"Well, according to your situation, I have two recommendations for you. ”

The old man stroked his long beard, rolled his eyes, and then said slowly:

"One of them is to go to Tangkou to report, to be the captain of a work team, as long as you lead the team for half a month a month, to complete the workload we specify, as for the remuneration, you need to negotiate it yourself. ”

"And what about the second one?"

After waiting for a long time and not waiting for the next step, Chen Zhiyuan even thought that the old man had a sudden illness and forgot.

"Second, that is, with my letter of recommendation, go to the refining hall to find a refiner named Ouyang Yushui to report, I see that you are young and have a brute in your body, it is a pity not to learn refining. ”

"Hmm? Don't you say you have to have a foundation?"

Chen Zhiyuan was a little strange, of course he wanted to learn refining, but he didn't have any foundation in refining, and the requirements for recruiting new people in Nanshanmen required people with refining experience to go to the refining hall, what kind of situation do you say now?

"Of course you can't have a foundation, haven't you heard of it? It's that the monthly money will be less every month, and it will be a lot busier, but you can learn some skills, and you can eat and live, what's so picky about this?

After thinking about it, Chen Zhiyuan has seen the construction site, and the foreman is carrying a bunch of small jobs to move here and there on the construction site, and he has also mixed on the construction site before, so he is naturally familiar.

But refining weapons, he really hasn't seen this, maybe he has learned refining tools, and he can build his own puppets like Mo He in the future? No matter how bad it is, it's okay to use his work to get himself a few pieces of equipment, right?

"Then let's refine the weapon, anyway, I don't have to press my body after learning more skills. ”

The old man nodded, picked up the pen and wrote and drew on a piece of paper for a while, then folded it and handed it to Chen Zhiyuan.

"Go, go to the Chengdong Refining Hall to find Ouyang Yushui to report before the sun goes down today, and it will be invalid if it expires. ”

With the letter in hand, Chen Zhiyuan just lifted his leg and ran towards the east of the city.

The appearance of the refining hall in the east of the city is not much different from that of an ordinary blacksmith shop, and a puff of black smoke can be seen coming out of the chimney of the refining hall from a distance, so Chen Zhiyuan naturally did not find the wrong place.

"You're the newcomer named Yuan Zhicheng?"

The one who spoke was a shirtless red-faced little strong man, why did he say that he was small, because his height was almost two heads lower than Chen Zhiyuan's, but the muscles in his arms were as thick as Chen Zhiyuan's thighs, so he was said to be a strong man, and his voice was like a broken bellows, with a thick nasal voice.

The little strong man Ouyang Yushui looked at the letter in his hand, and the sweat running down his arm quickly wet the place where he was pinching.

"Yes, an old man with a white beard in the City Lord's Mansion recommended me to come here. ”

Chen Zhiyuan stood quietly beside him, trying his best to leave a good impression on this refiner named Ouyang Yushui, after all, if there were no accidents, he would be his teacher from now on.

"It doesn't look very sturdy, doesn't it look very strong, it says you're a physical cultivator?

Ouyang Yushui circled around Chen Zhiyuan as he spoke, and pinched Chen Zhiyuan's arm a few times as he spoke, nodded for a while, and shook his head for a while, Chen Zhiyuan didn't know what he meant.

"Do you see the hammer over there? go pick it up and hit the board on the anvil a hundred times, and I'll see how it goes, remember, hit it with all your might, and don't be lazy." ”

After speaking, he ignored Chen Zhiyuan, walked straight back to the stove, and continued his iron-making work.

Chen Zhiyuan was a little speechless, but he still walked to the anvil and picked up the big hammer.

The hammer didn't look big, but it was very heavy, Chen Zhiyuan tried it, and felt that it was more than two hundred pounds.

Rolling up his sleeves, Chen Zhiyuan no longer thinks about so many things that he has and does not have, since he has decided to come to learn refining, he can't just give up after suffering a little at the beginning, right?

It's still a little difficult to do his best, except for the first 20 or so knocks Chen Zhiyuan knocked very hard, and in the next time, Chen Zhiyuan wanted to give up after knocking.

Originally, it was not difficult to knock a hundred times, but the difficult thing was to carry such a heavy hammer and knock it a hundred times with all your might.

At the beginning, Chen Zhiyuan was still thinking about what shape he would have to knock the iron piece on the anvil into within a hundred strokes, wouldn't it be good if it cracked?

But soon Chen Zhiyuan's mind changed, because he took such a heavy hammer and knocked it down, and there was only a small dent left on the iron sheet, and there was no change at all.

This hammer is not an ordinary hammer, and this piece of iron is not an ordinary piece of iron.

And with the increasing number of blows, Chen Zhiyuan also found that the hammer in his hand seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, although the weight increased each time was very small, but when he knocked more than 30 times, the weight on the hammer was close to two hundred and fifty catties.

The more you knock Chen Zhiyuan, the slower the speed of the blow, and when it comes to the back, it is already a knock to stop and rest for a while, and then knock again, and knock for a while.

Despite this, Chen Zhiyuan's strength with the hammer was still as Ouyang Yushui said, and the traces on the iron sheet were becoming more and more obvious.

Just when Chen Zhiyuan didn't know how many times he had knocked and was still knocking mechanically, suddenly a hand stretched out next to him and grabbed the hammer in Chen Zhiyuan's hand tightly, Chen Zhiyuan felt as if he was clamped by something, with his strength, the hammer still didn't move.

"Well, it's a hundred. ”

Ouyang Yushui didn't know when he had come to the side, and it was he who held the hammer in Chen Zhiyuan's hand.

Hearing that it had been knocked a hundred times, Chen Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body relaxed, and he felt pain everywhere.

Looking at Ouyang Yushui again, he first shook the hammer in his hand, and then carefully and slowly pressed it on the iron sheet, and then nodded.

"A hundred times, a total of eighty-six times is full strength, fourteen times not to do all your strength, I will pass you as a pass, today's time is not early, you come back tomorrow morning. ”

Chen Zhiyuan felt that he was obviously fighting with all his might, and he didn't know how Ouyang Yushui could see that he had failed to do his best fourteen times. And Chen Zhiyuan didn't say anything, Ouyang Yushui just left by himself, is this the master's disappointment to the new apprentice?

The next day, Chen Zhiyuan still arrived at the refining hall on time, but when he came, Ouyang Yushui was already working in front of the stove.

"You're late, remember to be a little earlier tomorrow. Today's task is to help me pull this bellows, and when you are familiar with the various equipment of the Refining Hall, as well as the characteristics of various ores and materials, you can officially start learning the refining tools. ”

"Okay. ”

Chen Zhiyuan also knows that apprentice, no matter what identity you are outside, here you are a newcomer who doesn't know anything, and you have to learn everything from scratch. However, just as Ouyang Yushui said, when he was familiar with various equipment and materials, Chen Zhiyuan also felt that he could formally learn refining weapons, I hope it won't be too long.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I already found out about your problem when you knocked on that piece of Xuanying Iron yesterday. Although you have strength, you don't know how to use your strength at all, no matter what you do, you have to control the rhythm by yourself, do you understand the rhythm?"

Ouyang Yushui knocked on the pipe in his hand, Chen Zhiyuan didn't know what he was doing as a cultivator with such a thing, didn't he know that smoking was harmful to health?

"Don't underestimate the issue of rhythm, even if you don't work as an alchemist in the future, you can't ignore the rhythm. Although it is difficult for others to control your movements without rhythm, it is also easy for you to fall into confusion because of this. Let's start by pulling the bellows to practice, and when you're done, I'll arrange other things for you. ”

"Okay. ”

Chen Zhiyuan nodded, Ouyang Yushui didn't care whether he listened or not, turned around and went to work on the things in his hands, after all, now each refining hall has its own tasks, and it is not light, Ouyang Yushui does not have much time to take apprentices now, as for how much Chen Zhiyuan can learn, it can only depend on himself.

Chen Zhiyuan naturally listened to it, after all, the first day he came in, it was also the first few words that Ouyang Yushui said to himself, even if it was pretentious, he had to listen to it.

But how can there be a rhythm in pulling the bellows? Chen Zhiyuan was in doubt about this.

The bellows of the Refining Hall are not as simple as the bellows of the blacksmith shop outside, the bellows of the Refining Hall are larger and the structure is more complicated, but Chen Zhiyuan is just pulling the bellows, and he doesn't need to understand how the bellows are made.

There's a grip next to the bellows, and that's where the bellows are handled.

Chen Zhiyuan grabbed it with his hand, and it was obvious that the spiritual power in his body was being absorbed by the grip little by little, although it was slow, but if he didn't let go, Chen Zhiyuan felt that he could hold on for an hour at most.

The grip of the bellows is relatively easy to pull out, but it is particularly difficult to push it back. Ouyang Yushui said that to grasp the rhythm, it should be to grasp the balance between pushing and pulling, if you can't grasp it, you may be more tired to work.

Such a simple thing is not difficult for Chen Zhiyuan, it is nothing more than the strength used at the beginning when pulling out, and the strength gradually becomes smaller later, and the same is true when pushing back, after all, everything is difficult at the beginning.

After a busy morning, Chen Zhiyuan finally had time to rest for a while, at this time Ouyang Yushui also sat next to him, glanced at Chen Zhiyuan's hands that were rubbing, and Ouyang Yushui handed over the cigarette stick in his hand.

"Thanks, I don't need this. ”

Chen Zhiyuan shook his head and refused, after all, Father Chen had taught him to stay away from these things since he was a child.

Ouyang Yushui didn't care either, he twitched it himself, and then said slowly to Chen Zhiyuan.

"Yuan Zhicheng, right? You still work very hard, but you don't seem to have found the rhythm I said, are you already very tired after working in the morning?"

Seeing Chen Zhiyuan nodded, Ouyang Yushui stood up and walked to the side of the bellows, and put his big fan-like hand on the grip of the bellows.

"Remember, I'll only show you once, this is also a little trick, look good, learn hard, you have to learn more in the future." ”

After speaking, Ouyang Yushui pushed the bellows vigorously.

Watching Ouyang Yushui push the bellows seems to be very laborious, but there is an indescribable sense of harmony, as if it is the same as what he said, a rhythmic feeling, as if Ouyang Yushui has been integrated with this bellows, as if he can work like this until he is old.

Chen Zhiyuan looked at this scene, and seemed to feel that he understood something in his heart, but he didn't seem to understand anything.

Seeing that Chen Zhiyuan fell into deep thought, Ouyang Yu's movements in his hands slowly stopped, and he sat next to Chen Zhiyuan and smoked again.