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Chapter 12 Chapter 11: The Iron Workshop

"The surname is Yuchi, and the single name is Gong." That Xianbei said humanely.

Lu Zhongming: "..."

If you have broken through your iron shoes, there is nowhere to find them, and it takes no effort to get them.Lu Zhongming almost rushed up and hugged Yu Chigong and shouted, brother, you are really my brother!I was thinking of looking for you, how did you know what my brother wanted so much, and you came here by yourself ahhhhhhh!

However, thinking about it, Lu Zhongming maintained his usual composure. He said in his heart that he must be calm this time. Don’t be like the last time he met Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong was serving in the army anyway. He ran away, but he was never found again.

With Qin Qiong's lessons learned, Lu Zhongming didn't dare to be rash anymore, but his heart beat non-stop.

"Have you ever seen an immortal?" Lu Zhongming asked.

"Immortal?" Yu Chigong said with a confused face, "No."

"No?!" Lu Zhongming looked mad, and when Yu Chigong saw that Lu Zhongming's face was not right, he quickly changed his words: "Yes! I saw it when I was a child!"

Lu Zhongming: "..."

"What kind of immortal?" Lu Zhongming asked again.

Luo Shixin couldn't listen any longer, and got up and said, "What are you talking about?! Didn't you tell his fortune?"

Lu Zhongming hurriedly comforted Luo Shidao: "It's okay, you sleep with you, I'm just curious."

Luo Shixin looked at Yu Chigong with a strange expression on his face, Yu Chigong said: "Why don't we go to another place? I'll take you to drink. Go sit in my shop, it's warm there."

Lu Zhongming always felt that Yu Chigong was weird, looked at Luo Shixin, Luo Shixin's eyebrows were furrowed, meaning you dare to go with him?

Lu Zhongming felt that Yu Chigong would not harm him, but Luo Shixin's temper of wanting to fight at the slightest disagreement, if the two of them fought at home, it would be bad if things were broken, so he quickly waved his hands and said, "No, let's just stay here. Tell me about the fairy you met."

Yu Chigong thought for a while and replied, "That's it."

Lu Zhongming: "..."

that's it?What is this answer? !Lu Zhongming couldn't understand Yu Chigong at all, and he asked again: "What is it like? Wearing Taoist robes? Does it look like a person who hasn't woken up?"

Yu Chigong replied: "It seems to be, um, it should be."

Lu Zhongming said: "That fairy, has anyone... mentioned anyone to you?"

Yuchi Gong: "..."

Lu Zhongming: "..."

Yuchi Gong said: "When I was young, I fell off my horse and hit my head once, but I don't remember it, it was my father who told me."

Thousands of words can't describe Lu Zhongming's mood at the moment. For the first Qin Qiong, it's okay for the old gentleman to speak unclearly, but for the second Yu Chigong, he bumped his head when he was a child? ? ! ! !

Bump your head bang your head bang your head! !Lu Zhongming just wants to look up to the sky and roar. Is it because the sky will send a great mission, so people will also act in disorder? !Don't play like this ah ah ah ah!

Yu Chigong said solemnly: "Where do you live? Why do you tell fortunes at Yanmen Pass?"

Lu Zhongming was completely speechless, the tortoise shell fell on the table with a snap, and Yu Chigong's voice seemed to echo in the sky.However, Luo Shixin couldn't sit still any longer, and asked, "Are you here to tell your fortune or to inquire about your brother's background?"

Yuchi smiled and said: "Brother, don't be angry, I saw that this little brother is a good-looking talent, so I couldn't help asking a few more questions..."

"Get out!" Luo Shixin was very aggressive, he got up to chase people away, Yuchi respectfully said: "If you have something to say, don't get angry!"

Luo Shixin pushed away the table, picked up a stool and was about to hit Yu Chigong, Lu Zhongming came back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Brother Luo! Don't do it!"

Yu Chigong backed away, showing agility even just for a moment, but it seemed that he didn't want to offend Luo Shixin, and said to Lu Zhongming, "My brother, I have something to say, when I was young, I always..."

Luo Shixin wanted to beat him before he finished speaking. Qin Qiong upstairs also came down when he heard the noise, and hurriedly said, "Luo Cheng! What are you doing!"

Luo Shixin said angrily: "This charcoal is not a good person! He is full of dirty thoughts!"

Lu Zhongming: "???"

Seeing another person coming, Yu Chigong hurriedly avoided the door, and said to Lu Zhongming from a distance: "I am not a bad person! You come to Xishi when you are free, in the alley behind the shop that sells mutton... an iron shop! I am right there work there..."

Qin Qiong raised his sword and rushed out, Yu Chigong had already fled in the wind and snow.

Lu Zhongming: "?????"

Before Lu Zhongming understood what was going on, Luo Shixin kicked the door again and said angrily, "Don't pay attention to him!"

Lu Zhongming said: "What happened to him?"

Qin Qiong: "What did he say to Zhongming?"

Luo Shixin: "That guy is a bastard. He's going to talk about his fate. If he says he has a ghost in his heart, who will believe it? You still tell him that for a long time, you should have slapped him out long ago."

Qin Qiong asked Lu Zhongming: "Did he touch you?"

Only then did Lu Zhongming understand, Luo Shixin thought that Yu Chigong was trying to take advantage of him, he was extremely embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "It's not what you think."

Luo Shixin snorted in his nostrils, Qin Qiong felt it was funny again, patted Lu Zhongming's head casually, and said, "Don't pay attention to him."

Lu Zhongming really wanted to cry, but after sitting down, recalling what Yu Chigong said, he suddenly felt like this again.

Luo Shixin sat for a while, took the weapon casually, and said: "Let's go, let's find him bad luck."

Lu Zhongming's jaw dropped, and he hurriedly said: "Forget it, forget it, don't go."

"A Xianbei person?" Qin Qiong asked.

"Hmm." Luo Shi said, "Xianbei people don't have many good things."

Lu Zhongming thought to himself that even if the other party really wants to pick on me, you don't need to fire the map cannon to bombard the whole Xianbei clan, and said: "Actually, it's okay."

Luo Shidao said: "The Xianbei people from Yanmen Gate robbed a lot of butchers. Next time we meet, don't talk nonsense with him."

Qin Qiong asked: "What's your name?"

Luo Shidao: "Yuchi Gong."

Qin Qiong nodded and said, "Make dinner yourself, I'll go shopping."

Lu Zhongming hadn't finished speaking just now, and he didn't ask Yu Chigong clearly, he was looking for an opportunity to inquire, so he said, "I'll go."

"Don't go." Qin Qiong said, "I'll just go."

Speaking of Bi Qinqiong wearing a thick robe, Lu Zhongming was afraid that it would be bad luck for him to really seek out Yuchi Gong, but seeing that he was not carrying a weapon, he felt relieved.As soon as Qin Qiong left the house, he said, "There is a piece of broken silver embedded in the pane."

Lu Zhongming: "Oh..."

Lu Zhongming looked at Luo Shixin with a disturbed expression on his face, knowing that Yu Chigong was staying there, but Luo Shixin said: "It's not a waste of time, buy some mutton to eat, it's just a good time to warm up in the twelfth lunar month."

Qin Qiong went to buy groceries, it was getting dark, Luo Shixin was still lying down and sleeping, Lu Zhongming was idle, thinking over and over again, and occasionally glanced at Luo Shixin, worried in his heart, and asked: "Brother Luo."

Luo Shixin didn't open his eyes, but moved his eyebrows, and he answered.When Lu Zhongming got to the point of speaking, he didn't dare to ask again.I can't ask big brother if you like me, so let's be jealous of Yu Chigong.

Lu Zhongming was very confused and didn't know how to speak, but Luo Shixin thought that Lu Zhongming thought he was asleep, so he opened his mouth and said, "Say."

"Do you have someone you like?" Lu Zhongming asked harmlessly, pretending to be human or animal.

"What do you think?" Luo Shixin replied coldly.

Lu Zhongming couldn't answer now, so he could only smile.Luo Shixin said coldly: "You find me a wife?"

Lu Zhongming didn't know what Luo Shixin meant, and when he was feeling worried, Luo Shidao said, "Don't think too much, what's in your stomach, big brother won't know? If you want to befriend a man, it doesn't matter who you find, you can't find that bastard."

Lu Zhongming didn't expect Luo Shixin to tell him what he was thinking, and he was immediately embarrassed. Luo Shixin turned over and sat up, and asked, "Are you my brother? It's a snowy day, even if someone comes, make eye contact with me? Are you Don't drive people out?"

"Yes." Lu Zhongming nodded, looking at Luo Shixin, suddenly felt warm in his heart, knowing that Luo Shixin only cared about him.After all, brotherhood is different from seeing him really. If a tough guy like Luo Shixin wants to think about him, he must have something to say, or push him down first.

Luo Shixin didn't say anything else, and lay down and fell asleep again.

At night, Qin Qiong came back, bought six catties of cooked mutton, star anise and other ingredients, borrowed a pot from the store to stew a pot full, brought it out and put it on the stove, and the three of them held bowls and sat beside the pot, Boil the radish and eat it.Three catties of shochu made Lu Zhongming's face flushed red.

Qin Qiong said while eating: "Just now I went to inquire. The Heitantou surnamed Yuchi originally lived outside the Great Wall and herded sheep outside the customs. Later, the Turks robbed his family and suffered a disaster, so he packed his clothes and came to the county to beg for a living. Now he stays in the county. Blacksmithing in an alley in the west of the city."

Luo Shidao: "Because of that glib temper, he should have been beaten a lot."

"That's not true." Qin Qiong explained: "Several families I know say that he has a good temper and great strength. He often helps orphans and widowed mothers with work, and he never receives payment."

Luo Shixin groaned again, he could hear his dissatisfaction.Lu Zhongming said again: "He opened the shop?"

Qin Qiong said: "No, he also worked for an old blacksmith. When he was exiled to Yanmen a year ago, he was desperate and lived on the streets. There was an old lady in the east of the city. Her grandson was conscripted by the court to dig a canal and died. The old lady gave I have given him some food and clothes, and I am willing to take him in and treat him as my grandson."

"...But the charcoal head didn't want to trouble the old lady, so he came out to eat by himself. Later, the old man died, and he gave him the end. The blacksmith in the west of the city saw that he was strong and good, so he recruited him. He strikes iron."

Lu Zhongming was relieved when he heard the words, and remembered that this person seemed to be mentioned in the official history. All the generals in Lingyan Pavilion had their ancestors.Only Yuchi Gongzu's family name was unknown, but he was a "man from a poor family and a poor family". He didn't learn martial arts systematically, and finally became a generation of warriors.

Thinking about it, Lu Zhongming felt a little bit embarrassed, the three of them drank wine and ate meat, and then went back to their rooms to sleep, without talking all night.

The next day it was still snowing heavily in the whole city, Lu Zhongming got up early, and tiptoed out of the courtyard, afraid of disturbing Qin Qiong Luo Shixin, he slipped out like a cat, but Qin Qiong's voice sounded outside the courtyard, asking: "Are you going to find that Tantou?" ?”

Lu Zhongming was taken aback, and could only say: "Yes."

Qin Qiong was a little surprised, looked at Lu Zhongming, and Lu Zhongming told him in detail why he was looking for him. After hearing this explanation, Qin Qiong's expression changed slightly, but it was still a little difficult to accept for a while.

"It doesn't matter where a hero comes from." Lu Zhongming smiled and said, "Why don't you like him very much?"

Qin Qiong said: "The first impression was too bad. Since I said so, I will accompany you."

Lu Zhongming hurriedly said: "I can go by myself, where is Brother Luo?"

"I drank too much last night, and I haven't woken up yet." Qin Qiong said, "Then you should be careful."

Hearing what Lu Zhongming said, Qin Qiong knew that Yu Chigong would not be a bad person. Compared with himself, he knew that there must be some extraordinary connection between Lu Zhongming and them. However, Lu Zhongming never talked about this connection in detail. Qin Qiong Don't ask too much.

Lu Zhongming was walking on the road, the wind and snow were getting stronger, and he was shivering. When he came to Santou Alley in the west of the city, he was almost frozen to death.

Damn!I don't know why it's so cold if I don't go out on weekdays!There are so many people living in this kind of place...the living environment is bad enough.Lv Zhongming sniffled his nose, asked for the location tremblingly, and finally found the blacksmith shop.

When he opened the door and entered, Yu Chigong was sitting in front of the stove, wearing only a pair of white trousers, his strong half body was naked, his back was full of sweat, and he was tinkling with iron.

Lu Zhongming: "..."

Yuchi Gong: "..."

With a bang, Yu Chigong was hit on the foot by the falling hammer, Lu Zhongming was startled and said: "Be careful!"

Lu Zhongming hurried forward and almost knocked over the quenching water basin again, the blacksmith shop was very chaotic, after a burst of noise, Yu Chi respectfully said: "Don't move! Stand still!"

Lu Zhongming hurriedly stood still, Yu Chigong carefully protected him, and pushed back the iron block on the shelf nailed to the wall. Lu Zhongming was squeezed by him against the wall, only to feel that Yu Chigong's body was hot and smelled of sweat.

Yu Chigong was both embarrassed and surprised, finally laughed and said, "Why did you come here without saying hello?"

"Come and take a look." Lu Zhongming smiled and said, "I haven't finished what I said yesterday, my two brothers are a bit hot-tempered, but they are both good people, don't worry about it."

Yu Chigong hurriedly waved his hands to say yes, and saw Lu Zhongming staring at him intently, said hurriedly: "I didn't clean up much today, let's go out and find a place to drink."

"Don't." Lu Zhongming said hastily: "Just stay here, it's warm here."

Lu Zhongming dragged his nose and was roasted by the stove in the iron shop, finally healed a bit, Yu Chigong tidied up a corner of the wall, spread a blanket, and let Lu Zhongming sit down.There was no light in the shop, only the red light from the iron stove was reflected on the strong man's body, Lu Zhongming looked at Yu Chigong, and saw that he was completely different from yesterday.

When he visited yesterday, although Yu Chigong said he was slovenly, he was still neatly dressed. He was wearing a wolf jacket and fur hat, like a handsome hunter outside the Great Wall. If he hadn't said it himself, Lu Zhongming would never have thought that he was a blacksmith.When I saw him today, he was sweaty and sloppy, but he was indeed a blacksmith.

Before Lu Zhongming came, he was full of words, but suddenly he couldn't ask any more questions.When looking at Yu Chigong, he saw him looking at him and couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Zhongming also laughed.

"I didn't expect you to come." Yuchi Gong said, "What did your brothers say?"

"I didn't say anything..." Lu Zhongming thought for a while, decided to start from what he said yesterday, and said, "What did you say to me when you left yesterday?"

Yuchi said respectfully, "I forgot."

Lu Zhongming said: "You said that when you were young..."

Yuchi Gong asked inexplicably, "Is there?"

Lu Zhongming: "..."

Lu Zhongming now finds that when talking with Yu Chigong, the logic he is used to is obviously not applicable. Is this the difference between the thinking habits of Xianbei people and Han people? ! !I only met him twice, why did the topic become so strange every time we met! !

In Lu Zhongming's heart, a group of alpacas were rushing around at four times the speed of Jin'ao Island, but Yu Chigong didn't notice it at all, and said, "I'll find some tea to drink with you."

Lu Zhongming said: "Don't bother..."

Yu Chigong waved his hands, stood up, the tall man moved a little, bumped into this or that, there was a lot of noise in the shop, and Yu Chigong entered the inner room, Lu Zhongming looked around curiously, and asked: "You are the only one in the shop." one person?"

"Old Tie took his wife and went to seek medical treatment." Yu Chigong replied: "The army is in chaos, and I don't know when I will come back."

Lu Zhongming hummed, and saw that in the dark inner room, there was a piece of cotton wool on the floor, like a dog's nest. Yu Chigong didn't know what to dig in his nest, and Lu Zhongming asked again: "Does the old couple have no son?"

"When the imperial court attacked Liaodong, he was captured by La Zhuang Ding and died in Liaodong." Yu Chigong found something, came out, and went out all the way, Lu Zhongming hurriedly said: "There is no need to buy tea."

Yuchi Gong said: "Be back soon!"

When Yu Chigong left, Lu Zhongming looked around the room again, and saw a box in the shop. Inside the box were a few copper coins, which must have been Yuchigong's daily income. Inside was a set of underwear, which was exactly what he was wearing yesterday. , in front of the threshold stood a pair of wooden shoes that looked like boats, much bigger than his own boots.

After a while, Yu Chigong came back with some tea leaves and ghee. Lu Zhongming didn't like drinking Tang Dynasty tea very much, so he reached out his hand to stop Yu Chigong and motioned for me to come.So I boiled the water, used a bowl, brewed the tea leaves, and filtered two bowls of thick tea, and the fragrance of the tea overflowed for a while.

Yuchi said respectfully: "Brother is a blacksmith, he is so poor that he doesn't have any good things to entertain him, I'm laughing at you."

Lv Zhongming laughed and said, "Where is the elder brother talking, the foolish brother is just a fortune teller."

Yu Chigong laughed loudly. The three teachings are of the highest rank, and the two are actually of the same status. Needless to say, Lu Zhongming asked again with great interest: "Aren't you busy with business? If you have work to do, you can do yours."

Yuchi Gong said: "The door is closed due to heavy snow, there is no business, so I can do some small things myself."

Lu Zhongming nodded, and Yu Chigong said again: "In the spring of next year, there will be more blacksmiths. There will be horseshoe makers and plow makers, and business will be fine."

Lu Zhongming thought for a while and asked, "How old are you this year?"

Yu Chigong looked into Lu Zhongming's eyes and said with a smile, "22. Brother Lu, are you married yet?"

Lu Zhongming said: "No..."

Lu Zhongming and Yu Chigong looked at each other, and at that moment, his heart jumped again, thinking what's going on?

"No... nothing." Lu Zhongming was a little uneasy, and said again: "By the way, I haven't explained to you the hexagram you asked for yesterday. Your hexagram looks like..."

Yu Chigong remembered it, so he listened carefully, Lu Zhongming continued: "When you go out to pay homage to the minister, you will fly for nine days, and one day you will meet the Lord of the Ming Dynasty. The future is limitless."

Yuchi Gong: "..."

Lu Zhongming said again: "I have enjoyed all the splendor in my life, but I have to be in the class of immortals in the end. Brother Yuchi, you and Shubao are the biggest winners."

Yuchi Gong: "........."

After Lu Zhongming finished speaking, he laughed and said, "Brother Yuchi, you will become rich and powerful in the future, so remember to support your younger brother."

Yu Chigong only thought that Lu Zhongming was joking with him, his face was not very good-looking, but he still forced a smile and said, "Thank you."

Lu Zhongming said seriously: "I'm not kidding you, I'm serious."

This time Yuchi Gong was completely speechless.

"It's so big." Yuchi said with a smile, "You are the first person to tell me that."

Lu Zhongming sat, neither of them spoke, and fell into a strange silence. Lu Zhongming didn't know why, but felt at ease and comfortable by Yu Chigong's side.

Yu Chigong said: "I'll call you something and give it to you. No money will be charged."

Lu Zhongming said: "Let me see?"

Yuchi Gong asked: "Haven't started yet, I just thought, you know martial arts, right?"

Lu Zhongming was surprised: "How do you know?"

Yu Chigong gestured to draw the bow, smiled at Lu Zhongming, and said, "You know how to shoot arrows."

"How do you know?!" Lu Zhongming said in surprise.

He always felt that Yu Chigong knew him, but when he questioned him, Yu Chigong didn't say anything.Lu Zhongming said: "Who told you?"

"You have broad shoulders, long hands, and good eyesight. You still wear this." Yu Chigong tapped the cowhide wrench on Lu Zhongming's thumb, and said, "You are not a fortune-teller. There are more people coming to me to fight weapons. I can tell just by looking at them." .When you look at people, your eyes will catch a person's movements, demeanor, focus and earnestness. When you tell someone's fortune, you always smile like this..."

Yu Chigong imitated Lu Zhongming's demeanor, made Lu Zhongming laugh, and said: "When you talk, you always look at the other party very seriously, with clear eyes. Such a person, you can tell at a glance that you are from the training of riding and shooting."

Lu Zhongming thought to himself that Yu Chigong had really good eyesight, and Yuchi Gong's smile was very gentle, which seemed out of proportion to his 1.9-meter tall head. Lu Zhongming only felt that this person was really strange. Behaving strangely, Yuchi respectfully selected a piece of iron, put it in the furnace to be calcined, and said, "This is the best iron."

Lu Zhongming nodded, remembering the bow he used before.

He watched Yu Chigong strike the iron, and the two of them didn't speak for a while.

Yuchi Gong said: "Do you remember me?"

"What?" Lu Zhongming asked inexplicably, and Yu Chigong immediately changed his words: "Do you have any vague impression of me?"

Lu Zhongming thought for a long time, frowned deeply, shook his head and said, "No."

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