Ye Wenlong found his backpack from the grass, put it on his shoulders, and walked down the mountain with firm steps.
Ye Wenlong's blacksmith shop is at home, and his family's house is built next to Linlingshui River. It is a one-and-a-half-story old building in the shape of a "7". The house is two floors above the road level.
It is so high that there is only one road leading down. Behind the house is a cliff facing the river, dozens of meters away from the river. If viewed from across the Lingshui River, the Ye's blacksmith shop looks like a coffin hanging on the edge of the cliff.
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Seeing his son rushing into the house like a beggar, Ye Kaishan was stunned for a long time before he realized what he was doing and asked calmly: "You're back?"
After that, Dudu clicked the pipe, pinned it to his waistband, and continued to lower his head and fiddle with a dark box in his hand.
"Dad, I want to go to the Physical Fitness Testing Institute to have my physique measured. I want to enter Longwu Academy." As soon as Ye Wenlong entered the door, he dropped his backpack and walked to his father and said.
Ye Kaishan said nothing and continued to fiddle with the box in his hand.
"Dad, I want to take the physical fitness test, and I want to enter Longwu Academy!" Ye Wenlong's voice was louder, but his tone was more firm.
Ye Kaishan said without raising his head: "No."
"Is it not allowed or there is no money? If there is no money, I will find it myself." Ye Wenlong felt aggrieved, but still had a bright smile on his face.
"No, there's no money either." Ye Kaishan still didn't raise his head.
"Why...Dad, even if I beg you, just let me go, okay?"
Ye Wenlong wanted to get angry, but when he lowered his head and saw the gray hair that was mostly white among his father's disheveled hair, his heart softened. He squatted down and grabbed his father's arm and begged softly. He looked at his father's face seriously for the first time,
He felt inexplicably sour in his heart.
There is no luster on the face. Due to long-term iron work, there is a layer of gray under the skin. The wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are obvious. The color of the eyebrows are gray. The eyes staring at the box in the hand are dim and dull, as if they are dying.
Like an old man.
Vicissitudes of life, twilight.
This was the feeling his father gave him at this time. Ye Wenlong suddenly felt very blocked in his heart. It turned out that his father was already so old. Why had I never noticed it before? I was really unfilial.
"Dad, let me go. I want to become a student of Longwu Academy. I want dad to live a good life without having to rely on hard work." Seeing that his father did not respond to him, Ye Wenlong continued to plead softly.
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"No." Ye Kaishan said calmly, stood up and walked into the house.
"You have no right to stop me, this is my right." Seeing his father's cold refusal, Ye Wenlong was young and energetic after all, and said loudly to his father's back, "Even if you don't agree, I will go.
Today I met a student from Longwu Academy. They said that I have a mutated talent and a spiritual ear. As long as my physical fitness reaches level five, I can take the entrance exam in August. Dad, do you want your son to be like you, relying on his body for the rest of his life?
Can you live such a miserable life with a meager income from blacksmithing? Have you never thought that your son will become famous one day?"
Ye Kaishan's stooped body trembled slightly, and he stopped at the door of the room without turning around. He said calmly: "Isn't it good to be ordinary? You get ahead, but in the end you end up in the ground, and you lose your life in vain. You want that?"
Life?"
"A good man should have great ambitions, and a good man should spread his blood in all directions. Even if his head is cut off and his life is lost on the battlefield, it is better than doing nothing in his life." Ye Wenlong said loudly.
"Okay, close the door outside and come in with me." Ye Kaishan said calmly and walked into the room.
Ye Wenlong was stunned, turned around and closed the door. He followed his father in full of doubts and looked at his father's room curiously.
This was the first time he entered his father Ye Kaishan's room. In the past, his father's room door was always locked and he was never allowed in. When he was eight years old, he was curious and wanted to sneak in to take a look, but he was locked before he could unlock the door.
His father found out and was beaten severely. That was the only time in his memory that his father beat him.
Ye Kaishan's room is not big, about twelve or thirteen square meters, but it is not as messy as the furnace room outside. It is very neat and tidy, with a small bed, a table, an old cabinet, and a few neatly placed items on the table.
A piece of white paper with a few simple shapes drawn on it.
Neat, ordinary, nothing special at all. Ye Wenlong was puzzled, wondering why his father never let him enter the room. Then his eyes fell on the old cabinet in the corner, and he thought, could this cabinet contain treasures?
Ye Kaishan walked to the table and didn't know what he did on it. The ground next to the table suddenly moved silently to both sides, revealing a one-meter-long hole.
OMG, my dad’s room is actually equipped with a mechanism, and there must be a secret room below! Ye Wenlong’s eyes shone with excitement and curiosity. The young man’s sense of adventure surged up. At this time, my father was going to be old.
The figure became extremely mysterious in his eyes.
Dad is definitely not an ordinary person! Thinking of the bottle of more than 20 drops of priceless and unmarketable ice essence of life, Ye Wenlong was very excited.
Reject the ordinary and yearn for the magical. This is the nature of every adventurous young man.
"Follow me." Ye Wenlong just stepped forward and rushed over to see what was going on under the opening. Ye Kaishan was already standing in front of him with an expressionless face and walked down the opening.
It was a ladder entrance, and a pungent smell of burning iron came up from below. The ladder sloped down about two or three meters. There was a weak light coming from below, but Ye Wenlong could see very clearly. There was nothing below.
things.
"Still not coming down yet." Ye Kaishan had already descended to the ladder.
"Here we come." Ye Wenlong asked as he carefully walked down the ladder, "Dad, when did you dig a secret room here? Why didn't I notice it at all?"
"Come this way." Ye Kaishan did not answer and walked towards a stone door next to him.
"Wow, there are rocks down here. To hollow out this place is a big project. Dad, did you do it alone? You are so awesome..." Ye Wenlong followed his father without saying anything.
Stopped.
Of course, he was the one talking and asking, and Ye Kaishan just pretended not to hear.
Behind the stone gate, there was a sloping passage. There were two or three small lights on the passage. Ye Wenlong saw that the passage had irregular surfaces up and down, left and right, which should be naturally formed. He followed his father for about two days.
Ten meters away, Ye Wenlong's eyes suddenly opened up, and he was already in a stone room of fifty or sixty square meters.
In the stone room, there is a furnace. Below the furnace is an electric bellows. A pile of coal blocks is piled in a corner, and various ores of different colors are randomly thrown away. It is like a forging room.
In the other corner is a shelf with dozens of instruments neatly placed on it, including knives, guns, swords, daggers, shields, halberds, helmets, arm guards, wrist guards, elbow guards, shoulder guards, etc., each of which
There was an aura that made Ye Wenlong feel suffocated, so that he did not dare to look directly at it.
But Ye Wenlong's eyes were quickly attracted by something else.
It was a mural on the stone wall on the left. It was a woman wearing a light blue dress and a bun. She was not very beautiful, but she had an indescribable unique temperament and heroic spirit. Ye
When Wenlong saw the woman in the mural, he felt very kind and familiar.
