Liu Qiong'er took out the money. After Xu Wuliang left, she stared at Xu Huai with her beautiful eyes and complained dissatisfiedly:
"Look, Xu Wuliang is a responsible person. Zhou Jianxiong and the other three have nothing to do with this matter, so he is unwilling to involve them and gives them the blacksmith shop to make a living. Who is like you? How can you be so vicious at such a young age?"
Xu Huai ignored Liu Qiong'er's complaint.
He peeked out from the gap in the door and could only see a narrow alley opposite the courtyard gate. He thought that if he could install two Feng Shui bronze mirrors on the courtyard wall directly opposite, tilting them to the left and right, he would be able to hide. Behind the courtyard gate, I could see the movement in the lanes to the left and right.
Xu Huai told Liu Qiong'er about this, and Liu Qiong'er also leaned over to look out from the gap in the door. She thought it made sense and said, "When Aunt Zhou and Aunt Xu come back, I will ask her to take care of more things." Here are two bronze mirrors."
Xu Huai walked in circles in the yard, thinking about how he could use the terrain in the yard to deal with the assassins who had barged in. Liu Qiong'er followed him around in circles when he had nothing to do.
Xu Huai told her all his ideas and arrangements, and also told her how she should hide and respond when the assassin forced his way in.
Liu Qiong'er asked curiously: "I can barely believe that you are not stupid, but you are really only sixteen years old. How do you know these things?"
"I was ignorant when I was young, but after I gradually became able to understand some things, I became aware of many things as a matter of course. I have to ask something, maybe this is what I was born with!" Xu Huai said lightly.
"Hmph!" Liu Qiong'er couldn't stand Xu Huai's attitude, so she snorted disdainfully, and then said, "Xu Wuliang is responsible and doesn't want to involve three unrelated people like Zhou Jianxiong, but I think these three The people's skills should not be too bad, and they have received a lot of favors from Xu Wuliang, and they are brave and courageous. You still have to find a way to drag them in, we only have enough manpower."
"Who said I was evil just now?" Xu Huai looked at Liu Qiong'er and asked.
Zhou Jianxiong and the other three are young and vigorous, Xu Huai naturally sees it, but if he rushes to bring Zhou Jianxiong and others in now, the effect is likely to be the same as telling Xu Wujiang, Xu Xin'an and the others the facts at this time. It makes him unable to take charge of subsequent arrangements.
If the situation wasn't so weird and dangerous, Xu Huai really wouldn't want to fight for the upper hand in everything. Xu Wujiang, Xu Wuliang and the others would stand in the way of everything. He could just be happy and leisurely. What's wrong with that?
But right now, he prefers to trust his own judgment.
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The situation was critical, but Xu Wuliang did not delay.
He took the money and rushed to the Tangjia Warehouse to pay off his debt, and then called Zhou Jianxiong and others to hand over the blacksmith shop. At noon, he hired an ox cart and brought all the necessary belongings with him. Mother-in-law, my daughter rushed to Tieshi Lane.
The assassination was a top secret and could not be leaked. Xu Wuliang only told his wife and daughter that he sold himself to Qinzhai to work for ten years in exchange for two hundred silver to pay off the debts of the Tang family.
The previous debts had weighed down his family's life for two or three years. Mrs. Xu Wuliang was not at all opposed to selling herself to work; this might still be their best choice at the moment, not to mention that food and accommodation were provided here.
Xu Wuliang and his mother-in-law felt that their men were of some use after all, so they pulled their daughter Xiaohuan over, stood in front of Liu Qiong'er and whispered: "Xiaohuan is living here, and I can help with anything. Miss, please give me your instructions." , but it doesn’t count as selling myself here. If I find my husband’s family in two years, I will ask the girl to be merciful and let her get married..."
"That's for sure." Liu Qiong'er responded.
Xu Huai pretended to be a fool and stood aside silently. He saw that Xiao Huan was younger than Wang Xuan, skinny and skinny, but her facial features were regular.
However, Xiaohuan was malnourished, and her eyes were full of fear, as if she was worried that a bad fate was waiting for her. Of course, she would not be as beautiful as Wang Xuan, who was as beautiful as hibiscus from clear water, let alone the charming and youthful one.
Liu Qiong'er compared it.
"Why are you so verbose? Why don't you go help clean up the yard behind!"
Xu Wuliang urged his mother-in-law to take his daughter to the back room to settle down. When there was no one around here, he untied a large bundle wrapped in burlap in the room.
In addition to two long knives with straight spines, two short blades, and a long bow with its string unstrung, there were also some fragments of leather.
"Hey, how come these good things are there?"
Xu Huai picked up a piece of leather about a foot wide, but it was a piece of armor with some age. As long as it was reattached with cowhide cords and rivets, it would be a half-length leather armor.
"This leather armor only protects half of the body, and this long bow was brought back from the Jingsheng Army back then. Over the past few years, no matter how carefully it is preserved, this bow has become somewhat damaged. Just install a new string and it will be fine.
They are slightly stronger than the hunting bows in the mountains," Xu Wuliang said with emotion, "These long and short knives are made of some good iron that I have saved privately over the years, so I should take advantage of them!"
Bows and crossbows are complicated to make in today's world. Longbows that have been kept secretly for more than ten years will inevitably have aging and cracking of the bakelite wire. It is slightly stronger than the hunting bow. Xu Wuliang knows some methods of building and maintaining crossbows; otherwise,
This bow has long since become useless.
Xu Huai wrapped the long bow in a piece of burlap and said, "I will take this bow to the army camp and see if I can do some tricks and turn it into a good bow!"
There are more than a hundred warriors in the Inspection Department, but there are still some good bows.
Every once in a while, the State Military and Horse Supervision Department will conduct an inventory of the armor and weapons of the county inspection departments. The focus of the inventory is on hard bows and armor.
However, if you can take an old bow that looks exactly the same and spend a few bucks, it's not difficult to replace it with a good one; many of the hard bows in Tongbai Mountain come from this way.
Xu Huai now covets those two long straight-spine knives the most.
The knife in his hand was borrowed from Xu Sihu and never returned, but it was a very ordinary standard horizontal knife.
Not to mention that this kind of knife is easy to curl the edge, the spine of the knife is brittle, and the lack of toughness is the bigger shortcoming.
However, the Fu Mang Saber is the most powerful, chopping, and there are certain moves that require heavy weapons like the Mo Dao and the Saber Saber to exert its ultimate power.
Without a good sword, if Xu Huai gets the urge to kill when he encounters an enemy, he slashes hard twice, and the blade snaps in two, who will he cry to?
Those two straight-spine long knives, the blades are a few inches longer than the standard horizontal knives, the spines are thick, and the blades are sharp. Looking at them, you can tell that Xu Wuliang is specially designed for heavy cutting and slashing such as Fumang knife and other military formation knives.
Custom-made, look at the sharp blade and the fine burnt scale pattern on the blade, which is full of magical beauty.
Xu Huai picked up one of the long knives in his hand. It felt twice as heavy as the previous iron-like broken knife. He casually pulled out the knife and felt a chill coming out. He secretly felt that he had this good knife in his hand. The same thing happened.
The Fu Mang Sword Technique is, I don't know, much more powerful than the inferior sword before.
During this period, Xu Huai used Fu Mang Quan as the basis and spent more time immersed in sword skills. Seeing this good sword is like seeing a beautiful woman, how could he not feel the joy of hunting?
"The bayonet of your scabbard is a little shallow and narrow. With a little modification, it can hold this knife!" Xu Wuliang handed over the blacksmith shop to Zhou Jianxiong and others to take care of it, but he brought a set of tools for repairing knives.
Immediately, I helped Xu Huai change the bayonet of the scabbard so that he could hold the new knife.
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Mrs. Xu Wuliang hurried back to the blacksmith shop in the afternoon, and there were still some odds and ends that needed to be sorted out. When she returned to Tieshi Lane, she asked Zhou Jianxiong and others to help put these odds and ends into bamboo baskets and carry them over with poles, thus saving the cost of hiring an oxcart.
Zhou Jianxiong said that there were two people who ran to the blacksmith shop at noon to look around. They must have been sent by the Tang Family Warehouse, so he sent them away.
Xu Wuliang didn't want to involve Zhou Jianxiong and others, so he blamed his mother-in-law for messing with others, asked Zhou Jianxiong and others to put down their things, and urged them to go back and pack up the blacksmith shop, so as not to interrupt their livelihood.
Xu Wuliang's mother-in-law's surname was Ge. Xu Huai had called her Aunt Ying since he was a child. Xu Wuliang scolded her, and he packed up the scattered things and walked to the backyard with an unhappy face.
Xu Huai closed the courtyard door and said to Xu Wuliang and Liu Qiong'er:
"Others think I am stupid, and I have never had the intention to defend myself. You see, this is the reason - I slapped Ge Shou's head with the shaved ear, but the Tang family will not doubt me."
Xu Huai said this, but he was not showing off. In fact, Xu Wuliang had a disagreement with him when they were discussing the follow-up arrangements.
Xu Huai dragged Liu Qiong'er out of Yuehong Building with the purpose of luring the assassin to Huaiyuan Town to spy on the truth. They "kept behind" to ambush him.
The difference between Xu Wuliang and Xu Huai was that he insisted that he be the "oriole" and let Xu Huai stay with Liu Qiong'er just in case.
Xu Wuliang was so insistent because he didn't want Xu Huai to take on the most dangerous part, but Xu Huai knew in his heart that he was the part that assassins could most easily ignore, making it easier for them to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness.
"Uncle Wu Liang, you have to believe that if the timing is not right and I am not completely sure, I will not take action at will. Instead, I will stay in this courtyard and have to deal with assassins coming in at any time. It is even more dangerous to have no way to retreat." Xu
At the moment, Huai can only patiently persuade Xu Wuliang.
"Xu Huai wants to run on both sides of Tieshi Lane and the military camp. Xu Jiejie may be able to accept it, but if Xu Huai wants to stay in Tieshi Lane day and night, Xu Jiejie may have to stop him out of concern for his face..."
Liu Qiong'er helped.
Selling yourself as a slave, even if it is a living contract that can be redeemed, is different from hiring a slave.
Many things cannot be clarified now. It is impossible for Xu Wujiang and Su Di to accept Xu Huai "selling himself" to Liu Qiong'er.
Xu Wuliang pondered for a long time, and finally accepted the arrangement that he and Liu Qiong'er would be in the light, while Xu Huai would be the "oriole" in the dark...
