Chapter Thirty-Seven: Meeting in the Snowstorm
The wind "whirred" the snowflakes flying around, and at this time, the entire Dehua City was already covered in silver.
In the silent night sky, only the sound of "dang dang dang" echoed in the wind and snow.
Wen Canghai and Long Canghao stood in the wind and snow, standing in front of the door of the blacksmith shop. They didn't make any sound, they didn't move the slightest, they stood there all the time. The two people standing in the wind and snow seemed to be waiting silently.
The people in the blacksmith were still silent in the making of the iron, as if they had not noticed at all that there were two people standing outside the blacksmith shop in the snowstorm. The big black hammer that the man picked up struck the long piece of iron, and after a burst of blows, the man used his tongs to put the long piece of iron into the pool beside him. As soon as the long piece of iron entered the pool, there was a "whoosh" sound, and bursts of green smoke came out.
The man soaked the long piece of iron in the pool for a while, and then picked it up again. He looked at the long iron carefully, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
He threw the long piece of iron into the furnace above the bellows, turned to the door and smiled, "Here you are." ”。
The two men standing in front of the blacksmith shop in the wind and snow heard the voice of the man in the blacksmith shop. The two of them shook slightly, and they wantonly let the wind and snow fall on their faces, arbitrarily letting the snowflakes fall on their cheeks, and the snowflakes turned into snow water and flowed down their faces. Suddenly, a sour feeling in the hearts of the two of them suddenly came up, and their slightly trembling hands were clenched, and their eldest brother Tong still recognized them.
"Come in." The man in the blacksmith shop said, his tone was calm and there were no emotional fluctuations.
As soon as the two of them entered the shop, they shouted to the man in unison in surprise, their voices were choked with a hint of choking, their eyes were red, and there seemed to be a kind of crystal light flashing in their eyes.
The Tong blacksmith in the blacksmith shop was the Tong Cangtai that the two of them were looking for, and Tong Cangtai at this time was completely the temperament of an ordinary blacksmith, and he no longer had that kind of high-spirited heroism. His angular face, like a knife, revealed a trace of vicissitudes, and a few strands of hair on his forehead had already been frosted white. His calm gaze swept over Sao Wen and Long.
"Good, good, good" Tong Cangtai's words also had a hint of choking, and he said three good words in a row.
"Brother Tong, how are you?" Long Canghao was more anxious, he grabbed Tong Cangtai's hands and greeted. Wen Canghai looked around at the iron shop, which was filled with all kinds of agricultural iron tools, and all kinds of iron filings were sprinkled on the ground. He couldn't help but sigh that his eldest brother Tong had actually lived a simple life over the years, and he was completely more miserable than a normal ordinary person.
And this time, they came to take him back to Haotian Sect to be punished by the secret order of the sect, and they only got the information from the sect, saying that Tong Cangtai was living an ordinary life as a blacksmith in Dehua City. Who knows, this so-called ordinary people's life is such a hard life. A sour feeling of resentment and melancholy suddenly filled his entire heart.
"I'm fine, you guys, how are you doing now?" Tong Cangtai held Long Canghao's hands tightly and replied, Long Canghao obviously felt that his hands were trembling uncontrollably, and the calluses on his palms were full of big hands.
"Why," Wen Canghai suddenly roared at Tong Cangtai, with tears in his eyes, and frantically smashed all the iron tools in the shop on the ground, one by one.
"Big brother," Long Canghao was startled by his frantic actions and immediately shouted. He wanted to stop the other party, but was stopped by Tong Cangtai.
"Let him be, you two brothers have had a hard time these years." Tong Cangtai waved his hand, but there was a warm current in his heart that wantonly hit his heart, he also knew why Wen and Long came to this Dehua City, and why Wen Canghai made such a move, he understood all of this.
The ground was full of agricultural iron tools, and Wen Cangtai looked at each other blankly, his expression had recovered.
"Sect Master asked us to pick you up." He said calmly to Tong Cangtai.
Tong Cangtai looked at the messy agricultural iron tools on the ground, his expression trembled slightly, and then recovered, he was silent for a while, and said, "What crime did the sect condemn me?" ”
"The sin of rebellion, the elders of the sect unanimously passed." Long Canghao replied for Wen Canghai, his tone full of disdain and helplessness.
"Alas, it's been fifteen years, and I didn't expect those people in the sect to still refuse to let me go." Tong Cangtai sighed.
"Brother Tong, this time he will go back with us first, and then our two brothers will intercede for you in front of the sect master and strive for leniency, although you were not wrong in that incident back then, but this is the decision of the sect." Wen Canghai anxiously explained to him.
"Yes, Brother Tong, you can go back to the sect with us first, I don't believe that with the prestige of our two brothers, can't I keep you here." Long Canghao also shouted.
"Thank you for the kindness of the two virtuous brothers, the two virtuous brothers are so Tong Cangtai, how can I not know the intentions of the two of you, this time I plan to go back to the sect with you. It's just that I still have some things to deal with. Tong Cangtai saw the two of them say this, and his heart was also warm. He saw the sincerity of the year in the other party's eyes, and he felt that he would have to face it sooner or later, and he had been avoiding this matter for fifteen years.
"Really?" As soon as Wen and Long heard that the other party had agreed, they were immediately overjoyed and shouted in unison.
Tong Cangtai showed a relieved smile at this moment and nodded silently.
"Brother Tong, if there is anything else, we brothers can help." Long Canghao also showed a heroic smile.
Tong Cangtai didn't speak, he asked Wen Canghai to take out the long piece of iron from the furnace above the bellows, and said, "I'm going to build this thing well." ”
Wen Canghai carefully looked at the long piece of iron with iron tongs for a while, and said in surprise: "This is a rudimentary sword blank, Brother Tong, you are going to build a sword." ”
Tong Cangtai nodded and said, "We are still the same as before, the three of us cooperate, Canghao pulls the bellows, you come to clamp this prototype of iron, and I will beat and cast." ”
The blacksmith shop resounded with the sound of "dang dang" iron hammering, mixed with the sound of "huhuhu" bellows pushing and pulling. The wind and snow outside were thick again, but the blacksmith shop was full of fire, and from time to time there were red star-like iron filings splashing out, splashing on the snow outside the shop, "sizzling" a few times, and wisps of green smoke were rising.
The sound of "dangdangdang" metal knocking blends into the wind and snow howling, but it gives people a sense of harmony, and the silent night sky does not become noisy because of this metal knocking sound, but because of this sound, it seems more empty and quiet.
"Brother Tong, who made this sword of yours." Wen Canghai asked Tong Cangtai.
Tong Cangtai struck with a hammer, he glanced at the other party, and replied: "There is no relatively complete sword casting equipment here, I can only use the forging method to make it, you also know that person, didn't you save him not long ago." ”
Wen Canghai was stunned, he didn't expect Tong Cangtai to know the young man, and he also built a sword for him.
"Brother Tong knows that young man," Long Canghao, who was pulling the bellows hard, asked with a big grin.
Tong Cangtai stopped what he was doing and continued: "He is a good friend of the dog Xiaohu, in fact, the killer of the Assassin Heaven Alliance was also present when he was chasing him. ”
As soon as Wen and Long heard each other's words, they also stopped the movements in their hands, they looked at each other in unison, waiting for him to tell him what had happened, and the two of them were also curious about how the good boy used a dead branch to stab the killer's throat.
"When I was not far from them, I was also curious about the teenager. At that time, the killer also discovered me, but he was not sure about my relationship with the boy, and he was afraid that he would not be able to escape after killing the boy. So his killer kept chasing the boy without hurting the killer, and the boy couldn't get rid of the killer. One fled, the other chased, and the two lasted for nearly half an hour. Tong Cangtai said slowly.
"And then?" Wen and Long asked at the same time.
The boy apparently sensed that the black-clad killer didn't want to kill him in a hurry, and his left shoulder was also cut by the black-clad killer's dagger, and he was also poisoned by the dagger. It's just that he didn't notice my existence, so the black-clothed killer didn't dare to act rashly. The boy picked up another dead branch from the snow, and I wondered if the boy could defeat the killer with this dead branch alone. The young man held the dead branch in his hand, and the momentum that erupted on his body suddenly changed, as if he was a peerless swordsman. ”
"At this moment, the black-clothed killer raised his dagger and stabbed at the young man, but the young man grabbed his dagger with his left hand, and the dead branch turned into a peerless sword and stabbed through the void, even I didn't see the trajectory of the dead branch clearly for a while. It stabbed into the throat of the killer, and the killer was also ruthless, so he abandoned the dagger and slapped him. When I tried to help, it was too late. So the price of the boy's serious injuries was also the death of the killer. Later, I was about to step forward and take the young man away, but unexpectedly, you also came, and a fat Taoist priest also came behind. I finally withdrew, and I don't think you'll be able to die. ”
So it was, similar to what Wen Canghai guessed, Wen and Long sighed in their hearts, and admired the young man even more, this seems to be a simple battle, but there is also an invisible thrill, if it is them, under the disadvantage of being strong and weak, it may not be possible for them to complete this counterattack.
"Brother Tong, do you know who this young man is?" Long Canghao asked the other party.
"This young man came to this Dehua City more than a month ago, I only know his name, Ye Yinfeng, as for his other identity, I don't know anything. However, I also have a rough guess about his background. Tong Cangtai replied.
"Does he have any ulterior background?" Wen Canghai asked rhetorically.
"'The sky descends to the dragon star, Huainan Tibetan wind chanting', have you heard of these two sentences?"
"We've only heard of the first sentence, and we've never heard of the latter one." Wen Canghai frowned and said suspiciously.
"Yes, the previous sentence 'Sky Descending Dragon Star' has been there for a long time, and it has been on the wall of that machine for two years." That Long Canghao also interjected.
"So I suspect that someone is taking advantage of the previous sentence to confuse the public and exterminate the Huainan Ye family." Tong Cangtai's eyes suddenly shot out a terrifying light, and he said in a cold voice.
"So that young man is an orphan of the Ye family in Huainan, who is going to target them." Wen Canghai was also at a loss.
"This happened very strangely, this young man is more in love with the dog Xiaohu, this time he can't be rescued, and I am ashamed of him. I found out that he might have an amazing talent in kendo, so I made him a sword first. He will also have some immortal achievements in the future. After Tong Cangtai finished speaking, he picked up the hammer and continued to strike on the almost formed sword blank.
Wen and Long were also silent, dull for a while, they still had a lot of questions in their hearts, but they couldn't ask at this time, and silently cooperated with each other to forge this sword.