A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 3 Cheating the Knife
A worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do well.

Li Gui's own kung fu is not very good, otherwise he would not be easily chopped up by Li Kui.

If he continued to fight with bare hands, he might not even be able to defeat the farmer on the roadside.

Yishui County is not a big town. There is only one blacksmith shop, which is only a few steps away.

Most of the buildings in the city are still made of wood, but this blacksmith shop is prone to water leakage, so it is a rare brick structure and looks particularly grand.

The yard is divided into two parts: the front and the back. The closed house in the front is a shop, and the open yard in the back is a blacksmith shop. The sound of clanking can be heard faintly from the backyard.

There is a flagpole hanging in front of the blacksmith shop, with a curtained signboard on it, and the big Chinese character "Qin" written on it, with black characters on a white background, which is particularly eye-catching.

A beaded curtain was hung in front of the door to keep out mosquitoes. Black silk threads were used as strings and white coix seeds were used as beads. A large abacus bead hung at the bottom of the curtain, which could not be blown by the wind.

Li Gui opened the curtain and stepped in. He looked around and saw that the entrance was facing the counter. There were several rows of wooden shelves on the left and right sides, with various iron tools placed on them.

Farm tools such as kitchen knives, scissors, sickles, axes, and saws are all in use, but there are no weapons such as swords, guns, swords, and halberds placed outside.

The shopkeeper behind the counter saw Li Gui coming in and hurried out to greet him, his eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.

"Sir, what do you want?"

Li Gui squinted his eyes, put on a show of being generous, and said coldly: "Sir, do you think I am someone who can afford to buy things from you?"

The shopkeeper straightened his back and was about to scold him when he saw Li Gui walking over to the iron shelf next to him with his hands behind his back, muttering in his mouth:

"Liu Xiaoguan, a man in the west of the city, suddenly had a whim and wanted to practice martial arts. He asked me to find a handy weapon."

The shopkeeper's waist immediately bent down again, and he came over with a smile on his face.

"Oh, we are so rude."

"Sir, please sit down quickly and I'll pour you some tea."

Li Gui's clothes suggest that he is a gangster in the city. He often runs errands for the stewards of the gentry's families. If a young master of a family has something that is inconvenient for his family to know, he will probably come to this person. A bunch of guys do it.

This kind of thing is more likely to fail than succeed.

Although Qin's blacksmith shop is the only one in the city, if he doesn't feed the idle gang, he might encourage Liu Xiaoguan to practice stone locks, whistle sticks and the like.

By then, won’t the business acquired be gone?
As for whether Li Gui was cheating, the shopkeeper didn't think about it at all.

They are all making a living in a small town, deceiving people under the guise of Liu Xiaoguan. Is it possible that they are tired of living?
The control of weapons in all dynasties has always been very strict.

But this kind of strictness often only targets the poor, not the gentry.

Since ancient times, there have been no rebellious gentry. Since the Song Dynasty and the gentry-officials share the same empire, it is even less likely that any gentry would be stupid enough to rebel.

So if Li Gui came to buy weapons, they would definitely not sell them to him.

But under the banner of Liu Xiaoguanren, this problem can be circumvented perfectly.

Li Gui waved his hand, not interested in the cheap tea at all.

"If a certain family doesn't gossip with you, if you tell the truth, how much can a certain family get?"

The shopkeeper stretched out a finger from his sleeve and said, "Old rules, [-]%, how about it?"

Li Gui laughed and said, "Sure, the shopkeeper knows the rules! Then let's not lie. Let's take out all the valuable weapons and take a look!"

The shopkeeper signaled to a waiter to take his place, and then headed to the backyard first.

"Our weapons are all kept in the backyard. Please come here..."

After exiting the back door, we entered a large courtyard. We saw a large stove in the middle of the courtyard and a bellows beside it.

Next to the yard, there is a large anvil, with iron clamps, hammers, grindstones and other items beside it.

Several shirtless men, covered in sweat and with shiny bronze skin, stood in different positions, each performing their duties.

One person pulled the bellows violently, and the wind entered the furnace, and the flames roared in the furnace.

Another person took out the red-hot iron from the stove with an iron rack and moved it to a large anvil. First, a strong man wielded a sledgehammer and forged it hard, and then handed it over to a master master.The old master held the iron pliers in his left hand to clamp the ironware, and held a small hammer in his right hand. During the forging process, he kept turning the iron material by visual inspection, and in a moment he turned a piece of iron sheet into the shape of a simple knife.

This was the first time for Li Gui to see such a primitive method of blacksmithing, and he couldn't help but be a little fascinated.

The shopkeeper took the opportunity to briefly talk to his boss, then came to Li Gui holding a box.

This wooden box is carved with dragons and phoenixes, and is made of high-quality materials. One look at the material shows that it is expensive.

The shopkeeper opened the wooden box, and Li Gui looked inside. Inside, he saw a very beautiful steel knife with its scabbard placed in the center of the box.

Although the sword was not unsheathed, just looking at the gold gems inlaid on the scabbard and the handle, one knew that the sword must be worth thousands of gold.

"This is the treasure of our store..."

As soon as the shopkeeper said something, he was interrupted by Li Gui waving his hand.

"Straight bitch!" Li Gui cursed with his eyes crossed.

"A certain store asked you to get the most expensive one, but they didn't tell you to get the most expensive one!"

"Are you thinking Liu Xiaoguan is stupid?"

"That's all, where are the weapons in your store? Someone has chosen one for Liu Xiaoguan."

The purpose of Li Gui's cheating knife is for his own use, so practicality must be the first priority, and it is impossible to have something whose decorative effect is greater than its practical value.

Furthermore, if he deceived an ordinary steel knife, it would not have much impact on Qin's blacksmith shop, but if he defrauded the shop's treasured treasure, Qin's boss might be thinking of hanging himself. .

Li Gui is not a good person, but the bottom line is still somewhat good.

The shopkeeper smiled and knew that what he had done was a bit excessive, so he quickly put away the knife, hid it again, and then took Li Gui to the weapons warehouse next to it.

Opening the door, the sun shines directly in from behind, reflecting back on various weapons, and comes into view with dazzling flowers.

Under the wall facing the door is a pair of stainless steel axes as big as wheels. They are like the treasures of the store. They are supported on the shelf. They are so heavy that the shelf is almost bent.

Li Gui stepped inside, stretched out his hand to lift the axe, tried it, and found that... he couldn't lift it.

"Straight bitch! It's so heavy! Who can lift it?"

Li Gui murmured in a low voice, let go of his hand angrily, and touched a short-handled simple knife on the side.

Fortunately, the knife was not heavy and he picked it up easily.

After waving it a few times, I felt that it was very handy and suitable for my own use. I held it in my hand and chose a waist knife that was also handy. I handed the two handles to the shopkeeper.

"Just these two handles! Please ask the shopkeeper to sharpen the knife, put the scabbard on it, and send it back to Liu Xiaoguan. But remember, don't let Old Mrs. Liu know about this, otherwise I'm afraid that Xiaoguan will respect his butt. No guarantee.”

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and asked, "But I don't know when and where to send it?"

Li Gui didn't say anything. He just stretched out his hand and rubbed his thumb, index finger, middle finger and three fingers together.

The shopkeeper was speechless for a moment, but he had no choice but to have someone take out five strings of money from the back of the house and stuff it into Li Gui's hand.

"These two knives, including the scabbard and scabbard, total one hundred swords. I will give you half of them first, and I will give you the other half after you finish."

Li Gui smiled and put the copper coins on his arm, strode out, and said:

"I will go to Mr. Liu Xiaoguan to report first. I will come over and take you to deliver the knife tomorrow."

The shopkeeper had no choice but to agree and send Li Gui out of the door politely.

After leaving the blacksmith shop, Li Gui had just walked thirty or fifty steps when he bumped into several men and blocked his way.

This group of people were all bare-chested and did not look like good people. The leader was Li Er.

Taking advantage of the crowd behind him, he shouted arrogantly:
"Li Gui, when can you pay back the money you owe to the gambling house?"

(End of this chapter)