Volume 5, The Three Realms of the Stars and the Moon_Chapter 71, Demon Sword Muramasa (2)
Not to mention ancient times, modern people can't say why a meteorite really appears in front of them. The little craftsman had never seen such a stone, but when he heard that it had fallen from heaven, he was amazed.
However, after researching for a long time, he couldn't find a way to make this stone, but when he went to ask the great craftsmen for advice, all he got was closed. The business is all taken up by him, how can people still teach him methods. Besides, few people had seen this meteorite at that time, and in fact, these people didn't know how to build this meteorite.
This delay is more than half a year, and it looks like the delivery will be delivered in a few months, but I haven't figured out a way yet. And the deposit given by the other party is almost used, after all, it will still be spent for most of the year. In addition, he robbed the business of those great craftsmen before, so now he has been isolated in this village, and those who come to buy swords from outside will eventually be robbed by the great craftsmen and big workshops, and his business has not changed as imagined.
But if you don't talk about the endless road, just when he thought that he estimated that this time was going to be over, and he might have a lawsuit because he couldn't pay the deposit, there was a big turnaround. My kids go out to play and come back with a book in hand. The boy told the little craftsman that he had picked up the book on the bank of the river, and that he thought the picture on it was beautiful, so he brought it back. At first, the little craftsman didn't pay much attention to it, but when he caught a glimpse of the book at dinner in the evening, he was startled when he saw it. This book actually records a kind of refining method that he has never seen, and there are pictures and texts on the book. At this time, the little craftsman was interested and hurriedly studied it, and found that this was a special refining method used by us at the end of the Warring States period in China. As for how the book ended up in Japan, no one knows. However, there is a clear record of a method of quenching meteorites in the book, and the little craftsman was ecstatic in his heart, and hurriedly tried it according to the method recorded in the book, and it was really successful!
In this way, the little craftsman was blessed with a mysterious sword, which, of course, had not yet been fitted with a handle.
On the day of delivery, Childe's attendant came to the village to pick him up, all the way to Childe's mansion. When I saw Childe, I found out that Childe had not bet all the treasure on him alone. At that time, there was another swordsmith standing, who also came with a knife, and this swordsmith was a very famous craftsman in Japan at that time, and it can even be said that he was the leading master in the Japanese swordsmith industry at that time, and he could be called the "earth fairy" in the swordsmith world!
At this time, Childe explained that Childe's family inadvertently got an extraterrestrial meteorite a year ago, and felt that this extraterrestrial meteorite contained wonderful divine power, so Childe wanted to make this meteorite into a saber of his own. But at that time, none of the swordsmiths who asked his family to cooperate could do it, and these people did not know anything about the refining and forging methods of extraterrestrial meteorites.
In desperation, Gongzi went out to find a famous teacher, and he finally identified two people, one is a small craftsman, and the other is Taishan Beidou in the knife craftsman world.
However, in order to choose a better knife, and for the sake of double insurance, Childe ordered someone to divide the meteorite that had been broken in half when it landed to two knifesmiths for one year, and whoever made the better knife after a year would buy whomever it was.
Now that the words are all said, it is better to compare whose knife is better. As a result, Childe used the most direct and primitive method, which was to let two samurai take two swords and slash at each other, and whichever side was broken showed which side of the sword was weaker.
The little craftsman was anxious when he was testing, he was a master in the industry, and he had not ten or eight famous knives in his hands. But think about it again, I have paid a bad deal anyway, and I am not ashamed to be inferior to others, besides, I may not lose the treasure knife built according to the legendary method passed down from China, if I can beat such a powerful master today, then I will definitely become famous in a fight, and I will also be a big man in the industry in the future, not to mention the rolling money, in the future, those knifesmiths and businessmen who once looked down on themselves will not line up to buy their own knives?
And at the moment when he let go of the burden in his heart, the two samurai fought!
These two samurai are of the same level, and they are fierce and stalemate as soon as they strike. As a result, he made hundreds of moves in a row, and the two swords also touched hundreds of times, but there was a problem in the last move. The two samurai shot with all their might, and as a result, one of the swords actually broke!
The little craftsman didn't dare to come out of the tense atmosphere when he heard the sound of the knife breaking, but when he looked closely, the broken one was actually not his own knife, but the katana made by the master opposite, and he was ecstatic in his heart. His own knife was saved, in other words, he was better than the top master in the industry this time!
After that, he was naturally rich, and Childe not only happily paid nearly twice as much, but also promised to help the little craftsman transform the workshop, and to invest more money in his workshop in the future, so that he could become the top craftsman in the industry.
Of course, the katana brought by the small craftsman did not have a handle attached to it, and both samurai fought with a samurai sword wrapped in cloth when fighting. So he also needed to bring back the knife he had built, reattach a handle and send it back.
However, it was already a piece of cake for him with the handle of the knife, the money was in place, and they also said that they would help him become a famous craftsman, and the little craftsman who felt that he was about to take off returned to the village with the famous knife of the village that he had built under the protection of a group of guards. This time, all the knifesmiths who used to sneer at and even sarcastically persecute themselves came out to welcome, and even the suppliers who were very unkind to them in the past also came out to offer their courtesy.
Naturally, there was a big banquet at night, and the little craftsmen drank it happily, and they didn't worry at all that someone would come to steal the knife. After all, so many attendants sent by the prince followed. After drinking, he slept soundly, but when he woke up the next day, a bad news suddenly came, his young child actually died! When he saw the corpse, the little craftsman almost fainted, and the official catcher said that the child had died after being stabbed on the neck, and the strange thing was that the blood on the child's body was much less, and the wound was white and not a drop of blood came out. It's like someone has sucked it dry......
After a few days of investigation without results, the villagers began to say that it was a monster, so they invited the onmyoji to come and have a look, but they didn't see the reason. The little craftsman, though he was grieving in his heart, still had work to do, so he put on the handle of his sword, and the attendant returned with his sword. Leaving the little craftsman to take care of his children's funeral, he waited every day for his son to fulfill his promise and send someone to expand his workshop and help him arrange his business and make a living. As a result, there was no movement after waiting for more than half a year, and the little craftsman muttered in his heart, and the people in the village also said that the little craftsman had been deceived, and people didn't take him seriously at all. As a result, I waited for another half a year, and in the blink of an eye, it was winter, and news came from outside the village, saying that something happened to the son of a rich family who came to buy a knife before, and the whole family died.
When the news reached the ears of the little craftsman, it was a bolt from the blue, and he couldn't believe that his fate was so changeable when he was still dreaming of becoming a great master one day.
Thinking that someone in his village might be lying, he packed his bags and went to Gongzi's mansion by himself, but at this point, the old mansion had become an empty house in a blink of an eye. Although there were no bodies to be seen, it was clear that it had not been inhabited for more than a year. Locals told him that a terrible massacre had taken place here.
The thing is that Childe suddenly went berserk one night, and killed hundreds of people in his family with the sword he built, and even the samurai who practiced martial arts were not his opponents. In the end, Childe rushed out of the house with this sword and disappeared, although a year has passed, but the people in the neighborhood still hear about it.
The little craftsman thought of his strange death at that time, and thought that it might be the demon who killed his own child who came to harm the child's family again, but at this moment, the famous craftsman senior who had competed with him suddenly appeared in front of him, and this time he told the little craftsman a terrible thing.
The real demon was the knife made by the little craftsman himself, and it was he who killed his son and everyone here.