The sunset gradually sank in the frolicking of the two children, and Li Moru was ready to go home to be beaten, and he returned to being an apprentice to blacksmithing if he didn't return home at night.

After separating from Zhang Fugui, he walked home along the alley, the sunset was completely gone, and the moon on the horizon had already shown his head, he followed the alley, with the help of a faint gray-white light, and rushed home.

As soon as he reached the courtyard, he saw his mother moving a chair at the gate and sitting, he took a deep breath, walked towards his mother with his head down, and when he came to his mother, he closed his eyes and prepared to meet his mother's broomstick attack.

Not surprisingly, his mother picked up the broom and gave him several blows, but not as hard as before, and after a few casual blows, she said to him, "Stinky boy, you still know to come back!"

Li Moru saw that his mother had stopped, and thought to himself, no, is there any new trick today? He didn't dare to move, he still stood in place, ready for the next storm, and cleared his throat by the way, and even his heart-rending screams were ready.

He didn't expect his mother to really stop, he saw that his mother didn't move, and he kept worrying in his heart, so he asked: "Mother, if there is anything else, you can hurry up, don't scare me?"

Hearing this, his mother couldn't help but laugh and said, "Now you know you're scared?

Li Moru muttered, "Didn't I come to admit my mistake?"

Li Moru's mother looked at him like that, and the anger in her heart had disappeared a lot, so she asked him to hurry back to eat.

During the meal, he wanted to take advantage of his mother's distraction to tell her that when he went to the blacksmith shop as an apprentice, he would make her less angry.

He kept putting vegetables in his mouth while eating, and then said to his mother indistinctly: "Mother, I want to tell you something, I am going to be an apprentice in a blacksmith's shop." ”

He thought that his mother didn't hear clearly, thinking that he would pass it with a vague feeling, and then told his mother another day that he had already said it, so that his mother would accept it sooner.

Unexpectedly, his mother heard it all clearly, his mother put down the rice bowl in her hand, looked at Li Moru with a serious face and asked, "Moru, why do you suddenly have this idea?"

Li Moru didn't speak, he didn't dare to think that he was going to be an apprentice for a sword, but he didn't think of other reasons. He really didn't want to deceive his mother.

Seeing Li Moru like this, her mother didn't plan to ask any more, she could see that Li Moru was not joking as usual, "Have you figured it out?"

Li Moru's voice was a little louder than just now, and he said, "Think clearly." ”

"What about the academy? You still can't go to school?"

"The master who taught me how to strike iron said, let me go to him in the afternoon, and then I will come back in the evening." ”

After listening to what Li Moru's mother said, she picked up the bowl on the table, sandwiched a piece of meat and put it in Li Moru's bowl and said, "Eat, the food will be cold for a while." ”

"Mother doesn't object to me going?"

She took a bite of food and put it in her mouth, saying, "If I don't let you go, won't you go?"

Li Moru didn't speak.

She picked up the chopsticks and picked up the vegetables, and said: "Hurry up and eat, brush the bowl after eating, anyway, you can make sure that it is OK, remember the path you have chosen, and you can't complain about others when the time comes." ”

After listening to this, Li Moru picked up the bowl and said yes, and then devoured it.

"Eat slowly, it's not nothing, don't choke. ”

The next day, Li Moru went to the school early, and he told Mr. Mo about his apprenticeship in the blacksmith shop, and he felt that he needed to tell Mr. Mo.

After Mr. Mo learned the news, he muttered, "Why did this old Yang suddenly change his sex?"

"What did you say, sir?"

Mr. Mo hurriedly replied, "It's nothing, I mean you can leave by noon, anyway, you don't like to listen to my class very much." ”

"Sir, I'm sorry that the disciple disappointed you. ”

Mr. Mo smiled: "What is there to be sorry for, everyone has their own ambitions, you are not here, it will be counterproductive to force it, you just need to know how to read, understand some principles of life, make a fuss or something, let Zhang Qingshan and them have a headache, there is a specialization in the art industry, you follow Mr. Yang to learn hard, maybe you have a lot of talent for sword casting, and you can become the best sword caster in the world in the future." ”

Li Moru bowed to Mr. and thanked him.

At noon, he set off from the academy according to the agreement between himself and Lao Yangtou, and he put some dry food and water in the bookcase, because if he went home to eat, the time was a little rushed, and it was very tiring, and he felt that it was unnecessary.

Long Chen and Zhang Qingshan felt that Li Moru was very strange today, not only did he not doze off in class for the first time, but he was also silent for a day, not talking much, on weekdays, he and Zhang Fugui were like sparrows, chattering all day long, making people upset, what's wrong today?

What's even more strange is that after class, Li Moru left with the bookcase on his back, walking in a hurry, as if there was something big.

Under the questioning of the two, Zhang Fugui had no choice but to tell them that Li Moru was going to be an apprentice in the blacksmith shop, and Longchen said that Zhang Fugui would let Li Moru come to him tomorrow, and he could lend him a hundred taels first.

In an instant, Zhang Fugui hugged Long Chen's thigh and said, "Brother, big brother, my dear eldest brother, you also lend me a hundred taels." ”

Long Chen looked at him and smiled: "Yes, if you can tell me how you will use the silver to you, and then how you are going to repay me, when to repay it, and how much interest you have, then I will lend it to you, as long as it is reasonable, I will borrow as much as I want." ”

Zhang Fugui said: "I haven't thought about it for the time being, I just want money for the time being." ”

"Get out!"

"Big brother, think about it again, think about it, what you are in front of is the richest man in the world in the future, I tell you, if you lend it to me, you will definitely not lose it, think about it!"

"Get out!"

When he walked to the arch bridge, the sound of striking iron accompanied by the sound of water flowing on the arch bridge was intertwined, and the old willow tree on the side seemed to have been used to it, and the willow branch was slightly inclined to welcome Li Moru's arrival.

Old Yang Tou is now bending over and hanging in the blacksmith shop, Lao Yang Tou's smoking gun is behind his back, shaking his head while shaking, and sighing with disgust: "What the hell is this?" ”

After Li Moru put down the bookcase, he walked behind Lao Yang and shouted, "Master, I'm here." ”

Old Yang turned around and made a gesture of patting his chest. "Come on, come here, what do you shout, scare me, I tell you, if you scare me out, I will kill you. ”

When the blacksmith shop heard Li Moru call Lao Yangtou master, he couldn't wait for his jaw to fall to the ground, his face was full of incredulity, and later Li Moru learned that although these people learned to make iron in his blacksmith shop, he never allowed them to call him master, saying that they were too talented and embarrassed to pass it out.

Zhao Wumian was holding a small hammer wrought iron by the stove at this time, he had been with Lao Yang Tou for ten years, it was rare to see Lao Yang Tou like this, maybe this feeling of being close to the next generation was more suitable for Lao Yang Tou, and it was also possible that Li Moru was highly talented.

Li Moru leaned over and followed him to the stove behind Lao Yang's head, the sun was already in the sky, although it was the spring equinox, but the sun was already a little too enthusiastic.

Coupled with the temperature next to the stove, Li Moru was so hot that he was sweating all of a sudden, he was originally wearing a single coat and short brown, but now the short brown is soaked.

He wiped his sweat while walking behind Lao Yang's head, which inevitably made people laugh.

Lao Yang Tou turned to him and said, "Silly boy, quickly take off your coat, don't get heat stroke in a while, I still have to pay for your medical money, then I won't lose a lot." ”

Li Moru hurriedly took off the coat on his body, took a wet towel from Yang Juan's hand and wiped his body, and when the breeze passed, he suddenly felt cool.

After a burst of spirit, Li Moru got up and stood behind Lao Yang, wondering what he should do.

The newcomers in the blacksmith shop are generally led by Zhao Wumian to learn to make iron, although Lao Yang Tou has never recognized Zhao Wumian as his disciple, but the apprentices in the blacksmith shop in recent years have been brought by Zhao Wumian.

At first, the other blacksmith guys wondered if Li Moru would be like them, but then Old Yang's actions made them completely change.

Old Yang Tou asked Li Moru to stand beside Zhao Wumian, stared at the fire in the stove carefully, and said that his task today was to look at the fire in the stove, and then accompany him out for a walk later.

Hearing Lao Yang Tou say that he asked Li Moru to go out for a walk with him later, the other guys in the shop muttered in private, they said that this old Yang Tou was going to teach Li Moru things in private.

When Zhao Wumian was holding an iron sword and beating the red-hot road next to him, the blacksmith boy looked like he was in his twenties, with a cyan cloth belt tied to his head, and his figure was slightly thin.

He arched his mouth towards Zhao Wumian where Li Moru was, and said in Zhao Wumian's ear: "Brother Zhao, what is the origin of this kid, why did Old Yang Tou teach him personally." ”

Zhao Wumian shook his head, and said Don't worry about other things, just do your part honestly, why do you have so much leisure?

Zhao Wumian glanced at Li Moru, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he didn't seem to feel any unpleasantness because of Li Moru's arrival.

Li Moru stared at the charcoal in the fire, the flame was burning on the charcoal, as if it was taking root on the charcoal, if the charcoal was not burned out, it would never stop.

When the wood was added again, the temperature of the fire weakened for a while, but it was hotter than before.

Li Moru thought, this should be the old saying that sharpening the knife is not wrong for the woodcutter, if you want the furnace to burn vigorously for a long time, you have to add firewood to it, otherwise the temperature of the firewood will drop.

With the beating of sparks, Li Moru's heart gradually quieted down, and he stared at the flames of the furnace for more than an hour.

It seems that he can't get tired of looking at it, and the more he looks at it, the more he feels that the flame is interesting, and he always feels that Lao Yang Tou asked him to see the flame has other deep meanings.

At this time, the sun was no longer as hot as just now, and Lao Yang Tou began to smoke dry tobacco again, came to Li Moru's side, and threw his coat to him.

Then he said, "Let's go, I'll take you out for a walk." ”