Chapter 33: The Broken Blade

The Tie family has been a proud family of forgers for generations, and it is said that the ancestors once forged two blades that were enough to make the bearer invincible in the world, but Tie Xinlan did not think so, in her opinion, the value of the blade did not lie in itself, but to see who held the blade in his hand.

That's right, no matter whether the clay mold created is excellent, whether the blade is perfect or not, whether the spine is straight, the quality of a blade is measured entirely by who the holder of the weapon is.

This is how Tie Xinlan measures the value of weapons.

The ancestors of the Tie family have lived in this Songmen City for countless years, and they have long been integrated with Songmen City, she still remembers that when she was a child, her father held her to look through the ancestral home, pointed to the record on the yellowed paper of the ancestral home, and told her softly: " Lan'er, my Tie family has been a forging craftsman for generations, the ancestors followed the adult to this place close to the border of the dragon's tongue, single-handedly built this Songmen City, and made a promise to build a city to block tens of millions of offenders, this Songmen City is the ancestor of my Tie family for the lord to build a sharp blade, this sharp blade across the border of the dragon's tongue to deter countless thieves, and the descendants of my Tie family have been guarding Songmen City for generations, and they have taken the spine of this blade with their own strength. ”

Tie Xinlan has always been proud of being a descendant of the Tie family, although she is a daughter, but it does not prevent her from becoming an excellent blacksmith.

She knew that one day, she would take over the responsibility of the Tie family from her father, carry this Songmen City, and become the dragon pillar spine of this Songmen City.

That's right, she always thought so, so she gave up those beaded treasure hairpins, wrapped her long beautiful hair in a shabby and dirty deerskin hat, abandoned those gorgeous and light silk satin and put on a heavy and simple blacksmith's clothes, even if her delicate skin was burned by the flying sparks, she never let go of the forging hammer in her hand, she abandoned everything that was a daughter's family, because she knew that she would one day inherit the responsibilities of the iron family by relying on these things, and she was ready to carry this Songmen Castle.

It wasn't until she watched her father bow down to the newly appointed so-called Lord of Songmen Castle that she realized that her father had never wanted her to inherit everything from the Iron Family.

Tie Xinlan knows that as a forger, being a daughter is the biggest and most inevitable flaw, which is given by nature, so Tie Xinlan wants to make up for this with everything she can do, so she does not hesitate to put in all the efforts she can, but this flaw cannot be filled by acquired efforts.

Tie Xinlan still failed to inherit the Tie family from Tie Xiaotao after all.

Tie Xinlan still remembers the apologetic words that her father said when he held her hand before he died, and the scene at that time had long been blurred in Tie Xinlan's memory, except for one sentence that she remembered very clearly.

"I'm sorry, Lan'er, sure enough, I still think that the burden of the Tie family is borne by you...... It's too heavy......"

That was the contemporary leader of the Tie family, the only time in his life that the master of the Tie family, Tie Xiaotao, said sorry to her, looking at his father's pale hair and wrinkles on his face like wrinkles carved by a knife and an axe, Tie Xinlan felt for the first time that the face of his father, whom he had seen for more than 20 years, was so unfamiliar.

Later, the Tetsu family disappeared from Songmen Castle.

The cunning rabbit died and the lackey cooked, his father's former master, the ruler of Songmen City, and the head of the Qingfeng Sword Sect, Song Qingfeng, still did not let go of the Tie family after all.

Matsumon Castle is a city of craftsmen, and the best craftsman here is the uncrowned king of Matsumon Castle, and a good craftsman can judge the quality of the user through a person's weapon, which is by no means a mystical statement, but a craftsman's unique intuition.

It is with this intuition that the Iron Family guards this chaotic border city, turning into a whetstone and a forging hammer, and constantly maintaining and perfecting this frontier blade from generation to generation.

However, since Song Qingfeng came to Songmen City, he didn't know what dirty means he used to bring Tie Xinlan's father, the head of the Tie family, and Tie Xiaotao, the guardian of Songmen City, into the city, and since then, Songmen City has begun to change.

This man replaced the Tie family as the new spine of Songmen City, and the funny thing is that this man doesn't seem to understand what Songmen City means to this dragon's tongue border at all, and the border blade that the Tie family has guarded for generations has become the toy box of the evil man, and he is recklessly wielding his own ridiculous tricks in this Songmen City, in order to achieve the so-called self-satisfaction.

In order to show his ability to Emperor Liyang, Song Qingfeng forced the craftsmen of Songmen City to create a large number of standard blades, and they had to be handed over every month, but anyone who did not meet his heart would be sent by him to the mines and medicine fields for compulsory transformation.

In the past, when Tie Xiaotao was still there, each blade built by the craftsmen of Songmen City had its own soul, and only the Jianghu guests recognized by the forging craftsmen could take over the blades from the hands of the craftsmen, and entrust the blades they poured their souls into to the trustworthy Jianghu guests, so that the Jianghu guests could gallop in the world with their souls, which was the unique way for the forging craftsmen to break through the rivers and lakes.

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"Don't miss it when you pass by! Now the most popular weapon on the rivers and lakes is here!"

"This gentleman is really good eyesight, this pen is forged from the best materials, the pen body is engraved with exquisite landscapes, and there is a short blade inside, it is the most suitable self-defense weapon for literati, now if you want to buy it, buy it quickly, otherwise it will be bought by others, and we can also customize the engraving, you can also engrave your ink treasure on it......"

"Let's take a look! The sword body is made of real gold and silver......

"Sell sword scabbards! The pattern on the scabbard is painted by the celebrity himself! Wearing it on the body is a symbol of status!"

Walking on the blacksmith avenue in Songmen City, looking at the clumsy and ridiculous faces of the blacksmiths who peddled flashy weapons to the Jianghu guests, Tie Xinlan wanted to vomit.

Just like the length of the five fingers, not all the craftsmen of Songmen City are the kind of skilled masters, when Tie Xiaotao is still alive, those blacksmiths who are not good at forging skills are not allowed to set up their own doors to put up signs, and can only take on some repair and maintenance work.

However, since Song Qingfeng took office, he didn't care about those, and the task of mandating the creation of standard weapons was assigned to every household, and the price of iron ore in Songmen City rose to an unheard of astronomical amount after Song Qingfeng took office, and the blacksmiths needed a lot of money to forge the materials they needed, and now the heavy forging work makes the craftsmen no longer as good as before to build a blade, so those blacksmiths who are not skilled in learning have used their brains and began to build those gorgeous in appearance but clumsy in the inside of the crude weapons to sell to those good-looking Jianghu guests at a high price, and then I don't know whenFamilies on the blacksmith avenue in Matsumon Castle also began to sell the kind of ornate so-called blades.

For the sharp blade of Songmen City, the death of the head of the Iron Family has become the most terrifying gap, and Songmen City seems to be the peerless divine weapon that is enough to guard the border of the dragon's tongue on the surface, but in fact it is already covered with dark wounds, and the fracture of the soldier's spine makes this blade of protection never as sharp as it used to be.