A group of people suddenly came to their senses, and Xiao Zheng praised the old man: "As the saying goes, there is an old man in the Taoist family, if there is a treasure, it is true." "When the things of building the furnace and making the bellows are arranged, thinking that it will take four or five days to do all these things, Xiao Zheng is ready to say goodbye and go out.

After walking to the stove in the courtyard and seeing a pile of coal, Xiao Zheng said, "Brother Xiao, why don't you use these coals to make a fire at home to keep warm?" Xiao Hai said: "This thing of charcoal starts when the fire is big, and the fire will be extinguished after it is small, and it will not take long to extinguish, it is not easy to serve, and every time you use wood to make a fire, it will make the house dirty and miasma, and it is better to use firewood to burn the kang to make it warmer." But it's a good thing to use to make iron." Out of the courtyard gate, Xiao Zheng took out the usual money from the burden on his back and handed it to Xiao Hai, ready to let Xiao Hai buy the materials for the furnace and bellows, no matter how Xiao Zheng gave it, Xiao Hai was determined not to accept it. The reason is very simple, the method of handing over to us to make iron is already a gift of karma, and if you collect your money again, not only will you not be able to do it in your conscience, but you will be poked in the back.

After going out, Xiao Zheng suddenly shouted to Xiao Hai again: "Brother Xiao, you must collect some horse urine before smelting iron, remember, you must have horse urine!" And prepare some sheep fat, I have a wonderful use! "What's the use of those foul-smelling things?" Xiao Hai looked at the back of Xiao Zheng in the distance, scratched his head and thought for a long time, and he didn't know what he was going to do, anyway, just prepare according to what his little brother said.

Early in the morning five days later, Xiao Zheng came to Xiao Hai's house against the cold wind, and when he entered the courtyard gate, he saw the iron-making furnace that had been built by two people more than two people, standing quietly in the courtyard, a huge wind direction on the left and right sides of the furnace, and the air outlet was connected to the furnace with a pottery pipe. What Xiao Zheng admired the most was that Xiao Hai's father had people build a large platform with stones by the hearth, which made it much more convenient for people to send molten iron to the furnace. The huge bellows of the two have been set up, and the two straights can easily pull up the bellows, and the platform by the stove has been piled up with pig iron and wrought iron sheets covered with mud according to Xiao Zheng's instructions, ready for all this, and several people are looking at Xiao Zheng with antiquation.

Seeing that the auspicious time had arrived, Xiao Hai's father took a few people who were working to kill a rooster incense sacrifice stove, lit the firewood and added coal after the fire, the two bellows began to blow whirring, Xiao Hai's father regardless of his old age, personally operated, a layer of pig iron was put into the furnace and then put the thin wrought iron sheet covered with mud into it, after a layer of sandwich and a half of the furnace, Xiao Hai's father shouted to a few people who pulled the bellows below: "Pull hard!" With the trumpet of work, the flames in the furnace rose to the sky. Towards noon, the molten iron began to boil in the furnace, and the molten iron rattled in the red fire.

Xiao Hai's father has been standing on the platform at the mouth of the furnace with Xiao Hai's support, staring at the change in the color of the molten iron with good eyes, seeing that the molten iron is all boiling, the old man trembled and burst into tears, and suddenly knelt on the platform, and stretched out his hand to the sky and shouted: "God, there are hundreds of steels in this furnace, ancestors and ancestors, children have made hundreds of steels!" Thank God! Xiao Zheng heard the old man kneeling on the stage and said these words, and he felt a little depressed in his heart, I taught you the method of smelting iron, and the molten iron was refined by you, you have nothing to thank God for, but after thinking about the beliefs of the ancients, I understand.

The old man tossed a lot of excitement on the stage, and was helped down by Xiao Hai, and when he arrived in front of Xiao Zheng, Xiao Hai's father suddenly knelt down for Xiao Zheng, scared Xiao Zheng a lot, and quickly helped the old man up, the old man's face was distorted at this time, and he grabbed Xiao Zheng's hand and said: "Baby, where did you get this secret method that has not been handed down, during the great cause of the previous dynasty, I was a master of the Sui Dynasty to do great work, and even the iron-making furnace in the court may not be able to practice such a good iron. As soon as the molten iron was bright and yellowish, the old man confirmed that it was a furnace of steel, and that every good iron produced would be thanked by heaven and earth." Xiao Zheng patted the old man's hand and said, "Old man, I promise you, in the future, the iron will be like this every day, and there will only be better than this in the future, and nothing worse than this." Xiao Hai was still breathless, just patted him on the shoulder heavily and went to work on something else.

"Open the furnace!" With the shout of the old man, the first red molten iron was scooped out and put into the sand mold, and part of the molten iron was quickly turned into a hoe and sickle, and part of it was made into an iron ingot for later use. After eating in the afternoon, the mold that has cooled is scattered, the rough blanks of hoes and sickles are exposed, and a hoe is put on the small furnace next to it to burn red, and then it begins to be forged with a hammer, after trimming and forming, the red-hot hoe is pressed directly into the toilet urine bucket, and a smell of snorting and pulling rises to the sky, a group of people cover their noses and endure the smell of the hoe to take the hoe out of the horse urine, rinse it with water, and see a layer of dark blue black light flashing on the surface of the hoe.

Xiao Hai's father gently stroked the surface of the hoe with his calloused hand, the hoe was constantly shaking, but the tears were left in a puff, Xiao Hai and a few other people who often strike iron were also excited to watch. After making a wooden handle and setting the hoe in place, Xiao Hai found an open space and carried it down with all his strength, and the ground for three or nine days was frozen like iron, only to hear the sound of "boom". A piece of soil was lifted out by the hoe, the soil stubble was cut neatly, picked up the hoe and looked carefully at the edge of the blade is safe and sound, Xiao Hai convulsed and fixed the hoe at the hoe handle and bent it repeatedly, moved more than a dozen times before hearing a sound to remove the iron hoe handle, looking at the broken part of the hoe handle, Xiao Hai's father smiled and said: "That's right, the old man is sure that this is the real 100 steel, I never thought that listening to Mr. Xiao's method, this steel was so simple to make, haha.......", Looking at the excited looks of several people, Xiao Zheng also laughed and said, "This is done."

When the excitement of Xiao Hai and these people passed, Xiao Hai's father gathered the people in the courtyard, more than 20 men and women stood by the fireside, and when they saw that everyone had arrived, Xiao Hai's father said to the crowd: "Everyone has seen it today, Mr. Xiao Xiao taught us this method of iron-making is a rare good method in the world, none of us are allowed to say this method of iron-making to outsiders, once someone says it, it is our enemy, I don't care who he is, even Xiao Hai and my old man will not let him go, From today onwards, our yard is being re-circled, and no one can come in except for the men who work in this iron-making furnace, do you hear me! ”

Meng Guang and the others solemnly said to Xiao Hai's father: "Uncle, don't worry, we all followed Brother Xiao from birth to death, and we have never betrayed our brothers on the battlefield.

Xiao Hai's father began to arrange for people to start building walls around the yard again, Xiao Zheng called Xiao Hai aside, and took out a few pieces of paper from the baggage, Xiao Hai opened it carefully, with instinct he felt that Xiao Hai gave him a duel that he had never seen before, and after looking at it for a long time, he still didn't understand, raised his head Xiao Zheng and said to Xiao Hai: "Brother Xiao, a few pictures are three objects, one is the method of making thin iron sheets with molten iron, one is the method of making iron stoves and iron pipes, and the other is the method of briquettes, If you don't understand, feel free to go to me, take advantage of the cold weather to find a way to make it as soon as possible, and we will sell it for a few more dollars before the New Year. ”

Seeing that the matter was almost done, he bowed his hand to a few people and went home.