Chapter 32: The Wooden Box
"Dad, haven't you come yet?" A boy about the same age as Hao Xuanxing, holding an old man with a cane, slowly walked out of the rest place at the back of the shop.
The boy's eyes were worried, the old man was hunchbacked, his skin was burnt, his eyes were cloudy, and his feet trembled slightly when he walked.
Apparently over half a hundred years old.
"Alas~ No one has come here for more than a month, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid I won't even be able to pay the fee for renting a store. The man who spoke, a man in his thirties, had a sad face, and he was even more flustered when asked by his son.
Kick Kick Kick ......
"Boss, remember me. ”
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves and a strip came into the ears of the three people, and the eyes of the three people were immediately attracted to it.
"Are you ......," the boss asked thoughtfully.
"Don't you remember the kid who bought ten pieces of black iron armor of different weights from you?" Hao Xuanxing reminded with a faint smile.
"Oh! The boss suddenly exclaimed, and then said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, you have grown so big, if you hadn't reminded me just now, I really wouldn't have recognized who you were." Eh, didn't your adoptive father come?"
He looked left and right, but he didn't see Haoping's figure, and his mood was inevitably a little lost.
Because he felt that the people brought by Hao Xuanxing should have come to buy a large number of items, and he could tell from the three trucks in the back.
Although he stopped at the door of his shop, he felt that those people would not look down on his low-end shop.
"My adoptive father has something to do, so it's inconvenient to come. Hao Xuanxing replied.
"This ...... Alas~" The boss was depressed, shook his head and sighed.
Hao Xuanxing understood why he was worried, so he smiled and said, "This time I came also for the Black Iron Armor, shouldn't you be happy, boss?"
"You're not looking for me...... Wait, what do you mean!" The boss began to think through Hao Xuanxing's words because of his absent-mindedness, and when he thought about it thoroughly, he found that the meaning of the latter sentence was not exactly what he came to him?
Excited, he asked in confirmation.
"What do I mean, I don't need to say more. Hao Xuanxing smiled, "It's just that in terms of price, it was the same as before?"
"It's the same. The surprise came so suddenly, for a moment his brain was almost confused, and the ecstasy and excitement in his heart made him unable to control his body and tremble.
Tears blurred his eyes, and he didn't know what to say next.
I saw that in the next second, I knelt down with my feet and bowed to Hao Xuanxing three times in a row?!
"Thank you, thank you for bringing hope to our family of three. Even if the boss was bleeding from his forehead, he didn't feel a trace of pain, because joy filled his mind, and he said with a handful of snot and tears.
The old man and the boy also came over, and the old man was about to kneel down and thank him like his son, Hao Xuanxing hurriedly walked up and said, "Wait, wait, old man, you kneel, I'm afraid of losing my life." ”
Hao Xuanxing held him up and joked.
"Xuanxing, this kid ......" Haomen Sheng smiled, and then said to the boss, "Give you a day, it's up to you how much you can earn." ”
"Son, send grandpa back to rest and help Lao Tzu work. When the boss heard that there was only one day, how dare he waste any more time on what he said, so he turned around and ran into the shop, hurriedly picked up the dry wood of the coal, and made a fire to heat the forging furnace.
"You go and help your father, and I'll help your grandfather to rest in the back for you. Hao Xuanxing said to the boy.
The boy nodded, Hao Xuanxing took his grandfather's hand, he hugged his fists and thanked "Thank you!"
"Go ahead. Hao Xuanxing nodded.
"Hmm. ”
After the boy finished speaking, he turned his head and walked into the shop to help his father forge black iron armor.
"How heavy?" the boss said.
"Fifty pounds of armor, twenty-five pounds of wrists and ankles!" Hao Mensheng responded, he didn't say that he would buy the same weight as Hao Xuanxing, because he was afraid that the young children of the Hao family would not be able to adapt to it, so he only said half.
"No problem. "The boss seems to be burning the small universe, and the whole heat looks like it's boiling.
"This, that, can we?" The other shop owners who were behind the Hao family's carriage all walked over, and the boss who walked in the front asked Hao Xuanxing cautiously.
Hao Xuanxing turned his head to face them: "Is the price as good as this one?"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh......" all nodded their heads.
"If the quality is not good, buy one and pay three, are you willing?"
Everyone hesitated for a moment, then nodded again.
Hao Xuanxing looked at Hao Mensheng: "What do you think?"
"Buy one and lose three, and they don't dare to add material to the black iron. "Haomen squinted at them" but it's not okay to talk in vain, you still have to make a word. ”
"Stand up, anyway, I do business with my conscience, what are you afraid of?" In the crowd, a big man squeezed out of it, swaggered to the front of Haomensheng, and said, "Where are the paper and pen?"
"Come, give him paper and pen. Haomensheng said lightly, although he was a little unhappy with this person's shouting behavior, he didn't want to have more right and wrong.
One of Hao's subordinates took out the paper and pen from the storage bag, handed them to Dahan, and returned to his place, where Dahan took something in one hand, then borrowed someone else's table and began to fill it in.
Other bosses followed in line.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with him, Hao Xuanxing set off to help the old man back to the rest area at the back of the store, and Blaze jumped out of the truck to follow.
The two subordinates of the Lie family who dismounted wanted to catch up, but they were stopped by a cold look from him.
"Grandpa, it's nothing, I'll go out first. Hao Xuanxing said as he straightened up behind a simple wooden bed.
"Thank you, young man. ”
"It's a gesture. ”
"Nope. The old man shook his head, "If you don't come today, maybe in a few days, we will be driven away." ”
"Why?"
"Because we can't afford to rent a shop. The old man's tone showed deep helplessness.
Hao Xuanxing was silent.
At this moment, the old man's right hand reached into the sleeve of his left hand, as if he was looking for something, and after a while, his withered right hand took out a dark brown wooden box, and the surface of the box was also engraved with a golden dragon.
"This box was obtained by accident, and I can't open it, I can't open it with a knife, and I can't do anything about it. This kind of thing is something that you cultivators have left behind, and our family of three is an ordinary person, so it's useless to keep it, so I will give it to you as a reward for your kindness. The old man held the box in his right hand and stretched out to Hao Xuanxing, wanting to hand it to him.
Hao Xuanxing saw that even if the old man's right was trembling, he had to stretch it out.
He didn't want to be lazy, took the box, and said, "Thank you for your kindness." ”
"You deserve it. Go ahead, I'm just a little tired, too. "The old man's eyes are tired, and he struggles to speak.
"Okay, then I won't disturb your rest, old man. ”