"So that's ......" Zhang Yicheng said that he was enlightened on the surface, but the inner entanglement has not decreased at all, judging from the current situation, although the origin of the knife is clear, but the clues seem to be getting farther and farther away from Feng Xiangjing's knife sharpening disease, the purpose of his trip is to investigate Feng Xiangjing's knife sharpening disease, not to study the Japanese knife......

"It's no wonder that Japan is a big country and can invade us for eight years, no wonder a big country can't even keep Cangxian!" Liu Baochang also seems to be an angry young man, "I think back then, the technology of casting knives was transmitted to Japan from our China, but when it turned out to be a knife competition, other people's knives cut us, just like chopping fire sticks!" I'll tell you, just four words: don't want to forge ahead! Just like this society now! Seeing that it is the 21st century, I still talk about the four great inventions every day, a hundred years ago, I still talk about the four major inventions, and now it is still the four major inventions, so many years, how many things have people invented? That's not enterprising! Speaking of this, Liu Baochang's mood seemed to be a little excited, "It's okay if you don't invent it, you don't know how to cherish good things, for so many years, I haven't seen anyone invent useful things, what are the good things left by the ancestors?" Now in this society, how many people can hold a brush? The three-character scripture and disciple rules were all nursery school textbooks in the past, and now university professors, how many ...... can memorize? ”

I saw that the more Liu Baochang spoke, the more excited he became, and he said that Zhang Yicheng was full of cold wars, and said in his heart that this uncle was really good enough to be on the line, and he was originally here to inquire about Lin Xueyi, but at this moment, it looks like it is about to develop into a political class, damn what a three-character scripture disciple rules and a pile of things I can't do, let this old man continue to be angry, and he won't get involved in it, right? "Senior Liu, don't worry, don't worry, everything will be fine, there is this trend now......" Finding that the situation was wrong, Zhang Yicheng hurriedly changed the topic, "By the way, Senior Liu, according to you, Lin Xueyi's family is rich and powerful, and he is a martial arts master, his saber should be a good knife, how can it be so vulnerable?" To be honest, Zhang Yicheng asked this question, not entirely to change the topic, because Zhang Yicheng himself did wonder a little, the traditional Chinese single knife, the size is relatively wide, and the prototype of the Japanese knife is the Tang Dynasty introduced to Japan Chinese Miao knife, the so-called Miao knife is not a knife used by the Miao people, but because the shape of the knife is similar to a seedling. The original intention of the design of the Miao knife is not pure slashing, but a set of "stab", "pick", "chop" as one of the comprehensive melee weapons, this kind of knife body is slender, the weight is relatively light, itself is not suitable for pure slashing, from the perspective of physics, the Chinese single knife mass is heavier, that is, heavier, the Japanese knife is lighter, the Japanese knife cut the Chinese knife, nothing more than a thin knife to cut the wide knife, the light knife to cut the heavy knife, it is a perverse thing, the quality of the two knives must be how big a gap, will be so different?

"This thing...... It's hard to put ...... words into words! Speaking of this, Liu Baochang sighed, "If Lin Xueyi really uses his own knife, he may not be defeated, that tofu scum knife is not Lin Xueyi's own knife!" ”

"Oh?" Zhang Yicheng was stunned, "Could it be that you are looking for someone to borrow it?" ”

"Wrong!" Liu Baochang shook his head, "That's the knife that the famous local sword workshop made a special trip to fight for Lin Xueyi!" ”

According to Liu Baochang's words, originally, Lin Xueyi's time for the contest agreed in the decisive battle book was three days later, but although the Japanese side promised to send people to fight, it always delayed it again and again under the pretext that the war was busy, and on the day of the real competition, it was more than a full month since the time agreed in Lin Xueyi's war book.

At that time, the most famous sword shop in Cangzhou is called "Paper Head Workshop", how do you hear it like a seller of horse dung paper, according to legend, in the pre-Qing Dynasty, the most sought after sword master of the Manchurian Eight Banners in the capital Yang Chuanliang came to Cangzhou from the capital to open this shop to avoid the disaster of war, the intention of taking this strange name originally had two, one came under the sword of the store, the enemy's head was as vulnerable as straw paper; Second, only when the dead are buried with the funeral, the paper figure is pasted, which also means that if the sword here is used to fight, the enemy will have to paste the paper figure to prepare for the future.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Chuanliang was no longer alive, because of the early death of his eldest son Yang Yunxing, the task of inheriting the craftsmanship of the paper head workshop fell to the second son Yang Yunwang, but Yang Yunwang had no son, so he could only pass on the craftsmanship to Yang Zhao, the son of the deceased eldest brother.

Lin Xueyi's challenge to the Japanese officers caused a sensation in Cangzhou City, and also made Yang Yunwang's blood boil, determined to build a good knife for Lin Xueyi for the competition, but it takes time to build a good knife, so just when the people are looking forward to the Japanese to fight as soon as possible, the only thing in Cangzhou that looks forward to the Japanese can drag on is Yang Yunwang, fortunately, Yang Yunwang already had a more reliable semi-finished product in his hand at that time, which was originally carefully built in response to a high-priced order from a large person in the river, and it has been half-played. Yang Yunwang was ready to carefully make this knife for Lin Xueyi's martial arts competition, and the large order would be talked about at that time.

Just around the seventh day of the war letter to the Japanese, Isoya Ryosuke finally gave a clear time to respond to the war, just a month later, this news made Yang Yunwang even more anxious, and did not hesitate to take his nephew Yang Zhao and a cadre of apprentices to build all night in three shifts, and finally finished casting the knife on the twenty-seventh and eighth day, learning from Lin Xueyi's war book, Yang Yunwang also found a gong and drum team, and sent the knife to the Lin family with the gong and drum, looking at the local sword master such a high-profile gift of the knife, Lin Xueyi was embarrassed not to accept it, Following Lin Xueyi's gong and drum book, Yang Yunwang's gong and drum gift of the treasure knife once again became a well-known story in Cangzhou City. If you want to say that challenging the Japanese made Lin Xueyi in the limelight, the second most popular person is Yang Yunwang, from a modern point of view, this person should be quite good at taking advantage of the situation to hype. But as the saying goes, the higher you climb, the worse you fall, Lin Xueyi was defeated in the martial arts competition, but it was the second humiliation, and the most humiliating became Yang Yunwang. After all, a discerning person can see at a glance that Lin Xueyi's failure is entirely because the knife is not as good as a person.

"Got the knife right in a month? That's too big* a leap forward, right? Zhang Yicheng smiled, "Those ancient masters cast swords and made swords, which sword can't be cast for ten or eight years?" ”

"Ancient times, that's ancient times! Ten or eight years are also legends, who counted him? Liu Baochang smiled, "Can the level of productivity in ancient times be compared with the Republic of China?" Although a month is indeed a little faster, it is not a problem to cast a usable knife at all, especially if it is to concentrate all the horses in his paper head workshop, it is so bad that the quality of the knife is poor, even if it is replaced by a flower knife made by the grass stage team singing and operating, it is not so easy to break the roots, and it is difficult to make the knife so brittle if you are someone else! I don't know which of the medicines this Yang Yunwang took wrong, and he can hit such a broken knife......"

After Lin Xueyi's defeat, the entire Cangzhou martial arts circle was in an uproar, and some angry young people smashed the plaque of the paper head shop at the first time. In the past, being delisted and smashed plaques was a taboo in business, Yang Yunwang was so angry that he vomited blood, and he died that night, and Yang Zhao became crazy not long after under the huge pressure of public opinion, and the name of the paper head shop for decades disappeared in an instant, and the chimney on the roof never smoked again. According to Liu Baochang's words, after going insane, Yang Zhao sharpened his knife all night, and finally died of exhaustion next to the stove.

"Grinding ...... Sharpening!? The "knife sharpening" mentioned by Liu Baochang at the end almost caused Zhang Yicheng to vomit blood, his eyes widened, and he stumbled for most of the time before the word knife sharpening came out.

"yes...... It's sharpening...... What's wrong with you, young man? Seeing Zhang Yicheng's eyes suddenly wandered, Liu Baochang subconsciously shook his hand in front of Zhang Yicheng's eyes.

"I didn't ...... It's okay......" Zhang Yicheng calmed down and leaned his head closer to Liu Baochang, "Senior Liu, I want to ask you a question...... Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world? ”

"Ghosts? …… Young man, I study folklore. Liu Baochang first frowned, and then smiled weirdly, not believing it, but also not saying that he didn't believe it.

"That's the case......" Zhang Yicheng said from beginning to end the matter of sharpening the knife in the middle of the night after Feng Xiangjing bought a Japanese knife, "Actually, I was entrusted by Feng Xiangjing to investigate this matter, I was afraid that you would not believe it, so I didn't tell you in detail in advance, I hope you don't be embarrassed......"

"I have long seen that you kid is not just to inquire about Lin Xueyi!" Liu Baochang smiled, "If you had told me these things earlier, we wouldn't have to spit so much at all......

"Don't be surprised, don't be surprised......" Seeing Liu Baochang smiling and seeming that there was still stock, Zhang Yicheng knew that there was a door to the matter, so he hurriedly put on a smiling face, "It's not a secret, my family is a Taoist family, originally, Feng Xiangjing thought that he had hit an evil spirit, and wanted to find me to exorcise evil spirits, but in my ability, Feng Xiangjing didn't have anything unclean on his body at all, so he came to Cangzhou to trace the origin of the Japanese sword, listening to you say this, Feng Xiangjing's problem with sharpening knives seems to have something to do with the death of that Yang Zhao......"

"You? Do you know how? Liu Baochang blinked and looked at Zhang Yicheng again, as if he didn't believe it, "Who is your master?" ”

"My dad taught me my uncle, and then I taught myself a little bit ......," Zhang Yicheng said.

"Dare to ask, who did your father learn from?"

"Tongtian Guan Ma Chunyi is a real person!" Zhang Yicheng Road.

"Oh! I said so! Liu Baochang smiled, "Does your father have a senior brother named Liu Fengyan?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Liu Baochang say this, Zhang Yicheng's eyes widened, and he said in his heart that this world won't be so fucking small, right? "Senior Liu, Liu Fengyan is my uncle, how do you know him?"

"Hahahaha...... Liu Baochang held his stomach and laughed, stretched out his finger and pointed to a pair of calligraphy works hanging on the wall, although the font is cursive, with Zhang Yicheng's knowledge, I really can't see what is written, but there are obviously three words Liu Fengyan in a large number of inscriptions......