"I've just crossed a few mountains, crossed a few rivers, and it's so rugged and bumpy........."

The tone in his memory had long been blurred, Xu Han hummed a strange tune softly, avoiding his neighbors along the way, neatly climbing over the thorns growing everywhere in the village, the waterways with nine twists and eighteen bends, and picking up the path towards a place in the village.

At the beginning, there are still many people living in the ancient village, so the ancient village may be called a village, the rows of houses are crowded, the prosperous scene can be seen, but it is a pity that it does not resist the hardships of survival, hundreds of years have passed in a flash, and the village has been ten rooms and nine empty.

Those uninhabited houses, the walls are mottled, the weathered masonry can be seen everywhere, and the stone paths between the houses are filled with a gloomy atmosphere, as if the lonely soul who does not want to leave is lamenting the desire for existence.

The gloom in the sky made the young man depressed, which was also the reason why Xu Han was reluctant to come here.

Helplessly, beating iron all day long always disturbs people's quietness, and the hot stove is inseparable from people's care, and it is an unbearable smoke emitted all the time, so even if Uncle Tie Hong is no longer willing to live in isolation, he can only be forced to settle here.

The sound of clanging knocks came from one place, and further on, Xu Han noticed a bit of pressing heat, and the young man quickened his pace, bypassing a few houses blocking the way ahead, and a large open space came into view.

The clearings are littered with broken walls, which are the traces left by the demolition of the houses that were originally built on this site. In the outline of the house are piles of stones of various colors, all of which were taken by the villagers from the mountains. Xu Han stroked the ore that was hot by the Huanghuang sun, and remembered the hardships of his father, and couldn't help but feel emotional.

Skirting the labyrinth of stone piles, a wave of heat came from the pavement, billowing smoke from the chimneys that were more than a foot high, and the ground was covered with burned-out soot, and the fierce flames erupted from the cracks in the closed furnace doors, making people feel intimidated.

Beside the brick and stone platform, a black figure is vigorously wielding a huge iron hammer to crush the iron ingots on the platform one by one! Every time the iron hammer falls, the land in a radius of several feet trembles like an earthquake, and the violent sound howls and dissipates the waves, forming ripples visible to the naked eye in the air.

Every time Xu Han opened his mouth to shout, he was always interrupted by the sound of whistling, and he had to wait helplessly now........

In a short time, the middle-aged man with shoulders and waist width, covered in black ash, finally stopped beating, clamped the ravaged ingot under the hammer, opened the fire valve, and threw the iron into it!

When the furnace door opened, the blazing flames rushed out instantly, and the fierce fire edge raised the temperature around him a lot in just a few breaths, even Tie Hong felt a little unbearable, and after taking a few steps back, he turned around and took a large kettle and poured it!

Suddenly, there was a foreign object in his sight, and Tie Hong looked intently, only to see a young man standing at the foot of the stone mountain a few feet away, with his palms raised in front of him, and he was struggling to resist the heat wave.

"Haha!" With a long laugh, Tie Hong raised his black beard, "It's a rare thing, you kid hasn't been to my pickled place for a few years!" With a wave of his bear-like hand, the huge kettle flew towards Xu Han across the curve.

The young man jumped into the air unhurriedly and took the crooked kettle, looked at the dust and saliva stained on the spout, and after smiling bitterly, under the provocative gaze of Uncle Tie Hong, he raised the kettle and drank it for a while!

"Haha, good amount of wine, you don't know how much worse than you!"

Seeing this, Tie Hong praised the young man loudly, but after a few words of praise, his face full of black beard was a little unbearable, and he hurriedly walked out of the iron shop, and shouted with heartache, "You little fool, don't finish drinking it for me!"

Xu Han, who was drinking bitterly, was still a little dissatisfied when he was robbed of the kettle, smacked his lips and muttered a few stingy words, and then he left the strong man and walked to the shop first like an uncle.

The big pot full of more than 20 catties of wine was almost at the bottom after Xu Han drank it for a while, and Uncle Tie Hong's heart was as painful as a knife, and he couldn't help but catch up with the young man and complained, "I don't know where you come from such a large amount of wine like this half-grown boy!"

"Cut!" Xu Han smiled disdainfully, "The wine you brew is as light as water, it's not as good as my father's private goods, even if it is, I can drink it!"

A half-sized hammer fell to the ground, Xu Han curiously grabbed the handle of the hammer, which was also cast iron, and lifted it up, but he didn't expect that the hammer was a little heavier than expected, but he couldn't pull it. This scene was seen by Uncle Tie Hong, who came out of the house, and couldn't help sneering, "No one in my baby village can wave a few times, you kid Hugh has to do your best, ......ho ho" and was afraid that the young man would be scorched by the fire, so he pushed him aside and stood. Xu Han didn't argue anything, and let go of the hammer.

"What are you doing here today, you little bastard? I'm a big old black, except for stone lumps, but I don't have that fragrant gluttony to give you the autumn breeze......

Xu Han rolled his eyes, he was notorious, and he didn't say anything, and explained honestly, "What is my little fool..... I've been rushed here by an old fool to help you!"

Tie Hong raised his eyebrows to show a look of surprise, but it was a pity that his face was full of beards and eyebrows, and outsiders couldn't look at his complexion. After thinking about it, it was clear, and he praised Xu Shan, but he had a heart. Scratching his vigorous hair, and groaning slightly, he led the boy to a place outside the shed, pointed to the pile of black stones the size of a skull, and said, "Your father has praised us for your boy's strength, so how about you help me break this ore?"

Although he felt bored and hot, the boy did not refuse.

Tie Hong picked around in the shop, found a hammer the size of Xu Han's arm, and handed it over. The young man simply took it and did it himself. Tie Hong watched from the sidelines, and saw that Xu Han was competent, so he took care of himself to do the work.

Both of them are hard-working, and in such a hot place, they can also press the thoughts in their hearts, and they can knock on and on and on. From the middle of the sun to the westward slope of the sun, it did not stop for a moment, and the mountain-like stones were all turned into gravel by the young man's beating for most of the afternoon!

His clothes were already soaked with sweat, but he didn't realize how much strength he had spent, thinking that it was caused by the vitality in the ancient cave, although he didn't know how to cultivate the Dao, but under the breath, he also left a little bit scattered in the blood veins around his body.

Thinking about it, he finally had an explanation for Uncle Tie, Xu Han breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Uncle Tie Hong, who was still forging himself unconsciously behind him, and cast a look of admiration. Not to mention jokes, such an intensity of work is not something ordinary people can bear. Uncle Tie Hong lives here all the year round, and is willing to endure loneliness and hardships, just for the villagers to live in this small world safely, and he can't help but be admired.

Another piece of iron ingot was formed, wiping the sweat from his eyes, Tie Hong breathed a sigh of relief, his body had already been soaked with sweat and mineral ash, and his arms were so sore that it was difficult to lift them, thinking that this was the end of today. He was about to take a break to make some food. When he wanted to leave, he patted his head and forgot all about Xu Han's kid.

turned around and looked outside the shop, but saw that the young man was also about to come. Behind him, the screeches of the gravel piles that filled the ground were so high that the rocks that were originally hill high had disappeared.

"Shhh...... You kid really can!" Tie Hong took a breath of cold air, and really felt a little incredible. When he was busy, he threw this little guy out of his mind, and just now he would go home when he was playing for a while, but he didn't think that this half-sized boy really helped a lot.....

The temperature was scorching for an afternoon, and Xu Han was also dizzy, but he didn't gag again, pointed to the ground and said that he was fortunate not to be dishonored. Thirsty and unbearably thirsty, the young man was not polite, and walked into the already somewhat dim room and found the kettle that Tie Hong had hidden earlier, and it was another cow drink.

"It's not fun!" After just a few sips, the pot was empty. The young man was angry and shouted at the man, "Uncle Hong, why don't you fight for righteousness, I, a thin child, have been working hard for half a day in your place, and I don't even care about drinks?"

"Hmph......" Tie Hong sneered a few times, "You look like your father!

"That's it!", Tie Hong raised his huge head, "I'll open your eyes today!"

As he spoke, he led Xu Han into the back room.