Without waiting for Luo Qing to ask, Ke Jian, who was standing next to the newly formed sword that was still a little hot, looked at his new work with a smile on his face, and slowly explained: "I guess what you are most curious about now should be what advantages this sword has, but I want to say that I don't fully know about this. ”

Luo Qing looked suspicious, but did not speak.

"Our Ke family has a habit of recycling scrap iron and rebuilding it in the furnace. Last month, a mason quietly sent a sword, and he just wanted our Ke family to help him remove the gems from the scabbard intact, and he sold the rest to the blacksmith as scrap metal. Ke Jian said as he took off the long sword, put the sword in front of him, flexed his fingers and lightly touched the blade, and then sighed: "Good thing!" ”

When Qiao Cui saw this scene, he couldn't help but quip: "That mason must regret selling it to you if he wants to know how good this sword is." ”

"Not necessarily." Qu Xia on the side argued, "I'm afraid that even if he knows the goodness of this thing, he may not be able to use it well, just like we just now, just one hour of hard work, burned the manuscript of a civil engineering strongman for nearly ten years." ”

Qiao Cui was silent when he heard this, and after a moment he nodded silently, as if he had an understanding.

Listening to the conversation between the two people, Ke Jian's hand stroking the sword stopped, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I don't know if the mason knew the merits of this sword, he would have taken it elsewhere, because that craftsman could not know the true face of this sword at all." ”

"When this sword was delivered, the scabbard and the body of the sword had been poured with molten iron, and it was almost a waste sword that could not be pulled out. If it weren't for the gems in its scabbard, ordinary people would probably have used it as a piece of scrap metal when they got it. Just find an iron shop for some scraps! ”

"Among the residents in this vicinity, some people know that my Ke family will also make swords for some people with special status, and will have the skill of inlaying gold and inlaying treasures, and naturally will also have the ability to melt gold and cut pearls, so this sword has a fate to my Ke family's iron shop, melt its sheath, and take its blade."

Listening to Ke Jian tell the origin of this sword, Qiao Cui couldn't help but interject: "Say so." This sword is your ready-made goodies? No wonder you said just now that you were refining a sword, but in fact you were just smearing something on this sword. ”

"I don't think it's that simple." Luo Qing said disapprovingly: "I have heard a saying that after some sword weapons are cast, it is difficult to fuse with other substances. It must have taken a lot of effort to figure out its properties by attaching the two liquids just now to this sword, but there must also be a reason why it must be done, right? ”

"You've heard a lot!" Qiao Cui said half-jokingly: "But I remember that you don't seem to be in the sword forging business?" ”

"What Xiao Luo just said is probably the right way." Ke Jian laughed, and then said slowly: "This sword is connected to the scabbard when it is subjected to the refining of the furnace. To my surprise, the scabbard, the hilt, and the outer layer of the sword were all refined. The hilt of the scabbard was destroyed, and it was not difficult for my Ke family to redo it, but after the sword body lost the kind of substance on the surface, the sword gall was excluded, and the remaining part began to show signs of falling apart. So in the end, I thought of a lot of options. It's just to reforge its surface. ”

Luo Qing pondered for a moment and asked, "How precious is such a sword that is easy to fall apart if it loses its surface substance?" If it is against a hard weapon, isn't it easy to break? ”

"Not really." Ke Jian smiled and said: "Casting a sword is sometimes like building a wall, a wall that is too high must be supported by beams and bones, and it is not enough to rely on bricks alone. However, although the material that makes up the beams and bones is hard, it is impossible for a wall to be stacked with this material alone, and it has to be combined with mud bricks. To forge a sword, you need a sword gall, fine iron, and a moderate amount of quenching compound. As for their complementarity in nature and in the control of quantity. This is where the refiner is tested. ”

Luo Qing's face gradually showed a look of admiration, and Qiao Cui on the side became a little impatient when he listened to it, and said bluntly: "Old Ke, I don't understand what you said. Even if you understand that it's useless to me, you should just talk about the advantages of this sword! ”

"Haha, I can't help but talk a lot with new works, it's me who is verbose." Ke Jian laughed heartily, then calmed down, his fingers stroked the lines on the sword body that followed an irregular route, and said slowly: "When it comes to the characteristics of this sword, that is, its adsorption power, and encountering it with a light and fast hidden weapon is considered to be an encounter with a nemesis." It's a pity that it seems that when it is in the furnace, some kind of substance is lost in the sword body, so its adsorption force may not be as strong as before it is unsheathed, but it can refine the magnet into the sword body, and the craftsman who cast this sword must obviously be a master. ”

"Besides, this pattern should be the mark left by a certain substance in the sword body when I was recasting it when it hit the surface. It comes from the origin of the sword, and is not carved by craftsmen from the outside of the sword, so it will not cause cracks and cause cracks in the sword body, affecting the toughness and resistance of the sword. The wound caused by this sword will be torn, which is more painful than the smooth sword body or single or double groove swords, and if it is a straight stabbing wound, it will be more difficult to heal and will accelerate bleeding. ”

Hearing Ke Jian talk about this, Qiao Cui's brows couldn't help jumping, and he couldn't help but remind: "Old Ke, can you not explain this aspect in such detail?" ”

Ke Jian was slightly stunned when he heard this, then he coughed dryly, and then said: "Okay, then let me tell you about its other strength, which should actually be consistent with the basic characteristics of other swords, that is, its unusual toughness. However, this sword has only a blunt edge, which is a combination of blunt and sharp weapons, and how hard the iron weapon it can cut depends on the strength of the martial arts of the person holding it. This trait gives it a terrifying upper limit of its slashing ability, but in the hands of a person who does not have kung fu, it may not be able to perform this trait, and will become like an iron rod. ”

Luo Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Then this sword seems to be more suitable for Lord Li." ”

"No, this sword is hidden and sharp, tenacious and far-reaching, although Lord Li is profound in martial arts, I still stick to my original idea, it is not the most suitable sword weapon for Lord Li, its owner should be Mr. Lin." Ke Jian pondered for a moment and continued: "It seems that Mr. Lin should have entered the capital, but this sword is still one step late. He didn't take you with him, and I'm afraid this trip will be in danger. He asked you to ask about Fang Tianji, it's the time to prepare for the war! If you have the chance, please bring him this sword. ”

After Ke Jian finished speaking, he handed the sword in his hand to Luo Qing.

Luo Qing was stunned for a moment after taking the sword, this sword was not too heavy, but he thought of another thing,

Then he asked, "Just give it to him?" Is there no scabbard? ”

"The original scabbard was melted down." Ke Jian hesitated: "With its adsorption properties, there is no scabbard suitable for it in my iron shop. ”

"Hahaha, Lao Ke, you hit too much iron, and your head is about to turn into iron!"

As soon as Ke Jian's words were finished, a young man's voice suddenly sounded in the blacksmith's forging room, the voice seemed to suddenly come out of the ground, the tone was clear, and there was obvious irony in the tone.

In fact, the voice did come from the ground, because the young man who spoke was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and suddenly jumped up from the ground like a rabbit. To be precise, he drilled up from the underground forging room just now through the mouth of an exhaust fan, and his figure shook over an exhaust fan, and then he took a vertical leap, hooked his calf to the beam, turned over and turned to the top of the beam, and then began to look at the sword in his hand.

"Silly Lu?"

"Lu Sheng?"

After Qiao Cui and Ke Jian let out an exclamation at the same time, Luo Qing only felt that the clothes around him were fanned, and then his hand was empty, and the bladeless sword had already reached the young man's hand.

"Xiao Lu!" Luo Qing looked at Lu Sheng, who was kneeling on the beam of the house, accumulating momentum, and could leave at any time, his tone of surprise gradually pressed, and he called out angrily: "Why are you here?" Didn't you think about it behind closed doors in the group? ”

"You and my sister are not here, who in the group can stop me? Whether I want to leave or not depends on my mood. Lu Sheng's voice was relaxed, he stretched out his fingers and flicked the sword in his hand, then brought it to his ear and listened to it, and then muttered, "Okay...... A strange sword. ”

Luo Qing frowned and said in a deep voice, "Why don't you come down quickly?" I was disrespectful to Uncle Ke just now, and I apologized immediately! ”

Lu Sheng moved away from the sword that was close to his ear, pinned the blade behind him, and then bowed to Ke Jian, and said, "Uncle Ke, I made an offensive statement just now, just to grab the sword. I decided that I would take it to Kyoto to find Lord Hayashi, and with such a thing, I could have found a reason for this trip. But please forgive me for not coming down and apologizing to you, because I'm afraid that Brother Luo will knock me unconscious like last time. ”

When Ke Jian saw Lu Sheng, he didn't have the slightest anger on his face, he just said after a little consideration: "Uncle doesn't blame you, but don't damage my things when you leave later." ”

Lu Sheng nodded and smiled: "Got it." As he spoke, his half-bent legs suddenly kicked up, bounced up from the beam, jumped out of the left and right, and kicked his legs on another beam, and then closed his shoulders tightly, and straightened his whole body, like a narrow willow leaf, stabbing at a large exhaust fan embedded in the wall of the house, and his back and chest flew out against the slowly moving upper and lower plank fan blades.

Watching Lu Sheng's figure pass through the exhaust fan, Ke Jian was a little surprised that he was walking in such a hurry, and suddenly remembered something, he shouted loudly: "When Kyoto enters the city, there are some restrictions on weapons, you need to find a carpenter shop first, make a wooden scabbard to seal this sword." ”

"Got it!" The three words that had been repeated outside the house faded away...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation