Dao fruit.

"You unfilial son! It's fine if you don't inherit the ancestral business. Even Huozheng's memorial tablet was overturned and broken into two pieces. How can this be good! This will make our family hard-working in the future!"

The old woman was sitting on the ground, crying and slapping the ground from time to time.

Not far in front of her, there was a young man kneeling, pale and haggard, with a drunk look, bowing his head in silence.

"What's going on here?" Among the crowd, Qiu Yan found a place to stand and asked.

The people next to him glanced at him, seeing the Confucian uniform he was wearing and holding a long sword, he immediately respected him, and whispered: "Sir, you are passing by to study? It's normal if you don't know about our Xingtai Town. This is the orphan and widow of the old Liu family..."

The people next to him seemed to be photographed by Qiu Yan's attire, so they said everything.

It turned out that this town was called Xingtai Town, and it was rumored that it was the location of the Star Tower of the ancient Bashu Kingdom. The name of Taiwan and the sacrifice to Huozheng.

Shang Xing, also known as Yinghuo, is said to be transformed by the god of fire, so everyone in this village loves fire.

Today's village is the hometown of well-known blacksmiths. There are many blacksmith shops in the town, all of which have been passed down from the ancestors. [

The crying woman was one of them, and the one kneeling in front of her was named Liu Xin, who was the descendant of the generation of the craftsman.It's just that this person is an uneducated person, idle around all day long, and has also contracted a bad habit of gambling. His father passed away a year ago, this Liu Xin did not inherit his family's business, but squandered his family savings recklessly, resulting in the closure of the shop.

Not long after, his savings were exhausted, and he planned to sell the belongings to pay off the debt, but his mother stopped him, and the two argued.Unintentionally, he accidentally knocked over the Huozheng Tablet at home, and the tablet fell to the ground and broke into two pieces.

This time, the mother and son were quite frightened.

Hearing this, Qiu Yan's heart moved, and he asked directly, "I don't know what is so special about this Huozheng Tablet?"

"Mr. is a scholar, so naturally he doesn't know the function of the Huozheng tablet. In Xingtai Town, our ancestors have relied on Huozheng for generations. Some forge iron, some make pottery, but there is also a trick in it, that is, the Huozheng..."

The person who was asked by Qiu Yan was about to elaborate, when someone next to him pulled the hem of his clothes, brought him back to his senses, and quickly changed his words: "Anyway, the fire is burning, please protect us. Those enshrined tablets are all It was passed down from the ancestors, once broken, it may offend the gods!"

"I see, thank you for letting me know." Qiu Yan listened to the other party's words.He knew that there was something to hide, so he didn't go to ask, but he already had some guesses in his heart, and even thought of a thought that made him feel urgent.Just hold back temporarily.

At this time, the old woman sitting on the ground cried more and more sadly, and finally shouted to sue the officials.Treat Liu Xin as an unfilial person.

Hu Qi and Dai Guo who heard it couldn't help being speechless, and asked in a low voice: "Can this mother sue her son?"

This was heard by Qiu Yan. He knew that Hu Qi and Dai Guo were suspicious, so he explained: "There is a saying in Darui's law that parents can discipline their offspring, but they can't kill them. According to the law, it can be punished on behalf of others. Similarly, parents can sue officials for unfilial children and grandchildren, and if the interrogation is true, there are also examples of stick spines in the city and kunfa living in labor, and even serious ones can be killed according to the law!"

"Be good!"

Qiu Yan's words certainly shocked Hu Qi and Dai Guo. They lamented the power of the law, and even the people around them gasped. Liu Xin, who was kneeling on the ground, heard it clearly, and his expression immediately changed. Changed, walked on the knees, took the old mother's hand, cried, begged again and again, and said to change.

The old woman cried out to herself: "Niezi, now I know I'm afraid. When you interrupted the fire tablet? Did you ever think about today? Now that the tablet passed down from the ancestors is destroyed, the fire in the furnace will not be able to rise to a high temperature in the future. How can you make it?" Iron fried steel?"

"En?" Hearing this, Qiu Yan's complexion changed, and he turned to the person beside him and asked, "What's the matter? Don't you use the wind to heat the fire?"

"What Fengqiu?" The person who was asked was full of doubts, "I've never heard of this name before." [

But he didn't know how much this simple sentence shocked Qiu Yan, and it also had a severe impact on his mind!

Slightly subduing his mood, Qiu Yan rolled his eyes, looked at the other party's face carefully, and at the same time released his perception, realizing that the other party showed no signs of cheating, and it was immediately clear.

"You smelt iron and heat it, you don't use wind, what do you use?"

Hearing this sentence, the man's face changed suddenly, and he reprimanded: "You are so unruly, this is the way I wait for dinner, how can you tell me casually?" After saying that, he turned around and walked aside, ignoring Qiu Yan.

But in the face of the reprimand, Qiu Yan was already listening. He raised his eyes and looked around the town a few times, and his eyes fell on the small river running through the town.

There is nothing above the river.

"No air bladders? No drainage..."

Fengqiu is a windbag.

Qiu Yan had read an article in his previous life, which was related to this.

Originally, he was trapped in the mountain temple alone for 80 years, and his memory was already a little fuzzy, but now that the incense is getting stronger, and after collecting the incense, his memory is even more amazing, and the scattered memories of the previous life are gradually revealed, and the recollection becomes clearer .

That article introduced the ancient iron smelting industry, but the main description was not iron, but blast furnaces, fuels and blowers.

Iron and steel smelting in ancient times also required heating. The flame in a simple blast furnace had a limited temperature after all, so a blower was needed to heat it up. This blast bag is a kind of blower, and it is considered the most primitive , The old one, it stands to reason that these craftsmen's families are handed down from their ancestors, even if they don't study, they should have an impression, but the man said that he had never heard of it.

"No, when I was reading the Book of Rites at home, I remembered that there was a sentence on it, 'The son of Liangye must learn to make fur', which means that a good casting craftsman must learn to make Fengqi. In ancient times, the social division of labor was not clear. , there are not too many handicraftsmen, so the smelters have to make blowers by themselves, so there is such a sentence, why do you not remember it now?"

Thinking of this, Qiu Yan narrowed his eyes, his eyes flickered with brilliance, and his mood was a little agitated.

"From the old woman's words, it can be concluded that the blacksmiths in this world rely on..."

"The Way of God...the Way of Humanity...so it is so, so it is, I understand! Sure enough, I have to travel thousands of miles to find out. In Yuanning Mansion, I have never entered a blacksmith shop, nor have I paid attention to it. I didn't expect that in this detail, There will be such a big difference! My previous thinking was imprisoned by the common sense of my previous life!"

In an instant, the thought of counting flashed across his mind, and gradually sorted into several.

Thinking of this, Qiu Yan turned his eyes, and his eyes fell on the woman, and a thought came to his mind.

So, he took a step forward, with the strength flowing in his body, he shuttled forward in the crowd like a swimming fish, as long as the people along the way were touched by him, they would naturally slide aside.

Hu Qi and Dai Guo looked at each other, puzzled, but followed, but they had just walked halfway through the crowd when Qiu Yan had already walked up to the old woman.

"Ma'am, what you're worried about is that the temperature of the furnace is not enough, so it's difficult to make iron and stir-fry steel. I have a method, which may help you. If you are interested, you may as well let me try it."

"You are..." The old woman looked up and saw Qiu Yan's appearance and clothes clearly, her complexion changed slightly.

Just now Qiu Yan talked about Darui's law in the crowd, and she heard it too. She originally wanted to sue her son, but knowing that she might be beaten and killed, and the incense of the old Liu family would be cut off, she stopped thinking, only thinking of her son Unfilial, ashamed of his ancestors, and unbearably sad, in a hurry, he revealed the secret of the town.

In the crowd, there were also blacksmiths who made a living. After hearing this, their faces changed, and some of them were about to step forward, but when they saw Hu Qi and Dai Guo approaching Qiu Yan, they all stopped in their tracks.

Such two big men with big arms and round waists threw a pestle there, and immediately extinguished the thoughts of many people.

"I'm afraid this gentleman has misunderstood..." The old woman calmed down at this moment, shook her head and said, "I just think that my son doesn't want to inherit the ancestral business, and he agrees."

"You don't need to say much, ma'am, I know your concerns, but you have to think clearly, since you can turn around by praying to God, and you can do something right now, why don't you give it a try? I don't ask for your family's secrets, I just make one thing for you , whether you do it or not, you have nothing to lose."

After saying that, he turned his head to look at Liu Xin beside the old woman, and said with a smile: "Brother Liu, I see that your brows are full of regret, and you should have already known how powerful it is, but it is hard to get over the water. Of course, it is hard to recover the shop, I am afraid that if I am not careful, I will be sued, so I better think twice."

Liu Xin had lost his senses when he heard the law of Darui before, and when he saw his old mother, he felt remorse in his heart, but he didn't know how to deal with it. Now he heard Qiu Yan's words, but he was a little moved. Scholars should not be able to target the target, so they ignored the glances of several people in the crowd and called for help.

Qiu Yan nodded: "Okay! You can decide if you can. If you can quit gambling, you can do something." After saying this, he turned and walked outside. Hu Qi and Dai Guo hurriedly followed after seeing this, and the surrounding crowd He also parted ways and let the three of them leave.

After walking far away, Dai Guo couldn't help but said: "My lord, why do you need to join in the fun? Those people clearly have bad intentions."

Qiu Yan said: "The reason why I act is not just for these people, but also for other purposes, besides, being able to help is considered a good deed, it's fine if it doesn't happen, since it happens, there's no reason to refuse to save them. By the way, you go to the forest to get some wood, Hu Qi, you go to the town and ask, who has fur..."

He described the thoughts in his heart, and naturally there was no need to be polite to the two of them, otherwise it would be an outsider instead.

Although Hu Qi and the two were confused, they still took orders and left.

Qiu Yan closed his eyes and stood still, recalling the article he had read in his previous life, and using the incense of the god himself, meditating in his heart, combining and arranging, gradually, the outline of the blower appeared in his mind. Build it up in your mind. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, novels are better and updated faster!

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