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Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

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"I have always admired Liu Xuande's personality, but I am just a blacksmith, but I have no ability to make contributions, but I also want to defect to Liu Bei, but I have no way. Why don't you take it with you to find Liu Xuande? Do you think so? Tie Zhuang's words are sincere, and they really can't be pushed.

But there is a good saying, one more person, one more strength. In this land of strife, it is better to have someone to help than to be alone.

"Since the store insists on doing this, I can't say anything, so let's go find Liu Xuande together." I looked at the blacksmith in front of me and said.

"Young man, wait a minute." I saw the blacksmith, walking around the shop, I found a big wooden box out of nowhere, it seems that the qualification box has not been opened for some time, I don't know why, now when I see a wooden box, it always reminds me of the weapon box in the 'Battle of the Three Generals'.

The blacksmith opened the wooden box, and suddenly dust was everywhere.

"Ahem...... Ahem......" The blacksmith coughed and covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve.

"Shopkeeper, isn't this going with me to find Liu Bei and Liu Xuande? How did you start tidying up the shop? What's in this box? "I went into the wooden box to see what was going on.

"Shaoxia, you don't know, this box is my treasure." As he spoke, he pulled out blade after blade from the box.

"This is the bright moon double slasher." The blacksmith pointed to a pair of knives and said, these two knives, one as soft as the bright moon, and the other as rigid as the scorching sun, at first glance are superior blades.

"This is the Celestial Dragon Spear."

"This is..."

"This is..."

The blacksmith took the blades in the box and told me slowly. The name, material, characteristics of the blade, etc... Be at home in. It seems that these blades are his treasures. It's not easy to show it to others.

"If the young man likes that, just take it." The blacksmith's personality is hearty and bold.

"No, no, I'll just take the sword you gave me. You should still collect these yourself. I said and waved my sword again. Sure enough, it came in handy. I like it very much.

"Shaoxia, it really is a good eye, although this heavy iron sword does not look special, but its weight is thirty, which is very human, today, Shaoxia waved it with one hand, it is really jaw-dropping, breathtaking." After the blacksmith finished speaking, he put the blades back into the wooden box, leaving only a few with him.

After a while, he took out another scabbard and handed it to me, this scabbard was flashy and luxurious, and the carving on the scabbard was skillful. I swung it twice more, and tucked my sword into its scabbard, just right, and it matched its sheath. I wore my sword at my waist.

After the blacksmith had cleaned up a little longer, we walked out of the door of the blacksmith's shop and returned to the noisy street.

"Shaoxia, do you know where Liu Xuande is now?"

"It is said that Liu Bei is going to send troops south, then he must not be in this Jiangling City at this time, he should be in Hanzhong or..." In that case, it's better to get out of here as soon as possible and make plans.

"Iron..."I remember what his name is.

"Shaoxia, you're welcome, just call me blacksmith, the villagers in the neighborhood call me that." The blacksmith was still so sincere. On the contrary, I was a little embarrassed.

"Okay, I'll call you blacksmith, but don't always call me a young man, young man, you can also call me Cheng Yin. We're all more natural that way. I proposed.

"Okay, just press less..., Cheng Yin said." The blacksmith is clearly not used to the title.

"Blacksmith, since Liu Bei is not in this Jiangling City, let's leave as soon as possible. So as not to trouble in the future. "I remembered the soldiers I met outside the city just now, they seemed to be coming in the direction of Gangneung City, and if they met here, they would be facing each other again. I said that I now have a weapon, and I have a blacksmith by my side, but I still don't know anything about swordsmanship, even though I have this heavy iron sword, but it is still like an ornament to me. The blacksmith next to him also said that he couldn't wield a knife or a gun. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but speed up my pace.

Soon, we came to the city gate, which is easy to enter Gangneung City, and it shouldn't be too difficult to get out. It was at this time that I realized how naïve my thoughts were, it turned out that I saw that the soldiers defending the city seemed to have been replaced, and I recognized at a glance that the people defending the city were the soldiers I had just met outside the city. What can I do, these people will not let me leave Gangneung City.

"Less... Cheng Yin, why did you stop? "The blacksmith doesn't know anything about the defenders or me.

"Don't you know, the soldiers defending the city in front of me fought with me outside the city, but fortunately, a young man rescued me at this time. Otherwise, I would have lost my life outside the city. ”

"And these things, you stand aside, and I'll meet them." After speaking, the blacksmith took out the Celestial Dragon Spear from behind him. But I stopped him.

"What are you doing, there are many of them, you and I are the two of us, besides, we don't know how to swordsmanship, how to fight with one, you are going out like this now, it is nothing more than a mantis arm to block the evidence, and you can't measure your strength." I spoke with the sword at my waist in my hand.

"What then?"

"Let's go back for the time being, and then make a good plan." I turned and left the gates.

This is not outside Gangneung City, there are no young heroes who rescued me before, there are just more guards. If we fight so rashly, even if we can barely defeat the soldiers under the city gate, there will still be a steady stream of people to stop us, and even if we have wings, we will not be able to fly out. So now it's time to stand still and wait and see what happens.

I went back to the blacksmith with me.

Jingzhou, it is generally believed that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jingzhou originally had seven counties: Nanyang County, Nan County, Jiangxia County, Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, Changsha County, after the Battle of Chibi, the seven counties of Jingzhou were divided by Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan, Cao Cao occupied the largest Nanyang County in the north of Jingzhou, Sun Quan got Jiangxia County and Nan County, and Liu Bei got four counties in the south of Jingzhou (Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling). Liu Bei's military security was not conducive to development, so he proposed to Sun Quan twice to borrow the southern county of Jingzhou, and Eastern Wu Lusu persuaded Sun Quan to temporarily lend the southern county to Liu Bei, so Liu Bei had five counties of Jingzhou (Nanjun, Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling).

------ Baidu Encyclopedia

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