Tonight, it's the moon again.

Yuan Mai and Zhen Yao raised their glasses to drink, Zhen Mi accompanied them below, and the three of them talked and laughed, and they were happy.

When he was happy, Zhen Mi ordered Luzhu to bring the guqin and stroke the qin by himself to cheer up his lover and brother. Yuan Mai was even happier in his heart, and toasted to Zhen Yao frequently, and the turbid wine in the wine jar had bottomed out.

At this moment, a carriage drove into the ancestral house of the Zhen family, and there were two servants in the carriage, and after parking the carriage, they came over and replied to Zhen Yao: "Second master, I have followed your orders and transported two hundred catties of Xuantie from Wu'an." ”

"What darksteel? What is it used for? ”

Yuan Mai suddenly became interested, and asked with a wink.

"The third brother gave you the beloved 'Chongxiao Sword', I didn't fall asleep last night, and I sent someone to Wu'an early this morning to transport Xuantie, ready to find a famous craftsman to cast a sword."

Without waiting for Zhen Yao to answer, Zhen Mi rushed to explain.

Yuan Mai smiled a little apologetically: "Third brother, I'm really sorry." However, if you want to forge a sword, don't we have iron in Yecheng? Do you want to go to Wu'an to transport rail? ”

Zhen Yao stood up and walked to the carriage with Yuan Mai, lifted the curtain and looked, only to see that the canopy was filled with a large pile of iron, which was black and shiny under the moonlight, flashing with a dark light, and at first glance it was a high-quality iron.

"This is not an ordinary iron, I served as a county lieutenant in Wu'an, responsible for local security, and arrested a salt lord the year before last. was going to sentence him to beheading, but this guy brought five hundred catties of Xuantie in exchange for his surname. I looked at it with connoisseurs, and said that it was a weapon made of this kind of iron, which was tough and sharp, and it was difficult to buy a thousand dollars. I spared his life and exchanged it for 500 catties of black iron, which I haven't been willing to use until now. Yesterday put 'Chongxiao; 'I've sent you, so I have to rebuild a good sword, a sword, but it's my lifeline! ”

Zhen Yao stroked the black iron in the carriage while explaining to Yuan Mai how the iron was obtained.

Looking at these jet-black dark irons, Yuan Mai had an idea, and suddenly remembered a good idea to envelop Wang Shuang.

said with a smile: "Okay, you are a county lieutenant Zhen, you actually pretended to be a public servant and filled your pockets, see that I don't sue you in front of the county guard." ”

Zhen Yao also smiled: "Are you embarrassed to say, who snatched love from me yesterday and snatched my 'Chongxiao'?" ”

"You only need twenty or thirty catties of black iron to forge a sword, right? Could it be that you want to build a 200-pound heavy sword, do you think you are evil? Yuan Mai asked puzzled.

"Of course, the best swords need to be carefully selected, not one is one or the other, I shipped so much iron, I want to cast dozens of them, and then choose the best one to use from them." Zhen Yao explained to Yuan Mai.

"In this case, then I will lend you a hundred catties first to recruit a big man. That's what you said! ”

Yuan Mai first said his thoughts, he had found out who the prince's full surname was, where he was now, and he was going to hire him tomorrow to go out of the mountain to assist him. is suffering from not giving him a heavy gift, and now he sees these high-grade dark irons, which is a charcoal in the snow, and he wants to forge a big knife and give it to Wang Shuang to please him.

"Good! can get such a fierce man, hegemony can be expected, not to mention a hundred catties of Xuantie, even if I want all the family business of my Zhen family, what's the matter! ”

After listening to Yuan Mai's words, Zhen Yao agreed to be neat and neat, and he was very arrogant, which made Yuan Mai even more grateful to this eldest brother.

"The best blacksmith in Yecheng is in my military camp now, why don't we go to the camp now and let him forge a peerless sword for the third brother?" Yuan Mai looked at Zhen Yao and asked for his opinion.

"Nature is the best, without further ado, let's leave now!"

Zhen Yao agreed, ordered the servants to drive the carriage out of the courtyard, and led a horse to follow Yuan Mai towards the military camp, and the brothers Fan Hu and Fan Bao followed behind the carriage to escort them.

As for Zhen Mi, she didn't let her follow. First, in this era, it is inconvenient for women to show their heads, and secondly, Yuan Mai is worried that he and Zhen Mi are too close, which will reach Yuan Shao's ears, which will cause unnecessary trouble.

Zhen Mi took the green bamboo, stood at the door, looking at the distant shadows of the group, before closing the door and returning to the house.

When he came to the city gate, Yuan Mai held Yuan Shao's token, which was naturally unimpeded. After leaving the city, he came to the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army within three or five miles.

Yuan Mai did not go to the main gate of the camp, and took Zhen Yao and his party into his camp through the side gate specially opened by Hao Zhao.

At this moment, there was a fire on an open ground, and the blacksmith Han was leading six or seven apprentices to make stirrups and horseshoes overnight; These are all simple things, and in more than an hour, forty or fifty pairs have been built.

Hao Zhao felt that these were enough for tomorrow, so he called a dozen ingenious soldiers, connected the stirrups to the saddle with leather ropes, and then loaded the horseshoes with horseshoes.

Of course, Hao Zhao would not let the blacksmiths be idle, and the reason why they stopped forging stirrups for the time being was just to let them build a worthy weapon for themselves. It's just that the Han blacksmiths have built two spears in a row, but they can't satisfy Hao Zhao. At this time, Yuan bought it back.

Yuan Mai introduced Hao Zhao and Zhen Yao to each other, and the two admired each other, exchanged a few words of greeting, and then went to see the Xuantie on the carriage together.

"Oh, this iron is so good, where did it come from?"

Looking at the black black iron on the carriage, Hao Zhao's eyes straightened, if there was such a pile of iron, why not be satisfied with the gun he made!

After asking clearly that the owner of this car of Xuantie was Zhen Yao, Hao Zhao came to beg to give him twenty or thirty catties to forge a spear. Zhen Yao is such a bold person, he immediately agreed to it.

"Hao Bodao is a hero, it should be equipped with a peerless weapon, don't say twenty or thirty catties of Xuantie, even if you use it, Yao will never say half a word."

Yuan Mai joked on the side: "That's not good, this is the bait I used to fish, and it was all used by him Hao Bodao, how can I catch Wang Shuang's big fish." ”

Hao Zhao laughed "haha", pointed at Yuan Mai and said: "Mr. Zhen, you see that my general is really a ghost, I am ashamed that he can come up with the idea of using weapons to fish Wang Shuang out of the mountain, I am afraid that he is the first person in the past, right?" However, then again, warriors love weapons, and maybe this prince will really join our team because of a peerless weapon, which can be regarded as a tiger with wings. ”

Yuan Mai is no longer verbose, and tomorrow he will have to travel a long way to Shangdang County to visit Wang Shuang. He called the blacksmith Han over and ordered him to forge a sixty-two-pound knife overnight, the shape of which can be designed to look like a tiger roaring, and he must use the fastest speed.

Blacksmith Han agreed repeatedly, and stroked a pile of Xuantie with his hand: "My old Han has been a blacksmith for thirty years, and I have never seen such a good material, if I can't make a good knife, I can't resist this high-quality material." It's just that I wondered, who can play a sixty-eight-pound big knife? ”

"Huh...... Does the second master Guan of Xuzhou know? You can use an eighty-two-pound Qinglong Yanyue knife! ”

Yuan Mai commanded the soldiers, unloaded all the black iron on the carriage, and said to the blacksmith master and apprentice Han with a smile.

"Oh, my mother, I heard the rumors of Guan Erye, saying that his old man can play a big knife of eighty-two catties, and I thought the rumors were wrong, it turned out to be true, it was really heaven and earth!"

When Blacksmith Han heard that Guan Yunchang could really use an eighty-two-pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife, he couldn't help but be amazed, and while chattering, he and his apprentices started to work, preparing to forge a sixty-eight-pound tiger head sword.

Hao Zhao and Zhen Yao knew about Guan Yunchang's heroic deeds, so they were not surprised, but they were surprised why Yuan Mai was so sure that Wang Shuang would like a sixty-eight-pound broadsword?

Yuan Mai smiled slightly: "Anyone who uses a knife is a warrior with great strength, as the so-called 'one force down ten meetings', the prince you are talking about is all burly, and he doesn't make a heavy weapon, but he is afraid that it will be difficult to call him." ”

Hao Zhao and Zhen Yao pondered, it is also the same reason, if the knife is heavy, you can reduce the weight a little more, if it is light, it will be difficult to make it heavier, and it will no longer squeak at the moment. walked up to the blacksmith Han together, described the shape of the weapon he wanted, and waited for the weapon to arrive tomorrow.

After telling the blacksmith Han, the three of them entered the handsome tent together and chatted for most of the hour, from the general trend of the world, to the forces of the princes from all walks of life, to who is the hero of the world, everything is discussed, everything is discussed. It wasn't until it was too early that I was ready to go to bed.

It was late, and Zhen Yao couldn't go back to the city, so he stayed in the barracks with his servants and waited until tomorrow when he took his sword before leaving.

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