Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

Let Kavin sign the guild contract and go to the government office to register. Lu Meng, a master craftsman, had his first apprentice.

Lu Meng arranged for him to stay in his own store. I have food and accommodation there, and I do various chores part-time when I have nothing to do.

The space of this store is not large, with only a slightly differentiated workspace, storage room and counter.

It is also located in an extremely remote location. Among the winding alleys, even in broad daylight, there is not much light when you walk here, as if you are deep into darkness.

The store doesn’t even have a name and relies purely on word of mouth from regular customers.

——Their business is not suitable for publicity.

As for looking after the store and selling goods, a young Shaq man named Ashu is in charge.

On the surface, this Ashu appears to be a clerk in the store, but in fact he is the real person in charge of the store. He is directly sent by the Brotherhood, and all the financial affairs pass through his hands.

After all, the works in the store only carry the title of "Handmade by Beiyou Masters". In fact, they have various origins and are all assets of the Brotherhood.

Lumeng's name is not very popular, let alone providing added value, it would be fine if the signboard is not ruined.

Most of the customers who now come to their stores to buy weapons are cash-strapped and want to get a bargain, and they don't care whether they are works by famous artists.

However, Lumeng’s member benefits are still there. For example, he can give priority to the weapons delivered to the store, and then buy them himself for half the price. It's just that he looked around and found nothing he liked, so there was no need to forcefully take advantage of it.

In addition, as the "chief" (only) craftsman, Lu Meng can also apply for project funds from Ashu to repair the weapon forging platform, purchase raw materials, and pay for the food expenses of Kavin, the new apprentice.

——As an apprentice, the only guarantee is that the master will provide for their food and accommodation.

Therefore, there are also many poor people who are willing to become apprentices without any expectation of learning skills, just to make a living, which is no different from selling themselves into slavery as is often said.

Generally, masters often deduct the food standards of their apprentices because they have to pay for it out of their own pocket.

But Lu Meng spent the funds he applied for anyway, so he didn’t use them in vain. There was no need to deliberately make things difficult for Kavin in this regard. Instead, the hornless man was surprised and surprised.

But Ashu seemed to have some objections to his behavior.

According to his understanding, Lu Beiyou's role was just to show off the equipment in the workshop. Restarting work would have been an additional expense.

That’s all.

Just think that this new craftsman has his own pursuits, and it's okay to take advantage of the organization's benefits within a reasonable range. Ashu himself has done this.

But even if you want to recruit apprentices and gather more wool... you still have to pretend to be a bit more like you.

In terms of racial talent, those who are best at forging are the children of the Scorched Earth among humans, such as this craftsman from Lubei.

I don’t ask you to recruit another apprentice who is also a son of the scorched earth.

Even the Children of the Green Plains or the worker bees of the Hive Clan are fine. At least they seem to be hard-working and willing to work. They have always been widely praised as an exploited labor force.

What's the point of recruiting a hornless person?

Ashu is not discriminating against Kavin from the perspective of status.

He is a Shaq himself and knows that Shaq has a tradition of despising labor and has no talent in learning skills.

Under the background of the implementation of the New Deal and multi-racial cohabitation, it would seem a bit unprofessional to recruit unemployed people as apprentices, and it would feel like a related household.

Give customers a bad impression.

This makes the store's already low reputation even worse.

However, that was what he thought in his heart. Ashu did not embarrass Lu Meng in the process.

This batch of funds will be approved immediately.

It wasn't his own money he spent anyway.

As members of the same fraternity, they are not subordinate to each other. They still have to cooperate sincerely in order to take a commission from everyone's performance.

For this reason, Ashu can take a few steps back to show his good will. Being convenient for others will be convenient for himself in the future.

I believe that after the new craftsman has had enough trouble in the future, he will gradually adapt to the work here and join the ranks of fishing with him.

Lu Meng could probably guess what the person in charge meant.

But he has his own considerations.

To be his apprentice, you don't need to be highly talented.

Rather, it is best not to have talent, and true genius is even less likely to be needed.

Students are geniuses, but successful teaching does not reflect the teacher's ability.

Carving flowers out of rotten wood and putting mud on walls is a real sense of accomplishment!

——The real reason is of course not that Lu Meng has so much free time.

The main reason is that he has only learned [Weapon Forging] for a while, and has only just entered level 5. He is not even half-experienced, so how can he really teach apprentices.

This is not as simple as teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death.

If you really meet such a thing as a blacksmith genius, you may surpass yourself within a few days of starting, then who will be the master...

That is to say, Lu Meng has read ancient science books, and his theoretical explanations are very clear and logical, and he can scare others into being stunned, so that the secret will not be exposed.

Even because of his occasional nonsense, the sales of weapons have slightly increased.

After all, the former nominally old craftsman had never been to the shop even a few times.

In contrast, although Lu Meng looks young and somewhat unreliable, at least he is a visible and tangible living person, and his credibility is gradually increasing.

As a craftsman, Lu Meng's [Armor Craftsman] is slightly better than his embarrassing weapon forging skills, which is already level 14.

But he was not prepared to teach this technique.

So if you want to recruit an apprentice, it would be best for a loser like Kavin, who knows nothing about blacksmithing and has no future.

For example, some laboratory instructors may find that their favorite students are not necessarily those who have the potential to graduate quickly. Instead, they may be those who have no talent, work hard, don't know how to fight for their own rights, and delay graduation indefinitely... A senior brother who has been working part-time.

Lu Meng planned to improve his weapon forging skills while trying to see if he could teach this cheap apprentice what he had learned.

Learn now and sell now.

Think of it as reviewing knowledge and confirming each other.

If you have any novel ideas, you can let the apprentice try them out first.

——Otherwise, you’ll always have to do it yourself, and it won’t be fun if the furnace blows up.

To put it another way, if even a pure layman like Kawen can teach successfully, wouldn't it mean that Lu Meng's own learning direction is correct and extremely effective.

With the apprentice, Lu Meng has another way of trial and error besides the panel.

By the way, you can also brush the "teaching" task on the panel.

However, in order not to mislead others and let people discover their true level. Lu Meng decided to bring his [Weapon Forging] to a basic level or above first, at least one or two levels higher than the opponent's before he started teaching entry-level knowledge.

Anyway, as a new apprentice, Kavin has to go through a testing period.

in guild practice.

It could be as short as a few months or a year, or as long as ten years or a lifetime.

This euphemistically means it depends on the apprentice's sincerity and whether he can maintain his filial piety to the master. In fact, I just can’t let you learn real skills so quickly and extend the time of squeezing.

Of course, from a master's point of view, this is also a process of examining and recognizing people, and it can be regarded as a protection for oneself.

You must know that if you become an apprentice, you will be another competitor in the same industry, who is younger and more willing to work than you. This must be done with caution.

Before they can obtain enough benefits for themselves or future generations, they will hide some of them.

What's more, the old master came here like this when he was young.

The conventions in the industry are the result of mutual checks and balances over a long period of development.

Lu Meng is not essentially a person in the blacksmith industry. His main needs and sources of interests are not consistent with those of the old masters, so he will not be too restricted by these restrictions.

But on the surface, this can be followed and exploited.

As for Cavan.

As the new apprentice of Master Beiyou of the unknown blacksmith shop, he still had no idea of ​​the reason why he was accepted. He only had a vague sense of apprehension and a hint of expectation for the future.

Thanks to book friend Roger Otalifus for another tip! Thanks to book friend Daofa Naturally Chengxinmo for your reward and support——