Xiao Feng noticed sothing unusual at the mont he turned around to go back inside the house; he saw sothing reflecting light above the iron tree.
He stopped in his tracks and looked from various angles.
Directly, from the side, with the corner of his eye—he almost used his bladder to see it.
But after looking for a long ti, he still couldn't see any reflection.
"Could it be that I saw it wrong?" Xiao Feng muttered softly.
With a mindset of trying it out, he bent down to pick up a stone just small enough to fit in his palm, aid at the iron tree, and threw it, deliberately throwing it high to hit about half a ter below the top.
Anyway, according to Old Donkey, it wouldn't matter if you chopped it with a knife or smashed it with a hamr, so throwing a stone wouldn't cause any big...
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Pa pa pa pa pa!"
Seeing the stone turned to powder and scattered in the wind before it hit the ground, Xiao Feng was completely dumbfounded.
This damn thing actually had defenses in the air too?!
But thinking from another perspective, if he were Tiebushan, he might be even more excessive.
For a mont, Xiao Feng couldn't help but feel a bit tempted.
If he could set up such a chanism in his own yard, the safety level would definitely be greatly increased!
"What's going on?" Sun Shijie, who heard the commotion, rushed out from inside the house.
Xiao Feng replied casually, "It's nothing, just testing out this chanism, it's pretty good!"
Sun Shijie's old face was instantly covered with black lines; how bored must you be to have nothing to do?
Tiebushan, with both hands on his walking stick, wobbled out of the house.
Without waiting for him to ask, Xiao Feng handed the potted plant to his face: "Take a look at this."
"Hiss..." Tiebushan gasped, even the shivering stopped temporarily, and the remaining drunkenness vanished instantly.
"There actually is such a miraculous thing!"
In his shock, Tiebushan didn't forget to inspect it.
After checking several tis and finding no error, he leaned against the door fra to calm his excitent and asked, "What are the conditions? Go ahead and say them."
Xiao Feng smiled, knowing that the matter was more than halfway settled.
The reason he hadn't stated his conditions upfront was because he knew it would be useless; the other party clearly wouldn't act until he saw real evidence.
But now, with Tiebushan asking about the conditions on his own, it was like handing over the initiative to Xiao Feng.
Of course, even so, he couldn't set conditions that were too excessive.
Xiao Feng extended two fingers and said, "I have two conditions."
Tiebushan frowned with apparent dissatisfaction but still said, "Let's hear them first."
"First, I need your help to forge a weapon for ."
"Okay, but you need to prepare the materials yourself, and I can't guarantee how long it will take based on your requirents."
"Second, I want the chanical design map set around the iron tree."
Hearing this condition, Tiebushan fell silent.
Although the person who designed the chanism told him that unless the chanism was deactivated, anyone who stepped inside was certain to die.
But since it was designed by a human, it was bound to have flaws.
In case soone exploited those flaws and uprooted the iron tree...
"Old Tie, you don't need to worry too much. I swear on my character that asking for the design map is only to recreate it, not to covet your iron tree," Sun Shijie said seriously.
"I need to think about it," Tiebushan said.
Xiao Feng and Sun Shijie exchanged a glance and, very tacitly, didn't say another word to persuade him.
It was clear that Tiebushan wasn't a naturally suspicious person, but reality forced him to be cautious.
So, the more they said, the more mistakes they might make; if they kept persuading, who knows what suspicions might arise.
"By the way, can you tell about that Tie Wa from your village?" Xiao Feng changed the subject.
Tiebushan thought for a while and said, "That child is from my family line, and he has been strong since childhood. When he was seven or eight years old, he could push a few hundred pounds of millstone around like a toy wheel.
I originally wanted him to learn blacksmithing with , but who knew a high fever would damage his brain, and his mory beca very poor. What he learned today, he could forget half of it by tomorrow.
What a pity!
With his potential, if it weren't for that high fever, he would definitely be a good candidate."
After listening, Xiao Feng's eyes lit up, feeling that Tie Wa was like an unpolished gem that, with careful crafting, could shine brightly.
This illustrated the different perspectives in viewing things: in Tiebushan's eyes, a person suitable to inherit his craft t a regretful end due to an accident, seemingly with no great usefulness.
But in Xiao Feng's eyes, there's no need for too many formalities in a fight; as long as you can knock down the opponent, that's enough.
And from body fitness to strength, Tie Wa was promising material; all he lacked was technique.
"Knock knock knock!"
Three knocks ca.
"Is it Old Donkey?" Sun Shijie asked.
Tiebushan shook his head, "No, if it were Old Donkey, he wouldn't knock."
Xiao Feng had no interest in guessing who it was and went straight to the door to open it.
The door opened; standing outside was the very Tie Wa they had just been discussing!
"Don't misunderstand, I'm not here to fight today." Tie Wa propped the half-open door open with one hand, as if afraid Xiao Feng might shut it on him.
"Then why are you looking for ?" Xiao Feng asked.
He was asking knowingly; with his intelligence, how could he not guess why Tie Wa sought him out?
It was nothing more than the matter concerning his brother, Xiao Wu.
Sure enough, Tie Wa said, "I want to know how my brother died, please tell !"
After saying this, he directly fell to his knees, continuously bowing his head, each loud thud hitting the ground with a thumping sound!
Xiao Feng was startled, quickly stepping forward to stop him, "Get up first, then we can talk."
"If you don't agree, I'll keep bowing until you do!" Tie Wa pushed Xiao Feng away and continued to bow.
If anyone else had said that, Xiao Feng might not have believed it, but coming from Tie Wa, he really couldn't dismiss it.
"Alright, I'll tell you!" Xiao Feng promised, "But you have to stand up first."
"Really?"
"Hmm."
With a definitive answer, Tie Wa jumped to his feet, his gaze fixed on Xiao Feng, waiting for him to speak.
"Firstly, no one intentionally killed your brother; his death was an accident." Xiao Feng sighed, "If you must find soone responsible for his death, then it's the village chief's son..."
With that, he relayed the entire story.
After listening, Tie Wa slapped himself in the face, tears streaming down, "It's all my fault. If I had watched over him and kept him from associating with those people, this wouldn't have happened!"
Xiao Feng frowned and asked, "Didn't you ever think that what I told you might be a lie?"
Tie Wa hesitated before replying, "Even though I'm not bright, I can tell who's telling the truth and who's lying."
Xiao Feng shook his head with a sigh, thinking if you really could tell, you wouldn't have been thrown out by so many tis.
However, when thinking carefully, the reason they fought last night seed to be because he had struck Tie Yidao's (Tie Wa's father) wrist, not because of his brother, Xiao Wu.
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