We helped him get rid of a problem. Kong Laoxie's attitude was much better than before.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, he said he would not sleep anymore and decided to help us build a Luoyang shovel with earth stove overnight. Brother Yu helped to get the things, and I sat on the ground to help push the bellows.

Kong Laoxie was bare-handed, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and only surrounded by an oil-stained leather apron.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The ironclad sound was very loud, and sparks splashed as the hammer fell.

The fire cannot be small, so I have been pushing and pulling the old bellows hard.

Sweating profusely, Kong Laoxie said while thrusting iron: "Traditional craftsmanship requires 480 hammers, but I am different. The shovel I made requires 1480 hammers."

I pushed the bellows and asked, "Is there any difference?"

"You bad boy! You know the ball!"

He cursed and said a lot, I summarized that Kong Laoxie had been working on Luoyang shovels all his life from his teenage years old to his 60s. His standard for judging a good shovel is:

"It will not drop the soil with all the soil. It will be easy to pour out the soil when unearthed. It will be easy to carry the shovel quickly and it will not be easy to roll the blade when hitting the stone."

Even the descendants of Li Yazi, the inventor of Luoyang shovel, said that he beat it well, because it was made by ancestral means.

Everyone knows that the body of the Luoyang shovel has a curve. If this arc is large, the pouring of soil will be unsuccessful. If the arc is small, the soil will not be brought with it. The arc that Kong Laoxie knocked with a hammer hand depends entirely on his visual inspection and experience.

Golden radian.

"Has the aluminum water dissolved?"

Brother Yu looked at it and agreed that the cans had been fully melted.

"Has the copper water dissolved?"

Brother Yu agreed again.

Someone may ask this question. I see that the Luoyang shovels sold online are all made of steel. What's wrong with you? They are both aluminum and copper?

In fact, steel feels very hard, but in some cases it is very brittle, which is what is called "it is easy to fold over steel."

Why do I say that the Luoyang shovel forging skills is not fair intangible cultural heritage without Kong Lao Xie? Because his unique skills are unique.

Let's put it this way, his complete shovel.

It uses wooden poles, steel tips, aluminum arcs, and iron edges!

He has brought all the characteristics of hard metals and soft metals to the extreme!

The most difficult thing is to make wooden poles, because if you want to make a piece of ash, you must hollow it out and make a sleeve like a screw.

Sparks splashed on the cutting board, and the sound of iron stumbled in the deserted village hut on the dirt mountain did not stop overnight...

It was dawn, the next morning.

I mechanically pushed the bellows, leaned against the wall, closed my eyes, and almost fell asleep.

"alright."

"alright!"

I immediately opened my eyes and sat up.

I saw a Luoyang shovel placed flat on the table, the blade of the shovel was shining coldly, the inner curve of the shovel was golden proportions, and a peeled matte white wood pole was connected.

I walked over and picked it up.

The size is perfectly matched with my palm, the weight is very light, and it is effortless to wield. I couldn't wait to run out and shovel the soil twice. The soil I brought was stuck in the shovel arc, and it was really motionless.

I was so satisfied and liked it so much. Well, I kissed the wooden pole and said with a smile: "Good guy, we will depend on each other in the future. As long as I am still alive, I will not leave you. You can call Xiangzhao in the future.

.”

In the past, all swords and swords were famous, such as Gan Jiang Moye, Seven Star Dragon Ancestor, Yu Yan Xuanyuan, etc. Why can't my favorite shovel have a name? It's Xiang Yunfeng's shovel, because it's my shovel.

In this way, Brother Yu and I stayed on the mountain for two and a half days, almost in a row, and made three shovels in total. After finishing our work, Kong Laoxie seemed to be exhausted and lay motionless on the chair. If it weren't for his mouth

The cigarette I bit was still smoking, and I thought someone was gone.

"Why..."

"You can't accept your old age. You're a bad boy. I'm so tired. Let's go quickly. I'll have to rest for two days."

I put down my bag, clasped my fists and said, "Mr. Kong, then you can rest. My name is Xiang Yunfeng, thank you."

The old man was still lying on the chair with a cigarette in his mouth and didn't move, just waved his hand.

After Brother Yu and I came out, we went to see the dog thief. The man was tied to a tree and his head was drooping.

"Brother Yu, are you dead?"

"I'm not dead. Look at how many bags on his head, they are bitten by mosquitoes on the mountain at night. The mosquitoes don't suck people's blood to death." Brother Yu said.

"Didn't that bag be used by us?"

"Whatever he does, it has nothing to do with us. Let's go quickly. I'm probably anxious to wait."

I have no signal on the mountain for the past two days and haven't made a phone call. Just like Brother Yu said, I'm probably anxious to hold my head.

I took a bus from Xingyang to Sanshili Village and happened to meet Li Yuanbao at the entrance of the village. He seemed to have just come back, carrying a large plastic bag in his hand.

"Hey? Yuanbao, where are you going?"

"It's you, Xiao Shen's Eye Peak," Yuanbao's face turned red, and he carried a plastic bag and asked me to see it, "I just came back from the city hospital and bought some medicine and nutritional products. She is pregnant."

"Pregnant?"

"who?"

I asked in a daze, "Your wife?"

He nodded and said yes.

I turned my head and looked at Brother Yu, turned my head and said, "No, aren't you just the third day of marriage? Xiaoxia has it?"

Yuanbao was a little embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "Hehe, I've done something long ago, but my grandfather didn't know yet. I'm going to give him a surprise today."

What can I say about this? I can only say that Yuanbao is awesome. I also said congratulations, brother, I am going to be a father soon.

After I went back, I looked at the three shovels I brought back. Even though I touched the head of the shovel for a lifetime, I praised it and said, "Okay, it's such a good craft."

"This is mine, and this is yours."

"Brother Yu, this is yours."

Douyazai couldn't put it down and waving the shovel and laughed.

Xiaoxuan stomped her feet and said, "Yunfeng, where is mine?"

"I didn't do it for you, I don't have it."

"Why are there no one from me? I want it too!" Xiaoxuan looked angry.

"You are in charge of letting go and buying daily equipment, which is considered logistics, but not geotechnical. What do you want to shovel?"

"I don't care! Why don't I have it? I want it."

I'm so immense, I said if you want to dig the soil, I'll do it for you in the future. Let's share one handful.

Xiaoxuan then stopped being angry and said OK.

Because the shovel handle is made of wooden poles, if we take it separately in the future, we can take it on the train. If it is still hollow iron pipes as before, the security checker will be checked.

They started playing, and Douyazai and Xiaoxuan were fighting in the house with shovels.

"Put your head, what are you looking at?"

When I left the yard, I saw that I was holding my head on the table and studying what I was doing.

"Come to Yunfeng."

He walked up to him, pointed his head at the paper on the table and said, "This is the mountain map around Luoyang that I am Guan Li is coming. What can you tell when you look at the map?"

There was no high technology at that time, and now all mountain maps can be viewed using satellite maps.

I frowned and looked at it for a few minutes, and said, "Back to the head, this circle is Wushan, Xionger Mountain, Jiunie Mountain, Outside the mountain, Yuwu Mountain, Songshan, and the north is surrounded by Yihe River, Luohe River, and the mountain is wrapped in

It's the middle."

"Yeah, keep talking."

I nodded and pointed to the topographic map and continued: "From Feng Shui, Beimang Mountain is in the middle position, and is in the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. This is called Middle Earth in ancient times. It controls the four directions, sits and looks at the Yellow River, and is surrounded by the mountain.

Water, purple air rises, the place where the emperor is."

He slammed his head on the table and stared at him, "Nothing nonsense! What are you talking about!"

He smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry, I made up my head."

"Why...."

He sighed helplessly, pointed to the left half of the map and said, "Look, this is the north of Mangshan. From the map, there are many rocks and many stones. In the Eastern Han and Western Han dynasties, people with identities are used to digging mountains to build tombs and hollowing out the mountains.

Tomb building, so there is a high probability that this place will have a Han tomb.”

"Looking at this place, the terrain is flat and there is a persimmon forest. Most of the ancient tombs in the Song Dynasty were brick tombs, and I like to bury them in such places."

"Well... That's right, I think so too."

He picked up a ballpoint pen and drew two big circles on the map and said, "This place belongs to the Song brothers. A strong dragon does not suppress the local snake. We should not dig it, we should avoid it."

"Then...this place is the most suitable."

Point your head and fingers to a place on the map.
Chapter completed!