short in stature, dull and sallow, with sick faces everywhere.

Qiao Lingrong has the best skin among all the Eastern Han people Liu Gan met. The ancients often said that the skin is as thick as fat, and the breath is like orchid.This sentence could not be more appropriate to describe Da Qiao.

The Qiao family is a powerful and wealthy businessman in the Lujiang area. There are more than ten housekeepers who manage the accounts alone, and all the details of the accounts of these more than ten people must be reported to Da Qiao.

On this day, Da Qiao checked the accounts in the courtyard as usual, and a pile of bamboo slips was piled up beside him, which was as tall as half a person.

Behind him, a group of housekeepers in charge of accounts stood in a row in an orderly manner, both male and female, respectful and silent.

Liu Gan, who had just finished washing, made a silence gesture to everyone, and walked slowly behind Da Qiao with leisurely steps.

I saw Da Qiao concentrating on calculating a bunch of dense numbers, completely unaware of Liu Gan standing behind him.

"In the third day of junior high school, I received 130 baht."

"120 baht on the fourth day of the lunar new year."

"99 baht on the fifth day of the lunar new year."

……

Da Qiao whispered to himself while wringing his fingers, and finally finished the mental calculation, and then wrote the result on the bamboo slips.

"You miscalculated." Liu Gan's voice came, which startled Da Qiao.

"Brother Liu, when did you come here, I didn't see you." Da Qiao took a long breath, apparently taken aback.

"Just came here for a while, and I didn't bother you when you were doing the accounting. This income should be 370 baht. You made a mistake." Liu Gan said, pointing to the numbers on the account.

"Really, let me see." Da Qiao calculated carefully, and found that it was really wrong, and 370 baht was the right one.

"It's really 370 baht. Brother Liu, do you know how to do mental arithmetic?" In Da Qiao's impression, Liu Gan was a brave chivalrous man who did justice, but he never thought that he was also quite accomplished in mental arithmetic.

"Is this difficult?" Liu Gan couldn't understand, it was just a simple three-digit addition, why would there be appreciation in Da Qiao's eyes.

"Mental arithmetic is certainly not difficult, but Brother Liu can do it so quickly, it's really amazing."

"Fast? Actually, I'm a math idiot, and I just barely passed the exam."

"What is the test?"

"That...it's nothing. By the way, don't you know how to multiply? I see that you have been using addition just now, adding numbers one by one. How troublesome."

"What is multiplication?"

"That's... how should I put it, one by one gets one, one by two gets two, one by three gets three, it's called the nine-to-nine multiplication table."

"Nine-nine multiplication table? It seems very interesting, Brother Liu, can you teach me?"

"Okay, this is actually very simple. With your ingenuity, you will definitely learn it quickly."

……

Not far from the small courtyard, Xiao Qiao had already stood there at some point, looking at Liu Gan and Da Qiao, who had lost their love for each other at first sight, and suddenly felt a kind of sadness.

"Xiao Lu, do you think my sister has fallen in love with Brother Liu?" Xiao Qiao said softly, with a lonely expression, as if she was asking the maid beside her, but also herself.

"Miss..." Seeing Xiao Qiao's sad expression, Xiao Lu didn't know how to speak for a while.

"They really match each other well." Xiao Qiao suddenly smiled, but shouldn't laughter be a very happy thing?Why is she so sad.

"Go back." Xiao Qiao turned around and left, with a tear dripping on the ground.

"Miss, what should I do with this sour plum soup? Don't you give it to Mr. Liu?" Xiaolu looked around, seeing Xiao Qiao's fading figure, but had no choice but to bring back the sour plum soup that she had laboriously brought back.

Da Qiao is a smart girl, and she mastered the trick in just one day. Teacher Liu is full of praise, and she claims that a famous teacher turns out a good apprentice.

Apart from teaching Da Qiao how to count, Liu Gan spends most of his time looking for craftsmen. Unfortunately, the iron smelting technology in the entire Wancheng is not good, or the iron smelting technology in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty is backward.

The idea of ​​mass survival pistols gradually became unrealistic.

"I can only change my strategy a little bit. Let's find a way to imitate a pistol first." Liu Gan stood on the busy street and said to himself.

suddenly.

Someone patted Liu Gan on the shoulder.

"Little brother, I heard that you are looking for a good blacksmith?" Who is it not Wang Yue?
"Ah! Hero Wang Yue!" Liu Gan was a little excited.

"Don't call me a hero, it's disgusting. How old is this old man, you can call me Brother Wang." Wang Yue laughed heartily.

Liu Gan stared at his white hair and saw that he was nearly fifty years old, so he had the nerve to say how old he is?

Don't be ashamed!

But Liu Gan didn't dare to say this, but smiled and said: "Brother Wang, why are you here?" Then he looked left and right: "Why don't you see Master Song Dynasty, aren't you inseparable?"

Wang Yue said unhappily: "Whoever is inseparable from that old man, between me and him there is only a sword or a knife, there is only a confrontation, nothing else."

As soon as the conversation changed, Wang Yue hooked Liu Gan's shoulder: "Little brother, don't mention that old man, shouldn't we young people be honest with each other? Tell me, what was the hidden weapon you used to shoot the bandits that day? Why? So powerful?"

"This one……"

"Just tell me, and I'll tell you where a good blacksmith is, how about it?"

"How did you know I was looking for a blacksmith?"

"Don't worry about it, you just say it won't work."

Liu Gan finally revealed the secret of the pistol, and it was impossible not to. After all, Wang Yue had witnessed Liu Gan killing people with a pistol.With that amazing explosive power, even Wang Yue himself can't guarantee that he can dodge it with full confidence.

When Liu Gan explained the pistol, he lied quietly, saying that the pistol can only fire one bullet at a time. After all, such a super-era product is amazingly powerful, and it is hard to guarantee that Wang Yue will not have any unreasonable thoughts after knowing it.

Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

Liu Gan knows this well.

"There is a master iron smelter named Zhou Shan in Jiujiang City. He has been immersed in iron smelting and forging for many years, and he is quite famous in the Yangtze River area. I'm a bit greedy for money, and I'm afraid I won't be able to hire him if I don't have a lot of money." Wang Yue said.

"Brother Wang, can you introduce me?" Liu Gan asked softly.

"Yes, but I have one condition."

"What conditions?"

"I'm very interested in the pistol you used, give me one." Wang Yue remained calm.

Liu Gan raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I promise you."

Two days later, Jiujiang City.

Different from the bustling and bustling city of Anhui, Jiujiang city at this time is sparsely populated. Although it is noon in broad daylight, it is rare to see a few passers-by on the street, and the scattered living people are still small vendors setting up stalls.

"My little brother, may I ask what happened? Why can't anyone come out in broad daylight?" Liu Gan came to a fruit vendor and asked curiously.

"Hey, my son, you must have just arrived in Jiujiang, right? Now the whole Jiujiang is not peaceful, not only the yellow scarves are making trouble, but also many bandits and water thieves are robbing everywhere. It is us common people who are suffering!" The vendor shook his head loudly. Its head has a miserable expression.

"How could this be? Don't the magistrate and magistrate care?" Liu Gan asked.

"The county magistrate was killed by the yellow turban thieves. There are no leaders in the city. Every family is afraid to go out. I am also the only son in my family who is sick and needs money to buy medicine. I have no other way to set up a stall...Young master looks rich and noble. Buying A few fruits to help my poor boy!" The vendor finally burst into tears.

"Here." Liu Gan threw out a string of baht coins and turned away.

Seeing the baht money, the vendor was very happy, thinking that he finally had the money to buy medicine for his son, but when he wanted to hand over the fruits, he found that Liu Gan had long since disappeared, and sighed softly, "What a good man!"

After walking two streets, Liu Gan remembered that he only cared about the poor merchants, but forgot the most important thing.

Coincidentally, Wang Yue came at this time.

"How is it? Did you ask anything?" Liu Gan said quickly.

"The Yellow Turban Bandit killed the Jiujiang Order, occupied the county government office, and Zhou Shan was also arrested," Wang Yue said.

"What should I do?" Liu Gan frowned.

"I heard that Zhou Shan has an older brother. His surname is Zhou and his name is Tai. He is quite courageous. He has about a hundred people under his command. He is called Chasing the Waves, and he is quite famous in the Yangtze River area under the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor."

"Zhou Tai!" Liu Gan widened his eyes.

"Have you heard of this person before?"

"I have heard that since he is Zhou Shan's elder brother, he will not just sit idly by, but I don't know where he is now?" Liu Gan sighed softly.

Suddenly, a call came.

"There's a fight, people from Chasing the Waves are coming to the city!"

Hearing this, Liu Gan and Wang Yue's eyes met in unison.

The next moment, the two got on their horses and left in the dust.

(End of this chapter)