West Street.

Later, Li San and the others searched for three more days, but still found nothing. Among them, there was an old man who felt that something was strange and asked about what happened before and after, and Li San told him what happened that night. After hearing this, the old man said, "It's broken! Could it be that your son did not fall into the pond, but was abducted by the rivers and lakes—'changing children'?"

Li San was puzzled: "What is changing children?"

The old man said that most of the "child exchanges" were carried out by the Jianghu troupe, who ostensibly performed programs everywhere, but behind the scenes, they abducted and sold young children. This kind of troupe has a dwarf who can imitate the voice of a child, and before going to the next place to perform, he will touch it first, and secretly observe which children in which family are good to start. After choosing the target, they will go to the local performance in the evening, and in the middle, the children will be on stage to play the harlequin, and the children will be stunned by them as soon as they arrive backstage, and then the dwarf will dress up as a child to perform on stage. Because of the heavy makeup on his face, and the voice was the same, he couldn't notice the problem for a while. When the show is over, the adults lead the fake child home, and the dwarf on the road will pretend to fall into the water before his identity is revealed, but in fact he has already dived to the other side and slipped away.

When Li San heard this, he shouted anxiously: "If that's the case, you have to report to the official immediately!"

The old man sighed and said: "The most cunning thing about this deception is that it makes people think that the child has fallen into the water for the first time, delaying the best rescue time......

From that day on, Li San left his hometown and embarked on a wandering road to find his son. My son was abducted by the troupe, so as long as he found out where there was a troupe performance, he would definitely look for it. Li San thought that he might not recognize his son, but there was one thing he remembered - there was a meniscus-shaped birthmark on his son's right calf, and he pretended to be a madman in order to make it easier to lift people's trouser legs to inspect it......

Speaking of this, Li San couldn't cry: "The hard work paid off, I finally found my son......" He said, pointing to the ape in the cage.

Li Sanmian said without changing his face: "Your Excellency can send an official to carefully inspect the ape." ”

Liu Jian immediately sent someone to inspect it, but who knew that the ape had threads sewn on it, and when the threads were opened, it turned out to be a living person! It turned out that the ape was a man dressed in ape skin and pretended, and then looking at the man, he was a skinny young man, and he did have a meniscus birthmark on his right calf. The young man opened his mouth and screamed "Wow", and the group realized that his tongue had been cut out.

How did Li San find Dabao?

It turned out that Li San was watching the troupe's performance offstage that day, because he was pretending to be crazy and stupid, he kept lifting people's trouser legs, so Dabao looked at him a few more times and recognized Li San as his father. How to get his father's attention? Dabao remembered that when he was a child, his father had taken him to pretend to be Sun Wukong, and he always put the "golden hoop stick" on top of his head, so through the performance, he deliberately erected the golden hoop stick on the top of his head, which caused the audience to laugh and made Li San suspicious. Li San wanted to find out what was going on and found a chance to stay in the troupe, and later, he went to clean the carriage of Guan Ape, so that he had the opportunity to recognize that the "ape" was really his son!

How to rescue Dabao? Li San thought that the only way to make trouble was to bring the matter to the government, so he took the opportunity to plan a scene of stealing jade pendants.

The truth was revealed, and in the face of conclusive evidence, Boss Ding had no way to quibble. Supervisor Liu said angrily: "In order to seek personal gains, people are ruined, and people are pretended to be animals, which is simply not as good as animals!

Hearing this, Li San's father and son hugged each other tightly and cried loudly, Li San sang the song while crying: "Golden little feet, silver little feet, lift the trouser legs for me to see; three years on the left, seven years on the right, today I will finally find the ......"

The owner of the blacksmith shop outside the hall saw this, thoughtfully, separated from the crowd and walked out, this person is Baili Lonely, if he didn't help the madman, there was no way to steal the jade pendant, and he was curious to help, but he didn't think that there was such a story, and he felt sorry for the parents of the world.

His blacksmith shop was sheltered from the wind under the wall of the West Street Gate. The so-called "shop" is just a dilapidated house, with a small façade and a low ancient house, covered with a layer of thin tiles. Niu Heizi strikes iron in this dilapidated house of less than ten square meters every day.

Although most of the people here have no hope of being promoted to a higher realm martial artist, they are martial artists after all, so the blacksmith shop is a popular trade. Knives, guns, swords, halberds, ploughs, rakes, hoes, sickles, kitchen knives, etc. are all iron tools that Baili Lin has to forge every day.

Miles of iron is very methodical, and in the western area, the ironware of Miles is very famous.

The small blacksmith shop supplied the production and living utensils of the residents of West Street at that time, and other warriors in the capital often came to buy his ironware.

Baili Lonely is easy-going, and business has always been very good. Whoever has lost the horns of his plough or harrow, he only needs to bring a small piece of iron, and he can make up for the horns of the plough and harrow free of charge. For other work, there is no need to ask about the price, it all depends on Baili Lone's mouth, but many times Bai Lilone is also silent, and let the villagers give it at will.

Therefore, the blacksmith shop in Baili Lonely is always doing prosperous business, and there is often a clanging sound of ironwork in the middle of the night.

In less than five years, the shop of Baili Lin is famous far and wide, and there is an endless stream of martial artists, although there are a lot of things because of the red eyes of others, but for some reason people find that things do not develop as they imagined, they all end up without a problem, so some people speculate that the shop owner is a martial arts master, after several troublemakers disappeared out of thin air, and no one dared to make trouble.

Autumn and winter are coming, and a day is as cold as a day. In the evening of that day, the north wind blew in the middle of the night, and snow began to fall. On the second day, it fell even more, the silver floc flew into the sky, Qiong Yao turned to the ground, and it was white in all directions.

On this day, Baili Lin was striking iron, and suddenly a tiger-headed child came to the door and shouted, "Uncle Lonely, my father asked you to come to my house to drink." ”

Baili Lin put down the hammer in his hand and said, "Heiwa, what else did your father say?"

The five-year-old black baby scratched her head, "I almost forgot, and asked my uncle to bring three catties of beef, my father said that I can't ask my uncle to drink in vain, and the beef is to be brought." ”

"Okay, it's really hard to pick the door, you go back first, uncle will go over after buying meat, and ask your father to prepare more wine. Touching the head of the black baby, he said.

Heiwa replied and bounced away.

In the evening, Baili Lin carried three catties of cooked beef and happily went to the appointment, Heiwa's father named Niu Chuan opened a grocery store on West Street, he was bold, standing at the door of the black baby saw Baili Lin shouting that his uncle was coming, and after a while Niu Chuan went out to welcome Baili Lin in, his Hun family called the late mother looked white and clean, and he was also very happy to see Baili Lone, if it wasn't for Bai Lilone five years ago, he and the child would have died, so the family's enthusiasm for Bai Li Lin is inevitable.

When they arrived at the house, the wine table had already been set up, and the two sat down, Niu hurriedly went to the kitchen to bring up the hot chicken soup, but saw that her husband and Bai Li Lin had moved the charcoal stove on the table, scalded the wine, and the two were already eating and drinking. Baili said quietly, "Brother and sister, we won't wait for you." Come and take a seat. The two are good friends, and the neighbors don't pay attention to the etiquette of men and women to avoid suspicion. The late mother smiled and agreed, added some charcoal to the charcoal stove, took a wine glass and poured wine, and sat down under her husband, Heiwa had already lay on the table and ate beef.

"Heiwa, why are you so rude, your uncle and your father didn't use chopsticks, you just ate first, if it wasn't for your Uncle Lonely who saved our mother, then there would be you bastard. The late lady was angry, and knocked the black baby who was gobbling up, and the black baby touched her head and said, "I've said it hundreds of times, the black baby will definitely repay her uncle when she comes in and becomes a martial saint, and she drinks wine and eats meat for her uncle every day." Hearing this, the three of them laughed, and Baili said quietly, "Brother and sister don't need to be like this, but they know how to do medical skills, and there is no need to worry about it in their hearts every day." ”

"That's not possible, the grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring, although I am a rough person, but I still understand this truth. Niu Chuan snorted and said, Baili Lin didn't say much when he saw this, the two of them talked about some big and small things in Zhoucheng, and they drank until midnight, and Baili Lin didn't leave.

Time has passed carelessly for more than ten years, during which Baili Lin has seen many human states, and the sealing cultivation of Bai Li Lin is like a mortal, his hair has some gray hair, and his face has wrinkles.

Unlike usual, the door of the shop is closed today, and a sign saying that it is closed.

Baili Lin lit the fire, and recalled the steps of forging the sword in his mind, as if he had returned to the past, memory. Gradually came to mind. Baili was silent for a long time. Grab a piece of iron embryo in your left hand. With a gentle wave. Place in the stove. Pick up the hammer in your right hand. Just like it was back then.

Gradually. In the process of forging a sword. Rare found a hundred years gone. It seems that in the hammer of this hammer. He returned to his childhood again. returned to the grave that accompanied his mother in the courtyard of his ancestral home, and in the red world that he had felt for more than ten years.

Time. Fly by. Night fell again. Baili Silence suddenly woke up. He looked at the long sword in his hand, like a sword forged for the first time, the blade was narrow and slender, although it was slightly rough. But the Buddha is spiritual. Bursts of spiritual power spread out from it. Baili looked at the wood carving in a daze. A sense of artistic conception came to my heart.

There was silence for a long time. Baili Lin put his long sword aside. I picked up another piece of iron embryo. The whole person is immersed in it, and the hammer is smelted into what he thinks, sees and feels, and the time passes slowly. The forging of the sword never stopped, even when he was extremely tired. He'd just grab a bite to eat and take a nap.

In the blink of an eye. A year has passed. Compared to years ago. Inside this shop in Miles. Knives, guns, sticks, pots and pans are gone. On the wall cabinets around the store. There are rows of swords of different sizes, and since the year ago, no one has come to disturb this mysterious master in their minds, which also saves a lot of unnecessary trouble, even the Niu family is not looking for him, if he accidentally disturbs the cultivation, it is a big sin, and even Niu Chuan is the door god.