When Ziren and his entourage returned home, they found that their parents had already prepared a table full of meals, so everyone sat down together to eat and chat. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info After hearing that his son was confident in the township test, his father Ding Kedi couldn't help but drink wine in a big bowl, but his mother Sun had been frowning. According to common sense, the son should be happy, but why is Sun like this? This matter has to start with Ding Shouming's life experience.

At that time, Ding Kedi and the Sun family had been married for five years, but they had no heirs, so they went to the Taoist temple on the mountain to worship and ask for a son. Just a few days ago, someone abandoned a baby boy under the age of one year at the door of the Taoist temple, and the two saw that the boy looked very cute, so they adopted it home, and the baby boy was Ziren. When the child grows up, he is smart and very likable, so the husband and wife also regard it as their own. But within a few years, Sun gave birth to two sons in a row. At this time, Ziren's identity became very embarrassing, because in ancient times, most of the family property would be passed on to his son-in-law, and as an adopted son, he had no right to inherit the family business. There is only one daughter under the knee of his eldest Berding Kegong, and he wanted to adopt him, but his wife resolutely refused, and the men of the Ding family have always been afraid of guilt, so this matter had to be done.

Fortunately, Ziren is still competitive, and he was admitted to Xiucai at a young age. So before going to participate in the township test, I discussed with my parents, if I could win the move this time, I was ready to abandon Confucianism and martial arts, and go to the independent portal of Liaodong by myself. In this way, with the status of a lifter, you can help the family to avoid the field endowment, which can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the second elder. Second, I came through and knew that in the next half century, the Ming Dynasty was about to conquer continuously, and evil spirits were everywhere. I don't want to take my family to shave any money rattail when I am seventy or eighty.

And Sun saw that his son was full of confidence, and he was expected to win the examination this time, and he was reluctant to let his adopted son leave, so he kept a sad face. Ziren also noticed his mother's face, and after chatting for a while, he excused himself and said that the exam and the journey were hard, and went back to his room to rest. It was Wenlong, Zhonglong and Ding Ziren's two younger disciples, Ziyi and Zide, and the four little ones had a lot of fun and didn't fall asleep until midnight.

Early the next morning, Ziren went to the kitchen to get hot water, helped his parents make the West Lake Longjing tea he brought from Hangzhou, and personally delivered it to his parents' room, where he served his parents to drink after greeting the second elder. When he came out of the room, he saw that the younger brothers of the family had not yet gotten up, so he told the wealthy to take care of the little ones in the family, and he rode out of the city to find the blacksmith of Nadin.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, Ziren rode to the front of the blacksmith shop. Before he entered the door, he heard the clanging sound of iron inside, so he shouted loudly at the door: "Uncle Tie (Ding Blacksmith's real name is Ding Ketie), my nephew has given you a greeting, you have been busy so early." ”

When Blacksmith Ding heard the sound, he just walked out of the door, still holding a hammer in his hand, and it seemed that the sound of striking iron in front of him was made by him. When the blacksmith saw that it was Ziren coming, he hurriedly welcomed him in, and said with a smile on his face: "Ziren, you are back, the old man encountered a few problems when he was building the bird gun, and he was trying to discuss it with you." By the way, how did you do in the sub-township test? As soon as you left, your father let out a word, if you can be lifted this time, he will set up a three-day flowing water banquet, and our Ding family can eat when they come, and the wine and meat are enough. My four sons and I are waiting to go to your house to eat meat. ”

After hearing this, Ziren smiled and said, "I'll help you take a look at the problem later." When it comes to eating meat, your blacksmith shop has made a lot of money in the past few years, and you still care about those few pieces of meat. ”

The blacksmith smiled and replied, "That's not all thanks to you. Since listening to your words, I switched to using bamboo charcoal to smelt iron, firstly, the bamboo in our Huzhou Mansion is not valuable, and secondly, the iron smelted is of good quality, so the weapons are naturally easy to buy. Isn't this all your uncle just ordered twenty bird guns and twenty Qi family knives with me, ready to be sent to Jizhou Town for the border army to use. I got up early in the morning with my son to catch up on work. ”

At this time, Ziren responded: "You can cost less than three taels of a bird, and you can sell it for at least five taels." A Qi family knife costs six taels of silver, and your price will not be less than ten taels, excluding all parties, you can make at least fifty taels this time. I've made a fortune this time, are you ready for what I want? ”

Only then did Blacksmith Ding remember what he had promised Ding Shouming before, and hurriedly went back to the house and took out two Qi family knives and two bird guns, and said to Ziren: "This is all built according to your requirements." The surface of the knife looks the same as a normal Qi knife, but when the tail end of the handle is twisted to the left, the short dagger hidden in the handle can be removed. The bird gun is also made of fine iron, the gun is straight and smooth, and can hurt the enemy in 100 steps, and can break heavy armor in 50 steps. You see if it fits or not. ”

After Ziren took the weapon, he played with it a few times, and said to Blacksmith Ding: "Uncle, things are good, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you are good at this craft." By the way, what are the difficulties in building the bird's gun? I'll hear it. ”

The blacksmith laughed, "It's not too much of a problem. It is too time-consuming to build a bird's gun, from iron-making to building a gun, and then the gun-pipe must be welded together, and then the gun-bore must be trimmed, and finally equipped with a gun-bed, faucet and trigger, which is very time-consuming. I would like to ask you if there is any good way to do this? You can spend less time, otherwise you will be too busy and you will not dare to take a lot of business. ”

"This is easy to do, the most important thing to build the bird gun is nothing more than ironmaking, building the gun pipe and trimming the gun after welding three steps, of which trimming the gun is the most time-consuming. The five of you, father and son, first find a skilled one to make iron, then choose a strong one who is responsible for making the gun pipe and welding, and finally find a person with good patience to polish the gun chamber with you at the same time, and the remaining one is responsible for installing the gun bed, faucet and trigger. In this way, each person has a specialization, and only needs to set the size and specifications in advance, and then practice makes perfect, and the production of bird guns will naturally be much faster. By the way, the wind is strong in the north, and it is best to match the bird gun with a self-closing fire door, otherwise the primer is easy to be blown away by the wind, and it is easy to cause the bird gun to be dumb fire, and I have taught your youngest son how to build a self-closing fire door. Ziren said as he handed over thirty taels of silver to the blacksmith as the cost of building weapons before.

Blacksmith Ding loves money and does not shirk it, and after accepting the silver taels, he carefully tastes the method that Ziren said before. After all, he has been engaged in weapon building for many years, and he has a lot of concerns in his heart, and most of the craftsmen in ancient times refused to show people easily, but now they are all their own sons, so there is nothing to taboo when they think about it, and they can't help but feel that Ziren's method is quite reasonable. At that moment, he called the four sons from the family, and the five of them discussed it together. As a result, Ding Ziren was left aside.

Seeing this scene, Ziren also felt inconvenient to stay longer, and after saying goodbye to everyone, he got up and returned to the county seat. On the road, I thought that I would come to the blacksmith shop again in a few days, and the cavalry from the north came and went like the wind to build a few three-eyed guns, which could be fired in tandem from afar, and could be used as a mace at close range, which was quite useful.

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