The rapid development of industry today stems from assembly lines. All things produced on the assembly lines are exactly the same. For example, the Swiss Army Knife is made by pressing high-grade synthetic steel that has been pressed into the same thickness. This is no longer the case today.
A piece of cake.
But these bronze swords are different, because they are forged. The so-called weapon forging is to burn the metal red, then pick up a hammer and beat it continuously, then burn it red again and fold it continuously.
Tempering, the so-called "Thousands of Temperings, Hundreds of Refinements" is what it means. Only after countless temperings can weapons be sharp and tough.
The blades of these swords all have traces of hammering, and they look handmade at first glance. However, after careful comparison, we were surprised to find that the hammer marks on each sword were the same. The only difference was in the sword.
Different numbers are engraved on the hilt of the sword. The tall man's sword hilt is engraved with 31, and the other numbers are different. Is this a code? Or is it to distinguish each other's swords?
Xu Huizhu, Jia Dao and I couldn't help but be extremely surprised. We didn't expect that these people, who looked like backward natives, each held a bronze sword that was called a national treasure, and these bronze swords that were called national treasures were exactly the same!
You must know that the bronze sword dug out from the Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses has been placed in the National Museum. It is a real national treasure.
How much are the swords in the hands of these men worth? I don’t know! Because there is no place to buy them.
But here there are more than twenty of them, and they are used to kill roe deer and sheep. It is really a waste of natural resources.
We watched a few men skillfully peel off the skins of roe deer and goats, then chop the roe deer and goat meat into large pieces with swords and roast them on the fire. We couldn't help but be a little stunned.
We sent the sword back in a daze, and couldn't help it for a moment. I asked the sloppy man, "So you guys use exactly the same sword!"
The sloppy man curled his lips and said, "I used to use it, but now I don't."
I suddenly noticed that all the men had swords hanging on their waists, except the sloppy ones.
I couldn't help but ask the sloppy man, "Why don't you use it anymore?"
The sloppy man's answer made me dumbfounded.
"It's not convenient to cut meat!" the sloppy man said nonchalantly.
The sloppy man took something out of his pocket and said to me, "I'll use it!"
I took what the sloppy man handed me and looked at it in the light of the fire. It was a small, thin sword. The blade was inserted into a sandalwood scabbard. It could be seen from the dark scabbard that this thing was very old.
, the texture of the sandalwood scabbard is the same as the texture of the sandalwood box given to me by Chen Fucai.
I slowly pulled out the small sword.
A ray of yellow light dazzled the eyes. Under the reflection of the firelight, the yellow light of the sword body continued to flow.
While I was watching carefully, Xu Huizhu and Jia Dao, who were sitting nearby, were also shocked by the light and gathered around me.
Xu Huizhu seemed to lean tightly against my arm inadvertently, her soft body pressed tightly against mine, and a vague, faint, slightly sweet girly body fragrance penetrated my nose, and I couldn't help but
What's wrong is that my body is a little distraught.
"Fish intestines?" Xu Huizhu's sweet cry brought me back to my thoughts.
I looked at the small sword carefully. This small sword was as wide as a finger and less than a foot long. The sword body was very thin, only as thick as white paper. I looked at the sword body carefully and understood.
Xu Huizhu was surprised because I also saw the sword pattern on the sword.
Speaking of sword patterns, we can’t help but talk about the forging process of ancient Chinese swords. As the saying goes, steel must be repeatedly forged to create a truly good sword.
To make a bronze sword, you need to slowly forge the sword blank that has been well fused with copper and tin, then put it into the fire again to make it red, take it out, then fold the already long sword blank, and then forge it again, and the sword blank will be again
Forged into long lengths, then red-hot again, folded again, forged again, over and over again.
Each time it is folded and forged, a thin and faint pattern will be left behind.
It is said that a true treasure-level divine sword must be forged and folded over a thousand times.
Because of the slight difference in material and heat, the sword patterns on the sword body are not the same. Of course, other people's bronze swords are exactly the same, and they may be made using a process similar to the assembly line.
But it is incomparable to this small sword, even though that bronze sword is already considered a national treasure.
The Ten Ancient Swords are all divine swords that have been forged countless times, and the Fish Intestine Sword is one of them.
The patterns on the sword are like fish intestines. The fish intestines do not refer to the internal organs of raw fish, but to grill a fish, peel off the two flanks, and then look at the fish intestines, which looks a bit like an ancient sword.
The lines on the body are winding and uneven.
The Yuchang Sword was originally a small sword, and its fame originated from Zhuanzhu during the Warring States Period.
Zhuanzhu himself had no martial arts skills, so he became an assassin in order to assassinate the tyrant King Liao at that time. Zhuanzhu, who was hiding as a chef, hid the fish intestine sword in the belly of the cooked fish to avoid the search of King Liao's guards.
King Liao was unprepared, so Zhuan Zhu took out the fish intestine sword from the fish's belly and killed Wang Liao.
It is said that King Liao was wearing three layers of armor when he was stabbed. However, Zhuanzhu, who had no martial arts skills, stabbed the sword into King Liao's body easily and effortlessly. Because the sword was too sharp, he used his remaining strength to
, the entire sword blade was completely pierced into Wang Liao's body, and no trace of it was exposed. Later, in order to take out the fish intestine sword, Wang Liao's body was peeled off before it was taken out.
The Ten Ancient Swords are all legendary artifacts, and the Fish Intestine Sword ranks eighth. However, because the other nine swords are all big swords, and only the Fish Intestine Sword is exquisite and compact, the Fish Intestine Sword is far more famous than the others.
There are nine swords.
My hand holding the sword couldn't help but tremble, and accidentally, the sword edge cut the belly of my little finger. It was just a tiny cut, but the pain was so heartbreaking that I could hardly bear it.
Some friends will scold you, Mr. Long, are you still a man? You can't stand such a small comment? Are you still not a man? If a strong man cuts off his wrist, you won't be alive!
My friend, what you are trying to teach me is that, logically speaking, I have been practicing martial arts with a master since I was a child, and I have been practicing external martial arts, so injuries to my limbs are inevitable. Even later on when I was exploring, I was seriously injured once in the wild, and all three ribs were injured.
I threw it away. I didn’t have any painkillers, but I still managed to get through it.
But today's small wound is really unbearable, because it is not just the pain of the wound, but the pain reaches the nerves and the bone marrow.
The blood from the wound flowed out in big drops and onto the small sword. The blood disappeared instantly, as if it had been swallowed up.
The sloppy man looked at me and sneered, "If you haven't put the sword away yet, don't you know it can suck blood?"
I quickly took away the sword with my other hand, and the pain suddenly decreased sharply, and the blood from the small wound stopped flowing.
Because today's experience is really amazing. They look like a barbaric tribe. Every dirty man has a good sword. The sword of the sloppy man called the general is even more amazing. I looked at it.
Looking at Xu Huizhu, she also looked at me with wide eyes. It seemed that she was no less surprised than me.
I raised my head, faced the sloppy man, and asked in a somewhat altered voice, "General, is this sword really a fish intestine sword?"
The sloppy man was so angry that he said, "Isn't it fish intestines or something?"