There are three families living in the two-story courtyard, in addition to the shared room, Li Lin rented two rooms, and the room where the miscellaneous items are usually put is cleaned up, and Li Yuan slept here for two days of the New Year.

"Qin Xiong!"

Closing the door, Li Yuan lay down wrapped in a quilt, thinking of the burly figure, his heart couldn't help but sink slightly.

Qian Bao is just a rough and ruthless skin, with a dozen or so ruffians playing tricks on the front street, he doesn't care too much.

But Qin Xiong is different.

Qin Xiong has been in the forging shop for more than twenty years, and the White Ape Cloak Hammer has long been completed, and he may even have broken through to the level of internal strength that he doesn't understand.

From the son of a long-term worker, to the top five of the forging shop, such a person is not comparable to Qian Bao.

"Inner Courtyard, you must enter!"

Li Yuan's heart was horizontal.

If Qin Xiong's previous threat, he was still worried, but now it is completely unnecessary, he has already started his brother and sister-in-law's idea, and the inner court assessment is naturally impossible.

"I have to find a way to get in touch with the second shopkeeper, with Sun Fatzi here, shouldn't it be a problem?"

Li Yuan squinted in thought.

Where there are interests, there must be factions, and where there are factions, there is contention.

In the past few months, he has not only been practicing martial arts, but also has a deep understanding of the forging shop.

The big shopkeeper Cao Yan is dedicated to developing foreign affairs, and the Gaoliu County Forging Shop is actually the second shopkeeper Tang Tong and the third shopkeeper Wang Ding are in charge.

Wang Ding is in charge of the mines below, as well as the transportation of goods, Qin Xiong and other guards are also in his charge, and Tang Tong is in charge of the forging house and the inner courtyard.

Moreover, Tang Tong is Sun Fatzi's brother-in-law......

"Then, you can't hide it!"

Closing his eyes, Li Yuan made a decision in his heart.

Airplanes!

In the dark space, the palm of the soldier glowed with a faint light.

There were a few items on the small gray stone platform, which seemed even more crowded, and Li Yuan was afraid that he would fall down.

"I'm afraid I'll lose my ...... if I fall"

The ghostly light of the palm of the soldier was shining, and beyond the gray stone platform, there was a black void, and people couldn't help but be frightened at a glance.

"Pearls are not easy to sell, and the only thing I can use now is this anonymous silver ticket...... Counting what Sun Fatzi borrowed, there are one hundred and twenty-eight taels......"

Li Yuan counted the harvest, and what he thought about was the promotion of the commander of the soldiers.

The promotion of the soldier requires a thousand catties of pig iron, a hundred taels of silver, and a tael of gold, a condition that once gave him a headache.

It is impossible to save so much.

"A hundred catties of pig iron is only one tael or three dollars of silver, and a thousand catties are only thirteen taels, fortunately, what is required is pig iron, if it is wrought iron, the price is twenty times higher!"

After fighting in the forging shop for so long, Li Yuan is naturally very clear about the price of iron.

Pig iron is wrought iron.

Normally, this requires five repeated beatings, one time for a whole day, after five refining, ten catties of pig iron are only seven catties of wrought iron.

With the addition of labor, loss, and charcoal money, the price will naturally skyrocket.

Thinking in his heart, Li Yuan felt that the money in his hand was enough, and the only problem was gold, and how to buy so much pig iron without dazzling......

"It's good to say that gold, although there is not much gold in circulation on the market, but one or two are still easy to find, and thousands of catties of pig iron, but there are too many ......"

Thinking about it, Li Yuan's heart slowed down a little, the money was enough, and the others were only minor problems compared to the promotion of the commander of the soldiers.

"If you can control two weapons at the same time......

Li Yuan felt a little restless in his heart.

He was still wondering, could these weapons be spliced together into one?

……

……

"Doctor Yun, what's wrong?"

In the Four Seasons Medicine Hall, several apprentices circled between the beds, and Qin Xiong glanced at the more than ten ruffians on the beds with an expressionless face.

"Hmmm......"

Doctor Yun, who had a goatee, shook his head slightly:

"The perpetrator was ruthless enough, and hit the back of the head when he shot it, although he couldn't die, it was inevitable that his mouth was crooked and his eyes were slanted, and they fainted outside the house, and they all got cold into their bodies......"

Wind chill into the body?

Several medicine hall apprentices glanced at each other, this is much more fierce than broken tendons, wind and cold can kill people.

Listening to the painful moans on the bed, Qin Xiong's face sank like water:

"Where's Qian Bao?"

"Qian Bao ......"

Doctor Yun glanced at the bed that was about to collapse:

"Heavy convulsions, wind and cold into the body, back of the head injury, intra-abdominal hemorrhage, plus damage to the tail vertebrae, even if you survive, you can't do without crutches in the next life."

"Thank you, Doctor Yun."

The corners of Qin Xiong's eyes twitched, and he clenched his fists and said goodbye.

Leaving the Four Seasons Cottage, his face suddenly became gloomy, and Niu Gui, who came in a hurry, couldn't help but shudder, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

"The county government didn't find anything, Qiu Zhu said that he was still investigating......

Qin Xiong's breathing suddenly became heavy.

Poor and rich in martial arts, since ancient times, he was able to mix from a long-term worker boy to this point, in addition to his own roots, but also because of several batches of ruffians, including Qian Bao.

The loan that was given out was his silver, and it was also the basis for his martial arts improvement.

"Still on the track? Very good, very good! ”

Qin Xiong almost burst out laughing.

"Sister, brother-in-law...... I inquired, and Liang Ashui left the Clutch Martial Arts Hall after recuperating for a few days, and no one has seen him in the past few days. ”

Niu Gui lowered his head:

"But his injuries are good, it shouldn't be him, right?"

More than two months ago, Wang Chaolai was attacked when he came to the forging shop to go to the banquet, and many disciples were killed and injured, and Liang Ashui was among them, with a broken leg......

"In the cold winter, the blue water lake is also going to freeze, he is a person who is injured, he is not good at raising it, and suddenly disappeared, is he going to fish?"

Qin Xiong's eyes were cold.

Although Qian Bao seems to be stingy in doing things, he also knows very well who can bully and who can't provoke, otherwise the grave grass will be three feet high.

In the past few years, the only thing Qian Bao has misseen is Liang Ashui.

But as early as after this person entered the clutch martial arts hall, Qian Bao returned the fishing boat and house, tore up the IOU, and kicked Liu Lezi out and let him dispose of it.

"Liang Ah Shui ......"

Qin Xiong took a deep breath and looked at Niu Gui:

"I taught you a few items in the inner court assessment two months earlier, I hope you won't let me down!"

"Sister, brother-in-law, I'm ......"

Niu Gui gritted his teeth:

"I won't let you down!"

……

"Hateful!"

Gaoliu City, thirty miles to the east, on the frozen blue water lake, Liang Ashui hatefully dropped the harpoon.

It was more than two months late, and the set he laid at that time had already been buried by the wind and snow, and there were hundreds of miles of lake, how could he find it?

"My spirit fish!"

Liang Ashui limped on the lake, very angry.

Before the winter, he had set up a set, just waiting for the winter harvest, who expected that the thief killed him first and almost planted him on the head, and then he was broken leg, which completely delayed the time.

"That's it, that's it, the entrance quota to the Valley of Divine Soldiers is the most important, I can't make extraneous branches, the silver on my body is enough for me to make up for half a year......"

……

……

Call!

The small utility room, Li Yuan stood on the pile.

He closed his eyes slightly, his feet did not move, his body swayed like a weeping willow, and the blood qi in his body that had grown a lot slowly flowed with his movements, and the place where he passed was warm.

Even the process of growing the flesh is also slowly nourishing the body, although slowly, but it is better to last.

Of course, the medicine must keep up, otherwise it will only be a loss of qi and blood.

"Whew!"

It wasn't until the light of day dawned that Li Yuan bent his hands and feet, and the blood and qi in his body fell silent.

"Twenty-three has changed!"

Listening to the sound of firecrackers rubbing against each other, the corners of Li Yuan's mouth rose, and he was happy in his heart:

"There are still fifty-eight changes left, and the first killing move of the Soldier Dao Fighting Hammer has been practiced! Superior Killer ......"

Stretching his muscles, Li Yuan put on a cotton coat and had breakfast at his second brother's house, before bidding farewell to his brother and sister-in-law and heading towards the forging shop.

The first day of the new year after the year is the day of the assessment in the inner courtyard of the forging shop.