This knife was forged with many flaws, it’s very unwieldy, even less handy than a hoe. I fear it’s the kind that you could get an ironworker in town to forge for just a few hundred coins.
Even soone like him, who saved a bit of money, could afford such a cheap product.
If soone like him, with his kind of fate, could handle this large knife, then what’s so special about it?
Compared to the Big Iron Halberd in Li Family’s Dalang’s hands right now, that knife is far inferior.
This realization even made Yu Lao’er feel a bit dazed.
If it weren’t for the ruins left on that mountaintop displayed there, he might even think the slash that split the mountain earlier was just an illusion.
But because of the ruins left on that mountaintop, Li Family’s Dalang sought him out.
"That mountain... did you excavate it?"
Li Family’s Dalang pointed towards the ruins on the distant mountaintop, his face was solemn.
"I still rember your family’s matter, your father was excavating that mountain back then... so, did he finally finish it?"
"It wasn’t ..."
Facing the imposing Li Family’s Dalang, Yu Lao’er hesitated for a mont but ultimately chose to speak the truth.
"Another expert passed by here and with one slash, split open the mountain."
"Another expert?"
Li Family’s Dalang pondered for a mont.
"Where is that expert now? Did he leave?"
"He didn’t leave."
Yu Lao’er truthfully replied.
"He is still staying at my place, saying he wants to learn sothing about land reclamation."
"Alright, understood."
Saying this, Li Family’s Dalang took out a piece of silver from his pocket and placed it in Yu Lao’er’s hand.
"Just go back and treat him as you usually would, act as if I never asked you anything, understand?"
"Understood, understood."
Yu Lao’er nodded vigorously while pocketing the piece of silver.
This is how experts behave, this is what makes a person formidable. Just looking at such generosity is enough to know how high above he is—compared to Du Chengfeng, who is squatting at his house and putting on the airs of an expert, yet cannot even produce a single copper coin while eating his food and drinking his drink.
If soone of that caliber can slash a mountain with one blow, how powerful must the formidable Li Family’s Dalang be?
Such an impressive figure... could be called omnipotent by now, right?
"Is this the world outside?"
Watching the departing figure of Li Family’s Dalang, Yu Lao’er suddenly felt a sense of yearning.
But Yu Lao’er quickly dispelled these inappropriate thoughts. After all, he was just an ordinary person, so ordinary that he wasn’t like the Li family with substantial estates. He didn’t even have fields of his own—the most important thing was that his fate wasn’t strong enough, a fact that couldn’t be changed from birth.
With a fate not strong enough, he could never wield such awe-inspiring weapons as Li Family’s Dalang; with a fate not strong enough, he could never carve out a path in the grand world outside.
So, he’d better not think too much. At least, the days in Li Family Village could still go on, and he himself could still live on.
That was already enough, already very much enough.
As an ordinary person, what good is it to think so much?
"Sigh..."
With a sigh, Yu Lao’er turned around and headed back.
However, that silhouette under the setting sun appeared sowhat hunched.
anwhile, Li Family’s Dalang returned ho too, his broad back stood so upright, the robust physique exuded a murderous aura brought back from the military, making him seem out of place with the entire Li Family Village.
Only his father, Li Taigong, could have a proper conversation with his eldest son.
Before Li Taigong could start the pleasantries, Li Family’s Dalang spoke first.
"Father, I ca back with orders this ti."
This Li Family’s Dalang, still clad in armor, suddenly spoke with an inherent forcefulness.
"There have been so... unforeseen changes above, hard to explain. Just as I needed to return ho, the superintendent from the palace specially inford to see if I could find any Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts."
"... Huh?"
Li Taigong was baffled.
What changes above, what palace superintendent, he couldn’t comprehend, regarding Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts... how could the village possibly have any Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts?
"We have them, I rember very well."
Li Family’s Dalang lowered his voice.
"Father, do you rember the mountain behind the village and that old Yu?"
"... Old Yu?"
With his son’s words, Li Taigong recalled.
Indeed, he had an impression of this person; the man surnad Yu was stubborn, insisting on digging the mountain to open more fields - Li Taigong didn’t understand what good it was to do that, since the mountain was Li family’s, even if fields were opened, they would be Li family’s fields, but Yu insisted that would earn more, so Li Taigong let him be.
Having a little ambition and sothing to do with his hands is always good.
But what does that have to do with Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts?
"Father, don’t you really think old Yu was crazy, do you?"
Li Family’s Dalang’s expression turned subtle.
"Father, think about it, when old Yu first ca here, he was also a clever and capable person. Why did he spend his life contending with a mountain?"
"This..."
Li Taigong was puzzled.
How could he possibly know when asked about this? Old Yu was dead, they couldn’t burn so paper to ask him, could they?
"Father, the Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts are hidden in the mountain."
As he spoke, Li Family’s Dalang patted the large halberd beside him.
"I learned later that these Divine Soldiers or treasured artifacts all possess the power to influence the human mind... it’s pretty clear that sothing extraordinary is hidden within that mountain."
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