Noting down the address given by the old blacksmith, Han Rui walked towards a county seat outside the city.

Yangshou County.

It is located about twenty miles south of Cloudsdale, which is not too far.

The weights and measures of the Han Dynasty basically completely inherited the length and weight units established by the Qin Dynasty after the unification of the world, and one mile was about 400 meters in later generations.

About half an hour later, Han Rui finally walked the eight-kilometer road and came to the outside of Yangshou County.

Compared with the magnificent momentum of Yunzhong City, Yangshou County is really shabby: the city wall is two zhang at most; The moat is even more impossible.

The gate towered over four listless guards, in stark contrast to the capable soldiers in the clouds.

Han Rui shook his head secretly and stepped into the city gate.

Inside the city, it is a different scene: compared with the solemn and solemn clouds like a military camp, Yangshou County is more like a large market.

As Han Rui saw, the entire roadside that extends from the city gate to the county government is crowded with stalls set up by merchants from all walks of life, and the road, which was originally nearly five zhang wide, only a narrow passage of less than one zhang in the middle is left for people to walk.

The merchants on the roadside have different shapes, including Middle Easterners who wrap their heads with strips of cloth as in Han Rui's impression in his previous life; There are blonde Europeans, as well as short, stocky nomads.

All kinds of people gathered in the small county town of the Han-Hungarian border wall, but they all spoke an authentic northern accent!

Imagine what it would be like to see a group of Indians, Europeans, and Mongols gathered together in the afterlife, speaking the Northeast dialect with the flavor of big ballast.

Han Rui was shocked by this scene in front of him, and his jaw was about to fall to the ground!

Forget a few crooked nuts, the one with an exaggerated nose ring on his nose and his exposed shirt full of chest hair fluttering, is it really not a Huns?

It was only at this time that Han Rui felt that he was reading less...

When will people from rival countries be able to go to each other's countries to do business?

Han Rui watched in surprise as a team of patrol soldiers walked by, and actually said hello to that Hu Shang!

"The world is crazy..."

Thinking like this in his heart, Han Rui walked to his destination: Yangshou Xili.

It seems, this is actually a slum?

Han Rui walked to the oil and vinegar shop at the corner of the street and asked the vendor: "Little brother, I don't know where Tian Gong's mansion is?" ”

The peddler tightened his clothes and said casually: "Follow this alley all the way to the end, it is Tianfu,"

Han Rui thanked him and left, and the muttering of the vendor behind him caught his attention: "Another one who learns art..."

Well?

There are a lot of people who come to Old Man Tian to learn things?

That must be pretty impressive, right?

Coming to the end of the alley, Han Rui looked at the bantam courtyard in front of him and knocked on the courtyard door.

"Who!"

There was a rough roar, and the door was opened by a tall man.

Han Rui bowed and said: "The younger generation came from the clouds and looked for Tian Gong. ”

The big man didn't react as if he was stunned.

Han Rui looked at the big man with black charcoal on his face suspiciously, his face full of question marks.

The big man was stunned for a moment, and then said excitedly: "Brother Han, why are you here?!" ”

Brothers?

What the heck?

Who is this black man in front of you?

Seeing that Han Rui couldn't recognize himself, the man hurriedly wiped his face with his sleeve, and then looked at him with burning eyes.

A vague figure in his mind quickly merged with Dahan, and Han Rui's eyes gradually turned from loneliness to surprise!

"Brother Li!"

At the beginning of the defense battle in the clouds, when Han Rui was nervous and panicked when he first went to the city, dozens of people who were also panicked gathered together to encourage each other.

The person in front of him is not the cook Li Si who was disgusted by his own shopkeeper and ate a lot and was thrown in the clouds?

Although I have met this person a few times, on the battlefield where the situation is changing rapidly, the original few people have formed a deep sense of comradeship.

At the most dangerous time of the battle, in addition to Han Rui, who was unparalleled because of the demon, another strong defensive point of that section of the city wall was composed of Li Si and Sang Ji in front of him!

The two stood back to back, especially Li Si, who was holding a giant sword, leaving nearly ten corpses at the feet of the Huns!

The last time Han Rui saw him, it was him and Sang Ji who were surrounded by dozens of Huns.

I thought they were dead, but I didn't expect that not only did they survive, but they also met here again today!

Han Rui's eyes were full of joy when he looked at Li Si, and Li Si's face was the same; As if remembering something, he hurriedly turned around and shouted into the courtyard: "Third brother, Brother Han is here!" ”

Another familiar figure appeared, it was Sang Ji, who was adjacent to Han Rui at that time!

Unlike when Han Rui first met, Sang Ji's originally delicate and rich face had become tanned, and he was thinner, and a centipede-like scar on his face added a touch of masculinity to the originally weak Sang Ji.

Even when he met the deceased, Han Rui's heart was overflowing with joy, and his eyes were full of surprise when he looked at the two.

The two of them also giggled and stood at the door.

Sang Ji stepped forward and grabbed Han Rui's arm and said, "Brother Han, why did you come here?" ”

When Han Rui heard this, he also remembered what was going on, and hurriedly said, "I'm here to find Tian Gong." ”

He immediately wondered: "Brother Sang, Brother Li, why are you two here?" ”

Sang Ji looked back at Li Si, and the two sighed when they met.

"It's a long story, I'll take you to the master first."

Master?

The two of them are Bai Tian's old man as a teacher?

Led to the backyard by Sang Ji, Han Rui looked at the person in front of him, and was once again shocked on the outside and tender on the inside!

The master that the old blacksmith said was actually the middle-aged man in front of him who still had a black beard and was not yet old?

The man was fiddling with a pile of wood in the backyard, and when he heard the sound, he looked back at Han Rui: "Who are you?" ”

Han Rui hurriedly bowed and said, "Junior Han Rui, is Luan in the clouds..."

"What's the matter with me!"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted impatiently by a middle-aged man.

"Sure enough, it's a master and apprentice, and what he says is exactly the same..." Complaining in his heart, Han Rui took out the cloth with the bearing diagram from his arms and handed it to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man casually took the cloth and glanced at it, and asked, "What material do you want to make it of?" ”

Han Rui froze instantly: Can this be done with other things?

Seeing Han Rui's bewildered face, the middle-aged man said impatiently: "If it is made of woodcut, it can be done in three days, ten thousand dollars." ”

"If it is built of brass, it shall be thirty days and fifty thousand denarii."

Being straightforward by the middle-aged man, Han Rui didn't beat around the bend, and said bluntly: "It's better to use iron." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he frowned and pondered for a long time, and asked, "Is this thing used for load-bearing?" ”

Iron was also called evil gold at this time because the color was too ugly.

The one called the dollar is bronze.

The only difference between the two before was that bronze was very hard, but it was also easy to break because of it - this is the reason why it is rigid and easy to break.

The toughness of iron is relatively stronger, and if it is finely fried into steel, it is almost extremely tough.

This son is chiseled, abandoning American copper and using evil iron, obviously worried that this thing will break.

Seeing Han Rui nodded, the middle-aged man thought for a moment, then looked at the scattered wood on the ground, and casually stuffed the cloth into his arms: "Let me ponder and ponder, and give you an answer in a few days." ”

Han Rui didn't mind that the middle-aged man was so temperamental, and even felt that he was much easier to get along with than other grinding people, so he took his leave and left.

Walking back to the front yard, Sang Ji and Li Si washed up, changed into clean clothes, and sat on the threshold waiting for Han Rui.

Seeing Han Rui, Li Si stepped forward and put his arm on Han Rui's shoulder, "If we meet again, will the three of us brothers find a wine shop to drink and eat some thin wine?" ”

Han Rui was as good as a stream, and the three of them walked to the restaurant in the city.

Along the way, the three of them let out hearty laughter from time to time, attracting a burst of onlookers from the people around them.

·

After three rounds of drinking, Han Rui asked the doubts in his heart.

"Why are you doing things in the Tian family?"

Hearing this, Li Si looked at Sang Ji, sighed, and told the story of what happened after the war.

After the Huns retreated, the reinforcements from Yulinsai arrived to take over the defense of Yunzhong City, and the Minfu team was dismissed.

A few days later, the angel went to the clouds and distributed the rewards of meritorious soldiers, Li Si beheaded six in total, promoted to two levels, and rewarded 15,000 yuan; Sang Ji and the house slaves who died in the battle were beheaded at eight levels and given 20,000 yuan.

Only then did Li Si dare to go home and hand over the reward money in the crying and scolding of his mother, in order to ask his mother for forgiveness.

Mother Li was uneasy when she learned that her only son had gone up to the city wall, and after the war, Li Si did not return for a long time, so shocked that the old woman almost killed herself!

broke the incense of the old Li family, how could she not have the face to meet the ancestors of the Li family.

"My father was a blacksmith when he was alive, and I have been with my father since I was a child, and I have learned some goldsmithing skills; My mother asked me to take the reward money to do the bundle (apprenticeship ceremony), and Hetian Gong learned a skill to stand up. ”

After speaking, he said sadly: "Brother Sang's house is at the foot of Taigu Mountain outside the city, and when Brother Sang rushes back, there is no way to live..."

"Brother Sang and I worshipped Tian Gong as a teacher, and the two of us planned to wait for Yicheng to become a teacher, so we would get a blacksmith shop to support our family."

Han Rui was puzzled: "Why don't the two brothers join the army?" ”

He was left by Luan Bu at every cost, and these two people can be regarded as having martial arts, so it is impossible that there is no way out!

Sang Ji smiled bitterly and shook his head: "My family started from Shangjia, and I am not a good family..."

Seeing Han Rui looking at him, Li Si shrugged his shoulders: "My mother won't let me." ”

The situation of the two made Han Rui's heart heavy.

The two people who survived the war were actually reduced to the point of begging others with the rewards they received and teaching them to strike iron!

Raised the wine glass and took a sip, and asked again: Han Rui, "What is the origin of Tian Gong?" ”

Li Sisi poured a bowl of wine, wiped his mouth and said: "The teacher's real name is Tian Zeng; No one knows where he came from, only that everything he makes is wonderful. ”

"I heard that the war the year before last, the war situation was in danger, and the supplies from Chang'an were delayed; The county guard Wei Gong looked for Tian Gong to help. ”

"Guess what's going on?"

Li Siyi slapped his thigh, and his eyebrows flew and said: "Tian Gong was stunned to repair a few bed crossbows that had been abandoned for more than 30 years in the arsenal!" ”

"Since then, Tian Gong's reputation has started in the clouds, and I don't know how many people want to worship Tian Gong to learn art, and it is said that even His Majesty has heard of Tian Gong's name."

Han Rui nodded secretly: Such a person should be able to make bearings.

The matter in his heart was settled, and he was hurt by the experience of the two comrades-in-arms, Han Rui raised the wine bowl and drank in a deep voice: "Drink!" ”

"Today, we don't get drunk and don't go home!"