Blacksmith Liu is a well-known blacksmith in the mining town, and the reason why he is famous is not because of his excellent iron-making skills, although his blacksmithing skills are indeed very high, but because of his encounters.

Since last year, Liu Blacksmith's mother-in-law has been seriously ill, he spent all the family's only savings, and has sold two acres of thin fields, but his mother-in-law's condition has not improved, and he sold himself to Wang Dahu, planning to treat his mother-in-law.

His daughter was sensible and proposed to sell herself, otherwise the family would be over without Blacksmith Liu, but his mother-in-law knew about selling her daughter and secretly hanged herself one night.

The blacksmith Liu, who died of his mother-in-law, was sad, and the matter of selling his daughter was no longer mentioned, but Wang Dahu's son had long been possessive of Liu Daya, the daughter of the sixth blacksmith, and when he saw that he almost succeeded, he actually had a branch in the middle, so he immediately stopped doing it and wanted to buy Liu Daya by force.

In the end, the eldest girl was snatched away by the Wang family, the Liu family was ruined this time, Liu Daya ran away on the night when she arrived at the Wang family's mansion, and no one knew where she went, but the Wang family stopped doing it, and she had to pay back the money to the blacksmith Liu.

In the end, Blacksmith Liu and his son were forced to write down an IOU, and the matter came to an end, and Li Qingyuan saw this information and decided that the first batch of people must have this Blacksmith Liu, because the fate of this Liu Daya is similar to that of a white-haired girl.

At this time, Blacksmith Liu and his fifteen-year-old son were striking iron in their blacksmith shop, when two strangers walked in outside the door: "Big brother, how do you sell these hoes and sickles?" ”

Blacksmith Liu ignored it and continued to beat his own iron, although he was sold to the Wang family, but now the father and son are not happy, so when someone asked, they did not speak.

"Hey, I said, you blacksmith, why are you doing this business?" The two were not happy when they saw that no one was paying attention.

"If you sincerely want it, this hoe is 30 wen and the sickle is 25 wen." Blacksmith Liu stopped what he was doing and said.

"Why don't you ask sincerely, I want to ask if it is cheaper?" The older of the two said.

"How much can you want?" When Blacksmith Liu heard that the other party wanted a lot, he wanted to know how much he wanted, so that he could set the price according to the quantity.

"A hundred scythes, hoes, plowshares, and shovels, do you have them?" The older asked.

Blacksmith Liu didn't answer, looked at the two and asked, "Why do you want so much?" ”

The middle-aged man looked at him and said, "What's wrong?" Can't be so much? You're really interesting, people are afraid to buy less, you're good, I buy more, do you still have an opinion? ”

"No, I mean, you want so much, I don't have it at this time, you see if you are sure that you want it, give me a fixed amount of money so that I can buy iron materials, and come back so that I can fight it." Blacksmith Liu explained.

"Of course you are sure, how much do you want to set the money?" The middle-aged man asked.

"You can give half of the fixed money for four things, and five taels of silver will do." Blacksmith Liu spoke.

"Okay, five taels is five taels!" The middle-aged man took out a large handful of silver directly from his arms, afraid that there were more than twenty taels to say the least, and took out two pieces of almost five or six taels and handed them out: "Come and weigh you." ”

"Wait a minute!" Blacksmith Liu took out his small scale of silver from a corner, he hadn't used it for a long time, Blacksmith Liu shook the dust on it, and weighed it carefully: "It's exactly five taels here, this brother is so accurate." ”

"That is, I used to sell spices, and I didn't need to weigh it when I went to the village, it all relied on these hands!" The middle-aged man also said proudly.

"Then big brother, let me inquire, ...... you buy so many farm tools at once?" Blacksmith Liu was still a little curious.

Seeing Blacksmith Liu ask again, the middle-aged man pretended to look around and said, "Have you heard about the bandits in Majiazhuang a few days ago?" ”

Blacksmith Liu nodded: "I heard that it is a righteous bandit, what is it called Tianli." How do you ......? "Blacksmith Liu is resistant to the party and the like, and instinctively becomes vigilant.

"Shhhh It has nothing to do with us, we are from Majia Village, that day, they said that they wanted to return a Tianli to the people, so they called Tianli, and then they entered Majiazhuang to commit no crimes against poor people like us, and announced the Zhao family's crimes, and then killed them all. The middle-aged man explained excitedly.

"Really don't rob the people?" Blacksmith Liu knew about this kind of banditry, and he had heard of it for a few people, but it was the first time he had heard of it if he didn't rob the people.

"Not only did he not rob it, but he also gave us a lot of things from the Zhao family!" The middle-aged man said with a sigh.

Blacksmith Liu seemed to understand a little, and looked at these people clearly, no wonder a few people looked at people in ordinary clothes who could come out with so much money.

"Don't think about it, I don't have this money and it has nothing to do with the Heavenly Council, our is the relief money of the Freemasons, which is used to buy farm tools for everyone." The middle-aged man explained.

"What is Freemasonry?" Blacksmith Liu was a little confused, how could he say that the Tianli Society ran out of a Freemason again?

The middle-aged man motioned to a teenager to go out to look at the wind, and said to Liu Blacksmith: "This Freemasonry, but it is amazing, that is, everyone is in the same boat, together to tide over the difficulties, we are the Masonic Association that joined the year before last, last year the meeting learned that we lack farm tools for spring ploughing, so they sent relief money to buy us farm tools." ”

The middle-aged man asked again, "Do you know how much we have taught?" ”

"How much?" Blacksmith Liu asked cooperatively.

"I paid eighty wen, and as long as it is difficult within a year, I will solve eighty percent of it for you, just like this time I bought a total of 100 wen, and the Freemasons gave me 80 wen." The middle-aged man explained.

"Isn't that your own money?" Blacksmith Liu thinks this middle-aged man is a bit stupid, you paid 80 yuan, and people returned you 80 yuan, isn't that equivalent to your own money to save yourself?

"Freemasonry didn't just help with this, last month my child was sick, people didn't want money to see a doctor and get medicine, and last summer before the harvest ran out, people sent rations to save lives. Is it a matter of money? It's a lifesaver. In short, as long as you pay 80 yuan, then people in difficulty will solve 80% for you? The middle-aged man gestured.

"Only 80 wen?" Blacksmith Liu didn't believe it a little, there are still such good things in the world?

"This is not that you have to pay 80 wen, but the highest 100 wen, the lowest wen, casually that means, the money you spend is divided into 100 cents, just like this time to buy farm tools, there are a total of 100 wen, you pay 1 wen, this time I will give you 100 wen, you pay 100 wen, like me paid 80 wen, I will give me 100 wen." The middle-aged man explained.

Blacksmith Liu didn't understand it a little, if everyone paid a hundred wen, then this Freemason would not pay for death? The middle-aged man came up and said: "Not only that, this Freemason will also help the members to achieve justice, just like this time, I heard that the action of the Heavenly Council was invited by the Freemasons to avenge the members." ”