Chapter 4: Weapon Building
After listening to the village chief's words, Qiu Yun's eyes gradually became brighter. Thinking about his acquaintance with Wu Chen, some of the doubts he had always had gradually became clear.
I couldn't help but think, Wu Chen, Wu Chen, you deceived me so hard.
After the village chief finished talking about these things, he took out the remaining gold coins and placed them on the table.
"Qiuyun, it seems that your Wu Chen will not come back. You should find a good man to marry. This money is yours. At first, I was afraid that you would be suspicious after I took it all out. Now that I have said it, Okay, I’ll give you all this money.”
Seeing the golden rays of coins on the table, Qiu Yun shook her head and took only two. Then she pushed the remaining gold coins in front of the village chief.
"Village Chief, you should watch and distribute the remaining money. Especially for those families who have lost their men and their backbone, their lives will be even more miserable."
Seeing the persistent Qiu Yun, the village chief nodded helplessly and took back the gold coins.
He stood up and bowed to Qiu Yun.
"Thank you on behalf of the villagers."
A Niu was kicked into the house by her mother early. Although A Niu was missing, she felt less sad knowing that he was not dead.
But he couldn't accept his father's sudden disappearance. As the saying goes, if you want to see a person alive or a corpse, he didn't feel at ease when he didn't see his father.
Thinking about it, he fell asleep without realizing it...
Early the next morning, A Niu was woken up by the strong smell of meat.
When he came to the kitchen, he saw a whole pot of meat tumbling in the pot. The strong smell of meat made his mouth start to drool.
He knew that the meat was sent by the village chief yesterday, and each family had a share, but the family who had died would get more.
Because of his father's disappearance, his family also received intensive care.
At this time, he walked out of the house and saw his mother burning a fire in the yard to smoke the remaining meat into dried meat, so that the meat could be well preserved.
"mother"
Qiu Yun turned around and said, "Aniu, the meat in the pot is cooked. You can take it out and eat it yourself."
After finishing speaking, Qiuyun continued to look at the barbecued meats seriously.
But after roasting for a while, she saw that A Niu was still standing there.
So she put down the barbecue in her hand, came to A Niu, stroked his head and said, "A Niu, what's wrong?"
Seeing the red and swollen circles under his mother's eyes, Aniu thought for a moment and said, "Mom, I want to go find my father."
Qiuyun looked at Aniu with some surprise. When she saw the child's determined eyes, after thinking about it, Qiuyun still smiled reluctantly.
"Silly boy, your father has gone to a far away place. No one knows where he is. Where are you going to find him?"
"I'm not afraid. I have strength. I will definitely find him."
It was the first time A Niu had said such words to his mother so stubbornly.
Listening to his words, Qiuyun touched his hair again, thinking that he was still a child.
"Son, listen to mother, your father will be back when the time comes."
"Go ahead and grab the meat from the pot and eat it yourself."
His mother regarded him as a child, but he knew that he was no longer small. His height had already reached his mother's shoulders, and he still had his own strength. Only he knew how big he was.
Thoughts are like seeds. Now that he had this idea, A Niu began to make calculations in his mind.
He went to the pot and fished out several pieces of meat, and he began to eat heartily. While eating the meat, he was thinking about how to find his father.
Since Dad disappeared deep in the forest, the first place he looked for was of course there. But he heard that there were very powerful beasts there. This time the village chief and the others encountered a beast that was more than four meters high. Behemoth?
It was very dangerous there. Although I was confident, I still had to be prepared. At least I had to have a handy weapon.
While eating the meat, a plan slowly formed in his mind.
When mother finished roasting the dried meat, A Niu also finished his breakfast.
"Mom, I'm going out for a while."
After saying that, without waiting for his mother to say anything, he went back to the house, picked up a palm-sized black iron ingot and walked out.
He knew that this thing was iron. It was together with the stone jar at the beginning. When A Niu found the stone jar, the iron ingot was placed inside the stone jar.
But for some reason, this piece of iron is also very heavy, much heavier than an ordinary piece of iron. He feels that such a small piece weighs six to seven hundred kilograms. Since he is leaving this time, a weapon is Very necessary.
So he wanted to make this piece of iron into a weapon.
There was a blacksmith shop in the village with bellows to melt the iron. Uncle Wang, the blacksmith in the village, has not been at home these days. He went to his girl's house and it took him a long time to come back.
He had already seen how Uncle Wang in the blacksmith shop forged iron, so he decided to do it himself.
When he came to the blacksmith's shop, he threw the iron block on the ground, which just gave him something to do.
Light the fire, open the bellows, and the flame inside the stove begins to turn red.
Then he threw the piece of iron into the furnace, and the fire continued to burn it. But for some reason, the piece of iron heated up very slowly. After burning for a long time, it only just started to turn red.
There was no way, A Niu could only pull the bellows hard to make the flame temperature in the furnace higher.
After burning for a long time, the whole piece of iron finally became red hot.
Seeing this, he knew that it was time to hammer it.
So, the iron hammer weighing hundreds of pounds was swung down by him effortlessly.
With a "bang".
After the hammer came down, the iron block did not move at all.
"Oh, it's so strong."
Seeing this, Aniu still didn't believe it and started to hammer it hard.
Time passed little by little. Aniu didn't expect that this piece of iron was so hard. He spent a long time to only deform the iron block. If he wanted to make it into the shape of the knife he imagined in his mind, it would take several days.
The first day passed like this. In the next few days, he had to go out early every day and come back late.
Qiuyun was busy these days and didn't take care of the child.
And those children didn't expect Aniu to go to the blacksmith shop behind the village.
Ten days passed like this without anyone noticing.
As the saying goes, if you work hard, you can grind an iron rod into a needle. On this day, Wu Aniu, who was sweating profusely, looked at the weapon in front of him and laughed foolishly.
This is a very simple knife, which looks very similar to the style of a hatchet. It is more than one foot long and the width is about half a palm.
The blade was hammered black and shiny by him, flashing a faint luster.
Maybe after the hammering, the impurities of this piece of black iron were removed a lot, and the knife weighed only more than 500 kilograms in his hand, which was not very heavy for him.
So when he picked up the knife, he waved it a few times and felt it was quite smooth.
Of course, this is only because he is here. If the villagers knew that he had such great strength at such a young age, they would definitely treat him as a monster.