As I walked through the hall, the few people who had been napping in the hall woke up and turned their heads to look at me.

There is the big brother who kills chickens, there is Ishikawa, the blacksmith Ishikawa, and a few guys from the toast building, and now there are no guests, and they all sneak to the front hall to rest.

I nodded at them, and Big Brother Zhi smiled back at me grimly, and I quickly turned my head and walked out.

When I got to the door, I asked the little donkey: "Little donkey, let me ask you, I feel weird as soon as I enter the toast building today, why are everyone staring at me like this?" ”

The little donkey said, "Is there one?" I didn't pay attention. ”

I nodded, "Yes, I don't feel well, I don't know what's wrong?" ”

The little donkey smiled: "What's the matter, maybe-maybe I'm not used to seeing you and Master Huang appear at the same time, maybe...... may have seen it at first glance, and thought it was Yan Zhutou who had returned. ”

I was so confused that I wanted to cry.

The donkey whispered, "Some people never go far." ”

These words seem to bring indescribable warmth in the cold wind like a knife. I whispered to him, "Thank you." ”

The little donkey blinked, as if he understood and as if he didn't, nodded, and walked away with the rag.

Leaving the Glass-Raising Building, I shook for a while and walked towards Uncle Black's house.

I haven't seen him since I left the yayuan, and I haven't heard them mention it, he hurt Yun Niang again when he was crazy, and I don't know how he is now.

Walked to the door of his house, the courtyard door was locked, I twisted the lock, usually it is on, today it was really locked, and I rummaged through the pile of flower pots at the door, and I didn't find the key-

I knocked on the door, but no one answered.

Isn't Uncle Black at home? Or Uncle Cai and Aunt Cai were afraid that he would come out and cause trouble, so they locked him inside?

I went around to the courtyard where there was a crack in the wall before, and looked into the courtyard through the mountain tiger, and the range I could see was very small, but I didn't see a human figure, and I didn't hear a human voice. The yard was very clean, as if someone had carefully cleaned it.

Odd.

I turned my head to look at the courtyard, Uncle Cai's courtyard door is hidden, their yard is not a high wall and a solid door, but a half-person high fence and a wooden door to the waist, there is no doubt that there is something in the courtyard, at this point in time they should be resting, so as to nourish the spirit of the evening market. As for Brother Zhuzi, he should learn woodwork from Master Zhang, and I saw them together at noon.

I don't want to disturb their rest, I plan to take a walk to the Zhangjiamu Courtyard, and if I meet Brother Zhuzi, I will ask him where Uncle Hei is.

I just raised my feet to leave, and I snorted—

I turned my head to see that it was the meat stall cloth drying in Uncle Cai's courtyard that was blown to the ground by the wind.

I turned around again, gently pushed open the door, and quietly walked in, and felt that the cloth was all dry, and I simply folded it and put it away.

"Don't worry too much, it's rare for a child to like it, just let him do what he cares." Aunt Cai's worried voice sounded in the room.

I was stunned, it turned out that they were awake.

"When we gave up everything and came here, didn't we just want to be an ordinary person, and you regretted it again?" Uncle Cai said in a deep voice.

"No, I don't—the pillar just likes to learn some carpentry work now, and it's a craft job, which is better than we have now. I think the man came here to be a carpenter with the same idea as we did, he wouldn't talk nonsense to children. Aunt Cai explained in a hurry.

What are you talking about? Do you want to talk about Brother Zhuzi learning work from Master Zhang? Obviously, Uncle Cai was very proud to tell me last time? Why do you seem to be very opposed now?

Uncle Cai sighed and said, "I know he won't, everyone here is trying to be quiet." However, don't you think the pillars have been different lately? ”

"What's the difference? I see that he has been very energetic recently, and he is willing to work, he used to do things for half a day, but now he has done it well, and there is still a lot of time to save to think about his own things. Aunt Cai's tone was full of joy.

"Woman's view! Why don't you want to think about why he works so much faster than before, I casually pinched his pulse a few days ago, it's different. ”

"You mean—" Aunt Cai exclaimed.

"I don't want him to get involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes anymore, I just want him to be an ordinary country boy, marry a wife, have children, and live as a farmer. Although the carpenter had no sect before, he had a strange temper and should have made many enemies, and I don't want the pillar to be influenced by him and incur unwarranted resentment. ”

"I know, I know......"

"Persuade." Uncle Cai sighed.

Aunt Cai also sighed.

Didn't the two of them allow Brother Zhu to live on the wood again? I think Brother Zhuzi seems to listen to Zhang Dandan's words, Zhang Dandan's strange temper, it is estimated that only the honest Brother Zhuzi can stand it, and the two of them are very good together.

It's really a scripture that is difficult to read.

I carefully placed the meat cloth on the small table and walked out softly.

Brother Zhu and I are also childhood sweethearts, thinking that he can't do what he likes in the future, I'm really a little sympathetic, I hope they can talk about a good result, don't give up your ideals easily.

As soon as I entered the alley where the wooden courtyard was located, I heard a strange sound, as if someone was sweeping the wind with a stick.

The sand flew in the alley, and the inexplicable gust of wind blew my clothes all over the place.

I wrapped myself in a wrap and walked inside.

Zhang's wooden courtyard is half-hidden, and Zhang will basically not take over work in winter, winter is not the season when everything grows, he said that even if he carves a wooden fish that can swim, he will hibernate and not wake up, in vain.

It's really funny to think that he always frowns and stares at other people's expressions with iron nails, how can anyone do business and have such a temper?

"Arm straight, wrist force!"

At this time, Zhang Dan's fierce voice drifted to my ears with the wind, startling me.

Are you teaching the pillar brother to work?

"With wrist strength! Stupid cow! Just know how to be brute! Zhang Dan scolded again.

I stopped, isn't this time the right time to bother? How embarrassing -

But I was really curious, because I didn't hear anything but the wind, and it didn't feel like I was doing woodwork!

"Master—" Brother Pillar called timidly.

"How many times have you said it, how many times have you said it, and your brain is caught in the door?! Don't call me Master! Zhang Shan just shouted, looking very impatient.

I slowly approached the wooden courtyard, lightly, this chapter is just counting the pillar brothers, and he is really a difficult master to serve, and he can't even call him Master.

"Uncle Zhang......" Brother Zhuzi's voice looked a little lost.

"Say something!"

"Oh, I just want to ask, how long is this stick? I thought seven feet was the most, but why does it seem like there's room for stretching? The strange wind suddenly stopped, and Brother Zhuzi gasped slightly.

"Eight feet three inches."

By this time I had approached the wooden courtyard and saw them in the courtyard.

Brother Zhu Zi was only wearing a thin single shirt, with sleeves rolled up to his shoulders, revealing his strong arms, holding a black iron rod in his left hand, and beads of sweat on his face, looking tall and majestic, not at all different from what I usually saw him.

And Zhang Dan sat on the side, still with an iron nail in his mouth, a stove in front of him, an iron pot on the stove, and he didn't know what was burning in the pot, whirring with golden smoke.

Brother Zhu looked strangely at the iron rod standing beside him, which was taller than him, and said, "Then how can the remaining length be extended?" ”

This iron rod seems to have been seen somewhere.

Zhang Dan sneered with a crooked mouth, stirred in the iron pot with iron chopsticks, and said, "Don't worry about it, except for the son of the Yan family, no one can stretch and shorten it casually." ”

The pillar wiped his sweat and asked honestly, "Why?" ”

"Why?" Zhang Dan pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, as if he had heard a very brainless question, and said, "Because it's the Yan family's thing." It's like you can ask your own children to make soy sauce and buy a bun, but you can't call other children. ”

Brother Zhuzi nodded honestly, shook the iron rod and said, "I can't see it, it still has spirituality." ”

Zhang Shan simply asked, "You have been holding it for a while, have you found anything strange about it?" ”

Brother Zhuzi said: "I feel that this stick is not all solid, if it is all solid, it should be heavier, and there should be some small passes in some places in the middle of it, but ...... I haven't figured out where these little ones are......" He touched his head, a little embarrassed.

"What else?" Zhang Dan's expression can't see joy and anger, it's a stinky face anyway.

"And ...... And then there's ...... It doesn't seem to be made of ordinary materials...... Sinking tightly, like iron is not iron, like wood is not wood, hard and can be seen and bent, soft and standing like heavy iron, I have never seen such a material......" Brother Zhu said these words as if he was desperately squeezing his head, for fear of being scolded.

Zhang Shan rolled his eyes and said, "Birch wood is mixed with black iron, how could you, a country boy, have seen it." ”

Brother Zhuzi breathed a sigh of relief, for fear that he would be scolded if he didn't recognize the material, he carefully examined the iron rod and said, "Birch Xuantie? No wonder—but both of these things are extremely rare, and I have never seen them in a fraction of them, let alone the weapons they have been mixed into—but both are so hard that how could the man who cast them refine and mix them, and how could they carve such fine carvings into them? ”

The corners of Zhang Dan's mouth hooked up a smile, this smile was full of pride: "Of course, it can't be carved after casting, the process of its casting is very delicate and complex, don't look at it as an iron rod, in fact, it starts from the needle first, and then wraps it layer by layer, and the final texture has been set at the time of wrapping, covering ten layers of dark iron birch fused film, in order to have such a sense of nicking." ”

"This-" Brother Zhu smiled dumbly, "I really can't see that an iron rod has taken so much thought, how many years does it have to be cast?" ”

"It will take three years for the actinization of wood and soft iron and the formation of cast rods, plus the clever placement of the organs, the collection of inches, the modification and adjustment, and four and a half years."

Brother Zhuzi opened his mouth wide: "Four and a half years, it's really a big project......

Zhang Dan glanced at him and sneered: "So you know a fart, if you don't follow me with this stick, you won't be able to play with this blessing in your hand in your life." ”

Brother Zhuzi put the stick in front of his eyes, watched it carefully, and said with a look of admiration: "Master-Uncle Zhang knows a lot, if this stick comes to me, it will be an iron stick, at most it will be used to pick up water or something." ”

"Fool's eye." Zhang Dan took the iron nail from his mouth, threw it into the pot, stood up, and stared at the iron rod with both hands behind his back.

Brother Zhu frowned and whispered, "But...... Isn't this stick supposed to be indestructible? Why are there scratches on it? What could be harder than that? ”

Zhang Dan took the iron rod and gently played it in his hand, and the whirring stick wind was very similar to what I had heard in the alley just now.

He happened to be playing with a stick, and suddenly hit Brother Zhu is stick, but fortunately, Brother Zhu reacted quickly, took a step back, and stretched out his hand to block!

My eyes widened, what is this for?!