The next day, when Zhou Tian woke up from his sleep, he found that it was already noon. He stretched his waist and sat up from the bed, his eyes passed through the window to look at the dazzling sun in the sky, and it seemed that it was probably time for Chen. Zhou Tian felt a little confused. On weekdays, before the sun came out on the fifth day, his father Zhou Yunshan would come over and call himself and his elder brother Zhou Hao, and let the two brothers practice martial arts with him. How could he let himself sleep until this time today?

After putting on his clothes, he stood up and went downstairs. Zhou Tian opened the door and came to the yard. At this time, a maid who usually serves Zhang Yalan saw Zhou Tian coming out of the house, ran to him in a small way, and said with a smile: "Young Master, you are awake. My mistress told me before that when you wake up, I will ask you to go to the dining room of the front yard for breakfast." Because Zhou Tian is always kind and treats his servants very lenient, so the servants are not afraid of him and can let go in front of him.

"Sister Xiaohong, where are my parents and my elder brother?" Zhou Tian asked with a smile.

The maid named Xiaohong said, "The head of the family and the eldest son have already gone out, and I don't know where to go. The lady is waiting for you in the dining room."

"Oh, Miss Xiaohong, please be busy first, I'll go to have a meal." Zhou Tian said with a smile, then turned around and walked towards the front yard.

Seeing Zhou Tian leave the yard, a maid next to him carrying a kettle to water flowers came over and teased Xiaohong who had just talked to Zhou Tian and said, "Sister Hong, look how nice the young master is to you, and she screamed at Xiaohong. Do you think the young master is interested in you?"

"What are you talking nonsense about, you are so old, how can you think you say?" The maid named Xiaohong retorted with a red face.

"Why aren't there? I heard that in some big families, when the young masters are twelve or thirteen years old, the family will arrange maids to serve them. Our young master is thirteen, and the young master is weak and it is difficult to achieve success in martial arts. It is normal to have some other thoughts. Maybe, you will be lucky at that time and you will become a young lady! Hehe."

"Damn girl, you know nonsense. Let me see if I don't tear your mouth."

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Because of his strong soul, Zhou Tian has been very smart since childhood and has extremely sharp eyes and his senses. He has been laughing at the two maids. Zhou Tian shook his head and smiled bitterly. He didn't expect that even a maid would not be optimistic about his future in martial arts. However, Zhou Tian would not be discouraged easily. Even if he really could not achieve anything in martial arts, there was still a path to witch Taoism. In short, he would never be willing to be mediocre and become a playboy who only knows how to play with women.

Zhou Tian came to the dining room and saw his mother Zhang Yalan sitting in front of the dining table. Seeing that the food on the table had not been moved at all, it was probably made again and prepared for him.

Seeing Zhou Tian come in, Zhang Yalan showed a careful expression on her face: "A Tian got up? She actually slept until this time. She had insomnia again last night. Come and have dinner. My mother specially made ginseng and tiger bone soup for you. Drink more to replenish your body." As she said that, she stood up and took a tightly covered small casserole to the table in front of Zhou Tian. Then she lifted the lid of the casserole, and suddenly, a strong fragrance spread out.

"Mom, your skills are really insignificant. This soup is cooked by you, tsk." Zhou Tian sat down, first scooped a spoonful of tiger bone soup in the casserole, and took a beautiful sip. Then he raised his head and asked Zhang Yalan, "Mom, have you eaten?"

Zhang Yalan showed a kind smile: "Mom has eaten it, these are specially prepared for you, eat it quickly."

"Oh, then I'll eat it myself." Zhou Tian scooped up a bowl of rice, picked up the rice bowl, picked up the chopsticks and started moving towards the dishes in front of him.

As one of the three major families in Tieshan City, the Zhou family naturally has a high standard of living. Eight of the dishes on the table are fish and meat dishes. Zhou Tian was really hungry, so he worked very hard to pack up the food on the table. For a moment, two bamboo chopsticks flew up and down, and the oil soup and water were all over his mouth.

"Slow down, no one robs you, why do you eat so quickly, and you are not afraid of choking. I have said that many times, why can't I change this habit?" Zhang Yalan looked at Zhou Tian's greedy look and couldn't help but scold her warmly.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tian said "Yeah" in his mouth, and continued to fight with the food on the table, without any intention of slowing down, and did not hear Zhang Yalan's words in his ears at all.

Although Zhou Tian was very thin, his appetite was amazingly large, which was seriously inconsistent with his body shape. In terms of appetite, even his father Zhou Yunshan and his elder brother Zhou Hao had to accept the disadvantage. They ate five big bowls of rice in one breath, swept away most of the dozen dishes on the table, and drank the ginseng and tiger bone soup in the casserole, and then reluctantly put down the bowls and chopsticks.

"Mom, where are my father and my elder brother? Why didn't my father ask me to get up and practice martial arts this morning?" Zhou Tian looked satisfied with his bloated belly. Only then did he feel the mood to ask about where his father and brother were going and his previous questions.

"Your brother was injured in hunting yesterday. Your father and I saw that you looked bad last night. I guess you had a headache and had a second time, so I asked you both brothers to rest." Zhang Yalan said softly, "Your father went to the mine after dinner. Your elder brother was injured and should not practice martial arts today. He had nothing to do, so he ran to the forging workshop to learn casting techniques from you, Bo Li."

"Oh." After hearing his mother's words, Zhou Tian immediately understood.

Tieshan City is backed by Datieshan, and is named after the mountains. Datieshan is also known as the mountains, and the mountains are rich in excellent iron ore. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains and water to eat water, and relying on the mountains and water, iron ore becomes the main source of wealth of Tieshan City. Several major families in Tieshan City all have their own mines in Datieshan, and the Zhou family is no exception.

The Zhou family's industry can be roughly divided into three large pieces, mines, forging workshops, and caravans, forming a complete industrial chain. The iron ore mined from the mine is simply melted on site, refined into iron billets, and then transported down the mountain to the forging workshop in the city. The blacksmith forging mills in the forging workshop refines these iron billets and forged into various weapons. Then the caravans transport the weapons forged from these forging workshops to other cities and sell them to fixed customers. Although the Zhou family also owns more than a dozen shops in the Tieshan City, the three major pieces of mines, forging workshops, and caravans are the pillars supporting the family economy.

Therefore, Zhou Yunshan was extremely concerned about the operating conditions of these three. He often visited the mines and forging workshops, and always personally inquire about the situation of the caravan. The Zhou family's family's military power was also extremely tilted towards these three major parts, each sending a team of capable men to protect the safety of these three parts, and the three ministers of the Zhou family were responsible for the leadership.

These three great ministers are Wang Biao, Li Hu, and Zhang Long, each of whom has the strength of the eighth level of human level. In the Zhou family, in addition to the two peak masters of human level Zhou Yunshan and the mistress Zhang Yalan, the strength of the three great ministers is the best. Li Bo, who taught Zhou Hao's casting skills, is Li Hu, who is in charge of the forging workshop among the three great ministers of the Zhou family, and is also the only forging master with the qualification of craftsmanship in the Zhou family.

Martial arts are prevalent in this world, and industries related to martial arts have also flourished and developed. Weapons are self-defense objects for warriors, and warriors often wander on the edge of life and death. No warrior will not pay attention to their weapons. Therefore, the status of the forgeer, the forgeer, is far higher than that of other industries. As the best among the forgeers, craftsmen are valued and respected by people. In the entire Tieshan City, only Luo Zhoulu and the three major families each have a craftsmen.

Because of their high status, craftsmen usually have a relatively transcendent status even if they depend on a family force. Just like the craftsmen of the other two major families in Tieshan City are all hired as family guest officials. In theory, they do not belong to the two major families. If they are not in harmony, they can leave freely. Only Li Hu will be willing to be a retainer of the Zhou family because he has received great kindness from Zhou Yunshan.

As for Zhou Tian’s elder brother Zhou Hao, who followed Li Hu to learn the forging technique, was not because of how noble the identity of the craftsman was. After all, no matter how noble the identity of the craftsman was, he just lived with the warrior. It was because Zhou Hao did have extraordinary talents and interests in forging. Therefore, after Zhou Yunshan’s consent, Zhou Hao became a forging apprentice under Li Hu’s sect.

However, Zhou Hao's greatest wish is to become a top martial arts master. Forging is only one of his interests and hobbies. When the two conflict, forging naturally has to give way to martial arts. Therefore, Zhou Hao either practices martial arts at home or goes out to hunt and practice practically, so he has very little spare time to learn forging. Now, because he is injured, he can neither go out to hunt nor practice martial arts, so he just goes to the Forging Shop to study.
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