The straight-line distance between Ai Shiyang and Wuling County No. 1 Middle School is more than thirty miles. Ai Zhongyong drove for more than half an hour before taking Liu Shiqing and his son home. It is a fairly well-developed village, with several houses at the head of the village, all of which are two-story buildings that have been built or are under construction. Ai Shiyang's grandfather's name is Ai Anti-Japanese War, and he was born in the year of Ai Shiyang's great-grandfather and great-grandmother in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Now Ai is sixty-seven years old, and he is in his prime.

Ai's home is in the middle of Aijia Village, and the house at home is a bit old, it is the kind of house made of blue bricks, the house is not very high, and the wall is still an earthen wall that is rare in many rural areas.

Ai Zhongyong parked the car in front of his father's house, and Ai Zhan heard the sound of the car and walked out of the yard. This is an emaciated, but extremely energetic old man, the most eye-catching thing on his body is a 65-style military uniform, which was originally army green, and the washing is a little white.

"Grandpa, this is my classmate, Liu Shiqing." Ai Shiyang pointed to Liu Shiqing and introduced.

Ai Zhan walked up to Liu Shiqing, and before he could react, he bowed to Liu Shiqing, "Thank you." Young man, if it weren't for you, my grandson would have to suffer for the rest of his life. ”

"Don't do this, old man." Ai Zhan Zhan is about the same age as Liu Shiqing's own grandfather, and letting such an old man give him such a big gift is going to be a long life, he hurriedly helped Ai Zhan Jian up, "Shiyang is my classmate, and it is appropriate to help each other." ”

Everyone entered the courtyard together, and what surprised Liu Shiqing was that there were a lot of cold weapons in the courtyard, all of which were weapons such as big knives, red tassel guns, spears, etc., and in the corner of the courtyard, there was a shed without walls, in which there was a set of iron-striking guys, and the fire was still burning, and two iron bars were inserted in the fire.

Ai Zhan Zhan saw Liu Shiqing looking at the guy who was striking iron with a puzzled heart, and laughed, "Let classmate Liu laugh, my old guy has nothing to do at home, so he opened this blacksmith shop, specializing in making cold weapons such as big knives for people." I don't have anything to show off, and that's all I can say. When you're gone, be sure to pick one of these weapons I've built. It's like a meeting gift from my old thing to classmate Liu. ”

The blacksmith shop is a thing that is far from the memory of many people, because of the development of modern industry, there is no blacksmith in Wuling City, let alone a blacksmith shop.

Liu Shiqing has never seen a blacksmith shop before, "Can I take a look?" ”

Ai Zhan waved his hand at his son. "Zhongyong, will you go and demonstrate it to classmate Liu?"

Ai Zhongyong answered, took off the vest on his body, revealing his bronze skin, he walked to the stove, took out a red-hot iron bar with tongs, put it on the iron felt, and beat it with a large hammer. "Uncle Ai, can you let me try it?"

Ai Zhongyong nodded, reinserted the iron bar he was beating into the fire, and then clamped out the other one with fire tongs, and then motioned for Liu Shiqing to grab the hammer and aim it at the iron bar to strike.

Ding-dong, Liu Shiqing knocked more than a dozen times, and felt very enjoyable. Then he motioned for Ai Zhongyong to hand him the tongs. Ai Zhongyong glanced at his father, and when he saw the old man nodding, he handed over the tongs to Liu Shiqing. Liu Shiqing fixed the iron bar with tongs with one hand, and beat it with a hammer with the other.

After a while, the bars cooled. The original red color turned dark red, and it couldn't be beaten. Liu Shiqing reinserted the iron bar into the stove, and used tongs to clip the one that Ai Zhongyong had inserted in it just now. However, after all, Liu Shiqing played the blacksmith for the first time, and his movements were not skilled enough, and when he pulled it out, he didn't do it well, and brought out a piece of coal, which almost smashed on him.

Ai Shiyang was frightened, and hurriedly rushed to his side, snatching all the guys in Liu Shiqing's hands, "Shiqing, don't play, if you get burned, Songsheng won't have to look for me to fight hard." Alright, you can just play for a while. ”

Ai Shiyang pushed Liu Shiqing outside the shed, and then scooped half a scoop of water and extinguished the piece of charcoal that Liu Shiqing had just brought out. I heard a loud sound, and the water was poured on the coals, and a white mist appeared. Then he heard an extremely slight explosion, Liu Shiqing's heart moved, he walked into the shed again, took out the charcoal that had been extinguished by cold water, and threw it on the ground, the charcoal cracked, Liu Shiqing squatted down and carefully pulled the ashes. I found a crystal clear particle that was nearly half smaller than a millet grain from inside, and if I didn't look closely, I couldn't find it.

"What is this?" Liu Shiqing asked curiously.

Ai Shiyang smiled: "Your eyes are sharp. This is the clay excavated from a hill at the east end of our village, after calcination. There will be these little bright spots, and I don't know what they are. Besides, what can you do with such a small size. If you like this thing, find a lot of it on the hill at the east end of the village. ”

Listening to Ai Shiyang's words, Liu Shiqing knew that this small particle should not be a good thing, maybe it was some kind of mineral, such as quartz sand or something, to put it bluntly, it was river sand or weathered sand with a relatively high silica content. Liu Shiqing took out a medicine bottle from his body and put it inside. This medicine bottle is the bottle of β-carotene he bought at the pharmacy, and it is the only nutritional product that Liu Shiqing eats to protect his eyesight and prevent myopia.

After Liu Shiqing was busy, the three generations of Ai Anti-Japanese War grandchildren sat with him in the courtyard for a while, and chatted for a while, mainly Ai Anti-Japanese War was talking, about how his father suffered from the Japanese devils, in order to prove that what he said was true, the old man also deliberately took out the family heirloom medal, which was awarded by the government after his father participated in the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Time has passed, and the medals seem a little old.

"Student Liu, the most important thing my father said to me before his death was to keep myself from being bullied. You have to make yourself stronger. We must not only be strong and strong individually, but also make our country strong, only in this way will the little devils not dare to bully us. Ai Zhan Zhan sighed, "My biggest request for my grandson is that he can be admitted to a good university in the future, learn more skills, and serve the country." But this kid, like his father, is also a master with an open mind, and his grades in school are always average. I can only lower my requirements and hope that he will be able to become a soldier in the future. With this strength, he worked hard for the country. You are his classmate, and your kung fu is higher than him, so help him more in the future. If he does something bad, it's not right, just say him. ”

Liu Shiqing smiled, "Grandpa Ai, Shiyang is a good man in our class, and he has long said that he will be the air force in the future, and maybe he will be the commander of our country's air force in the future." I said him? Don't he say I'm good? ”

After chatting for a while, the time was almost up, and Liu Shiqing hurriedly got up to say goodbye. Ai Zhan Zhan took out the most successful big knife he had built from the house, the knife was not opened, but when it was pulled out of the scabbard, the cold light was stunning, and when it danced in the air, it whined, and it looked like a good treasure knife.

"Classmate Liu, you saved my grandson, and I have nothing to repay you. I still want to have some of this knife here, so I'll give it to you. "Ai Anti-Japanese War, no matter how Liu Shiqing refuses, he wants to give this knife to Liu Shiqing alive or dead. Liu Shiqing couldn't push it, and finally had to accept the big knife made of stainless steel.

Ai Zhongyong drove Liu Shiqing and Ai Shiyang back to Wuling County No. 1 Middle School, and then drove home by himself.

Seeing Liu Shiqing carrying a knife into the classroom, Zhang Songsheng shouted, "Hero, have you walked out of the place?" This is 2012, and the games are all hot weapons, and it's too dangerous for you to carry a big knife, so let's go back to ancient times as soon as possible. ”

The students of Class 9 burst out laughing. Liu Shiqing didn't bother to pay attention to them, and stuffed the big knife into the drawer of the desk, Zhang Songsheng jumped over, and was just about to take out the knife to see what was going on. The bell rang for class.

When school was out in the afternoon, Zhang Songsheng had a chance to know what was going on. As soon as he heard that this knife was actually made by Ai Shiyang's grandfather, Zhang Songsheng shouted, "Damn, I only learned today that Old Man Ai has such skills, this is a cow." Shiyang, how much does it cost your grandfather to fight a big knife? Give me a tailor-made one, too? ”

There are a few middle school students who do not have martial arts plots, and their love for cold weapons has penetrated into the blood of many middle school students. Zhang Songsheng picked a head, and several male classmates in the class came to Ai Shiyang's side, and entrusted Ai Shiyang one after another, asking his grandfather to build a weapon for each of them, not for fighting, but to fulfill a martial arts dream.

When he went home at night, Liu Shiqing threw the big knife on the bed, and then took out the bottle containing the small piece of quartz sand. Liu Shiqing opened the bottle and poured out the quartz sand inside.

Liu Shiqing turned on the computer at home, checked some information about quartz sand on the Internet, and found that quartz sand still has some market prospects, which can be used as raw materials for glass and refractory materials, and can also be used to make quartz tubes and even computer chips, and the application prospects are very extensive. Liu Shiqing decided to talk to Wang Zewei tomorrow and ask them to send someone to Aijia Village to inspect the site to see if the hill was worth mining.

At noon the next day, Liu Shiqing called Wang Zewei and asked him to wait for him at the small restaurant at the entrance of the school.

After the two met in a small restaurant, Liu Shiqing put the quartz sand in front of Wang Zewei. Wang Zewei just glanced at it, and said in surprise: "Isn't this a diamond?" Shiqing, where did you get it from? ”