As soon as Xiao Ziyang sat down, the girl at the table immediately made tea for him and brought a fruit plate. After asking him if he had any requirements, she stood behind him.

Xiao Ziyang turned his head to look around and found that there were two other guests sitting in the hall, one of whom was drinking tea like him. The other stood and looked down at a three-foot-long brocade box on the table, which was too far away for Xiao Ziyang to see.

After waiting for a while, the fellow walked in with a brocade box nearly two feet long.

The man gently placed the brocade box on the table, opened it, and said, "Please look at the guest officer." ”

Xiao Ziyang reached out and picked up a short knife in the sheath from the brocade box.

Xiao Er pointed to the short knife and introduced: "This short knife is one foot five inches long, the scabbard is made of shark skin, the handle is carved from extremely tough ebony wood, and the handle is wrapped in red duck skin wrapped by snow silk thread.

The red duck is a rare water bird that lives in swamps all year round, and its skin is not only light, but also extremely elastic and extremely strong.

However, it is used here because of the peculiar properties of this skin. It is very easy to absorb water, and the inhaled water is very easy to be volatile, a piece of red duck skin the size of a palm, you can suck a drop of a teacup of water, if you unfold this skin flat, without a stick of incense, this skin will be dry as if it has never been stained with water.

If the handle of the knife is wrapped in this skin, it is not afraid of sweating and slippery palms when the knife is used.

Snow silk is extremely strong, not as smooth as ordinary silk, rough and cold, which makes the palm grip of the hilt more stable."

Xiao Ziyang pulled out the knife from the sheath. At first glance, the blade of the knife appears to be pitch black. But if you look closely, you will see that the blade glows with a faint dark cyan glow, and the smooth blade body is finely distributed with fine patterns, which indicates that the knife is very densely and evenly forged.

Xiao Ziyang looked away and looked at the blade with the corner of his eye, and there were fragments of golden light flashing in the blue-black light. This is a phenomenon that occurs when the proportion of black iron in the blade exceeds a certain amount, and after countless forgings, the distribution of black iron is very even.

When the guy saw Xiao Ziyang's action, he was slightly startled, and said, "I didn't expect the guest officer to be an expert,"

Xiao Ziyang raised his head and smiled: "I'm not an expert, it's just hearsay, I know that there is a so-called 'Huangjin' in the Xuantie Blade of the Dao Dao, and I have heard of the method of identification, and today is the first time I have used it." ”

The guest officer was modest, just looking at the scabbard he observed before the guest officer pulled out the knife and unsheathed it, and the part of the handle of the knife knew that the guest officer was a great expert. ”

Xiao Ziyang smiled slightly, and stopped talking, although he traveled south and north to see a wide range of things, most of them were hearsay, and he didn't know why, so he was afraid of missing out if he said more.

Xiao Ziyang looked at it for a while and sighed slightly. After sheathing the knife, he put it back in the brocade box.

"A good knife is indeed a good knife, and the person who forged this knife must be a top master. ”

The guy glanced at Xiao Ziyang strangely, reached out and took the treasure knife out of the brocade box again, drew the knife out of its sheath, pointed to a mark on the knife and said: "Guest officer, this knife is one of the four major battalions of the Ministry of Industry, and the master craftsman of the Divine Battalion Zhao Lianshan made it, you see this is his mark, this mark is famous all over the world, and the guest officer doesn't know it?"

Xiao Ziyang said with a smile: "The knowledge of appreciating blades under me is dictated by others, and I have never used it before, and it is not strange that I don't know the mark of Master Zhao Dajiang." ”

Xiao Ziyang diverted the topic and said, "This knife is indeed a good knife, but I can't afford it. I don't know if there is a long knife in your store with a price of about a thousand silver tongbao, I don't need this knife to be sharp, as long as it is strong, it will not damage the blade due to violent impact during the fight, and the blade should be as heavy as possible. ”

Hearing Xiao Ziyang say that he couldn't afford to buy the Xuantie Treasure Knife, the guy didn't show disappointment or contempt on his face, he just calmly put the knife into the brocade box. When he heard Xiao Ziyang's request for a knife, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Guest officer, there is a thick-backed knife in our store that meets your requirements, but this knife is too heavy, I don't know ...... you."

"How?"

"Seventy-two pounds and eight taels after being unsheathed. ”

"How can there be such a heavy knife, could it be a general's broadsword right away?"

"No, it's a thick-backed knife made of black steel. ”

"Take a look. ”

"Yes, please wait" The guy walked towards the side door with the brocade box in his arms.

After a while, the man walked in with great difficulty, and he placed the wooden box on the table, making a dull noise, causing the other two guests to look sideways.

The guy opened the wooden box, Xiao Ziyang took out the thick-backed knife out of the wooden box with one hand, and looked at it carefully, this knife is also made of shark skin, and the handle is also wrapped with red duck skin and snow silk thread, but the material is inferior to the Xuantie treasure knife, but the workmanship is the same fine.

Xiao Ziyang drew his knife out of the sheath. This is a thick back knife made of black steel as the main material, after hundreds of folds and forging, the texture of the knife body is very dense, the material is excellent, the material is very sufficient, and the knife body is very tough. He held it in his hand and felt just right.

The guy was very surprised to see Xiao Ziyang easily pick up the thick-backed knife weighing seventy-two catties with one hand like a wooden stick, but then he became happy. Because he knew that this knife finally had a buyer.

Xiao Ziyang raised his head and asked, "What is the price of this knife?"

"Seven hundred silver pass treasures," after speaking, the guy looked at Xiao Ziyang's expression, saw Xiao Ziyang's brows frown slightly, and said busily, "Seven hundred silver pass treasures are already the lowest price set by the shopkeeper, and if it is lower, it will be a loss." ”

"I'm not too expensive, this knife is made of very good materials, and the craftsmanship is not under the Xuantie Treasure Knife, not to mention seven hundred taels, even one thousand seven hundred Tongbao is worth it, I don't know why I bought it so cheaply. ”

"Guest officer, this knife is bad because the materials are too sufficient, seventy-two pounds of one-handed knife, there are a few people in this world to move; although black steel is a good material for forging knives, but the appearance is inevitably a little poor, so those who buy the knife back to make decorations The guest officers don't look down on it; this knife has been smashed in the hands of the store since it was forged, and it has been more than ten years now!"

"In that case, why do you want to forge him?" Xiao Ziyang said strangely.

"I heard that this knife is tailor-made for a hero who is born with divine power and will vigorously subdue demons, which is a top outer martial arts that has been practiced to the extreme, but the knife has not yet been delivered, and this hero was defeated and killed in a duel with someone, so ......," Xiao Er explained.

"I see. Okay, that's it," Xiao Ziyang took out a Tongbao coin with a hazy purple light from his arms and handed it over.