Sending Pang Yuan away, Tan Guohua went to the blacksmith shop, and when Blacksmith Jia saw him coming, his face turned into a chrysanthemum, "Brother Hua is here, sit in the house, who... What are you doing in a daze, making tea!"

"Boss Jia, I have something I want to ask you for help today!"

"What are you polite to me, say, what's the matter?"

"My little brother wants to borrow some money, and I need it urgently!"

"Borrow money?" Blacksmith Jia touched his chin, "How much to borrow?"

"About fifty times, you can use my dividends for two years to offset it!"

"Brother Hua, is there any good business again, you can't hide it from my brother!"

"Alas... Tell me the truth, borrowing money is to ransom people!"

"Ransom? Is it your brother?" "Since the first time he cooperated with Tan Guohua, Blacksmith Jia has inquired about his origins, and it is not surprising to know about the Chen family.

"Yes, I found my whereabouts, but I need to pay a lot of money, and the neighbors of Chenjia Village don't have any money, so I came to ask Boss Jia!"

Blacksmith Jia's eyes rolled, and he instantly changed his embarrassed face, "Alas... Brother Hua'er, it's not that my brother won't lend it to you, it's really that I've had a problem with this turnover recently, otherwise, I'll lend you five times to deal with emergencies!"

Tan Guohua sneered in his heart, how could he not know what the other party was? He didn't want to make false promises to the other party anymore, "Boss Jia, let's say it directly, how can I borrow money!"

"Brother Hua, don't worry, I should be able to recover a sum of money when I turn around, but I can only lend you thirty yuan at most, but this requires your dry shares as collateral!"

"It seems that you want those thirty percent dry shares, one hundred and fifty yuan at a fixed price?"

The joy on Blacksmith Jia's face flashed, relying on the business of briquette stoves and chimneys, he made a profit in just a few months, Tan Guohua's thirty percent of the dry shares he had long wanted to retract, and now the opportunity came, but he didn't want to tear his face yet, "Since Brother Hua is in a hurry to use money, it just so happens that I know a noble person who wants to buy shares, you can transfer this share to him, but he is only willing to give eighty yuan..."

"Eighty guan want to buy thirty percent of dry shares? Why don't I get two hundred guan, and Boss Jia will transfer all the rest of the shares to me?"

"How do you say that? Ninety times, brother, I'll suffer a loss!"

"You don't have to suffer, I'll go to Pang Yuanwai's house when I go back, I believe he will buy these 30% dry shares very quickly!"

Blacksmith Jia's face changed, he knew that Pang Yunlai was notoriously difficult, if the old guy got these thirty percent of the dry shares, he was afraid that he would be squeezed out of the profits, but he would not easily succumb, "Who is Pang Yuanwai, and the little brother has probably heard of it, right? Even if you transfer the thirty percent dry shares to him, I'm afraid it will only give you eighty guan, so let's do it, one hundred guan, plus a twenty refined steel sword!"

Tan Guohua sneered, "The stainless steel sword was obtained by me in exchange for the production method of the sapper shovel, one and two million, it can't be less!"

The two sides bargained again, and finally sold for one hundred and ten runs, plus the fine sword.

The next day, Pang Yuan really brought a hundred guan, and conveyed Pang Yunlai's words, the reason why he was willing to give more than twenty guan was completely for the sake of the two families who were about to get married.

Chen Erya was not angry in her heart, but she didn't want to embarrass her future husband, and Chen's mother felt guilty about Tan Guohua, because the money should have belonged to this adopted son, but she had to use it to save her own son, "Hua'er, one hundred and fourteen guan is enough, you can keep the money from Blacksmith Jia for yourself, right?"

"Mother, Brother Hong definitely needs to recuperate when he comes back, in addition to buying medicinal materials, I will also go to Bianliang in a while, and I will leave fifty runs!"

"Okay then, it's not enough to ask my mother again!"

......

After the Chen and Pang families agreed on the marriage, Pang Yuan rushed to Gaoping with one hundred and forty yuan of money, and brought the skinny Chen Hong a month later.

Tan Guohua found that this third brother really looked a little similar to himself, but his eyes were dull and lifeless.

After two months of recuperation, Chen Hong's condition has improved greatly, and he is lukewarm for having an extra brother in the family.

When their biological son and brother returned home, the focus of Chen's mother and Erya's attention naturally shifted.

Tan Guohua wants to say that he doesn't care about this change at all, it is absolutely impossible, but this is also human nature, there is a difference between biological and adopted, and he knows that he will have to leave sooner or later, since this is the case, why bother too much?

Thinking about it, he put his mind on reading and practicing martial arts, and at the same time to prepare some things, such as spirits, this is not to say that he likes to drink, making spirits is mainly for healing, walking the rivers and lakes will inevitably be injured, the medical conditions in this era are very backward, ordinary gold sore medicine is not effective, and it is very valuable, and the probability of infection can be greatly reduced by alcohol disinfection.

To do this, he paid Jia blacksmith to make some things, and then went to the porcelain workshop to customize a few utensils, and finally assembled them into a simple still.

This kind of thing did not belong to this era, and he did not want to pass it on for the time being, and the process of distilling the liquor was carried out in the dilapidated Immortal Urn Temple, where few people usually frequented it.

After repeated distillation, it was finally steamed into two small bottles of high spirits from three jars.

In addition to the spirits, he also made some homemade gunpowder, which was not comparable to the gunpowder in the firecracker workshop, but real black powder, which would be his killer weapon in case of special circumstances.

After everything he could think of was ready, he began to spend a lot of time practicing martial arts, and the effort paid off, and when he came to this world for almost a year, the mountain shaking fist was finally practiced, and the light skills of stepping on the snow without a trace can also be played well, and the ordinary house can be put on it, and after consuming another twenty yuan of medicinal materials, the dantian can already store four strands of true qi, but he found that the more difficult it is to store true qi in the future.

After the autumn, Chen Erya and Pang Yuan became relatives, and after half a month, Tan Guohua said goodbye to Chen's mother.

Chen's mother knew that he was leaving, prepared two pairs of shoes and some changes of clothes for him, and then told him to be careful and not to delay Yunyun on the road.

Carrying a huge linen wrap and holding a stainless steel sword with a fishskin sheath in his arms, he walked across the dilapidated wooden bridge and looked back at the village where he had lived for more than a year, and felt some emotion in his heart.

When he came to the old locust tree at the head of the bridge, he suddenly had an idea, and then jumped up, and then carved the words "Chen Qiaoyi Yellow Robe and Body" in an inconspicuous place, smiled, and floated away......

The distance from Chenjia Village to Bianliang is only fifty or sixty miles in a straight line, and if you ride a horse, you can reach it in half a day, and Tan Guohua walks on the potholed and uneven sheep intestine path on two legs, which will take at least two days, so he is not in a hurry.

The road is very sparsely populated, even if there are villages, there are mostly old and weak women and children, and at noon, there is the surging Yellow River in front of you.

found a ferry, the whistle saw that he was just a teenager, and directly asked for fifty yuan of ferry money, Tan Guohua was too lazy to bother with him, he brought a total of twenty taels of silver and consistent copper coins on this trip, and he didn't care about this cost.

Walking into the river, the sentry did not do anything to rob money and kill people after all, which made Tan Guohua, who had always been vigilant, secretly relieved.

At the other end of the port is a small town, which is more lively due to its location.

Just when it was time to eat, Tan Guohua didn't want to eat the dry food in the package, so he found a relatively clean wine shop, and the shopkeeper greeted him, "What do you want to eat?"

"Cut two catties of beef, and then two bowls of noodles!"

"You're alone?"

"It's just me!" Tan Guohua knew that people were suspicious of his ability to pay, so he opened the package and grabbed a handful of copper coins, and the shopkeeper immediately enthusiastically wiped the table and poured tea for him.

His actions have fallen in the eyes of the three people at the table, this was not a problem in the previous life, but now the world is in troubled times, the so-called wealth is not exposed, a little boy with a lot of money, it is strange not to be coveted, as for the sword in his arms, people only regard it as an ornament.

Braised beef tastes good, since Chen Hong came back, he has no hearty feeling when he eats at home, and now he can finally have a full meal, two catties of beef and two large bowls of noodles were eaten by him, and he drank a full bowl of noodle soup, and then walked out of the wine shop under the surprised attention of people.

"Big brother, this kid is so edible, it's really possible that he is a practitioner!" said the slightly thin man among the three people at the table.

"What's the matter? Even if he started practicing from his mother's womb, it has only been more than ten years, and our Yellow River Sanjie has been wandering the rivers and lakes for ten years, you see that the package is so heavy, there must be a lot of money, rather than cheapening others, it is better for us to earn some wine money!"

"What the eldest brother said is very true, but it seems that someone has already set his sights on him!" said a feminine man dressed as a scribe.

The two of them looked in the direction he was pointing and found that a young Taoist priest in his twenties was talking to the "fat sheep" in their eyes......

"This little brother, I see that your seal hall is dark, and the decree is faintly black, and there may be a bloody disaster in the near future!"

"Thank you for the reminder, but I don't tell my life!" Tan Guohua said helplessly, when he went out of a wine shop, he was stuck by this Taoist priest who claimed to be iron-mouthed.

"Monks have compassion, I can't just watch you in trouble!"

Tan Guohua rolled his eyes, "You seem to be a monk who said this, right?"

"This is a mistake, Taoist priests are also monks, since they are monks, they should take it as their responsibility to save the common people in the world......"

Tan Guohua was a little annoyed by him, "Okay, how much does it cost to count a life?"

"Fortune telling should be based on each person's life, I here are all calculated first and then paid, Tong Su is not bullied!"

"I'm not okay, can I?"

"As I said just now, since we met, it's fate, I can't see you have a disaster and not save you!"

Tan Guohua was about to cry, "Big brother, tell me how to save me?"

The young Taoist priest smiled, "I have one evil charm here, two corpse fixing talismans, and I only charge you twenty taels of silver!"

Tan Guohua's face changed, except for some scattered copper coins, twenty taels of silver happened to be all his belongings, "Life and death are fate, I'm not interested in your talismans!" After speaking, his pace quickened.

The young Taoist priest didn't dwell on it anymore, just smiled and said, "Little brother, don't regret it!"

Tan Guohua couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party hadn't caught up, calculated that there were still more than two hours before dark, and found a place to stay overnight before dark, and he could reach Bianliang at noon the next day, and made up his mind to continue his journey.