There was a drizzle in the sky, the river surface also became foggy, the visibility was reduced a lot, and the passenger boat from the wharf of Qinghe County couldn't help but slow down some after sailing from the Liuhe River into the Xijiang River.

A woman with a baby in swaddling clothes sat in the cabin by the window, the latch of the window was too damaged to completely close the window, and when the rain started, the slanting wind and drizzle on the river with a hint of cold flew in through the crack in the window, and the infant who was sleeping in the swaddling clothes began to cry.

The woman with the child while covering the swaddling clothes wrapped in the baby, covering the wind and rain and cold outside, while coaxing the child, the wind and rain outside blew the window that could not be closed, the woman wanted to reach out to pull the window up, but she had to hold and coax the child, for a while she couldn't help but get up, the child's cry became louder and louder......

"Eldest sister, if you don't mind, why don't we change seats......" At this time, a voice suddenly sounded from behind the woman, and the woman holding the child looked back and saw a handsome young man with red lips and white lips and a clear temperament in royal blue clothes standing up from the seat behind him and looking at himself with a smile.

The boy sat in a chair behind the woman, and there was no window next to it, just to block out the slanting wind and drizzle that flew in through the window.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much......" The woman hurriedly stood up with the child in her arms, and while thanking her, she changed seats with the boy.

The young man sat in front of him, put a leather bag on his knees, and a little wind and rain that blew in from the window was blocked by his leather bag, and could not fall on him, and then the young man took a long time, tilted his head, and enjoyed the scenery above the river outside with great interest.

This young man is Yan Liqiang, today, it is August 27, the twelfth year of Yuanping, Yan Liqiang left Liuhe Town and Qinghe County one day early, and went to the Guoshu Museum in Pingxi County to report.

Fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy is the time to grow his body, in these two months, Yan Liqiang has been practicing the Yijin Sutra every day, practicing diligently, the height of the whole person, in just two months, has grown more than an inch taller, and the body is more upright, full of a sense of strength, even the temperament of the whole person, compared with two months, also shows some differences from the inside out, a pair of eyes, exceptionally clear and smart, anyone who sees it, will also praise it in the bottom of his heart, a beautiful young man.

In the past two months, in addition to being busy with cultivation, Yan Liqiang's family affairs no longer need him to worry about it.

Yan Dechang's body has gradually recovered, except for some heavy work such as striking iron, the whole person's actions have basically no effect, a few days ago, Yan Dechang was in the blacksmith workshop, and began to slowly teach Zhou Tiezhu the secret of watching the fire at the bottom of the box and the secret of 100 steel.

These kung fu were originally Yan Dechang's master's "one hand" stunt, and they would not be easily taught to apprentices, but this time when the Yan family encountered a crisis, Zhou Tiezhu showed his responsibility and character, and did his best to spend the crisis with the Yan family.

In the two months when Yan Liqiang won the first place in the top three in the Guoshu County Examination, the reputation of the Yanjia blacksmith workshop in Liuhe Town suddenly spread all of a sudden, not only in Liuhe Town, but also in the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, and even many people in the county will come here, and the business of the Yanjia blacksmith workshop has suddenly improved more than ten times, and the guests who come to the door every day can be described as an endless stream.

In this case, Yan Dechang, in accordance with Yan Liqiang's suggestion, has rebuilt and expanded the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, and recruited six disciples from his own family who have always wanted to come to the blacksmith workshop as apprentices in the town, and gave Zhou Tiezhu a thirty-percent stake in the blacksmith workshop of the Yan family, so that Zhou Tiezhu, the senior brother, also began to take his junior brother and become a master.

In this way, after teaching Zhou Tiezhu a few skills at the bottom of his box, Yan Dechang became the shopkeeper and director of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop, and Zhou Tiezhu became the master of the hammer in the blacksmith workshop and the person in charge of the specific work.

Not only that, but under Yan Liqiang's insistence, the business ideas of the Yan family's blacksmith workshop have also been completely changed.

In the past, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop was no different from other blacksmith workshops, taking on all kinds of blacksmith work, from daily farm tools, hoes, to horseshoe, to horse nails, locks, kitchen knives, sickles, axles and swords, heart goggles, fire sickles...... In this way, as long as the guests have needs, the Yan family's blacksmith shop can help build it, but now, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop only produces one kind of thing - swords, that is, weapons.

Yan Dechang was a little hesitant at first to make such a major change in the operation of the blacksmith workshop, but Yan Liqiang easily persuaded Yan Dechang - According to the scale of the Yan family's current blacksmith workshop, even if you recruit ten more apprentices, you can't cope with it, you have to push the guests out of the door, and don't take the guests' work, that is, if you offend the guests, the Yan family will be scolded and ruined, if you take over all the work, it will offend all the blacksmith peers in the ten miles and eight towns, and you will still be hated by your peers, because the business of other blacksmith workshops and blacksmith shops is to build those most common farm tools, hoes, horseshoes, horse nails, door buckles, kitchen knives, fire sickles and the like, you take over these jobs in the surrounding ten miles and eight townsIn this case, the Yan family's blacksmith workshop can completely avoid this problem only by concentrating its products on swords and other items and declaring that it specializes in one type......

Swords and weapons and the like, one is a large profit, the other is a wide demand, and there is no direct competition with the blacksmith workshops in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns, the Yan family blacksmith shop will specialize in creating swords in the future, and the impact on other blacksmith shops is not great, it will not smash the jobs of the surrounding peers, let alone offend the guests who come to the door, and it can also get a good reputation, as long as the quality of the swords created by the Yan family blacksmith shop is excellent, there is no worry about no market.

As for the quality of the sword, although the blacksmith Yan can't make any superb swords, there is no problem at all if he wants to build a high-quality sword.

Just a week ago, on the blacksmith workshop of the Yan family, which had completed the renovation and expansion, a new pair of wrought iron signboards had been hung, and the signboard was just four words - Yan's sword.

Yan Liqiang gave full play to his painting skills, and also designed a unique trademark full of artistic sense for his sword products - a tiger and a flying dragon formed an abstract and concise circling circle, in this circle, it is a Yan character, Yan Liqiang told Yan Dechang that in the future, all the swords produced by Yan's sword will be marked with this steel seal and this mark, indicating that this thing is created by the Yan family.

The craftsmen of this era are still a little unfamiliar with the concept of trademarks, let alone any intangible assets, but Yan Liqiang, who has lived for two lifetimes, knows the meaning very well.

Yan Dechang was also a little unimpressed before, but when he saw the word Yan in the mark that Yan Liqiang took out, a solemn sense of honor still rippled in his heart, and he said to Yan Liqiang that since the word Yan was dropped on the sword, the sword that did not pass the inspection by him in the future must not be sold, so as not to ruin the reputation of the Yan family.

In this regard, Yan Liqiang is naturally happy to see it.

In addition to the great changes in the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, Yan Liqiang's matter of letting Lu Wenbin buy land and shops has also been settled.

Coincidentally, the land and shop that Lu Wenbin bought for the Yan family were the property of the Hong family before.

After the death of the old man Hong, the news that the Hong family hired a murderer to deal with the Yan family's father and son spread in Qinghe County, and almost everyone knew about it.

The Hong family was torn apart, attracting outsiders to covet, the Hong family was in Yuntao County before the more than 400 acres of land, and there were two oil noodle workshops, and finally some land snakes in Yuntao County took the IOUs made by Hong An, the rest of the Hong family were all wine bags and rice bags, and several children of the Hong family went to Yuntao County to sue for a lawsuit, but the lawsuit was not won, and the land and the workshop had no way to get it back, and they were completely helpless.

Without the industry of Yuntao County, the people of the Hong family competed more fiercely for the remaining farms of the Hong family in Liuhe Town, and finally the remaining cadres of the Hong family simply divided the fields and houses of the family completely, after dividing these properties, the people of the Hong family were worried that in a few days someone would take what IOUs to forcibly occupy them, plus the reputation of the Hong family in Qinghe County and Liuhe Town was stinky, Yan Liqiang took a top three in the Guoshu County examination, the status of the Yan family in Liuhe Town is not what it used to be, in order to fear the retaliation of the Yan family, the people of the Hong family are anxious to turn those farms into money, settle in the bag, and then leave Liuhe Town with the money。

In this case, after discussing with Yan Liqiang, he stepped forward and bought all of the more than 460 acres of good land connected by the Hong family in Liuhe Town, as well as the six two-story shops and two oil noodle workshops of the Hong family in the town, in the name of the Lu family, at a very cost-effective price, and then transferred them to the Yan family in the name of the Lu family.

In the whole process, the Lu steward did a good job, so that no one could find fault, when trading with the Hong family, the Lu steward also invited witnesses, deed people, after the delivery of the Hong family's land deeds and house deeds, but also to the Qinghe County Yamen to make a record and record. Later, when the Lu family transferred these things to the Yan family, they went through the formalities again.

The Hong family's old house in Liuhe Town and other bits and pieces of land and property were bought by several other large families in Liuhe Town.

After selling all the family property, the people of the Hong family moved away from Liuhe Town one by one, and the entire Hong family, in Liuhe Town, disappeared in the blink of an eye, except for a Hong Tao who was already crazy and was laughed at by children everywhere in the town every day, nothing remained.

The Yan family also became a large household and landlord with hundreds of acres of fertile land in Liuhe Town, and the hired farmers of the Hong family all switched to the Yan family one by one, signed a contract with the Yan family, and became the hired farmers of the Yan family.

In this case, Zhou Hongda and his wife stayed in the Yan family directly, the husband and wife were diligent, Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu's mother were responsible for the family's affairs, cooking and sprinkling and sweeping every day, and Zhou Hongda directly became the first steward of the Yan family.

There are many people eating at home, Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu's mother can't cope with it, so they have to find a few maids and maids, and Zhou Hongda, as a steward, is often responsible for collecting rent and dealing with those hired farmers.

So many people have to eat and live in the Yan family on weekdays, and the house before the Yan family is not enough to live in, when Yan Liqiang left Liuhe Town, the new mansion of the Yan family, located on the edge of the Liuhe River, is in full swing under construction......

After the name of Yan's sword was typed, Yan Dechang was still a little uneasy in the past few days, and he didn't know if his blacksmith workshop could support so many apprentices, so before leaving, Yan Liqiang drew a new weapon pattern for Yan Dechang, so that the Yan family's blacksmith workshop would specialize in the production of this thing in the future......

The weapon pattern left by Yan Liqiang is the Nepalese scimitar, commonly known as a dog's leg.

In the last life on Earth, the Nepalese scimitar, although strangely shaped, was known as the most mechanically sound weapon in the world.

Relying on this weapon that subverted the impression of many cultivators and martial artists in this era on scimitars, Yan Liqiang was absolutely confident that he could beat the brand of Yan's sword......

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