Volume One: The Empire in the Morning, Chapter 167: Brothers and Sisters Here (Part 2)

There is a stove inside the house and a waterwheel outside. White steam is filling the air both inside and outside the house. The water falling on the red iron makes a sizzling sound, and the hammer falling off the red iron makes a banging sound. Ning Que and Chen Pipi are honest

Shi Shi stood outside the threshold, watching the naked strong man playing with the fire and the iron as delicately but roughly as he treated his beloved.

After a long time, the noisy sound in the room finally stopped. The strong man took off the leather apron on his chest, picked up a towel and wiped the sweat on his face casually. He walked to the door, said with a simple smile: "I am your six."

Senior brother."

Chen Pipi smiled at Ning Que and said: "The armor and weapons made by Sixth Senior Brother are unparalleled in the world. The armor that General Xu Shi is wearing now was made by Sixth Senior Brother himself. If you have any needs in this regard in the future, you can come directly to Senior Brother

"Teng. Senior brother is the most kind and kind person. Although he doesn't like to talk much, he will definitely do what he promised you."

During the previous period, Ning Que had been staring at Senior Brother Six as he swung the hammer and struck iron. He vaguely sensed something very interesting from his rhythmic and powerful movements. At this time, listening to Chen Pipi's introduction, he thought about what was hidden in him.

The three knives in Alley 47 were still those feather arrows. His eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed: "Senior Brother Sixth is a master of Fu Dao?"

"If I want to divide my skills, I should count myself as practicing martial arts, but I don't have time in this life to learn how to fight, so I just want to learn how to blacksmith."

The sixth senior brother replied honestly: "Little junior brother, I know what you want to ask. The armor and weapons I made do have runes on them, but I have nothing to do with them. It is the handiwork of the fourth senior brother."

"Fourth senior brother?" Ning Que asked in surprise.

Senior Brother Six looked at the dark corner of the house and said with a smile, "That's him."

Only then did Ning Que notice that there was a small sand table in a dark corner. Next to the sand table sat a man wearing a green college spring uniform. The temperature in the room was extremely high, but there was not a drop of sweat on the man's body. He was even hot.

He didn't feel a trace, he just focused and calmly looked at the small sand table in front of him. He was like a part of the house, and it was easy to escape the gaze. If you closed your eyes, you wouldn't even feel that he was sitting there.

With.

"Fourth senior brother is practicing the Pure Light Talisman recently."

Chen Pipi explained to him: "He wanted to make the runes and the steel that make up the weapons fit closer together until they finally merge into one."

The fourth senior brother sitting in the dark corner raised his head, ignored Ning Que and Chen Pipi, and said directly to the naked man: "There is no problem with the three-star pattern being used to increase the frontal impact resistance, but the tearing force on the side

What should we do? If a warrior spreads the vitality of heaven and earth on the surface of his body, it will be a bit difficult to activate the runes on his armor."

Senior Brother Six walked over there, with Ning Que and Chen Pipi following behind him.

Three seemingly simple lines were drawn on the sand table. These lines were not completely straight. Several extremely smooth semi-circular arcs were drawn at the intersection of the lines. It looked like a thread holding a few drops touching one place.

Drops of water that are about to merge but have not yet completely merged.

Listening to the discussion between the two senior brothers, Ning Que knew that they wanted to modify the runes on the armor to improve defense capabilities. This was the first time he saw the use of runes in reality, and he couldn't help but feel impressed.

curious.

"I don't understand the Tao of Talismans, and I don't know the purpose of these patterns, but I always feel that these semicircles are too smooth, or... too perfect." Senior Brother Six scratched his head and said honestly: "I just feel like they are too perfect.

I’m sure I can’t help but fight.”

The Fourth Brother was silent for a long time and then said: "You have been blacksmithing all your life, and you are more familiar with things like strength than I am. Although I don't know why, I believe in your intuition. These semicircles are indeed perfect."

Ning Que felt slightly nervous and stared at the sand table made of fine white sand, wanting to see what changes the fourth senior brother was going to make.

No one used a wooden pen to draw pictures, but the fine white sand grains on the sand table were miraculously rolling rapidly. The lines on it seemed to be held by an invisible hand, changing shapes in the sand table, and the progress was unknown in a moment.

How many combinations.

Ning Que stared at the lines on the sand table, his eyes flashing rapidly with the changes in those lines. His thinking gradually couldn't keep up with the extremely complicated combination changes. He only felt a slight irritation and pain in his mind, and a feeling of nausea in his chest and abdomen.

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After walking out of the house and walking to the waterwheel, he took a handful of cold water and washed his face. Ning Que felt better. He looked at Chen Pipi with lingering fear and said, "I didn't expect that just a few fragments of runes could be so difficult."

Understand."

"It is precisely because it is a fragment that it can easily cause mental fluctuations, not to mention that you overestimate your ability to see so many changes clearly."

Chen Pipi filled a bamboo tube with a tube of water and drank it all, wiped his mouth and said mockingly: "What's more, the furnace in Sixth Brother's room stays on all year round and is used to refine various kinds of fine steel. He doesn't know how to fight, but

Your martial arts cultivation is extremely advanced, so you will be fine if you stay in there all the time. How can a guy like you not pass out from the heat?"

Ning Que was laughed at by him, but he didn't feel dissatisfied. Thinking about the senior brothers and sisters he saw in the back hill of the academy today, these seemingly crazy but obviously extremely magical scenes, he felt very excited.

"The fifth and eighth senior brothers went to play chess. Before the two of them entered the mountain, one was a master of the Southern Jin Dynasty and the other was a palace chess master of the Yuelun Kingdom. They fought more than ten times but could not tell the winner. Later, after they entered the mountain, they became masters.

Brothers, I have not forgotten the grudges and hatreds of the past. Whenever I have nothing to do, I will hold the chessboard and sit under the chessboard on the mountain for a few days."

Chen Pipi thought about the two senior brothers and said angrily: "How can someone who plays chess so much that he often forgets to eat remember that today is the day you started? If I hadn't been searching for them all over the mountains and fields over the years,

When they go to eat, I really doubt they will vomit blood on the chessboard and then die of cold and hunger, becoming two elegant ghosts of Panasonic."

Ning Que couldn't help but be speechless as he listened to this narration, thinking that the back of the academy was really full of strange people, and he didn't know why the Master accepted these people as students.

"Third Senior Sister, you are familiar with me."

Chen Pipi continued: "She should still be copying small regular script in Jiuli at this time. If you want to see her, you can meet her anytime. Don't ask me why she copies small regular script by the east window every day. I only know that it was given to her by the teacher.

Coursework.”

Recalling the number of people he saw on the top of the cliff that night, Ning Que silently counted them and said to Chen Pipi: "Eldest brother followed the master to travel around the country. There should be two senior brothers I haven't seen yet."

"You haven't met the second senior brother yet. As for the remaining one, he is not a senior brother. The seniority of that old gentleman is a bit strange. He only holds books and reads every day and doesn't talk to anyone much. The senior brothers and sisters don't like him very much.

Pay attention to him."

Chen Pipi led him towards the waterfall behind Yaping and warned: "I'm going to take you to meet the second senior brother. You have to pay attention to your etiquette. Although the senior brothers and sisters in front of me behave a little strangely,

, but people are all very kind-hearted people. The second senior brother is serious and upright, and he uprightly asks others to correct him. If you make any mistakes, be careful to get punished."

Ning Que's heart trembled when he heard this, and he asked nervously: "Then what attitude should I use to face the second senior brother?"

Chen Pipi looked back at him and said mockingly: "You are always very good at showing off, just like the gesture you just faced with your senior brothers and sisters. I never thought that Ning Que, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, would be so good at acting like that.

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Ning Que mocked back and said: "Those who are aware of current affairs are heroes, and those who are not aware of current affairs are idiots."

Chen Pipi looked at him and sighed, and said: "Aside from being serious and upright, the second senior brother's biggest characteristic is pride, and he hates others being more proud than him in front of him, so... please forgive me."

"With your usual arrogant attitude, I think you have been taught a lesson by the second senior brother in these years." Ning Que looked at his chubby face and said mockingly: "As for me, you don't need to worry. In front of the second senior brother, I will definitely be

He is the most humble person in the world.”

"It's late." Chen Pipi looked at him with a half-smile, and said: "The math question you gave me last year ended up causing the second senior brother to stay in seclusion for half a month. Do you think you can be proud of him?

Forgot about this?"

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Facts have proved that Chen Pipi's threats were all paper tigers - after walking to the small courtyard not far from the Silver Stream Waterfall and finally seeing the legendary second senior brother, Ning Que discovered that the second senior brother was definitely not the person he was looking for.

As a person with a clear vision, he even feels that the tone of the other person's speech is very gentle and kind, without any hint of arrogance or arrogance?

Standing on the stone steps, the second senior brother looked at the two of them calmly and asked calmly: "Ning Que, junior brother, he... I'm sorry, I shouldn't call you junior brother now... Twelve, he took you around the back mountain.

, how do you feel?”

"All the brothers and sisters have devoted themselves to cultivation, and it is really mine..." Ning Que responded respectfully.

However, before he could finish his words, the second senior brother raised his hand to stop him forcefully and said in a cold voice: "Those guys know how to make birds, feed fish, play piano and play chess every day. How can they be concentrating on their cultivation? The fourth brother is obviously in the Tao of Talisman.

Shangji has great potential, but I don’t know what is missing in his head. He was tricked by Lao Liu into working as a blacksmith shop boy! Teacher Renai didn’t want to pay attention to it. If not, I would have punished them several times, like this

If you still say that someone is your role model, it is really unwise."

Ning Que didn't know how to answer this statement at all.

The second senior brother suddenly asked with a deep voice: "What are you looking at?

When he first saw the waterfall, Ning Que set the tone for the conversation and made a lot of mental preparations. He was determined to act like a shy quail in front of his second senior brother. During the conversation, he must not raise his head or look directly at the other person rudely.

His eyes were wide open, but the ancient crown that stood high on top of the second senior brother's head and looked like a laundry stick was really... too eye-catching.

As for the ancient crown on the head of the second senior brother, it would be difficult for anyone to take one look away. Ning Que always felt like he was talking to a stick. This weird feeling was difficult for even him to let go of.

The expression on his face remained calm.

Compared with this tall ancient crown like a stick, the second senior brother's appearance is much more normal, but he also has his own characteristics.

The second senior brother has straight eyebrows, a straight nose, and thin lips. He cannot be said to be handsome, but there is nothing wrong with him. His black hair is neatly combed and hangs meticulously behind his back, neither leaning to the left nor to the right. As for

His two eyebrows are exactly the same and symmetrical. It even gives people the impression that the number of eyebrows on both sides is exactly the same. The same is true for his calm and energetic eyes. There is nothing wrong with him. His whole person gives people a feeling that cannot be praised but cannot be faulted.

The helpless feeling of something wrong.

This feeling of helplessness will probably be felt by everyone who sees the second senior brother. Because of this feeling, Ning Que's mind wandered slightly, and he suddenly heard this question. He couldn't help being frightened, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother

, Junior brother is looking at your crown and hat."

The second senior brother looked at him quietly and said, "Why do you want to look?"

The expression on Ning Que's face was extremely natural, and his answer was very natural: "Because it looks good."

The second senior brother was slightly startled. Chen Pipi, who had been playing the role of Quail perfectly, had a stiff expression and cursed countless times in his heart, thinking that after knowing this guy for a year, he still hadn't fully seen how shameless and despicable this person was.

Reached this level.
To be continued...