Knife makers are not just a group of big men who smash knives and wrought iron with hammers every day, but also have their own rules and rivers and lakes in their circle industry life. There are a lot of twists and turns!

"You ask him, these swords in Japan are so godly, what demon sword Muramasa, ten fist swords, Tiancong clouds or something are really so powerful. Ask him if he's ever seen any of these swords. "Seeing that it will be some time before the test results of the Seven Kills Black Knife are revealed, everyone is chatting anyway, so I picked my head and asked.

Seeing that I was so curious, Nagata Okuma smiled and began to introduce the stories of many famous Japanese swords that he and his family had studied and even seen.

The first one to say is the well-known Japanese demon knife Muramasa.

Muramasa is not actually the name of a knife, but the name of a type of knife. It is the general name of the famous knife produced in the ancient Ise country of Japan, which is like the porcelain of Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen is just a place name, and the porcelain produced by different families in the town will also be named by different families, but it is not the name of the porcelain itself. The same is true of Muramasa, who is the general name of a famous sword produced in Ise Province, but because some Japanese literary and artistic works that were later introduced to China have changed, many young Chinese people mistakenly think that Muramasa is the name of a knife.

Of course, when mentioning Muramasa, you must mention the name of its demon knife, although there are some misunderstandings about the name of Muramasa in China, but the legend of the demon knife is the same, and the local demon knife Muramasa is also very famous in Japan.

But the legends of the demon knife village and the legends in their circles are two different versions, basically for the sake of testing the knife, and as a result, even the murder knife itself gave birth to evil thoughts and became a demon knife, and anyone who holds this knife will be mentally controlled and then become a demon who loves to kill. In the end, with the intervention of the officials and masters of all parties, the demon knife was finally destroyed and lost its whereabouts. Of course, this is the version that the common people and even us Chinese know, but in the mouth of the Japanese swordsmith it is another version.

In the version that Nagata Okuma told us, there was a reason why the demon sword became a demon in the first place, and it was not for nothing that he gave birth to his own consciousness. The second is the whereabouts of the demon knife Muramasa.

At the beginning, Japanese swords such as Muramasa were famous in Ise Province, and it can be said that they are "susurrels" of Ise Province, and there are many craftsmen who naturally make swords, and the competition is very fierce. At that time, there was such a small craftsman, although the craftsmanship was good, but the competition was fierce, and his blacksmith business was cold and often unattended. After a long time, he naturally couldn't make money, and later his life was even more bleak, and his wife and people ran away, leaving himself and his young children in this old house with four walls. Even later, he couldn't even afford the materials to make the knifesmith, and he was very happy to be able to eat. He was depressed all day long, and even had the idea of taking the child to suicide for a while, but he didn't expect to encounter a turning point later.

A rich boy came from outside the village, and this boy wanted to buy a good knife he liked, and when he heard about the name of the village, he came to buy a knife. Naturally, I have seen it in many stores, but I have never met a satisfactory one. Unexpectedly, I went around and walked in front of this little craftsman's shop, and I didn't want to go in when I saw this shop in tatters. But at this moment, the little craftsman saw such a gorgeously dressed and elegant son coming outside, and it was like seeing a savior, if he could buy a knife, he would at least have food for a month. In addition, he had to raise a child, and the little craftsman who was originally very thin-skinned also let go, rushed to the front of the son and "plopped" and knelt in front of the child!

Childe didn't plan to go in, and he didn't even plan to look at it, but they all knelt down in front of him when they rushed out, which was a little embarrassing. In order to make a living, the little craftsman also plucked up the courage to start introducing his shop, saying that his craftsmanship was good, but he didn't know how to use marketing strategies, so the business had been difficult to make a living, but there were still a few good knives in the shop, which were made when he was still wealthy, and it was not the best in the whole village, but it was also considered superior.

As soon as he stopped him, the attendants beside Childe immediately stepped forward to pull the little craftsman away, and the other knifesmiths who followed Childe around him also watched the excitement not far away, and secretly laughed at the little craftsman for not being able to do his best. Can someone so rich take a fancy to the broken knives in your store? It is a joke to see the little craftsman's self-recommendation.

But no one expected that the son really had some thoughts after listening to the words of the little craftsman, first, the little craftsman's eyes were very sincere and he did not blow his knife like other craftsmen, often the princess sold melons too much, but it would make people feel disbelieving or even disgusted. Second, this boy also took pity on this little craftsman, seeing that he was dressed in tatters, and the children standing at the door of the house were also unclothed and skinny, obviously they hadn't eaten for many days. This also had some compassion in his heart, so he opened his mouth and agreed to go into his shop to have a look.

Of course, Childe is not a fool, in that era money was not easy to make, although he had money, he would not spend it indiscriminately. If the knife in the small craftsman's shop is really good, he can consider buying one. But if they were all inferior goods, then he wouldn't buy a handful of rags out of sympathy.

With that, Childe followed the little craftsman into the shop.

The shop was really shabby, there was no place to sit, the fire had been cold for days, and the walls were made of hay and wood. Several of the attendants beside Childe looked at the little craftsman with contempt, feeling that this was a waste of time. But when the little craftsman trembled and took out a few knives he had made in the past, Childe's eyes lit up suddenly.

Several knives are very good, although the materials used are not first-class, but it is obvious that these inferior iron materials have been carefully quenched by small craftsmen, the blade is sharp but not brittle, and the whole knife streamline is almost perfect. But he didn't tell a lie, although these knives were good, they didn't reach the most perfect master-level famous knife realm, so they could only be said to be good. The main reason is that small craftsmen do not have the money to buy good iron materials, even if they carefully temper the inferior materials are still inferior, and it is difficult to turn waste into treasure.

These knives are not eye-catching, but they are good for their attendants, so they asked the price of the small craftsman. The little craftsman was also very happy when he saw that there was a way to do business, but after all, he had not done a few business, and he was afraid that the price would be too high to scare away the business, and he would have no money to eat at that time, so he quoted a price much lower than the market price. As soon as Childe heard this, he understood the intention of the little craftsman, and took a bag of money from the attendant and threw it on the stove. said that he wanted all these knives, and the price was according to the price of the big workshop!

The little craftsman was happy at that time, although this money was nothing to the famous swordsmith, but for the little craftsman, it was a long drought and nectar, with which he could at least feed the children around him.

After making this deal, Childe suddenly made an additional request to the little craftsman.

This request was paid for by the child, and the little craftsman was asked to tailor a famous knife for himself. And Childe's bid was very high, which shocked the little craftsman who had never made a famous knife.

Although he was very eager to get the money, the little craftsman knew that he had a few catties and taels, and he had no experience in this area since he had never made a famous knife, so he finally politely refused.

But this honest act won more favor from the child, and the other party made a final decision and told the little craftsman to let him build it. The deposit was left on the spot, and someone was sent to the door three days later. It took one year to build this knife, and after a year, Childe came to inspect the goods, even if it wasn't made, it didn't matter.

There was such a good thing on the head of a small craftsman who had been unlucky for more than ten years, and the latter was a little dizzy at that time, and he agreed to come down in a daze. Sure enough, three days later, the piece of good material was delivered to the door.

The little craftsman was taken aback when he opened the box, because it contained a metal stone that he had never seen before. As a person who deals with swords every day, he is very familiar with all kinds of metals. But the metal stone in the box in front of him was a mysterious object he had never seen before.

After questioning, he learned that the stone was not really an object from the earth, but had fallen from the sky. In modern parlance, this is a meteorite.