Chapter 79 Sophora japonica
As soon as they went down the stairs, the magpie came happily: "Girl, Bo Qi and Bo Qiang are waiting inside. I don't know what good things happened, I look very happy...?
Oh? Very happy? That's good! Zhiruo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Qi Bo came back so soon because of some accident. Even if it was, it was a good thing. It was not because of a shock. Zhiruo was worried. They were too weak now, and they didn't know what the people who framed the General's Mansion of Zhenbei were planning. In addition, wealth was eye-catching, so I had to be careful!
When Chibo, who was drinking tea, saw Zhiruo come in, he quickly put down the tea cup and stood up with a smile: "Girl, the blacksmith's problem has been solved. I bought a fifteen-year-old girl and came back."
A fifteen-year-old girl has anything to do with solving the problem of blacksmith? Could it be that she found a female blacksmith to come back? However, Zhiruo remembers that in this time and space, many industries still cannot accept women's operations, such as brewing, iron making, etc. It is OK to operate the owner, but it is absolutely not possible (at least it is absolutely not possible on the surface, and doing something secretly in secret is another matter of others not knowing). There is a saying that women cannot even enter the workshop or get close to the iron making furnace, otherwise it will be unlucky and the iron utensils will be easily broken and cannot be used.
Of course, if I didn't believe this statement, in modern times, there were no women in any industry? Women could make guns and cannons! However, there were no mechanical equipment in ancient times. Using current equipment and methods, ironwork was an extraordinary physical job. Can a woman be able to take it and move the hammer? She is still a martial arts practitioner, and I am afraid she doesn't have the physical strength.
Qi Bo saw the doubt on Zhiruo's face and explained with a smile: "The little girl is named Huaihua. She is naturally strong and can easily swing a large iron hammer of more than 100 kilograms, which is even better than a man. Huaihua secretly learned to make ironwork with her father. When his father was sick, she secretly made the ironworks ordered by those guests after closing the door at night."
"Oh?" Zhiruo was very interested. There were many strange people in the world with unique talents, so it was nothing strange. She didn't interrupt Qi Bo. Huaihua would sell herself and come back with Qi Bo. There must be a story. Otherwise, Huaihua would secretly make a fool of herself, how could Qi Bo know?
Sure enough, Qi Bo continued: "I don't know how Huaihua helped her father to make ironwork. Customers came to the door to return the goods, and some old utensils that had been used for many years also came to the door to return them. Huaihua's iron shop was the only one who was the one who was beaten by Huaihua's iron shop, which was a small profit management. In addition, Huaihua's mother was seriously ill in the past two years. After several months, Huaihua's father was sick, and the family was penniless. Where could there be any extra money to refund? Huaihua's father knelt down and beg those who went to smash the iron shop and rob the things in the house. However, someone was knocked on the back of the head by someone and died. Everyone was afraid, so they took the iron utensils that were going to be removed. Someone had to take away the old pots and ripped away the bedside before leaving."
Zhiruo and Ruchun couldn't help but sigh. In this world, people's hearts are sometimes as cold as the ice and snow outside.
Qi Bo also sighed and said, "Huahua has no choice but to sell herself to bury her father, in order to let her father have a decent coffin and bury her with her mother. I happened to pass by and bought her." These people all fought for life and death on the battlefield. I have seen a lot of life and death, so how could they believe that a woman is unlucky to get close to the iron furnace? Not to mention a woman who made an iron, even if she swung a big knife to kill foreign soldiers, he did not see the knife breaking.
Zhiruo doesn't matter. As long as you can make irons and can make hidden weapons and weapons according to their requirements, what does it have to do with men and women? Even if the demand is high in the future, it doesn't matter if Huaihua brings one or two disciples. But what she strangely is that according to Qi Bo's style of conduct, she should bring the Huaihua over to her to see. Even if there is anything else to say, let someone take Huaihua away first.
Just as he thought of this, he heard Qi Bo say, "I brought the locust flowers here, but I was afraid of scaring the girl, so I let her wait outside the Guanmeiyuan first."
"Scared the girl?" Ruchun couldn't help but ask, "Why?" How could a fifteen-year-old girl scare the girl? Oh no, Ziber said that she was born with great strength, and she could not have three heads and six arms, right?
Zhiruo is not surprising, but he is not as surprised as Ruchun is.
Qi Bo said embarrassedly: "Actually nothing, but the girl needs to be mentally prepared. The locust flower is ugly and thick. There is a large scar left by scalding molten iron when she was a child. It is red. At first glance, it looks a bit scary. Everyone in their town called her a salt-free girl, and no one even wanted to buy her for her." He was just worried that the girl, a lady from a wealthy family, would be suddenly scared. Otherwise, for him, there was nothing scary. The "salt-free green" used to sway around the village with a black birthmark all day long, and the people in the village were not afraid, let alone the locust flower knew to cover it up.
Zhiruo was stunned for a moment, ugly? Scars? She was scared. How could she be so fragile? Then she smiled and said to Ruchun: "Go, let the locust flowers come in." It's really cold to stand outside the yard this season.
Ruchun responded, walked to the door and took the place of the magpie guarding outside the door, and gave a special reminder: "She has scars on her face, don't make a fuss and hurt others."
When Huaihua came in, Ruchun felt that she was worried in vain. Huaihua wore a green jacket and skirt uniformly on the maid in the village, with a yellow head, and most of her head had a thick braid behind her head. She hung down with a small bunch on the left to cover her left face, and then wrapped the tail part around the root of the braid and fixed it with a bamboo hairpin. She stood quietly with her hands hanging down, Huaihua looked thicker than ordinary women, and nothing scary at all.
Huaihua's figure looks a bit like the niece of Yan's mother, Lu'er, but Lu'er is fat, while Huaihua is relatively strong.
Qi Bo explained: "When Lu'er was sold, the maids' winter clothes had been purchased in a unified manner. The woman in the warehouse just now suddenly remembered that the clothes prepared for Lu'er are now for Huahua." Otherwise, with Huahua's figure, it would be difficult to find suitable clothes for a while. Her own clothes were too thin or too torn (the better ones were taken away by the people who claimed the compensation).
Chapter completed!