Not long after Guo Song left, Li Ande immediately put the ironwood sword into a long wooden box and handed it to his nephew An Shandao: "This sword is not safe to stay in Lingzhou, you immediately return to Zhangye City, give this ironwood sword to your aunt, and when I finish packing up the goods here, I will rush to Zhangye City to meet you, and then we will go to Baghdad!" ”

"We're leaving, what should we do with the information that the Xue Yantuo people want?"

"Can't be wrong!"

Li Ande took out a bamboo tube and handed it to An Shan, "This is the Lingwu County defense map that Xue Yantuo wanted, but there is only half of it, the Yinshan Inn at the crossing of the Yellow River is their intelligence point, you give this map to the shopkeeper Mu Ze, you tell him to pay the gold promised to me, and the other half of the key will naturally be given to them." ”

An Shan really admires the shrewdness of the uncle, it turns out that the uncle has already obtained the city defense layout map, and he doesn't see the rabbit or the eagle!

An Shan put the bamboo tube in his arms, put the iron and wood sword on his back, walked out of the back door and turned over on the horse, and said to Li Ande: "Uncle, then I'll go first!" ”

"Let's go! Don't stop along the way. ”

An Shan whipped the war horse fiercely, and the war horse galloped away, stirring up the rolling yellow dust, and it was gone away in a moment.

Li Ande pointed to his forehead, and then to his heart, clasped his palms and whispered: "May the great god Ahuramaz bless you!" ”

……….

The bazaar is close to the north gate, Anshan went out of the city directly from the north gate, and went south around the outer city, and soon the official road branched off, going directly south to Xiaoguan, and taking the southwest official road to Liangzhou.

An Shan hit his horse and galloped on the road to Liangzhou, galloping along the official road, at this time there was no one else on the official road, only his horses running in the loess and wind and sand.

He didn't notice that a goshawk had been hovering above his head.

About twenty miles away, there are still about seven or eight miles away from the Yellow River crossing in front, and there is a large willow forest on the left, An Shan slowed down his horse slightly, and looked around, there are many wild beasts here, he has to be careful.

At this moment, a person suddenly jumped down from a big tree a few steps ahead, looking at him coldly, An Shan was so shocked that his scalp was about to explode, and the person in front of him turned out to be Guo Song.

"What are you ..... you going to do?"

"I'll give you a choice!"

Guo Song said calmly: "Put down the wooden sword, you leave, if you don't let go of the wooden sword, you die!" ”

"You are despicable and shameless, and you don't believe in your words!"

"I can only blame your uncle and nephew for being too greedy, choose!"

"You son of a bitch, go die!"

An Xian scolded fiercely, and a horse galloped to the side of the wasteland, he was riding a horse, and the other party was on foot, he didn't believe that he couldn't outrun the other party.

But he only ran a dozen steps, only to see a figure pass behind him, a cold light flashed, blood flew, and a human skull rolled to the ground.

At the moment of death, An Shan suddenly remembered that he still had an extremely important piece of information in his arms, but it was too late.

…………

At night, in the study of Liang Jiabao's back house, Liang Huihe sat at the table, staring at a box on the table, and in the box was Guo Song's ironwood sword.

Liang Wu stood aside with his hands down, and said with anxiety in his heart: "Guo Song asked me to help him send this ironwood sword to the capital as a condition for him to compete for our Liang family, and the child has already agreed." ”

Liang Huihe felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, how could Guo Song be like this, he obviously promised to give the ironwood sword to others, but he turned around and killed and snatched them back, there is a moral loss, such a person, can the Liang family let him be a foreign aid? ”

He glanced back at his eldest brother and asked, "Big brother, what do you say about this?" ”

Liang Yundao stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, staring at the apricot trees in the yard, and after a while, he asked, "Wu'er, how did you originally plan to convince him?" ”

Liang Wu hurriedly bowed down and said, "Back to my uncle, my nephew heard that the blacksmith Old Man Lu had a piece of star sand in his hand, so my nephew wanted to buy it and give it to Guo Song, so that he could promise to be the Liang family's foreign aid." ”

"Is Lu Cripple willing to sell?"

"He was a little reluctant and never let go."

"Then give him my wild boar tooth wrist knife, and thank him for his willingness to compete for the Liang family."

Liang Huihe was stunned, "Big brother, do you really let him represent the Liang family?" ”

Liang Yundao glanced back at Liang Huihe, "I not only want to ask him to compete for the Liang family, but also want to make friends with him." ”

Liang Huihe was just about to speak, but Liang Yundao raised his hand to stop him, "I know what you're thinking, is he untrustworthy?" If I were him, I would do the same, I can only say that Li Ande was blinded by greed, and he didn't know until he died, this person is not only strong in martial arts, but also very scheming, why did he send him a sword from the Liang family, why didn't he go to the capital by himself, have you ever thought about the reason? ”

Liang Huihe lowered his head and said nothing, Liang Yundao looked at Liang Wu again, "What do you think of Wu'er?" ”

Liang Wu bowed his head and said, "My nephew thinks that he is actually testing the Liang family!" ”

Liang Huihe was stunned, "Why did Wu'er say that?" ”

"Father, if we feel that his character is wrong, then he will definitely walk away, and no longer have anything to do with our Liang family, he is not a fellow believer, why should he help us compete? If we readily agree to send him a sword, then he will feel that the Liang family is worthy of deep friendship. ”

Liang Yundao nodded, "Is Wu'er willing to have a deep friendship with him?" ”

"Nephew willing!"

"Why?"

"The nephew saw that he was helping Kangbao, and it was indeed the duty of the big husband, but he broke the contract and grabbed the sword, which shows that he has a bottom line, principles, and decisiveness, and will never be bound by morality, he is a person who can do great things, and it is the honor of the nephew to be friends with him."

Liang Yundao laughed, it seems that the Liang family has another excellent son who can stand alone.

At this time, there was a housekeeper outside the door who reported: "Fifth son, there are guests looking for them outside, saying that there is an urgent matter!" ”

Liang Wu hurriedly got up, "Father, uncle, the child will go first." ”

"Go ahead!"

Liang Wu saluted and hurried away.

Liang Huihe asked his brother at this time, "Big brother, do you really think Guo Song is good?" ”

Liang Yundao shook his head, "I don't think he can be described simply with good or bad qualities, some people may think that he is untrustworthy and has a bad character, but at least I personally think this person is very interesting." ”

"Big brother, I'm a little confused now."

"You! I haven't seen through my own son yet. ”

Liang Yundao smiled and said, "I use eight characters to evaluate his current situation, and you will understand." ”

"Big brother, please speak!"

Liang Yundao said slowly: "The dragon dives in the abyss, and the phoenix inhabits the forest. ”

..........

Guo Song alone in the room to play the iron horizontal knife obtained during the day, the horizontal knife of the Tang Dynasty is indeed a superb work of art, the blade is slender, extremely sharp, the front end is a straight triangle, extremely sharp, can be split and stabbed, the practicality is much more than the sword, and the back and body of this knife are very thick, at a glance you know that it is made of steel-clad technology, the skin is covered with wrought iron, the middle is sandwiched with 100 steel, the knife edge part is used with a special quenching process, repeatedly forged.

Iron should be the middle of the 100 steel, in fact, it is high-carbon steel, extremely sharp, can easily break the armor, but if all the high-carbon steel is used, it is easy to break, so wrought iron is used as the skin to ensure that the toughness of the blade is not deformed.

There is also a line of words at the lower end of the knife body, the ordnance supervision system, that is, the order of the Son of Heaven to make it, since it weighs twenty-five pounds, it is the special system of the ordnance superintendent, not a standard horizontal knife, and I don't know how Li Ande got it.

Guo Song is still very satisfied with this knife, although he has used the ironwood sword for many years and has been handy, but there are already two extremely fine lines on the tip of the ironwood sword, I don't know if it is a scratch or a crack, there was no before, but after he cut the wild boar, the fine lines appeared, which made Guo Song really a little frightened, in case the ironwood sword was destroyed in his hands, he really couldn't explain it to his master and senior brother.

And he already knows the origin of the ironwood sword, and has completed the master's entrustment, and then he has to hand it over to the senior brother, uphold the master's last wish, and let it be passed on from generation to generation.

"Is my brother asleep?" Liang Wu's voice came from the courtyard.

Guo Song walked out with a smile, "I haven't slept yet, Brother Xian has something to do with me?" ”

Liang Wu pointed to the old man behind him, "This is the old man Lu of the blacksmith shop, he wants to sell Xingsha to the virtuous brother." ”

Guo Song was stunned and asked puzzledly, "Why did you sell it to me?" ”

Blacksmith Lu limped forward and said: "Because Gongzi helped Kang Bao return to his hometown, I can't be grateful, so I decided to take out Xingsha, please forgive me for not being able to give it to Guo Gongzi, I still have to raise my grandson." ”

"You're welcome, I'll just buy it, my husband, please come in and talk."

Guo Song invited the two into the house, the old blacksmith was not verbose, he took out a cloth bag directly from his arms and put it on the table, he opened the cloth bag layer by layer, inside is a fist-sized piece of ore, carefully look at it is made of countless small blue particles polymerized, dotted, in the light looks very gorgeous and bright, but it seems to be inlaid with countless small sapphires, hence the name star sand.

Guo Song picked up the star sand, it didn't feel very heavy, it was definitely not meteoric iron, and he had never seen such a thing.

Guo Song put down the star sand and asked, "Can my husband tell me how it came about?" ”

"It's the spoils of war!"

Lu blacksmith said: "When I was young, I was a blacksmith in the Shuofang army, and once I fought a fierce battle with the Turkic army, defeated the enemy, and there was this among the trophies, and the general thought that it was used for smelting, so he rewarded him, but I knew that it was the Gasha of the Gas, and when I built a weapon, I mixed it with molten iron, and the weapon created was particularly sharp, generally only a piece as big as a little finger was enough, and the Gasa on the grassland was also very fine, like such a big one, I also saw it for the first time." ”

Guo Song didn't know if he was useless, he saw Liang Wu desperately glaring at him, so he asked with a smile: "How much silver does my uncle plan to sell me?" ”

Blacksmith Lu thought for a while and said, "I am reluctant to sell someone for three hundred taels of silver, but I want to raise my little grandson, and my son will give me one hundred and fifty taels." ”

Guo Song went back to the room and took a bag of silver and handed it to him, "This is two hundred taels of silver, I don't have any more, my husband will accept it!" ”