Holy Swordsmith

Chapter 68
"There are so many people." Ye Shi scanned the crowd in the courtyard.

Naturally, he saw Zhang Tao and his wife and nodded towards them. Ye Shi turned his eyes elsewhere, and could see that these people were all onlookers.Some came out of curiosity, while more came out of interest. A sword-making competition, what is involved behind it is not simple at all.

This is the family. The prosperity of a family means that as a child of the family, they are always in the whirlpool of interests and cannot extricate themselves.

Perhaps only a simple and honest person like Zhang Yang, although he is often bullied, is happy. At least he doesn't have to worry about this or that affecting his own interests every day, and never really enjoy it.

Even Zhang Ling couldn't be exempt. Although she treated the children of the aristocratic family extremely badly, she was unwilling to really tear her face apart. Rather than completely severing it, it was because of the interests of the family.Zhang Ling can ignore it, but she has to suffer for her parents. Sometimes being sensible is not necessarily a good thing.

"Yeah, there are so many people. We used to see them during the New Year." Zhang Yang also sighed, but it was because he hadn't seen such a scene for a long time.

Ye Shi looked at Zhang Yang, this little boy was so innocent, and then looked at Zhang Ling, and saw her gritted her teeth and stared at Zhang Yang, Ye Shi suddenly smiled, he couldn't be happy with these two siblings.

"Master Ye, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Xu Dongyuan came over and raised his fists at Ye Shi.

Although the tone was a bit polite, there was no humility on the face, it was more of a kind of disregard.The common fault of a master swordsmith is that he will not gain his respect before he is recognized by him.

"How long have you been waiting? I shouldn't be late, I haven't had lunch yet." Ye Shi shrugged, Ye Shi never gave face to those who didn't give him face.

Xu Dongyuan's expression froze, but he sneered.

Very good, I have the temper that a master swordsmith should have, but I don't know if he really has the skills that a master swordsmith should have. It's just that a kid who knows a little bit about the superficiality and has not been a master for a long time dares to pretend to be a master swordsmith and cheat Zhang As an honorary guest minister, he enjoys slightly more resources than him.

Honorary guest ministers are much more free and have more resources than guest officials. Therefore, honorary guest officials are high-status figures among the Zhang family's guest officials, and they are generally not easily given to others.

Even Xu Dongyuan is just a guest official. Xu Dongyuan is very dissatisfied with having such a status and resources for a person who seems to be only bragging, but not necessarily skilled in swordsmithing.

"Let's talk nonsense, let's start." Xu Dongyuan sneered, instead of earning back the ground with words, it is better to suppress the opponent directly with actions. Xu Dongyuan is extremely confident in his sword casting skills.

"Start now?" Ye Shi looked around. At this time, shouldn't someone come out to preside over the overall situation, and then pretend to announce the start.

"Are you afraid?" Xu Dongyuan snorted coldly. Regarding Ye Shi's behavior, he naturally thought that the other party was afraid.

Ye Shi curled his lips. Sure enough, what he said would only be misunderstood before he was proved by actions. In this case, let's prove it with actions. As soon as the result comes out, even if he doesn't say anything, others will respect him.

Following the positions of Ye Shi and Xu Dongyuan, all the onlookers fell silent, looking at everything in the arena, the temperature of the two furnaces is now increasing, and the moment the flame temperature reaches the sword-making competition will begin .

"Zhang Huai, who do you think will win this sword casting competition?"

"Of course it's Master Xu. It's not like you haven't seen Master Xu's strength before. It goes without saying."

"Although Ye Shi will definitely lose, being able to fight against Master Xu is already a rare honor."

……

The bursts of soft communication sounded extremely abrupt at this moment, and the scene that was originally quiet was suddenly a little noisy.

This is also a test for swordsmiths. If they can't even adapt to such an environment, then it's even more difficult to forge swords later. Forging swords is a job of perseverance.

"Look, what is Ye Shi going to do?" Someone exclaimed at this time.

Everyone's eyes turned to Ye Shi immediately, and Ye Shi picked up the iron ore that was put aside and observed it. Is this the material provided to him?

Well, the ore is not bad, although it is slightly worse than the ordinary ore in the leaf stone warehouse, but it is not very far.It seems that most of the swords in Gaori City are made of this ore.

"The temperature of the stove is not high enough. Throwing it in at this time will only destroy a piece of good iron ore." Some said.

Obviously, this person mistakenly thought that Ye Shi was planning to throw iron ore in, but the flame temperature was not enough, and the quality of the iron ore would deteriorate. In this way, the result could be announced directly without much competition.

Many people present knew this truth, so they showed disdain for Ye Shi's behavior. At first, they thought that they had high opinion of the other party, but now it seems that it is too modest to say that they are high.

Xu Dongyuan frowned, watching Ye Shi's movements.In his opinion, even an apprentice swordsmith would understand the truth, Ye Shi couldn't possibly not know it, so Ye Shi must have other intentions at this time.

It's true that Xu Dongyuan is a swordsmith, and besides swordsmithing, he knows other things, so it's not difficult to understand the purpose of this swordsmithing competition.Moreover, how could Xu Dongyuan not see the provocation of Zhang You and Zhang You.It's just that in comparison, Xu Dongyuan couldn't remain indifferent to someone who occupied the resources of an honorary guest for no reason.

"This iron ore, if well crafted, should be able to make thousands of steel." Ye Shi looked at the iron ore and muttered to himself.The ore I brought with me can only be put aside, but it doesn't matter, it will be more fulfilling to defeat the opponent with the same material.And what Ye Shi valued was not the sense of achievement, but the deception of the family's children afterwards.

"Are you looking at the iron ore?" Xu Dongyuan saw it clearly now, and his heart changed slightly. Finally, the other party did what a master swordsmith should do.

Xu Dongyuan himself used this iron ore often, so he didn't need to know more about it. Now that he saw Ye Shi, he knew what Ye Shi's actions were for. Ye Shi's thoughts on Ye Shi still haven't changed much.

A person who can study ore before casting a sword does not necessarily mean that he is very strong in sword casting, it can only be said that he is cautious enough, the most important thing is his sword casting skill, what can he forge.

Pfft!

Suddenly, hot sparks flashed from the two furnaces, and finally reached the temperature required for the iron ore to be put into the furnace. Almost at the same time, Ye Shi had already thrown the iron ore in his hand into the furnace. Fast forward a few seconds, the movement is extremely smooth!

(End of this chapter)