My name is Maha, and I am an apprentice weaponsmith and the son of the head of a small village. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is studying in the Martial Arts Workshop, and it has been more than a year now. Master said that I have a good talent, and I will probably be able to become a real weapon craftsman in a few months. I had been planning to stay at Gio after I finished my studies? Vendreo works in one of his workshops, developing new prototype weapons, but recently I heard from a stranger that my father wanted me to return to the village to succeed him as village chief.

To be honest, I really don't really want to be a village chief, for me, the job of the village chief is simply a kind of torment, I have to deal with the trivial matters of the village people every day, and it is rare to have my own space. If I really inherit my father's position as village chief, I'm afraid that I will only have a little time left to study and build weapons, which is really terrible. I love the joy of creating a piece of equipment, and if I become the village chief, I don't have enough time to build a weapon, and if I build a weapon several times apart, the quality of the weapon will drop a lot, and even an experienced weapon craftsman like Master can't make up for it.

I hate that.

When did I hate the idea of becoming a village chief come about, probably when I was very young. At that time, the village had just been established for a few years, and the scale was smaller than it is now, and in addition to the main position of the village chief, my father also took care of the hunter. At that time, there were only two hunters resident in the village, one was Uncle Mana and the other was my father. I rarely see my father, even if he is in the village, he is always busy for the villagers, and rarely takes care of the family, and my mother often sits by the window in a daze because of this. That's why I hate the profession of village chief.

Your father was a good village chief, and you will be like this in the future.

That's what my mother said, but I can only say sorry to her in my heart, I don't want to be like that. No matter how grateful the people in the village were to his father, he was definitely not a good husband, a good father. Even though it wasn't shown in front of me, I still inadvertently ran into my mother, who was secretly crying. My mother was a very gentle person, and she did not express her dissatisfaction in front of her father, but happily expressed her approval of her father's work. My father must not have thought about how sad my mother would be behind my back, and he certainly didn't know how much I hated him.

It was by chance that there was no blacksmith shop in the village, let alone a workshop and an armament workshop, and then a homeless man came to the village, who was a blacksmith. His father set up a blacksmith shop for him, and the establishment of the blacksmith shop seems to have attracted many hunters to come and become one of the sources of income for the village. At that time, I stayed in the blacksmith almost every day, watching the blacksmith refine pieces of iron ore into iron ingots, and then use these iron ingots to make relatively simple weapons, armor or various tools, which sold quite well.

Uncle, can I learn how to build weapons with you?

I told the blacksmith this way, and the blacksmith seemed to know that I was the son of the village chief, so he agreed without much hesitation, and I began my blacksmith apprenticeship. Maybe it's because my talent is good, or maybe it's because the master himself doesn't have much ink, and soon I'm blue, and I also refine iron ore into iron ingots, and the iron ingots I refine are much better in terms of quality, and I can also use iron ingots to create some simple weapons, but there are still some deficiencies in the appearance of weapons.

Master has nothing to teach me anymore, and the next thing is for me to explore the creation of weapons by myself, but to be honest, without anyone to teach, it is really an unattainable thing to become a weapon craftsman, and I have spent two years because of this, but any efforts will not be in vain, and this period can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for the current learning in the road, and it is precisely because of a good foundation that I can become a real weapon craftsman in less than two years.

Before that stranger brought my father's words, I had always been very firm in my belief that I would stay in Gio? Vendreo, until the day I die. But I'm shaken now, my father is very old, and I'm no longer the little child I used to be, after understanding a lot of truths, I may begin to understand my father's hard work, for more villagers to have a better life, my father also sacrificed himself, he could have been a good husband, a good father, but for more people, he chose to sacrifice his ego.

Just as I wanted to be a weaponsmith, I sacrificed a lot of things that I could have done better, such as being a good son. Is this really the life I want, to live in my own world, completely ignoring the villagers who just want a stable environment? I shouldn't go back, even though it will take me a lot of time, and I probably won't have the chance to have a good time crafting weapons in the future. ’

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It was very painful, and the words brought by Li Hong made him think for a long time, and it was a very difficult choice to make a choice between personal wishes and public happiness. People are sometimes very selfish, but sometimes they will make fearless sacrifices, and Maha's father is such a kind of person, and the happiness of the villagers is completely based on the sacrifice of his own happiness by the village elder, but the village chief never complains about it, and he thinks it is worth it.

"Mmm, you're a little absent-minded today, so go back and rest first." It is not difficult for the weapon craftsman master who supervised on the side to see the current state of Maha, the iron ingot refined by Makha is not so bad in quality, and the iron ingot in the hand of the craftsman master, it can be said that an ordinary blacksmith will not refine such an inferior product. Only absent-minded people can make something so bad.

"I'm sorry, Master, I'm at a fork in the road in my life, I don't know how to choose the path ahead, and I'm really not in the state today." Marker said apologetically.

"There will always be many choices in life, and you will never know if the choice is correct or not, but as long as you make a choice, then don't regret it, and go back and think about it today. Make a choice, calm your mind, and come back to continue your studies. "Master Craftsman understands very well, who has never been confused.

"Well, I'll think about it." Mark put down his tools and walked towards a certain address. (To be continued.) )