Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 42
As expected by Xiang Kang, after only two days had passed, Yu Jian personally went to Shiling Pavilion again to find Xiang Kang, and told Xiang Kang that he had decided to move to Shiling Pavilion, and asked Xiang Kang to help him buy land and build a house. Another thing is to ask Xiang Kang to rent a few houses for him to live in temporarily. After hearing this, Xiang Kang was overjoyed, and hurriedly brought Yu Jian to find Feng Zhong, the local snake in Shiling Pavilion, and asked him if there were suitable houses for rent there. Feng Zhong was delighted when he heard it.

"Brother, Duke Yu, do you still need to look for it? Forget that my old house has been vacant for several years? Although the place is not big, it is still clean. There is a well in the yard. Duke Yu If you like it, just move in and live in it, and you don't have to pay any rent!"

Hearing Feng Zhong's bold and laughing answer, Xiang Kang and Yu Jian were of course not very happy, so they hurriedly asked Feng Zhong to lead the way, and went straight to Feng's old house to check the situation of the house.Not to mention the results, because Feng Zhong's family has always been considered well-off, the Feng family's old house is really relatively clean and sturdy. Although the area is not as large as the Yu family's house in Yanjiting, the Yu family is only a temporary residence after all. Most of the servants stayed in Yanjiting to look after the house and farm, so there was no problem for the Yu family to live temporarily.So Yu Jian made a decision on the spot to rent the Feng family's old house, and despite Feng Zhong's refusal, he insisted on putting a considerable amount of rent into Feng Zhong's hands.

It was after Yu Jian bid farewell and returned to Yanjiting to prepare to move, Feng Zhongcai stabbed Xiang Kang with his elbow, winked and said with a sinister smile: "Brother, why don't you thank me soon? Duke Yu moved his family here, you and sister Yu's family There is a chance to drill into the grove, hurry up, I can wait to hug my son."

Xiang Kang, who is still wondering whether he should marry Yu Miaoge or not, smiled wryly after hearing this, so he could only change the topic and said, "Brother, how about we go to Ms. Chen's wine shop for a drink? I have something about the blacksmith shop. I want to discuss it with you."

Feng Zhong readily agreed, and on the way to the restaurant, he asked Xiang Kang what he wanted to discuss with himself about the blacksmith shop. Xiang Kang, who had already thought of a good word, replied: "Brother, I want to expand our blacksmith shop a little bit." , recruit more apprentices to make ironware, expand the site, build more ironmaking furnaces, and build more ground furnaces to make coke, so that we can make more ironware and sell it to make money, what do you think?"

"That's good, but it all costs money?" Feng Zhong said, "We were just cheated out of sixty knives by that man surnamed Fan, and we lost a lot of money. The forging of time iron has been abnormal, you and I are short of money, what do we use to do these things?"

"I want to bring the Yu family in, what do you think?" Xiang Kang said, "Let the Yu family pay for us to do these things, and the money earned will be divided into three and three, what do you think?"

As mentioned earlier, because of the small scale and small output, although the blacksmith shop jointly opened by Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong has been doing well, it has not made much money. Arrange it by yourself, so that old Feng's family can see wine and meat every day.So Feng Zhong thought about it for a while, and immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, as long as the Yu family is willing to pay, we will let him join the team. I can see that Mr. Yu is not too stingy with money, and like this You don’t have to worry about conflicts over money if you partner with someone from your family.”

"Then it's settled." Xiang Kang replied: "Let me tell you about Duke Yu. He was very interested in the blacksmith shop we opened before. It is definitely not a big problem to persuade him to join the business. Iron ore sand and Nirvana stone trouble you Go to contact, try to find as many suppliers as possible, and I will trouble you to help me find more apprentices in Dongxiang, preferably young people between the ages of 16 and 20, only young and strong can hit the iron .”

Feng Zhong continued to agree, patted his chest and promised to find more ore and coal suppliers, and also took over the matter of hiring apprentices-of course, if Feng Zhong knew, Xiang Kang wanted to regard these apprentices as future The source of the soldiers is back up, Feng Zhong must not dare to agree so readily.

"Brother, you need to pay more attention to finding apprentices. Don't look for soldiers who will be recruited in the third round." Xiang Kang warned again: "The soldiers who were recruited to guard the border in the first two rounds have not been recruited until now. No one has come back yet, if the imperial court suddenly orders the third round of guards, and we pay money and food to train the third round of guards, then we will not be able to cry."

When Qin II came to the throne, Feng Zhong, who had offended countless fellow villagers, suddenly looked a little gloomy when he mentioned the frequency of recruiting corvee soldiers who cheated his father after he ascended the throne. He nodded and said, "Brother, you should think carefully. Pay attention. Alas, I hope that there will be no more recruits, and if this continues, it will be my turn soon."

On that day, Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong discussed various details of the Layu family's joining in the wine shop in Shiling Pavilion, and they parted happily.Then the Yu family moved very quickly. The next day, they sent some servants to clean up the Feng family's old house that had been vacant for several years. Then, within a few days, the old Yu family really drove the horse-drawn carts and brought money and food. The furniture moved the family to Shiling Pavilion, and Xiang Kang was obliged to do so. He could only bring the Xiang family's children and apprentices from the blacksmith shop to help. Feng's old house.

Then, of course, he persuaded Yu Jian to contribute money to join the gang, but the result was also as expected by Xiang Kang. Yu Jian, who had lost a lot of money a while ago, was anxious to recover the loss, and he had long coveted the prosperity of the Shilingting blacksmith shop. As for the business, he made a decision with almost no consideration, and agreed to spend [-] gold to invest in the shares.Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly fetched bamboo slips to write a partnership agreement, but Yu Jian stopped Xiang Kang with a smile and said, "Young Master Xiang, you will be a family soon, so why do you need to write slips? Who is it that can worry about you blackmailing the old man's money?"

When it comes to his muddled marriage with Yu Miaoge, Xiang Kang, who really likes the little girl Yu Concubine in his heart, is inevitably a little embarrassed, but Yu Gong said to himself: "Mr. Xiang, maybe your two aunts haven't told you yet. A few days ago, they quietly went to Yanji Pavilion to settle the matter for you. On July 26 this year, you and Miao Ge will officially get married, and then you will be the old man’s son-in-law.”

Knowing that the two aunts had good intentions, and also knowing that if he insisted on refusing, he would definitely break Yu Miaoge's heart. With no choice, Xiang Kang could only leave the table and bow to Yu Jian, and said helplessly and respectfully: "My son-in-law, Xiang Kang, met my uncle."

Yu Jian laughed loudly, and hurriedly lifted Xiang Kang up personally, patted Xiang Kang on the shoulder and said, "I'll leave it to you, the eldest daughter of the old man. Miao Ge's child is gentle and virtuous. You must treat her well."

"I'd rather marry that naughty little girl of yours." Xiang Kang groaned in his heart, and said to himself, "God is just trying to trick me on purpose, knowing that I like that naughty little girl Yu Yu, how can I make a better girl?" Yu Miaoge to me? Although Yu Miaoge is definitely a good wife, I am still willing to marry that little girl who is not gentle and virtuous! God, you are deliberately teasing me!"

"God?"

After accidentally mentioning this term, Xiang Kang suddenly thought of an important question, and secretly said: "I remember that it was said in the history books that when Chen Sheng raised his army, he followed him in order to make his subordinates fear him. Let Wu Guangxue the fox call what the big Chu Xing Chen Shengwang. When Liu Bang raised his troops, he said that he killed a white snake. He was the son of the White Emperor, and he was the son of the Red Emperor. That idiot is also born with abnormal vision, what double pupils, I have nothing, how can I compare with them?"

"No, people in this era are too superstitious about ghosts and gods. I have to find a way to pretend to be ghosts and make others think I am different. Otherwise, when I raise troops in the future, it will be too disadvantageous to deal with these gods and gods."

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With the Yu family's large investment, the originally small Shilingting blacksmith shop quickly expanded its site, built several new carbon and steel furnaces, and bought more coal for smelting coke. carbon, and bought more iron ore to be used to smelt strip steel.And after all these were prepared, under Feng Zhong's hard work, the newly recruited 30 young apprentices also lived in the newly built simple thatched cottages, ready to receive training from Xiang Kang. It also reached as many as [-] people.

After the twenty apprentices arrived, Xiang Kang bought some wine and meat out of his own pocket, entertained and bribed these new apprentices, and the banquet lasted until the evening.However, just as thirty or so apprentices, new and old, were about to go back to the thatched cottage to sleep, Xiang Kang stood in front of the burning stove, first beckoned everyone to stand still opposite the stove, and then said: "Everyone, from tomorrow From the beginning, we are a family that eats in a pot. Don’t worry, as long as I, Xiang Kang, have a bite to eat, I will definitely not let you go hungry. But you also have to work hard to forge more iron for our blacksmith shop in exchange for money , otherwise, no matter how much capital we have, we will still sit on the ground, understand?"

"clear."

The new and old apprentices nodded, and Xiang Kang said: "Also, if you behave well, I will teach him the secret method of my go-getters in the future, so that he can set up his own business and open a blacksmith shop by himself in the future. But if you don't behave well Alright, I just think about eating and being lazy all day long, stealing and cheating, I will kick him out immediately, and I will show no mercy, we serve the Lingting blacksmith shop, and we will never support idlers and lazy people, do you understand?"

"Understood." The old and new apprentices agreed one after another.

"Very good, everyone go back to rest. Go to bed early and start working hard tomorrow."

Xiang Kang waved his hand hidden in his sleeve all the time, took the opportunity to sprinkle the powdered rosin in his hand into the burning stove in front of him, and then the red light suddenly lit up Xiang Kang's whole body. It was bright, and looking through the stove, it seemed that Xiang Kang's whole body was emitting red light.The old and new apprentices, who had been poisoned and brainwashed by feudal superstition since they were young, were also in an uproar. They all pointed at Xiang Kang and exclaimed, "Mr. Xiang, what's wrong with you? Why are you shining?"

"Let the light, what light?" In fact, standing in Xiang Kang's position, he could also see the light shining from some apprentices who were standing closer to the opposite side of the stove, but Xiang Kang pretended not to know, and just asked with a surprised face : "What light is shining on me?"

"Red light! Mr. Xiang, you are emitting red light!" Many apprentices replied in alarm.

"Nonsense, I'm not a god, what kind of light can I emit on my body?" Xiang Kang reprimanded pretendingly, and then ordered: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, and go to sleep quickly."

According to Xiang Kang's instructions, thirty or so apprentices, old and new, went to sleep obediently in the hut, but the news that Xiang Kang's body would emit red light quickly spread around the Shiling Pavilion, and the thirty or so apprentices from the blacksmith shop went to sleep. All of them can testify that they saw it with their own eyes and said everything, anyway, they think Xiang Kang is very different.As a result, even Feng Zhong and the disciples of Xiang's family ran to Xiang Kang to inquire about the situation, but Xiang Kang bit him to death and said that there was no such thing, and kept emphasizing: "Don't listen to those apprentices talking nonsense, it's their eyes that are blind." How come people emit red light?"

"It's not strange for one person to have blind eyes, but it's impossible for thirty or so people to see blind eyes?" Feng Zhong and everyone in the Xiang family were puzzled in their hearts, and they all pondered this way: "Could it be that Xiang Kang is the reincarnation of some kind of god? Otherwise, , how could he know so many things we don't know, and still be so smart and capable?"

Xiang Kang's pretending to play tricks also created a chance for himself to meet Yu Cong's little girl again. After hearing this rumor, he couldn't hold back his curiosity. After moving to Shiling Pavilion, he had been deliberately avoiding Xiang Kang's Yu Concubine The little girl quietly ran to the blacksmith shop to check the situation under the sign of going out to play.However, unfortunately, because the little girl's appearance and figure are too different, her appearance was quickly discovered by the apprentices in the blacksmith shop. When my sweetheart and future sister-in-law met, she dragged the little girl to a secluded place far away to talk.

"Little sister, what are you doing here?"

Xiang Kang's eyes were full of joy, his face was also full of joyful smiles, his eyes were piercing, as if he wanted to swallow the little girl Yu Cong in one gulp.The little girl was a little guilty by Xiang Kang's greedy gaze, she subconsciously threw off Xiang Kang's claws, took a step back, and warned: "What do you want to do? Let me remind you, you and my elder sister are about to get married Don't worry about me anymore."

"I didn't think about what to do?" Xiang Kang said with a wry smile, "I just saw you coming, so I came out to talk to you."

"Then what do you want to say?" the little girl asked.

"I..." When the words came to his lips, Xiang Kang realized that he had nothing to say, and he said after a long while: "I just want to tell you that I couldn't bear to make your sister sad, so I agreed to marry her .”

In fact, the little girl Yu Yu, who had known Xiang Kang's thoughts for a long time, lowered her head and said after a while: "Forget about me, it is impossible for me and you."

"But I can't forget, what should I do?" Xiang Kang asked with a wry smile.

The little girl lowered her head even lower, and said in a hesitant voice: "If you can't forget it, you have to forget it. Don't forget, you are already engaged to my sister."

Xiang Kang stopped talking, but silently looked at the little girl in front of him whom he really admired. The little girl raised her head secretly, seeing Xiang Kang's affectionate gaze, her pretty face turned red, she turned around and walked back and forth silently, He walked faster and faster, and his heart became more and more contradictory, and he thought to himself: "Why is he so strange? My sister is much stronger than me, why does she always miss me? I..., do I really not like him at all? ?”

　Sorry for the lack of words, Pure Wolf is working hard to adjust its status and strive for an outbreak in the near future.

　　
　
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