After Xiang Kang was exposed, only two days after the incident, Yu Jian once again went to Shiling Pavilion to find Xiang Kang, and told Xiang Kang that he had decided to move to Shiling Pavilion and ask Xiang Kang to help buy land and build a house, and also asked Xiang Kang to help him rent a few houses for temporary residence. Xiang Kang was overjoyed and hurriedly took Yu Jian to find Feng Zhong, the local snake in Shiling Pavilion, and asked him about the suitable houses for rent. As a result, Feng Zhong was happy when he heard this.

"Brother, Mr. Yu, do you still need to find it? I forgot that my old house has been empty in the past few years? Although the place is not big, it is still clean. There is a well in the yard. If Mr. Yu looks down on it, just move in and live there, and you don't have to pay a penny of rent!"

After hearing Feng Zhong's generous laughter, Xiang Kang and Yu Jian were of course not very happy. They hurriedly asked Feng Zhong to lead the way and headed straight to the Feng family's old house to check the house. The result is that because Feng Zhong's family's family has always been well-off, the Feng family's old house is really clean and solid. Although the area is not as large as the Yu family's house in Yanjiting, the Yu family is only temporarily living. At the same time, most of the servants of the Yu family stayed in Yanjiting to watch over the farming of the family. There is no problem with the Yu family living temporarily. So Yu Jian decided to rent the Feng family's old house on the spot. Despite Feng Zhong's refusal, he insisted on stuffing a considerable amount of rent into Feng Zhong's hands.

After saying goodbye to Yujian, he returned to Yanjiting to prepare for the move, Feng Zhongcai poked Xiang Kang with his elbow, and smiled with a thorny smile: "Brother, why don't you thank me quickly? Mr. Yu moved his family here, and you and the sister of the Yu family have the opportunity to go into the woods. Hurry up and move, I'm waiting to hold my godson."

Xiang Kang, who is still struggling with whether he should marry Yu Miaoge, smiled bitterly and could only change the topic and said, "Brother, how about we go to Chen Ma's restaurant for a drink? I have something about the blacksmith shop and I want to discuss it with you."

Feng Zhong agreed immediately, and on the way to the wine shop, he asked Xiang Kang what he wanted to discuss with him about the blacksmith shop. Xiang Kang, who had already thought of the words, replied: "Brother, I want to expand our blacksmith shop, recruit more apprentices to build iron tools, and expand the site, build more iron furnaces, and build more floor furnaces to make coke carbon so that we can make more iron tools and sell them. What do you think?"

"Okay, but all these have to be paid for?" Feng Zhong said: "We just got cheated of sixty knives by the man named Fan and lost a lot of money. Because of the Yu family, iron tools have been abnormal during this period. You and I have to worry about it. What are you and I doing these things?"

"I want to bring the Yu family in and join the group. What do you think?" Xiang Kang said: "What do you think if you ask the Yu family to pay us to do these things? "

As mentioned earlier, because of the small scale and the small output, although the blacksmith shop jointly opened by Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong has been doing a prosperous business, they have not made much money. They just let Xiang Kang have some spare money in his hands and can only see wine and meat on the dining table of the Feng family every day. So Feng Zhong thought about it a little, and immediately applauded and said, "Okay, as long as the Yu family is willing to pay, we will let him join. I can see that Mr. Yu is not too stingy about money. If you work with such a person, you don't have to worry about financial conflicts."

"Then let's make up that." Xiang Kang replied: "I'll go and say that Mr. Yu has been very interested in the blacksmith shop we run before. It's definitely not a big problem to convince him to join the gang. Iron Mine Sha and Nie Shi, please contact me and try to find more people for supply. In addition, you have to ask me to find more apprentices in Dongxiang. It's best for young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty, who can only be young and strong, and can only be able to drive the iron."

Feng Zhong continued to agree at once, patting his chest to ensure that he would find more ore and coal suppliers, and also took the task of hiring apprentices - of course, if Feng Zhong knew that Xiang Kang wanted to use these apprentices as a backup source for future soldiers, Feng Zhong would definitely not dare to agree so readily.

"Brother, you have to pay more attention to finding an apprentice. Don't look for garrison soldiers who will be recruited in the third round." Xiang Kang reminded again: "The garrison soldiers who were recruited to guard the border in the first two rounds have not yet come back. If the court suddenly recruits the third round of garrison soldiers, we will pay for the money and food to train the third round of garrison soldiers, and then we will not be able to cry."

When talking about the frequency of recruiting corvée soldiers who had cheated Qin II after he ascended the throne, Feng Zhong, who offended countless villagers for this matter, looked a little dim. He nodded and said, "Brother, you should think carefully. I will pay attention when looking for someone. Alas, I hope I will stop recruiting garrison soldiers. If you continue to recruit like this, it will be my turn soon."

On that day, Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong agreed on various details of the joining of the Yu family in the Shiling Pavilion, and they dispersed with fun. Then the Yu family moved quickly. The next day, he sent some servants to clean the Feng family's old house that had been idle for several years. Then a few days later, the old Yu family actually drove a carriage, ox cart, and brought the family to the Shiling Pavilion with money, grain and furniture. Xiang Kang had no choice but to bring the Xiang family's children and the apprentices from the blacksmith shop to help. After a long time of hard work, he finally helped the Old Yu family to live in the Feng family's old house.

Then of course, he persuaded Yu Jian to pay for money to join the gang, but the result was that Xiang Kang expected. Yu Jian, who had lost money some time ago, was eager to recover the losses. He had long been coveting the prosperous business of the blacksmith shop in Shiling Pavilion. He made a decision without any consideration and agreed to invest in the stake. Xiang Kang was overjoyed and hurriedly took the bamboo slips to prepare for writing a partnership agreement. Yu Jian stopped Xiang Kang with a smile and said, "Young Master Xiang, you will be a family soon. What kind of bamboo slips do you need to write? Can I not know who you are? Can you worry about you damaging my money?"

When talking about his confused marriage with Yu Miaoge, Xiang Kang, who really likes Yu's little girl, is inevitably embarrassed. Mr. Yu said to himself: "Mr. Xiang, maybe your two aunts have not told you yet, right? They quietly went to Yanjiting a few days ago and decided on your behalf. On July 26 this year, you and Miaoge will officially get married, and you will be my husband's son-in-law by then."

Knowing that the two aunts were kind, and knowing that if they insisted on refusing, they would definitely hurt Yu Miaoge's heart. With no choice, Xiang Kang could only leave the table and bow to Yu Jian, and said helplessly respectfully: "Son-in-law Xiang Kang, I have met my uncle."

Yu Jian laughed loudly, quickly helped Xiang Kang up in person, patted Xiang Kang on the shoulder and said, "I will leave it to you my eldest daughter. Miao Ge's child is both gentle and virtuous. You must treat her well."

"I would rather marry your naughty little daughter." Xiang Kang moaned in his heart and said to himself: "God is just deliberately messing with me. He knows that I like the naughty little girl Yu Gui, why did he give me a better Yu Miaoge? Although Yu Miaoge must be a good wife, I am still willing to marry that little girl who is not gentle enough! God, you are deliberately teasing me!"

"God?"

After accidentally mentioning this term, Xiang Kang suddenly thought of an important question and said to himself: "I remember the history book said that when Chen Sheng raised an army, in order to make his subordinates fear him and follow him, he pretended to be a monster and made a fish belly book, and asked Wu Guang to learn the fox to shout about the King of Chen Sheng of the Great Chu. When Liu Bang raised an army, he said that he killed a white snake and was the son of Baidi. He was the son of Chidi, so the gods didn't dare to seek revenge on him. Even Xiang Yu's fool was born with an absurd appearance, and he had no pupils. I had nothing, what could I compare with them?"

"No, people in this era are too superstitious about ghosts and gods. They have to find a way to pretend to be a god and make others think I am different. Otherwise, after the army starts, it will be too disadvantageous to deal with these gods and gods."

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With the large investment from the Yu family, the originally small Shilingting Blacksmith Shop quickly expanded its site, built several new carbon-making furnaces and steelmaking furnaces, and bought more coal to smelter coke, as well as more iron ore to smelter steel. After all these were prepared, under Feng Zhong's hard work, the newly recruited twenty young apprentices also moved into the newly built simple thatched house, preparing to receive Xiang Kang's training, and the number of workers in the Shilingting Blacksmith Shop reached as many as thirty.

After the twenty apprentices arrived, Xiang Kang bought some wine and meat out of his own pocket to entertain and buy these new apprentices. The banquet continued until the evening. However, just as the thirty new and old apprentices were about to go back to the fortress to sleep, Xiang Kang stood in front of the strong stove. He first invited everyone to stand opposite the stove, and then said, "Everyone, from tomorrow on, we will be a family that eats in a pot. Don't worry, as long as I, Xiang Kang, have a meal, I will never let you hungry. But you also have to work hard to make ironware and make more ironware for our blacksmith shop to exchange for money. Otherwise, no matter how many old capitals we have, we will be squandering the whole country. Do you understand?"

"clear."

The new and old apprentices nodded one after another, and Xiang Kang said again: "Also, if you perform well, I will teach him my secret skills in the future so that he can set up his own business and open a blacksmith shop in the future. But if you perform poorly, you just want to eat and be lazy and cheat all day long, I will immediately sweep him out without showing any mercy. We Shilingting Blacksmith shop will definitely not keep lazy people, do you understand?"

"I understand." The new and old apprentices agreed.

"Very good, everyone will go back and rest. Go to bed early and start working hard tomorrow."

Xiang Kang waved his hand that had been hidden in his sleeves, and took the opportunity to sprinkle the rosin powder tightly held in his hand into the ground stove that was burning in front of him. Then the red light suddenly rose, and suddenly reflected Xiang Kang's whole body. Looking through the ground stove, it seemed as if Xiang Kang's whole body was emitting red light. The new and old apprentices who had been poisoned by feudal superstition since childhood were also in an uproar, pointing at Xiang Kang and shouting: "Young Master Xiang, what's wrong with you? Why does your body shine?"

"Light, what light is it?" In fact, standing at Xiang Kang's position, you can also see some apprentices standing close to each other on the ground stove, but Xiang Kang pretended not to know, and just asked with surprise: "What light is it on my body?"

"Red light! Mr. Xiang, red light is coming out on you!" Many apprentices replied in screaming.

"No, I'm not a god, what kind of light will I radiate on my body?" Xiang Kang pretended to scold, and ordered: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, go to bed quickly."

According to Xiang Kang's instructions, more than 30 new and old apprentices went to the forage to sleep obediently. However, news that Xiang Kang would emit red light quickly spread in the area of ​​Shilingting Pavilion. All the thirty blacksmith shop apprentices could prove that they saw it with their own eyes and said everything. Anyway, they just thought Xiang Kang was very different. As a result, even Feng Zhong and the children of the Xiang family ran to Xiang Kang to inquire about the situation. Xiang Kang bit to death and said that there was no such thing, and kept emphasizing: "Don't listen to those apprentices talking nonsense. They were dazzled. How could a person's body emit red light?"

"Is it strange for a person to see it? It is impossible for everyone in the thirty years to see it?" Feng Zhong and the Xiang family were all wondering in their hearts and thought about it, "Is this kid Xiang Kang a reincarnated? Otherwise, how could he know so many things we don't know, and he is so smart and capable?"

Xiang Kang's pretending to be a ghost also created an opportunity for him to meet the little girl Yu Gui again. After hearing this rumor, he couldn't help but feel curiosity. After moving to Shiling Pavilion, Yu Gui's little girl who had been deliberately avoiding Xiang Kang, played the sign of going out for fun and quietly ran to the blacksmith shop to check the situation. However, it was a pity that because the little girl's appearance was too unique, her appearance was soon discovered by the apprentice in the blacksmith shop. After reporting to Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang also quickly ran out of the door and met his sweetheart and future sister-in-law. He even pulled the little girl to a secluded place far away and talked.

"Little sister, what are you doing?"

Xiang Kang's eyes were filled with joy, his face was full of joy, and his eyes were bright. No matter how you looked, it seemed that he wanted to swallow the little girl Yu Gui. The little girl was a little guilty by Xiang Kang's greedy gaze. She subconsciously shook Xiang Kang's claws, took a step back, and warned: "What do you want to do? I remind you that you and my sister are about to get married, don't worry about me anymore."

"I didn't want to do anything?" Xiang Kang said with a wry smile: "I just saw you coming and came out to say a few words to you."

"Then what do you want to say?" the little girl asked.

"I..." When the words came to my mouth, Xiang Kang realized that he had nothing to say, and after a while, he said: "I just wanted to tell you that I couldn't bear to make your sister sad, so I agreed to get married with her."

In fact, the little girl Yu Gui who had known Xiang Kang's mind had long been thinking, lowered her head and said for a while: "Forget me, it's impossible for me and you to do it."

"But I can't forget it, what should I do?" Xiang Kang asked with a wry smile.

The little girl lowered her head and said hesitantly: "If you can't forget it, you have to forget it. Don't forget, you have already gotten engaged to my sister."

Xiang Kang stopped talking, but just looked at the little girl in front of him who was truly admiring. The little girl secretly looked up. Seeing Xiang Kang's affectionate gaze, her pretty face turned red and silently turned around and walked around the road, and she was getting faster and faster. She felt more and more conflicted, and she said in her heart: "Why is he so strange? Obviously my sister is much better than me, why do she just miss me? I..., do I really don't like him at all?"
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