The price of grain in Mizhi County has been soaring, and people go out of the city to dig wild vegetables, and peeling the bark of trees still can't fill their hungry stomachs.

Many people have sold their last bit of land in exchange for grain, hoping to get a piece of land to cultivate in the coming year, but what they don't know is that the grain they exchanged will not last for the next year.

The street patrol officers in the city pulled cartloads of starving people out of the city, and now more starving people are beggars begging along the streets.

The government had no food to provide relief, so it could only pull all the starving people out of the city, not daring to cause an epidemic.

A large number of people are fleeing with their families at the gates of the city, and they are all like vegetables.

Some people go deep into the mountains, thinking that it is better to become savages, at least they can find something to eat.

Those who go elsewhere will become homeless, and if they gather too much, they will be suppressed by the imperial court.

……

In a blacksmith shop at the foot of the city, the Iron Ox was wielding a hammer and striking a red shiny piece of iron.

Tie Niu is the father of the big fool Iron Hammer in the city, and the pinch of white hair that pops out of Tie Niu's head proves that he is also heartbroken for this stupid son.

Tie Niu has been striking iron for many years, and his face is very old, but when he is bare-chested, his muscles are full of strength.

"Smack"

The hammer in Tie Niu's hand was smashed by him with too much force.

Iron Bull shouted to the hammer outside the door, "The hammer has been broken, bring in a new hammer." ”

Hammer heard his father's cries, and ran into the house with one hand by the collar.

Hammer: "Dad, I brought Hammer to you, do you have anything to do with him?" ”

Tie Niu looked at his son, who couldn't even tell the difference between himself and the hammer, and couldn't cry or laugh.

Tie Niu: "It's okay, you can go play, there are a lot of traffickers in the city recently, don't run around." ”

Iron Bull looked at the iron in his hand, which was no longer very red, and threw it back into the furnace to continue to burn, and then came out and found a handy hammer.

At this time, a woman in white walked outside the blacksmith shop.

Woman in White: "Blacksmith, I have a big deal to talk to you about." ”

Tie Niu: "I'm not good at crafting, so I can only do small business, you can find another company." ”

The woman in white: "I'll give you ten times the salary, this is the reward." ”

After the woman in white finished speaking, she threw out a small cloth bag, and as soon as the cloth bag hit the ground, a few ingots of gold popped out of it.

Tie Niu sighed as he looked at the gold ingots under his feet, picked them up and put them back in his pocket, patting the dust on the bag.

Iron Bull: "This thing is too hot"

With that, he threw the cloth bag back to the woman in white.

The woman in white took out a long sword from behind her, the sword was not unsheathed, and she blocked the cloth bag with the scabbard, and the cloth bag was firmly caught as if it was stuck to the scabbard under several flips of the scabbard.

Iron Bull: "Hammer is home, it's time to eat." ”

Iron Hammer was playing with the mud, and when he heard the Iron Bull calling him, he reluctantly threw away a lump of wet mud in his hand and ran home.

Just as she was passing by the woman in white, the woman in white took out a small gold ingot from the cloth bag and flicked her fingers, hitting the back of the hammer in the head.

The hammer stumbled and fell to the ground, unable to move.

Iron Bull: "The thief is so daring!"

When Tie Niu saw that his son was knocked down, he rushed to the woman in white with a hammer.

The woman in white bent and kicked Tie Niu in the stomach, with great force, and Tie Niu was kicked out a few meters.

Tie Niu got up and was about to step forward again, but saw that the woman in white had already put her sword on the neck of the hammer.

Iron Bull stomped his feet: "What is the deal, you just say." ”

The woman in white whistled, and several fast horses galloped in the distance, all of them were strong men with big shoulders and round waists.

When the horse came to him, one of the strong men threw down a large bag of silver, and the woman in white tied a hammer to an empty horse, and turned over on her horse.

The woman in white: "I will give you two hundred taels of silver to buy iron, and I want a hundred pairs of armor, which don't need to look good, as long as they can be tied to their bodies to block arrows." ”

"A month."

"I'll give you back a pound of your son's meat a day later."

With that, the man disappeared into the dust raised by the horse.