Chapter 05 Making a Living in Liangcheng
Ji Bin, who got the key, came back, and the other three never mentioned the matter of selling people, but just said that they would find the silver as soon as possible tomorrow. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The four of them were tired and hungry after a day's journey, and they hurriedly ate dinner and quickly fell asleep.
The next day, Ji Bin and Ji Hai went out to find work. And Ji Xia and Zhongqiu were left in the house, and they were still watched, and Ji Xia instantly understood: he was a hostage.
Ji Xia and Zhongqiu sat opposite each other in the room, and there was no deep hatred between the two women. Ji Xia had not participated in the war between the Star Clan and the Cloud Clan, and neither did Zhongqiu, the two looked at each other, more of a friendship with their peers.
Ji Xia felt that the white dragon in his sleeve had woken up, and he was not afraid that Zhongqiu would find out and let the white dragon out. The white dragon, which is only the size of a small snake, starts eating as soon as it is released.
On the other side, Zhongqiu looked at the white dragon that ran out of Ji Xia's sleeve, and looked at Ji Xia again, a little surprised. Coincidentally, the black phoenix in the sleeve of Zhongqiu's coat also woke up.
Zhongqiu also released the black phoenix out of nowhere and let the black phoenix eat with the white dragon.
As soon as the black phoenix came out, Ji Xia's little eyes stared at the black phoenix, which looked like a crow at first glance, and only after a closer look did he find that it was a black phoenix. The black phoenix is already only the size of an ordinary bird, but the power of the top creature is comparable to that of the white dragon, a dragon and a phoenix staring at each other, the white dragon grinning, the feathers on the black phoenix's body are also erected, the two sides threaten each other, and the murderous aura is all over the house.
After a while, the dragon and the phoenix ate together because of the stop of their master, but they didn't get too close, and they always maintained a distance from each other.
Ji Xia and Mid-Autumn were not surprised by their pets, and Ji Xia first said: "This black phoenix is very beautiful. ”
"Hmm." Zhongqiu nodded, and told his secret without scheming: "It has been with me for many years and is my only friend. ”
"Are you alone?" Ji Xia asked.
"That's right, the Zhongyuan Realm is 300,000 miles, I grew up alone, and there is no one to accompany me except it." Zhongqiu replied, looking at Heifeng's eyes full of love.
"Oh, is it? I have two older brothers, but they almost don't care about me, it's almost like I grew up alone. "Ji Xia Dao, in fact, it is much worse, there is a person in the distance and no one at all are two completely different feelings.
"How old are you?" Zhongqiu asked.
"Sixteen, what about you?" Ji Xia asked rhetorically.
"Sixteen too." Mid-autumn replied.
Ji Xia looked at the other party in disbelief, and although the other party was also sixteen, he was half a head taller than her. Moreover, Ji Xia's face is black, Zhongqiu's face is white, Ji Xia's whole body is almost nothing to be praised, but Zhongqiu is the kind of character who is enough to fascinate thousands at a glance, and there is an indescribable atmosphere everywhere in his gestures, which makes Ji Xia can't help but be fascinated.
After comparing the two sides, Ji Xia lowered his head a little ashamedly, he didn't pay so much attention when he was in the sky before, but now compared with being compared, Ji Xia found that his appearance was really difficult to enter the eyes of others.
Ji Xia was silent, and when Zhongqiu saw Ji Xia's eyes, he roughly guessed something.
"What's your name on that one?" Mid-autumn breaks the embarrassment.
"Xiaobai." Ji Xia said, "White white." What about you? ”
"Blackie." Zhongqiu replied, "Black black." ”
Both women laughed at the same time: both were people who liked simplicity.
On the other side, Ji Hai and Ji Bin walked around Liangcheng twice, and finally Ji Hai found a blacksmith shop in the south of the city.
The blacksmith shop is not large, and the five men in it are hammering iron, and the bell is ringing, which is a symbol in the downtown street. There was a bench on which an old man smoked a dry cigarette sat in the rest of the blacksmith's shop.
Ji Hai saw that the old man knew that he was in charge, so he ran over and asked, "Master, do you still need someone here?" ”
The old man who was smashing the dry tobacco glanced at Ji Hai, and the muscles on his body were whiter, not like the material that could strike iron, and it was estimated that a novice came here to learn art.
"No, I'm too many guys right now." The old man tilted his head to the side and was not ready to deal with Ji Hai.
"Master, can I help you get a few hammers?" Ji Hai asked with a grin.
"How many hammers?" The old man turned to look at Ji Hai, put down the dry smoke, and asked, "What does it mean to hit a few hammers?" ”
"It means to give you a good few hammers, no silver, give you a few hammers." Ji Haido.
"And what if you break it?" The old man asked.
"I'll pay for it." Ji Hai said directly.
At this time, the old man took a good look at this young man, his face was indeed whiter, but his body bones were beaten by iron for many years, and he just looked a little stupid. However, the work of a blacksmith has never needed a smart person, but an honest hammer man.
"Okay." The old man agreed, "Let's see how well you play, and I don't want you to pay if you break it." ”
"Okay." Ji Hai also agreed, walked up to a guy and motioned for him to get out of the way, and the guy dodged away. Ji Hai picked up the guy's forty-pound sledgehammer and slashed it, which gave people a feeling of lightness.
"This hammer is too light." Ji Hai shook his head, with an expression that he had never used such a light hammer.
"Give him a hammer." The old man who smoked dry tobacco said, and the two guys took out an eighty-pound sledgehammer from behind and put it in Ji Hai's hands. Ji Hai swiped it with one hand, it felt okay, the old man looked at Ji Hai with a dark smile, thinking about it when you couldn't move after dozens of hammers.
Unexpectedly, Ji Hai said something that made the entire blacksmith shop speechless: "Can there be another hammer like this?" ”
The old man's mouth was so big that he could stuff eggs, so he hurriedly stopped smoking and asked the guy to bring out an eighty-pound sledgehammer to Ji Hai. With an eighty-pound hammer in both hands and one hand, Ji Hai didn't feel much difficulty, but just weighed it, although it was still a little light, it was enough to strike iron.
Ji Hai nodded and motioned for the guy to take out the red-hot iron.
At this time, many people on the edge of the market stopped here, looking at Ji Hai who was holding a double hammer, and didn't know what he was going to do.
As soon as the red-hot iron was taken out, everyone saw Ji Hai start to hammer, and the eighty-pound sledgehammer drew a perfect arc and fell on the red-hot iron.
Clang! There was a loud bang.
"Huh!" The old man who smoked dry cigarettes gasped, and the hammer smashed out such a big nest.
Bell Bell Bell ......
Ji Hai's hands rotated unstoppably like wheels, and two eighty-pound sledgehammers hit the iron like windmills with the cooperation of Ji Hai's strong arms and waist muscles.
There is an idiom in iron striking called "a thousand hammers", which means that to make a good sword, it takes a thousand hits and a hundred times of tempering to be formed. But now Ji Hai completely ignored this reason, and the eighty-pound iron hammer struck the red-hot iron with a bang, and dozens of hammers were hit in a few breaths, and the iron was still red.
The sound of the bell was still ringing, and the old man who smoked didn't even know that the smoke had fallen - he had lived most of his life, and he had never seen anyone strike iron like this.
The surrounding guys and the people who rushed to the market were also dumbfounded, who was not the first time in their lives to strike iron like this.
I saw that after Ji Hai knocked thousands of times, the iron was also dark, and then Ji Hai picked up the pliers and put the iron into the water, and when he picked it up again, he could already see the basic appearance of a sword. This sword, which can only be fought in a day, is basically good.
"Master, do you think it's okay?" Ji Hai asked.
The old man who smoked dry tobacco reacted at this time, and hurriedly said, "Okay, you can stay." ”
"But first, I'm not a buddy, you score half of me for every piece of iron I hit." Ji Hai sits on the ground and starts at a price.
The old man who smoked dry cigarettes was stunned, gritted his teeth, and finally said: "Okay!" ”
Seeing that Ji Hai successfully stayed in the blacksmith shop, Ji Bin was disdainful, how could a literati like him do something poetic.
At this time, Ji Bin saw that many women around him were buying rouge, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and had an idea.
Ji Bin first went to borrow a pair of four treasures from the study, then spread out the paper, and began to shout loudly on the edge of the market: "Sell paintings and sell paintings, who will buy paintings?" One or two pieces of silver, that is, the painting is taken. ”
Unexpectedly, the people on the side looked at Ji Bin like a madman, so that Ji Bin was not embarrassed, Ji Bin thought for a moment and knew that his price was high. So he shouted again: "Ten cents a piece, ten cents a piece." ”
Who knew that after shouting for a long time, no one paid attention to it, which made Ji Hai, who was playing iron on the side, laugh.
Ji Bin was completely angry, and shouted: "Sell the painting, the first one doesn't need money!" ”
It was less than a moment after this voice was shouted, and there were people everywhere. Ji Bin looked at the people around him and sneered, mortals really like to take advantage of others more than themselves.
Generally, at this time, the painter often looks for a Peugeot girl, and then paints slowly, if it is done well, it is naturally good, if it is not done well, it is not afraid, it can be said that the beauty of the girl is difficult to draw.
In this way, a painting can attract many people.
It's just that Ji Bin is not here today, and Ji Bin likes to do the opposite.
Among the surrounding women, Ji Bin deliberately chose a person who didn't look very good in front of him. provoked the people around me to point fingers, thinking that this painter is crazy, the more similar a painting is, the uglier it becomes?
Ji Bin ignored everyone and began to paint, looking at the woman whose face was too big, full of freckles, her hair was not combed much, and there were a few women who were still floating outside.
After a cup of tea, when Ji Bin's painting was displayed in front of everyone, everyone gasped.
I saw that the woman in the painting was undoubtedly the woman, but the freckles on her face were gone, her face was smiling, her hair floating outside was neatly locked by a jade hairpin, and the wrinkled clothes on her body were also flat and bright. For a while, it gave people a feeling of being overwhelmed by the country and the city.
"Oh my God, is this me?" The woman who was chosen by Ji Bin asked in surprise.
Ji Bin smiled all over his face, and said in his heart how could this be you, but his mouth was extremely sweet: "It's you, of course it's you, the girl will talk about matchmaking next time, you might as well let the matchmaker take this painting to the picture." ”
"Good, good." The woman happily took the painting, thanked her with a thousand thanks, and went away happily.
A few women here hurriedly gave Ji Bin ten cents and asked Ji Bin to help him paint a picture just now, so that he could marry a good man in the future.
"The price has risen, one or two pieces of silver." Ji Bin said weakly, and after speaking, he rubbed his hands that were not sour at all, "I'm so tired, painting like this." ”
Several women on the other side gritted their teeth and stomped their feet: "Okay!" What kind of rouge do you buy with your paintings? ”
Ji Bin hurriedly greeted him with a smile and collected money to paint.
Ji Hai and Ji Bin were busy until the evening before they had to go home, and they still promised the people of Liangcheng that they would start work tomorrow before leaving.
After the two of them came down this day, a hundred taels of silver were earned, and when they returned to their residence, Ji Bin carefully brought a box of rouge to Ji Xia, and Ji Hai brought a lot of delicious food to Zhongqiu, and Ji Xia naturally had a share.
The four of them had been happy in the house for a night and then went to sleep. Several immortals were extremely happy tonight, but what they didn't know was that while they were sleeping, a shocking news came from a distant city, and this news would reach Liangcheng tomorrow and reach Ji Xia's ears.