Chapter 1619 Li Shu’s Means
Yangzhou, also known as Guangling, is one of the nine ancient states. It has a long history, convenient water and land transportation, thousands of willows hanging on the streets, and a double city reflected in the clouds. It is the most prosperous city in the world and is known as "the world's most prosperous city". The saying goes that Yangzhou is the leader in its prosperity.
Although it is already the twelfth lunar month of winter, the streets are busy with traffic, and the vendors and shops are doing brisk business.
Li Shu was sitting in the sedan chair, wrapped in white fox fur, holding an embroidered hand warmer with a fat duck in the water, looking out through the curtains of the sedan chair opened by Qin'er, and saw the front When he was walking to a blacksmith shop called "Longquan Scissors Shop", he stretched out his slender hand and pointed, and told Qin'er in a sweet voice, "Stop a moment in front."
"Stop a moment in front of the blacksmith shop." Qin'er opened the sedan curtain and communicated to the outside.
After passing the message, Qin'er asked doubtfully, "Miss, am I wrong? There are three shops in Yangzhou where the master married the young lady. The nearest one, 'Longshengxiang', is a hundred meters in front."
< br>"What's worth seeing in those three shops? Just ask the accountant to check the accounts on time every year." Li Shu said nonchalantly.
“This blacksmith shop is noisy and chaotic, and there’s not much to see.” Qin’er said weakly, “The blacksmith shop is full of stinky and sweaty men, so don’t rush into it, young lady. "
"I'm too lazy to look at them, but Brother Zhu needs them, these A man covered in sweat is very charming in Brother Zhu's eyes. Forget it, I tell you, you don't understand. Go and call Wang Xiaoer."
Li Shu glanced at the blacksmith shop outside the sedan. , said lazily to Qin'er, waved his hand mid-sentence, and told Qin'er to call Wang Xiaoer over.
"Wang Xiaoer, Wang Xiaoer, come here quickly. Miss wants to see you for something." Qin'er opened the sedan curtain and called outside.
Soon, the sedan stopped in front of the blacksmith shop, and Wang Xiaoer, who was following behind, trotted over.
“Miss, you’re looking for me.” Wang Xiaoer was hunched over outside the sedan chair.
“Can you confirm that this ‘Longquan Scissor Shop’ is opened by the blacksmith you mentioned?”
Li Shu asked calmly across the sedan chair.
"Miss Hui, yes. The little trustee has carefully investigated and found out that this 'Longquan Scissors Shop' was opened by a man named Ou Zhige. It is said that Ou Zhige's ancestor was the one who forged the 'Longquan' scissors with Gan Jiang." Ou Zhizi of the sword, but by Ou Zhige's generation, the craftsmanship of his ancestors had long been lost. Ou Zhige only wanted to In order to carry forward the glory of his ancestors, he learned the blacksmith's craft from his uncle when he was a boy. He was good at studying and hard-working, and soon became better than his master. The iron tools he made were the best in Yangzhou City. He is known as the 'First Blacksmith' in Yangzhou City." Wang Xiaoer bowed and replied in detail.
“Since you are the ‘No. 1 Blacksmith’, why are you so downtrodden that you opened such a small and cramped scissors shop.”
Qin’er couldn’t help but wonder.
Seeing that Li Shu did not stop him, Wang Xiaoer understood that the young lady also wanted to know the answer, so he replied in detail, "It's like this. Once Ou Zhige learned the craftsmanship from his uncle, he abandoned the relationship with him. My cousin, who had been engaged since childhood, married a farmer. Daughter, his uncle was so angry that he announced that he had severed the relationship between master and apprentice. He told Ou Zhige that he had taught Ou Zhige to forge kitchen knives, axes, hoes, swords and other common iron tools. If Ou Zhige still had the sense of shame, he should not use these skills. Ou Zhige really has no way of making a living. He has never cast any of these ordinary iron tools, and has never sold any of them. Since his uncle's church forged too many iron tools and only had a few types of iron tools such as scissors, he opened this scissors shop to make a living. The scissors he forged became famous in Yangzhou. Secondly, no one dares to claim to be number one; secondly, Ou Zhige is determined to regain the glory of his ancestors, and has been studying some strange iron tools, hoping to make a name for himself in the court and become a master who will leave a name in history like his ancestors, but..."
Speaking of this , Wang Xiaoer paused, looking a little embarrassed.
"But what?" Qin'er asked.
“However, the iron tools he studied were too strange and dangerous. Once when he was experimenting with iron tools, he accidentally broke a leg. Moreover, he donated iron tools to the government several times, and the first time the government returned them We take it seriously, but during the on-site verification, something went seriously wrong and a government warehouse was burned down, and then nothing happened again."
Wang Xiaoer said slightly embarrassed.
“Is this still the number one blacksmith?” Qin’er rolled her eyes speechlessly.
"The strange iron tools he studied were firearms?" Li Shu's voice sounded in the sedan.
"Yes, Miss, he studies things like 'Fire Crow Arrow' and 'Thunder Thunder', mostly firearms."
Wang Xiaoer replied.
"That's him, go and tell him, give him one thousand taels of silver every year, and ask him to serve in the Zhejiang Army."
Li Shu ordered, directly using his money ability .
“Ah, that’s a thousand taels.” Qin’er said in surprise and distress.
"If he is useful to Brother Zhu, a thousand taels would be extremely cheap." Li Shu said disapprovingly.
"It's Miss." Wang Xiaoer took the order and went to the shop. After about tea time, Wang Xiaoer came back in disgrace.
"Ahem, miss, I'm incompetent and couldn't do my errands. I went in and said good things, but Ou Zhige was as smelly and hard as a stone in a pit. He threatened to go into the barracks and forge ordinary weapons. , had no interest and kicked me out.”
Wang Xiaoer came back angrily to complain.
“Didn’t you tell him to give him one thousand taels of silver every year?” Qin’er opened her mouth wide and couldn’t believe it. Could his little scissor shop earn twenty taels of silver a year? One thousand taels. No money required.
"I said it." Wang Xiaoer said with a bitter smile.
"Then the increase will be another thousand taels of silver, two thousand taels of silver per year." Li Shu said disapprovingly.
"Liang Qianliang, did you hear it right?" Wang Xiaoer smacked his tongue, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
"It's only two thousand taels, and you can also pay one year's salary in advance. Go quickly." Li Shu urged impatiently.
Just smelling the charcoal fire here makes me feel a little nauseous.
"Yes, yes, little one, let's go right away." Wang Xiaoer nodded repeatedly and trotted all the way into the scissors shop again.
He came out very quickly this time. He was obviously pushed out by someone, and he staggered out of the shop.
"Ahem, miss, I told him that I would give him two thousand taels of silver every year, and I could also pay him a year's salary in advance. He thought I was disturbing his research on iron tools, so he kicked me out." Wang Xiaoeryi He said with an aggrieved face.
"It's really useless, aren't you pretty good at fighting?" Qin'er rolled her eyes angrily.
“He is too strong, I am not prepared,” Wang Xiaoer said to himself.
"Give him these two pages and tell him I have the entire copy here. If you want to read it, just follow me."
Li Shu took out two pieces of paper and handed them to Qin'er, signaling Qin'er Give it to Wang Xiaoer.
"Miss, even two thousand taels of silver won't work. Can these two pages of paper work?" Qin'er handed the paper to Wang Xiaoer. After returning to the sedan, she endured it for a while and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He whispered to Li Shu.
"If it doesn't work, I'll just ask someone to knock him out and kidnap him later." Li Shu smiled slightly, covering Cherry's little mouth with her slender hand, and said softly, "I have an ancestral copy of the "Fire Dragon Sutra" that was passed down by someone. I tore two pages secretly and got the stolen goods together.”(End of Chapter)