Tao Kuo, who was watching Li Xu forging iron on the sidelines, was elated when he heard the news. The coppersmith and Fu Li spoke in Chinese dialect, which meant that the relationship between the two had been drawn closer. If things continued like this, after a while Fu Li proposed to learn the art from his master, and the coppersmith
The craftsman can't complain that Fuli is taking away his "mantle".
"There are many people in the Central Plains, so skills are worthless once they are learned by others. Teaching you skills is equivalent to giving up my clothes and rice bowl to you." Li Xuyan's random explanation of "successor" that day
, deeply imprinted on the girl’s heart.
"Have you practiced martial arts?" The coppersmith asked again in Chinese when he threw the knife blank into the fire for the second time.
"No, I have practiced seriously. I have learned a few moves from the nursing school in Zhuangzi!" Li Xu replied breathlessly, leaning on the handle of the hammer. Although he was used to doing rough work, his endurance and arm strength were amazing. At this time,
I was panting and a little out of breath.
As the saying goes, "A small hammer makes you tired, and a sledge hammer makes you exhausted." Blacksmithing is a profession that consumes the most physical energy. To be a master, swinging a small hammer requires experience and vision. To be an apprentice, swinging a sledge hammer relies solely on arm strength and strength.
Endurance. If the master in the blacksmith workshop has only one apprentice, then this apprentice must either have extraordinary physical strength, or owe the master a debt and have to repay it with force. Otherwise, no one will be stupid enough to serve the master alone.
"One more round and the knife will be finished. Can you still persist?" The coppersmith turned over the knife blank in the fire and asked in a low voice in Turkic language.
Several people in the workshop couldn't sit still, and they all came forward to ask for Li Xu's replacement. The reason why everyone came to the coppersmith to make weapons was because they knew that one person's strength alone could not make a weapon bend.
The knife was finished on the same day. Several people took turns to work on it and helped each other, so they all had a chance to rest, and the manufacturing speed of the scimitar would also speed up.
"I, let me finish this round again! Do it by one person from beginning to end, using even force and the toughness of the knife is good!" Li Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead and gasped. This is what he said in the village
I have heard from people’s experience that the quality of a tool made by the same hand is not the same as that of a tool made by several sledgehammers. Everyone’s strength is different, which will cause the tool to change during the molding process.
Uneven stress affects the service life of the finished product.
The shepherds couldn't resist him and retreated with admiring eyes. Li Xu picked up the sledgehammer and continued to hit the knife blank on the chopping board following the rhythm of the coppersmith's small hammer. He watched a scimitar strike on his iron
The hammer slowly took shape, and he gradually forgot about the bloody killing and the struggle and death of his companions in front of him, and concentrated all his energy on the joy of creation.
"Tsk!" The thick smoke of horse urine was rising again, and Li Xu could no longer smell the pungent smell. His whole body was as wet as if he had just crawled out of the water, but he felt very comfortable from head to toe.
"Okay, let's take it and sharpen it!" The coppersmith said proudly as the daylight came in from the window*. This is his best work in a month. It has a soft curve and even weight. With the handle of the knife, it is enough to replace the knife.
A four-year-old war horse.
"Thank you, Master Bijia! Thank you for being attached." The owner of the scimitar hugged his treasure and jumped into the snow. The coppersmith smiled and picked up another piece of fine iron from the fire.
"You're going to tire him out." Tao Kuo jumped up and protested loudly.
The coppersmith turned his eyes to the girl, and a sunny smile immediately appeared on his face. "Is he very important to you? I don't see any benefits except a handful of strength!"
"Master Pijia!" The girl immediately blushed, stamped her feet several times, and said bitterly: "I'll tell Aunt Xilin! You are old and disrespectful!"
It was rare that she used the right idiom again. The coppersmith smiled and shook his head. He turned to Li Xu, who had already held the handle of the hammer in his hand, and ordered kindly: "Go back and come find me here tomorrow morning. Once you are exhausted,
, I’m afraid I won’t have a peaceful life in the future!”
"Yeah!" Li Xu agreed and staggered out. Tao Kuo took off his silk clothes and didn't bother to trouble the coppersmith anymore. He took a few steps forward and supported half of his arm.
Looking at the direction where the young man left, the coppersmith picked up the wine bag beside him and took a big sip. The small hammer in his hand jingled, as if playing a string of joyful songs.
It was a long tune in the spring on the grassland, and the male and female shepherds sang to each other.
Li Xu had heard the inspirational story of Zhang Liang in the Huangshi Gong Bridge Test since he was a child, so he got up before midnight the next day and came early to wait outside the felt bag group of the coppersmith's house. The night wind on the grassland was like a knife.
, the cold made his lips turn purple and his nose was like mucus. After shivering in the cold wind for more than an hour, the coppersmith yawned and walked out of the felt bag.
Seeing Li Xu's embarrassment with snot dripping from his nose, the coppersmith widened his eyes and asked, "Are you desperate for your life, standing here in the middle of the night? Haven't you heard that the wind on the grassland can kill people?"
"Senior, senior, senior," Li Xu explained while trembling, "Senior, senior told me to come early, come early, I don't dare..."
"Why don't you dare? If you don't sleep, I'm still sleeping!" The coppersmith grabbed Li Xu and pushed him into his stone workshop. At the same time, he quickly pushed away the fire with his hands and feet and stepped on the wind bag several times.
, while scolding: "Studying is stupid, you will believe it if you fool the children. You and I are willing to teach the disciples. Since we are willing to teach, why do we have to play so many mysteries. If we have the skills, it is better to be good to each other.
Get some sleep and save yourself from being an ancestor who is listless when speaking and still scolding the master when being taught!"
Hearing these perverse words, Li Xu could only laugh. While waiting in the cold wind, he indeed cursed the coppersmith many times in his stomach. Thinking about Zhang Liang coming to the bridge early three times in the past, he was always beaten.
Huang Shigong complained that he got up too late and hurried back. Zhang Daxian must have had the same thoughts at that time as he had just complained.
The coppersmith waited until Li Xu had warmed his frozen body a little, then stopped blowing air into the furnace. He picked up a large piece of charcoal with iron tongs, pressed down the fire, picked up a bulging wine bag, and
He raised his neck and took a few sips, then threw the bag to Li Xu.
"Senior!" Li Xu has followed four or five masters since his enlightenment, but none of them has as little dignity as the coppersmith. Even if he behaves inappropriately, he allows his disciples to drink in front of him.
.Holding the wine bag, Li Xu didn’t even think about drinking or not drinking. Qiqi Nana stood stunned by the stove.
"Senior, what senior? I'm so young? Drink, drink to warm your body and let's start teaching skills!" The coppersmith rolled his eyes and yelled loudly.
"Disciple knock..." Li Xu heard that the coppersmith was willing to teach him martial arts, and he quickly stepped forward to pay homage to him. According to Xu Dayan's analysis, since Aunt Qing's painting skills have reached the level of a master, the martial artist's methods that she admires are naturally also
Not vulgar.
As soon as he bent his body, he was stopped abruptly by the coppersmith with pliers, and the second half of his words of apprenticeship were suppressed in his stomach. Li Xu didn't know what kind of weird rule this was, and looked up in surprise.
The coppersmith shook his head and said: "Don't be like a kowtowing bug, I feel dizzy. I'm not your master, I'm just teaching you some killing techniques. You want to learn, but I don't want this skill to be buried on the grassland.
.We each take what we need. As for your future achievements, that is your own destiny and has nothing to do with me as the teacher. It is such a trivial matter, who expects you to take a memorial tablet and offer it to me every day!"
"Teacher, yes, senior!" Li Xu had no choice but to stand up straight, and then bowed his head, bowing to his mentor. He felt that his eyes were full of stars, as if he was sleepwalking. The so-called coppersmith and the so-called stove were all dreams.
It's just an illusion created in it.
If Xu Dayan were here, he would have immediately picked up the wine bag and called the coppersmith brother. Jiangnan aristocratic families have always had the legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. From Wang Youjun's east bed to flatten his belly (Note 4) to Zu Di's attack on the jiuzhongliu, they all pursued a kind of
A free and easy state of doing things spontaneously. If you treat this kind of person with worldly courtesy, it will make him unhappy.
The coppersmith was really unhappy when he saw that Li Xu always adhered to the status of master and apprentice. He shook his head and sighed. "You are a kind boy, but you are just a little too persistent. If you suffer in the future, you will definitely suffer from your persistence."
Literally speaking, there is a bright future for becoming a marquis and a general, but if you want to make further progress, it is absolutely impossible!"
His current temperament will lead to disadvantages in the future. Master Yang also reminded him of this when they parted. But Li Xu never had the guts to think about the four words of becoming a marquis and becoming a general. Before he met Bu Xiaowei, his highest ideal was
It was to be a county household manager in charge of civil affairs, so that the officers would catch up and flatter him. After seeing the power of the infantry colonel, his life goal became to be a cavalry colonel and lead the army.
He led hundreds of brothers across the battlefield. As for the huge rank difference between the Marquis and the Colonel, it was nothing to Li Xu. Anyway, both were elusive dreams, just like ten thousand buckets of rice in the eyes of a street beggar.
It is the same as ten million buckets of rice, there is really no difference.
"Why are you so dazed? Did I tell you wrongly? Just tell me if I'm wrong. I won't be angry with you. Even if I am angry with you and you turn around and leave, no one is afraid of who will come next!"
The coppersmith stretched out his hand, struck Li Xu hard on the forehead, and feigned anger.
"My master also said what the seniors said. It's just that the juniors are learning martial arts, not for the purpose of becoming a lord or a general!" Li Xu rubbed his head and said loudly.
"Hypocrisy, why are you learning martial arts if you don't want to become a prince or a general? Just think, a man will fight if he wants to, and let go if he doesn't want to. Why think about it in your heart and pretend to be noble in your mouth!" The coppersmith reached out and knocked again. Li Xu
But he was no longer willing to use his own head as someone else's wooden fish, and turned away.
This dodge made the coppersmith very happy. He stretched out his hand and chased Li Xu's forehead and knocked it wildly. Li Xu dodged left and right, avoiding all the black fingers of the coppersmith. While dodging, he panted.
He argued: "I don't want to be a prince, but I pretend to be just to gain fame. Isn't it equally hypocritical?"
"Then what are you doing for?" The coppersmith stopped, grabbed the wine bag from Li Xu's arms, and asked while drinking.
At this time, Li Xu also figured out the temper of the weirdo in front of him, took two steps back, and said seriously: "If I learn some martial arts, at least I won't watch E Ditai and the others being hacked to death. In the future, I won't
Let others risk their lives for me. As for whether to be granted a title or not, right now I am just a trader, so even thinking about it is in vain!" (To be continued)
