Chapter 75 A fierce tiger?
Chongning County, Xisha Street.
This place is more like a back alley made of yellow mud than a street.
Li Qing couldn't even imagine how muddy the road would be if it rained here. Even the conditions in Cuishan Village in Xiaocuiling were not that simple. At least there were still pebbles on the road!
“Master was also a temperamental person when he was young. He broke into the Yamen angrily and directly beat the county magistrate to serious injuries”
"If Wu Lijun hadn't taken a fancy to his forging skills, I'm afraid he would have been killed immediately by Qiu Houwen!"
He heard these words from He Baosheng's mouth. Beheading is a serious crime everywhere.
However, Master Gu was already somewhat famous at that time, and he forged a Nine-Dragon Ge, which was definitely considered a magic weapon.
It is a pity that the reputation has not yet been fully developed. At that time, the ancient master could only be regarded as a famous craftsman, not a divine craftsman.
Nowadays, Jiulongge has actually gained quite a reputation in the world. Unfortunately, its owner’s whereabouts have been erratic. He has only appeared in the world a few times, and his reputation is far less than that of the Demon Sword Red Lotus and the Black Tortoise Spear.
After walking halfway through the alleys of Xisha Street, Li Qing finally found the place where the descendants of the ancient master lived.
It is a very dilapidated tile-roofed house, even the wooden door has many gaps.
I heard from He Baosheng that the descendants of Master Gu inherited his father's trade and also worked as a blacksmith in this street, but they could barely make ends meet.
"Is Master Gu Yu at home?"
Li Qing thought for a while, but in the end he didn't intend to knock on the door with his hands. He always felt that the wooden door would fall down if he exerted a little force.
Not long after, the wooden door creaked open, and an unkempt middle-aged man walked out of the house warily.
"I am, who are you? Are you here to forge iron?"
Before Li Qing could say his intention of coming, a little bean-like man who looked like a mud monkey also walked through the door. He rushed out, holding a branch in his hand, and murmuring:
"Who is coming? Tell me your name, babble~"
As soon as Xiaodouding rushed out, he was heard by a tiger. The roar shook him.
"Ouch!"
I saw a big dog-like tiger cub crawling at Li Qing's feet, grinning, and frightened the little Douding who was covered in mud.
Pop!
Little Douding sat down on the ground, and the branch he was holding fell down. Tears began to roll in his eyes, but he didn't cry out. He could only say that he was worthy of Master Gu. descendants!
"You brat, get back here." Gu Yu looked at the tiger at Li Qing's feet with a look of shock on his face, and then kicked his baby back.
Li Qing also frowned and gave the tiger cub a kick, kicking it to an invisible place in the tatters beside the wall.
"I'm sorry, Master Gu. I didn't mean any harm. I just wanted to get something from you." Li Qing thought for a while, but still did not directly express his intention. He wanted to observe the difficult conditions of this family again. What kind of degree.
As soon as he heard about the business, Gu Yu immediately smiled on his face.
“It turns out that I’m going to pack something. Please come inside, sir. I wonder what you want to pack?”
Li Qing followed him into the house, scanned around, and saw There was a handful of mining manuscripts placed in the corner, and he said without thinking: "Let's get a pickaxe. It's probably as big as this. How long will it take?"
"Wait a moment, sir, I'll have it ready for you before dark."
With that said, Gu Yu rekindled the furnace and prepared to start forging.
Generally, the furnace in a blacksmith shop will basically maintain a high temperature all the time. From this point, it can be seen that the business of this Guyu is not generally bleak.
Seeing Master Gu's son standing still in a familiar but not standard posture, Li Qing nodded slightly.
There are indeed some shadows of the ancient Xuan Hammer Kung Fu, but the foundation is very poor and the posture is average. It seems that the ancient master failed to pass on all the martial arts to his son before he was taken to Wu Lijun.
As for why Li Qing didn't leave the original knowledge of this martial arts to his son, he didn't know. Maybe he was worried about being remembered.
Thinking of this, Li Qing asked casually: "Aside from pickaxes, what else can you hit, and do you know how to use weapons?"
As soon as these words came out, Gu Yu's face changed slightly. , he whispered: "Your Majesty, for some reason, the government prohibits me from forging swords. If I am discovered, I will be severely fined."
"It's okay, I'll just ask casually." Li Qing nodded.
When the temperature of the furnace gradually rose, Gu Yu started forging.
Judging from Li Qing's current level of forging, such craftsmanship is naturally not worth mentioning. He can only be regarded as an ordinary craftsman and has not received the true inheritance of the ancient master.
Wait until halfway through forging, when the pickaxe head of the pickaxe came out, a scoundrel voice suddenly came from outside the door:
"Master Gu, what did you do last month? The hoe I gave you is not working. Look, it has become loose after just a few uses!" Following the words, a shirtless young man walked in and threw a hoe at the door.
"How could this happen? Normally, it wouldn't come loose so quickly." Gu Yu looked at the hoe on the ground.
The ruffian kicked the hoe with his foot, and saw that the interface between the wood and the hoe was indeed shaking.
“If you don’t believe me, look at it. It’s only been used a few times and it’s already so loose. How can you hoe the soil? What a useless skill!”
“Now it’s just because of you. Broken hoe, the farming season has been delayed, please pay me two taels of silver!"
As soon as these words came out, blacksmith Gu Yu's face suddenly turned ugly. How could he not know that this land scoundrel is a rusher? Came with money.
"Here. Feng Jin, please wait. I will give you a new one without charging you any money. The compensation of two taels of silver is really too much. I gave you a new one at the beginning. The hoe only received two coins.”
The land scoundrel named Feng Jin sneered, and he said: "Are we fighting again? Now we have delayed the farm work, and you still want to fight for nothing. What if it becomes loose again?"
"My family The harvest in the field is not good this year because of your hoe, and you have to pay for it. Get the money quickly, or I will go to the government to sue you!"
Gu Yu's face became even more ugly when he heard about it! After a while, sweat started to form on my anxious forehead.
At this time, Li Qing bent down. He picked up the loose hoe, stroked the blade on it, and said softly:
"This hoe should not be naturally loose. The blade is not naturally loose." The mouth was hit hard and there are obvious marks, and the wooden handle at the joint was also shattered.”
"Eighty percent of the time it was someone who deliberately used this hoe to dig up rocks and other hard objects, and it ended up like this. If you want to pay compensation, you have to ask the person who broke the hoe to pay for it."
Hearing from Li Qing Gu Yu wiped his sweat and felt grateful in his eyes.
The local ruffian Feng Jin became anxious. He said angrily: "Who the hell are you? This hoe is placed in my house every day. Who else can break it?"
"You mean I broke it myself?"
Li Qing threw the hoe over without even looking at him, and said calmly: "I don't know, anyway, this hoe It has nothing to do with the blacksmith’s skill.”
"Okay, okay! Lao Gu, you still have someone to support you now, right? Just wait for me!"
The land scoundrel held a hoe and originally planned to teach Li Qing a lesson, but Li Qing was tall and strong, and he It was obvious that I was no match on my own, so I decided to go out and find some accomplices to come and create a fight.
However, before he could even step out of the door, a powerful tiger roar suddenly sounded:
"Ouch!"
The roar of the tiger shook the people. All directions, including the walls, seemed to tremble.
Feng Jin, the local scoundrel, was shocked by the tiger's roar, his face turned pale, his legs and feet were weak, and his body was trembling slightly.
The tiger cub rushed in. It shook its head, vaguely possessing the power of a tiger.
This time Li Qing did not teach the tiger cub a lesson, but let it rub against his feet.
Feng Jin's eyes moved up from Li Qing's feet until he met Li Qing's cold eyes, and finally remembered a rumor from earlier today.
The gangsters outside the city were killed by a young man who brought a tiger into the city.
"Hiss!"
Feng Jin took a sharp breath of cold air again, his heart became cold, and he said incoherently:
"You, you. You are the fierce tiger."< br>
“You were the one who killed all the gangsters outside the city?”
Li Qing raised his eyebrows and was still thinking about the meaning of the fierce tiger. That Feng Jin knelt down directly:< br>
"Uncle, please spare my life. I shouldn't have come to extort money. I'm young and blind!"
I fell to my knees so quickly! I have never seen such a coward!
For a moment, Li Qing wanted to laugh, but he still maintained a cold attitude and said, "Get out!"
Feng Jin ran out without saying a word.
But when he turned around, Gu Yu’s expression didn’t look right either. He said with complicated eyes: “You are the fierce tiger that is rumored in the city and kills people like crazy”
Killing people like hemp? Tiger?
What the hell nickname!
Li Qing, who didn't like this nickname very much, turned a little dark, thinking that it was probably the escaped gangsters who had spread the word. At this moment, he wanted to talk to those people.
Why did you give him such an unpleasant nickname, and it sounds like a short-lived villain? What if someone accidentally replaces him one day? !
Something happened today, this chapter is a bit late~
(End of this chapter)