"Fourth brother! Did that bandit named Ren Zhan bring out any useful information? Otherwise, let me kill him! To avoid wasting food on the mountain, I just feed the dogs and don't give them to him. I
When I saw him, I was so angry that I wanted to eat him alive and avenge my alliance father!" Liu Hu said in a loud voice.
After listening to Liu Hu's words, Zuo Aoran slapped his forehead and said: "Oh! If it wasn't for the reminder from the third brother, I almost missed the big event." After a pause, he said: "Brother Gao, please go back to Zuojiazhuang to recruit.
Some strong men, blacksmiths, carpenters, and younger brothers have important things to do."
As soon as Zuo Aoran finished speaking, everyone looked at each other and laughed. Only Liu Hu looked deflated, sitting aside with his head down, huffing and sulking.
Zuo Aoran didn't understand what he meant and asked: "Third brother, what is going on?"
Liu Hu stood up, looked at Zuo Aoran, turned to look at Lu Kuang, and said, "Whenever you have time, go to my room and get it. The gold will be placed under the bed where I sleep." After that,
, and left angrily.
Everyone burst out laughing again, making Gao Huai hold his stomach in his hands and cry out in pain.
The more Zuo Aoran looked at it, the more puzzled he became, and asked: "Brothers, please stop laughing, what is going on? It's just a box of gold? How can you get it by yourself? Is it still under the bed? Which brother?
Can you tell me what's going on?"
Liu Quan stopped laughing, the smile on his face tightened, and he looked extremely weird. He coughed and said: "Fourth brother! You don't know something. The day for all of us to return to the village is one day at the latest.
When we came back, the sun had just passed over the mountain. After we came back, Gao Huai asked us to divide the gold, so we divided the gold. Each of us divided the gold into three boxes first, and we would talk about the rest later. After Liu Hu got the gold, he stuffed it into himself
Under his bed, when we were returning to the mountain, he made a bet with Brother Gao Lan on a box of gold."
Zuo Aoran understood more or less, wasn't it Liu Hu and Gao Lan who lost a box of gold in a bet? Why are you all laughing like this? I couldn't understand, so I asked again: "What about brothers?
Why are you laughing?"
"Third brother! Let the eldest brother say this. I said that third brother will definitely need strong men, blacksmiths, carpenters and other labor forces, but brother Liu Hu didn't believe it and insisted on making a bet with me. If I didn't make a bet with him, he would come every day
He was making trouble for brother, not allowing him to recruit strong men, blacksmiths, and carpenters. Brother Wei really had no other choice, so he agreed to it, but it turned out that..." Before Gao Lan could finish his words, Zuo Aoran laughed with his hands in his hands.
He got up, laughing so hard that he couldn't stop laughing. Under Gao Lan's narration, everyone remembered the situation of that day again, and everyone began to laugh again. For a while, bursts of laughter echoed in the Juyi Hall.
On Qipan Mountain.
Gao Lan has the most contact with Zuo Aoran, not only because they are sworn brothers, but because among these sworn brothers, only Gao Lan has a high literary level. Zuo Aoran thinks so. So Zuo Aoran always puts it in his heart
Gao Lan told Gao Lan his thoughts, and the two would discuss it together. Although Zuo Aoran almost always said it and Gao Lan listened, Gao Lan knew Zuo Aoran very well. When Zuo Aoran did not express his accurate thoughts,
Gao Lan could always sense Zuo Aoran's words and deeds, so Gao Lan knew what Zuo Aoran was going to do without Zuo Aoran saying anything, so before he came back, he recruited three hundred strong men and three blacksmiths.
There are more than a dozen people and more than 20 carpenters.
A few days passed by, Zuo Aoran and Jin Lian were wandering around Qipan Mountain every day. To others, it looked like wandering, but in fact Zuo Aoran was actually observing the terrain of Qipan Mountain. Zuo Aoran and Jin Lian walked around Qipan Mountain that day.
Back at Juyi Hall, I had just sat down when Zuo Aowen came over to report that iron ingots had been produced from the iron mine.
Zuo Aoran was overjoyed when he heard this. This is a great news! Being able to smelt iron ingots by yourself will not only save a lot of procurement costs, but also create benefits! This will undoubtedly greatly improve his economic situation.
Zuo Aoran immediately rushed to the blacksmith's factory in the middle of the mountain under the leadership of Zuo Aowen, which was originally the residence of the patrol village owner. Of course, Jin Lian and more than 20 guards had to follow him, although they would not be able to do so on the mountain.
No matter what problem arises, there still needs to be some work of serving tea and water.
When they arrived at the iron-making workshop in the heart of the mountain, the Lu brothers, Liu Quan, Gao Lan, Ma Sheng and others happened to be there. Seeing Zuo Aoran and his party, Ma Sheng hurriedly came up to them and said, "Brother Zuo Xian,
You're here." He looked very excited. After many days of getting along with each other, Ma Sheng became more familiar with everyone. Needless to say, he was the most familiar with Liu Hu. Naturally, he was crazy about people and met familiar Liu Hu. And
After Zuo Aoran's repeated persuasion, Ma Sheng finally changed Zuo Aoran's title from benefactor to Zuo brother, which took a lot of effort from Zuo Aoran.
Zuo Aoran smiled and nodded, and then asked excitedly: "I heard from Aowen that the iron ingot was finally made! That's why I came to take a look."
"Brother Zuo, come here quickly." Ma Sheng pulled Zuo Aoran to a small pile of objects and said excitedly: "Brother Zuo, look, this is the iron ingot smelted today."
Hearing this, Zuo Aoran hurriedly knelt down, picked up an iron ingot and looked at it again and again. He felt that the iron ingot was very heavy and had a metallic luster, but Zuo Aoran also felt that it seemed a little different from the iron ingots he had seen.
Same.
"Brother, why does this iron ingot seem different from the iron ingots I have seen before?" Zuo Aoran asked with some uncertainty.
Ma Sheng laughed and said: "Brother Zuo, these are indeed different from ordinary iron ingots. These are iron ingots!"
Iron! Could this be the so-called ancient steel? Zuo Aoran couldn't help but feel delighted.
"It's iron ingot! I said it's different from the iron ingots I've seen before! By the way, brother! How is the output of this iron ingot?" Zuo Aoran had an expectation in his heart. He hoped that the output of iron ingot would be high.
It can be quite big, so big that it can weigh millions of kilograms in a day.
Ma Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, brother. Brother, please go and call blacksmith Ou. He is now in charge of the smelting work here. Brother Zuo will make it clear if you ask him."
The Ou blacksmith Ma Sheng mentioned was named Ou Yepeng. He was an old blacksmith with gray temples and a lonely old man. He fled all the way to Zuojiazhuang. Ou Yepeng was very weak. At this time, he happened to catch up with Gao Lan and others.
Ou Yepeng was escorted to escort the gold and silver, and was rescued by Gao Lan and brought back to Zuofu. After some diagnosis and treatment by Hua Tuo, he took some medicine and slowly nursed back to health for a few days. Ou Yepeng's health got better day by day.
At that time, Ou Yepeng began to think about how to repay his saviors Gao Lan and Hua Tuo. In his mind, he had received such a great favor, and he had to think of ways to repay it in order to be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. Finally, this opportunity came, Gao
When he was looking for a blacksmith, Ou Yepeng immediately signed up.
After a while, Ma Sheng led an old man with gray hair on his temples but a strong body to Zuo Aoran.
As soon as the old man arrived in front of Zuo Aoran, he knelt down on the spot without saying a word, and kowtowed three times. Zuo Aoran was stunned for a moment, and then quickly helped the old blacksmith up, "Old man, you
What is this for?"
"I am only able to live today because of the great kindness of my eldest brother and master! No matter how many times I kowtow, I can't repay the great kindness of the young master!" The old blacksmith looked very excited and even shed tears.
