Cross-country exchange

After the grandma left, Xia Yu successfully sold two more wooden combs. However, compared with the material of the first comb, the other two are relatively ordinary. They are the first wooden combs made by Xia Yu. The gap is also relatively large, with a handful of five cents and another handful of eight cents.

Xia Yu was very satisfied. He counted and brought a total of five combs, sold three of them, and earned a total of 43 copper coins. Looking at the father who was working hard to clean up the vegetable stall, Xia Yu shared I paid twenty Wen, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and put it in a bag close to my chest, and put the rest in my pocket, "Father, I'll go to the street to see if there is a blacksmith's shop, wait for me I'll be back soon."

Xia's father responded casually, turned around and couldn't see his boy.

Xia Yu searched along the street and asked someone. Under the guidance of that person, he found an iron shop at the end of the street that was said to be recognized as a very good blacksmith in the county. There were some hammers, shovels, and a few brightly placed on it butcher's knife.

The temperature in the iron shop was very high. As soon as Xia Yu approached this small shop, the heat rushed towards him.

"Hey, little brother, what are you looking for?"

In the iron shop, Tie Ruoshu was striking iron with his upper body bare, ding ding dong dong, stinky sweat rolled down his tight skin.As soon as he saw Xia Yu, he immediately put down what he was doing and walked out, asking enthusiastically.

Xia Yu glanced at the knives, guns, swords and other tools in his shop, and found that he didn't find what he wanted. The shape of the carving knife was different, so it was expected that he didn't find it in the iron shop.

Fortunately, he had already prepared, he took out a piece of cloth from his pocket, spread it out to the big brother in the iron shop, and said, "Boss, I want you to help me make eight knives, just press this Take the shape of the painting, can you see if it works?"

In fact, carving knives have a complete set of exclusive tools. If it is wood carving knives, there are eight in total, namely round knives, flat knives, oblique knives, Yuwan knives, medium steel knives, triangular knives, etc. If you are carving other materials, then The required carving knife tools also vary.

Eight knives, that's a lot of business.Tie Ruoshu felt happy in his heart, with a simple and honest expression on his face.He took advantage of the opportunity to look over, and when he saw the shape of each knife, he immediately scratched his head. He had never seen such a strange blade in all these years of blacksmithing, so he said, "Little brother, how many knives do you have?" The knife looks really strange, it looks like a knife, no matter how you look at it, it’s as thick as a finger, and the picture looks quite complicated.”

Xia Yu became a little anxious when he heard that it was complicated.However, the carving knife is indeed not like other knives, it only has two sides.The most complicated carving knife can have three sides, "Boss, do you mean that there is no way to hit it?"

"Oh, of course not. Don't be discouraged, little brother. Although I don't know how to do it, my father is recognized as a master blacksmith in this county. Any difficult problem will be easily solved in my father's hands. If If you believe in me, Ruoshu, just leave the things and come to pick them up in five days, and I will keep you satisfied when the time comes."

Xia Yu saw that the shop owner in front of him almost turned his chest red, and nodded with a smile, "Then I will leave this picture, and then I will trouble Brother Ruoshu. But, Brother Ruoshu, this If the eight knives are forged, how much you have to pay, you have to give me a price, so that I can have a good idea."

Tie Ruoshu smiled foolishly, scratched the back of his head and said, "Little brother, our family's knife is usually two hundred coins, your knife is so complicated, it doesn't look easy to fight, let me figure it out, you give it to me." Ten taels of silver is fine."

When Xia Yu heard the price, he tightened his pockets. There were only 23 Wen in it, and he planned to hand over the remaining [-] Wen to his parents first.

"Brother Ruoshu, I don't have enough silver on me. Look at this. If I only need to use this round knife, see how much silver I need."

Tie Ruoshu glanced at it, and said casually, "At least one or two taels of silver."

Xia Yu hesitated for a while, "Okay, how about this, I will pay a deposit of [-] Wen and put it here, and I will come to pick it up in a few days."

Tie Ruoshu agreed, took half of the deposit, and watched Xia Yu leave happily, thinking that his father would praise him when he came back, but at night, when his father came back, he looked at the eight handles on the picture. Ke Dao, after hearing how much he had charged, chased after him with a stick and beat him violently.

The moment Xia Yu left, Xia's father quickly cleaned up the vegetable stall, found a place to hide from the sun and squatted down, waiting for his son.

"Brother Xia, is it your kid who left just now?" The grandma next to her is also a vegetable seller, and she rushes to the county town every day, but this grandma's village is closer to the county town. Every time Father Xia came, he was basically there too.The two of them occupied the best booth, one on the left and one on the right. They came and went, and they became familiar after asking a few words.

This time, after he saw Xia Yu selling combs, he immediately kept an eye on it.Before Father Xia left, he came over to chat.

"That's right, it's my kid." There was a sense of pride in Apa Xia's words.

"Hey, I said your boy is really handsome. At this age, have you gotten married?"

When it comes to getting married, Dad of the Xia family also has a topic. Recently, his wife is also really troubled by this, and there just happened to be an entry point, so the topic was opened.

When Xia Yu came back, Father Xia stayed in the corner for a long time, and there was no one around, and the sun was almost approaching the center.

After the two went back and had lunch, Xia Yu secretly took out the kitchen knife from the stove while Father and Grandma were talking in the room, and sat under the big tree at the door to continue chopping wood. peel.

"When I went to sell vegetables today, I met a man who wanted to have a relationship with our boy." Father Xia said while pulling Xia's grandma to sit by the bed.

The grandmother of the Xia family has recently turned gray hair because of the two children. Hearing what Xia Chengyou said, she immediately asked, "You didn't lie to me, did you? Which family is it? Right? How old is this year?"

Father Xia's family heard his series of questions rushing out all at once, and really didn't know how to answer him, "Oh, why are you so anxious, people just saw our kid and wanted to tell our kid, no, The horoscope has not been written yet."

The grandmother of the Xia family pondered for a moment and said, "Then did you ask who else is in that brother's family, and why did they think of proposing to our boy?"

So, Xia's father told the Xia family's "heroic deeds" today, and at the end, he couldn't help boasting, "Our boy is promising, and he just gave me [-] cents .”

The grandmother of the Xia family realized later, "Ah, I've been acting like a kid. I'm not doing serious things to a few pieces of wood every day. I didn't expect our kid to think of ways to make more money. I wronged him before that." gone."