After walking around the blacksmith shop twice, he still felt clueless, and was about to ask someone when a twenty-eight-year-old girl came.

The girl was dressed in plain black, much the same as the other girls, and it was assumed that she was the maid who had been invited by the shop to cook at the shop. The girl estimated that she saw the confusion on Jiang Lili's face, squatted down and smiled at Jiang Lili, "Little brother, what are you looking for?"

Jiang Lili didn't like the feeling of being treated as a child, and frowned slightly: "Just stand up straight and talk to me." ”

The girl was stunned, but she still stood up and asked, "Little brother, are you looking for someone?"

Jiang Lili really doesn't like the title of little brother, but she is born thin and small, and her face is not old, the girl is only afraid that she is used to calling this kind of child with the title of "little brother", although she heard Jiang Lili's words, but she didn't know how to call Jiang Lili for a while.

Although Jiang Lili didn't like it, she didn't bother to correct her name for this girl, so she asked, "That's right, I'm looking for the blacksmith of your shop!"

The girl was stunned again, and then smiled: "Blacksmith, there are more than ten or twenty blacksmiths in our shop, which one are you looking for?"

"The most famous one!"

The girl thought she had misheard, "The most famous one?"

Jiang Lili nodded.

The girl showed a hint of embarrassment on her face, and apologized: "I'm sorry little brother, I am only responsible for introducing the ironware in our store to the guests, and I am not qualified to take the guests to meet the blacksmith." Just as Jiang Lili frowned, the girl smiled again: "It's just that if you really want to find it, you can ask the adult sitting at the counter, he is the director here." ”

Jiang Lili left without saying thank you.

The supervisor was a man in his fifties who still thought he was strong, with gray hair and deep eyes, and was hammering with an abacus.

Jiang Lili walked to the counter and stretched out his index finger and knocked on the counter.

The man raised his head slightly, looked around for a week, and then buried his head in the ledger and did the math.

Jiang Lili knocked twice with a little more force, and it was then that the man finally noticed Jiang Lili.

"Are you the supervisor here?" Jiang Lili's tone had some interrogation implications, and it was a little more serious for the begger.

The man felt a little funny, put down the ledger in his hand and looked at Jiang Lili and said, "Well, what's wrong?"

"Take me to the blacksmith in your shop, the most famous one. Jiang Lili said very bluntly, and after finishing speaking, she remembered something and asked, "You have this ability, right?" ”

The director smiled and said with amusement, "I do have the ability, but why should I take you there? ”

Jiang Lili pursed his lips, "I can give you fifty taels of silver!"

"Yo ho ho, that's a good idea!" the director held out his hand with his eyes wide slightly.

took out a silver ticket from his arms but did not hand it to the supervisor, Jiang Lili said: "I will naturally give it to you when I see it!"

"I didn't expect to be a shrewd boy. The director stood up, instructed a handmaid next to him, and then said to Jiang Lili: "It's done, come with me." But I'll take you there, but if the blacksmith doesn't like you, I don't care!"

There was a small road in the store, and after walking along this path for a long time, he felt that the temperature around him was obviously high, and he heard the sound of "sonorous and sonorous" iron, Jiang Lili naturally knew that the supervisor did not lie to himself.

After walking out of the path, he saw a big workshop, the workshop was full of shirtless men, flames, white mist, Jiang Lili looked around vigilantly, the supervisor turned around and shouted: "Follow closer, it's just ahead." Also, don't touch those stoves!"

Passing through a path squeezed out of the middle of several huge stoves, the supervisor motioned for Jiang Lili to wait here for a while, and he walked to a blacksmith first.

The blacksmith was five short in stature, his hair was gray, and he looked roughly old, but the tight muscles on his body made it impossible to doubt the blacksmith's explosive power! And the most impressive thing was his whip-knitted beard, which hung down from his jaw to his belly, which was indeed very eye-catching.

The Director walked up to the blacksmith, "There's someone coming to see you!"

The blacksmith put a large hammer on his shoulder, turned to him and asked, puzzledly, "I don't remember being approached today for a weapon." ”

The director laughed, "It's a kid, after entering the shop, he said that he wanted to meet the most famous blacksmith in this blacksmith shop!"

"Child?" The blacksmith glanced at Jiang Lili after measuring his body, and quickly straightened his body after noticing the wooden knife on Jiang Lili's back, "Do you believe the nonsense of a half-sized child?"

"If you don't want to see him, I'll tell him to leave, but it's better for you to see him, and I'll send him away with two sentences!"

When the blacksmith heard this, he wondered, "Why? Why are you so attentive today?"

The director smiled, "That kid said that as long as I took him to meet you, he would give me fifty taels of silver, if I didn't see it, with that kid's shrewdness, I was afraid that he wouldn't give me a penny!"

"You kid is really the same as before!" the blacksmith laughed twice, "It's done, bring him here!"

"No. The supervisor nodded, turned around and walked to Jiang Lili's side, and before he could speak, he heard Jiang Lili ask, "Have you discussed?"

The director was a little surprised, looked at Jiang Lili with a slightly more serious look, but stretched out his hand without speaking.

Jiang Lili snorted, put the silver ticket in his hand in the supervisor's hand, and then walked forward by himself, bypassing the supervisor.

"Hey, you're the most famous blacksmith in this blacksmith shop?" Jiang Lili shouted at the old man with a whipped beard.

The blacksmith didn't answer, and after smashing a piece of red-hot iron for twenty or so hammers, he came back to his senses, breathing steadily, "You came to me? What is your name? I see that it is difficult for you to move things here with your small body, so you will not come to apprentice, right? Since you can come to see me for fifty taels of silver, you are not a wandering boy who can't afford to eat! Well, what are you doing with me?"

Jiang Lili didn't answer the blacksmith's words, but still asked, "You are the most famous blacksmith in this blacksmith shop?"

The blacksmith laughed, then lowered his face and said, "That's right, I am the most famous blacksmith in this blacksmith shop, and I am also the most capable blacksmith in the entire Luoyang City!"

Jiang Lili sighed and thought for a while, "Do you know Zhang Jiuling?"

Hearing the name Zhang Jiuling, the old iron sword changed color slightly, his eyes glanced at Jiang Lili from top to bottom, and after muttering to himself, he gently put the hammer in his hand on the ground, picked up a white towel next to him and wiped his hands, "You come with me." ”

Jiang Lili looked at the hammer and chuckled: "Your hammer is not moving at all when it is placed on the ground, could it be just a hollow ornament wrapped in a layer of iron skin?"

The old blacksmith looked at Jiang Lili and said interestingly: "If you can lift this hammer, no, as long as you can get it off the ground, I will give you this blacksmith shop!"

Jiang Lili looked at the hammer and was silent for a moment, then looked up and smiled: "Just ask casually, let's go, where are you going?"

The old blacksmith snorted, and whispered to himself, "It's the same character as Zhang Jiuling!" before saying to Jiang Lili: "Just follow me." ”

He followed the old blacksmith to a small room, which was so small that it contained only a square table and two chairs, and only swords, guns, and halberds hanging on the walls.

The two sat down facing each other, and the old blacksmith asked, "By the way, what's your name?"

Jiang Lili had no scruples at this time, and replied truthfully: "Jiang Lili." “

"This name is very delicate!" The old blacksmith thought for a moment and said straight to the point: "Since you know Zhang Jiuling, I will say it directly, are you here to find a knife?"

Jiang Lili nodded, "Where is it?"

The old blacksmith waved his hand and said, "Not with me!"

Jiang Lili frowned.

The old blacksmith seemed to say to himself: "I met Zhang Jiuling five years ago, and he made a deal for me with a piece of 10,000-year-old cold iron and a piece of 10,000-year-old red copper, saying that I would use this cold iron and red copper to fight a knife, or in two years, or five years, or ten years, someone will come to pick it up." And the leftover trimmings after the building can be given to me, and I agreed. ”

It's just that Zhang Jiuling is not proficient in striking iron, he only thinks that the knife made by fusing the best materials must be the best, but he doesn't know that this cold iron and red copper are not compatible. So I made a knife with cold iron and a knife with red copper, and after I finished casting, I didn't have any trimmings left, didn't I lose money in this business? Therefore, you can only choose one of these two knives, and the other one must be left in our shop, can you?"

Jiang Lili nodded, "I don't care, but you have to show me the knife first!"

"Young man, don't be in a hurry!" the old blacksmith smiled, "Do you drink tea?

Jiang Lili licked her lips and shook her head.

The old blacksmith poured himself a cup of strong tea, which was piping hot. After drinking half of it in one gulp, the old blacksmith continued: "But Zhang Jiuling also told me one thing, saying that this knife can't be handed over to the person who came to get the knife for no reason, that is, you. He told me to put the knife in the secret realm and let you take it yourself! Whether you can get it or not depends on your own ability. ”

After smacking his lips, the old blacksmith asked again, "By the way, do you know what a secret realm is?"

"I don't know. ”

"Then I'll tell you about it, the world's martial artists and immortal cultivators gather in Luoyang City, just because a secret realm will be opened outside Luoyang City this year. The secret realm is divided into three realms, the middle three realms and the upper three realms, although this secret realm opened outside Luoyang City is only a secret realm of the lower three realms, but why does it attract so many characters? Because the secret realm here is the mound of ten thousand soldiers, as the name suggests, there are countless weapons buried in this secret realm, maybe there are famous swords and swords. And the knife you're looking for is in this secret realm!"

Jiang Lili thought for a while, "Since this secret realm has not yet been opened, how did you put those two knives into this secret realm?"

The old blacksmith was full of emotion, "This is also what I want to ask, Zhang Jiuling told me that there is no need to open the knife after it is beaten, hide it first, and wait until there is a black wind in Luoyang in September of the next year, and then take the knife to a mountain bag outside Luoyang City, open the box, and discard it on the mountain bag after opening." ”

"How did you know that you entered that secret realm and not that someone else stole it?"

The old blacksmith smiled: "You really think I'm a stupid person, I must have watched those two knives being brought into the secret realm by that black wind before I turned back!"

"But after I went down to the secret realm, how did I know which two knives you said were those two knives?"

"You don't have to worry about that. The old blacksmith took out two small stones with strange shapes from his bosom, "This is the waste left when beating those two knives, the famous knives have spirits, and those two knives must have senses when they are three feet three around you!"

Jiang Lili took the two stones and thought to herself.

"Since I've said this, then I have to talk about the rules again, originally Zhang Jiuling was only going to fight a knife, and the rest of the offcuts were at my disposal, which is also my benefit. But now I have no material after hitting two knives with this cold iron and red copper, so you must bring back both knives after you go down to the secret realm, leaving one for my benefit!"

Jiang Lili sneered: "What are you looking for me to do about this?" I just take the knife, if you want to be paid, you go to Zhang Jiuling, what is my business?"

The old blacksmith choked.

Jiang Lili stood up and walked to the door, then turned around and said, "Zhang Jiuling only asked you to use two pieces of iron to fight a knife, but you took it upon yourself to fight two, and now you come and ask me to pay you for going to the secret realm?" ”

The old blacksmith's face turned pale, and after Jiang Lili left for a while, he laughed, "This kid is really the same as Zhang Jiuling! No wonder Zhang Jiuling can take a fancy to him!"

Walking out of the door with a smile, he suddenly saw that Jiang Lili hadn't left yet, so he asked suspiciously: "Why haven't you left yet?"

Suddenly glimpsed Jiang Lili's face turned red, the old blacksmith frowned, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that there seemed to be a handprint on the handle of the big hammer he put on the ground, so he figured out what was going on, and laughed.

Jiang Lili was annoyed, "You laugh at your mother!"

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