The food is silent, and during the meal, everyone is speechless.

The Li family is not a big family, and there are not so many rules, so the reason why there is a habit of eating without saying a word is because of the relationship between Yan Xingguan.

When Yan Xingguan first came here two years ago, he just complained during dinner. After that, no one at the Li family's dinner table dared to speak.

After lunch, Li Boyun ordered someone to serve tea again, and then got up to say goodbye, leaving the huge living room to the two young people.

Li Qifeng looked at Meng Li, smiled and said nothing.

Meng Li's hand holding the teacup suddenly trembled, and he frowned, "What do you mean by looking at me with such a gaze?"

Li Qifeng smiled: "It's nothing, I see that you have been white and chubby recently, and I feel a lot of comfort in my heart." ”

Meng Li pouted and said, "Didn't you just eat a few meals at your house, look at you stingy." ”

Li Qifeng put the teacup in his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't quarrel with you, let's get down to business." At the end of this month, I will break through the Five Forgings, and then immediately set off for Xizhou City. ”

"So fast!" Meng Li's expression suddenly became serious.

has been together for two months, and he knows Li Qifeng's personality no better. seems to be the reason why he has been stimulated, Li Qifeng's personality has become more and more calm in the past two years, and he will never be reluctant to do things that he is not sure of.

If he decides to break through, he will be sure of success.

"Leaving in a month? Or you can wait another two months, and then we'll go together. ”

Li Qifeng said: "You and I are not on the same path, what's the point of walking together?" said and suddenly smiled: "You have been ahead of me everywhere in the past two years, and this time I can't let you take the lead." ”

Meng Li also laughed and said proudly: "Then you have to work hard." ”

The two of them are both friends who support each other and rivals who compete with each other. No one is convinced of anyone.

Li Qifeng waved his hand and said: "Don't talk about this, what are you doing today, don't tell me on this day, you came to my house to pay New Year's greetings." ”

Meng Li took out the two cheats that had been prepared a long time ago, and said with a smile: "Didn't I make a special trip to send you cheats, by the way, do you have a way to forge at home." ”

Li Qifeng glanced at the cheats on the table, and said with a smile: "I knew that you guy, you can't afford to be early." But why did you suddenly remember to ask me about the forge?"

Meng Li said: "I want to learn the art of forging. ”

"Do you want to learn forging?" Li Qifeng frowned, his expression a little displeased.

Forging is a technology, not something that can be done with just a handful of effort, even if it is an early start, it requires a lot of effort. However, cultivating martial arts is an extremely energy-consuming thing, and if you waste martial arts due to distraction, it will be worth the loss.

Li Qifeng didn't want Meng Li to be distracted by forging, at least not now.

"Now is the time for you and me to work hard, although I don't know why you have such thoughts, but I advise you to give up. ”

Meng Li looked at Li Qifeng's sincere gaze and said movingly: "I know that you are for my good, but I have just broken through the five forgings now. You also know that the cultivation of first-class martial artists after is more difficult than before, and it is difficult to have a big improvement for a while, so I want to start from other aspects and find a way to break through. Don't worry, I'm just scratching the surface and won't put too much effort into forging. ”

Li Qifeng glanced at the "Secret Weapon Experience" on the table, understood it in his heart, and sighed: "I understand." There is a Cheng Ji iron shop in the east of the water town, the owner Cheng Bin is a good friend of my father, and I will ask my father to write you a letter of recommendation later, I think he will be very willing to help you. ”

"Cheng Ji Iron Shop, that feeling is good!" Meng Li grinned, with indescribable joy on his face. This Cheng Ji iron shop, even he who doesn't know much about the situation in the water town, is said to be the most famous iron shop in the water town, and many warriors in the town who have a need for blades will go there.

After that, the two exchanged some problems encountered in cultivation, which ended this reunion, and when Meng Li walked out of the Li Mansion, he naturally got the recommendation letter written by Li Qifeng himself.

On the east side of the town, there are few households, and it is the most barren place in the town, which is not as lively as other places, and this is the main reason why the blacksmith can take root here.

The location of Cheng Ji's iron shop is located at the front of the street on the east side, and before he entered this sparsely populated and desolate street, Meng Li had already heard the sound of tinkling iron.

Meng Li heard a saying a long time ago: hearing is false, seeing is believing.

Before he came, he was full of expectations for Cheng Ji Iron Shop, but when he saw this iron shop, he still felt a little disappointed.

This well-known Cheng Ji iron shop looks too down-and-out and far less worthy of the fame it has.

In a sparsely populated place, an open-air grass hut supported by four stout wooden pillars is the Cheng Ji iron shop that Meng Li is looking forward to. So much so that when he first saw this place, he thought he was in the wrong place.

The stove, bellows, the blacksmith, and a middle-aged uncle with bare arms and a sturdy figure are all there is to this blacksmith.

Meng Li walked to the front of the shop and said to the man who was striking iron like rain: "Uncle, may I ask if this is Cheng Ji Iron Shop?"

"See for yourself. ”

When the man struck the iron heard this, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the door, and then continued to droop.

In this process, his eyes were firmly fixed on the red-hot iron in front of the stage, and he didn't even raise his head.

The man striking the iron pointed to Meng Li's feet, Meng Li looked in the direction, and suddenly found a wooden sign nailed crookedly on the wooden pillar in front of the shop.

The wooden plaque is dilapidated, with four large crooked characters written on it in thick ink:

Cheng Ji Iron Shop!

The old wood is new, and some faint traces can be seen under the thick ink, and it is obvious that these four big characters are newly written recently.

What a famous Cheng Ji iron shop!

If it weren't for the fact that he had heard of the name of this iron shop before, seeing such an environment, Meng Li would have turned his head and left, but now he could only stand aside and wait obediently.

Holding the letter of recommendation in his hand, Meng Li, who was bored, was soon attracted by the iron man's technique, the middle-aged uncle who didn't look good, in his sturdy body, seemed to have inexhaustible strength, hammer after hammer, and there was no exhaustion at all.

A normal person swings a hammer, and within a few dozen strokes, his arm will be sore, not to mention the deformation of his movements, and his strength will be uncontrollable, but the middle-aged man's movements have entered an inherent rhythm.

After a hundred hammers, the iron turned from red to black, and the man added the iron to the stove and said coldly, "Pull the bellows".

"What?" Meng Li was a little stunned and indifferent.

The man couldn't take his eyes off it, and said coldly again: "Pull the bellows." ”

This time, the voice was a little heavier, Meng Li heard it clearly, and at the same time, he finally reacted.

Did he ask me to help him pull the bellows? This man who didn't even ask me what I was doing, and didn't even look at me from beginning to end, commanded me like that?

Although it felt a little incredible, Meng Li still walked up obediently.

No way, who let us ask for help!

As the bellows were pulled, the fire in the furnace grew brighter and brighter, and soon the iron was heated again.

The hot iron was clamped back onto the iron platform, and the man picked up the sledgehammer.

Jingle Bell!

The rhythmic sound of striking iron soon sounded again.

Then the two of them repeated the process, and for half an hour, the iron man fell thousands of times, and waited until the long iron block that was originally the size of an arm was reduced by thirty percent, and then gave up.

The hammered iron was the size of a baby's arm, black and shiny, like a precious black gem.

Meng Li looked at the iron block and secretly marveled. As far as he knew, this kind of precision forging into steel is still the first step in the forging process, and the next forging is the real test of a blacksmith's kung fu.

However, it is a pity that the other party has no intention of continuing to forge.

The middle-aged man put the heavy hammer aside and looked at Meng Li, who was staring at the iron block as if he had discovered a novel world.

"Who are you, and why are you here?"

He looked surprised, as if he had just noticed that there was one more person beside him.

The middle-aged man's successive questions were like a heavy iron fist of a boxing master, hitting Meng Li's heart fiercely.

Uncle, what about conscience! The bellows just now were pulled in vain?

Suppressing the absurd feeling in his heart, Meng Li smiled bitterly and stretched out his hands to send a letter of recommendation that had been prepared a long time ago.

"Senior, I'm here to study. ”