Chapter 18

The chef also looked forward to her.

Xia Xi smiles and shakes her head.

The shopkeeper is a little disappointed.

But the chef, laughing, "madam, if you think about a new dish, just come here, we'll pay a high price!"

Xia Xi should be next, a few people out of the restaurant.

Seeing Mr. Zhang waiting around the corner, Xia Xi counted the coppers and said, "I want Mr. Zhang to help me buy something. First you go to the market and buy something. Then we'll gather at the county gate."

LAN Er some don't worry, "sister-in-law, otherwise, we go with you."

"Don't worry, it will be OK."

Seeing her insistence, they did not say anything else and walked towards the market.

Xia Xi then leads Qi Er to walk past, shout a person, "Zhang Ye."

Mr. Zhang said.

Xia Xi gave him the copper and said, "I have something to ask Mr. Zhang to do for me."

Zhang Ye took the hand of copperplate to pause for a while, eyebrow slightly wring, "what's the matter?"

"I want to buy a dagger to defend myself. Can Mr. Zhang know where to sell it?"

Mr. Zhang raised his eyelids and gave her a serious look. Then he went back and said, "come with me."

The women followed her, turned two blocks, and came to a blacksmith's shop.

"Here comes Mr. Zhang!"

The blacksmith said hello.

Mr. Zhang answered, "take out your dagger and let the lady have a look."

The blacksmith stops his action and looks at Xia Xi curiously, thinking about the relationship between her and Zhang Ye.

"What kind of weapon does a woman want?" I just don't dare to say it.

"Come on! I have business to do! "

Mr. Zhang urged.

The blacksmith immediately drew back his gaze and said, "come inside."

Xia Xi leads Qi Er in, and Zhang Ye is waiting outside.

The blacksmith took out a few daggers and introduced them one by one. "This one is the second one, and the price is also cheap..."

Words did not finish saying, Xia Xi already took one, put in the hand to weigh, "come to this one, how much silver?"

Blacksmith secretly took a breath, looking at Xia Xi weak, unexpectedly is an expert, start to take the best.

"This is the best one in my shop. You're from Mr. Zhang. I don't want to raise the price. Fifty Liang."

Xia Xi took out all the silver she had gained in those days, less than four Liang.

She did not change her face, not guilty, "I only bring these, the rest of a month to you."

The blacksmith had some silly eyes. He looked at a few dimes of silver on the counter, and then at Xia Xi's indifferent face. His face pulled down, "madam, are you kidding?"

Do you want to buy the best dagger worth fifty taels of silver? There is no such thing as empty handed white wolf!

Xia Xi weighed the dagger in his hand twice, "boss, to tell you the truth, your dagger is not the best, not to mention cutting iron like mud. It costs a lot to sell for fifty Liang. In the past, it would be three or forty Liang at most. As for me, because I don't have enough money, I don't want to lower the price. The extra money will be the interest I owe on credit. "

The blacksmith opened his mouth. What was he going to say,

Xia Xi then said, "with Master Zhang as a guarantor, what are you afraid of? He's not a close person. Can he bring it in person? "

The blacksmith swallowed his words and looked out. He saw that master Zhang was standing outside as usual without any impatience. He turned his mind a few times and gritted his teeth. "Well, I'll let you take this dagger for Master Zhang's sake. But we've agreed that if you don't send me money within a month, I'll ask Mr. Zhang for it. "

"No problem."

Xia Xi readily should, wrap the dagger, take it in hand, out of the blacksmith shop.

"Yes?"

Seeing her coming out, Mr. Zhang asked in a low voice.

Xia Xi said with a smile, "I've bought it. I'll take advantage of it."

Master Zhang nodded, said hello to the blacksmith, and turned back.

Xia Xi leads Qi Er to follow behind.

The blacksmith was surprised. For so many years, I haven't seen Mr. Zhang pay so much attention to anyone. However, his eyes are too... He shakes his head. Each has his own love. Maybe Mr. Zhang is good at it.

At the fork in the road, Mr. Zhang turns directly to the market, and Xia Xi leads Qi'er to the county gate. Without taking a few steps, he detects Qi'er's abnormality. Looking down, he sees his small face taut and his lips pursed tightly.

Xia Xi's mind flies around, and suddenly understands why he is like this. She stops, squats down, looks at him with her eyes, touches his head with her hand, and deliberately asks, "Qi'er, why aren't you happy?"

Kiel looked at the dagger in her hand and said nothing.

Xia Xi laughs, reaches out his hand to scrape his small nose, "the fish is more and more difficult to catch, we must chisel a hole in the ice again, if we use a machete, the movement is too big, I'm afraid it will attract the village people, mother just want to buy a dagger."

Qi Er's face softened a little, "really?"

"It's not just that. My mother also thinks that sometimes we come too early. When we meet bad people on the road, we use this to defend ourselves."

Qi Er's face is dignified again, "Uncle Zhu can protect us."

"Your uncle Zhu has only one person. How can we protect the three of us? With this dagger, we are not afraid."

"But daggers are too dangerous."

The blade is sharp and cold. If you are not careful, you will cut yourself.

Xia Xi took the Dagger's hand Yang Yang, "Niang, isn't this wrapped?"? It won't hurt. "

Qi son this just put down heart, but small face or tight, all is he too small, can't protect Niang.

Zhu Zhu and Lan'er are not at ease. Instead of going to the market, they go to the county gate and wait. Seeing their wives come back, they are relieved. Lan'er waves to them, "sister-in-law, here..."

Lan'er is careful. When she comes near, she looks different, but the smart one doesn't ask, "sister-in-law, I think about it with Zhu Zhu. There's nothing to buy at home, so I'll come and wait for you early."

Knowing that they were worried about themselves, Xia Xi didn't expose her either. She nodded with a smile, "I've bought something. Let's go and go home."

……

In the evening, several people came to the river and asked Lan'er and Qi'er to wait on the shore. Xia Xi and Zhu came to the place they had been looking forward to in the morning. They were far away from the ice hole and the ice layer was thick, which was good for them to stand on the ice when they were catching fish. But relatively speaking, it was not so easy to break the ice layer.

The pillar took out the chopper from the basket and said, "sister-in-law, stay back, I'll come!"

Xia Xi stopped, took out the dagger and handed it to him, "first use this, wait for half of the ice, and then use the machete."

Looking at the dagger that also gives out cold light in the dark night, the pillar is surprised and doesn't catch it. The dagger bangs down on the ice.

"Sister in law, sister in law..."

Xia Xi's face is the same as bending over to pick it up, "this is what I asked Mr. Zhang to buy today, a lot of silver."

Finish saying, then dig gently on ice layer directly.

The countless kinds of bad ideas flashed in the column's mind disappeared immediately after hearing Xia Xi's words. He scratched his head and said, "why spend more money? Isn't it faster to use a machete?"

"The machete is very powerful. If you go down with a knife, not only the ice here will crack, but also the ice under us. If you don't pay attention, we may fall into the ice hole. Do you want that to happen?"