Crouching Tiger
Just when Shangguan Yi was a man, struggling with what to do now and how to deal with Zhang San afterwards, the crazy blacksmith finally stopped his misleading actions and said with some excitement: "You should be a swordsman, right?
"Huh?" Shangguan Yi was ready to listen to the crazy blacksmith say something perverted and obscene, but he didn't expect him to turn a sharp turn and enter the broad road of the kindergarten, but Shangguan Yi was obscene.
"Ahh "What the mad blacksmith said was categorical.
"Well, I just didn't expect you to say this suddenly, can we go in and say it?" Shangguan Yi replied with some surprise and embarrassment, but his appearance had actually made the sophisticated mad blacksmith guess something, so he happily got out of the way and invited Shangguan Yi and Zhang San in.
After the three of them sat down, the crazy blacksmith made a pot of tea for the first time, this is a treat for Shangguan Yi, Zhang San is just a blessing, even if the tea is not a good tea, but the hospitality has always been only white water and wine, the crazy blacksmith with the attitude of loving to drink or not to drink took out the tea, no matter how it drops, it is also a sip to drink, and it will be the capital to brag about in the future.
"As you might expect, I am indeed a swordsman, and I use a long sword, but now for some personal reasons, I will not use a sword if I can, and if I use it, it will be a disguised heavy sword. But what I want most is a sword of my own, for which I am working hard to collect ores, I heard Zhang San say that you have a lot of rare ores here, I don't know if you can sell some to me, the price is easy to say, if you have any other demands, you can also tell me, if you can help, you will not stand idly by. Shangguan Yi said very frankly, after all, everyone has seen through it.
"So what kind of sword are you using?" the mad blacksmith continued to ask the previous question.
This is actually a proposition, if the sword is too much, or you talk nonsense, it will make the crazy blacksmith unhappy, and the matter of buying ore will naturally be cold. So Zhang San, who was drinking tea, also stopped moving, although he did pay his blood, two jars of laurel wine in Huaixiang, which was a bargaining chip that made the mad blacksmith unable to refuse him at all, even if he pitted the mad blacksmith a lot of things.
Huaixiang is a small village near the northern city of the capital, and there is a winemaking family in it, and they produce a lot of wine, but the best is the laurel wine made from the laurel on the moon cliff near Huaixiang. Because there is only one tree, the annual production of alcohol is limited, and there are only three jars at most, which is in short supply, and the kind that is useless if you have money is in short supply.
Zhang San's two jars are his inventory, and the inventory that he has collected with great difficulty has been taken out to bribe the crazy blacksmith this time, in order to allow Shangguan Yi to get the ore smoothly.
The facts are as he expected, he did pave the way for Shangguan Yi, as long as Shangguan Yi himself does not drop the chain, this matter will be done, but I am afraid that Shangguan Yi will fall off the chain in case.
"Yue Han, the name of the sword is Yue Han, have you ever heard of it?" Shangguan Yi replied without thinking, obviously remembering the name of the sword very clearly.
"Yue Han, that's a pretty good sword, but it doesn't seem to be suitable for you, right?" the mad blacksmith stared at Shangguan Yi tightly, forcing him to ask.
Although I am still far from that realm, but because of my personal internal strength, although the moon is cold and yin, but for me I can't perfectly exert its attributes to defeat the enemy, it has no effect on normal combat. "Shangguan Yi guessed the meaning of the crazy blacksmith, it is nothing more than speculation from Shangguan Yi's body, Shangguan Yi should be a fierce route, yang, brilliant as the sun, domineering and incomparable, but the sword is yin, cold like the moon, feminine and weird, the gap is too big, I suspect that Shangguan Yi does not understand swords, and he is a tasteless person.
When Shangguan Yi said this, the mad blacksmith pondered for a moment and continued to ask: "Then you attack me to refer to the sword moves, and let me see your kendo attainments." Because he had to admit that what Shangguan Yi said made sense, but he was afraid that Shangguan Yi was just a man who could speak well and was treacherous, so he asked to try a move, and only one move was enough for him to take a peek at the leopard, and see how many catties and taels Shangguan Yi had.
Shangguan Yi stood up, his index finger and middle finger were together, the rest of his fingers contracted, and after a slight contemplation, he resorted to a formula: borrowing mountains and rivers.
This style was born from the cultivation of Haoran Righteous Qi Fu, but Shangguan Yi is not familiar with it, just the most basic use, taking advantage of the momentum of mountains and rivers to add some power to the tricks that are not powerful because he has left spare strength, and he can easily change his moves, which is considered to be a lot more flexible and more threatening.
It's just this move, Shangguan Yi's more proud subtle move, but it was easily taken by the crazy blacksmith, and it didn't seem to be effortless at all.
"Forehead......" Shangguan Yi was a little embarrassed and doubted his life, could it be that his swordsmanship was actually very bad?
"Yes, it's still rusty, but you've taken that step. Maybe you don't have enough time to practice the sword, this sword actually seems to be exquisite, and the power is not bad, but there are also a lot of flaws, people like me can easily break it, and you still have to practice. The mad blacksmith was unexpected, and the evaluation he gave was praised.
But is it really not because of Zhang San's bribery to comment on your easily broken sword moves?
Shangguan Yi glanced at Zhang San with some complaints, and the latter noticed that Shangguan Yi seemed to be slightly depressed, smiled heartily, and said: "Brother Li, don't think too much, the crazy blacksmith has always had one thing to say in this regard, rotten is rotten, good is good, and you can't be false." So even though I knew before that he would test your kendo cultivation, I didn't remind you, because it's useless, and letting you play by yourself is the most important thing. I've done everything else I can, and it's up to you to do this one, so I said it's not me who settles him, it's you. ”
Shangguan Yi then understood what Zhang San meant by what he said before, and he also figured out some other things: the mad blacksmith is also a swordsman, and he is a swordsman who is far stronger than himself, so he can easily break his sword moves, so he can be a madman unscrupulously without worrying about being killed.
This is far from the capital...... It's really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, even in such a remote place, there are masters like the mad blacksmith dormant in hibernation, and how many masters with unknown surnames in other places live silently like an ordinary person?
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Because Shangguan Yi passed the test of the crazy blacksmith, coupled with Zhang San's two jars of wine, Shangguan Yi said that silver was not a problem, so the next thing was very easy.
The mad blacksmith and Shangguan Yi chatted about some details of sword casting, such as whether the swordsmith had been invited, what ores had been prepared, and what kind of sword he wanted to make......
Chatting and chatting, Shangguan Yi took Zhang Sanzhi away, not that he was ungrateful and crossed the river and demolished the bridge, but that the things he talked about already involved personal privacy, and even included the secrets of the East China Sea, so he couldn't let Zhang San listen.
The so-called secret of the East China Sea is the secret of the sword of the Son of Heaven, Shangguan Yi originally wanted to cover it up, but he only said that he had seen a sword with magical power, which could be inlaid with gems, and it could also enable the master to resist the attack of martial arts masters as an ordinary person, and even have to be undamaged.
When the mad blacksmith heard this, he smiled and asked, "The name of the sword you said is four characters and a three-character nickname, right?"
Shangguan Yi nodded, the name of the sword is Yuezhao Donghai, also known as the Sword of the Son of Heaven, it is indeed true.
"Don't think about that kind of weapon, it's a national weapon, don't mention how difficult the casting process is, you can't do it just by infusing the national fortune into it, and the national fortune here is not enough to support that kind of weapon for killing. If there is no national fortune, even if the material structure is the same, it is just a divine weapon, and it will not cross this boundary. The mad blacksmith replied pertinently, he had heard rumors of the sword, and it was secretly recorded in some lonely book.
"That's right. Shangguan Yi nodded, and there was no disappointment, because he had long thought that it would not be so simple, that kind of weapon was too buggy, if it fell into the hands of the masters of the Fourth Heaven, it would basically be impossible to defeat him without the Fifth Heaven. He asked this just to know the difficulty of casting, that is, whether the Demon Dao had the ability to take out such a weapon, and if so, ...... You have to prepare early, and you have to be prepared for death.
"If your sword is cast, it shouldn't be a big problem, you are lucky, the few ores you collected are not bad, but for your arm strength and future growth, the weight is still lighter, I will recommend you a few more ores, you can take the time to come and transport them."
That person's casting skills are still quite reliable, at least more reliable than Zhang San's life, it is better to stay away from him or away from him, he is very pitiful. The mad blacksmith babbled a lot, and his words were full of concern for his juniors.
Of course, there are deep meanings in it, for example, he knows that Shangguan Yi is in a state of disguise, and he even has a rough idea of Shangguan Yi's age, because he knows how to touch the bones, and touching Shangguan Yi so carefully is not to take advantage of Shangguan Yi.
So he knew that Shangguan Yi was using a good long sword now, and he might be a light sword when he grew up in the future, which was a pity for Shangguan Yi, and it was actually a pity for the sword forger.
In fact, any swordsmith hopes that his work is not only a divine soldier, but also a meritorious battle, preferably famous and powerful in the world, so that people can mention this sword, and the owner of this sword will involuntarily be in awe, so as to prove the power of this divine soldier and live up to his hard work. Each sword is actually like a child of theirs, and what parent doesn't want their child to be productive?
In the case of Shangguan Yi, that person may not be able to see Shangguan Yi's true state, so he forged the most suitable sword for Shangguan Yi now, which is right. Shangguan Yi concealed the situation for his own reasons, which is not wrong, but when these two things converge, things are not right. The mad blacksmith didn't want a peerless sword to be buried like this, maybe it could be used by others, but no one could refute it, the most suitable person for this sword was Shangguan Yi, and there was no one else, because this sword was born for him.
Yes, the mad blacksmith can be sure that this is a peerless sword, although it has not yet begun to be cast, but there are some clues from the material alone, and the material reserves of himself and that person plus the few pieces of metal prepared by this kid himself, the sword created by the material alone can be compared. The fly in the ointment is that the swordsmith is only that person, if you gather a few more sword-casting masters, and then find a way to inject it into the national fortune, maybe you can breed gems and become a national weapon, but the national weapon is such a thing, and it is not a crime, so it is okay not to make it.
"I remembered. Shangguan Yi said gratefully, although he didn't know why the mad blacksmith was so good to him, but he would remember the mad blacksmith's advice, after all, it was the admonition of the seniors, if he didn't listen, the loss would be in front of him.
"Wait a minute, I'll count the value of those ores, and just collect a percentage of your profits, and I won't make any money. The mad blacksmith nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Shangguan Yi to wait for him here, he went to find the ores that were suitable for Shangguan Yi and calculated the price.
Shangguan Yi knew that this was basically equivalent to giving it for nothing, and the price of these ores would increase by at least fifty percent every time they changed hands, and the one percent profit that the mad blacksmith said meant one percent according to the price he had gotten. Not to mention anything else, the energy spent on such a long period of storage is more than this cost, ore is a mine, not just a stone, whatever you want to put it, many have a special storage method, if you are not about to use it immediately, it is absolutely not possible to take it out. In professional terms: with the erosion of the environment, the vitality of the ore will be reduced, or even become another mineral, or even waste mine.
Therefore, the long-term preservation of ore is definitely a science, and it is not an old blacksmith who has been immersed for many years, and the old miner can't do it at all.
Not long after, the mad blacksmith came back and handed Shangguan Yi a list and a letter.
On the list is the name of each ore, its weight, its price, and finally a total.
"If the money is not enough, you can owe it on credit first, and then pay it back later, this letter is for that person, I haven't seen him for a long time, greet him on my behalf." The mad blacksmith admonished.
"Well, the money is still enough, oh, if you count enough, I will deliver it." Shangguan Yi looked at the list, took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve, counted them, handed them to the mad blacksmith, and then carefully put away the letter and the list.
"I didn't expect you to be quite rich. "The mad blacksmith was a bit of a surprise.
"After all, forging a good sword is a matter of burning money, and I didn't miss it when I could get silver. Shangguan Yi said, still a little painful, even if he bought a house and these ores, his wallet has basically shrunk by half, do you want to find an opportunity to rob the rich and help the poor again?
"Hahaha, this is also true, silver is a thing, you will know less when you use it, and it is a good thing to save money. The mad blacksmith complimented, and put the silver ticket away, but did not count it. Maybe it's not bad for money or believe in Shangguanyi?
Shangguan Yi himself is more inclined to the first point.
Then after the two of them made an appointment to take away the ore, Shangguan Yi said goodbye and left with Zhang San.