Godsend Field

Chapter 36
Tianci and Yu'er came to the blacksmith shop early in the morning, and Ah Yin had just opened the shop door.

"It's so early, Tianci! Didn't you go to the morning exercise today?" Ah Yin asked. In the past, Tianci would come to the blacksmith's shop after breakfast after morning exercise. Why did he come here as soon as the door opened today? It should be because he didn't go to the morning exercise.

"Yes, Master is going to teach us forging today, so come early!"

"I really envy you! You can learn to forge after only one month of fire. You know, I have been able to burn for four or five years!"

"Hehe! Although the master is strict, he is still very easy to coax. You usually say more good things, and he will leave everything to you!" Tianci proudly passed on the secrets to A Yin.

"Really? Godsend, then you must teach me how to speak well!" Ah Yin opened his eyes wide and asked purely.

"No problem, who are we and who?" Tianci patted his chest.

Opening the gate, Ah Yin went to the next street to buy breakfast for three people.

After breakfast, Mike solemnly said to Tianci and Ah Yin that "casting is a man's career. Those without strength cannot forge, those without courage dare not forge, and those without the spirit of bearing hardships do not want to forge. Every red When the furnace is lit, the temperature is high. When the bellows are pulled, the sweat is all over the head, and the hammer is swung, and the sweat is profuse. The sledgehammer weighing dozens of kilograms needs a lot of strength and effort to swing it up and down. Tolerance. So you have to think clearly, do you want to learn?"

"Let's learn!" Tianci and Ah Yin said firmly!Ah Yin has been waiting for this day for four or five years.

"Well, I will tell you about the two casting methods currently used on the mainland. The first is casting, and the second is hammer casting. Casting is the method chosen by ordinary blacksmiths. The weapons produced are the same, and the quality is poor. , It is an out-and-out low-quality product, and I will explain it to you later. The second method is hammer casting, which is made by hammering and hammering. They have their own unique and reasonable shapes, and they are matched with Only high-quality materials and exquisite technology can become middle-grade, even top-grade, top-grade weapons. What we want to study is this method of hammer casting."

Both Tianci and Ah Yin were listening carefully.

"Let me tell you how to cast a big sword first! Casting a big sword is basically divided into five steps. First of all, you need to make a mold for casting. The sword mold is usually molded with clay, and then put into the kiln through After being dried by fire and then trimmed, the whole sword mold is like ceramics. The sword mold is based on the shape of the long sword, and whether the long sword can be symmetrical and beautiful in the future depends on whether the sword mold is made carefully. If you want to cast patterns and inscriptions on the big sword, you must carve the opposite pattern of yin and yang on the inner wall of the sword fan model in advance." Saying this, Mike took out a one-meter-long sword model from the side, The workmanship is very fine, and there are patterns carved in the mold.

Tianci and Ayin held it in their hands and were full of admiration.

"The second step is to choose the material for casting the sword. Generally, you will choose to mix bronze, cupronickel and soft iron. Of course, the mixing ratio is also very particular. When mixing, increasing the content of cupronickel can correspondingly increase the hardness of the long sword. and strength; but if the content of cupronickel is too high, the long sword will become very fragile and easy to break. Adding a small amount of soft iron when mixing can adjust the casting and processing performance of the long sword, but if the content of soft iron is too high, it will also Reduce the hardness and strength of the long sword. Therefore, only by mixing the various metals in a reasonable proportion can we obtain a tough and tough material suitable for use as a sword."

"The third step is purification. Put the matched raw materials into the crucible for melting, so that the three metals can be completely fused together, and at the same time remove the impurities. After multiple smelting, the purest fusion metal can be obtained. The fourth step It is to pour the smelted and mature metal liquid into the sword mold, wait for it to cool, and the long sword will take shape after it solidifies. The last step is to sharpen the long sword."

"Master, according to what you said, wouldn't it be possible for one sword model to make many long swords?" Tianci asked

"Well, this method can create a lot of weapons in a short period of time, and the requirements for blacksmiths are not high, but the long swords cast in this way can't integrate fighting spirit, so they are usually used by the army, and warriors use them tirelessly."

"Why can't the cast weapon be integrated with grudge?" Tianci then asked.

"Casting is nothing more than fusing metals. What's the difference between pouring cold leftovers and feeding pigs together? During the hammer casting process, we remove the stubbornness of the metal with one hammer, and smooth it out, so that we can integrate fighting spirit." .Not much to say, let you put it on the stove and let you practice it!"

Tianci and Ah Yin hurriedly ran to light the fire of the auxiliary stove, and amidst the whirring of the bellows, the fire in the hearth was blazing.Mike picked out a rusty piece of iron from the corner and handed it to Tianci, "Take it, try to smooth this piece of iron!"

"Master, this is the leftover material you used before, it's waste!" Tianci pouted and said unwillingly!

"You guys dare to use good materials? Shall I get you a piece of refined iron?" Mike said with his eyes wide open.

"Hey! Hey!" Tianci took the piece of iron, "How can it be, fine iron can only be used by the master, isn't it a waste of everything we use!"

"You still have a little self-knowledge! Throw it into the stove to make it red!"

While the iron block was still hot, Mike took out three hammers from the room.The head of the first hammer is relatively large, the thick hammer handle is as long as the entire arm, and several iron bars protrude from the surface of the hammer, which looks like a comb from the side, and it is not ordinary heavy.The second one is a little smaller, the hammer handle is only as long as the forearm, and the hammer surface is flat.The third one was even smaller, only the size of a dagger, with a smooth and delicate hammer surface.

"These are the three hammers cast by me, your master. You have seen them before, and now I will tell you their uses one by one." Craftsman Mike picked up the largest hammer head first, "This hammer is called a qualitative hammer. ten kilograms"

"Fifty kilograms!" Ah Yin opened his mouth wide in surprise.Tianci didn't respond, it was only fifty kilograms. . . . . .

"What, can't you hold it? Who told you not to exercise normally, and from today on, lift this hammer a hundred times every day!"

Ah Yin glanced at the hammer in horror, and clenched the handle of the hammer with both hands, using all his strength to "ah~~" he couldn't lift it up!One hundred times a day from now on, Maya!help!
"Any metal has a certain stubbornness, and it is these stubbornness that hinder the fighting spirit that passes through, and these stubbornness is inherent in metals, and it is impossible to eliminate them. Therefore, the role of this qualitative hammer is to beat these stubbornness smoothly. , Beat evenly. Look at these protruding iron bars, it is to beat the iron quickly in one direction to make it even. After each piece of metal burns red for the first time, it must be beaten continuously with this qualitative hammer. When beating, the direction must be certain, and it must not be hit here and there, remember?"

"Remember!" Tianci and Ah Yin said in unison.

"Well, after you beat it with a qualitative hammer, you need to change to this hammer!" Craftsman Mike picked up the second hammer. "This is called a hammer, 25 kilograms. We use this hammer to burn red The metal can be shaped into the shape you want. As long as you master it well, it can become whatever shape you want the metal to be. It can be said bluntly that in our hands, no matter how hard the metal is, it can be turned into a square, round, Long, flat, and pointed are only in our mind."

"The last one is called the smallest hammer. After the qualitative hammer has shaped the shape, use this hammer to trim it. Uneven places, asymmetry, and unevenness are all corrected by it. This is a careful job. , This is also the most critical link in the entire casting process. Whether a masterpiece can be handed down from generation to generation depends on whether the final hammer is used successfully!" Mike played with the hammer in one hand and said, "The hammer The use of can also reflect the gap between blacksmiths and craftsmen!"

"Master, how can I make good use of this timid hammer?" Tianci asked.

"There are no skills, listen more, see more, think more, ask more. Then feel with your heart! Feeling is something that no one can explain clearly, but its existence can determine a blacksmith's lifelong achievement! No feeling Even if you work hard for a lifetime, you can only be a blacksmith!" Mike replied.

"Master, can it be said that this feeling is the talent of our blacksmith industry?" Tianci said.

"You can say that!" Mike looked around at Tianci and Ah Yin, "I can't detect whether you are talented or not. It depends on God's decision!"

Tianci and Ah Yin looked at each other, and they both smiled confidently!
"Okay, the iron is already red, you guys try to beat the iron evenly with a qualitative hammer first!" Mike said and handed the qualitative hammer to Tianci, seeing how Tianci kept pulling the bellows, Mike knew Tianci's Strength is absolutely not proportional to his age. "Ayin, go and use the iron tongs to pinch the iron block out, God sent it!"

Ah Yin hurriedly picked up the iron tongs to clamp the lower part of the iron block, and put it on the big iron pier that he usually used.Tianci took off his shirt, held the handle of the hammer with both hands one after the other, raised it high, and hit the iron block heavily, causing sparks to fly everywhere.As Tianci went up and down the hammer, a series of nails sounded, and a burst of sweat and rain fell, and the iron blocks were smashed into a ball by Tianci.

"Okay, it's not hot anymore, put it in the oven and reheat!" Mike said

Ah Yin threw the iron block into the stove, and rubbed his hands. Just now, he was hit hard by God, and his hands were numb from the shock!Tianci crossed his waist and gasped for breath.

"It's your first time blacksmithing, how do you feel?" Mike looked at the two with a smile and asked.

"It's okay, but I'm a little tired from blacksmithing," Tianci said.Ah Yin also nodded silently.

"You guys are really forging iron..." Mike shook his head and said.

Tianci and Ah Yin looked at each other suspiciously, didn't Master tell us to strike iron?

"I don't understand? Then let me ask you, why did I ask you to forge the iron? It was to smooth out the stubbornness of the iron. During the process of you striking, did you ever feel that the iron became smooth?" Mike asked. arrive.

Tianci and Ah Yin shook their heads, just now they were only focused on beating mechanically, they didn't pay attention to feel the state of the iron block, nor did they pay attention to how to hit the next hammer.

"It's your first time to fight, and it's not your fault. Have you seen the pile of scraps in the corner? From now on, you will burn them red and beat them into one piece! Experience it slowly during the period!" Mike pointed to the pile of scraps piled up in the corner Iron scrap.

Tianci and Ah Yin were stunned. . . . . .The piles in the corner are all the scraps left over from Mike’s casting over the years. Although there are not many left each time, there are still a lot accumulated over the years. It will take them at least three or four months to stamp.

"In the next three months, I will go out for a trip. Before I come back, I hope to see a pile of high-quality iron materials instead of scraps!" Mike said.

"Master, you want to go out, where are you going?" Tianci asked.

"I'm going to meet an old friend and find some materials by the way. When I'm not around, Godsend you to live here. On the one hand, I will accompany Ah Yin as a company, and on the other hand, hurry up and beat out those iron blocks for me!"

The next day, Craftsman Mike packed some simple bags and went out of the city alone. Before leaving, he did not forget to remind Ah Yin to insist on exercising with the hammer one hundred times a day.

During the days when Craftsman Mike was away, the guards of the Marquis Mansion did not send anyone.For half a month, Tianci has been blacksmithing with Ah Yin, purely blacksmithing.Burn two pieces of small scraps red, drop them together and beat them, and after repeated tempering, the two scraps slowly fuse into one.After repeated several times, a small pile of scraps disappeared, and a larger piece of good iron appeared.

In the hot blacksmith's shop, Tianci held iron tongs in one hand and a setting hammer in the other, and cooperated with Ayin to beat the two pieces of waste stacked together on the iron pier.Ah Yin gripped the handle of the qualitative hammer tightly with both hands, and lifted it up with difficulty, 'Dang! "No. 20 hits! Tianci replaced you, I have no strength!" Ah Yin threw the qualitative hammer on the ground, and made a change to Tianci.

"You can't do it after just a few strokes. You really need to exercise. It's been a month and a half, and we haven't even finished one-third of it. When Master comes back, we'll have something to look forward to!" Tianci complained. .

"Can you blame me, this hammer weighs [-] kilograms! Besides, who is as perverted as you can smash it three or four hundred times without feeling tired!" Even so, Ah Yin is still very envious of the god-given strength and perverted patience!He didn't know that there is indeed a god-given power, but the perverted patience is thanks to the little blue light in his body.

"Okay, you take a break first, I'll continue to fight!" Tianci and Ah Yin switched positions.Ah Yin clamped the iron block with iron tongs and rested by the way.Godsend picked up the qualitative hammer 'ping ping pong pong' and began to beat!
After a month and a half of cooperation, the cooperation between Tianci and Ah Yin has become quite tacit.Every time Tianci hammered Ah Yin, he would slightly twist the iron block, and under the violent back and forth beating, the two pieces of scrap iron were fused into one!
"It can't be done, the iron block is starting to harden, continue to burn!" Tianci put down the hammer and asked Ah Yin to throw the iron block into the secondary stove, "Yu'er, don't be lazy, it's your job!"

Yu'er lay motionless at the mouth of the auxiliary stove, seemingly in a deep sleep.The closed eyes blinked because of too much force, trembling.

Ever since Yu'er showed his power that day, Tianci had a whim and asked Yu'er to gather fire elements into the furnace to accelerate the combustion in the furnace.After experimenting, its effect is even better than the blowing bellows given by God.Seeing this effect, Tianci was overjoyed and finally got out of the bellows completely!But some people are happy and others are worried!Gathering such a large amount of fire elements is not difficult for the current Yu'er, but gathering so frequently is a pain for Yu'er!

"Don't pretend to be asleep, I know you heard me." Tianci ran to Yu'er, caressing Yu'er's fiery red fur and launched a tender offensive, "Look, I've been tired for so long, how can you bear to let me go?" Shall I pull the bellows?"

Yu'er didn't buy it, she opened her eyes a little, and pointed at Tianci's body.The meaning is obvious, there is a blue light in your body that can restore all abnormal states, don't think that this fox is not clear!

Seeing that the tenderness offensive was useless, Tianci stood up abruptly and stretched out a finger!
Yu'er glanced at it, closed her left eye, and was about to close her right eye!

Tianci didn't wait for Yu'er to close her right eye, and fiercely stretched out two fingers.

Yu'er lazily stretched out her little paw and scratched three times on the ground!Then close your right eye and continue to bathe in the fire!

"Yu'er counts on you! Deal! But you must give me and Ah Yin each a chicken thigh and a wing!" Tianci bargained fiercely!

"Oh~~" Yu'er screamed strangely!make a deal!

A large amount of fire elements quickly gathered in the furnace, and the raging fire broke out in an instant!
After having a 'rich' lunch at noon, Tianci and Ah Yin sat on chairs to rest.Yu'er was lying on her back on the stove, she had eaten too much these past few days. . . . . .

"Tianci, Ah Yin, are you there?" A voice came from outside the door

"Aunt Liz, we are here!" Tianci hurriedly stood up, walked out of the door, and welcomed Aunt Liz into the shop!
"You have been living in the shop for more than a month, get used to it! Your Uncle Tashika went out on a mission the day before yesterday. Before he left, I asked me to visit you often. I boiled some sweet water for you and me. Ah Yin, try it!" Liz raised the basket in her hand!

Tianci hurriedly took the basket, took out the sweet soup inside and drank it separately with Ah Yin.

"Aunt Liz's sweet soup is really delicious!" Under the guidance of Tianci, Ah Yin became a little enlightened!

"Heh! Heh! Then I will often send it to you in the future!" Liz said happily, "Heavenly gift, why didn't you give Yu'er a drink today? You used to drink together!"

"No, Aunt Liz, look at those bones in front of Yu'er, if you give him sweet water again, it will really burst his belly!" Looking at the bones all over the place, Tianci itched his teeth fiercely!Just eat it, you have to spit out the bones all over the floor, and most of them are concentrated in front of you.

"You said Craftsman Mike let you live here so that you can exercise. Why are you exercising!" Liz asked curiously after looking around the blacksmith shop.

"What else can I do, all day long is to fuse those scrap iron materials into a piece of iron!"

"Oh, God sent you and Ah Yin to start learning casting! I heard from your Uncle Tashika that this Mike is the meanest. Those apprentices were all scared away by him early on. He hasn't taught a single apprentice until now. What!" Because Tianci is an apprentice here, Liz and Tashika have also inquired about Mike's situation!Hearing that Mike started teaching Tianci Casting, I am really happy for him from the bottom of my heart!
"At the beginning, I also thought that Master would teach us casting skills, but I didn't know that he would go out to visit mountains and rivers by himself, and let us stay and fuse the pile of waste... After making so much waste, I really don't know the year of the monkey. Only then can it be completed!" Tianci said.

"You can't say that, there must be a reason why Master told us to do this!" Ah Yin argued.

"A Yin is right, I think there must be a reason for Mike's craftsman, so Godsend, you have to do it in a down-to-earth way, you know?" Liz said!
"Understood, I will meet Aunt Liz!" Tianci said.

"By the way, Tianci, when will you get a kitchen knife? The one at home is about to break down!" Liz said casually looking at the piles of scrap iron!
"Okay, I will definitely call you!" Tianci excitedly agreed!
(End of this chapter)