Chapter 30: Trouble Comes to the Door

Chen Xian spent more than two days, filling a thick notebook with very small characters, writing two pens, and using up all the power in two power banks and two mobile phones.

But even so, there is still a lot of information in this phone that has not been transcribed.

Chen Xian simply started the car and used the car battery to charge two mobile phones and two power banks.

Because it is inconvenient to refuel in the mountains, Chen Xian installed two spare large fuel tanks in the pickup compartment, just in case, he will ensure that these two spare fuel tanks are fully fueled most of the time, and this time is no exception.

Thanks to these two spare fuel tanks, Chen Xian was able to fully charge the two power banks and two mobile phones.

After charging the battery, he wrapped the mobile phone and the charging treasure in layers of clothes, and put them in the middle of the backpack.

After hiding the car again, Chen Xian set foot on the way home again.

When Chen Xian returned to Dongzhuangzi, it was nearly half a month later.

Because of his thoughtfulness before leaving, the apprentices were successfully brainwashed, and with the care of Wu Liang, Yang Jingzong and several registered disciples, everything was fine in the shop.

Listening to the undercover apprentice, the Yang family seemed to be very nervous about his disappearance.

The first thing Chen Xian did when he returned to the shop was to put the fully charged mobile phone and power bank in a wooden box and hide them in the attic of his bedroom.

The semi-automatic rifle was in a canvas bag and hung on the bedroom wall, which no one knew anyway.

After settling the treasures, he called the three squad leaders and asked him about the situation in the shop after he left.

Judging from the reports of the team leaders, everything was normal during this time, except for one thing worth noting.

Three days ago, Bai Anfu, the only blacksmith shop in Dongzhuangzi and the owner of the Bai family's shop, came to see Chen Xian.

Hearing that Bai Anfu came to him, Chen Xian didn't feel strange, just sighed slightly, and said in his heart: "Those who should come will always come." ”

Chen Xian had heard of a strange theorem called "Murphy's Law", which states that if you are worried that something will happen, then he tends to happen.

Bai Anfu's visit fulfilled this strange law of psychology.

The reason why Chen Xian couldn't wait to welcome back his semi-automatic rifle was that he was worried that the huge benefits generated by the katana would bring disaster to himself, and the source of the disaster he was most worried about was the Bai family.

As the only two big families in the East Zhuangzi, the open and secret battles between them have long been an open secret in the East Zhuangzi.

Chen Xian even heard rumors from Wu Liang that Lujiazhuang was wiped out, and it was the Bai family's hands and feet behind the scenes, in order to cut off the Yang family's foreign aid.

Whether this rumor is true or not, it is enough to show how fierce and life-and-death the struggle between the two families of Poplar is, once involved in such a fight, if you don't have enough strength, you will definitely be crushed.

People in this era did not have a sense of secrecy, and the katana business was so profitable that it was difficult not to attract the attention of the Bai family.

For Bai Anfu, a peer enemy, Chen Xian is of course impossible not to understand.

This person is a relative of the Bai family, in terms of generation, and he is also the uncle of the contemporary head of the Bai family, and it is precisely because of this relationship that this person can monopolize the blacksmith business of Dong Zhuangzi.

Of course, the Yang family and the Bai family both have their own blacksmith workshops, and Bai Anfu only monopolizes the business of ordinary farmers in the Zhuangzi.

This person came to the door, and eighty percent represented a certain will of the Bai family.

Thinking of this, Chen Xian couldn't help but sigh again in his heart.

After sending away the three squad leaders, Chen Xian returned to the bedroom, touched the semi-automatic rifle hanging on the wall, and his slightly apprehensive heart gradually calmed down.

Putting aside the affairs of the Bai family, Chen Xian took out the notebook with a large amount of information from the box at the head of the bed and put it on the table.

He took out a notebook bound with string from the bedside table, and what looked like a pencil.

This pencil-shaped thing is really Chen Xian's homemade pencil, but this pencil is different from the pencil commonly used by modern people, and its pencil lead is really made of lead.

The pencil lead used by modern people does not contain lead, but is fired from graphite mixed with clay, but before the discovery of graphite pencil, the pencil was really made of lead.

Lead is so soft that it leaves a distinct black mark when scratched on paper, so the ancient Greeks and Romans used it to write with a stick in it.

Chen Xian was really not used to using brushes, so in desperation, he made this ancient pencil for writing.

The lead for making pencils, Chen Xian took a lot of effort to find.

In the grocery store in Dongzhuangzi, there are lead products such as lead white and danhuang, but there is no metal lead, which is not used by ordinary people.

Chen Xian inquired around, and finally heard Wu Liang say that in the Yang family's military village, there was a workshop for minting money, which needed to use lead.

Wu Liang told Chen Xian that the price of lead is cheap and copper is expensive, and the Yang family members melted the best copper coins, mixed them with cheap lead and tin, and recast them into money.

Hearing that the Yang family members minted money privately, Chen Xian was not surprised, in Dongzhuangzi, the sense of existence of the official government was extremely weak, people only knew that there was the Yang family, the lord of the Bai family, and they didn't know that there was an official mansion at all, and many people didn't even know the name of the current emperor. This shows the weakening of the Jin Dynasty's control over the local area.

Chen Xian asked Wu Liang to get two catties of lead for himself from the coinage workshop, and made a few pencils with wooden sticks and glue.

The lead pencil is not as good as the modern pencil, the nib is too soft, and the nib will bend off if the force is too great, Chen Xian used it for a long time to get used to this kind of pencil.

Taking out a pen and paper, Chen Xian looked at the records in the notebook, and while his memory was still fresh, he began to restore the book "The Spirit of the Law".

Just when Chen Xian was wholeheartedly immersed in the work "On the Spirit of the Law", there was a knock on the door of his bedroom.

Chen Xian, whose train of thought was interrupted, was annoyed for a while, and asked with displeasure, "What's the matter?" ”

The apprentice outside the door seemed to be frightened, and stammered, "Bai family...... Blacksmith ...... White Shopkeeper...... Ask to see the master. ”

Hearing that Bai Anfu came to the door, Chen Xian's thoughts instantly detached from the book, he calmed down, put down the pen, put the thread-bound book on the bedside table, and then walked out.

Out of the bedroom, Chen Xian patted the shoulder of the young apprentice with a worried face at the door, and said, "I had something in my heart just now, Wang Qi, don't go to your heart." ”

This young man is the son of the tenant of the Yang family, and among all the descendants of his father and brothers, he ranks seventh, so he is called Wang Qi.

Listening to Chen Xian's words, Wang Qi, who was still a little apprehensive, suddenly turned red,

Wang Qi's reaction was so big that Chen Xian was startled, and he hurriedly patted the other party's shoulder again and said, "You will invite the white shopkeeper to the guest room and serve two cups of tea." ”

According to Chen Xian's usual training, Wang Qi suddenly straightened up one by one, and said loudly: "No! He turned and trotted towards the door of the shop.

Sorry, it's a little late today, I worked the night shift last night, and I overslept today