Xiaosheng is not a nerd

Chapter 1761: Divine Forging Family
Xie Fu felt amused in his heart, thinking that you wanted to test me, and said with a smile: "I will kill good people too."

Xiao Yu'er said, "Don't worry, you killed the evil man who stole the family's legacy and caused the family to be destroyed."

"I'd like to hear your story, if you'd like."

As Xie Fu spoke, he walked to the chair and waved his sleeves to brush away the dust on the seat. A Bao rushed forward and said, "Sir, let me do it." He directly used his sleeves to wipe the seat and armrests clean so that Xie Fu could sit down.

Xiao Yuer told her story. Her surname was Lin and her given name was Yucheng. Her family was originally a famous blacksmithing family in Jiancheng. They had a family craft that had been passed down from generation to generation.

Xie Fu asked: "What family craft?"

"The craft of making flat alloy wire."

Xie Fu knew that better armor was not sewn directly onto leather or cloth, but was connected at the joints of the human body using a special process. In order to make the scales of armor soft and comfortable while also having a force-relieving effect, they were connected in series with a very fine gold thread, just like the surface of water that, when subjected to a strong impact, would ripple like water waves, dispersing the force so that people would not be harmed.

He said, "This isn't really a family craft."

"The flat alloy wire made by my family is the best in the world. It is only used on Ming Guang armor. The Su family has used other processes as a substitute, but the effect is not good, the finished product is low, and there are also high restrictions on the size of the person wearing the armor."

When Xiao Yu'er said this, Xie Fu understood. As the saying goes, a slight mistake can lead to a great error: "Go on."

"The Su family sent people to my house more than once, promising a large sum of money to ask my father to teach this family craft. My father did not dare to offend the Su family, and refused on the grounds that our ancestors had taught us that the family craft must not be passed on to outsiders."

When Xie Fu heard this, he thought to himself, could it be that Xiao Yuer's enemy is the Su family of Jiancheng? Not to mention that this is Sister Qianqian's maiden family, even now he still has to rely on the Su family to make weapons and armor for him. It is absolutely impossible for him to kill the Su family.

However, there is always a main culprit in everything, and it is possible to find out the culprit and give justice to Xiao Yuer's family.

In the past, Xie Fu would have been caught in a dilemma, between justice and fairness on the one hand and interests and closeness on the other.

But now he is no longer at the age where things are either black or white, good or evil, and even he himself finds it difficult to distinguish between black and white, good and evil.

As the saying goes, one should protect one's relatives, especially parents and blood relatives. Even if they make mistakes, one should not pursue them harshly or bring troops to punish them. This is the compassion that is in line with human nature.

Killing one's own relatives for the sake of justice is against human nature and ethical principles.

In the past, Xie Fu was too harsh on himself.

Xiao Yuer paused deliberately, just to see Xie Fu's reaction. Facing such a powerful family like the Su family in Jiancheng, do you, a killer, have the courage to take action?

Little did he know that what Xie Fu was thinking about was whether he could take action. He dared to confront the emperor head-on, so what else could he not dare to do?

Xie Fu smiled and said, "Could it be that your enemy is the Su family of Jiancheng?"

"No, our Lin family has been making magic weapons for the Su family for generations. My father didn't want to, and Old Master Su didn't ask for anything."

Xie Fu secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He was most afraid that those close to him would commit evil, and it was not right to kill them, nor was it right not to kill them.

"My father had an apprentice who taught him the true art of forging. His original surname was Ma Wuzhong, and he was later adopted by my father as his adopted son and changed his surname to Lin. My father treated him as his own son and even betrothed me to him. We chose a date for the wedding. Who would have thought that Ma Wuzhong would repay kindness with enmity and collude with outsiders to destroy my family and even murdered me in front of my father's corpse..."

Xiao Yuer took a deep breath, paused for a moment, and then said, "Rape me!"

"I was so grief-stricken at the time that I wanted to die. But when I thought about how I was the only one left in the family and how I couldn't avenge my blood feud, I swallowed the humiliation and pretended to commit myself to Ma Wuzhong."

Xie Fu asked: "Why would Ma Wuzhong do this for no reason? What is his purpose?"

"Ma Wuzhong was able to learn all the true blacksmithing skills from my father, except for the family craftsmanship. Despite Ma Wuzhong's repeated requests, my father made it clear that the family craftsmanship would only be passed on to my eldest brother."

Xie Fu said: "I understand. A common man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure."

"Later, Ma Wuzhong found out where my father's Secret Book of Gold Forging was hidden, so he colluded with outsiders to kill my entire family and take away the Secret Book of Gold Forging."

"So the person you want me to kill is Ma Wuzhong."

"Not only that, I want you to help me kill the entire Ma family."

Xie Fu was not one to implicate innocent people. If he spoke frankly, it would not be in line with his identity as a killer, so he said, "This is another price. You can't afford it."

"In order to avenge my blood feud, I pretended to devote myself to Ma Wuzhong and looked for an opportunity. Later, I realized that I was too naive. Ma Wuzhong spared my life and let me stay by his side. It was not because he liked me and was reluctant to kill me, but because he only got half of the "Gold Forging Secret Book" and tried to get the other half from me. Later..."

"Later, I learned that he was the illegitimate son of Ma Chaohai of the Ma family. He had been plotting evil since the day he entered my Lin family and became my father's apprentice. At that moment, I collapsed and angrily went to him to question him. Ma Wuzhong simply went all out and had a group of people rape me. When I woke up, he had sold me out."

Xie Fu asked: "Why didn't Ma Wuzhong just kill you?"

Xiao Yuer shook her head: "I don't know, maybe if I'm alive, he might be able to find the other half of the forging secret book."

The voice became darker: "I have been sold again and again in the past seven or eight years. I have become like a walking corpse. I have long forgotten the blood feud."

Then he glanced at Xie Fu and said, "Perhaps you will look down on me, but how can I forget the blood feud so easily?"

Xie Fu said calmly: "I don't have any."

Xiao Yuer looked into Xie Fu's eyes and said, "Until I met you, my soul came back to life and remembered this blood feud. If you can't help me get revenge, I will hate you even if I become a ghost."

Xie Fu asked, "What does the Ma family do?"

"The Ma family is also a forging family in Jiancheng. Like our Lin family, they forge weapons for the Su family. However, the Ma family is better at forging swords and armor pieces. The heart guards on the front and back of the Mingguang armor were forged by the Ma family."

Ming Guang armor is not something that has existed just now, it has existed since the Three Kingdoms period. Armor of the same type can be called Ming Guang armor, but there are differences in quality. Only the Ming Guang armor produced by the Su family in Jiancheng is worthy of the title "Ming Guang armor with a brilliant luster."

Most Ming Guang armor can only be equipped by heavy infantry to resist cavalry charges.

However, only the Ming Guang Armor of the Su family in Jiancheng can be equipped on the cavalry, because only the Ming Guang Armor of the Su family in Jiancheng is light and strong. When equipped on the cavalry, it can not only have the impact and protection of heavy cavalry, but also the mobility of light cavalry.

It is truly amazing, but the Ming Guang Armor produced by the Su family in Jiancheng is too few and far between.

Xie Fu asked: "Since your Lin family is related to the Su family, and one of your family was killed, didn't the Su family help your Lin family?"

Xiao Yuer replied: "I don't know. At that time, I was only thinking about revenge. Later, I didn't know anything. I only know that the Ma family is still alive and well."

Xie Fu thought to himself, if the Lin family and the Ma family are the left and right arms of the Su family, there is absolutely no reason for them to cut off the other arm after one arm is cut off. In the face of interests, the word justice is too light.

If he was from the Su family, the matter would have been settled, and he would be thinking about how to grow another arm.

Perhaps there is someone backing the Ma family, so the Ma family dares to do such a thing under the nose of the Su family, or perhaps it is the Su family that supports the Ma family.

The Su family is the mastermind behind this. The Lin family's complacency cannot satisfy the Su family at all, so they simply let the Ma family replace the Lin family.

Xiao Yu'er is no longer the innocent girl she was back then. Seeing Xie Fu was silent, she asked tentatively, "Could it be the Su family? After all, the Su family has come to our house many times, asking my father to teach them this family craft."

"How would I know? I'll keep a record of Ma Wuzhong's head for you."

Xiao Yuer said solemnly: "And the Ma family!"

Mr. Xie did not agree explicitly, but he was kind-hearted enough to agree to Xiao Yuer's killing of Ma Wuzhong. He thought that getting weapons and armor was the most important thing first, and other things could be considered later.

"Let's clean up this house first. We'll stay here tonight."

A Bao took the initiative to say: "Brother Qiu, then I will clear the weeds inside and outside first."

Xiao Yuer said to Xie Fu, "Come with me."

Xie Fu was led to a room in the inner house. The room was deserted and covered with dust, but from the layout, it could be seen that it was a boudoir where a young lady lived.

Sure enough, Xiao Yuer said, "This is the room I used to live in."

……

At dusk, in front of a dilapidated house, an old woman with white hair was sewing an ordinary cloth armor.

To sew the cloth armor, you need to first use leather ropes to string the armor pieces together tightly without leaving any gaps. The old woman seemed to have very little strength, and each time she puts on a piece of armor, she needs to use a lot of effort to press and pinch it several times in a row. Perhaps from years of hard work, her fingers, which are full of wrinkles and cracks, are bent.

Her eyesight didn't seem to be very good. When she was being sutured, her face was almost touching the nail plate. Although she tried hard to open her eyes, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes still squeezed her eyes into a small slit.

His skinny, sallow skin was already covered with wrinkles, and his face was covered with criss-crossing scars that were deeper than the wrinkles. The most noticeable one was a horizontal scar on his forehead, with both ends of the scar extending deep into the hairline.

No one knows when this old woman came here, but the scars on her face have been talked about behind her back over the years. It is said that only women who commit adultery will be punished like this.

The old woman had heard a lot of these rumors, but she never defended herself. She just did her work every day and the only thing she cared about was the child she raised.

"Mother-in-law."

A child's cry rang out clearly in the alley. The high-pitched and vibrant sound seemed to ring the old woman's bell. She slowly raised her head and looked towards the direction where the sound came from. A familiar figure came into clear sight.

This is the advantage of presbyopia. Although close vision is blurry, distant vision is very clear.

As the running child approached quickly, the child's appearance became blurred, but the old woman still kept smiling. "Grandma."

With an intimate cry, a lively little body rushed into her arms, almost knocking the elderly woman to the ground.

The old woman staggered a step, straightened her bent waist and hugged the little boy in her arms. Before she could caress him lovingly, the little boy jumped up and down in excitement.

"Mother-in-law, look what I brought?"

"what?"

The little boy was showing off things in his left and right hands. Although the old woman's eyes were presbyopic, she was not blind. The blurry objects were clearly a pair of cotton shoes and a coat.

"Shoes and a coat."

“Guessed it right!”

The little boy hurriedly asked the old woman to sit down, and then put his coat on her hunched back: "Grandma, are you warm?"

The old woman did not answer the question, but asked: "Where did you get these things?"

The little boy was very proud: "I bought it."

"Where did you get the money?"

These cotton shoes and outer coat cost almost one or two taels of silver, and a pound of rice only costs ten cents. She only gets paid a hundred cents for sewing a piece of cloth armor for someone. She can only sew three or four pieces a month working day and night. Where would a child get so much silver?

"A fool gave it to me."

"Big fool?"

"I splashed water all over him, but instead of getting angry, he gave me a tael of silver."

As the little boy spoke, he hurriedly tried to change the old woman's warm cotton shoes.

How could the old woman believe such a lame lie: "Xiao Wen, tell me, did you steal someone's money?"

"I didn't steal it. That fool really gave it to me."

The old woman held the little boy's hand and said, "Xiao Wen, grandma told you that you should not think that small evils are harmless and do not correct them. If you do not control small evils, great disasters will come immediately."

The little boy angrily shook off the old woman's hand: "I didn't steal!"

The old woman pulled the little boy into the house, then turned over a pottery jar. With a loud noise, dense copper coins poured out from the jar, and some rolled to the corner of the wall.

"Xiao Wen, help grandma pick them up."

As the old woman spoke, she counted the coins one by one. There were less than 600 coins in the pile. She murmured, "It's not enough."

"Grandma, what are you doing?"

"You stole someone's money, so you have to give it back."

The little boy was furious: "Grandma, I really didn't steal it!"

"Xiao Wen, sometimes an unintentional action of yours may bring disaster to others. If the silver was used by someone else to see a doctor, and the person lost the silver and died of the disease, then you have harmed the person. I didn't kill Bo Ren, but he died because of me."

"I don't care, I didn't steal it anyway!"

"No matter what, first collect the money and return it to them. Grandma doesn't have that much money. Grandma will accompany you to return the coat and shoes now."

When the little boy heard that he had to return the coat and shoes, he immediately became anxious: "Grandma, I really didn't steal them."

"Learning to lie and deny at such a young age, what will happen when you grow up?"

The old woman picked up a stick and started beating the little boy. The little boy screamed and started crying in grievance.

She cried and shouted, "Grandma, I really didn't steal. Why don't you believe me?"

"If you still refuse to tell the truth, I'll beat you!"

As the old woman spoke, the stick fell on the little boy again and again...

Xie Fu and Xiao Yuer spent the night in Xiao Yuer's former bedroom. There was a north wind blowing all night, and the house was not much warmer than outside.

It was now daybreak, the north wind had stopped, and the temperature had become much warmer.

Xie Fu looked at the tattered window frame and smiled, feeling as if he had spent a night in a dilapidated temple.

He had been through all kinds of harsh environments, but although Xiao Yu'er looked delicate, she was not as weak as he had imagined.

Xiao Yu'er's voice suddenly came from behind: "The north wind blew all night last night. Didn't you sleep well?"

Xie Fu looked back and saw that Xiao Yu'er had woken up at some point. She smiled and said, "I slept well, but you didn't sleep well?"

"I slept well, too."

"Oh, isn't it cold?"

"Once you've been through some hardship, you'll understand how insignificant this is."

Xiao Yuer got off the bed and tiptoed to put on her shoes. She walked towards the dressing table. Her back looked elegant and dignified like a lady from a noble family.

She sat down and began to comb her hair and dress herself in front of the bronze mirror.

Yesterday we agreed to clean the room together. Xiao Yuer just polished the bronze mirror and cleaned the dressing table and chairs. The rest of the work was done by Xie Fu.

Xiao Yuer said slowly while combing her hair in front of the mirror: "You are quite good at work. You must have been poor when you were a child."

Xie Fuha smiled and said, "We can't continue like this tonight."

"No, you didn't do anything with me last night."

Xie Fu said directly: "You are familiar with Jiancheng. Go to the street and buy some bedding and quilts. Buy whatever you think of." Then he put five taels of silver on the table.

Xiao Yu'er said calmly: "It's not too late for you to regret now. We will stay here, and Ma Wuzhong will come to our door soon."

"This is not what you wish for."

"The Ma family is very powerful in Jiancheng. I can wait until you finish your business before taking my revenge."

"Well, I'll do it if it's convenient."

After Xie Fu finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out. A Bao stayed in another room overnight. Xie Fu asked, "A Bao, you didn't freeze last night, did you?"

A Bao was full of energy: "Brother Qiu, no, this place is much better than where I live because it is windproof. Besides, I am wearing warm clothes."

"When I finish my work in Jiancheng, I will give you a reward. You can build a new house when you return home, and your brothers and sisters will no longer have to suffer from the cold."

"Brother Qiu, how can this be possible? You have been good enough to me."

Xie Fu didn't bother with him about such a trivial matter: "You can go to the street with Xiao Yu'er later to see if there are any things she needs to buy. Please help carry them."

"it is good."

Xie Fu took out another ounce of silver and said, "Eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink, and spend what you should spend."

Money is an omnipotent thing. It is much more useful than you spending time taking care of others. Under the guidance of Tan Tai He Qing, Xie Fu had already learned the true use of silver.

A Bao was still very honest and polite: "Brother Qiu, no need, I have the money."

Xie Fu patted A Bao's shoulder and walked out. He had just arrived in Jiancheng and wanted to take a walk and familiarize himself with the environment of Jiancheng.

When he opened the door and walked out, he suddenly found a little boy curled up at the wall at the door, with tattered clothes on. At first he thought it was a beggar, so he picked up the boy, only to find that it was the little boy who had splashed water on him yesterday.

I would like to explain to my brothers that this last chapter was originally about Lu Yehua.

But some brothers said they wanted to see Li Huirong, so the plot became more complicated.

This long chapter includes Yun Woxue, Lu Yehua, Li Huirong, the eldest brother's wife, and the third brother's wife.

Everyone's storyline was well thought out, but the problem was making the plot coherent and integrated, but it became a bit awkward these past two days.