Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1619 Li Shu's means

  Yangzhou, also known as Guangling, is one of the ancient Kyushu. It has a long history, convenient water and land transportation, thousands of willows hanging on the streets, and double cities with rosy clouds.

  Although it is already the twelfth lunar month of winter, the streets are full of traffic and crowds, and the business of vendors and shops is booming.

Li Shu was sitting in the sedan chair, surrounded by a white fox fur, holding a hand warmer embroidered with a fat duck playing in the water. Looking out through the curtain of the sedan chair opened by Qin'er, she saw a shop called "Longquan Scissors" in front of her. When I was at the blacksmith's shop, I stretched out my slender hand and said softly to Qin'er, "Stop in front."

   "Stop in front of the blacksmith shop." Qin'er opened the car curtain to send a message to the outside.

  After delivering the message, Qin'er asked suspiciously, "Miss, is it wrong? There are three shops in Yangzhou where the master married the lady, and the nearest 'Longshengxiang' clothing store is 100 meters ahead."

   "What's worth seeing in those three shops, just ask the accountant to check the accounts on time every year." Li Shu said indifferently.

   "This blacksmith's shop is noisy and chaotic, and there's nothing to see." Qin'er said weakly, "The blacksmith's shop is full of reckless men covered in sweat, so don't offend Miss."

"I don't even bother to look at them, but brother Zhu needs them. These sweaty brats are very charming in the eyes of brother Zhu. Forget it, let me tell you, you don't understand either, so go and call Wang Xiaoer. "

  Li Shu glanced at the blacksmith shop outside the sedan chair, said lazily to Qin'er, waved her hand halfway through, and told Qin'er to call Wang Xiaoer over.

   "Wang Xiaoer, Wang Xiaoer, come here quickly, Miss has something to look for you." Qin'er opened the car curtain and called to the outside.

   Soon, the sedan chair stopped in front of the blacksmith shop, and Wang Xiaoer, who followed behind, trotted over.

   "Miss, you are looking for me." Wang Xiaoer bowed outside the sedan chair.

   "Can you confirm, this 'Longquan Scissors Shop' is opened by the blacksmith you mentioned?"

   Li Shu asked calmly across the sedan chair.

"Miss Hui, yes. I have carefully investigated by someone. This 'Longquan Scissors Shop' was opened by a man named Ouzhige. It is said that Ouzhige's ancestor was the one who forged 'Longquan'. Ou Zhizi of the sword, but the craftsmanship of Ouzhige's ancestors has long been lost. Ouzhige wants to carry forward the glory of his ancestors. He learned the blacksmith's craft from his uncle when he was young. Hardworking and hardworking, he soon became better than blue, and the ironware he made is first-class in Yangzhou City, and he is known as the 'No. 1 Blacksmith' in Yangzhou City." Wang Xiaoer bowed and replied in detail.

   "Since he is the 'No. 1 blacksmith', why is he so downcast that he opened such a cramped scissors shop?"

   Qin'er couldn't help but wonder.

Wang Xiaoer saw that Li Shu didn't stop her, and Miss Ming also wanted to know the answer, so she replied in detail, "It's like this. Firstly, Ou Zhige learned from his uncle's craftsmanship, but he abandoned his cousin who was married to him when he was young. Instead, he married the daughter of a farmer's family. In a fit of anger, his uncle announced that he would sever the master-student relationship with him, saying that he taught Ou Zhige to forge common iron tools such as kitchen knives, axes, hoes, and swords. If you are ashamed, don’t use these crafts to make a living. Ouzhige has never cast these common ironware, let alone sold one, because his uncle taught him to forge too many ironware, only a few kinds of ironware such as scissors. So he opened this scissors shop to make a living. The scissors he forged ranked second in Yangzhou, and no one dared to be the first; I want to make a name for the imperial court and become a master with a long history like his ancestors, but..."

   Speaking of this, Wang Xiaoer paused, his face a little embarrassed.

   "But what?" Qin'er asked.

"However, the ironware he studied was too strange and dangerous. Once he experimented with ironware, he accidentally broke a leg. Moreover, he has donated ironware to the government several times. The first time the government paid attention to it, but the on-site verification At that time, something went wrong, and a warehouse in the government was burned down, and then there was nothing more to say."

  Wang Xiaoer said with a little embarrassment.

   "Is this still the number one blacksmith?" Qin'er rolled her eyes speechlessly.

   "The weird iron weapon he studied is firearm?" Li Shu's voice sounded in the sedan chair.

   "Yes miss, he studies things like 'Fire Crow Arrow' and 'Sky Thunder', mostly firearms."

   Wang Xiaoer replied.

   "That's him, you go tell him, give him one thousand taels of silver every year, and invite him to serve in the Zhejiang Army."

   Li Shu ordered, directly using the money ability.

   "Ah, one thousand taels is so much." Qin'er exclaimed in distress.

   "If he is useful to brother Zhu, one thousand taels is cheap." Li Shu said disapprovingly.

   "It's Miss." Wang Xiaoer took the order and went to see the shop. After about a cup of tea, Wang Xiaoer came back disheveled.

"Cough cough, miss, the little one is incompetent and failed to do a good job. The little one went in and talked about it. Ouzhige was like a stone in a latrine. He was stinky and hard. He threatened that he had no interest in casting ordinary weapons in the barracks. I got out."

  Wang Xiaoer was disheartened, and came back to report bitterly.

   "Didn't you tell him to give him one thousand taels of silver every year?" Qin'er opened her mouth wide, unbelievable. Can his small scissors shop make twenty taels of silver a year? No need for one thousand taels of silver.

   "Say it." Wang Xiaoer smiled wryly.

   "Then increase it by another thousand taels of silver, two thousand taels of silver every year." Li Shu said disapprovingly.

   "Two thousand two children heard it right, right?" Wang Xiaoer clicked his tongue, thinking he had heard it wrong.

   "It's two thousand taels, and you can also pay in advance for a year. Go quickly." Li Shu urged impatiently.

   Just smelling the smell of charcoal fire here makes my stomach a little nauseous.

   "Yes, yes, I'll go right now, little one." Wang Xiaoer nodded repeatedly, trotting all the way into the scissors shop again.

  It came out very quickly this time, obviously pushed out by someone, and staggered out of the shop.

   "Ahem, miss, I told him to give him 2,000 taels of silver every year, and he could pay him a year in advance. He thought I was disturbing his iron research, so he kicked me out." Wang Xiaoer said with an aggrieved face.

   "It's really useless, aren't you pretty good at fighting?" Qin'er rolled her eyes angrily.

   "He is too strong, I was not prepared," Wang Xiaoer said to himself.

   "Give him these two pages and tell him that I have the full copy here. If you want to read it, just follow me."

  Li Shu took out two pieces of paper, handed them to Qin'er, and motioned for Qin'er to hand them to Wang Xiaoer.

   "Miss, two thousand taels of silver is not enough, can these two pages of paper work?" Qin'er handed the paper to Wang Xiaoer, and after returning to the sedan chair, she endured it for a while and finally couldn't help it, and whispered to Li Shu.

"If you can't, I'll just get knocked out and kidnapped later." Li Shu smiled slightly, covering her small cherry mouth with her slender hand, and said softly, "I have an ancestral "Fire Dragon Classic" that was stolen and torn two pages. People steal and get."

  (end of this chapter)