When the furnace was opened, inside lay two swords, glowing red. Gan Jiang took water drawn from a well at dawn, and dripped it slowly onto the swords for seven days and nights. The swords seemed to have disappeared, but when one looked closely, they were still at the bottom of the furnace, as translucent as two strips of ice.
最後開爐時，譁啦啦地騰上一道白氣；漆黑的爐子裡，躺著通紅的兩把劍，幹將用井華水慢慢地滴下去，這樣七日七夜，就看不見了劍，仔細看時，卻還在爐底，純青的，透明的，正像兩條冰……。