Chapter 8: The Golden Hammer Horse
The shopkeeper who struck the iron came back to his senses at this time, and couldn't help but raise his thumb and praise: "The young man is so strong, my double hammer weighs four hundred catties, even the martial artists of the entire Jintian Town can't find anyone who can pick up these two hammers." ”
Huzi couldn't help pouting and said, "I don't take advantage of it at all, it's too light." ”
The shopkeeper of the iron listened to Huzi's words, and his jaw almost fell to the ground and smashed his feet.
Zhang Sanlang scolded Huzi and said: "You kid, why do you talk like this, no big or small, and you don't apologize to the shopkeeper." ”
Although Huzi was reluctant in his heart, he also obediently bowed to the shopkeeper who struck the iron and said sorry, but muttered unconvinced: "It's very light." ”
Wang Yuanliang shook his head with a smile, kicked lightly on Huzi's buttocks, motioned for him to play with Zhu'er, turned his head to the shopkeeper who hit the iron and said, "Don't blame the shopkeeper, my grandson is naughty." ”
The shopkeeper waved his hand heartily and said, "Where is the old gentleman, I like this kid tightly." ”
Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang and the shopkeeper of the iron chattered for a while, and learned that the shopkeeper's surname is Ma, and the three generations of the son inherited his father's business are all blacksmiths in this Jintian Town, specializing in building weapons for warriors and farm tools for the villagers, and the pair of sledgehammers is his grandfather's masterpiece, but because the weight is too heavy, no one has cared about it there. Wang Yuanliang asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper Ma, the old man will do a little rough work, and now I want to teach my grandchildren, my grandson loves the pair of sledgehammers in your store very much, but it is really a little uneasy, you see if you can help the old man to build a pair of 600 catties, you can rest assured, silver is not a problem." ”
"Six hundred pounds!" the shopkeeper swallowed, his eyes almost popping out.
Wang Yuanliang nodded, and asked again: "You see how much time it will take to complete it, how many silver taels it will take, I can pay half of the deposit first." ”
The shopkeeper pondered for a moment and said, "Why do you need ten taels of silver, and the construction period is estimated to be about fifteen days." ”
Wang Yuanliang said in his heart, "This store is a real person", so he happily took out five taels of silver from his arms and stuffed it into the hand of the horse shopkeeper, and hugged his fist, "Then there is a Lao Ma shopkeeper." ”
The shopkeeper also clenched his fists and replied: "The old gentleman is polite, you leave an address, and I will send it to you in fifteen days." ”
When Wang Yuanliang and his party walked out of the blacksmith shop, the shopkeeper looked at Huzi's back and exclaimed: "I'm obedient!"
Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang took Huzi and Zhu'er to walk around the market again, bought some things, and saw that the sun was turning westward, so they walked back with Huzi and Zhu'er, who were reluctant to give up.
This time down the mountain to Jintian Town, the biggest harvest is Zhu'er, she lay on the back of the tiger, a rattle in the left hand, holding a string of big sugar gourds in the right hand, take a bite of herself, and hand it to the tiger to take a bite, the head is tied with the flower head rope that she just bought, immersed in joy and can't extricate herself, the funny Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang can't stop laughing, the most silent is Huzi, at the moment he only thinks about himself holding a sledgehammer in his mind, what a majesty!
The sun fell on the mountains, almost invisible, leaving only the red glow in the sky, a wooden house on the slope of the third peak of Jiulian Mountain, curling with cooking smoke, a smell of food overflowing, Huzi and Zhu'er in the courtyard laughing and chasing after me; Liu Qing took a piece of flower cloth and a box of rouge that her husband bought for her, her faint crimson face was full of smiles; Wang's mother bit the dim sum handed over by her wife, and her heart was sweet.
During the fifteen days of waiting, Huzi spent every day like a year, and only when he followed his father up the mountain to hunt could he slightly forget the expectation of the sledgehammer.
In the early morning of the twelfth day, as usual Zhang Saburo took the tiger out early, today the luck seems to be particularly good, less than an hour to hunt a rabbit and a pheasant, but also on a not particularly steep mountain wall to pick a fist-sized three-leaf Ganoderma lucidum, happy Zhang Saburo couldn't close his mouth, and Huzi said: "In two months, your mother should give birth, this Ganoderma lucidum is just for your mother to replenish the body." ”
The two were happy, and suddenly a terrible neighing sound came, Huzi just wanted to ask, but Zhang Sanlang made a "shhh" gesture with his hand, and another horse neighing came, "East." Zhang Sanlang discerned the direction of the source of the sound and ran first.
The two of them ran wildly in the direction of the sound source for a cup of time, only to see a black, sturdy wild horse is confronting a tiger with golden eyes, the black horse keeps neighing and cocking its two front legs, and the tiger does not dare to attack, just around the black horse keeps circling, suddenly the tiger pounces forward, the black horse turns around neatly, can dodge the blow, but the tiger has not turned around, the thick tail is like a stick swept towards the horse's legs.
The tiger pinched a handful of sweat for the black horse, if the black horse was swept by the tiger tail, the leg was not broken, and the tiger tail was about to sweep to the black horse's legs, who knew that the black horse raised its front hooves, neighed and dodged the blow, just when the tiger turned around and wanted to pounce on the black horse again, Zhang Sanlang, who had already bent the bow and arrow, was optimistic about this gap, and shot an arrow over, hitting the left eye of the tiger, "Woo" A miserable tiger roar, the valley of the earthquake echoed, the black horse took advantage of the hoove, kicked the tiger's head, kicked the tiger for a while, and before he came back to his senses, he was rushed down the mountain by the tiger riding on the neck of a violent beating, one punch, two punches, three punches, the tiger was no longer silent, when Zhang Sanlang ran down again, the tiger was already dead and could not die anymore, the hard skull was actually broken by the tiger's three punches.
The black horse kept spewing white gas from his nose, slowly walked to the tiger, and rubbed the tiger with his head, as if thanking the tiger for saving his life, and the tiger also smirked and touched the horse's head, only to find that the black horse's nose bridge was a piece of snow white, shaped like an eagle with wings spread.
Huzi patted the horse's back and said, "Remember next time, stay away from those big guys, if you don't meet me and my father, you will be in danger." After that, he picked up the dead tiger from the ground and followed Zhang Sanlang to his house, and he had seen his house from a distance, but the two turned around and found that the black horse actually followed all the way, Zhang Sanlang smiled: "It seems that it likes you, and our family is going to have one more mouth." ”
When Wang Yuanliang looked at this horse, he couldn't help but exclaim: "God, I'm not mistaken, this is a wing!"
Zhang Sanlang and Huzi asked in surprise, "What is a coercion?"
Wang Yuanliang stroked his beard and said: "In ancient times, there were eight horses, one Jedi, who did not trample on the soil, two who turned their feathers and traveled more than birds, three who ran for the night and traveled thousands of miles in the wild, four who crossed the shadow, who traveled day by day, five who exceeded the light, whose fur was shining, six who were super light, one shape and ten shadows, seven who soared through the fog and ran through the clouds, and eight who carried wings and had meat wings. If the old decay is not mistaken, this horse is the wings of the eight horses, this horse is the most psychic, the legend can turn into a dragon and fly to the sky when the cultivation is extreme, see that it is still young, it is just a year old, as it grows up slowly, when running, a pair of meat wings will be born under the ribs, flying in the air, tiger, you are really lucky, you have picked up the treasure!"
Wang Yuanliang's narration, the startled Zhang Sanlang was dumbfounded, but after all, Huzi is a child's heart, just understand the situation of the black horse, but not very surprised, only half a day and the black horse became a playmate, riding it to run on the hillside, sure enough, the horse ran on the hillside like walking on the ground, the speed was fast only felt the wind in the ears, as fast as an arrow, Huzi gave it a name called "big black." ”
Da Hei has been very well-behaved since he came to Zhang's house, and even when Zhu'er went to hug his legs, he never lost his temper.
On the fifteenth day, Huzi did not follow Zhang Sanlang up the mountain to hunt, but he got up earlier than Zhang Sanlang, and looked at the direction of Jintian Town on the hillside early and Dahei, one person and one horse, and was stunned until around noon before he saw two figures pushing a wheelbarrow far away, "Hammer, my hammer is coming", Huzi excitedly stepped on Dahei's back and shouted: "Dahei Ben there." Pointing in the direction of the wheelbarrow, he ran to the blacksmith shopkeeper and a blacksmith man, and the wheelbarrow was pushing the golden sledgehammer that the tiger had been waiting for.
Huzi copied the golden hammer in his hand, only to see that the hammer was shaped like a pumpkin, the size of a wheel, and the golden water was very beautiful, and he was happy to keep wielding the sledgehammer on the big black back, and the horse shopkeeper and the guy who came with him were dumbfounded.