Hearing Master Gao say that he had another master who taught him forging skills, Zhang Teng just stood quietly to the side and smiled, neither admitting nor denying it.

At this moment, he had already figured it out, it was much better to have a master who had nothing than to explain that Shuang Yingnai himself imitated the dragon tooth knife pattern and forged it alone.

After talking to everyone for a while, Zhang Teng said goodbye to everyone, went straight to the iron shop, and went to the north of Suining Town.

The main purpose of his trip was to return the secret book of "Heavenly Wheel Blade" to Mo Qiong, and teach him the knife technique in exchange for the original promise.

Mo Yu's family is living in the north of Suining Town, which is a fairly good compound. It is also surrounded by many similar tall houses, which are basically owned by business officials from Suining, and their families live in the north of Suining Town, a bit like the wealthy area of modern China.

Suining Town's tax office, patrol office, and political yamen are all in this area, so the business in this area is also quite prosperous.

Of course, Suining is a remote town after all. It is also said that it is prosperous in relation to the surrounding area.

Actually, it's just that the shops in that area are slightly better decorated and there are more fixed stalls. On the whole, there are fewer thatched huts, a few more blue-brick mansions, a few more bluestone roads, a few pavilions with carved beams and paintings, and a few lacquered wooden bridges.

Zhang Teng rarely came to the north of Suining Town.

Mainly because the north of the town is the administrative center of the entire Suining, for the sake of the official façade, but also in order to maintain the security of this area, the government is very strict with the management of stall vendors and itinerant people. They arranged for guards to patrol and inspect the surroundings all day long, and when they encountered suspicious people, they would go up to inquire and question.

If he, a person without any household registration status, encounters patrolling guards and is interrogated by them as a suspicious person, he will be fined and expelled, or arrested and imprisoned. However, in most cases, a person who does not have a registered status is deported and fined, and it is rare for a person to be caught and sent to prison.

They mainly look at the other party's attitude, your attitude is good, cooperate with the inspection, give some money Yu meaning, they will not be too careful, at most scold, and order you to leave as soon as possible.

If the other person has a bad attitude, or they are in a bad mood, and you refuse to be checked, you don't want to pay something. Then I'm sorry, they will invite such people to squat in the prison of Suining Political Yamen for a few days, drink some rancid leftovers to clear their stomachs.

This area is equivalent to the sphere of influence under the jurisdiction of the Yunxia royal power, and even the people of the three major villages do not dare to make trouble here easily. Its existence is to show the royal power, responsible for keeping an eye on every move of the three major villages, mediating the contradictions of the three major villages from time to time, obtaining taxes from the three major villages and recruiting soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, the affairs between the eighteen villages of Sanzhuang are resolved by themselves, and the political yamen of Suining does not care much about civil disputes in various cases. However, this does not mean that it does not have the right to manage it, and it will not take care of it.

It protects the interests of those retail investors in Suining Town, especially the wealthy merchants. In addition to collecting taxes from the three major villages, the tax office also collects various taxes from these wealthy merchants, some of which are handed over to the state treasury and some are used for their own use, maintaining the normal operation of the government.

This is also one of the reasons why Moyu Iron Shop has been doing business in Suining and has been so prosperous, but it will not be swallowed up by the three major villages.

When he arrived in the north of Suining Town, Zhang Teng did not go directly to Mo Yu's house, but first went to a political yamen and settled his household registration in Suining Town.

After the beast tide, the destruction of the eighteen villages has been in name only, even if some villagers are lucky enough to hide in the three villages to escape, the personnel can not restore the original number of the eighteen villages.

The Suining government has accepted some displaced people from outside, resettled them in the original site of the 18 villages, and rebuilt the new villages. At the same time, these villages will be under the jurisdiction of the Suining government in the future, rather than by Sanzhuang as before.

As mentioned earlier, the Yunxia Imperial Court intends to suppress local powers, and is gradually recovering local power, consolidating the central power of the country, and enhancing the cohesion of the country.

Sanzhuang was naturally dissatisfied with this, but he did not dare to directly oppose the government, so he could only occupy as much ownerless land as possible. At the same time, they also secretly stumbled to slow down the pace of the government's efforts to gather local power, so that the government could not be satisfied, so as to further suppress themselves and completely disintegrate their own power.

Due to the short time, the new village has not yet been officially named, and Zhang Teng has no intention of living on the original site of the 18th village, so he directly settled his household registration in the east of Suining Town, where there is an abandoned house.

According to Master Gao, it is the old residence of a merchant from other places, and due to bad business, the merchant has abandoned it, and the family has already moved out of Suining for many years.

The house is located in the most remote area at the very edge of the east of Suining Town, far from the center of Suining Town, but very close to the mountains and forests in the east where wild beasts are infested, and there are no other people around, even the homeless beggars do not want to live there, so it has been vacant.

Settled down and settled, Zhang Teng will not really live there, it is just his nominal address.

With Yinyu opening the way, Zhang Teng quickly completed the formalities and successfully settled in the east of Suining Town, and then left the political yamen and went to Mo Yu's house.

At this moment, Zhang Teng's people have arrived at Mo Yu's house, which is a square compound with white walls and green tiles, and a large house with a good atmosphere.

Zhang Teng knocked on the two vermilion doors, and then a young servant opened the door and came out, he glanced at Zhang Teng, and asked, "I don't know who you are looking for this son?"

Zhang Teng reported his name and explained his intention to the other party: "My name is Zhang Teng, I came to find Little Master Mo Qiong, please ask this big brother to spread the word, and say that I came to return to the original owner." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Zhang, please wait a moment, I'll go and report to the young master. The young servant hugged Zhang Teng's fist when he heard this, and quickly went in to inform his master.

Soon, I saw a young man in brocade running out of the compound, saw Zhang Teng, strode up, grabbed Zhang Teng's two upper arms with both hands, and said happily: "Haha...... Brother Zhang, I really didn't misunderstand you! You're finally here, let me wait for you! Also, thank you so much for that incident before, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have been beaten to death by those bastards in Linjiazhuang that day. ”

The young man in brocade clothes is the same age as Zhang Teng, about twelve or thirteen years old, he is thin and weak, much shorter than Zhang Teng, his face is somewhat similar to Mo Yu, with a smile on his face, extremely enthusiastic and reckless.

Zhang Teng smiled and said, "There have been too many things in recent days, and I can't come, so the little master has been waiting for a long time." As for the previous incident, it was just a gesture, Master Mo and I are familiar with each other, how can I stand idly by. ”

At this time, Mo Qiong glanced at Zhang Teng and said with a smile: "Little brother, I haven't seen you for this time, but you are a lot more handsome than before! Hey, people are more angry than people! In the past, my father counted me down all day long, but he often praised you for how good you are, how sensible and how natural. At first, I was not convinced, but after that incident, I was really grateful and admired to my little brother, tsk! Little brother, you are amazing! In the future, you will be my eldest brother, I will mess with you, I will go wherever you let me go, and I will do whatever you ask me to do! I will listen to you! By the way, Lin Chao's kid ......."

"Ahem, little master, let's go inside and say it if it's convenient. Zhang Teng hurriedly stopped Mo Qiong and continued, "There are many people, so it's better to be cautious about Linjiazhuang, and it's better to be cautious." ”

Mo Qiong listened, looked around, and saw some pedestrians in the distance looking at the two, he immediately realized, nodded to Zhang Teng and said, "Little brother, you are right, I am too happy, a little carried away." In that case, let's go inside and talk about it. My aunt and they have wanted to see you for a long time, and they want you to thank you. My brother went in with me, the house is a bit big, and sometimes guests get lost if they are not careful!"

Zhang Teng nodded with a smile and said, "Well, okay, little master please." ”

"Hey, don't call me a little master, it's too raw. Little brother, you just call me Mo Qiong, it's comfortable to listen to. Mo Qiong waved his hand, pulled up Zhang Teng's sleeves and walked into the courtyard excitedly, shouting, "Erniang!

Zhang Teng was helpless, so he shook his head and followed him into the compound.

I saw that the courtyard was paved with marble slabs, some flowers and trees were planted on the side of the wall, the flowers were red and willow green, the rockery was flowing water, the strange stone arch bridge, the houses were in order, and it was extremely elegant and atmospheric.

Zhang Teng secretly said in his heart, I didn't expect Master Mo to have such a good aesthetic, and sure enough, people can't look good. Although Master Mo Yu is a businessman, he looks like a nouveau riche, and it is easy for people to misunderstand that he is an explosive household, and even think that his aesthetics should also be an explosive household. But in fact, Master Mo Yu is not a nouveau riche, nor is he the kind of vulgar person.

Soon, Zhang Teng met several concubines of Master Mo Yu, and after a polite greeting, he returned the "Heavenly Wheel Blade" to him in Mo Qiong's study, and promised Mo Qiong to come back tomorrow and teach Mo Qiong the knife technique in person.

Mo Qiong was naturally very happy when he saw that Zhang Teng kept his promise, and even kept Zhang Teng again and again, hoping to entertain Zhang Teng well, let Zhang Teng live in his house for a while, and teach himself knife skills before leaving.