"It's really similar."
Lu Hanjiang picked up the jade statue and looked at it. Rather than saying it was a statue, it was better to say that it was carved based on Shangluo. On the basis of the "image", it seemed to extend the concept of growth.
The woman with the jade statue looks more mature than Shangluo. Maybe the girl will look like this if she grows up for another four or five years. No, it's a bit different.
"Mr. Lu, why do you think there is this jade statue in Master Gu's room?" A Lan's question interrupted Lu Hanjiang's thoughts just right.
"I want to know too, but Master Gu is dead and his disciple Anan is also missing. It may be difficult to find out the reason."
After saying that, Lu Hanjiang shook his head, put down the jade statue and asked, "Miss A Lan, did you find anything else in that room?"
"Other things are in general, but there is one thing that makes me feel very strange," A Lan said after pondering for a while: "Master Gu has passed away for so long, but his sword furnace is still not extinguished. When I went in that day, The stove was still burning brightly.”
"Is this happening?"
Hearing this, Lu Hanjiang was also very surprised. It really didn't make sense that the Sword-making Villa was in such a difficult situation now that it still had money to maintain a sword furnace that was not used at all.
"Well, due to the Xingxuan Sword incident, the residence of the ancient master is now classified as a forbidden area, and the disciples of the Sword Forging Villa are not allowed to enter, so no outsiders know about this matter."
What A Lan said was that outsiders didn't know, but the people at Zhujian Villa might not know. No firewood could burn without sleep for a whole year, so the sword furnace must have been restarted and maintained manually.
Lu Hanjiang's interest was aroused. He raised his head and met A Lan's equally shining eyes, and the two of them smiled knowingly.
"Have you already chosen the route?" Lu Hanjiang stood up and put on his heavy coat.
Alan patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, no one will find out."
The two looked at each other and nodded, then left. A Lan slid out from the window sill the way he came. When Lu Hanjiang saw this, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and the steps he followed subconsciously slowly retracted. He still chose to walk out the door.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the two of them avoided the disciples who were watching the night and arrived at Gu Ming's residence. This was a huge courtyard that occupied almost one-seventh of the entire Sword Making Villa including the sword furnace. This also shows Gu Ming's status in Zhujian Villa during his lifetime.
There are only two entrances and exits in the courtyard, which are guarded by two Sword-Forging Villa disciples respectively. Compared with the importance of the entire courtyard, the actual guard strength seems very sloppy.
A Lan and Lu Hanjiang climbed over the wall very easily and slipped into the yard without anyone noticing.
Lu Hanjiang looked around and said softly, "It's almost like it was intentional."
"Master Lu?" Ah Lan stopped and looked at Lu Hanjiang behind him strangely.
In the quiet courtyard, the two of them stayed in the center of the courtyard. They were surrounded by silence, overgrown weeds, and not even a sound of insects. It was eerie and scary, like a ghost land.
"It's okay, let's go."
Lu Hanjiang just looked at it for a moment, then nodded to A Lan, and the two continued to move forward. The room where the sword furnace was located was not locked, and the door opened as soon as it was pushed.
When the two of them walked into it, the bright firelight shone in front of them. The huge sword furnace was like a fireball on the sun. The hot and dry atmosphere in the house and the cool and dead silence outside seemed like two different worlds.
He took two steps forward and walked onto the platform in front of the sword furnace. He looked down and saw hot water billowing in the furnace. There were also some remains of weapons standing like tombstones, and there was also a pungent and unpleasant smell.
Lu Hanjiang frowned and immediately rolled up his robe to cover his mouth and nose: "What does this smell like?"
Lu Hanjiang had never been to a place like this. He had only seen the craftsman's furnace for casting weapons in books, but this was the first time he had seen it in person.
A Lan was used to it, she just frowned and said: "I have seen others forge swords before, but there is indeed no such unpleasant smell."
".never mind."
Lu Hanjiang just thought that he was ignorant and there was nothing to see in the sword furnace. He turned around and looked for other things that might be useful in the room.
A Lan also had no idea of taking a sauna in front of the stove, and stayed away from the platform in front of the sword stove. Looking back from a distance, the entire sword stove was like a huge pot, and the copper-iron shape revealed a strange dark golden color.
Feeling really puzzled, A-Lan left and came back again, but this time she found some different traces on the platform in front of the stove. Under her feet, a touch of dark red fell covertly.
A-Lan leaned down and dabbed it with her fingertips, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it carefully, her heart skipped a beat.
is blood.
A Lan kept calm and retreated calmly, then went to look for Lu Hanjiang and saw him looking through some manuscripts left by Gu Ming on the table.
Sword Casting Villa has not sent anyone to clean up these things, but it is possible that they have looked through them a long time ago, but they really found nothing, so they left them here and allowed them to mold.
Lu Hanjiang rummaged through it again and again, and most of it was filled with nonsense and self-indulgence. Unexpectedly, Master Gu Ming was not only unconventional in his sword-making skills, but also had a very weird personality and temper.
In these manuscripts left behind, there is very little substantive content about sword-making. Most of them are the old man's boasts, such as claiming to be the best sword-smith in ancient times and the world, and also disdainful of the three magic weapons, calling them shameless works.
It’s no wonder that the people at Sword Forging Villa are not interested in these things. It’s just a bunch of complaints and nonsense, and it’s totally worthless.
However, it is not all without gain. In this long piece of nonsense, apart from half of it being self-praising, the other half is full of shit. Almost everyone in Zhujian Villa has been severely belittled by Gu Ming from top to bottom. A meal.
He called Master Yi a hypocrite and mocked others as household dogs. However, if anyone here was scolded the most, it was the Huo family.
Gu Ming started scolding Huo Tianya's father, the old owner of the village, and scolded him for more than ten pages. He scolded him for being self-willed, scolding him for being arrogant and ignorant, scolding him for being a waste of natural resources, and scolding him for being a prodigal son. The treasure passed down by the family was destroyed in the blink of an eye. He gave it away.
Hey, Lu Hanjiang was very happy to see this. The prodigal love was passed down from his ancestors.
It's a pity that Lu Hanjiang finally wanted to read the follow-up with great interest, but a few pages were missing in the middle. It was probably done by some loser from the Huo family. They are already dead, so it's not enough to just curse you on the paper. Ah, tsk, so narrow-minded.
While thinking, A-Lan was about to come over and say something to him. Just as he was about to speak, there was sudden movement outside the courtyard. The two looked at each other and each used Qing Kung Fu to fly up to the beam.
Soon, someone opened the door. Lu Hanjiang took a closer look and saw that the person who came was actually Fan Sheng, the master invited by Huo Tianya.
I saw that this rough man came here today without even bringing a knife. It seemed that he was worried that his nine-ring sword would make too much noise and easily disturb the disciples guarding outside. If he thought so, Fan Sheng should also have climbed over the wall.
However, this guy's purpose of coming seemed to be different from the two of them. After Fan Sheng arrived, he closed the door and found a chair to sit down. It seemed that he was waiting for someone.
Not long after, footsteps were heard again outside the courtyard. When the door opened again, the person standing outside the door this time was Huo Tianya.
(End of chapter)
