Chapter 12: The Swordsmith
After Li Kunlun left Zhuyue Mountain Villa, he walked straight to the inn.
"Boy, why are you back, where is that ghost swordsman?" the white shopkeeper sat lazily in the inn.
Li Kunlun: "Senior Wei is injured, and now he can't go down to the ground, the Lord of Qiu Valley is treating him, and there is no danger to his life for the time being."
White shopkeeper: "I'm injured again, it's really not easy for him to survive until now."
Li Kunlun: "I came this time to ask the white shopkeeper something"
White shopkeeper: "Oh?"
"Shopkeeper Bai, you have seen a lot of knowledge in opening an inn here on weekdays, but you know where such a thing comes from," Li Kunlun took out the burlap silk he had obtained from Chu Nanfeng.
White Shopkeeper: "It looks like it's white hemp, and it's very absorbent, but it's not too strong, and people in the valley don't know how to use it, so the kid asked what this thing does."
Li Kunlun: "Brother Chu found it in Miss Xue's room, and there is also a piece of wood in Brother Xiao's room, what may it have to do with the murderer?"
White shopkeeper: "Tell me so clearly, what if I am the murderer"
Li Kunlun: "The money shopkeeper was killed by me and Senior Wei on the second night of entering the valley, and you will block the doors and windows on the first floor of the inn at night, if you want to go out or go upstairs, Senior Wei and I will always hear some noises."
White shopkeeper: "It's not interesting"
Li Kunlun: "I heard Senior Wei say that the white shopkeeper and the money shopkeeper also have some friendship, why are you not sad at all when he dies?"
White shopkeeper: "Half his life has been hiding in Tibet, dying here may be a relief for him, there is nothing to be sad about"
"Relief?" Li Kunlun vaguely felt that the relationship between the three was not so simple.
White shopkeeper: "Nothing"
"By the way, there is a peculiar smell on that wood chip, I seem to have smelled it in the store before, so I came back to ask" Seeing that the white shopkeeper didn't want to say more, Li Kunlun changed the topic.
White shopkeeper: "What's in the store?"
Li Kunlun: "The white shopkeeper doesn't mind if I rummage in the store"
The white shopkeeper: "Find it, just a few things are not rare"
After half a salary, Li Kunlun found the thing with a familiar smell, a black wooden fan.
"What kind of material is this fan made of?" asked Li Kunlun eagerly.
"It's a sunken wooden fan, hard as iron, ordinary iron can't hurt it in the slightest, speaking of this fan, it has a lot of origins......" The white shopkeeper was interested.
"You tell me where it came from," Li Kunlun interrupted the white shopkeeper.
The white shopkeeper: "The young man is so impatient, and the young man is ...... now Forget it, for the sake of that ghost swordsman, I don't care about you."
"I won this fan from a strange old man in the gambling house, go out and turn left, walk along the street to the end, and then turn right and walk all the way to see a courtyard"
"But don't expect too much, that old man is very weird and you may not meet him"
"Thank you, shopkeeper Bai," Li Kunlun finished speaking, went upstairs and wrapped a few clothes for the swordsman and went out.
Following the path pointed by the white shopkeeper, a cup of tea arrived in front of the courtyard.
What Li Kunlun saw in front of him was not so much a courtyard as a cave, which was more reasonable.
The entire courtyard wall and the outer edge of the gate are made of stones, and some of them are also capped.
There is nothing real about this so-called door, it is just a hole in the stone.
"Excuse me, is there anyone?" Li Kunlun shouted inside, but there was no reply.
After shouting a few more times and not replying, Li Kunlun entered the courtyard on his own.
The most conspicuous thing in the courtyard is a furnace several people high, and there seems to be a weapon being fired inside.
The rest of the courtyard was filled with broken weapons and all sorts of stones.
"It turns out that the owner of this place is a blacksmith," Li Kunlun couldn't help muttering.
"What a blacksmith, the old man is a swordsmith!" suddenly heard a voice from outside the courtyard, and then an old man dressed in plain clothes and a middle-aged man walked in. The old man was skinny, covered his mouth with his hands, and kept coughing, looking not very good.
"Where did the wild boy dare to come into my yard casually". The old man said sharply.
Li Kunlun: "The junior Li Kunlun has some things to ask his seniors, and he took the liberty to break into the yard to make amends to his seniors."
Old man: "Feng'er, send off guests" After speaking, he went into the house.
Man: "Yes, Master"
Li Kunlun: "Senior!"
Man: "The master hasn't seen a guest recently, please come back"
Li Kunlun: "It's a matter of two lives, please listen to me"
"Boy, what did you just say, what kind of human life," the old man suddenly came out of the room, his words full of concern.
Li Kunlun: "Recently, there have been two lives in the valley one after another, the money shopkeeper of the gambling house and Miss Xue of Luomeizhuang died one after another, I don't know if the predecessors have heard of it."
Old man: "Explain the meaning directly"
Li Kunlun: "There are some clues here for the juniors, the clues are related to the seniors, and the seniors are invited to solve my doubts"
Old man: "What clues?"
Li Kunlun: "Brother Xiao of Heiyun Village found a strange piece of wood in Miss Xue's hand, which had a faint bitter smell on it, not like the taste of the wood block itself"
"I smelled the same smell at the white shopkeeper of the Tongyan Inn before, so I came to the seniors according to what the white shopkeeper said."
Old man: "What kind of wooden block?"
Li Kunlun: "A small piece of black wood, one side is very smooth, the other side is flat, as if it was cut from something"
"It was the Sinking Muxun that I gave to Xue Yatou," the old man said in a trembling voice after coughing.
"Sinking Muxun, what is that!" Li Kunlun finally found a breakthrough and asked eagerly.
The old man: "It is a wooden xun made of sunken wood, and the bitter taste on it is the old man's unique secret wood wax, which is used to maintain the stone sunken wood."
Li Kunlun: "Except for the wooden blocks and some white linen cloth, Brother Chu, they didn't find anything suspicious at the scene, could it be that Xun was taken away by the murderer?"
"Miss Xue must be holding the severed piece of wood in her hand to tell us about the murderer, but what is the connection between this piece of stone and the murderer?"
The old man: "The money shopkeeper and Xue Yatou are my long-time friends and friends, boy, if you can find the murderer, the old man will be grateful"
Li Kunlun: "The seniors are serious, the money shopkeeper is the old friend of the Wei seniors, the Wei seniors worked tirelessly to take me to this valley to cure the poison, and the younger generations to track down the murderer can be regarded as a return for the kindness of the Wei seniors"
"By the way, the white shopkeeper said that the sunken wood is as hard as iron, and ordinary weapons can't hurt it in the slightest, Miss Xue's plum dart is a sharp weapon, and it is impossible to use it to cut it, this piece of wood must have been cut down by the murderer, as long as the murder weapon is found, it will not be difficult to find the murderer."
"Since the predecessors are sword forgers, they must have some understanding of divine weapons, what weapons can be used in this Medicine King Valley to cut off this stone and sunken wood?"
The old man "Stone and wood are absolutely indestructible, as far as I know, only the black sword of the old ghost surnamed Wei" "In addition, only the top twenty weapons in the weapon spectrum are possible, but these weapons are either not in the valley or have been lost for a long time"
Li Kunlun: "The shopkeeper Qian is a close friend of Senior Wei, and I was in the same room with Senior Wei on the night the shopkeeper was killed, and Senior Wei never left the sword."
"Now it seems that the only way to find that stone sunken wood is to find it first."
"Senior, it's not early, the junior is going back to the villa first, if there is news of the murderer, I will inform you"
The old man: "The old man is forging a sword recently, and it will be a critical moment in two days and cannot be disturbed, you have news to tell the white shopkeeper of the inn, I will let Feng'er inquire"
"Okay, then the junior will say goodbye first" Li Kunlun saluted and left the courtyard.