Starting Off With A Blacksmith Workshop

Chapter 19: Work

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The two rows of cars carried the three of them towards Yuan Mi’s specialty store. Li Zhenhua drove very steadily.

The three of them bought equipment that Guo Shugui thought was suitable in the round rice store.

By this time, everything that needed to be purchased had been bought. The preliminary work was considered completed.

At noon, the three of them found a local specialty donkey meat restaurant in the county city and ate something.

As the saying went, ‘Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground’. Dragon meat referred to flying dragons. This was already a protected animal now, so the donkey meat on the ground could still be eaten.

There were a total of sixteen places in the country famous for making donkey meat. Their county was one of them.

Moreover, this place was close to the east of the water city. They wanted donkey skin to be cooked into glue, while the county wanted donkey meat to be used as food. In any case, the donkey meat was not wasted at all.

Li Zhenhua, who was eating this meal, was also very happy. He had been in Shanghai for so long and missed his hometown.

Guo Shugui, the foreign child, was also conquered by the donkey meat this time. Previously, he had always thought that the donkey meat in Hejian was delicious. But this time, there was also the donkey meat here.

The three of them ate and drank their fill. Li Zhenhua continued to drive forward, while Guo Shugui took out the equipment he had just bought and fiddled with it.

Liu Xiaodong, who was sitting in the back, leaned back in his chair and fell asleep after a while.

Liu Xiaodong only woke up when the car returned to the entrance of the blacksmith shop.

Especially when they were walking on the road in the town, the swaying made Liu Xiaodong sleep even more soundly.

The three of them carried their purchases to the lobby of the first-floor city department.

After leaving the two of them behind, Li Zhenhua took 100 yuan to the small supermarket and gave the car keys to the supermarket’s lady boss. After a few rejections, the other party finally prepared the car fees himself.

It was easy to owe a favor, but not easy to repay. Sometimes it was better to owe less.

When Li Zhenhua returned, nothing else was touched. Only Liu Xiaodong and he carried a large plastic bucket to the storeroom and locked the door.

This large bucket was filled with hydrochloric acid. If anything happened, no one could bear the responsibility.

After settling the dangerous hydrochloric acid, Li Zhenhua brought the two of them to move the remaining items and placed them in place.

By the time the three of them finished packing, it was already one in the afternoon.

Li Zhenhua originally wanted to let the two of them rest, but for the other two, what happened next was what interested them.

Li Zhenhua could only respect them. Then, he brought the two of them to the backyard and started the furnace to forge.

If Li Zhenhua wanted to forge a Damascus pattern, he would have to forge two different types of steelwork together.

He carried the cutter out of the storeroom. This was not the hand-held one from the angle grinder, but the kind with a seat.

He replaced it with a cutting piece specially used to cut steel and adjusted the cut size.

Liu Xiaodong was left to cut the two types of stainless steel.

He had also played from a blacksmith’s shop since he was young. He knew some of the procedures and knew how to use tools.

Guo Shugui also took out his filming equipment and started filming in the courtyard.

He slapped the furnace and then the air hammer. He did not even let go of the long bench with the grinding stone.

He even told Li Zhenhua about this grinding stone. It could be said to be the witness of this blacksmith shop.

Squeak.

There was a harsh sound of cutting metal. Li Zhenhua had already built the furnace.

Next to Liu Xiaodong, he took some of the cut steel bars and placed them on the anvil.

After that, Li Zhenhua interspersed the two types of stainless steel. One was 410 and the other was 420. Just like that, they were arranged 30 centimeters thick.

Then, Li Zhenhua turned on the cold welding machine beside him and welded the many stainless steel pieces together.

Then, he put the welded stainless steel into the furnace to boil.

Taking advantage of this moment, Li Zhenhua went to the air hammer and adjusted it to the highest level. The downward force was adjusted to the optimal level according to the Eye of Analysis.

The three of them went about their tasks, all of them moving forward methodically.

The stainless steel gradually heated up in the furnace until it could be forged.

Li Zhenhua took the iron tongs and placed the raw materials from the furnace on the forging table.

Li Zhenhua stepped on the foot of the hammer and the air hammer landed hard on the stainless steel.

The stainless steel gradually changed shape according to Li Zhenhua’s needs.

Towards the end, the size of the stainless steel gradually exceeded Li Zhenhua’s expectations because he had added too much material. The thickness of 30 centimeters had to be pressed into 4mm thick steel bars.

The length of such a large piece of stainless steel could be imagined.

Li Zhenhua could only change his strategy and press down bit by bit. After pressing down on the front, he cut off the rest of the material.

After this piece of material was pressed, Li Zhenhua gradually became familiar with it. He used as much material as he could.

The stainless steel that Li Zhenhua had forged into a steel strip was cut into pieces again and welded into a stainless steel rectangle.

The stainless steel went into the furnace again and burned. It was time to repeat the operation.

This time, the stainless steel was a total of one kilogram in weight.

He controlled each knife at 80 grams. If he removed the scraps, he could make 10 table knives.

After the stainless steel was forged a few times, Li Zhenhua felt that he could already proceed to the next step.

Then, with the help of the Eye of Analysis, he divided the forged materials evenly into ten portions.

Li Zhenhua threw one of the raw materials into the furnace to calcine. Then there was no need for the large hammer.

He just had to use the hammer and smash it manually. Of course, at this time, the blacksmith’s assistant would be online, which was to swing the sledgehammer.

“Fatty, stop cutting first. Come and swing the sledgehammer.”

Li Zhenhua shouted at Liu Xiaodong, who was still cutting the raw materials. He had to be loud. At this moment, there was a lot of noise in the courtyard, so it was impossible to hear if he spoke softly.

“Alright, go drink some water first. I’ll come after I’m done cutting this one.”

Liu Xiaodong was wearing goggles and did not look up. He continued what he was doing and shouted behind him.

Li Zhenhua didn’t say that he would start immediately. He walked to the table at the side, picked up the cold warm water, and poured it into his stomach.

Guo Shugui recorded all the details faithfully at the side.

In his eyes, these captured images were top-notch material.

Just add some post-production and cut them out. This would become a promotional video.

After Li Zhenhua finished drinking the water with salt, Liu Xiaodong wiped the sweat off his head and walked over to take a sip.

When the two of them were ready, they walked over to the blacksmith’s furnace.

Liu Xiaodong walked straight to the shovel and grabbed a large hammer beside it.

Li Zhenhua used the tongs to take out the burning raw material.

This time, it was different from the watermelon knife he made previously. That time, he only used the ready-made raw materials to modify it.

But this time, a piece of raw material was forged into the shape of a dining knife.

It could be said that this was a normal forging process.

Li Zhenhua held a small hammer while Liu Xiaodong held a large hammer. The materials also began to deform under the two of them.