Obligations of the elderly

The food is delicious, and the explanation given by the old man is quite interesting. The palace is very satisfied with the food tonight, but——

The person who has a business relationship with the other party is obviously a stream, so the old man just keeps talking to himself, okay?Not only talking, Gong Si felt that the other party's attention was always on him, and every time he raised his head, he would definitely meet the other party's kind eyes looking at him. Could it be that the old man thinks that the way he eats is not as elegant as theirs?But his actions are not rude, right?

But even so, Gong Si still maintained his own rhythm while eating, letting the other party watch, and the other party responded when he talked to him. After finally waiting for the meal to finish, the old man smiled and said: "It's delicious to watch Gong Si eat. I couldn’t help but eat an extra bowl of rice than usual.”

Gong Si: So you watched me eat dinner?

For the first time, he felt that he could be described by the word "beautiful and delicious", Gong Si wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then put his arms under the dining table.

Looking at him with a smile, the old man stood up immediately: "Please follow me."

This sentence was spoken to all of them.

After speaking, he walked behind the screen behind him.

Glancing at the stream, Gong Si and the two also walked in that direction, and Gong Si followed behind them without saying a word.

Behind the screen is a large empty room with a double door in front of it. When they reached the end, the old man opened the door, and the world in front of them was completely different——

It was a white workshop building!

No - it's not a workshop, to be precise, this is a huge smelting room!

Gong Si saw the huge smelting furnace in the middle of the room at a glance!

This can be said to be the largest smelting furnace that Gong Si has seen. It is at least five stories high. They came out from the second floor. The house of the Gong family is taller than ordinary houses. It was they who pushed the door out from the second floor, and the top of the smelting furnace was still above their heads!

That is really a magnificent smelting furnace, the whole body is titanium gold, and a giant dragon is entrenched on it with glaring eyes, lifelike, as if it will fly from the smelting furnace at any time.

Then, under the dragon's head, what is more eye-catching than the dragon is the word "one" on the furnace body.Gong Si had learned traditional calligraphy from old people, and he could tell at a glance that this character has a profound skill, and the simpler the character, the more difficult it is to write. If you want to practice calligraphy, "one" is the foundation.

But in terms of appearance, this stove is already a work of art.As for its performance...

Staring at the bosh of the giant furnace, although nothing can be seen from here, and the giant furnace stands firmly on the ground, Gong Si instinctively felt the turmoil and danger inside.

"You are a student of smelting, what, how do you feel when you see him?" Standing beside Gongsi, the old man asked him with a smile.

"Very powerful." Gong Si said, staring at the stove in front of him, he hadn't realized what the old man wanted to show him.

"This is Mr. Gongyi, right?" Xiliu knew about it, and interjected slowly from the side: "Let the Gong family become a famous family, and it is also the No. 13S weapon of the Gong family, and also the best refiner of the Gong family." Mr. Gongyi of..."

In order not to let Gong Si's listening be confused, he also purposely spoke in great detail.

Gong Si was taken aback.

The old man nodded with a smile, stroked his gray beard, and said: "That's right, this is Master Gong Yi."

For a craftsman, "Master" is the most honorable title. For a family of craftsmen like theirs, the title of "Master" can be ranked before the title of relatives.

However, he also saw that Gong Si probably didn't recognize who Gong Yi was, and it was rare that he didn't get angry. Instead, the old man enthusiastically introduced him: "Master Gong Yi is the most powerful craftsman in our Gong family. When he was just an ordinary person, he could already refine the world's top weapons, or the most exquisite, or the sharpest. When the weapon is endowed with a soul by the craftsman, even if it is not capable, it can still be used Call it an instrument.”

"Ordinary people?" Gong Si noticed the word.

The old man nodded: "Grandmaster Gong Yi has been an ordinary person all his life, and then one day, when he was refining weapons alone as usual, he suddenly threw himself into the furnace he usually used for refining weapons, and the fire in that furnace was not ordinary. The fire is the fire of Zhu Rong, yes, it is Zhu Rong..."

The old man smiled and glanced at Gong Si: "It's not you, but the fire of Zhu Rong from the previous generation."

After finishing speaking, he looked forward again, and his eyes fell on the giant titanium furnace, and the old man's expression became far away: "...The fire spread rapidly throughout the refining room, and people from far outside came, but No one could get close, the fire just kept burning, and the entire refining room became the largest natural furnace. It burned for seven days and seven nights. Finally, in front of everyone, the raging fire just now disappeared suddenly. It’s like being sucked away, the fire disappears, revealing the refining room that has been burned long ago, and then there is the center—”

Looking at the huge smelting furnace, the old man didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.

"Grandmaster Gong Yi has been an ordinary person all his life. He awakened to become a weapon at the last moment of his life. He was not a weapon contracted by other capable people. He refined himself into a weapon."

"This is the last work of his life, and it is also the best work."

So... this master practiced himself?Looking at the big furnace in front of him, Gong Si didn't know what to say.

This is probably also a kind of craftsmanship, he thought.

Magnolia, condensed, focused, persistent—he could see these things from the huge furnace in front of him.

"Because Master Gongyi's name is a single name with one word, later, in order to commemorate him, the Gong family has the habit of naming the most outstanding successors in numerical order." The old man continued to introduce.

Immediately afterwards, he looked at Gongsi again, and looked at Gongsi with the tingly loving gaze he had seen before. The current patriarch of the Gong family said to Gongsi: "If you are in our family, the fourth generation of Gongsi will It should be you. As a weapon, although it is not a gold system, it is the apex of the most important fire attribute of a craftsman. It is like copying and pasting a life like that of Master Gong Yi. No, your future may still have It may surpass Grandmaster Gongyi—”

Even if you don't need to look at it, you know that the temperature around the palace next door must have dropped again, and the palace simply doesn't know what to do. Is this old man an advocate of belittling education?Praising another person desperately in front of one's own grandson, this kind of education method is not worth admiring!Or do you want to bring hatred to yourself——

Waving his hand, Gong Si hurriedly said: "Don't praise me so much, I can't compare with your family's education, Gong... Fourth Young Master Gong has scars on his hands, it looks like it was made by learning to refine weapons since childhood. I have never touched a smelting tool before, and I am about to enter high school in my third year of high school, so I suddenly became interested in smelting because of my elders. He also said that I am not good at drawing, and I must work hard to make up for it..."

It's okay if he didn't mention it, but when he did, Gong Si watched as Gong Si retracted his bruised hands behind his back.

"He is clumsy. A good craftsman shouldn't be injured by fire or weapons. That's a proof of failure." The old man said with a smile.

Gong Si was stunned——

Well, it turns out that his understanding of the old man is still too shallow. To him, the amiable patriarch Gong Sanyue seems to be a person who is extremely strict with his grandchildren. No wonder Gong Si is deeply hostile to him. He didn't come At that time, the old man didn't know what he said to him!

Although there is a high probability that it is definitely not his bad words, but this kind of good words...he doesn't really want to hear it.

"My uncle...that's not what he said." Gong Si thought for a while and said: "Uncle said that the wound on his hand is a manifestation of sincerity, and also a performance of running-in, it is the honor of a craftsman."

"Your uncle? Is it... Gong Chujiu?" The old man's investigation was obviously very detailed. He even found out about Uncle Gongsi. I only know his ostensible occupation.

"That... knife maker?" Probably because he didn't like that word, the old man deliberately concealed the word "vegetable".

Gong Si said it indifferently: "My uncle is a knife maker who makes kitchen knives. My family's ancestors have been making kitchen knives for generations, and of course they also make other things, but kitchen knives are the main business."

It's also my uncle's personal hobby ← Gong Si has long discovered that my uncle loves kitchen knives deeply!

However, the kitchen knives my uncle made are really good. When he left Shanhai Town, Xie Kai even ordered several kitchen knives for his uncle for the kitchen of his mansion. They were really good—every one he used was good!

The smile on the old man's mouth was slightly unnatural: "I heard that your family's ancestors have been local craftsmen for generations."

He didn't seem to be very interested in what Gongsi's ancestors did, so he brought the topic to Gongsi: "Did you become interested in smelting last year? Before, your parents didn't teach you a little bit?"

Gong Si shook his head: "My father is not a swordsmith, and the uncle who was the only swordsmith in that generation has been away because of work. I have never been in contact with those."

"This is really a delay..." Looking at the palace, the old man looked regretful again.

"No delay, right?" Gong Si looked at him: "Uncle learned early because he was interested in blacksmithing very early. When I was young, I was not interested in blacksmithing at all, and I was not happy to learn it, and I was not interested in blacksmithing." Forced to learn, uncle said it was unnecessary."

"What about the inheritance? Isn't the family inheritance broken?" The old man looked in disbelief.

"Uncle said it doesn't matter." Gong Si shrugged: "Anyway, the house is there, and the stove is also there. It doesn't matter if it's broken for one generation or two. One may have a younger generation who suddenly becomes interested in blacksmithing. If a person If you are interested in one thing, the inheritance is not important, it is good to have the inheritance, without the inheritance, he can use his own method to get started, and maybe he can develop a new method that other people can't think of!"

That's why the uncle didn't teach him systematically.

Usually he would give advice to Gong Si, but this kind of guidance is more based on guiding Gong Si to understand one thing, not a complete teaching.

"It's just...it's just..." Seeing Gong Si talking about his uncle, the old man just shook his head in the end.

Regarding the old man's reaction, Gong Si didn't take it to heart at all, the other party was not an elder of his family, but just an older partner of the stream, no matter the other party's praise for him, or a slight contempt for his family's business, Gongsi didn't take it to heart at all.

In fact, it's just blacksmithing. It's such a down-to-earth profession. If they don't hold it like this, it seems to be superior to others, which is boring.

Seeing that his family's equipment might turn his face if he continued to talk, Xiliu took the topic with a smile and began to formally discuss business with the old man: "If I guess correctly, this is the reason why your family can use it. Where is the secret of new energy?"

As he spoke, he looked towards the tall furnace ahead.

Nodding his head, the old man said: "That's right, telling you our secret directly is also the sincerity of our family."

After saying this, the old man led the three of them down the side stairs and walked directly to the first floor. They finally came to the other side of the stove.

It is completely different from the previous side. There is a thick and long titanium-gold pipe on this side of the stove, like the aorta of the heart. It extends from the inside of the stove, and suddenly splits into several strands on the way, like countless blood vessels, extending forward , extended, and eventually inserted straight into the other furnace next to it...

Walking here, Gong Si noticed that there are countless smelting furnaces behind, which are also very large, but they are still much smaller than Gong Yi Furnace, and Gong Si couldn't see them at the place before!These smelting furnaces are of different sizes and models, and they are connected in series with each other. There are too many pipes between them. In the end, it is difficult for the palace to find out who is connected to whom among these furnaces. It is too complicated!

Then, the old man spoke again proudly: "This is the secret of the Gong family's ability to utilize new energy, and it is also the reason why people who discover new energy seek us to cooperate."

"Only we can refine this new energy so that it can serve every refiner."

"Only we have Gong Yilu, and only we..."

He said, squinting and pointing to the various furnaces in front of him: "Only we have the most powerful smelting system in the world."

"This is not an ordinary furnace. It is the most solid furnace array in the world that has been used and refined by generations of outstanding craftsmen in the palace family for a lifetime!"

Listening to the old man's proud introduction, when Gong Si looked at those furnaces again, he looked at them differently——

The furnace formed by the strongest smelter by himself... plus the smelters of all dynasties who have smelted iron for a lifetime, is the last remaining furnace that can be called "artifact"?

Such a dense array of melting furnaces... In this world, maybe it is really only here!