When he returned to the house, Lao Liu used a tape ruler to measure the "long-lasting sword". After the rust was removed, the sword sword was 102 cm long, the blade was 71 cm long, and it was only 2.9 cm wide. It was a slimmer circle than the rust lump just now, and the weight was lighter than before. After all, it was smashed into a layer of rust.

Under the strong light of the iodine tungsten lamp, Zhang Guozhong used a magnifying glass to identify it for two hours. He saw the seal characters engraved on the blade of the sword. It turned out that these characters were indeed not decorations, but the real life of the sword. At the hilt of the sword, Zhang Guozhong also found two seal characters surrounded by the pattern of auspicious dragon: Qingtai, which seemed to be the real name of the sword.

The seal characters engraved on the sword body are as follows:

In the summer of the 11th year of Hongwu, Taizu, I presented the immortal dew-cui sword of Xiaoyao Cave in Dahong Mountain. Shengyue, and granted Ru Ren three hundred gold and two thousand silver. The name was "Quannian", and the censor Feng Youlin was given to Gong Xue because of Yanzhou.

In the autumn of the second year of Yongle, the emperor sent the censor Yuan Zhanzhong to teach me the sword-making position, which must be used by the prince to carry the chariot. Since ancient times, those who made blades have taken the saint's decree as a great sign. I know that this responsibility is heavy, and I will be the Xiaoyao Cave Fairy Dew Sword to repay the saint's kindness.

However, the fairy dew in Xiaoyao Cave was actually a gift from God. The moon was not full, and the moon was collected. I had 20 hu of immortal dew in the collection. I would like to cast a sword for three years to repay the holy grace. In the autumn of the third year of Yongle, I felt pain in my body and asked the imperial physician to cut it off. The doctor said: I will not be collected again. I am so sad that I am sad that my husband would die but the holy grace was not fulfilled. I wanted to find Feng Youlin to return the holy truth to seek the holy mercy. My wife Yang Meng heard it and said: It is better to cast a young blade in it. What about the holy priests in the face? So I used fifteen hu of immortal dew to collect the young sword as the basis, and then to replenish it. Those who saw this article were to meet my relationship, so I was a close friend!

It roughly means:

In the summer of the 21st year of Hongwu, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty (1378 AD), I used the dew water in the Xiaoyao Cave of Dahong Mountain to present a magic sword to the emperor. The emperor was very happy and granted me a (seventh rank) official position, and gave me three hundred taels of gold and two thousand taels of silver. The sword was named "Duannian". The Censor Feng Youlin took (Duannian Sword) and killed (corrupt official) Gong Xueyou in Yanzhou.

In the autumn of the second year of Yongle (1404 AD), the emperor sent the censor Yuan Zhanzhong to find me and sent me the errand of making swords. (This sword) will be used for the prince's ascension to the throne. Throughout history, the craftsmen who made swords regarded the emperor's entrustment as the highest honor. I knew that the responsibility was heavy, so I prepared to use the dew-water sword from Xiaoyao Cave to repay the emperor (trust).

However, the dew in Xiaoyao Cave was given by God. It took less than a bucket of water a month to collect a sword, and it took twenty buckets of water to collect a sword, so I was ready to spend three years to make a sword to repay the emperor's kindness. In the autumn of the third year of Yongle, I felt pain in my body and found an imperial physician (for me). The imperial physician said that I would not live for a year. (After hearing this news) I cried, not because I was afraid of death, but because I could not complete the emperor's entrustment.

, want to find the censor Feng Youlin and tell the emperor the actual situation. In order to ask for the emperor's forgiveness, my wife Yang Meng (after listening to my thoughts) said that it would be better to cast a small size (sword) as the basis and wait for you to die (I) to make up for the size for you. How about it? After that, I (while still alive) put a (slightly smaller) sword with fifteen hu of dew. The person who saw this (engraved article) must be the one who is destined to be me, and must be my confidant!

"According to what is said above, this long-loving sword... no, it should be the Qingtai sword, it is indeed two swords one mile and one outside. This one inside is the true level of Yang Guyun's sword making!" Zhang Guozhong picked up the sword and nodded, as if he had taken advantage of the situation. This is great. He lost his sword and became a confidant with the ancient sword-making master.

"It seems that Yang Guyun is quite confident in her wife's level?" Old Liu closed the iodine tungsten lamp and kept stroking his two beards. "Guozhong, I'm carved on the sword. Yang Guyun also cast a sword called "Duan Nian". And the censor used this sword to kill corrupt officials?"

"Yes..." At this time, Zhang Guozhong was obviously a little overwhelmed with this sword.

"You said that the thing in the cave was the Gong Xueyou who was cut by the 'Broken Nian' sword?" Old Liu's eyes were dripping, "Because these two swords were cast by Yang Guyun, I was afraid of the house and the sword was also scared?"

"This...is unlikely..." Zhang Guozhong frowned, "Senior brother, think about it yourself, is it possible?"

"It's unlikely..." Old Liu was also happy. It seemed that there was no such resentment as "knowing the goods" in the world.

"I'll call tomorrow to ask about the origin of this sword..." Zhang Guozhong stroked the two seal characters "Qingtai" with his fingers. "In the legend of the Eight Immortals Demon-Suppressing Demons, Zhao Jinzhou was eventually suppressed by the Eight Immortal Formation. If the things in the cave were really Zhao Jinzhou, then this sword must be related to Zhao Jinzhou..."

"It makes sense..." Old Liu nodded, but he didn't expect that the clues of the whole thing would actually be concentrated on a sword. "Guozhong, please let me put this sword first, I'll give you a hand!"

The night passed in a flash. The next day, Zhang Guozhong's first thing to get up was to call Fuzhenguan. After learning that the sword "there is a sword in the sword", Old Taoist Chen Guang was also very surprised. According to Master Chen Guang's memories, it seemed that this sword was not brought by the master himself, but was passed down from the master's generation. In theory, this did not conform to the rules of Wudang Mountain, but as a disciple, there was no right and no need to inquire about this kind of thing from the master. Maybe the master felt sorry for his disciple's lack of decent guy, and made an exception, so no one took this kind of thing to heart. At the end of the phone, Master Chen Guang agreed to try his best to inquire about the origin of this sword in Wudang Mountain, and repeatedly emphasized that he must see what the sword looked like after it was removed from the rust. It seemed that Old Taoist Chen Guang was excited to give the sword to Zhang Guozhong for a moment, and he regretted it very much at this time.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Guozhong drove to Lao Liutou's house. As soon as he entered the door, he was surprised. He saw that the one who was fiddling with Qingtai Sword was not Lao Liutou, but Qin Ge. The one who stood behind Qin Ge was the big hand Liu who had not seen for many days. Compared to the image of the mountaineering man in Gansu, the big hand Liu actually had a shiny little bit of it. At first glance, he looked like a local boss who got rich overnight.

"Mr. Qin? Brother Liu?" Zhang Guozhong's eyes were glaring out of his eyes.

"Sun Ting arranged for him to help us!" Qin Ge pointed at the big hand Liu, "We happened to get off the plane in Beijing yesterday. We wanted to stay in Beijing for a whole night. After receiving a call from Mr. Liu that he had found a crucial clue here, and rushed over overnight..." As he said, Qin Ge raised his eyes and slanted to the head of Old Liu who was polishing the "sword handle" with sandpaper, as if he had seen through the scam.

"I didn't let him come..." Old Liu kept looking at the sword with his just-made sword, "Take the sword over! If it's yours, just mess around!" He said this, Old Liu got up and pulled the sword from Qin Ge, putting the just-made sword on the hilt, "Guozhong, see if it's appropriate?"

I held the sword with my hand and felt extraordinary. I didn't expect that my precious senior brother had such a skill. In just one night, I really made a wooden hilt for the reborn sword. I don't know where the old boy got the best "Huanghuali*" wood from the middle of the night.

"President Zhang, I heard that this is Zhu Yunwen's sword?" Qin Ge raised his eyes and stared at Zhang Guozhong.

"This...who did you hear?" Zhang Guozhong frowned.

"Who else?" Qin Ge looked at Old Liu's head with an expressionless face.

"I didn't say it! I just said it was possible!" Old Liu glared at him with confidence, "Maybe, do you understand? Maybe!"

"Actually, it's like this... This matter cannot be said to be impossible..." Zhang Guozhong wanted to smooth things over. "I went to Wudang Mountain to visit Taoist Master Chen Guang, and I heard the allusion of a 'Eight Immortals' in Wudang Mountain'..."

"Mr. Liu told me all these..." Qin Ge interrupted Zhang Guozhong, stood up and pounded his waist with his hands. "Although Mr. Liu was joking, I think this joke is quite reasonable!"

"Who is joking with you?" Old Liu looked indifferent, "I'm called analysis!"

"Haha! OK, OK, analyze, analyze... I wonder if Master Zhang is willing to listen to my analysis?"

"I wish to listen to Mr. Qin's great opinions!"

"Maoshan Shu believes that people's resentment after death is because some wishes were not fulfilled during their lifetime. Is that true?" Zhang Guozhong nodded. It seems that Qin Ge has been studying Maoshan Shu a lot since he worked with Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu.

"Following the content engraved on this sword, what do you think is Yang Guyun's greatest wish?" Qin Ge asked.

"Of course, this sword is called a royal product!" Zhang Guozhong nodded.

"This is the problem!" Qin Ge smiled. "I have some research on the development of iron smelting in ancient China. For sword-making craftsmen in all dynasties, the greatest glory in their life is that the sword he forged can become the sword used by the emperor. Yang Guyun is no exception!" As he said that, Qin Ge pointed to the Qingtai sword in Zhang Guozhong's hand. "However, the first sword made by Yang Guyun was the "Bunning Sword" named by Zhu Yuanzhang. It was not called the emperor's carry-on sword, but was given to the censor Feng Youlin by Zhu Yuanzhang as a Shangfang sword! Therefore, Yang Guyun attached so much importance to Zhu Di's second commission, because as a sword-making craftsman, he had been in his life.

There are not many opportunities to cast swords for the royal family! If this Qingtai sword could be used to ascend the throne by the prince, as the sword given by the Supreme Emperor, it would definitely be called the sword of the new emperor, which would fulfill Yang Guyun's greatest wish in his life! So when he learned that his deadline was approaching, he would not hesitate to let his wife complete the sword for him. Unexpectedly, although Zhu Di did not pursue Yang Guyun's wife's crime of deceiving the king, he despised the bad luck of the sword, so he gave the sword back to Yang Guyun's wife! Master Zhang, if Yang Guyun had resentment because of his wish to "cast a sword for the emperor" and his soul was not peaceful, how would you be able to be saved?"

"This..." Qin Ge said something and Zhang Guozhong felt his heart moving, "Mr. Qin, not any evil spirit can be saved and perfect. Such things can only be transformed into resentment by law, and the rest of the resentment will be resolved by time!" To put it bluntly, it is a symbolic practice to resolve some resentment so that it will not cause trouble and harm all directions. As for the rest of the resentment, choose a good grave for thousands of years to disperse slowly. You can't force the emperor to accept the sword and have to carry it with you every day, right?

"You old spy, I know what you are going to say! Do you think it was the widow who persuaded Zhu Yunwen to accept the sword. Zhu Yunwen has been the emperor for several days, and the sword is considered to be the "monarchy", and Yang Guyun's resentment will disappear. Is that true?" Old Liu said, "If that Taoist Yan Shang is really Zhu Yunwen, then Zhang Sanfeng can only know his life experience. How could he tell a widow such a huge secret? Who do you think Zhu Yunwen's life experience can be caught and told whom?"

"I didn't say that..." Qin Ge glanced at Old Liu's head, "I just said that maybe, maybe, do you understand? Maybe!"

"I just knew how to learn from me! If you have the ability, you should also invent something new yourself!" Old Liu looked disdainful!

"Senior brother, I think Mr. Qin's analysis is reasonable!" Although Old Liu was disdainful, Zhang Guozhong felt that what Qin Ge said was somewhat reasonable; if the Taoist "Yan Shang" was really Zhu Yunwen, first of all, it can explain why this sword appeared in Wudang Mountain; if the sword given by the emperor was not given a special reason, Yang Meng should have been passed down as a treasure in the era and could not have flowed out to Wudang. The only possibility is that Yang Guyun was still in dispersed because of the great wish. Yang Meng found the most famous Wudang Mountain in the circle at that time to seek a solution. Zhang Sanfeng made a favor and asked Zhu Yunwen to come and give the sword to Zhu Yunwen. In theory, it was also considered an "emperor's sword", and there was no need for any rituals, so why not do it? Of course, Yang Meng couldn't know the whole story.

Secondly, this speculation can also explain why things in the "Han Bone Cave" are afraid of this sword. Of course, the premise is that the Taoist "Yan Shang" is Zhu Yunwen himself, and that cave is really the "Han Bone Cave", and the things in the cave are really "Zhao Jinzhou". In the allusion of the Eight Immortals' Demon Suppression, the Taoist "Yan Shang" is responsible for guarding the crucial formation of the Eight Immortals Formation, and behind the formation is responsible for guarding Zhao Jinzhou's corpse in the Han Bone Cave. If this sword is really Zhu Yunwen's sword, Zhao Jinzhou's corpse will of course be "feared".

"You know Maoshan art so well, why don't you analyze what's going on in the cave?" Old Liu was obviously a little dissatisfied with Qin Ge's analysis. "Manchizi died, and the iron statue was covered with jade clothes from the Han Dynasty. What's that?"

"Well...Mr. Liu, if Zhu Yunwen had entered the Taoist mastered Wudang Mountain, then the things in the cave should be from the Wudang Sect. What's the use of me understanding Maoshan art?" Qin Ge said with a smile.

"Yes!" After hearing Qin Ge say this, Zhang Guozhong suddenly realized that even if Taoist Yan Shang is not Zhu Yunwen, this Niangniang Mountain is so close to Wudang Mountain, the things in the cave should have something to do with the Wudang Sect. What exactly is the formation in the cave? If you ask the old Taoist Chen Guang, wouldn't you understand?

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annotation*:

Huanghuali: also known as flower lily, with hard texture and fine texture. It is known as the "gentleman among wood". It is the best growth in Hainan, my country, so it is also said that "Hainan Huanghuali". Since the end of the last century, its market conditions have surpassed red sandalwood and become the most expensive wood on the market. Pure Hainan Huanghuali classical furniture. Taking Arhat beds as an example, even antique products are sold at more than one million. (To be continued)
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