As the head of the Zhao clan, Zhao An also resided in the center of the village, just one courtyard away from the ancestral hall.
Zhao Yun, being Zhao An's own son, naturally lived with him.
The early morning dew's faint light pierced through the clouds and shone upon the earth.
Revealing everything.
The light happened to pass through the window and enter the room, shining on Zhao Yun's sleeping face.
Zhao Yun slowly opened his eyes.
Looking at the bright patch outside the window, he was startled.
Dawn already?
He vaguely remembered it was only afternoon when he went to sleep.
How did he end up in the early morning after just closing and opening his eyes?
So... did I sleep for seven or eight hours?
Oh no, oh no!
Sleeping for so long, will the Immortal blame me?
With a heart full of trepidation.
Zhao Yun didn't dare to waste a moment, he sat up with a somersault, put on his clothes and quickly walked out of the house.
Passing by the kitchen, he happened to meet his elder brother Zhao Feng, who had just gotten up and was preparing breakfast.
“Hey, second brother, you're up so early today?”
Zhao Feng raised the rice in his hand, “We'll eat breakfast together later.”
“Big brother, you eat first, I have something to do, I'll head out first.”
Zhao Yun quickly shook his head in refusal, then turned and walked outside without looking back.
“Something to do? What is it?” Zhao Feng looked at Zhao Yun's back, muttering to himself in confusion.
As soon as he stepped out of the courtyard.
Zhao Yun saw a familiar figure at the gate.
Father?
Looking closer, it was indeed his father, Zhao An.
Zhao An stood there, frozen like a statue, staring in the direction of the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall direction?
Isn't that also the direction where the Immortal is?
Zhao Yun followed Zhao An's gaze.
The ancestral hall's surrounding walls, originally made of rammed earth, had disappeared. In their place was a three-meter-high, light red rock wall.
His vision passed through the wall.
Inside was no longer the simple ancestral hall courtyard, but a building he had never seen before.
It was a little strange.
Different from any architectural style he had ever seen.
But somehow, it felt beautiful.
Zhao An gradually came back to his senses.
Where's the ancestral hall courtyard?
Where did the huge four-section courtyard go?
At this moment, he finally noticed Zhao Yun who had just walked out of the house.
“Yun? Why are you at home?”
Zhao Yun blushed slightly:
“I was too tired, the Immortal told me to come back and get some rest before going over.”
Since the Immortal agreed, Zhao An didn't mind:
“Right, do you know what's going on at the ancestral hall? How did it change so drastically overnight...?”
Zhao Yun shook his head.
Zhao An furrowed his brow and asked cautiously:
“May your father ask, when did you return to rest?”
“Around noon yesterday.”
Noon?
？？？
No, you brat, your heart is too big.
“The Immortal told you to rest, you just straight-up rested from noon to the first hour of the day, sleeping for eight hours?”
Zhao An paced back and forth, “It's over, it's over. Without anyone to accompany him for so long, will the Immortal feel that we're neglecting him?”
Zhao An looked serious and beckoned:
“Come here, I'll accompany you to apologize to the Immortal now.”
Zhao Yun's face turned red.
He didn't know why, but he slept so long yesterday.
Normally, he only slept for four hours.
Why did he suddenly double that yesterday?
Moreover, he slept soundly the whole time, without waking up for a moment.
What he didn't know was.
It was actually because he had been too tired these past few days.
After all, from the moment he saw Yun Yi, he had been in a state of intense excitement.
Later, he witnessed all kinds of Immortal arts and objects.
It even caused his body to secrete a large amount of adrenaline to maintain his excitement.
He didn't feel fatigued when he was mentally tense, but once he relaxed, the feeling of his body being drained would instantly attack him.
It was just that Zhao Yun had been practicing martial arts for many years.
He was strong and healthy.
An ordinary person probably couldn't even get out of bed now.
He wouldn't be able to fully recover without resting for three to five days.
Zhao An pulled Zhao Yun towards the ancestral hall.
Not long after.
They arrived near the ancestral hall.
Only, the familiar ancestral hall courtyard in their memories had completely changed.
Fortunately, the location of the gate remained the same.
Otherwise, they would only be able to stare at the wall in confusion.
However, the gate was also different from before.
It used to be a simple wooden gate.
But now it was replaced by an iron gate made of refined steel.
Zhao An reached out and touched the heavy iron gate, his eyes shining even brighter:
“This is......tempered steel?”
“What, tempered steel? Dad, are you sure you're not mistaken?”
Zhao Yun beside him let out a gasp.
In the later generations of explosive productivity, the quality of tempered steel might not even be as good as the kitchen knives at home.
The steel mills' smelting furnaces are all tens or hundreds of tons of output.
But now it's the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Steel technology has just begun.
Tempered steel is the most advanced steel technology of this era.
Even a powerful aristocratic family would only be willing to use a small amount of tempered steel to forge weapons.
As for Zhaojia Village.
Even if they turned the entire land over, they wouldn't be able to find even a small piece of tempered steel.
It can be said that the price of tempered steel is equivalent to that of the same weight of gold.
But it is this kind of tempered steel.
It was actually cast into a gate.
It's too extravagant!
Zhao An shook his head and sighed:
“I said it was conservative, although I have seen tempered steel, the material of this iron gate is clearly much better than the tempered steel I have seen.”
Hiss!
Zhao Yun gasped.
Thankfully, there is no need to worry about the greenhouse effect in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
This is what the Immortal is like?
The things he casually takes out are things ordinary people can only dream of.
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