Chapter 45: Ou Yezi
Looking at Fang Jie's complacent look, Wu Song felt that the group of Taoists must have suffered a lot of losses in Zhujiazhuang, and when he asked, sure enough, there were really a few Taoists who suffered a big loss.
It turned out that according to Zhu Long, half a month ago, not long after the news of Li Ying's killing came out, that group of Taoists appeared in Zhujiazhuang, they had just finished killing Li Ying, thinking that Zhujiazhuang was nothing more than that, and they wanted to rob the ancient picture.
But when they came to this mansion, the appearance of a large number of masters, including Fang Jie and Luan Tingyu, made them suffer a big loss. The male Taoist who led the way was not lightly injured, and in the end, he escaped only by covering with precious wind and thunder bullets.
Wu Song saw that although Zhu Long spoke easily, but he was thinking in his mind, who knows if those Taoists have left, in Wu Song's eyes, those who are as proud as them are, after suffering a loss, will they leave easily, maybe they are waiting for the opportunity to move, waiting to be a yellow bird.
But Fang Gongzi was in a good mood, Zhu Long naturally would not disobey him, and he still echoed in his mouth, "That is, Fang Gongzi's strength that day is obvious to all, so I Zhu Jiazhuang is also full of confidence that Gongzi can get this ancient map." ”
Fang Jie tapped his chin, his eyes were full of smugness, indeed, when it came to martial arts, Fang Jie was definitely full of confidence in himself, but he was self-absorbed for a while, and soon regained his sharp thinking, he asked, "Zhu Gongzi mentioned this matter, I don't know what his intentions are?" ”
Zhu Long also knew this Fang Jie's temper, and knew that he couldn't be easily ambiguous, so he replied directly, "That day, that group of Taoists came to my Zhujiazhuang to rob Gu Tu, and several other forces also dispatched manpower, although I don't know if it was all out, but Zhu Mou observed for a long time and found that one of them seemed to be a great threat to Fang Gongzi. ”
"It's that tiger-headed kid, although I don't know his name, but this person's martial arts are amazing." But Fang Jie was indeed a person who was quite conceited about his martial arts, he only paused for a moment, and then said with a look of war, "However, I will definitely be able to defeat him." ”
Seeing Fang Jie being so stubborn, Zhu Long said with some concern, "But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of just in case, so in order to ensure that Gu Tu can smoothly reach Fang Gongzi's hands, Zhu Mou came up with a way, and this method requires the cooperation of Wu Dutong." ”
Wu Song had already boarded the thief ship at this time, and he said in a calculated manner, "Please wish the eldest prince to make it clear how he wants Wu to cooperate." ”
Zhu Long said eloquently, it turned out that his idea was to manipulate the list of martial arts competitions, and let Wu Song compete with that master first, if Wu Song wins, the result of Fang Jie's competition with him will naturally be self-evident, and if he loses, Fang Jie will also figure out the routine of this master, and he will be more sure to deal with it.
Wu Song listened to it for a long time, and then he realized that the idea of feeling this eldest prince Zhu turned out to be to let himself be a golden stone, and he had achieved the goal of letting Fang Jie know in his heart.
This so-called Gubai steel smelting diagram, Fang Jie and they cared about it, but Wu Song didn't pay attention to it at all, he thought for a while, and replied, "Since Zhu Gongzi has this wonderful plan, why shouldn't Wu do it, it's just that before Wu agrees to this condition, can you ask both of you to agree to me on one condition." ”
Zhu Long didn't know why, and was slightly stunned.
Fang Jie seemed to have expected it, he took the lead and said, "It's easy to talk about those two brothers of yours, I can release that Toutuo first, and when you fulfill your promise, I will release that friend of yours surnamed Wang." ”
Wu Song thought for a while, and felt that it could only be like this for the time being, and he replied, "Since Fang Gongzi is so sincere, I will not break my promise." ”
Then, Wu Song put forward conditions to Zhu Long, and his conditions were very simple, just ask the divine doctor An Daoquan to heal a person for himself. Wu Song's intention was very simple, he planned to deceive the divine doctor first, and then secretly send him back to Huazhou to let him treat Xiulian.
"Divine Doctor An Daoquan!" When Zhu Long heard this name, he couldn't help but be shocked, he stared at Wu Song with expectant eyes, and said slowly, "This is naturally no problem, but please tell me the truth, do you know a person named Shi Jin?" ”
Looking at Zhu Long's somewhat expectant gaze, Wu Song had an illusion, as if in Zhu Long's heart, the weight of this divine doctor An Daoquan was not as important as Shi Jin.
But in the case of friend and foe, Wu Song will not say anything, not to mention that Shi Jin personally said that he came to Zhujiazhuang for revenge, unless he has something to hide from himself. However, this is not something that Wu Song should consider now, he fully developed his specialty of pretending to be confused, and said with a puzzled face, "Shi Jin, I have also heard of the name of this good man, but I don't know where he is, what, is there something wrong with Zhu Gongzi looking for this person?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhu Long said perfunctorily, but there was a gloomy look in his eyes that could not be concealed.
Looking at Luan Tingyu, who was slightly excited, Wu Song was a little confused in his mind, what was the relationship between them, and how could it make people feel so awkward.
Then, the four of them discussed for a while, discussing the specific situation in six days. This discussion unconsciously went into the middle of the night. Fang Jie and Zhu Long both left one after another, and only Luan Tingyu and Wu Song were left in the room.
Wu Song originally wanted to leave, but Luan Tingyu was forced to stay, and Wu Song had some questions to ask him clearly, so the two stayed in the room.
"Senior brother, finally there are only the two of us left, we haven't been like this for a long time, let's talk about it." Luan Tingyu stared at Wu Song, a look of nostalgia flashed in his eyes.
Luan Tingyu said the truth, but Wu Song was shocked in his heart, because he didn't know how good Wu Song and Luan Tingyu were, so he could only respond, "Yes, yes." ”
"Why does the junior brother seem to be separated from me, in the past, the two of us ate at the same table and slept at the same table, alas, who told us that we don't have a prominent family background, so we can only be a registered disciple." Luan Tingyu seemed to be haunted by the past, and when he said it, his words unconsciously revealed resentment.
Wu Song recalled that it seemed that Luan Tingyu often complained about his identity as a registered disciple in the past, and it seemed that he had also said to the original Wu Song that he wanted to break out of the world and show their master Zhou Tong.
But now he is willing to stay in a small Zhujiazhuang, Wu Song has always felt strange, and now that he has the opportunity, he asked, "Senior brother, senior brother has always been very curious about your willingness to stay in Zhujiazhuang, this does not seem to be the place for you to show your ambitions." ”
Luan Tingyu glanced at Wu Song, then sighed and said, "I originally thought that power was my favorite, but the incident two years ago made me just want to stay in Zhujiazhuang and protect this Zhujiazhuang with Zhu Gongzi." ”
Wu Song was about to ask what happened two years ago, but Luan Tingyu seemed to know what Wu Song was thinking, and he continued, "If the junior brother wants to ask about the incident two years ago, the senior brother can't tell you, but please read it for the sake of my senior brother for more than two years, and you must help Zhu Dagongzi and let Zhujiazhuang get through this difficulty." ”
"Oh?" Wu Song was a little surprised, "I saw that Zhu Gongzi looked strategic, where does Zhujiazhuang look like he is in danger?" ”
Luan Tingyu smiled bitterly and said, "Senior brother, you don't know the current predicament of Zhujiazhuang." ”
Seeing that Luan Tingyu didn't look like he was lying, Wu Song asked, "Senior brother, I would like to hear about it." ”
Luan Tingyu slowly told Wu Song the ins and outs of this competition.
After listening to him for a long time, Wu Song suddenly realized that he didn't expect that the Zhu family's ancient hundred steel-making smelting map would have such a big origin.
According to Luan Tingyu, this ancient picture of Zhujiazhuang is handed down by Zhu Dao, the ancestor of the Zhu family. Speaking of Zhu Dao, I have to mention one person, he is Ou Yezi.
History said that Ou Yezi was the most famous sword-casting master in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as the Juque Sword, the Fish Intestine Sword and the Longyuan Sword, all of which were his proud works.
In order to spread his sword-forging skills, he accepted many disciples, and Zhudao was one of his many disciples.
It's a pity that this Zhu Dao is not focused on sword casting, but is very fascinated by the smelting of 100 steels. It must be known that 100 steels are actually iron tools with few impurities, and a piece of 100 steels will only be produced after at least 100 or thousands of tempering. Therefore, in ancient times, although the sword made of 100 steels was sharper than ordinary swords, the cost was too high and time-consuming, and it could not be mass-produced.
However, the ancestor of the Zhu family, Zhu Dao, devoted himself to studying this technique, and made this ancient map with incredible perseverance and wisdom, and its usefulness is that it can greatly reduce the quenching time of 100 steels.
You know, in the war weapons innovation is a very important thing, this ancestor of the Zhu family also understands this, at this time the vassal states continue to war, the people suffer deeply, Zhu Dao in order to prevent this picture from falling into the hands of some war madmen, so this picture is hidden, as a family heirloom.
This ancient map was passed on to Zhu Long's hands before it was discovered, but due to carelessness, the news leaked out, and the more it spread, the more evil it became. For them, the life and death of this Zhuangzi is just a matter of one sentence.
For the sake of Zhujiazhuang's safety, Zhu Long had to refute the rumor that Zhujiazhuang only had the ancient spectrum of 100 steel, and what was recorded above was only to reduce the time for 100 steel tempering.
In this way, all forces sent people and horses to Zhuang to forcibly take this ancient map.
Suddenly, Zhujiazhuang fell into a dilemma, if you don't give, under heavy anger, Zhujiazhuang will definitely have no good fruit to eat, but if you give it to any force, the other forces will definitely not stop, Zhujiazhuang still can't escape the end of being destroyed.
In desperation, Zhu Long had no choice but to come up with the idea of this competition, so that everyone could compete fairly, as long as this thing was sent out of Zhujiazhuang, no matter how they robbed it in the future, it would not endanger the safety of Zhujiazhuang.