Chapter V: Interpretation
Entering the courtyard of the sword room, the stove had been removed, the charcoal ashes were still there, and a few disciples were bowing their heads and sprinkling and sweeping. Fang Zhong inquired about it, and a disciple said, "Liu Yimei followed the master to strike iron on the stove, if you want to look for him, go there to find him." Fang Zhong asked the path to the open hearth and went into the backyard to find it.
Passing through a corridor, there were countless ridges in front of him, Fang Zhong vaguely remembered that the sword room on the right was the sword room where the swords were stored, and there was green smoke floating on the roof tiles on the left, and there was a smell of fireworks, the stove must be there. Turn to the left, and soon come to a clearing surrounded by green pines, next to several houses, in the middle of which are three huge stoves for making weapons. Hundreds of shirtless disciples were divided into three piles around the stove, all sweating like rain, hammering the sword embryos placed on the stove, and the sound was endless, a busy scene. An elder with a goatee walked through the crowd from time to time, pointing loudly as he took the formed sword embryo to a bucket and soaked it in water to cool down. Another disciple carefully examined the cooled sword embryo, re-quenched it, and handed it over to the furnace disciple to beat. In this way, the sword after thousands of tempers is considered a finished product, and then the blade of the sword is modified by other disciples. There are those unqualified defective products piled up, waiting for the next melting to temper the new sword.
When Fang Zhong came here, it was already the last batch of sword embryos to be tempered, and the hundreds of good swords that had been completed had already been moved into the warehouse, and the sword bodies that had not had time to be carved were placed in the room next to the stove, and they could be decorated with gold and silver inlaid when they had time in the future. No matter how beautifully decorated these swords were, they were only similar to the swords in Fang Zhong's hand, but they were exquisite in appearance, and the essence of the sword body was no different, and they were not superior to other swords. The really good swords built by the sword room are often forged separately from fine iron, and it is naturally impossible to produce any extraordinary works with such a large number of forged batches. Although the level of the sword cannot only rely on a good sword, but holding a sharp sword in hand is always stronger than taking a wooden stick that can be broken at a single split, who doesn't want to spend their energy to repair a sword is not only spiritual, but also sharp and incomparable, and cannot be damaged. If you are a top immortal who is not limited to things, you can practice to the point that no matter what you are, you can lift weights and sway freely, of course, you don't pay much attention to the quality of the sword itself.
When Fang Zhong came to the edge of the hearth, those disciples had already seen it. The elder with a goatee glanced at it a few times and shouted, "You are not my Sword Fang disciple, why are you here?" Before Fang Zhong could speak, one of them rushed out and said happily: "It turned out to be Senior Brother Fang." Master, this is Fang Zhong, who stayed in the Jade Void Palace to study under Uncle Qian. The speaker was Liu Yimei, and I saw that he was bare-chested and bare-backed, with a strong upper body, and carrying an iron hammer, which was one of the hammer beatings. The old man with a goatee sighed, looked Fang Zhong up and down a few more times, and said in a slightly slower tone, "Is it Qian Wenyi who came with you?" "The demeanor is much more polite. Fang Zhong stepped forward to salute and said respectfully: "Meet Master Shan, it was the disciple who asked the master to come by himself, and he just wanted to talk to Senior Brother Liu." Uncle Shan glanced at Liu Yimei, nodded and said, "Okay, anyway, the sword casting will be finished, and he has nothing to do, so let Liu Yimei accompany you around." Liu Yimei said happily: "Thank you Master for your permission, that disciple is going to be lazy." "Put down the hammer and go and get dressed. Uncle Shan smiled and said: "As long as you are so diligent, even if you are lazy, you can be lazy." He said to Fang Zhong again: "By the way, the last time you came here to get the sword, although I was not there, the disciple in charge should be able to handle this matter properly." There are a lot of new swords here, if not, just change them. Fang Zhong knew that when he said that the matter of taking the sword, it must have been reported by the senior brother of the sword room, and replied: "Uncle Xie cares, that sword is quite easy to use, and there is no need to change it." Master Shan nodded, and then said nothing.
Liu Yimei confessed to his master and left the stove with Fang Zhong.
Liu Yimei smiled happily along the way: "I didn't expect Senior Brother Fang to come to me first, if Brother Wei hadn't been busy these days, he would have come to look for you a long time ago." Fang Zhong was grateful, but he had to ask his questions and said, "Actually, I came to ask Senior Brother Liu something. Liu Yimei said, "What does the junior brother want to ask me?" Fang Zhong said: "Senior Brother Liu and I hit it off at first sight, and we help everywhere, and the younger brother is very grateful, but I always feel that I ...... I think it's because the senior brother recognized the wrong person. I held these words in my heart for a long time, and finally said them, and suddenly felt a lightness on my body. I can say that I have no relatives and no reason, and suddenly someone shows favor because of this, of course I have to ask clearly. Liu Yimei was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the junior brother thinks that I mistook you for someone else?" Hahaha, don't worry, other things may be wrong, but you can't be wrong. Fang Zhong asked, "Why is Senior Brother Liu so sure, you have never asked me where I came from, and I don't know the details of Senior Brother, how can you be so sure?" Liu Yimei looked at Fang Zhong and said: "In order to avoid the doubts of the junior brother, the brother only asks you two characters, if you say that you know, then there is no mistake between you and me." Fang Zhongdao: "Which two characters does Senior Brother want to ask?" Maybe I don't know any. Liu Yimei said: "Whether you know it or not, you need to keep it secret for me after you say it." Fang Zhong nodded and said, "Junior brother naturally won't talk nonsense. ”
Liu Yimei saw that there was no one left and right, and paused and said, "Do you know Daigo's old mother?" Fang Zhong suddenly opened his mouth and was speechless. Liu Yimei said again: "Do you know the Buyisan people?" "How can these two Fang Zhong not know, not to mention that Daigo's mother forced him to marry, and Bu Yisan had the grace to save his life in danger, these two people have already been branded in their hearts, and they can't forget it.
Liu Yimei saw Fang Zhong's surprised appearance, and as soon as he expected it, he smiled and said, "Senior Brother Fang still thinks that I will admit my mistake?" Fang Zhong came to his senses for a long time and asked, "How is it possible for Senior Brother Liu to know the two old-timers, Daigo's mother has already ...... It's already ......" Liu Yimei said: "It's not a secret, Bu Yisan is the family teacher, and I was recommended by Uncle Changpingzi to join the Kunlun faction." Fang Zhong said in surprise: "It turns out that Bu Yisan is Senior Brother Liu's master, no wonder he knows Daigo's mother." Liu Yimei said: "Now the little junior brother still suspects that I have recognized the wrong person?" Fang Zhong shook his head and smiled, "Although I don't suspect that Senior Brother has recognized the wrong person, I wonder why Senior Brother takes such good care of Little Brother." Liu Yimei smiled and said: "Since it is the order of the family teacher, of course I will try my best to do it, and besides, I will fall in love with Senior Brother Fang at first sight, how can I not help." It's a pity that Uncle Changpingzi and I are both powerless and powerless people, so we can't really help much. After that, he couldn't be ashamed of Fang Zhong's efforts. Only then did Fang Zhong understand that it was Bu Yisan who helped him, but he didn't know if he had to enter the Jade Void Palace and stay in the Tianxuan Palace because he asked someone to help, if so, this Bu Yisan was really good, and he would have to repay it well in the future.
The two of them came to the long corridor of the sword room in a blink of an eye, and on the right was the treasury where the sword was stored, Fang Zhong said: "Senior Brother Liu, do you know a Taoist named Lai Pizhang?" Liu Yimei smiled and said: "Of course I know, as soon as I came here, I heard that there is a self-proclaimed master, but it is not that his ability is great, but that he is thick-skinned, and he is actually a fool who is scolded by others." Fang Zhong said: "I don't think he's a fool, the younger brother learned some small methods from him, but it's also interesting, I don't know for a while, I have to ask him." Liu Yimei said: "This is easy, you can find him in this backyard, Senior Brother Fang will come with me." "Lead him to the backyard.
After passing through the corridor, passing through a doorway, before reaching the backyard, there was a smell of wine. Liu Yimei sniffed the tip of his nose and said strangely: "What a strong aroma of wine?" Then I heard a shouting and scolding from the door: "You dead ghost, in order to be quick to speak, you actually caused me to be scolded and suffered." A few kicks followed. One of them shouted: "I didn't deliberately knock over the wine jar, you didn't put it in a tight position, how can you blame me?" Ah! Ah! It made me come out. Another person said angrily: "It is clear that you went to the dining room to steal wine, and accidentally knocked over the wine jar for a while, and actually said that we couldn't put it firmly, which is really unreasonable, beat him, beat him." ”
Fang Zhong was shocked: "It seems that the one who was beaten was Lai Pizhang, let's go in quickly, don't let people beat him badly." The two of them walked through the doorway, and suddenly saw three Huotou Daoists beating a sloppy Taoist who fell to the ground, and that Daoist was not Lai Pi Zhang.
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