Because Chi happened to have a batch of Si Tianjian's armors to be forged, so the attempt on the new alloy could only be postponed for a while, so Chi asked Lu Jing and the others to go back first.
Xia Huai and Yang Tao seemed a little pessimistic about the final result. The main reason was that Lu Jing had never told them that he knew about smelting before. Seeing that he suddenly wanted to smelt some new materials, the two of them were more worried than Chi, who didn't know Lu Jing's details. He was unsure and worried that Lu Jing's move would anger Chi.
However, Lu Jing himself seemed quite confident, and he did not look for other ways to chop bamboo after that, and just resumed his usual routine.
Most of the time every day is spent practicing the two martial arts of Fire Linjia and Fengyun Bian. When there are classes, he goes to the school to listen to lectures. When there are no classes, he learns the art of controlling animals with Ye Gongmei, or goes to the library to sort out the books. He didn't look anxious at all.
However, even Lu Jing himself did not expect that Chi would come so quickly.
He originally thought he would have to wait for half a month. After all, the batch of armor was quite large and required twelve pairs. It would not be unusual for an ordinary blacksmith to take a year and a half to build it.
But less than ten days later, Chi found him again.
And this time Chi came in person, but she chose a strange time, and actually came outside Lu Jing's courtyard at the ugly moment when everyone was already asleep.
Chi didn't knock on the door, but rode the iron rod over the courtyard wall, and then went straight to Lu Jing's wing.
But as soon as she entered the yard, she was discovered by Amu who was watching the stars on the roof. The little wooden dummy still remembered Lu Jing's instructions and hurriedly slipped off the roof and went to the room to wake Lu Jing up.
It was only then that Lu Jing opened his eyes. Before he could figure out what was happening, he saw that his door had been pushed open.
Chi burst in from the outside, opened his mouth and said, "Why is there an extra sidewalk on the rock wall outside my house?"
Lu Jing was also shocked after seeing the person clearly, and subconsciously replied, "When I went there before, I saw that there was nowhere to stay on that rock wall, so I left a few handprints and footprints on it."
Chi frowned when he heard this, but was not very angry. He just said, "I don't like to be disturbed by others. The reason why I opened the door there is actually because I hope that the people who come to see me will retreat without knowing it, so you left it." By the way, I've already filled it in."
After saying that, she paused, and before Lu Jing could speak, she continued, "I'll tell you where the other road is. I use that road to get in and out of the mountains myself, and I also use it occasionally for gripping iron. You can find it later." I’ll just go there.”
"I came to find you?" Lu Jing had not yet fully recovered.
Chi nodded, "Your weapon refining skills are better than mine, and you have pointed out a new direction for me, but there are still many things I don't understand. I want to ask you for advice. If it is convenient for you, you'd better move there to live with me." .”
"Living with you? But...but I'm still a student in the academy." Lu Jing was dumbfounded.
"It doesn't matter. I can talk to Shaojian Guo and let you stay in the academy and be my assistant. No... you are my comrade. You have extraordinary qualifications and talents in weapon refining, which is enough for you to be in the academy." Stayed for a long time.”
"But……"
"What, do you want to become a supervisor, follow the traces of strange things everywhere, and guard the human world? But in fact, there is not only one way to protect the human world. Become a weapon refiner and refine powerful weapons and armor to provide all supervisors. Help can also protect the world." Chi said seriously.
"No, didn't you hear the meaning behind what I said earlier?" Lu Jing smiled bitterly, "The academy student thing is just an excuse. What I really want to say is that it's not suitable for us to live together."
"Is there something inappropriate?" Chi asked puzzledly.
Lu Jing looked into Chi's eyes and saw no hint of teasing or disguise.
Chi's confusion came from the bottom of her heart, as if she had come to Lu Jing's residence in the middle of the night, ran in from the outside without knocking, and looked at her with wide eyes as she was wearing only a pair of shorts. Lu Jing's are all normal things.
Lu Jing finally understood what Ye Gongmei was referring to when he said Chi was a bit weird.
So Lu Jing quickly put on his clothes and asked, "Senior Chi, when did you... start learning to refine weapons?"
"Let me think about it, I was picked up by the master when I was about three years old. When I was a little older, I started to help her. After that, our master and apprentice have been living in the academy. The master just passed away last year. .”
"You've been here all this time? Have you never left during this period, like going to Kyoto for a walk or something?"
"Why should I go to Kyoto?" Chi frowned and asked, "Master said that the level of the swordsmiths there is very average, and each one of them cherishes their own skills. They regard their skills as more important than their lives, and they easily refuse to teach them and follow them. Nothing is learned.”
"Uh... I'm not talking about weapon refining." Lu Jing said, "You can go to Kyoto to listen to opera, drink tea, play Guan Pu or something like that."
"Do you think these things are of any use to refining weapons?"
"No." Lu Jing already understood what Chi's problem was.
She is obviously too obsessed with weapon refining, no, to be more precise, the only thing left in her life is weapon refining, and she doesn't care about other things at all.
In addition, she has been staying in the academy, resulting in her knowing nothing about anything except weapon refining.
Even the most basic defense between men and women was not clear, which was why she had ridiculously proposed to live with Lu Jing before.
"I only have one last question left. Does your master care about your life when he is still alive?"
“What’s wrong with my life?”
Chi finally became a little impatient after being asked about things that had nothing to do with weapon refining, and looked at Lu Jing with a suspicious look on his face.
"Don't you feel that your life is different from...other people's lives?"
"But everyone here... everyone's life is different." Chi said matter-of-factly.
Lu Jing was speechless for a moment.
Indeed, compared with Ye Gongmei, who is getting smaller and smaller and never sees people at all, and Ixiang and others who are willing to go into other places in order to resurrect their friends, Chi's life seems to be quite healthy and normal.
At best, she is just an extreme workaholic.
So Lu Jing didn't know what to say. After putting on his clothes, he said to Chi, "Senior Chi, since you came to see me, it seems that you have obtained new materials."
Seeing that the topic turned back to the weapon refining, Chi's brows widened and he said happily, "Yes, your method really worked. I picked out the one with the best quality and brought it to you. look."
As she spoke, she took out a palm-sized, silver-gray object from her waist and handed it to Lu Jing.
