Lu Hanjiang picked up the jade statue and looked at it. Rather than saying it was a statue, it was better to say that it was carved based on Shangluo. On the basis of the "image", it seemed to extend the concept of growth.
The woman with the jade statue looks more mature than Shangluo. Maybe the girl will look like this if she grows up for another four or five years. No, it's a bit different.
"Mr. Lu, why do you think there is this jade statue in Master Gu's room?" A Lan's question interrupted Lu Hanjiang's thoughts just right.
"I want to know too, but the ancient master is dead and his disciple Anan is also missing. It may be difficult to find out the reason."
After saying that, Lu Hanjiang shook his head, put down the jade statue and asked, "Miss A Lan, what else did you find in that room?"
"Other things are just average, but there is one thing that makes me feel very strange," A Lan said after pondering for a while: "Master Gu has been dead for so long, but his sword furnace is still not extinguished. When I went in that day,
The stove is still burning brightly."
"Is this happening?"
Hearing this, Lu Hanjiang was also very surprised. It makes no sense that Zhujian Villa is now in such a difficult situation and still has money to maintain a sword furnace that is not used at all.
"Well, due to the Xingxuan Sword incident, the residence of the ancient master is now classified as a forbidden area, and the disciples of the Sword Making Villa are not allowed to enter, so no outsiders know about this matter."
What A Lan said is that even outsiders don't know, but the people inside Zhujian Villa may not know. No firewood can burn for a whole year without sleep, so the sword furnace must have been restarted and maintained manually.
Lu Hanjiang's interest was aroused. He raised his head and met A Lan's eyes that were also shining. The two of them smiled knowingly.
"Have you chosen the route?" Lu Hanjiang stood up and put on his heavy coat.
Ah Lan patted her chest and assured: "Don't worry, no one will find out."
The two of them looked at each other and nodded, then left. Allan slid out from the window sill the way he came. When Lu Hanjiang saw this, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He subconsciously followed the footsteps and slowly retracted. He still chose to walk out the door.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the two of them avoided the disciples who were watching the night and arrived at Gu Ming's residence. This was a huge courtyard that occupied almost one-seventh of the entire Sword Making Villa including the sword furnace.
This also shows Gu Ming’s status in Zhujian Villa during his lifetime.
There are only two entrances and exits in the courtyard, and two disciples of the Sword Making Villa are responsible for guarding each. Compared with the importance of the entire courtyard, the actual guard strength seems very sloppy.
A Lan and Lu Hanjiang climbed over the wall very easily and slipped into the courtyard without anyone noticing.
Lu Hanjiang looked around and said softly: "It's almost like it was intentional."
"Master Lu?" Ah Lan stopped and looked at Lu Hanjiang behind him strangely.
In the quiet courtyard, the two of them stayed in the center of the courtyard. They were surrounded by silence, overgrown weeds, and not even a sound of insects. It was eerie and scary, like a ghost land.
"It's okay, let's go."
Lu Hanjiang just looked at it for a moment, then nodded to A Lan, and the two continued to move forward. The room where the sword furnace was located was not locked, and the door opened as soon as it was pushed.
When the two of them walked into it, the bright firelight shone in front of them. The huge sword furnace was like a fireball on the sun. The hot and dry atmosphere in the house and the cool and dead silence outside seemed like two different worlds.
He took two steps forward and walked onto the platform in front of the sword furnace. He looked down and saw hot water billowing in the furnace. There were also some remains of weapons standing like tombstones, and there was also a pungent and unpleasant smell.
Lu Hanjiang frowned and immediately rolled up his robe to cover his mouth and nose: "What does this smell like?"
Lu Hanjiang has never been to a place like this. He has only seen the craftsman's furnace for casting weapons in books, but this is the first time he has seen it in action.
A Lan was used to it, she just frowned and said: "I have seen others forge swords before, but there is indeed no such unpleasant smell."
".never mind."
Lu Hanjiang just thought that he was ignorant and there was nothing to see in the sword furnace. He turned around and looked for other things that might be useful in the room.
A Lan also had no idea of taking a sauna in front of the stove, and stayed away from the platform in front of the sword stove. Looking back from a distance, the entire sword stove was like a huge pot, and the copper-iron shape revealed a strange dark golden color.
Feeling really puzzled, A-Lan left and came back again, but this time she found some different traces on the platform in front of the stove. Under her feet, a dark red color fell covertly.
A-Lan leaned down and applied it lightly with her fingertips, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it carefully, her heart skipped a beat.
is blood.
Ah Lan kept calm and quietly stepped away, then went to look for Lu Hanjiang and saw him looking through some manuscripts left by Gu Ming on the table.
Sword Casting Villa has not sent anyone to clean up these things, but it is possible that they have looked through them a long time ago, but they really found nothing, so they left them here and let them moldy.
Lu Hanjiang rummaged through it again and again, and most of it contained nonsense and self-indulgence. Unexpectedly, Master Gu Ming was not only unconventional in his sword-making skills, but also had a very weird personality and temper.
In these manuscripts left behind, there is very little substantive content about sword-making, and most of them are the old man's boasts, such as claiming to be the best sword-smith in ancient times, and also disdain the three magic weapons, calling it a shameless work.
It's no wonder that the people at Zhujian Villa are not interested in these things. It's just a bunch of complaints and nonsense, and it's totally worthless.
However, it is not all without gain. In this long piece of nonsense, apart from half of it being self-praising, the other half is full of shit. From top to bottom, Gu Ming has almost severely belittled the Sword Making Villa.
A meal.
He called Master Yi a hypocrite and mocked others as household dogs. However, the ones who were scolded the most harshly were the Huo family.
Gu Ming started scolding Huo Tianya's father, the owner of the village. He scolded him for more than ten pages. He scolded him for being stubborn, scolding him for being arrogant and ignorant, scolding him for being a waste of natural resources, and scolding him for being a prodigal. The treasure passed down by the family was destroyed in the blink of an eye.
He gave it away.
Hey, Lu Hanjiang was very happy to see this. The prodigal love is passed down from ancestors.
It's a pity that Lu Hanjiang finally wanted to read the follow-up with great interest, but a few pages were missing in the middle. It was probably done by some guy from the Huo family who couldn't afford to lose. They are already dead. It's not enough to just scold you on the paper.
Ah, tsk, that’s so narrow-minded.
While thinking about it, A-Lan was about to come over and say something to him. Just as he was about to speak, there was sudden movement outside the courtyard. The two looked at each other and each used Qing Kung Fu to fly up to the beam.
Soon, someone opened the door. Lu Hanjiang took a closer look and saw that the person who came was actually Fan Sheng, the master invited by Huo Tianya.
I saw that this rough guy came here today without even bringing a knife. It seemed that he was worried that his nine-ring sword would make too much noise and easily disturb the disciples guarding outside. If he thought so, Fan Sheng must have climbed over the wall.
However, this guy's purpose of coming seemed to be different from the two of them. After Fan Sheng arrived, he closed the door and found a chair to sit down. It seemed that he was waiting for someone.
Not long after, footsteps were heard again outside the courtyard. When the door opened again, the person standing outside the door this time was Huo Tianya.