Poor Family

  Chapter 54 Wild Geese and Magpies

This dagger weighs about six to seven catties, is about 50 centimeters long, 1.5 centimeters thick, and 3 centimeters wide. Whether the steel is good or bad, it is actually made of excellent top-grade real steel, representing the highest level of smelting in the Song Dynasty.

  Li Yanqing's eyes gradually brightened up. He seemed to have thought of something, and quickly wiped the spine of his sword with his sleeve. Sure enough, a line of thin engravings was revealed, which is used by the swordsman battalion.

   Li Yanqing was a little excited in his heart. This sword turned out to be the famous thick-ridged short-body sword of the Great Song Dynasty, a special sword for the Song Army Swordsman Battalion.

  The Han and Tang Dynasties were dominated by knives, but in the Song Dynasty, the sword was revived again. On the one hand, the Song army lacked horses, so there was not much demand for knives suitable for chopping.

   But more importantly, the Song Dynasty entered the era of heavy armor. After the Khitan people acquired Youzhou, they learned superb iron-smelting technology. At the same time, the production of pig iron soared.

In addition, they are almost all cavalry, and they can basically cut through the enemy's armor with swords. Only with swords, they can penetrate through the gaps in the armor, stabbing or stabbing the enemy. This is why the Song Dynasty began to use guns and swords extensively. the main reason.

The thick ridge and short body sword was the most famous war sword in the Song Dynasty. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was almost destroyed by the Mongolian army. , can also be chopped, and even used as a strike weapon like a mace, which is very practical.

   This kind of special sword for swordsmen can't be bought in the sword shop in the county at all, but he didn't expect to see it in a farmer's house.

  He swung the sword a few times, and it felt very good in the hand. It was just a little heavier, but it was acceptable. He immediately fell in love with this sword, and it happened to be used to practice the swordsmanship cheats that Uncle Hu gave him.

   "That's my grandfather's sword, how can you take other people's things casually."

  When Li Yanqing turned his head, the two young ladies who called him Uncle Qing just now ran back at some point.

  Li Yanqing put the sword back to its original place. Although the master used it as a base for the cabinet and didn't cherish it, it was not his property after all, and he didn't want to drop the price in front of the two juniors.

   "Sister, if Uncle Qing likes that sword, give it to him!" Xi'er tugged at her sister's sleeve beside her.

   "His surname is Li, our surname is Zhang, what kind of uncle is he?" The eldest sister gave her younger sister an unhappy look,

Xi'er lowered her head and didn't dare to speak anymore. The eldest sister stepped forward and looked Li Yanqing up and down, "I thought you looked familiar. I just remembered that I played with you before, but you were not like this before. You are Li Wencun. Yes, there is a **** dog at home, right!"

  Li Wen Village is at most two or three miles away from here. This little lady has seen her very normal, but he used to be a little mud monkey and was very stupid, but now he is a handsome gentleman. No wonder this little lady didn't recognize herself at first.

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Your mother is of the same generation as me, she also called me brother, if you don't call me Uncle Qing, what is your name?"

   "My father's surname is Zhang, which has nothing to do with your Li family. What my mother calls you has nothing to do with me."

  Li Yanqing didn't like her nonsense, so he asked casually, "Since your surname is Zhang, what's your name?"

   "My sister's name is Zhang Dayan!"

  The younger sister behind answered for her older sister, and Dayan turned her head and glared at her, "What are you talking about?"

  Li Yanqing liked this well-behaved younger sister, so he lowered his head and said with a smile, "I see, your name is Zhang Xiaoyan, right?"

   "No! My name is Magpie, Uncle Qing calls me Magpie, Xi'er is fine."

   "Little idiot, you told everyone everything!" Dayan glared at his sister again.

  The little sister stuck out her tongue, then lowered her head again.

  Dayan glanced at Li Yanqing with a half-smile, and approached him a little bit, "Little brother, don't move! Sister whispers to you!"

  Dayan coaxed Li Yanqing, and suddenly stretched out his hand, and grabbed Li Yanqing's ear. Li Yanqing had already seen that her motives were not pure, and before she caught her, he sideways dodged away.

  Dayan was caught off guard, hated her so much that she stomped her feet and jumped at Li Yanqing like a cat, cursing: "You dead monkey, you actually asked me to call you uncle, let me see how I deal with you!"

   "Sister, don't hit me, uncle is going to be angry." The younger sister, Magpie, jumped up and down anxiously.

Li Yanqing was extremely fast, quickly dodged, and turned to the door, he took out another ten cents, weighed it lightly in his hand, and said with a smile: "I didn't want you to call me for nothing, just call me Uncle Qing, Here are ten pennies for you."

When Dayan saw the ten Wen coins, her eyes lit up, and the anger in her heart disappeared without a trace. Just now Li Yanqing gave her twenty Wen coins, so she can buy a copper hairpin. This is the first time she has received so much lucky money. ,

  Her family was relatively poor, and her parents wanted to split a penny in half. Even if there were some good things, they would be given to her younger brother. If it wasn't their sister's turn, the new clothes were bought by her uncle.

  The New Year's money for Chinese New Year is only a penny or two. Occasionally, the uncle from the capital will get a little more. She has never had so much money at once like today.

  She stared at the ten cents in Li Yanqing's hand, but in her heart she was thinking about how to get this fool's ten cents. With this ten cents, she could buy a silk flower.

  She coaxed Li Yanqing with a smile on her face and said: "My good brother, if you give the money to my sister, my sister will not be angry and will accompany you to dig out the eggs!"

   "No! This is the rule of respecting elders. If your mother calls me brother, you have to call me Uncle Qing."

  Dayan hesitated, Li Yanqing saw that she was about to surrender, so he smiled and said: "Since you don't want to bark, then forget it, I won't force you."

   As he spoke, he wanted to put the money back into his pocket. Dayan panicked and finally shouted, "Uncle Qing!"

   "That's right! Respecting the elders is beneficial, so why not do it?"

Dayan grabbed the ten cents, afraid that Li Yanqing would go back on his word, and ran away without a word of abuse, and the magpie wanted to follow her sister, so Li Yanqing grabbed her and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, I will also I'll give you ten cents."

   Magpie waved his hands again and again, "I don't want it, it's right to be called uncle, how can I ask for money?"

  Seeing that she was well-behaved and sensible, Li Yanqing liked her in his heart, so he stuffed ten cents into her little hand, "I'll buy you candy!"

   "Thank you, Uncle Qing!"

  Magpie smiled, took the money and went out to chase her sister.

  Seeing that their sisters had run away, Li Yanqing calmed down and started to catch up with his homework.

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  In the afternoon and evening, Li Dongdong came to invite Li Yanqing to dinner. At this time, Li Yanqing had finished his homework and was playing with the dagger.

   "If Brother Qing likes this sword, I will give it to you!" Li Dongdong walked into the room and smiled.

   "What a shame!"

"This is my uncle's sword. He treats it like a treasure. After he passed away, no one wanted this sword. My father likes to collect old things, so he picked it up. I'm afraid you will dislike it. If you don't dislike it, I will give it to you."

   "Then I will not be polite!"

  Li Yanqing was very happy, this trip was not in vain, and he actually got a good sword.

  At this time, Li Dongdong pulled Li Yanqing and said with a smile: "The table will be opened soon, I'm just waiting for you, let's go!"

  Li Yanqing put the sword into his book bag, followed Li Dongdong to the front lobby, he asked with a smile, "Is the patriarch here?"

   "Come here a long time ago, the contract is signed, your father told us not to disturb you, so we didn't call you."

  Li Yanqing is not worried. Yesterday he went to Lushan Town again and read the draft contract. The patriarch thought it very carefully, even more carefully than he thought. The contract has been finalized, and today he just came to sign it.

  Li Yanqing came to the lobby, the lobby was very lively, twenty or thirty people gathered together, Li Dongdong set up three banquet tables, a chairman table in the lobby, and two accompanying tables in the yard.

  The guests today are mainly people from Qianshan Village. Except for a few tribesmen whom he met during the ancestor worship, and had a little impression, he doesn't know the others.

  Li Dongdong took Li Yanqing to introduce to the neighbors. When the neighbors heard that the young man in front of him was Li Yanqing who won the first prize in the Boys' Association, they couldn't help being awe-inspiring, and they all stood up to salute.

  Li Yanqing returned the salute to everyone with a smile, Li Dongdong pulled him into the main hall, and Li Wenyou who was sitting in the main seat saw Li Yanqing, and quickly waved: "Qing'er, come and sit here!"

  The guests in the main hall complimented Li Wenyou one after another, boasting that the Li family will produce another Jinshi in the future, which made Li Wenyou so happy that he stroked his beard and laughed.

  Li Yanqing met with everyone but could not see his father, so he asked Li Wenyou, "Patriarch, where is my father?"

  Li Wenyou chuckled, "He went back in a hurry."

  Li Yanqing was startled, his father went back, why didn't he say to himself, "Patriarch, what's urgent at home?"

   "Today the county school is accompanying a person from the state. They said they came to visit your father's reputation. It may be related to an old incident. Your father was anxious, so he went back first."

  (end of this chapter)