Chapter 18: Meal Ticket
After settling down the simmering furnace, Chen Xian personally lit a forging furnace, and began to burn a piece of wrought iron red and fold it repeatedly for forging.
After more than ten folds and forging, he forged the iron plate into an iron plate that was one and a half feet long, one inch wide, and two minutes thick.
Chen Xian opened a farmhouse, in order to lead the guests to experience the fun of DIY cold weapons, specially invited an old blacksmith at a high price, and carefully followed the study for a period of time.
After his own demonstration, he had the apprentices light all four iron-striking stoves, and then in groups of several people, some pulling bellows, some cooperating with each other, the wrought iron in the purchased iron was folded and forged thirteen times, and finally it was to be beaten into iron plates one and a half feet long, one inch wide, and two minutes thick, and he demanded that before dinner in the afternoon, each of them must take out a finished product for him to inspect.
When forging, he required the calcination speed to be fast, the forging to be fine, and the forged iron plate to be flat and square.
Chen Xian did this, on the one hand, to let the apprentices practice their skills, and on the other hand, to prepare materials for forging katana swords in the future.
After instructing the apprentices to work for a while, Chen Xian rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the time.
Chen Xian is a fan of mechanical watches, and after he had plenty of money last year, he spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy a Hamilton mechanical watch, and he has always carried it with him, never leaving him, the quality of this watch is quite good, and it is also worth the price.
Finding that the simmering furnace had been igniting for more than two hours, Chen Xian asked the two apprentices who were pulling the bellows to stop and closed the ash outlet of the furnace and the door of the combustion chamber with special iron sheets. He told the two apprentices who pulled the bellows to leave the stove alone and to learn wrought iron with the other apprentices.
At the end of the day, each teenager handed over an iron plate.
According to the quality of the iron plate handed in by each person, Chen Xian gave each person a meal ticket written by himself.
In order to feed this group of teenagers, Chen Xian hired Yang Jingzong's sister-in-law and Wu Liang's second sister-in-law to cook.
Chen Xian's meal tickets for the apprentices were divided into upper, middle and lower classes, and the corresponding food grades were also different, the upper class had meat, rice, and soup, the medium green vegetable tofu with Hu cake, and the worst sauerkraut tofu with sorghum rice.
Chen Xian hopes to motivate the apprentices through the distinction of food and drink.
Young people are always simple, after listening to Chen Xian talk about the meaning of the meal ticket, when he got the first-class meal ticket, he naturally smiled, and when he got the inferior one, envy, jealousy and hatred were also written on his face.
Soon after lunch, Yang Jingzong and Wu Liang came to the shop with a group of young Yang family Zhuangding as usual.
Chen Xian led the Zhuang Ding to the open space behind the courtyard.
On the perimeter of the clearing, against the thorn wall, a row of wooden stakes were planted, and the top, middle, and bottom of the stakes were roughly equivalent to the head, chest, and abdomen of a person, and the targets were painted with lacquer.
Under the back wall of the courtyard, there is a newly made wooden shelf, on which are more than a dozen guns four and a half meters long.
When everyone came to the open space, Chen Xian motioned to Yang Jingzong to feed him a gun to practice the leather method, and asked Wu Liang to take the other Zhuang Ding to practice the poking method.
After Chen Xian opened the farmhouse, although he also asked the young waiters in the store to feed themselves with sticks to practice the style, but the two boys were just enthusiasts, and the marksmanship was very loose, and holding the stick was just a random poke, although it could also achieve the effect of practicing the gun, but after all, there was a lack of rules.
Although the marksmanship of this group of brave men is sparse, after all, they have worked hard for several years, and they are steady, fast and ruthless, which is by no means comparable to those who have not practiced martial arts.
Chen Xian asked the waiter in the store to feed himself a gun and practiced for more than two years, and basically he didn't feel any pressure, and he could even easily play one-to-two.
Now that he has changed to a brave man who has practiced guns, he suddenly feels pressure again.
If you only defend and do not attack, although it is difficult for the opponent to break through his defensive line, the physical and mental pressure caused is extremely great, and the spirit must be highly concentrated, and you must stop and rest after a few minutes of support, otherwise the spirit will begin to slacken, and it will be difficult to block the attack.
It was this pressure that made Chen Xian feel the progress of his marksmanship again.
After practicing the reform method, Chen Xian practiced with several good marksmanship in a row.
The scenes in Lujiazhuang spurred him on, and he had to squeeze out every bit of his potential as soon as possible and turn it into combat effectiveness and survivability.
Chen Xian and the brave men practiced guns, and the young apprentices watched the excitement on the side.
There are no young people who are not good at martial arts, and Chen Xian saw obvious envy and desire in the eyes of these young people.
In the evening, Zhuang Ding was sent away, and Chen Xian asked the apprentices to boil hot water for themselves, and beautifully washed away the stinky sweat.
After taking a bath, putting on a brand-new brocade jacket given by Yang Yuanwai, and putting on a scarf, Chen Xian walked out of the bath room.
In the courtyard of the courtyard, more than 20 apprentices gathered in a heap, and when they saw him come out, they all looked at him with blank eyes.
In the crowd, a small man pushed a big man behind his back and pushed him out of the crowd.
The big man glanced back and saw that everyone was urging him with their eyes, so he stammered and said to Chen Xian: "Master, we also want to learn martial arts from you." ”
This big man is Wu Liang's cousin, named Li Shi, tall and burly, upright personality, the biggest feature is that he can eat, will be a fourteen-year-old person, the amount of food can be equal to two adults, the family calls him four bowls, which means that he has to eat four bowls at a meal.
At that time, Wu Liang was very embarrassed to send this cousin, twelve points reluctant, and felt sorry for the master for sending such a big-bellied man, so he said bluntly that his cousin was very good at eating.
Of course, Chen Xian didn't care about this bit of food, and said that he could eat it when he was a child, and he could only do it when he grew up, so he accepted this apprentice.
The little boy who pushed him behind Li Shi was named Zhang Bai, and his younger brother was named Zhang Song, and the two brothers were the sons of the carpenter who was particularly capable of giving birth.
Chen Xian stopped and looked at the group of teenagers, until they were so uneasy that they looked down and didn't dare to look at his eyes, then he seemed to be reluctant to say, "Okay, since you want to learn, I'll teach you." ”
The teenagers cheered.
When their cheers subsided, Chen Xian said again: "Since you want to learn martial arts, you should also learn some words and understand some truths, otherwise you will hold a sharp blade in your hand, but you don't know whether good and evil are right or wrong, but you are just a group of killers." ”
"Starting tomorrow, you will get up at dawn, read some words with me, understand some truths, and then practice martial arts, and start working at noon."
After speaking, he ignored the young man who was a little stunned, and Shi Shiran returned to his bedroom.
Back in the bedroom, Chen Xian couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
Even if these teenagers don't ask him, he will teach them martial arts, but what others give is more worthy of cherishing than what he begged for......
Chen Xian, who was in a good mood, took out his mobile phone from his backpack and planned to take a selfie, so that he could see what he looked like in the clothes of the Song Dynasty.