"Darkiron!" The water said softly and gently.

"Darksteel?" Chen Xu thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly stood up and laughed, "I see, meteorite iron is indeed much harder than ordinary steel, and it is really my virtuous helper to wake up the dreamer with a soft word!" ”

"I also know, Madame is talking about your Xuantie Sword!" Fan Caiying also reacted.

"Yes, when I and my brother Wuya went down the mountain, Shizun gave us a Xuantie sword, this Xuantie legend is the residue of the heavenly immortal refining weapon, and it was abandoned to the people when it was useless, and it was inadvertently obtained by Shizun when he traveled, so he entrusted a craftsman to create these two swords, one large and one small, the big one was given to the senior brother, and the small one was given to me, last time it was snatched by Huangshi Gong, but it was still snatched back by the husband......"

Shui stood up softly and quickly went to his room to fetch a dagger.

"Choking~" With the sound of the gently tense spring popping away, the water gently drew out the short sword, the jet-black blade flickered with a sharp cold light under the light of the furnace fire, and the temperature of the furnace seemed to suddenly drop by a few degrees.

"This black iron sword is extremely sharp and sharpens iron like clay, the master once said, this black iron is the hardest thing in heaven and earth, in order to build these two swords, it took several years to succeed, just polishing has worn out countless pieces of stone, husband, please see, there is a natural texture on this blade, almost indestructible, I used this sword to cut off the bandits' blades in Wancheng, if it weren't for this sword, I might have died!"

Shui spoke softly and handed the Meteorite Sword to Chen Xu.

At the beginning, Chen Xu naturally knew that the opponent was a strong martial arts Xuanwu Wei, because of the theft of the white snake biography written by Shui Qingrou, he was stabbed seven or eight times by Shui Qingrou, and later, although there was no follow-up, it is estimated that it had been hung up, and that time, Shui Qingrou was also hit hard, and it took more than half a year to recover after recuperating in Wancheng and Qinghe Town.

Time is like flowing water, and five or six years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Xu sighed and looked at the short sword in his hand, which was no longer than a foot.

He had seen this sword many times.

In general, the workmanship of this sword is very ordinary, the copper calyx, the horn handle, the fine twine is wrapped on it, the sword body is not smooth, it looks a little pitted, but the hand is extremely heavy, if you look closely, you can still see the natural lines like moire on the blade, and there will be a feeling of dizziness if you look at it for too long, and this sword has fought several times in the hands of the water gentle, but the blade is still extremely sharp, and there is almost no trace of collapse, which shows that the sword made of meteorite iron is indeed much harder than bronze and ordinary steel.

"Husband, this sword is useless now, you can take it to the factory to make knives for cutting steel, and make the most of it!" Shui stood beside Chen Xu softly and said softly.

"No, no, this sword was made by the predecessors of Chi Songzi at a huge cost, it's a pity that it's damaged, you better put it away as a souvenir, although this dark iron is rare in the world, it is not nowhere to be found, and it is not too urgent to use it at the moment, I asked Chen Ping to advertise in the newspaper and collect it with a lot of money, maybe I will be able to get some soon!"

Chen Xu inserted the short sword back into the scabbard and gently placed it in Shui's gentle hand.

"Sister Shui, what my husband said is reasonable, this sword is a gift from your teacher, don't give it up easily, Xuantie is not unobtainable, I heard that there is one in the palace!" Ying Shiyan spoke.

"Really?" Chen Xu turned his head to look at Ying Shiyan in surprise.

"It should be good, I heard that more than ten years ago, there was a Yan country priest who came to visit his father and sent a piece of dark iron, weighing nine catties and nine taels, his father originally wanted to gather the world's famous sword casting masters to make a sword, but he was never able to smelt it successfully, and then there was no more ......."

According to historical records, Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne and became the emperor, and the jade of Kunshan has the treasure of easy-going, the pearl of the bright moon, the sword of Tai'a, and the jewels are all purple and gold equipment with superb attributes.

However, after Chen Xu saw Qin Shi Huang, he found that these are all legends, Qin Shi Huang looks quite frugal on weekdays, wears silk linen, wears jade beads, and wears a sword Chen Xu has never seen him pull out, but the scabbard is slender, it should be an ancestral sword of Qin, with symbolic significance, as for whether it is like the legendary Tai A who will fly sand and stones as soon as he pulls it out, he doesn't know, but it must be a sharp sword, when Jing Ke stabbed Qin, Qin Shi Huang used this sword to slash Jing Ke's thigh and escaped.

In the era when coal was not used to smelt metals, it was difficult to smelt ordinary iron and stone, let alone melt meteorite, a lump of iron meteorite when passing through the atmosphere, the temperature generated by friction was as high as thousands of degrees, at this high temperature, most of the material will be vaporized, can stay and fall to the earth, and the rest are almost the most difficult to melt the essence part, so the hardness of meteorite is also recognized by the world, to build meteorite into a weapon, the difficulty is not ordinary.

Therefore, Chen Xu still agrees with the meteorite sword that Shui said softly, and at least cut off the bronze weapon.

It seems that he will have to make a trip to the palace and ask the emperor for a piece of meteorite iron to make a knife head.

Of course, at the same time, it is also possible to advertise in newspapers to solicit meteoric iron, and drill bits on lathes are consumables, and before high-strength alloy steel is refined, the more reserves the better.

And after getting the gentle reminder of the water, Chen Xu's mood is extremely comfortable, with meteoric iron as the knife head, you can try to drill the barrel of a few pistols, and then start to develop bullets, if possible, it should not be too difficult to make a few revolvers, so that you will have a stronger self-protection ability in the face of danger in the future.

Suddenly, a night passed, and the next morning, Chen Xu couldn't wait to get up from the warm bed.

"Husband, it snowed heavily last night, and it's freezing today, why do you get up so early and sleep for a while!" Like a kitten, Meng Wan curled up in the quilt, lazily hugging Chen Xu's waist and sleepy-eyed.

"Today I'm going to the palace to meet the emperor and see if I can ask for a piece of meteoric iron!" Chen Xu said as he got dressed.

Meng Wan had no choice but to get up to help Chen Xu dress, and the quilt covering her body slipped off, revealing a snow-white and smooth body.

"You sleep a little longer, cover the quilt, don't catch a cold!" Chen Xu smiled and helped Meng Wan wrap the quilt, and then hugged her arms and touched her hands again, only to touch Meng Wan's charming eyes like silk and gasp for breath before she got out of bed satisfied.

But when Chen Xu opened the door with his clothes on, a pair of eyes widened.

it!

I saw that the courtyard outside the door was covered in snow, and the ground was at least nearly two feet deep in snow, and three servants were shoveling snow in the courtyard, and the snow was up to knees.

The sound of Chen Xu opening the door alarmed the servants, and the three of them hurriedly put down their tools together and saluted.

"Hou Ye is early!"

"How can there be so much snow?" Chen Xu stayed for a long time before his face trembled a few times and muttered to himself.

"Master Hou, the heavy snow has not stopped last night, and it will naturally accumulate so thick in a few hours, Master Hou still goes back to the room to sleep again, and he will definitely not be able to go to the court today!" An old servant with gray hair said with a smile.

"Alas!" Chen Xu couldn't help sighing, but now that he was crawling up, it was not interesting to go to sleep again, so Chen Xu knocked on the room of the maid next to him and ordered him to bring hot water to wash his face and brush his teeth.

"By the way, how is the greenhouse, has it been crushed by snow?" Chen Xu asked while buttoning his clothes.

"Back to Master Hou, someone has been cleaning the snow on the roof of the greenhouse last night, and the greenhouse has not collapsed!" The old servant replied quickly.

"That's good!" Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly put on his clothes, and soon the four maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter also brought hot water towels, toothpaste and toothbrushes, when Chen Xu was washing, the water was soft and came in from the courtyard gate with a sword in a black suit, with a touch of blush on his beautiful cheeks, and beads of sweat on his forehead, he should have gotten up early and was practicing swords.

"Why did you get up so early!" Shui Gentle hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"I originally wanted to go to the palace to ask the emperor for a piece of meteoric iron, but it seems that I can't go, it's cold, you should also quickly wash up and change into clean clothes, so as not to catch a cold!" Chen Xu said helplessly.

After Chen Xu finished washing, the water was gentle and came out with clean clothes, and at this time, Ying Shiyan came over to say goodbye with Chen Xi in her arms, and after Meng Wan also got up, Fan Caiying also dressed neatly and wrapped in a delicate mink cloak accompanied by several maids to come to say goodbye, and then a group of women hugged Chen Xu to the restaurant for breakfast.

"What about Xing'er and Yu Ji?" After sitting down, Chen Xu found that the two girls were not there.

"I saw them go to the front yard just now, they should have gone to see the reunion!" Shui Qingrou personally helped Chen Xusheng to come to millet porridge and said with a smile.

"Husband, with such a big snowfall, it seems that we can't go out today, let's go to the door to build a snowman later, okay?" Meng Wan said as she ate her breakfast.

"Good!"

Steamed buns with tofu and a few pickles, and then boiled thick millet porridge, although relatively simple, but also delicious to eat, two buns and a bowl of rice porridge under the stomach, Chen Xu was satisfied with Chen Xi in the company of several wives to go to the front yard, sure enough, I heard the laughter of Xing'er and Yu Ji from afar, and when I arrived at the front yard, I saw two girls running back and forth in the snow with two heads, and several big dogs were also jumping around, and the scene was a lively mess.

"Brother, the reunion is crazy, haha, come and save me!" Apricot ran and rolled in the snow, and Chen Xu, who was just watching, couldn't stop twitching.

"Daddy, I'm going to play with my aunt!" Chen Xi shouted excitedly.

"Well, go ahead!" Chen Xu put his daughter down as soon as he let go of his hand, and then the snow flooded to his chest, and Chen Xi could only turn his innocent little face to look at his father.

Well, Chen Xu hurriedly dug his daughter out of the snow.