Commander's Destiny

Chapter 77 The Mystery of the Hidden Sword
The old woman couldn't help crying while talking.

The old man saw that she couldn't continue talking, so he continued to talk about what happened later.

After the Taiping Army was defeated, the officers and soldiers felt that the foreign guns and cannons of the foreign devils were still powerful, so they hired experts to investigate in the Eastern Mountains, and wanted to mine high-quality iron veins in large quantities, transport them to Wuchang City, and smelt steel , forged into weapons.

But before doing this, we still need to find a batch of iron ore to test to see if the iron ore here can meet the requirements for making weapons.

Therefore, the surrounding mountain people are required to mine a large amount of iron ore in a short period of time, and then transport them to Wuchang City in batches through the Yangtze River.

The old man narrated calmly, and he didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it. It seemed that obeying the demands of the officers and soldiers was always a matter of course, even if those demands were not so reasonable, or even blatantly oppressive.

You have also seen that in our family, all the young and middle-aged men were killed in battle, only me, an old man who is dying, is left. How can I dig enough iron ore required by the officers and soldiers?

When we were worried, we suddenly discovered that in our son's room, in addition to the iron sword we brought back, there were more than a dozen additional iron swords of the same shape, but there was no Taiping Er on the sword body. The characters and the hilt of the sword are also rougher.

We were terrified, but there were more and more iron swords in other rooms.

So we handed in the extra iron swords, and even made up for the lack of other people who didn't have enough iron ore.

However, something even more unbelievable happened next. All iron ore transport ships equipped with iron swords sank in the Yangtze River, and none of the officers and soldiers responsible for escorting them survived. All the ore transport ships arrived in Wuchang City safely.

After the old man told this weird story, everyone couldn't believe it. This is not haunted, it is like a fairy descending to help the poor.

"Did those iron swords never hurt anyone else, did they just ruin the transportation plan of the officers and soldiers?" Yao Jingli asked with certainty and purpose, because after hearing the ending of the old man's story, he saw the two After the old man was unscathed, she felt that those iron swords were more targeted.

But Jiang Qianfeng was more concerned about the moment: "Then are there any iron swords in the other rooms?"

After collecting everyone's questions, the old man replied one by one: "Yes, I never hurt anyone else. All the remaining iron swords are still in other rooms."

"Then can we take a look?" Bai Wuyan's curiosity was also aroused, he wanted to see what's weird about those iron swords.

"Of course, let's go, I'll take you to have a look." Seeing that Bai Wuyan should be in charge of this group of people, the old woman readily agreed.

So everyone was taken to the thatched hut next door, and saw that the entire room was covered with iron swords, at least dozens of them, except for the beds.

However, all the iron swords were not stacked in a mess, they were all neatly placed on the ground, and it even seemed to be a little like a formation.

"You didn't place these iron swords like this on purpose, did you?" Seeing these swords placed on the ground so strangely, Bai Wuyan couldn't help but have some guesses.

"No, when we found that there were more iron swords, these swords were placed here by themselves." The old woman's answer was exactly as Bai Wuyan expected.

"Then how did these iron swords transform?" Ever since he heard about this miraculous thing, Zhai Lingxiu was very curious, and now he finally asked out his doubts.

At this time, the old man also followed, and told everyone what happened in these houses in detail: "We don't know, there is nothing abnormal during the day, but in the middle of the night, you will hear some jingle bells. The sound of metal colliding, and then we got up early the next morning and went into the house, and we saw that there were more iron swords in the house. This thing is too weird, so we dare not come to see it at night.”

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Jiang Qianfeng guessed with a very excited look: "These swords are not made by ghosts at night, are they?"

However, his guess was ruthlessly extinguished by the careful Yao Jingli: "How is it possible, look carefully, these swords are old, not only have traces of being used by others, but also many of the blades have rusted, There are even some broken teeth among them."

"Are the other rooms the same as here?" Bai Wuyan suddenly discovered something. In this room, he didn't see the word "Taiping" engraved on the sword mentioned by the old man earlier, which was brought back the first time. iron sword.

Sure enough, the old man said again: "There are a few other rooms that are in the same situation as here, but in the room where the iron sword that was picked up at first was placed, there are no other swords."

"Take us to take a look." Bai Wuyan didn't expect this to happen, so he asked immediately.

So everyone came to the room where only the original iron sword was kept. This room is located in the second room of the east wing, which used to be the room of the old couple's second son.

In the room, I saw a delicate long sword hanging in the middle of the wall with the back of the bed.

Although the long sword does not have a scabbard, the exposed edge of the sword is still cold and cold, without the slightest trace of rust.

Bai Wuyan took the long sword off the wall, and the word Taiping was indeed engraved on the sword, but the font was not the regular script commonly used today, but the small seal script of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

It turned out to be a weapon used by ancient cultivators. As soon as Bai Wuyan made a judgment, he became concerned, so he turned to Yao Jingli and Zhai Lingxiu and said, "I'll take this sword away, you two The girl will rest in this room tonight, and Qian Feng and I will go to sleep in the room we saw just now. I want to see what will happen there in the middle of the night."

Listening to Bai Wuyan's orderly arrangement, the old man didn't say anything.After all, after knowing the whole situation, these people are still so calm and calm. Maybe they are really not simple. It seems that there is really no better way than to follow them.

In this way, everyone finally settled down in this farmhouse temporarily.

It was indeed temporary, because in the second half of the night, Bai Wuyan and the others really couldn't settle down at all.

(End of this chapter)