Chapter 76

It drizzled one after another, and the river became blurred, and the visibility decreased a lot. The passenger ship from Qinghe County wharf slowed down after sailing from Liuhe river into Xijiang River.

A woman with a baby in her swaddling clothes sat in the cabin near the window. The latch of the window had been damaged and could not close the window completely. It rained. The oblique wind and rain on the river mixed with a trace of cold air flew in from the gap of the window. The baby sleeping in her swaddling clothes began to cry.

The woman with the child covered the baby's swaddling clothes tightly, shielding the wind, rain and cold outside, and coaxed the child. The wind and rain outside made the window that couldn't be closed giggle. The woman wanted to stretch out her hand to pull up the window, but she had to coax the child. For a time, she was embarrassed, and the child's cry became louder and louder

"Elder sister, if you don't mind, why don't we change seats..." at this time, a voice suddenly sounded from behind the woman. The woman holding the child looked back and saw a 14-year-old handsome young man with red lips, white teeth and clear temperament in royal blue clothes standing up from the seat behind him and smiling at himself.

The boy's seat was on the chair behind the woman. There was no window next to it, just blocking the wind and rain flying in from the window.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much..." the woman quickly stood up with the child in her arms. While thanking, she changed a seat with the teenager.

The boy sat in front and put a leather bag on his lap. A little wind and rain blown in from the window was blocked by his leather bag and couldn't fall on him. Then the boy was free, leaned his head and enjoyed the scenery on the river outside with great interest.

This young man, Yan Liqiang, left Liuhe Town and Qinghe County one day in advance to report to the National Art Museum in Pingxi county.

In the past two months, Yan Liqiang has been practicing the Yi Jin Jing every day. His height has grown by more than an inch in just two months. His body is also more straight and full of a sense of strength. Even his temperament is different from that of two months, A pair of eyes, especially clear and flexible, anyone who sees it will praise it in the bottom of his heart, what a beautiful young man.

In the past two months, apart from being busy practicing, Yan Liqiang didn't need to worry about things at home anymore.

Yan Dechang's body has gradually recovered. Except for some heavy work such as forging iron, the whole person's actions have basically no impact. A few days ago, Yan Dechang began to teach Zhou Tiezhu the secret of judging the temperature at the bottom of the box and making steel.

These Kung Fu were originally the unique skills of Yan Dechang as a master and would not be easily taught to his disciples. However, when the Yan Family encountered a crisis this time, Zhou Tiezhu showed his responsibility and character and tried his best to spend the crisis with the Yan family. Yan Dechang saw all this in his eyes and was moved in his heart. Once the crisis passed, He officially taught Zhou Tiezhu his real blacksmith Kung Fu.

In the two months since Yan Liqiang won the top three in the national skill County examination, the reputation of the Yan Family blacksmith workshop in Liuhe Town has spread like wildfire. Not only in Liuhe Town, but also in the surrounding villages and even many counties and cities, people will come here with admiration. The original intention of the Yan Family blacksmith workshop has improved more than ten times at once. It can be said that there are an endless stream of guests coming to the door every day.

Under such circumstances, Yan Dechang, in accordance with Yan Liqiang's suggestion, has expanded the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, recruited six disciples from other people who have always wanted to be apprentices in the blacksmith workshop in the town, and gave 30% of the shares of Zhou Tiezhu's blacksmith workshop, so that Zhou Tiezhu, the elder martial brother, also began to lead his younger martial brother and become a master.

In this way, after teaching Zhou Tiezhu several skills of pressing the bottom of the box, Yan Dechang became the shopkeeper and director of the Yan Family blacksmith workshop, and Zhou Tiezhu became the master of the palm hammer and the person in charge of the specific work in the blacksmith workshop.

Not only that, under Yan Liqiang's insistence, the management idea of Yan's blacksmith workshop has also been completely changed.

In the past, the Yan Family's blacksmith workshop was no different from other blacksmith workshops. It was engaged in all kinds of blacksmith work, from daily farm tools, hoes, horseshoes, horse nails, locks, kitchen knives, sickles, axles, swords, goggles and sickles. As long as guests need it, the Yan family's blacksmith shop can help build it. Now, the Yan Family's blacksmith workshop, Just make and produce one thing - sword, that is, weapon.

Yan Dechang hesitated to make such a major change in the operation of the blacksmith workshop at the beginning, but Yan Liqiang easily persuaded Yan Dechang - there are so many guests coming to the door and there are all kinds of things made. According to the scale of the blacksmith workshop of the Yan family, even if you recruit ten more disciples, you can't cope with it. You have to push out the guests coming to the door, If you don't accept the guest's work, you will offend the guest, and the Yan family will be scolded and destroyed. If you take all the work, you will offend all the blacksmiths in all the villages, or you will be hated by your peers, because the business of other blacksmiths' workshops and blacksmiths' shops is to build the most common agricultural tools, hoes, horseshoes, horse nails, door buckles and kitchen knives, Fire sickles and other things. You have taken over all these jobs in all the surrounding villages. What do you let other blacksmiths and peers eat? In this case, the blacksmith workshop of the Yan family can completely avoid this problem only by focusing its products on items such as swords and declaring to make one exclusively

Swords and weapons are not only profitable, but also widely needed, and have no direct competitive relationship with the blacksmith workshops in the surrounding areas. The Yan Family blacksmith shop specializes in making swords and swords, which has little impact on other blacksmith shops. It will not smash the rice bowls of peers around, let alone offend the guests coming to the door, and can also gain a good reputation, As long as the swords made by Yan's blacksmith shop are of good quality, there will be no market.

As for the quality of swords, although blacksmith Yan can't make the best swords, there is no problem if the swords with excellent quality want to be made.

Just a week ago, a brand-new iron sign had been hung on the top of the Yan Family's blacksmith workshop, which had been reconstructed and expanded. The sign had four words - Yan's sword.

Yan Liqiang gave full play to his painting skills and designed a unique trademark full of artistic sense for his sword products - an abstract and concise circle composed of a tiger and a flying dragon. In this circle, there is a word Yan. Yan Liqiang told Yan Dechang that all swords produced by Yan's swords in the future should be stamped with this steel seal, Wearing this mark means that this thing was made by Yan family.

Craftsmen in this era are still a little unfamiliar with the concept of trademark, not to mention intangible assets, but Yan Liqiang, who has lived for two lives, is very clear about its significance.

Yan Dechang didn't think so before, but when he saw the Yan character in the mark taken out by Yan Liqiang, a solemn sense of honor still rippled in his heart. He told Yan Liqiang that since the Yan character was dropped on the sword, the swords that didn't pass his inspection in the future must not be sold, so as not to ruin the reputation of the Yan family.

In this regard, Yan Liqiang is naturally happy to see its success.

In addition to the great changes in the blacksmith workshop in the past two months, Yan Liqiang also found a place for Lu Wenbin to buy land and shops.

Coincidentally, the land and pavement Lu Wenbin bought for the Yan family were the property of the Hong family before.

After the death of Mr. Hong's son, the news that the Hong family hired a murderer to deal with the Yan Family and his son spread in Qinghe County. Almost everyone knows it. Qinghe County directly took back the 200 mu of the Hong family's cultivation field in advance on the grounds that the descendants of the Hong family lost morality and violated the law.

The Hong family was torn apart and attracted the attention of outsiders. The more than 400 mu of land in Yuntao county and two oil flour workshops of the Hong family were finally occupied by some local snakes in Yuntao county with ious issued by Hong An. The rest of the Hong family were all wine bags and rice bags. Several children of the Hong family went to Yuntao county to file a lawsuit, but they failed to win the lawsuit, There was no way to get the land and workshop back. There was nothing to do.

Without the property of Yuntao County, the people of the Hong family competed more fiercely for the remaining fields and houses of the Hong family in Liuhe Town. Finally, the remaining members of the Hong family simply divided the fields and houses in their home. After dividing these properties, the Hong family worried that someone would take some ious to seize them in a few days. In addition, the reputation of the Hong family in Qinghe County and Liuhe Town was smelly, Yan Liqiang also won the top three in the national art County test. The Yan Family's position in Liuhe Town is not what it used to be. In order to fear the Yan Family's revenge, the Hong family are anxious to turn those fields and houses into money, drop their bags for safety, and then leave Liuhe town with money.

In this case, after discussing with Yan Liqiang, steward Lu came forward and directly bought the 460 mu of excellent farmland in Liuhe Town, as well as the six two-story pavements and two oil flour workshops of the Hong family in the town in the name of the Lu family at a very cost-effective price from the descendants of the Hong family, Then it was transferred to the Yan Family in the name of the Lu family.

In the whole process, the manager Lu did everything without leakage, so that no one could find anything wrong. When dealing with the Hong family, the manager Lu also invited witnesses and deeds. After the delivery and obtaining the land and house deeds of the Hong family's fields, he went to the Yamen of Qinghe County for filing and recording. Later, when the Lu family transferred these things to the Yan family, they went through the formalities again.

The old house of the Hong family in Liuhe Town and other fragmented field industries were bought by several other large families in Liuhe Town.

After selling all their property, the Hong family moved away from Liuhe Town one by one. In Liuhe Town, the whole Hong family disappeared in the blink of an eye. Except for one Hong Tao who was crazy and talked nonsense everywhere in the town every day and was ridiculed by children, nothing remained.

The Yan family has also become a large family and landlord with hundreds of acres of fertile land in Liuhe Town. The farm workers of the Hong family have turned to the Yan family one by one, signed a contract with the Yan family, and become the farm workers of the Yan family.

The family business suddenly grew, and it also needed manpower to manage and take care of it. In this case, Zhou Hongda and his wife directly stayed in the Yan family. Both husband and wife were industrious. Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu Ma were responsible for the family's affairs, cooking and cleaning every day, while Zhou Hongda directly became the first manager of the Yan family.

There are too many people to eat at home. Zhou Hongda's wife and Wu Ma can't cope with it. They have to find several servant girls and servants. As the steward, Zhou Hongda is often responsible for collecting rent and dealing with those farm workers. Sometimes it's no use relying on his mouth alone. He can't take care of the money and food. The Yan family hired two more guards.

So many people have to eat and live in the Yan Family on weekdays. The house before the Yan family is not enough. When Yan Liqiang left Liuhe Town, the new big house of the Yan Family located on the side of Liuhe is in full swing under construction... After the name of Yan's sword came out, Yan Dechang is still a little nervous these days, I don't know if my blacksmith workshop can support so many disciples, so before leaving, Yan Liqiang conveniently drew a new weapon pattern for Yan Dechang, and asked Yan's blacksmith workshop to specially create and produce this thing... The weapon pattern left by Yan Liqiang is the Nepalese machete commonly known as dog leg. In the last life on earth, although the shape of Nepal machete is strange, it is known as the most mechanical weapon in the world. Relying on this weapon to overturn the impression of many practitioners and martial arts people on machetes in this era, Yan Liqiang is absolutely confident that he can beat out the brand of Yan's sword.................... PS; Recommended "master of cultivation in the city", written by a great God's vest, which has nearly one million words. It's cool! This novel has been translated by www.novelhall.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation.