When the female blacksmith noticed that Gu Jiu and a gray donkey had been looking at her, she couldn't help but feel proud and said, "Sir, is my blacksmithing really that good-looking?"
As she said this, she wiped the sweat from her forehead with a somewhat frivolous gesture.
This is definitely not seduction.
Well, that's seduction.
Faced with this seemingly frivolous question, Gu Jiu nodded and said sincerely, "It looks good."
As she spoke, the woman placed the newly forged sword into cold water, making a sizzling sound, and asked, "Young Master, how do you like this sword I forged?"
The female blacksmith has been working as a blacksmith for ten years and is very confident in her craft.
Gu Jiu looked at the iron sword and said seriously, "It's just average."
"What did you say? Say it again?" The female blacksmith suddenly became angry and said with her eyes wide open.
Gu Jiu said calmly, "I said you look good at forging iron, but the swords you forge are just average."
"Hmph! You ignorant man, how dare you question my craftsmanship." At this moment, the female blacksmith's neck was so thick with anger that she was a typical technical geek.
This is the same as many technical people on the earth. No matter how beautiful the other party is, she cannot question my black technology!
Gu Jiu said: "Beauty, how about we bet something?"
The female blacksmith also had a bad temper. She asked, "You still want to gamble? What are you betting on?"
"I bet my sword-making skills are better than yours."
"Nonsense!"
"If I win, you can take the sword I forged. If I lose, the donkey is yours."
When Xiao Hui heard Gu Jiu's words, he couldn't help but look at Gu Jiu with a dead fish eye.
The donkey didn't look sick, so the donkey meat should be good for roasting. The female blacksmith couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, are you serious?"
"It's true."
"Humph, this isn't a child's game. If you get burned, you're responsible for it yourself."
"Of course I'm responsible. When I was a kid, I watched other people forge iron and read a lot of books on swordmaking. I thought it was simple."
After discovering that Gu Jiu was truly an "paper warrior," the female blacksmith was immediately excited. She thought to herself, "Another bookworm." She couldn't help but ask, "Then how do you judge whose sword is better?"
Gu Jiudao: "You have been a blacksmith for so many years, I believe you will be fair and just."
Xiao Hui expressed his disapproval of the practice of "letting the opponent be both a contestant and a referee" and made a series of bleating sounds.
Gu Jiu didn't even look at him, just rolled up his sleeves and started working.
Sword making is divided into five steps: mold making, materials, smelting, pouring and finishing.
This iron sword shop is known as a "century-old shop", but in fact it is still 95 years away from being a century-old shop, but the materials and tools are still complete.
In terms of materials, they are all ordinary copper and iron, so Gu Jiu didn’t pay much attention and just started working.
Swordmaking is like cooking. If you don’t have good cooking skills, no matter how good the ingredients are, they will be useless. If you have good cooking skills, even ordinary ingredients can make it amazing.
From the very beginning, the female blacksmith wanted to make fun of Gu Jiu. After all, she had seen many nerds who were obsessed with theory and had very poor manual skills.
The reason why she looked nervous was that she wanted to be careful not to let those pieces of iron hurt the young man. After all, although the two were gambling, she didn't want this seemingly gentle young man to get hurt.
But soon, this nerd Gu Jiu surprised her so much that she couldn't close her mouth.
Gu Jiu was obviously very strong. He held the copper and iron in his hands as easily as if they were cotton. What surprised her even more was Gu Jiu's skills.
Gu Jiu flicked his hand and completed the time-consuming mold making process in less than twenty breaths. The sword mold he made was simply perfect, and he made two at once, one of large size and one of normal size.
Since he was not using his own iron anyway, Gu Jiu threw in a lot of materials in an instant, and then as he pulled the bellows, a burst of surprised sounds suddenly rang out all around.
Because the fire in the furnace suddenly shot out about five feet high (15 meters), the female blacksmith didn't know whether it was dizziness or tinnitus, but she even saw the flames turn into a dragon shape and heard the sound of a phoenix.
The flames swirled around Gu Jiu, but not a single spark fell on his clothes.
When the molten iron is poured into the sword mold, what remains is naturally quenching and tempering.
After tempering, Gu Jiu took the hammer and started forging iron.
The next scene completely refreshed the female blacksmith's three views.
She only saw Gu Jiu raise the hammer in a very elegant posture, and then drop it!
With just one blow of the hammer, the material of the heavy sword, which was originally a sword blank, surged like water, and then directly transformed into a heavy sword with an ancient shape, and there were even some beautiful patterns on the sword.
With another hammer blow, the normal-sized sword blank next to it suddenly made a pleasant and crisp sound, and then the sword body began to change like water, and finally turned into a sharp sword that looked extremely cold.
This normal-sized sword does not have any decorations such as gems, but it looks extremely elegant, like a graceful lady holding a scroll.
After everything was done, Gu Jiu wiped the sweat from his forehead, exhaled, and said to the female blacksmith, "Who won?"
The female blacksmith stood there without saying a word, thinking she was still living in a dream.
How can sword making be like magic?
The female blacksmith was still immersed in the dream, but Gu Jiu had already picked up his sword and left, and by the way, he also took away a roast duck that had just been heated on the table next to him.
Senior Sister Xiaoqi didn't give me a penny, I cheated, bah! It's not easy for me to get two weapons.
(PS: It’s the beginning of the month, and everyone seems to have tickets. Ahem, crazy hints.)
Chapter 34 I, Gu Jiu, am not that kind of person!
This time, Gu Jiu went empty-handed again, but returned with a rich harvest.
He was sleeping on the little gray boy's back while gnawing on the roast duck, looking so relaxed.
When Gu Jiu returned to the courtyard with the two swords, Xiao Qi opened his mouth wide and stammered, "Master, it seems that my junior brother went to rob again."
Gu Jiu had no private money, which Xiao Qi had confirmed after repeatedly searching his body and house.
This guy went out without any money and came back with empty hands, but he was holding two swords. He must have gone out to rob someone.
Especially the sword that looks very heavy, it looks very valuable at first glance. Because in Xiaoqi's understanding, how heavy would it be even if it was sold as scrap metal?
While Gu Xiaoxiao was still obsessed with Elder Hao Ziyue's inheritance of the heavy sword, she didn't know that his brother had already made a very heavy-looking sword for his junior sister.
The sword was very long, less than ten feet, but six feet, nearly twice the length of an ordinary sword. It was also very thick and had no tip, looking like an enlarged ruler.
But this sword is actually not as heavy as it looks, because the sword body is hollow, and those hollow runes can even borrow the vitality of heaven and earth to generate huge shock force.
Due to limited materials, this is the best Gu Jiu can do at the moment.
Even though he only used one hammer to forge this sword, it actually took him a lot of effort.
There are not many people in this world who can use weapons forged by the hands of saints.
The material of this sword is ordinary, which is completely different from the materials of the spiritual swords of those sects. However, after passing through Gu Jiu's hands, the effect is also completely different.
Who is heaven and who is earth? Is there any need to say?
There are very few people in this world who can turn decay into magic, but Gu Jiu happens to be one of them.
When Xiao Qi held the ruler-like heavy sword, his eyes almost popped out and he exclaimed, "Xiao Jiu, is this for me?"
Gu Jiu said: "What do you think?"
Xiao Qi said cheerfully, "How did you know I like this one? It looks very valuable."
So, the sister with twin ponytails took the heavy sword and danced with joy.
I don’t know why, but this heavy sword doesn’t look out of place when paired with Xiaoqi’s petite figure. Instead, there’s a cute contrast.
Imagine a big loli with twin ponytails and flat chest, holding a big sword that looks almost as tall as her. Isn't it cute?
The sword that Gu Jiu gave to Su Ying was obviously much more elegant, with a silver blade, a delicate hilt, and dandelion-like runes, which looked pleasing to the eye.
But this sword has no sheath.
"Aunt, wait a moment." As he said that, Gu Jiu came to the thickest green bamboo at the bottom of the courtyard.
He just raised his sword and cut lightly, and the green bamboo was cut like tofu. Then, Gu Jiu waved the sword a few times with great pleasure, and a sword light flashed, and then an elegant bamboo scabbard took shape.
Afterwards the silver sword was sheathed, fitting perfectly and looking very nice.
Xiao Qi and Su Ying, who saw this scene, were shocked again and speechless.
Where did Gu Jiu get this skill?
Gu Jiu looked at the two people who were stunned, scratched his head, and explained: "I have liked carpentry since I was a child, so it is natural for me to know a little bit."
Xiao Qi and Su Ying gasped and said, "Carpentry? You like it? Are you sure?"
In their impression, Gu Jiu's unique skill is sleeping, and he sleeps all day long. And such a person actually told them one day that he liked carpentry since he was a child. How strange it sounds!
Gu Jiu sighed and said with some sadness: "It's just that I did too much carpentry work when I was a kid and hurt my waist. Otherwise..."
Xiao Qi just felt a little sad and said, "Junior brother, I misunderstood you before. It turns out you are not lazy. I am really sorry."
Su Ying also lowered her head, her cheeks flushed, and said, "Xiao Jiu, me too, I'm sorry."
Although Su Ying had never called Gu Jiulan what Xiao Qi had said, she had grumbled about it a few times in her heart, and now she felt ashamed when she thought about it.
A young man with a bad back personally sharpens the scabbard for you. Wouldn’t you marry such a man?
Thinking of the word "marry", Su Ying's face turned even redder, and she felt like there was fire burning on her.
I'm his aunt, how could I have such thoughts!
When Gu Jiu handed the sword to Su Ying, the "evil" thoughts that Su Ying had suppressed were rekindled. The look in her eyes when she looked at Gu Jiu was no longer just the pity as an aunt, but something else.
Seeing his aunt and senior sister like this, Gu Jiu said, "Don't do this, you two. If it weren't for you two, my waist wouldn't be healed."
Xiao Qi asked excitedly, "Is your waist okay?"
Gu Jiu said, "It's already healed! If you hadn't asked me to go shopping, I wouldn't have been robbed. If I hadn't been robbed, I wouldn't have gotten those jars of wine. That female bandit said this wine was a tonic, good for both him and me, and I didn't expect it to be true. Don't you think I've been much more diligent lately?"
Seeing this, Su Ying hurriedly said, "Xiao Jiu, don't lie to us. Even if your waist is healed, it's just barely healed. You need to have a good rest."
As she spoke, Su Ying had already brought a rattan chair and let Gu Jiu lie down.
On the other side, Senior Sister Xiaoqi was very sensible and gave Gu Jiu a massage.
Su Ying also wanted to touch it, bah! Massage, but because of the difference between men and women, she finally gave up.
This time, it was Su Ying's turn to be a little jealous of Xiao Qi.
Oh, it’s good to be ignorant of the world.
This was the first time that Gu Jiu had been served like this by his senior sister, so much so that he couldn't help but hum.
I have to admit that Senior Sister Xiaoqi's physical talent is truly outstanding, and her massage skills are unparalleled.
However, Xiao Qi still raised his own question, saying, "Junior Brother, where did you get this sword? Did you get robbed again?"
Gu Jiu said: "No, I'm not that lucky. It's just that the blacksmith in the town saw that I was good-looking and gave it to me."
At this moment, Xiao Qi stopped and asked in surprise, "Are you selling your body?"
After hearing this, Gu Jiu suddenly started coughing because he was choked by his own saliva.
Damn, what's wrong with Senior Sister Xiaoqi lately? She even knows the term "selling one's looks"?
Gu Jiu said righteously, "How is that possible! I, Gu Jiu, am a clean person. How could I be someone who sells my body?"
Xiao Qi and Su Ying stared at Gu Jiu, their eyes seemed to say - "You are the one who might sell your body."
Gu Jiu hurriedly said: "You really think too much."
Xiao Qi and Su Ying looked at Gu Jiu, their eyes telling him that they didn't think too much about it, they just thought of the correct answer.
Finally, Gu Jiu sighed and said, "I just made a bet with the blacksmith and won these two swords."
"You have a bet?"
"The bet is on Little Gray."
Xiaoqi: "..."
Su Ying: “…”
Xiao Hui: "Mee mee mee..."
Finally, Xiao Qi said angrily, "Go ahead and bet on Xiao Hui. It's just a donkey anyway. If you lose, you lose. If you dare to sell your body, I will beat you until you cry. I don't know why, but the thought of a woman coveting your body makes me angry."
Xiao Qi, who was innocent, said what Su Ying wanted to say.
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