Chapter 104: Searching for the Sword
At dusk, Ning Xiao and Li Linxi stood again under the stone tablet at the entrance of the town of Burial Sword Town. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The info boy looked at the poignant font engraved on the stone tablet and was silent for a long time.
"You say, why is Burial Sword Town called Burial Sword Town?" Ning Xiao asked with some confusion.
At this time, because the assessment of the Sword Washing Palace's recruitment of miscellaneous servants this time has ended, the flow of people in Burial Sword Town is not as turbulent as last time, so there is no situation where people are pushed by the flow of people and can't help themselves. The two of them decided to take a good look around Funeral Sword Town. However, before that, seeing the poignant font on the stone tablet, Ning Xiao was still a little uncomfortable and asked the above questions.
"Idea, there are a lot of swordsmiths in this town. Then there should be a lot of swords born, even if it is not called Shengjian Town, Casting Sword Town, etc., it is better than Burial Sword Town! And if you look at this font, although it is written by everyone, it feels very uncomfortable no matter how you look at it, and you can feel resentful when you close your eyes!" Ning said with a smile. The boy has such a temper, and he always has to nag in the face of things that he doesn't like.
Listening to the young man's nagging in his ears, Li Linxi did not have the slightest impatience on his face, and while pulling Ning Xiao into the Burial Sword Town, he said to Ning Xiao: "If you want to know why this is the case, just go and ask the people in the town directly! Maybe it's because of the burial of the Sword Town first, and then so many sword forgers settled here!"
What Li Linxi said was very reasonable, Ning Xiao also felt that he had drilled the tip of the horns, so he asked if he didn't understand, there was nothing to be ashamed of, and then he ran to ask a person who sold baked cakes with great interest, "Do you know why this town is called Burial Sword Town?"
"Objectively, do you want to eat baked cakes?" The uncle who sold the baked cakes looked at Ning Xiao, who suddenly ran in front of him, and didn't hear what he said clearly. However, the uncle is a professional person, and he saw that the uncle of the baked cake quickly had a business smile on his face, and said with an amiable smile to the extraordinary-looking Ning.
Li Linxi hurriedly ran over and waved his hand apologetically at the uncle, and then pulled away Ning Xiao, who didn't know what he had done wrong, in the uncle's intoxicated eyes.
"Why did you take me away, I haven't gotten an answer yet!" Ning Xiao said with some unhappiness.
"What do you ask an uncle who sells baked cakes for? This kind of thing has to be asked to the people in the rivers and lakes!" Li Linxi said angrily, "It's good that people didn't hear it clearly, otherwise they would have thought that you were here to collect protection money!" "Well, think about it, you are a flat-headed person who has no power to tie the chicken, one day you are concentrating on selling your own baked cakes on the street, and suddenly a strange handsome young man appears in front of him, with two long swords behind his back, which are very impressive at first glance, and asks himself, "Do you know where you live?" What do you think?
What Li Linxi said was very reasonable, and Ning Xiao was speechless. Just as the boy was swallowing this embarrassment alone, he saw a large blacksmith shop appear on the side of the street. It is said that it is a blacksmith shop, but in fact, thanks to the flag outside, which reads "Selling Swords", I don't know why, Ning Xiao felt that these two words were full of irony and thought, should there be a "staff" flag hanging at the door of the carpenter? But this blacksmith shop really doesn't look like a blacksmith shop. Originally, there were a bunch of shops on the street, but when I arrived at this blacksmith shop, I suddenly changed the style of painting, a courtyard full of long swords all around, and the innermost part was a house, which should be the place where the swordsmith slept. The reason why Ning Xiao guessed that it was the swordsmith's resting place instead of the place of work was because he saw the furnace burning in the middle of the courtyard, and the swordsmith with his upper body sweating like rain by the stove.
The swordsmith was very old, his beard and hair were gray, his face was also marked by the years, and there were some age spots on his hands. But although people are old, the upper body with knotted muscles is still full of strength. I saw the swordsmith exhale and breathe, and his muscles seemed to be dancing, and he kept picking up an oversized hammer and smashing it against the red-hot iron bar on the stove. A long sword was quickly formed under the clanging of the hammer, and it was obviously a good sword.
The swordsmith looked at the sword, but was not satisfied, and did not even have the hilt attached, and then threw the sword against the wall at the edge of the courtyard. Ning Xiao saw the scene in front of him, and thought that if the scene in front of him was seen by Ximen Xue and the people in the Sword Washing Palace, it was estimated that he would have the idea of killing the sword forger, right?
"I swore an oath, the two of you have been watching outside for so long, but you want to buy a sword......?" Zhu Jianoth saw the young man and girl standing outside the courtyard for a while, and said with a smile.
"I want a sword, but before that, I have a lot of questions I want to ask!" Ning Xiao saw Zhu Jianoan take the initiative to inquire, and hurriedly said impatiently.
"Oh, I only sell swords here, not news. If you want to buy news, go to an inn!" "Zhu Jianxuan saw the two long swords that Ning Xiao was carrying behind him, and with his own ability, he obviously saw that these two long swords were not ordinary, so how could there be a need to buy swords? As for Ning Xiao's words, the old man obviously thought that Ning Xiao only wanted to ask questions instead of buying swords.
"Old man, you misunderstood, in fact, I came here this time, not to buy a sword for him. I want to prepare one for me~" Li Linxi found that Zhu Jian's face was unhappy, and he knew that Ning Xiao's reckless remarks had misunderstood others, so he hurriedly explained.
After listening to Li Linxi's words, the old man reluctantly accepted Li Linxi's statement, opened the courtyard door and led the two people into the courtyard. "If you want to buy a sword, go around the courtyard and look around, whichever one will do. But I see you, little girl, you are delicate and frail, be careful with the sword and don't hurt yourself!" Obviously, when Zhu Jianxi saw such a young Li Linxi, he subconsciously thought that the other party was buying a sword just to please himself......
Ning Xiao stood aside with a depressed face, the face of the swordsmith had already made Ning Xiao know that he had said the wrong thing again, so the young man was very cautious and kept silent, forcibly holding back the question in his heart. The old man is right, if you want to know anything, just go to an inn and ask!
"Old man, I just saw that you had forged a sword, why did you just throw it aside without even putting it on the hilt? Could it be that if you buy a sword from you, you still have to install the hilt yourself?" Li Linxi said the doubts in his heart while admiring the various long swords that were randomly stacked on the wall. This was also one of Ning Xiao's confusions, so after the young man heard Li Linxi's topic, he kept nodding on the side.
Seeing that Li Linxi really wanted to buy a sword, as a businessman, he naturally wanted to satisfy customers, so the swordsmith said: "It's just an ordinary sword, if you like it, I'll help you put the hilt of the sword right." But to tell the truth, that sword is really average, it can't withstand too strong internal force, and it will break all at once!" said the swordsmith, came to a shelf, and took out a dull long sword from it.
"Look, this kind of sword can instill more internal force!Ha, what am I talking about, how strong can a little girl like you be?" )