Chapter 20: Buying a Bow
When the steward heard Li Zhi asking for a bow, his heart moved, and when he heard the words "don't have to be too expensive", his mood was relieved, and with a wave of his hand, the sound of the shopkeeper walking around sounded.
To tell the truth, he was observing from the time the three young people entered the door, not to mention the simple clothes of the three people, the probability of being a good store manager in this non-rich or expensive East Market store is too rare, especially the spirit that naturally exudes from these three people:
The eldest one is fierce and brave, and the whole person exudes the sharp and awe-inspiring air of a military force; The cute little fat man is not good at stubble, his eyes are rolling from the moment he enters the door, and he is curious about everything, but there is no awe that a country child should have when he suddenly enters the house; Li Zhi should have been the most ordinary one, but he just made the old steward feel extraordinary, without any characteristics, his appearance was mediocre, quiet, and introverted, but he seemed to be the absolute center of the three of them, this can be seen from the tone of speech or the position, if it weren't for the young man's clothes being too shabby, he might have decided that this was the little nobleman of the big family!
Li Zhi was keenly aware of the momentary hesitation of this old man, understood what he was thinking, and did not break it, this is like when you wear a Jeanswest and go to the Armani store to look at things, and you want to try on the clothes, the clerk's mental activities are almost the same, not all of them are looking at people with dog eyes, but more worried about the unnatural expressions of customers after the price comes out.
Soon, three well-wound big bows were held out by the three guys with both hands, and the steward stretched out his finger to one of them: "This bow is called Black Horn, Mulberry is the body, silk kneaded tendons, two years to make, the force has one stone!" ”
Li Zhi took the bow from the man's hand, it was pitch black, his hand was cold, about one meter and two long, he took out a wrench from his arms and put it on, opened the bow and tapped the bowstring lightly, listened to its sound, and then pulled it twice to see its shape.
Rong Steward nodded, whether he is an expert or not, he doesn't have to worry about his good things Mingzhu secretly cast, waiting for Li Zhi to put down the black horn expressionlessly, and pointed to the other: "This bow is called Zhang Mu, it is also mulberry wood as the bone, but the kneading silk thing is mixed with Jiao tendons, it took three years to make, and the strength has two stones, and it is not a warrior to take it lightly." ”
Li Zhi nodded, he received the reminder of the manager, but he just took it in his hand and weighed it, and tried it lightly, the bowstring really didn't move at all, this thing needs special tools to complete the winding, and handed it to Zhuang Budian on the side.
Tie Hanhan had been itching for a long time, put his fingers on his hand, took the big bow of Zhang Mu, and with a slight force on his arms, the whole bow was pulled for a full moon.
"Huh!" Steward Rong applauded softly, and then pointed to the last big brown bow: "This bow is called ......"
"No need to introduce it, can you take a five-stone bow and show me? It's still the same, it's good to be practical! Li Zhi waved his hand to interrupt Steward Rong's introduction, but he did not return the "black horn" to the buddy.
And no one noticed that a servant at the door had quietly poked his bulging little head out of the door frame and eavesdropped on it for a short time.
"Don't blame Childe, the five-stone big bow can not be used by the brave crown of the three armies, please forgive the little old man for daring to ask what the son is using to buy the five-stone big bow?"
Steward Rong tried his best to slow down his tone, so as not to offend Li Zhi, five stone big bow! They have a victory hall, but it is not something that anyone wants to see, this kind of big bow is too cumbersome and complicated to make, and the requirements for craftsmen are extremely high, and the time to make a bow is at least more than four years, and the value is in the hundreds of runs.
If it weren't for Li Zhi's previous performance being too weird, he would have waved his hand, the entire Tang Dynasty, the people who can move the five-stone bow can be counted on two hands, and most of them he has seen, which one is not a world-famous hero, these people choose the weapon in hand who is not cautious, personally choose, how can others do it for them!
"You can rest assured, I want to use this "black horn" for myself, as for the five-stone big bow is used to pay tribute to the elders, not to use it as an ornament! Li Zhi was unimpressed and explained calmly.
"Dare to ask the son...... "The steward is still to be asked."
Li Zhi interrupted him again: "The family teacher Xue Li, whose name is Rengui, once shot the Goguryeo guards with an arrow two hundred steps below the city of Anshi!" ”
Rong Steward was suddenly, and hurriedly bowed down to apologize, although Xue Li's deeds were not sung at this time, but insiders had already heard of it, Rong Steward's perennial activities were in Chang'an City, the place with the most concentrated news in the whole world, and he must know the name Xue Li, but because his person and his affairs were more like a flash in the pan, there was no follow-up record, so he didn't think about it for a while.
At this time, it was just a look, and the guy who was holding the "black horn" immediately turned around and entered, and this time it took a long time before he walked out with a sandalwood long box.
"Little general, look!" Steward Rong's expression fluctuated a little, and he took the long box in the man's hand with both hands, and solemnly handed it to Li Zhi.
The little guy outside the door didn't know when he slipped in, stood beside the little fat man, bumped his elbow lightly and asked quietly, "Little fat man, are you all Xue Li's disciples?" How did I hear that Xue Li took in an apprentice! ”
Zhuang Daya was unhappy in his heart, and he didn't even look at the man and went back: "There are so many things you don't know, the pig's nose is stuck in a green onion, what kind of big-tailed wolf is pretending!" Stay where it's cool, and then call the fat man and the fat man to beat you! ”
Thump!
Li Zhi and the others looked over at the same time, only to see that the original position where the little fat man was standing had been replaced by a handsome little girl, Li Zhi saw clearly at a glance that this was a little girl, but he didn't know why Zhuang Daya fell two or three meters away, and his buttocks were hard to contact the ground, where did it hurt!
As for Tie Hanhan, he was not good, he had already protected Li Zhi behind him for the first time, and when he saw that he was just a little guy, he immediately hung his eyes and blasted out with a punch!
"Brother Zhuang!"
Li Zhi hurriedly spoke out to stop it, if this punch goes down, even if the little girl is still alive, will she see anyone! How could Tie Hanhan's more than ten years of boxing have been practiced in vain?
The most ordinary punch was forced by him to play an indomitable stance, the little girl stood in place in a daze, completely stunned by this tragic punch, the iron-like fist suddenly stopped two inches in front of her forehead, and the fist was strong.
The little girl's face was pale at the moment, her big eyes were unblinking, full of tears, her mouth was tightly pursed, and she looked really frightened.
"What are you crying about? Didn't you fight! Tie Hanhan looked down on the man the most and shed tears, and stopped stupidly.
"Brother, don't think about fighting at every turn, Uncle Zhuang asked you to learn to collect your fists and you forgot?" Li Zhi was helpless and hurriedly pulled the goods back.
The little fat man only stood up at this time, rubbed his buttocks, he himself was a little confused, why did he feel that he had grabbed his belt and arms, and the whole person flew?