In the corner of the shop, Chen Xian saw a different kind of stove, next to which some wooden boxes were placed haphazardly, and some brown sand was piled up next to the boxes.

With experience, Chen Xian guessed that this was some sand casting utensils.

Sure enough, he soon saw some wooden molds of ploughshares, pots, hammers and other utensils not far away.

With this judgment, Chen Xian quickly saw that this unusual furnace should be the one that melted pig iron.

Just as Chen Xian was squatting on the ground with great interest and observing this set of primitive sand casting utensils, a strong old man walked in from the back door of the shop.

The old man's arms were thick, his hands were thick, and his dark face was full of ravines, with a stern look, and the moment he entered the shop, the atmosphere in the shop changed, and the sound of blacksmiths tapping and apprentices pulling bellows became dense.

Seeing the old man walking towards him, Chen Xian consciously left the shop.

Chen Xian still understands that no matter what he does now, it will only make the owner of this shop hate him even more after knowing his identity.

Leaving the blacksmith shop, Chen Xian continued to wander around the village.

The side of this square earthen enclosure is about 700 meters long, and nearly one-third of the area in the Zhuangzi is farmland, and the real streets are only east and west, north and south.

It only took Chen Xian half an hour to walk through all the two streets, and to his surprise, he saw a carpentry workshop in a secluded part of the east street, in which bows and arrows were sold, and he saw a hard bow of about sixty or seventy pounds in the shop.

After some bargaining, Chen Xian talked about the price of this bow from four to three six hundred yuan, and he returned to Yang's mansion to get the money and bought this bow.

In the process of shopping, Chen Xian also found that there was a military village in the southeast and northwest corners of Zhuangzi.

As soon as he inquired, it turned out that these two military villages were stationed in the Bai family and the Yang family's Zhuang Ding.

Chen Xian saw through the fence of the military village from a distance that Zhuang Ding was training inside, riding horses and archery, and arranging formations, which was very lively, and it looked very professional.

At first glance, it is very surprising, but when you think about it carefully, it is relieved that since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Han people in North China have suffered a lot, and for more than 100 years, they have been under the rule of foreign races.

The people of the Jin Kingdom have just changed from a tribe to a state, and they are ruled by foreign races, and this level of governance can be imagined, and the local turmoil can also be imagined.

Under such an environment, it is natural for the landlord clans in various places to build Wubao and form private armed forces to protect themselves.

In this way, after a hundred years, if the landlord armed forces did not have some professionalism, I am afraid that they would have become a thief's meal.

Probably familiar with Zhuangzi, Chen Xian returned to Yang's mansion.

After lunch, Chen Xian stopped the maid surnamed Wu who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and said: "Sister Wu, I came to this East Zhuangzi, I am not familiar with my life, and I don't have any friends, I heard my sister say, your San Lang is a good man, and he is the head of the brand in the Yang family's bravery, and he wants to invite San Lang out to eat and drink, I don't know if it is abrupt?" ”

The so-called brand head is the ten commanders in the army, and this rank is passed from the Jin army, Chen Xianchu didn't understand, and only found out after inquiring.

Hearing this, Wu said with a smile: "My San Lang likes to make friends with good men the most, and my San Lang definitely likes a good man like Chen Zhuangshi." ”

Chen Xian said goodbye to Wu Maid, and asked her to invite San Lang to eat at the only wine and food shop in Zhuangzi later.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Xian came to the wine and food shop and asked the owner to prepare the wine and food.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the maid surnamed Wu led a tall young man into the hotel, and Chen Xian hurriedly greeted him.

Wu's maid introduced both parties and left.

Chen Xian invited Wu Sanlang to take a seat, and the two sides exchanged names, Wu Sanlang's real name is Wu Liang, and he is the third in the family.

After Chen Xiantong got his name, he claimed to be the second in the family.

People in the Song Dynasty liked to call them brothers, and even in the emperor's house, they were also called the third brother and the fourth brother, so Chen Xian called Wu Liang and Wu Sange, and Wu Liang called Chen Xian to be Chen's second brother.

Chen Xian asked Wu Liang to come out, in order to borrow the other party, naturally he tried his best to do what he liked, and talked with the other party.

This Wu Liang is not very old, and he is brave in the village, dancing with guns and sticks all day long, naturally good at martial arts, and the two naturally talked about martial arts guns and sticks.

In terms of martial arts, Chen Xian lacks actual combat training and is not a real master, but when it comes to theoretical knowledge, let alone Wu Liang, a small Zhuang Ding, even if he is a master in the world, he is not necessarily Chen Xian's opponent.

Traditional Chinese martial arts originated in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and declined in the Qing Dynasty.

And Chen Xian's martial arts theory, and from the "Ji Xiao Xinshu", "Sword Classic", "Arm Record" and other hand-me-down works, its author is not a famous general, or a famous artist, the author of the era, and the Ming Dynasty, the most prosperous martial arts, can be said to be the pinnacle of Chinese martial arts.

Such martial arts classics are everywhere on the Internet in modern times, but in ancient times, they were the secrets of many Jiangmen families.

Especially after the Qing Dynasty, such military books and martial arts books have become banned books, which have been included in the four libraries of the whole book, and put them on the shelf, and it is a capital crime for the people to keep them privately.

In the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, it was even more forbidden for folk martial arts to practice, and the folk martial artists were forced into the secret sect. Since then, the combination of traditional martial arts and the ethereal mantra of luck in the sect has gradually detached itself from actual combat, fallen into mysticism, and gone astray.

In the Song Dynasty, Chen Xianna came from the heyday of martial arts, and the martial arts theories left by famous generals can be said to be ahead of the times.

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The two talked about guns, and Chen Xian casually discussed, so that Wu Liangmao was stunned, and he was shocked, and he was going to take Chen Xian to his home to ask for advice.

Chen Xian didn't refuse, but he said first: "The third brother doesn't know, he had to meet a famous teacher when he was a teenager, but he didn't want to do anything more, he didn't want to work hard, since the family was in trouble, he knew the benefits of martial arts, but it was too late, and now I have a low eye, I'm afraid I want to disappoint the third brother." ”

Wu Liang just didn't believe it, and dragged Chen Xian to his house.

Wu Liang has four brothers and sisters, he has two brothers and one sister, their parents are slaves of the Yang family, the elder sister is a maid in the Yang Mansion, the eldest brother is a steward in the Yang family's caravan, and the second brother has planted twenty acres of good water for the Yang family.

Now Wu Liang has separated from each other, and there is a grass house in the northeast of Zhuangzi.

When he arrived at Wu Liang's house, it was already dark, Wu Liang put a torch in the yard, took out two long sticks of one zhang four or five (about four meters and five) from the shelf in the corner of the courtyard, and Chen Xian had one for each person, and he wanted to fight.