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Li Wenjun doesn't know knives and guns, but even a layman like him can see that this is obviously a very poor workmanship. At the level of a blacksmith, it's no wonder that he can only do odd jobs such as mending hoes and heads.

Li Wenjun frowned and asked, "Are there no other knives and guns?"

The blacksmith shook his head and said, "That's it." ”

Li Wenjun asked again: "Apart from you, where is there a blacksmith shop?"

The blacksmith smiled and said, "My blacksmith shop is just my in Junbao Town. Little brother, it's not me who boasts about Haikou, within a radius of fifty miles, I am the best in iron-striking skills. If you want to buy a better Pu knife than this, you will have to get the county seat a hundred miles away. ”

Li Wenjun thought for a while and asked, "How much are you going to sell this knife for?"

The blacksmith held out three fingers, "If you really want it, three pennies." ”

When Li Wenjun heard this, he turned his head and left, and the blacksmith hurriedly stopped him, "Little brother, don't go, we can still discuss." ”

"Sensei, even if you sell it for a penny, I don't want it. Li Wenjun said without hesitation.

The business finally came to the door, how could the blacksmith let it go, he rubbed his hands, and laughed: "A penny of silver? I don't even have enough capital." Why don't you think about it again and see if you can choose something else? I'll give you a cheaper price. ”

"Anything else?" Li Wenjun glanced at the pile of bits and pieces that the blacksmith took out of the wooden box, and asked, "In addition to this Pu knife, as well as a woodcutter and a kitchen knife, do you have any other sharp blades here that can defend yourself?"

The blacksmith really wanted to make this business, he thought about it as much as he could, and suddenly, he remembered something, and hurriedly said, "Little brother, you wait for me." ”

When Li Wenjun was surprised, the blacksmith had already turned and entered the back room, and a moment later, he walked out with a cloth bag. He opened the cloth bag, revealing a half-cut dagger. The tip of the dagger was gone, the fractures were neat, and only half of the blade was covered with a few cracks, and more importantly, it was covered with rust.

"Little brother, don't look at its sales, it's a treasure knife. I dare not say that it is like cutting iron like mud, but it is also cutting wood like mud. The blacksmith was afraid that Li Wenjun would not believe it, so he grabbed a wooden stick the thickness of an adult's arm, grabbed the half of the dagger, and slashed it at the wooden stick casually.

Laugh at......

With a soft sound, the stick broke in two.

Li Wenjun was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly took the dagger from the blacksmith's hand, and asked for the wooden stick, and personally tested it twice, and found that this half of the dagger should not be underestimated, but as the blacksmith said, the sale is a little different, especially the cracks on it, maybe when, the dagger will continue to break. However, under the current conditions, Li Wenjun could not find a better choice than it, in any case, this half dagger was much stronger than his jujube mallet.

Small in size and sharp, it can exert its unexpected effect in close proximity.

"How much?" asked Li Wenjun.

The blacksmith raised a finger and said, "I will not ask you much for a penny." Little brother, don't bargain, if it weren't for the crack on the dagger, what I asked you for would not be a penny of silver, but ten taels. ”

A penny of silver, Li Wenjun does have it, but this is basically all his net worth. If it was in front of him eating at the noodle restaurant, maybe he would have paid for it directly, but now, he didn't dare to do it. Prices are skyrocketing, and he can't help but think about his stomach first.

Li Wenjun is a living pan person, and he did not say that he had no money, nor did he say that he would not buy it. He unwrapped the package from his back and took out the wolfskin.

"Uncle, what do you think of this wolf skin? It's basically complete, make a leather jacket, wear it in winter, it's majestic and warm. This wolf skin is not expensive for three cents of silver, how about I exchange this half-cut dagger with you?"

The blacksmith took the wolf skin in his hand, looked at it, and nodded, "It's a wolf skin." But I'm an iron striker, what do you want it for?"

Li Wenjun said: "How can you be useless? Even if you don't wear it, you can make a leather jacket for your mother, my aunt, or you can take it home to honor the old man or father-in-law Lao Taishan, and when the time comes, who will not praise your filial piety." You say that's the reason, right?"

The blacksmith smiled and said, "You kid is quite good at talking. Hehe, but I don't change. ”

The smile on Li Wenjun's face suddenly froze on his face, but it was impossible to really ask him to take the silver and exchange it with the blacksmith. So, he had no choice but to prepare to put away the wolfskin.

The blacksmith also realized that Li Wenjun was a poor ghost at this time, and he was in no mood to deal with him.

But just as Li Wenjun was packing the package, the blacksmith inadvertently glanced at it, his eyes widened, and he saw the jerky in Li Wenjun's package. "Little brother, you wait a while. ”

Li Wenjun stopped what he was doing and asked, "Uncle, have you changed your mind?"

The blacksmith nodded, he pointed to the jerky in Li Wenjun's package, and said, "You are meat, right? If you are willing to give me this piece of meat and the wolf skin, I will return the dagger to you." ”

The blacksmith's family was not wealthy, and they couldn't eat meat a few times a year, but no one in their family knew how to catch fish. It's been several months since the last time I ate meat, and the old and young in the family have faded out of their mouths, and the blacksmith himself is a little greedy.

Li Wenjun hesitated, wolf jerky is food, he subconsciously didn't want to let go, but after thinking about it, reason still had the upper hand, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll change it for you." ”

A moment later, Li Wenjun left the blacksmith shop with the empty package and the half-cut dagger tucked under his clothes. The blacksmith was good, and gave Li Wenjun a bark cover for free, so that he could put away the dagger. With this scabbard, he didn't have to worry about the dagger scratching his skin.

Li Wenjun came out of the blacksmith shop, and did not mean to leave Junbao Town immediately, he still had a penny of silver in his arms, and he was going to buy a few steamed buns and sell a little salt, so that he could eat them on the road. What he didn't know was that while he was still eating noodles at the noodle restaurant, there was already an undercurrent surging inside and outside the military fort town.

After discussing a result, the governor immediately ordered the implementation of the plan to exchange half a bag of bran for boys and girls. But the lieutenant chief and the others soon found that it was not so easy to gather seventy-nine or sixty-three boys and girls, not that they were reluctant to bran, but that the number of virgins and girls was not enough.

The road to escape is a road of obsolescence, and it is almost impossible for the old, young, sick and disabled to persist without any food or drinking water. Therefore, don't look at the thousands of hungry people who fled to the famine outside Junbao Town, but the children inside only account for a very small proportion, and almost all of them have fled from the disaster area near Junbao Town.

These children are more than forty when they are full, and even if they are all exchanged, there are still nearly twenty gaps.

The lieutenant didn't dare to hit the children in his town lightly, if it was okay, it would be fine, if something happened, their family would have to let the townspeople poke their backbones for the rest of their lives. The main thing is that the gap is too big, if there is only one or two, he may grit his teeth and buy two from poor villagers, and it will be nothing.

In desperation, the lieutenant called the resourceful Xiucai again and asked him for advice.

Xiucai has read a lot of books, and the road to fame is not smooth, but there are a lot of ghost ideas, and the idea of using children who have escaped famine to be boys and girls is what he came up with.

As soon as the lieutenant finished speaking, Xiucai said unhurriedly:

"Captain, you don't read much of the sages, and your understanding is biased.

Boys and girls are not children, in fact, unmarried men and women can be called boys and girls, and the fairy chief did not indicate that we must give him boys and girls, so it is better for us to expand the boys and girls we buy to half of the children and girls, maybe we can make up sixty-three boys and girls.

By the way, didn't you say that the fairy chief also pointed out that he wanted a person with vigorous qi and blood? It is difficult for a doll of a few years old to get involved with vigorous qi and blood, and only half-grown boys and girls have this possibility. ”

The lieutenant suddenly praised Xiucai for a few words, and hurriedly ordered to expand the scope of the acquisition to teenagers under the age of fourteen. The reason why the age limit is 14 years old is because the country's laws stipulate that you can get married when you reach the age of 14.

Suddenly, there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping outside the military fort town, and after the hungry people learned of the exchange conditions issued by the lieutenant governor, few of them were willing to exchange. Teenagers are already able to help, no more than a doll a few years old, half a bag of bran wants to be replaced, don't think about it.

The Chang ordered people to change boys and girls in a hurry, not only alarming the hungry people outside Junbao Town, but even many people in Junbao Town were alarmed, including the pawnshop's court.

Among the people sent by the governor, one of whom was from the same family as the courtier, happened to pass by in front of the pawnshop, and was stopped by the alarmed courtier, asking about the situation.

After learning what the lieutenant chief was going to do, Chao Feng was overjoyed, and he immediately came up with a poisonous plan to avenge his threat by Li Wenjun.

Chao Feng didn't say a word, and told the family, saying that he knew a foreigner, eight out of ten, who also fled from the famine, was not very old, but he could kill wolves alone, and he was definitely a person with strong blood and blood, and met the conditions of an immortal master.

Chaofeng's own family eats under the chief, and he is afraid that he will mess up the errand. Let the chief reprimand the matter is small, and losing the job is big. He was bent on getting his errand done. When he learned that there was such a person, he immediately didn't want anything else, and he just wanted to catch Li Wenjun.

Chao Feng briefly explained, and then left the pawnshop with his family to find Li Wenjun.

Li Wenjun had just come out of the blacksmith shop at this time, looking for a place to sell steamed buns all over the street, he was about to buy a little dry food, and then left Junbao Town, he never expected that disaster would come.

Junbao Town is not very large, and soon, Chaofeng and his own family found Li Wenjun.

Chao Feng remembered Li Wenjun's ruthlessness, and didn't dare to go over, he pointed at Li Wenjun from a distance and said to his family: "It's him." ”