Chapter 143: Old Rhyme and New Song (2)
Li's shop is nothing more than a blacksmith shop, located on the edge of the market in the west of the city, and the blacksmith shop closes the furnace and closes the door at night, and the owner of the shop is a pair of brothers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info brother is named Li Yong, younger brother is named Li Fu, the ancestors of the three generations are still scholars, but it is a pity that in troubled times, scholars are not as far as martial artists, how many of those military leaders respect scholars?
Ordinary people want to collect grain, but Li's shop does not need to produce grain, but can still get some grain. After all, in wartime, food was more expensive than gold, and Li Jiapu relied on a craft to take root in Jiangning during the war years.
But when the Great Song Dynasty Zhao family dominated the world, Li Jiapu almost lost the financial road, now there is no war in Jiangnan, although the Great Liao repeatedly went to war with the Great Song Dynasty, but from the Jiangnan to the weapons made and then sent to the front, this light luck and labor costs are very much in the north of the Yangtze River to make ten times the blade of pig iron.
And Li Jiapu wanted to make a living, so he had to build a blade for the Jianghu people, so he defected to the Situ family. And now the Situ family overturned overnight, and the hundreds of blades produced by the Li family shop every month have no buyers. In addition, the original buyer of the blades produced by the Li family was the Situ family, although they did not know the purpose of the blades purchased by the Situ family, but the Li brothers could guess seven or eight points.
In their eyes, the Chu family and the Situ family are, after all, both martial arts families, and they are all people from the rivers and lakes, so how can they regard each other as enemies?
However, for the Li brothers, who depend on the Situ family for their livelihood, this is simply a big joke. If the Situ family is really as friendly with the people as the people in the market and seeks justice for the people, then how can the loss of hundreds of weapons every month, together with the orders for bows and arrows and hidden weapons every month?
What's more, the Li family shop is not unaware that there are other blacksmith shops in Jiangning City that are making weapons for the Situ family, and there are also a few that make weapons for the Chu family.
However, when the news of the collapse of the Situ family reached the ears of the Li brothers overnight, the Li brothers sensed a hint of evil. However, in the end, the Li brothers were still not as decisive as their ancestors, not only did they not take off their blacksmith clothes, but they did not even leave Jiangning decisively.
However, after hearing that the shops that were good friends with the Situ family on weekdays were closed to Zhang Daji, or that the owner of the shop had lost the news for some reason, and did not know life and death, the Li brothers could no longer bear it, and finally made up their minds to leave Jiangning with their families as soon as the city gate opened in the early morning of the second day, but unexpectedly, just the day before leaving, a young Jianghu man with a thin face came to the door, and he was carrying a girl who was only fifteen or sixteen years old.
It's just that the girl has a plaster on her face, although her eyebrows are beautiful, she should be called a little beauty, which makes her younger brother Li Fu, who has not yet married a wife, very greedy. But listening to this person reporting his name, the little coveting in Li Fu's heart disappeared without a trace.
"The two of them are Da Li and Xiao Li blacksmiths, right? ”
Faced with a smile that was not hypocritical, and a look that showed sincerity, the Li brothers finally invited him into the house. After all, the name Sikong Gu has caused an uproar in the martial arts, but for people like the Li brothers who have only stepped into the threshold of the rivers and lakes with a few toes, they are not called "celebrities".
But after Sikong Gu entered the door and sat down, he didn't directly mention those two things.
"Ah Fu, I didn't expect it to be like this. ”
On this night, although the streets of Jiangning City are very quiet, some people's homes are not necessarily as peaceful as the streets. It's like in this Li family's shop, Li Yong's wife Jin and daughter are sleeping sweetly on the couch, but Li Yong and Li Fu can't sleep at all, so fortunately they went out of the house and came to the backyard.
"Who would have thought of this? But there is nothing wrong with us changing owners, and the new small owners will float a profit to us, which is not a bad thing for us. Li Fu glanced at the room next to him, where he should have rested, but now that the dove had taken over the magpie's nest, he had to move the bedding to the shelf bed on the side of his brother's house. Shan Li Fu didn't have any resentment towards the girl who occupied his room, after all, looking at the girl's appearance, she was forced to sleep in the room of a "stinky man" by that Sikong Lonely, and that look looked like she couldn't help herself.
Li Yong sighed, and put the oil lamp in his hand on the ground, there was no wind at the moment, and he couldn't blow out the oil lamp even if he wanted to.
"How can we not accept such a good offer from that little proprietor? Besides, letting such a little girl take care of us is nothing more than an extra bookkeeper, who would want to be greedy for the silver in the hands of these rich and powerful Jianghu people? After all, we are craftsmen, not those treacherous and cunning merchants......
Li Fu didn't sigh like his brother, just stared at the oil lamp and said, "Brother, look at our new owner, is it really a Jianghu person?"
"Look, haven't you seen it? Those five big and three rough people in the rivers and lakes, most of them are just dogs who run errands for the old man, you haven't seen Master Situ, every New Year's holiday, when Lord Situ feasts guests, we are all fortunate to have seen the dignity of Master Situ, just by virtue of the pomp of Master Situ, it is said that it is bigger than the prefect. "Li Yong is a few years older than Li Fu after all, he has a family and a room, and he sees some things more clearly than Li Fu, but he is only a little clearer than Li Fu, after all, he is only the vision of the people in the market.
Li Fu glanced at the room that belonged to him again, the girl's pair of watery eyes seemed to have been appearing in front of his eyes, he still couldn't hold it back after all, and asked the brother on the side, "Brother, what do you say...... The new owner asked such a bright girl to keep accounts for us, you say, what does the new owner think?"
"Who knows?" Li Yong's mind was now full of Sikong Gu's purpose for doing this, but he didn't pay any attention to Li Fu's thoughts.
However, at this time, a rapid knock on the door came from outside, and the Li brothers were all stunned, but they heard a crisp sound, followed by the sound of iron falling to the ground.
With a "creak", the closed door of Li's shop was suddenly pushed open. (To be continued.) )