As soon as he came down the stairs, the magpie greeted him happily: "Girl, Qi Bo and Uncle Johnson are waiting inside, I don't know what good things have happened, and they look very happy." "Qi Bo and the others are the most trusted stewards of the girl, and when they encounter a good thing, they also come to report to the girl in a hurry, but nine times out of ten it is a good thing for their Yin family, a good thing on the Zhuangzi?

Oh, very happy, that's good! Zhiruo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that Qi Bo came back so quickly not because of some accident, even if it was, it was an unexpected good thing. It's not that they are scared and worried, now they are too weak, and they don't know what the people who framed the Zhenbei General's Mansion are plotting, plus the wealth is eye-catching, so they have to guard against it!

Qi Bo, who was drinking tea, saw Zhiruo come in, quickly put down the teacup, and stood up with a smile: "Girl, the blacksmith's problem is solved, I bought a fifteen-year-old girl back." ”

Fifteen-year-old girl? What does it have to do with solving the blacksmith problem? Could it be that she has found a female blacksmith to come back? However, if you remember, in this time and space, until now, many industries still cannot accept women's operations, such as winemaking, blacksmithing, and so on. It's okay to be an owner, but it's absolutely not okay to operate it (at least it's absolutely not okay on the surface, and it's another thing to do it secretly that others don't know). There is a saying that women can't even enter the workshop and get close to the iron furnace, otherwise it will be unlucky, and the iron tools will be easy to break and will not be used.

Of course, if you don't believe this kind of statement, in modern times, there are no women in any industry? Women can make guns and cannons! It's just that in ancient times, there were no mechanical equipment, and with the current equipment and methods, striking iron is an extraordinary physical activity, and women can eat and move hammers?

Qi Bo saw the confusion on Zhiruo's face, and explained with a smile: "That little girl's name is Huaihua, she is naturally powerful, and she can easily pick up a sledgehammer of more than 100 catties, which is more powerful than a man. Huaihua secretly followed her father to learn to make iron, and when his father was sick, the iron tools ordered by the guests were secretly made by her after closing the door at night. ”

"Oh?" "If you are very interested, there are many strange people in the world with different talents, and there is nothing strange about it. She didn't interrupt Qi Bo either, Huaihua would sell herself and follow Qi Bo back, there must be a story. Otherwise, Huaihua is secretly striking iron, how can Qi Bo know?

Sure enough, Qi Bo continued: "Huaihua helped her father to strike iron somehow was known, guests have come to the door to return money, some of them don't know when and how many years of old equipment also brought to the door to return, Huaihua's blacksmith is Huaihua Dad alone, it is a low-profit business, plus the first two years Huaihua Niang was seriously ill, a few months of Huaihua Daddy was sick and spent the money used to see a doctor and buy medicine, the family is poor, where is the extra money to be refunded? The person who robbed and moved things in the house was knocked on the back of the head by someone and died. The crowd was frightened, so they scattered with the iron tools they had said they were going to retreat. When someone leaves, they even have to take away the old pots and pans with broken covers. ”

Zhiruo and Ruchun couldn't help sighing, in this world, people's hearts are sometimes really ...... As cold as the snow outside.

Qi Bo also sighed and said, "Huaihua has no choice but to sell herself to bury her father, in order to let her father have a decent coffin and be buried with her mother." I happened to pass by and bought her. "These people are all fighting for their lives on the battlefield, and they have seen a lot of life and death, where do you believe that it is unlucky for a woman to get close to the iron furnace? Not to mention that the woman struck the iron, it was the woman who killed the soldiers with a big knife, and he didn't see the knife broken.

It doesn't matter if you know it, as long as you can strike iron and can make hidden weapons and weapons according to their requirements, what does it matter if you are male or female? Even, if the demand is high in the future, it is nothing to let Huaihua take one or two apprentices. It's just that she is strange that according to Qi Bo's style of acting, she should bring the acacia flower over to show her. Even if there is something else to say, let the acacia flower go first.

As soon as I thought of this, I heard Qi Bo say: "I brought the acacia flower here, but I was afraid of scaring the girl, so I asked her to wait outside the Guanmei Courtyard first." ”

"Scaring the girl?" Ruchun couldn't help but ask, "Why?" "A fifteen-year-old girl is just that, how can she scare the girl?"

It's not strange to know it, but it's not as surprising as Ruchun Biao.

Qi Bo said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the girl has to be a little mentally prepared, the acacia flower is very ugly, thick and strong, and there is a large scar on the left side of the face that was burned by molten iron when he was a child, which is red, how can it be a little ...... It's scary, the people in their town call her a saltless girl, and no one is willing to buy her even if she sells herself to bury her father. He was just worried that the girl would be scared suddenly, otherwise, for him, there was really nothing to be afraid of, the previous "unsalted green" dangled on the Zhuangzi with a black birthmark all day long, and the people in the Zhuangzi were not too afraid, not to mention that the acacia flower still knew how to cover it.

Zhiruo was stunned for a moment, and the ugly scar scared her? Where was she so vulnerable? Then he smiled and said to Ruchun: "Go, let Huaihua come in." "It's cold to stand outside the yard this season.

Ruchun responded, walked to the door and replaced the magpie guarding the door, and specially advised: "She has a scar on her face, don't make a fuss and hurt others." ”

Waiting for Huaihua to come in, Ruchun felt that she was worried in vain. Huaihua wears a uniform blue jacket skirt of the maid on the Zhuangzi, with some yellowish hair, most of which is tied in a thick braided twist at the back of the head, and the small half of the hair on the left hangs down to cover most of the left side of the face, and the end of the hair is wrapped around the root of the braid and fixed with a bamboo hairpin. Standing quietly with her hands down, Huaihua's whole person looks thicker than ordinary women, but it is not scary at all.

Huaihua's figure is a bit like Yan's mother's niece Lu'er, but Lu'er is obese, while Huaihua is relatively strong.

Qi Bo explained: "When Lu'er was sold, the maids' winter clothes had been bought, and the mother-in-law in the warehouse suddenly remembered that the clothes originally prepared for Lu'er were now just for Huaihua. Otherwise, with Huaihua's figure, it would be really difficult to find suitable clothes for a while, and her own clothes were too thin or too torn (a little bit of them were taken away by those who claimed them). R1152