"Master...... Grandpa, how are you ...... Why are you here?" asked Chen Mu with a pant.

Under normal circumstances, grandpa has very few blacksmith shops, and I don't know what happened today.

Chen Mu's grandfather's name is Chen Xian, a stonemason in the town, who often polishes the stones used for construction, and the stones need to be polished in the mountains, so he often runs outside, causing his skin to be dark and dark, and he is old, and his white hair looks very old.

"The Liu family is going to build a yard, they need a lot of stones, in order to avoid running back and forth, wasting a lot of time, we stonemasons will spend the night in the mountains, this time I may stay in the mountains for a long time, you take care of yourself at home alone. Chen Xian told Chen Mu, and then said, "I bought you some honey cake yesterday, and I forgot to give it to you yesterday, so I put it on the table in my room, and you can get it yourself when you go back in the evening." ”

"Work hard here and try to get a good job. The others were still waiting for me, so I left first. Chen Xian touched Chen Mu's head.

"Grandpa, you have to be careful, I heard that there are many fierce beasts in the mountains, so run away quickly when you encounter you!" Chen Mu said worriedly.

"Hmm!" Chen Xian smiled and nodded, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes coalescing.

"Oh, by the way, you have to close the doors and windows before you go out, I heard that there was a snitch in the town recently, and many large families have been stolen, although our family has nothing valuable, but it is better to be careful!" Chen Xian advised again.

Chen Mu nodded, he also heard that it was said that the snitch specializes in stealing the cheats of the exercises.

Where in the town is there a good exercise cheats? Of course, it is a big family, and the Liu family just mentioned has been stolen from the ancestral cheats.

The snitch always goes out at night, the body is wrapped in a black dress, no one has seen what it looks like, ordinary people only see a shadow flashing on the roof, even if it is a man or a woman, it makes the town panic, and the big families dare not sleep too dead in the middle of the night, this situation has lasted for more than half a month.

The big families in the town came out together, jointly organized manpower, and strengthened patrols at night, but the snitch was skilled, and he never caught it.

Liu's family was even patronized for the second time, the treasury was turned into a mess, Master Liu led a large group of people to the warehouse, the snitch had already left, only the unconscious guards remained, and when he woke up, he asked, and he had no impression.

After taking inventory of the warehouse, it was found that another cheatbook was missing.

The secret books of the exercises of each family are either handed down by the ancestors, or bought at a large price, and now they are stolen by this thief one after another, and at the same time, the faces of each family are sad, but they have no choice, so they ask Lingyun Yuan for help.

Standing behind the Lingyun Courtyard is the Lingyun Sect, usually there are official disciples of the Lingyun Sect stationed in the courtyard, and the cultivation of the official disciples is naturally higher than that of the people in the town, after all, those who stay in the town are not qualified to enter the Lingyun Sect.

The official disciples stationed there are also people from the town, and some of them have entered the Lingyun Sect from the stolen big families, and if they don't help, the elders of the family may come to the Lingyun Courtyard.

The Lingyun Sect is also willing to solve the troubles for the town, which is also the time for the sect to establish its prestige in the town, so the official disciples of the Lingyun Academy stationed here are dispatched, most of these formal disciples have already been urged by their parents to be annoying, the sect ordered, most of the formal disciples almost all went out of the Lingyun Academy, and arrested the snitch day and night.

The town's defenses were tight, but there were only a few formal disciples left in the Lingyun Courtyard who were teaching the uninitiated disciples.

The snitch seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and ran to the treasure house of Lingyun Temple to steal a few exercise cheats.

This is a big shame, the disciples stationed in the sect hurriedly asked for support, and the Lingyun faction responded, sending an elder to arrest the snitch early this morning.

Ordinary people like Chen Mu in the town didn't have much impact, and the snitch only stole the practice cheats of large families.

Ordinary people live as usual, and there are more after-dinner conversations, but they don't dare to say it on the bright side, after all, this matter makes big families very faceless, easy to offend people, people are angry, and no one wants to be a punching bag.

Others are powerful, and they can take revenge casually, and no one among ordinary people can withstand it, so Chen Mu did not hear rumors about snitches on the street in the morning.

"Xiao Mu will ask you to help take care of it, and I'll leave!" Chen Xian said goodbye to Huo Gang again, and left by himself.

After Chen Mumu sent his grandfather away, he turned around and emptied the two buckets, preparing to continue to fetch water by the river.

Before he could hang up the flat burden, Huo Gang stopped him, "Li Qianshan ordered a knife yesterday, and it was made last night, and I didn't send it to him too late, I repaired it again just now, don't pick up the water first, send this knife to him." ”

Chen Mu put down the flat shoulder, wiped the water on his clothes with the water in his hand, and took the knife from Huo Gang's hand, the knife was wrapped in pale yellow paper, and it looked like a kitchen knife, heavy and heavy.

The name of Li Qianshan in Huo Gang's mouth is Li Qianshan.

Li Qianshan is usually more idle and has nothing to do, but as soon as the hunting team comes back, he will be busy, he needs to help the hunting team clean up the prey, peel off the skin of the prey completely, the meat of the prey must be cut according to the value classification, and the various precious materials on the prey must be split one by one with special techniques.

Doing this kind of work naturally requires good tools, several blacksmiths in the town have their own skills, some blacksmiths are good at forging swords, some are good at refining knives, some are good at making large utensils, and Huo Gang is good at daily life utensils, so Li Qianshan and several other masters who clean up their prey like to customize knives here in Huo Gang.

Cleaning up the prey is not a simple job, the prey brought back by the hunting team is a rare beast, their skin and bones are difficult to hard, and inexperienced newcomers can easily damage the materials on the beast.

It's not just the skills that need to be skilled, but also the tools!

The strength of the masters and the habits of using knives are different, after a long run-in, they naturally know what kind of tools are suitable for themselves, and the one who is good at daily appliances in the town is Huo Gang, so the knives created by Huo Gang are very favored by this group of masters.

When he was carrying water just now, a lot of water in the bucket spilled out and sprinkled on Chen Mu's patched cloth shoes, and his feet were wet, but he didn't care much, and walked out of the blacksmith shop with Li Qianshan's customized knife.

There are still quite a lot of people on the street, and there are women standing at the door with bowls, eating breakfast, watching the crowds coming and going on the street, and saying hello to acquaintances from time to time. On the road, cartloads of vegetables were brought in from outside the town, and the wooden wheels creaked and squeaked, singing about the new day, and people came and went, and they all began to get busy.

Chen Mu walked down the street with a wrapped knife, his eyes looking around, compared to the difficulty of carrying water, it was so comfortable to walk leisurely like this now!

Walking around a corner, the front suddenly became noisy, Chen Mu took a closer look, and found that the gate of Lingyun Courtyard on the side of the street was full of people, and the people behind stood on tiptoe, supported the shoulders of the people in front of them, and stretched out their heads to look in.

Chen Mu didn't know what they were looking at, he still had to send the knife to Li Qianshan, if it was an ordinary bustle, he might not go over, he was used to doing the right thing first.

But he thought that Qingyan's sister was in Lingyun Courtyard and was worried that something would happen to her, so he squeezed over.

Gathered in the crowd, there was a person next to him who stood on tiptoe and raised his head to look inside, Chen Mu opened his mouth and asked, "Big brother, what's wrong?"

"The snitch is here again in Lingyun Courtyard!" the man replied without saying anything, and continued to look inside.

"What?Snitch?" Chen Mu asked in surprise, didn't the snitch just come out at night? Now such a blatant daytime activity still appears in the place with the most monks in the town, this is not taking the monks of Lingyun Academy in his eyes at all!

Although Chen Mu was not a monk and the Snitch did not steal from his family, as a member of Qingma Town, the Snitch did whatever he wanted in the place where he had the strongest power in the town, and he also felt insulted.

Standing in the crowd, he could clearly hear the sound of fighting in Lingyun Courtyard, Chen Mu also wanted to see the situation inside, but he was too young and his height was there, and he couldn't see it no matter how he tiptoed in the crowd.

The people standing in front could see the figures flying around through the open gate, but the door was only so big that there were not many people who could see it, and the courtyard had been banned, and the people outside couldn't enter at all, so it should have been arranged to prevent the snitch from escaping.

"Ahh