In the corner, Chen Ping saw more than a dozen pieces of steel, which were very different from the previous ones, made into an axe-shaped, the external source was thinner, forming an arc, and there was a square grip at the back, on which a hole was drilled that could be used to thread ropes.

"What do you want these things for?" The iron tongs picked up the formed plough and threw it into the bucket on the side, and the sneering white smoke rose, Chen Hecai said, "I heard Erniu say that you cut rice compared to Chengding, and came up with this curved plow, why don't you focus on farming?" ”

It didn't take long for Chen Hecai to persuade him again.

"Uncle Blacksmith, this is your money." Chen Ping took out thirty yuan from his pocket and put it on the table next to him, "I earned it by selling fire sickles." ”

Thirty texts, put in one place, that's also a small pile.

"That's what three fire sickles were sold." Chen Ping added another sentence, this is also the share that was planned to be given to Chen Erniu, he originally wanted to give it to Chen Erniu secretly, but now Uncle Blacksmith wants to persuade farmers again, Chen Ping simply took the money out, which was more direct.

A set of fire sickles is ten wen, Chen Hecai is still clear about this, this is about to catch up with the income from an iron plow.

"Are there really so many?" Chen Hecai put down the hammer, a little skeptical.

"Then can there be a fake?" Chen Ping said, "I don't have any other income, and this money won't be given by my grandfather." ”

Chen Hecai nodded, believing Chen Ping's words.

"I can't take this money, I know why you want to give it to me. Those scraps of iron are worthless, and if you take them, they are nothing. Chen Hecai grabbed the copper coin, "Take it, go back to your grandfather, and keep it for your wife." ”

Eleven, middle-aged men, don't have to wait until they become a Ding to marry a wife, in fact, there are many people who get married at the age of eleven.

"Uncle Blacksmith, what you said is not right, is it true that if I marry a wife, I won't marry Erniu?" Chen Ping will definitely not take back the thirty yuan, "That fire sickle actually not only made so much money, I took a part of it, and the cousin who sold it in the county also took a part, and the rest is the thirty yuan." ”

"And there may not be so much in the future, but as long as you take the material from Uncle Blacksmith, you should share it. This is faith, unless Uncle Blacksmith doesn't want to beat me that broken iron again, then I can only go to someone else to cooperate, I'm afraid that there will be more than just so much money. ”

Chen Hecai shook the copper coin in his hand, and when he saw Chen Ping's serious face, he said, "Okay, I'll take this money." You still fight the broken iron with me, and I am afraid that there is no good iron in this township. ”

has been fighting iron for half his life, but Chen Hecai did not boast about himself, he does have that strength.

"I just have one more thing to trouble Uncle Blacksmith." Chen Ping took out a piece of paper and unfolded it.

Seeing Chen Ping take out another drawing, Chen Hecai was immediately excited, and before Chen Ping could completely spread out the hemp paper, he took it over.

"What's the best idea you can come up with?" Chen Hecai looked at the drawing and found that there were four curved lines drawn on it, a flat plate below, and other components, which were more complicated than the picture of the Quyuan plow, but this thing didn't look like a farm tool, "What's the use of this?" ”

"This is the trap, commonly known as the sleeve." Chen Ping pointed to a curved line on it, "This is a spring, I don't know if Uncle Blacksmith can make it?" ”

Chen Ping's animal trap is made of four semicircular wires, an iron plate at the bottom as a seat, and then two springs to store power, it is not a problem to catch rabbits and pheasants, if the springs are good enough, the clips are tight enough, and it is okay to catch wild boars.

In later generations, Chen Ping himself made this kind of trap, but that was when there was a ready-made wire, and gold could be drawn into wire Chen Ping knew that it was no problem at this time, but as for the wire, Chen Ping was not sure.

"I'll see." Seeing that it was not a farm tool, Chen Hecai's interest decreased a lot, but he didn't say that he wouldn't do it, "You come back in two days, and I'll put the drawings here." ”

"Uncle Blacksmith, I have a picture for you here." Chen Ping pulled out another picture.

"It's true that you call me uncle, but you can't do this all the time." Chen Hecai thought that Chen Ping was asking him to get something strange again, "This will delay the farming." ”

is more active in caring about agricultural affairs than the agricultural official, Chen Ping wonders if Uncle Blacksmith has been the township official, and he has not yet gotten rid of the role.

It is the basic duty of the township officials to persuade the peasants, but it is also the old emperor's calendar. In the first year of the emperor's reign, Su Wei proposed that the township officials should manage civil affairs, including agricultural affairs and dispute litigation, and the rights of the township officials were much greater at that time than they are now.

But it turned out that Su Wei's policy was wrong, and with the bond of human affection, it would only be naïve to want to use the township officials elected from the village to manage the villagers.

Lack of fairness and justice, and don't make trouble.

"Uncle Blacksmith, are you sure you don't want to watch it?" Chen Ping took the drawing and glanced at the skin bag at Chen Hecai's feet, "How is this skin bag used?" ”

"Fortunately, the wind is a little light, and the charcoal is not burned thoroughly enough." After using it for so many years, Chen Hecai was also a little helpless about the skin bag, "If the wind is stronger, this charcoal fire will be more vigorous, and it will be much easier to melt iron." ”

I don't know much about metallurgy Chen Ping, but I remember that it was mentioned in chemistry textbooks that to improve the efficiency of ironmaking, it is necessary to build a blast furnace and use blast furnace to make iron.

Blast furnace ironmaking is not only the construction of a blast furnace, but also the air supply equipment. Chen Ping couldn't figure it out by himself in blast furnace ironmaking, but this air supply equipment was also for the block smelting furnace, which was built and dismantled, and Chen Ping had already had a belly case.

"Uncle Blacksmith, don't you know how to do carpentry? If you take this picture, you may be able to solve the problem of insufficient wind. Chen Ping said.

The drawing is a bellows, painted with the firewood that has not yet been burned out in the stove, and the lines on the hemp paper are also clear.

"Make it according to the components on it, then assemble it in one place, pull the handle of this activity, whether it is advancing or retreating, it can supply air." Chen Ping explained, although Chen Hecai was not sure that this bellows was so magical, but the example of Qu Yuanli was there, and he was willing to believe Chen Ping and listened very carefully.

Fortunately, I am an engineering student, and I am lucky that my home is in the countryside.

On the way back, Chen Ping hummed a song, and the thatched house in his eyes was so cute.

There were no river crabs to be found on the river beach, the cave was empty, and Chen Ping once saw the flat snake head that exposed the entrance of the cave, and he never dared to go into it again.

The distance of the morning run still stayed at the place where he looked at Xia Tu Village, and the time of a trip back and forth did not change much, ** The sound from the mountains always made Chen Ping think about Uncle Blacksmith's shop.

On this day, Chen Ping estimated that the time was about the same, and when it was time to go to the blacksmith shop to have a look, Chen Erniu carried more than a dozen animal traps into the house.

"Grandpa said that after waiting for a few days, if you don't go to pick it up, let me send it to you." Chen Erniu put the trap on the ground, "Brother Ping, should we go to the grave today." ”

"Do you remember?" Chen Ping thought that he was the only one who still remembered, "Well, today is the fifth day, and it is time to go to Pingdong." ”

"If he's not here, we'll go to Xiatu Village to find him and beat him up." Chen Erniu remembered this.