Chapter 5 Deer Hunting (Part 6) "Sister Eru seems to be very unhappy?" Tao Kuo took off his silk and rested his head on Li Xu's shoulder, asking in a low voice. People who are passionately in love always hope that the friends around them will have the same things as themselves.
happiness, and the girl in Su Chuanbu is no exception
"Maybe she has encountered some trouble recently!" Li Xu's eyes passed through the noisy crowd and landed on Eru's back. From the back, the girl Eru was demure, gentle, and heartbreaking. But some things were helped by others.
Even the best friends can't do anything if they are not busy. From the moment he was born, Xu Dayan's shoulders have carried the entire family. This is something he simply cannot escape.
Li Xu suddenly felt lucky that he came from a poor family. Although he had not enjoyed superior living conditions since he was a child, he did not have to bear too much responsibility. For his parents, living a happy life was all they wanted.
, these majestic dreams are too far away. Poor families only think about them during the Chinese New Year. No one will regard them as life goals that must be achieved.
"Why doesn't Big Eye want to marry Eru? They both obviously like each other?" The babble-like question on his shoulder interrupted Li Xu's recollection of life in the Central Plains.
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't!" Li Xu hesitated for a moment and then said in defense of his good friend, "The rules of the Central Plains are that good people cannot marry other people's fiancées, and only villains can take love away from you!"
"That means, if, if I were engaged to someone else, no matter how much you like me or I like you, we can only look at each other's backs!" Tao Kuo took off his silk and pinched Li Xu hard, "Viciously
"The ground asked
Li Xu could only smile bitterly in response to the "little villain"'s sudden attack. He knew that his explanation just now was far-fetched, but Xu Dayan's difficulty was that he could not tell others that the prairie people would not understand the Central Plains people's discrimination against them.
Telling the real reason why Xu Dayan can't marry Eru will only add embarrassment to both parties. Besides, Li Xu is rough and thick-skinned, and Tao Kuo's little strength in taking off the silk can only be regarded as scratching his itch.
"What a nonsense rule! You Central Plains people are just weird!" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and cursed angrily when he saw that the punishment measures were ineffective.
Li Xu patted her shoulder lightly and said nothing. Under the organization of two good friends, Aslan and Duer, the herdsmen who came to help build the felt bags had already begun to slaughter cattle and sheep. According to the customs on the grassland, the new
After the felt bag is completed, a small celebration is necessary. The more people come to help build the felt bag, the more lively the banquet will be, which indicates that the host's family will be more prosperous in the future. Now Li Xu is no longer new to the tribe and has nothing.
guests, and the cattle and sheep under his name are enough to support twenty carnivals of the same size.
He is not a guest. In the eyes of many shepherds, the guards of the Holy Wolf have already become an indispensable part of the tribe.
"Are the rules in the Central Plains really better than those in the grassland?" Looking at the piles of bonfires and the sincere smiling faces beside the fire, Li Xu thought in confusion that although the rules in the grassland were barbaric to the enemy, they were not harmful to the enemy.
His own tribe is full of warmth and the rules of the Central Plains. In Li Xu's memory, it is like a bowl of tea, warm and delicious, but there is always a touch of bitterness in the aftertaste.
"Teaching a wolf to eat grass, you kid can't figure it out!" When Li Xu told the coppersmith his confusion, the coppersmith responded with the sound of clanking hammers.
"I think they can survive without robbing!" Li Xu waved the sledgehammer vigorously, and drops of sweat fell on the gradually formed scimitar. Tao Kuo took off the silk and risked his life to fish the star iron from the lake. Under the command of the master,
The slaves sent by Chief Suchuixil forged it over the fire for several days and nights, and it went from the initial weight of more than 40 kilograms to over 30 kilograms. After burning and forging could not reduce its weight, it was considered to have passed the first test.
Now the color of the whole knife blank is dark green and black, which is completely different from Chang Tie (Note 1). At this point, the coppersmith said that he would not let the slaves use his knife, and he would make it himself. This is the one in his workshop.
The coppersmith who has been working with weapons and fire for a long time firmly believes that only the sword made by his own hands can be contaminated with the master's spiritual energy, and it will be easier to use. The star iron sent by Tao Kuo off the silk is a piece of high-quality material that is difficult to find for a century. If it is made,
If he couldn't come up with a masterpiece, he felt ashamed of his many years of experience.
"If they don't rob or seize, can they grow up quickly? If they don't grow up quickly, they will be the ones who fall in the next tribal conflict!" The coppersmith waved his small hammer and hit the surface of the knife blank rhythmically to create stars.
The fine steel was indeed unusual. From the lines on the surface of the blade, he could already predict that this would be the most perfect piece of work in his life. The sweating boy in front of him was as qualified as an unforged piece of star iron.
It's just that the more excellent he is, the more hardships he may have to go through in life. Therefore, the hermit who has not paid attention to the secular affairs of the world for many years has also developed a love for talents, hoping that his life experience can help Li Xu get rid of the torment of heaven and earth as soon as possible.
"They can move south to a warmer place, learn farming from the Central Plains people, do business and build city walls to protect themselves, and they can also build schools and open workshops!" Li Xu retorted loudly while swinging the hammer vigorously.
There is some truth in what the coppersmith master said. Without the day and night work of the slaves, the star iron would not have been forged into hundreds of refined steel in such a short period of time. But being reasonable does not mean that the truth is correct. The unbalanced men and women from the tribe
Judging from the number of people, we know that the war brought more than just property and slaves to the Su Chuan tribe.
"Wolves eat meat and sheep eat grass. Even gods can't change it!" The coppersmith master gave Li Xu a sideways look and shook his head repeatedly. The boy is very stubborn and looks very much like himself when he was young. But the coppersmith doesn't think that his persistence in his youth is the same.
Necessary, in other words, he does not recognize the warmth and coldness of the world in his youth. Existence must have its reasons for existence. This is the way of heaven and cannot be reversed by human beings. Instead of putting in efforts and efforts to move from one despair to another, it is better to watch from the sidelines.
The reader's eyes are at ease and happy, chasing the freedom floating between heaven and earth
Ruan Ji was always drunk, so he lived a comfortable life. Ji Kang had a clear distinction between love and hate, so Guanglingsan became the king's family.
The corridors and pillars are the same as before. Even the stone beast at the door looks at the passers-by without any difference (Note 2) "How will you know if you don't try!" The hammer in Li Xu's hand dinged, and he hit the blade blank.
Master Yiliu Sparks, a coppersmith, pursues the realm of transcendence and elegance, so he doesn't care if others contradict him. With several months of experience in learning sword skills, Li Xu knows that the more he contradicts others, the greater his gains will be.
The coppersmith master is not only proficient in martial arts, blacksmithing, military strategy, life experience and even the classics of saints, almost all the books that Li Xu has studied, the coppersmith master has reached a point where people look up to him. In the short half year of being together, Li Xu felt like he was like
A thirsty lamb desperately sucks each other's supplies. The coppersmith master is like a crescent lake on the grassland. You can never see clearly where its bottom is.
"Try?" The coppersmith's eyes widened and he looked at Li Xu like a monster. Suddenly, he laughed loudly, stopped the hammer, took a bag of wine and drank a few sips, and then drank half of the bag of wine.
poured on the fire
The water vapor rose up like a roar, and then, blue flames surged in the furnace. The coppersmith stopped talking and picked up the knife blank with an iron clamp. When he felt the blue flames, the flames stirred by the wine quickly spread across the entire blade.
The dark black blade gradually blurred in the smoke and fog, and then gradually became brighter. Suddenly, the scimitar made a roar, and the whole body flashed with a dazzling red light. There were countless small flames, beating and flowing on the unformed blade.
"You have more talent than me!" The coppersmith repeatedly turned the blade of the knife in the flames, as if he was judging the person or the knife.
At the moment, this boy who is ignorant of worldly affairs does not know that his arrival has set off a whirlwind on the grassland. The Xi tribe, the Lin tribe, the Shiwei tribe, the Khitan tribe, and several surrounding ethnic groups have been swept in by this whirlwind. As for this
How big a storm this whirlwind will turn into in the future is completely unpredictable with my own eyes.
Maybe fate really has a hand in what big thing this person has done. The coppersmith looked at the confused Li Xu again, and smiled and thought that if this was the case, if he forced Li Xu to do anything, it would be against the way of heaven that he had been pursuing for many years. He smiled and added more
Too much liquor poured into the furnace
"You're a wise boy. Go ahead and eat a piece of beef before I do. Let's calm down and let's shape it up and sharpen it in the afternoon. Your future path may not be on the grassland. If you have a good knife to defend yourself, life will be easier."
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"Thank you, Master!" Li Xu picked up a wine bag from his feet and touched it with the wine bag in the coppersmith's hand. The coppersmith's master did not solve the confusion in his heart, and he stopped asking. Some things need to be understood by oneself. After half a year
Many young people who have lived a life of warmth and hardship have understood this truth.
Chief Xier has allowed himself to take in Zhang Ji and Wang Kewang. With their help, the warehouse has been fully prepared and can be opened after the traders disperse. With a fixed warehouse, the scattered materials in the tribe can be moved around.
With a fixed recipient, merchants will come to Su Chuibu more frequently.
Li Xu not only wants to deal in leather goods and silk, but also has entrusted the supply of books, paper and pens to the Xu family. He sincerely believes that with reading and literacy, the kindness of the Central Plains people and the enthusiasm of the grassland people will gradually get along with each other.
Fusion, the smell of blood in the tribe will slowly be diluted. Although he can no longer study and take subjects, he can promote the saint's teachings on the grassland, which may not be inconsistent with the saint's teachings.
Thinking of this, the young man's eyes burned like fire
"Harming people with good intentions is often more terrifying than malice!" The master coppersmith knocked on the chopping board and woke Li Xu up from his sleep.
"Harming people?" The young man's bright eyes were like stars, flashing with passion and confusion.
Note 1: The ancient steel forging technology can be found in "Mengxi Bi Tan", "But take more than a hundred fires of fine iron forging, and call it each forging, one forging and one light, until it is exhausted and the weight is not reduced, then it is pure steel, even though it is hundreds of times
It is not light to refine. This is pure iron. Its color is clear and bright. If you polish it, it will become dull green and black, which is very different from ordinary iron."
Note 2: Ruan Ji and Ji Kang were the two most famous among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove in the Jin Dynasty, and were model kings for future generations of hermits. The Xie family was a famous family that turned from prosperity to decline in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Chen family was a royal family in the Southern Dynasties.