After Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi finished eating, the two walked towards Shen Chengzu's iron shop.

"What are you doing in the iron shop?" Shangguan Xuanyi asked casually.

"I ordered two sets of farm tools there a few days ago, and now they should be ready, and it just so happens that the iron shop is not far from here, so I went to get them. Xiao'er explained.

"Custom-made farm tools?" "Does she need to pick up the custom-made farm tools herself?" What does the person who purchased it do?

"Actually, it's just two little sickles, isn't the autumn harvest about to begin? My father said that he had to let Xi'er feel how hard the grain is, and prepare to take her to Zhuangzi to harvest rice. Xiao'er remembered that Xi'er knew that Shen Chengyao was going to take her to Zhuangzi to experience the joy of a good harvest, and she was so excited that she almost didn't jump.

However, it is estimated that after a while, the little girl cried and shouted that her mother was going home!

"Shengping Hou is really a good goddaughter. "Let's ask who is a father who is willing to let his daughter suffer such hardships! Not to mention harvesting rice in the field, even if you dip your fingers in the spring water, you will feel so distressed.

Probably because of such a father and mother, so he taught himself such a good daughter-in-law, Shangguan Xuanyi glanced at Xiao'er, his eyes were full of proud tenderness.

In the words of this girl: she has been able to enter the kitchen, to get out of the hall, to kill the enemy, to climb the wall, to earn money, to beat the hooligans!

Autumn is coming, and in addition to the autumn harvest, many people will go up to the mountains to hunt.

These days, every day the iron shop is full of people coming and going, some come to buy farm tools, some come to repair farm tools, and some come to buy bows and arrows.

The blacksmith has been so busy lately that everyone's feet don't touch the ground. Shen Chengzu specially recruited two more guys to help look after the shop, worried that someone would take the opportunity to fish in the water, so he took the things in the shop away.

Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi had just walked into the iron shop, only to see Shen Chengzu just send away a man dressed as a hunter who had come to get ten sets of bows and arrows.

The imperial court stipulated that sharp weapons such as bows and arrows and swords could not be purchased in more than ten sets per person.

Shen Chengyao saw the two coming, and hurriedly welcomed the two into the tent room in the backyard and served good tea.

"Fourth uncle, don't be busy, I'm here to get farm tools, and I'll leave after taking them. Is the business good lately?" Xiao'er saw that Shen Chengzu was making tea and eating snacks, and she was busy with it, so she hurriedly stopped.

"Business is a little bit better at this time of year, but this year there seem to be a little more people going up to the mountains to hunt. Many people come to buy bows and arrows, and they are all ten sets, or several sets together, and the man you just came in and saw is already the second time he has come to order bows and arrows. Although this time he shaved his beard and used a different household sticker, I still recognized him. ”

Bows, arrows, swords, etc., need to be purchased with a household sticker, and they need to be registered.

Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi looked at each other when they heard this.

"Did the fourth uncle ask them why they bought so much at once?"

"Yes, they say they buy it for their brothers and nephews or for the villagers, and some of them buy it for the children of the family. ”

This is not normal, bows and arrows are not cheap, and only people with good families can do it if they can give a set to the children in the family.

Where are the ordinary people willing to do it, and how many families have so much spare silver to buy a few sets of things that are not commonly used and put them at home.

Therefore, even if the imperial court decided that each person should not buy more than a certain number of bows and arrows, for so many years, the people who came to buy bows and arrows still rarely bought several sets of bows and arrows at one time.

Everyone came to buy several sets of bows and arrows, and the number of people who bought them was large, and if these bows and arrows were gathered together, the number was quite considerable.

"Does the fourth uncle know about the purchase of bows and arrows from other iron shops?" Xiao'er's face was a little solemn, and Shangguan Xuanyi was also a little thoughtful.

"I don't know, I've been so busy lately that I don't have time to pay attention to anything else. ”

Xiao'er nodded, it's normal not to know.

"The fourth uncle took out the register of bows and arrows in the shop and showed it to me. ”

"Okay, I'll go get it. Originally, I wanted to bring the notebook to your father tonight. When Shen Chengzu heard this, he quickly stood up and went to get the booklet and come in.

After waiting for a while, Shen Chengzu walked in again with the booklet in his hand, "Just now another hunter came in with a few hares on his back to order ten sets of arrows, I remember that this person came to buy ten bows and arrows half a month ago." ”

Abnormal!

"Then what did he say about buying bows and arrows this time?" Xiao'er asked.

He said that he bought it for her mother-in-law's brother, and he got a different household sticker. ”

Shangguan Xuanyi stretched out his hand and took the register in Shen Chengzu's hand and looked at it.

Xiao'er also poked her head over, and the two looked at it together.

According to such statistics, in the past month, nearly 200 sets of bows and arrows have been sold in the shop.

If this is the case with other shops, there are nearly ten iron shops in the entire imperial capital, and the number of bows and arrows sold is not nearly 2,000 sets?!

With so many bows and arrows, it's enough to form a team of mounted archers!

If this is also the case in the iron shop outside the imperial capital, then the matter is even more serious.

"In addition to bows and arrows, how is the situation of swords?" Xiao'er asked as she remembered that cold weapons were not only bows and arrows

"No one buys swords!" but ......" Shen Chengzu remembered something, quickly walked to a bookshelf and found a booklet, and then handed it to Xiao'er.

"This is the account book sent by Shengping County just the day before yesterday, don't you say that I can't remember, Shengping County last month had several more orders for the purchase of weapons to the Fuzhong Nursing Hospital, and they all bought spears. ”

Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi glanced at each other.

That's a clever way to do it!

As the saying goes, a little accumulates a lot, and the sand gathers into a tower!

"This matter needs to be investigated, when will the person who came to order the bow and arrow just now come to pick up the arrow?" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Shen Chengzu.

"Three days later. ”

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded, and then he looked at Xiao'er.

"Fourth uncle, we left a little early, and we have time to come to the house for dinner. "This kind of thing still needs to arrange someone to find out as soon as possible, so that you can win all battles by knowing yourself and your opponent.

Shen Chengzu nodded, "After this busy time, I went over to drink with your father." ”

Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi left the iron shop, and Shangguan Xuanyi sent Xiao'er back to the Pinghou Mansion and left.

He also needs to send someone to investigate this matter and see what the situation of the iron shops in the imperial capital city and the iron shops in other counties and towns is.

It's rare to be idle for half a day during this time, and I originally planned to accompany the girl to go home after dinner, but it seems that it won't work again.

The people sent to Lianyun County to investigate the conscription have not yet returned, and new problems have arisen here.

Did it be done by the same person, or did it by different people? Xiao'er thought to herself as she looked at Shangguan Xuanyi's departing figure.