South of the village.

The blacksmith would strike iron every day, and it was very noisy. His neighbors didn't want to live in his house and moved out, leaving several empty houses around the blacksmith's house.

When Tang and Rou went, they were still striking iron.

The temperature in the yard was very high, and the air was filled with the smell of firewood smoke. The blacksmith's wife cut out the piece of metal and placed it on the anvil, and the apprentice, shirtless, picked up the hammer and struck it down.

There was a clanging sound in the courtyard

The old blacksmith's ears were not very good, and Tang and Rou called him twice, and then he turned around: "Dagger, ......"

Tang Yourou nodded earnestly: "Hmm! ”

The old blacksmith shook his head: "No." ”

Tang Yourou frowned: "Why?" Grandpa, don't you know how to make daggers? I can draw! ”

"If you make an iron trap to hunt, then I can let the apprentice do it. But if you make a dagger, grandpa will have to say. Grandpa Blacksmith said slowly, "Daggers, but they hurt." ”

"I'm not going to hurt anyone!" Tang and Rou didn't think they had any money, so they took out the money and said, "I have money." These are all earned by me from the county, is this enough? ”

The old blacksmith shook his head: "This is not something that can be done with silver. Daggers, you can't get into the city. If you're going to go into the city, you'll take it away, and you'll lose all the money you used to make the dagger. And how much iron does it cost? If I make it of ordinary iron and stone, it will break when I knock it, do you want it? ”

Tang Yourou: "But I have silver, and I should always be able to afford iron ......"

The old blacksmith took his hand, shook his head, pointed to the sky, and spoke in a muddy voice: "Iron is under the control of the official master, not just anyone can do it." I don't have any good iron in my hand, only ore doped with a lot of impurities, which can't make a dagger. ”

"That's ......"

Tang and Rou can be regarded as understood.

No wonder the iron rakes used for ploughing are of such poor quality and can be easily destroyed, it turns out that the minerals are all held by the imperial court.

This must be deliberately restricted in order to prevent everyone from rising up.

If there is no such constraint, such an expensive tax will be collected in this disaster year, maybe there will really be righteous people who will rise up!

Since you can't make a weapon that consumes a lot of iron like a dagger, a crossbow can. As long as the elasticity of the rubber band is enough, the needle is quenched with poison, and the lethality is also great. It's just that it's bigger than a dagger, and it's easy to find it on your hand, and it's easy to hurt yourself if you use it carelessly.

However, it was also because of the old blacksmith's reminder that Tang and Rou felt that they didn't need to make such a weapon.

If she accidentally kills the trafficker in the county, and the trafficker happens to be not the one on the wanted notice, then she can't tell clearly, won't she become a murderer?

So I'm going to have to get something milder......

But when they came, Tang and Rou didn't want to run in vain, she looked up and said, "My brother likes to hunt very much, and the dagger is always to be made." One day, he will go to the mountains to fight wolves. I also need to make iron needles on the crossbow, he is too small to pull the bow, so he can only use the crossbow to defend himself. ”

Listening to her words of consideration for her brother, the old blacksmith reached out and touched her head, laughed a few times, and said, "Okay, as long as you find an iron piece, grandpa will make it for you." He whispered, "Little girl, don't tell anyone ......."

Tang Yourou smiled "hehe" and nodded again and again.

But she couldn't find the iron for a while, so she had to find another way.

……

Tang and Rou returned to the dilapidated house, squatting in the courtyard to dry orange peels and herbs.

Sniffing the orange peel that had been scented with tangerine peel, she suddenly thought of hemp boiling.

The spray device is too delicate, and the wood is easy to rot, and the other materials are too heavy to carry around. But if the hemp boiling is packed into the sachet, the tea soup can be dismantled, and the drink can make people sleepy, and it can be used to cover people when they are in hand-to-hand combat, which can make people lose their combat effectiveness.

If you want to have a young lady's small arms and legs, you will naturally run away a lot when you encounter a crisis, and you will rarely go up to fight hard. Although she knows Wing Chun, she has also learned to be good after this time, and she does not dare to take risks again.

If you use a flying crossbow dagger, and don't say that you can't tell it clearly after hurting people, if those traffickers are stabbed and angry, and call friends to arrest them, they will only be more dangerous.

After rehearsing the whole process of being kidnapped in her mind, she felt that arming herself with hemp boiling was the best strategy.

Mandala Flower ......

This is the main ingredient in sweat medicine.

Don and Roufu looked heartily at their neighbor's dilapidated house.

If she is really not an ordinary person, but an incognito Jiangyang thief or something, she should be hiding a lot of mandala flowers.

Want to take the plunge and give it a try?

Tang and Rou held the canned ginseng and came to the courtyard of the crazy uncle.

The crazy lady is collecting her dead grass in the yard, and she has already cleaned up most of the dry grass on the bamboo strips. They were tied up with straw rope and stacked neatly on top of each other.

This action is crisp and well-organized, and there is no stupidity at all.

"Ahem, crazy uncle." Tang Yourou hugged the crockpot, coughed lightly, and called her.

The crazy lady put down the hay and walked to the edge of the fence with a silly smile on her face.

Although there is no one around, she is still pretending to be crazy and stupid, obviously because she doesn't want Tang Yourou to get to the bottom of her pretending to be stupid.

Tang and Rou didn't ask, handed the crockpot over through the fence, and said, "When I came here a few days ago, the lights were turned off, and I never had a chance to return it to you." These ginsengs are too precious for us to want! ”

"Rou girl, divine doctor." The crazy lady smiled and praised her.

Tang and Rou didn't understand this logic, they probably knew the goods by themselves, and knew that ginseng was particularly precious.

She scratched her head and asked, "Does the crazy lady have a mandala grass?" ”

The crazy lady shook her head with a blank look on her face.

Tang and Rou thought that the name mandala should be Sanskrit, but she really didn't know the other names of mandala grass. She thought for a moment and added, "It's something that can make people unconscious!" ”

The crazy lady suddenly realized, picked up a stick on the ground and handed it to Tang Yourou.

“？” Tang and Rou took the stick, wondering.

The crazy lady made a stick movement: "Hit!" ”

“…………”

Forget it, let's just pretend she didn't come.

Tang and Rou returned in vain, and remembered that Uncle Ah Jin had given Dou'er a decoction containing mandala grass, so there must be a medical hall.

She didn't want to ask Yang Mian to buy medicine, this quack doctor didn't know how to concoct it, not to mention the loss of medicinal properties, and it might also be adulterated with other impurities that were harmful to health. She just wanted to ask him where there were more mandala flowers, so that she could pick them herself.

Hospitality.

There was a long queue at the entrance of the medical hall, and the villagers brought bowls and basins to buy the elixir.

Doctor Yang turned the immortal medicine into a decoction, and he only needed five taels of silver for a bowl. It is said that the effect of this medicine will be weakened accordingly, but it will bless the whole village.

What do you say that the sick drink can strengthen the foundation of Peiyuan, the old man drinks to prolong life, and the person with a bad complexion drinks the peach blossom with a good face......

Anyway, it's a faint and almost tasteless ginseng soup, which can't kill people.

Tang Yourou was too lazy to care, went around to the back door of the medical hall, and knocked on the door.

"Who are you?" The door was opened by a little medicine boy.