"It's very similar."

Lu Hanjiang picked up the jade statue and looked at it, not so much as the image, but the thing carved out of Shang Luo as the prototype, on the basis of "image", it seems that the concept of growth has also been extended.

The jade woman looks more mature than Shang Luo, maybe the girl will become like this in another four or five years. No, it's a bit of a fork.

"Master Lu, why do you think there is this jade statue in Master Gu's room?" Ah Lan's question interrupted Lu Hanjiang's thoughts just right.

"I also want to know, but Master Gu is dead, and his disciple Anan is also missing, if you want to find out the reason, I'm afraid it's difficult."

As he spoke, Lu Hanjiang shook his head, put down the jade statue and asked, "Miss Alan, what else did you find in that room?" ”

"Everything else is pretty good, but there's one thing that makes me feel very strange," Ah Lan said after a slight mutter, "It's been so long since Master Gu passed away, but his sword furnace has not been extinguished, and when I went in that day, the furnace was still burning bright. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Hearing this, Lu Hanjiang also felt very surprised, the Sword Casting Villa is now embarrassed to this point, and it really doesn't make sense that he still has the money to maintain a sword furnace that can't be used at all all year round.

"Well, because of the matter of the Star Xuandao, Master Gu's residence is now listed as a forbidden place, and the disciples of the Sword Casting Villa are not allowed to enter, so no one knows about this matter."

What Ah Lan said is unknown to outsiders, but the Sword Casting Villa itself may not be able to say, there is no firewood that can be burned without sleep for a whole year, so this sword furnace must be artificially restarted and maintained.

Lu Hanjiang's interest was raised, he raised his head, and met Ah Lan's equally glowing eyes, and the two smiled heartily.

"You've already chosen the route, right?" Lu Hanjiang got up and put on a heavy coat.

Ah Lan patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, no one will find out." ”

The two looked at each other and nodded, and said to go, Ah Lan slid out of the windowsill in the original way, the corners of Lu Hanjiang's mouth twitched slightly when he saw this, and the footsteps he subconsciously followed slowly retracted, he still chose to walk the door.

Taking advantage of the night, the two avoided the disciples who were patrolling the night, and came all the way to Gu Ming's residence, which was a huge courtyard, covering almost one-seventh of the entire Sword Casting Villa, including the sword furnace, which also showed Gu Ming's status in the Sword Casting Villa during his lifetime.

There are only two entrances and exits in the courtyard, and they are guarded by two disciples of the Sword Casting Villa, which is very sloppy compared to the importance of the entire courtyard.

Ah Lan and Lu Hanjiang climbed over the wall very easily, and slipped into the courtyard without realizing it.

Lu Hanjiang looked around left and right, and said softly: "It's like it's intentional." ”

"Lu Gongzi?" Ah Lan stopped and looked at Lu Hanjiang behind him strangely.

In the quiet courtyard, the two stayed in the center of the courtyard, there was silence all around, overgrown with weeds, not even a sound of insects, eerie and terrifying, like a ghost domain.

"It's okay, let's go."

Lu Hanjiang just looked at it for a moment, and then nodded to Ah Lan, and the two continued to move forward, the room where the sword furnace was located was not locked, and the door opened as soon as it was pushed.

The two of them walked into it, the bright light of the fire shone in front of them, the huge sword furnace was like a fireball of the sun, and the hot and dry breath inside the house and the cool and dead silence outside seemed to be two worlds.

Two steps forward, walked up to the platform in front of the sword furnace, and looked down, the heat in the furnace was boiling, and there were some blade remains, standing in it like tombstones, and at the same time there was a pungent and unpleasant smell.

Lu Hanjiang frowned, and immediately pulled up his robe to cover his mouth and nose: "What kind of smell is this?" ”

Lu Hanjiang had never been to such a place, he had only seen the craftsman's furnace for casting weapons in books, and this was the first time that the real thing was in kind.

Ah Lan was used to looking at it, she just frowned, and said, "I've seen others forge swords before, but it really doesn't smell like this." ”

"Forget it."

Lu Hanjiang only thought that he was lonely and unheard, and there was nothing to see in the sword furnace, so he turned around and found other things in the room that might be useful.

Ah Lan also had no idea of taking a sauna in front of the stove, and stayed away from the platform in front of the sword furnace, and then looked back from a distance, the entire sword furnace was like a huge pot, and the shape of the copper and iron pouring revealed a strange dark gold.

I really wondered in my heart, Ah Lan went and returned, but this time on the platform in front of the furnace, I found some different traces, and under her feet, a dull red fell here covertly.

Ah Lan leaned down and gently wiped it with her fingertips, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it, her heart skipped a slight beat.

It's blood.

Ah Lan remained calm, retreated quietly, and then went to look for Lu Hanjiang, and saw that the other party was looking through some manuscripts left by Gu Ming on the table.

None of these things have been cleaned up by anyone in the Sword Forge Villa, but it may be that they have already looked through them, but they really didn't find anything, so they left them here and let them mold.

Lu Hanjiang rummaged repeatedly, and most of them were nonsense and self-absorption, but he didn't expect that this Gu Ming master was not only unconventional in his sword-casting skills, but also had a very strange personality.

In these manuscripts, there is very little substance about sword casting, and most of them are the old man's boasting, such as claiming to be the first swordsmith in ancient and modern times, and disdainful of the three great divine soldiers, calling them shameless works.

It's no wonder that the people of Sword Forge Villa are not interested in these things, this is just a bunch of whining and nonsense, which is worthless at all.

However, it is not completely fruitless, in this large amount of nonsense, in addition to half of the self-praise, the remaining half is full of dung, and the Sword Casting Villa has almost been severely belittled by Gu Ming from top to bottom.

scolded Master Yi as a hypocrite, and sarcastically ridiculed others as dogs guarding households, but if you want to say that the most scolded here, it has to be the Huo family.

Gu Ming began to scold from Huo Tianya's father, Huo Laozhuang, and scolded him for more than a dozen pages, scolding him for being stubborn and self-serving, scolding him for being arrogant and ignorant, scolding him for destroying heavenly things, and scolding him for being a loser, the treasure of the family inheritance, was given away by him in a blink of an eye.

Hey, seeing this can make Lu Hanjiang happy, and the feelings of this loser are still ancestral.

It's a pity, finally Lu Hanjiang was full of interest and wanted to see the follow-up, but a few pages were missing in the middle, it is estimated that it was done by a guy in the Huo family who can't afford to lose, everyone is already dead, it's not okay to scold you on the paper, tsk, it's really narrow-minded.

Thinking about it, Ah Lan was about to come over and say something to him, and just as he was about to speak, there was a sudden movement outside the courtyard, and the two looked at each other with their faces, and each flew up to the beam of the room with light skills.

Soon, someone pushed open the door, and Lu Hanjiang fixed his eyes and saw that the person who came was actually Fan Sheng, a master invited by Huo Tianya.

I saw that this old man didn't even bring a knife with him when he came here today, it seems that he was worried that his nine-ring knife movement was too big, and it was easy to disturb the disciples guarding outside, if he thought so, this Fan Sheng should also come over the wall.

It's just that this guy's intention seems to be different from the two of them, after Fan Sheng came, he closed the door, and then found a chair to sit down, looking like he was waiting for someone.

Not long after, footsteps came from outside the courtyard again, and when the door opened again, the person standing outside the door this time was Huo Tianya.

(End of chapter)