was glared at and scolded by Du Shi, Zhang Jin was suddenly a little cowardly, but he still insisted on: "What, am I not right?" ”

"Ah Miao is already a professor of state studies at a young age, and my Sanshui Township soldiers have won successive victories against bandits, and their reputation has spread to Xiangyang, maybe it won't take many days, it will be passed into Jingzhou's ears, and then Ah Miao will be recruited as a county commander and even the county guard is unknown. What kind of woman can't marry at that time, maybe she can marry a girl from a family like the Cai family of the Kuai family! ”

Du Shi snorted coldly: "It is said that women have long hair and short knowledge, I think you are not even as good as a woman!" Haven't you heard that Teresa Teng has the appearance of the phoenix dance for nine days? ”

Zhang Jin smiled dumbly: "What phoenix dance for nine days, it's just the Deng family brothers deceiving themselves, Deng Lihua has been in Xiangyang for more than two months, I heard that Deng Tu's brother Deng She has been looking for a good family for him, but it is impossible to enter the door of the Xiangyang family." ”

Du Shi sneered: "So you don't understand! Perhaps among the famous eyes, the Phoenix Dance for Nine Days is a joke. But in the Dengyi area, many people are convinced, and they all think that Deng Lihua has a noble appearance, and the husband she will marry in the future must be unspeakably expensive.

At present, there are more and more people in my Sanshui Village, and the new members are all relatives of the clan, and they are also the people near Dengyi, who have heard this rumor. If Ah Miao marries Teresa Teng, wouldn't it be that Ah Miao will be unspeakably expensive in the future? How important it is to unite the hearts of the newly converted! ”

Zhang Jin gasped, looking at his wife with some surprise, he didn't expect his wife to see so far.

"What? Am I not right? Du Shi said with a glare.

Zhang Jin nodded hurriedly: "Madame, what Madame said is very true." ”

Du's eyes rolled, "You dared to question the old lady just now, and the old lady will punish you heavily tonight!" ”

As he spoke, he whispered in Zhang Jin's ear.

Zhang Jin gasped: "You, you poisonous woman, you want to exhaust me to death!" ”

Du Shi laughed.

The next day, Zhang Jin had eaten the morning food, so he went to find the patriarch Zhang Yu according to Deng's instructions. When I arrived at the patriarch's house, I saw Zhang Yu and Zhang Miao sitting opposite each other eating morning food, each holding a big bowl and eating shredded meat noodles.

"Haha, Brother Jin is here, Xiaohuan, serve a bowl to Brother Jin." Zhang Yu greeted Zhang Jin with a smile.

Zhang Jin hurriedly said: "Big brother, you're welcome, I've already eaten." ”

Zhang Miao greeted Zhang Jin and continued to bury her head in eating, there are still a lot of things today, and she will continue to work after eating.

"Brother Jin, if you have something, just say it." Zhang Yu saw that Zhang Jin was in trouble, otherwise he wouldn't be looking for himself at this time, and said while eating noodles.

Zhang Jin glanced at Zhang Miao, and repeated Du's words last night.

"Patriarch, Ah Miao is not young, when she reaches the age of marriage, then Deng Lihua is the best object."

Zhang Yu didn't answer directly, but looked at Zhang Miao: "Ah Miao, you also heard your Uncle Jin's words, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Miao smiled bitterly and said, "Father, uncle, I'm still a child, isn't it too early to mention family affairs now?" ”

Zhang Jin hurriedly said: "It's not small, you are fifteen, and you will be sixteen after the New Year, like you, many people have children." ”

Zhang Miao shook her head, she still couldn't accept the fact that she would get married at fifteen or sixteen, the world is so good, there are such fun things to do, why get married so early?

Zhang Jin hurriedly said: "Deng Lihua is seventeen, you are not in a hurry, if there is no sound on our side, Deng Tu will inevitably find another family for his daughter." ”

Zhang Miao said lightly: "Then let him find it." ”

The shadow of being stunned by Deng Lihua has not been eliminated, and he has talked to Deng Lihua twice, asking him to marry Deng Lihua now, Zhang Miao really can't accept it.

"Feng Dance for nine days, unite the hearts of everyone in the village. Ah Miao, it's about your future, don't be emotional. Zhang Jin persuaded.

Zhang Miao shook her head: "Uncle Jin, I thought that my future should be in my hands, not relying on ethereal rumors like Phoenix Dance Nine Days. ”

"Brother Yu!" Seeing that Zhang Miao couldn't make sense, Zhang Jin looked at Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu pondered for a moment: "I think so, Brother Jin, you let your younger brother and sister go and talk to Deng Tu, just say that our older generation has no opinion on this family matter." But in the end, it is the children who get married, and let them talk about it everywhere themselves. ”

Zhang Jin's eyes widened: "Can it still be like this?" ”

Zhang Miao gave a thumbs up and praised: "Father is really enlightened. After saying that, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and left the house quickly.

Looking at Zhang Miao's back, Zhang Jin said to Zhang Yu dissatisfiedly: "Brother Yu, you can't let Ah Miao go like this, marriage has always been the words of the matchmaker at the behest of his parents, how can he make his own decisions?" ”

Zhang Yu smiled and said: "Brother Jin, let me ask you, you have contact with that Deng Lihua, what is Deng Lihua?" ”

Zhang Jin said: "Beautiful appearance, gentle and generous, polite manners, and everyone's demeanor." And I heard that the martial arts are strong, and the martial arts are not under his father Deng Tu. ”

Zhang Yu said: "Yes, Deng Lihua is so good, how can Ah Miao not be tempted?" As long as they have more contact, how can Ah Miao oppose it again? ”

Zhang Jin asked, "How do you get in touch?" ”

Zhang Yu pointed at him and sighed: "Brother Jin, you are cautious, but your brain is sometimes not flexible enough. Then Deng Tu is in our Sanshui Village, how can Deng Lihua not come to Sanshui Village to see his father after he comes back, he will naturally come into contact with him. ”

Zhang Jin suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, Brother Yu, when the time comes, I will let the cheap build a bridge and lead Deng Lihua and A Miao to contact more." ”

Zhang Yu smiled: "That's it." ”

Zhang Miao left home and first came to the blacksmith workshop. Before entering, I heard the sound of clanging iron.

In the spacious room, there were five or six stoves, and a dozen shirtless men were sweating like rain with hammers.

At present, there are no longer only two blacksmiths in the blacksmith workshop, but among the newly attached people, there are two or three blacksmiths, Zhang Miao selected a few from the men, and now the scale of Sanshui blacksmiths has reached more than ten people.

The blast furnace and converter have already been built, using newly fired charcoal, the first furnace of molten steel has been refined, and its quality makes Lu Tong sigh and admire, saying that he has never seen such a good steel, which can be compared with hundreds of refined steel!

Zhang Miao was just smiling at the time, leading the steelmaking technology for two thousand years, there was nothing unusual.

With good steel, there is naturally no need to spend a lot of effort to forge repeatedly, and the time for making weapons is greatly shortened. Lu Tong even creatively proposed the method of using molds, personally made molds, poured the refined molten steel into the mold, and after solidification, it became a rough blank of knives and spears, and then a little forging can be done, which makes it more rapid to build weapons.

At present, more than 200 straight knives and more than 500 spearheads have been made, which is almost enough for all the village soldiers.

However, Zhang Miao did not give this batch of newly made weapons and equipment to the villagers, but kept them and prepared to take them out at a critical moment.

"Master Lu, the number of straight knives is almost the same, and if you hit some more spearheads, the rest of the steel will be used to make arrowheads." Zhang Miao commanded.

Lu Tong was a little surprised and said: "Young patriarch, there are already a lot of spearheads at the moment. ”

Zhang Miao explained: "It's not for you to hit the spearhead, but the short spear for throwing. ”

Lu Tong understood: "It's the kind of spear that is used to throw and kill the enemy, right?" ”

Zhang Miao nodded: "Exactly." ”

Bows and arrows are so difficult to practice that archers need to train for at least several years before they can go into battle. Zhang Miao had the heart to make a large number of crossbows, but he didn't have a crossbow map. At the moment, we can only make a large number of throwing spears first, and equip each villager with a few to kill the enemy from a distance.