23. Rebecca's house

"Can you get back to your seat? Don't look at me like this, I'm very busy. "Xia Zuo bypassed Ola's side, and went to the slag again to find the remaining inferior raw materials, forging the level Lv6 at the moment, maybe work harder, consume the remaining inferior ore, and be able to upgrade to Lv8.

Try to minimize the quality loss rate in the last forging.

"You—" Ora stopped talking, throwing his one-handed sword casually and planting it on the table.

Ola also knew that his speech was impolite, and the position he was standing in the way of the other party, Xia Zuo was not angry about it, which was the most unpleasant point for Ola.

"Don't do such a childish thing, I thought you were grown up, Ola, I think I'm too worried," Holf rebuked, "and don't forget, that table belongs to ours!" ”

"Hmm, I'm sorry..."Aura lowered his head and returned to this game stupidly, by his own fire, "Father, can you not mention Claire in front of outsiders, that is my private matter, although I was a little impulsive just now, but I am also seventeen years old, and I will do things in a measured way." ”

"Seventeen!?" Xia Zuo, who had been unmoved before, suddenly stopped and looked back at the bearded half-dwarf in amazement.

"Huh? What's wrong? Ola said unhappily, the apology just now didn't give Xia Zuo a share at all.

Xia Zuo remembered that in the game setting, the lifespan of dwarves and terrans is about the same, and the limit is about 100 years, so proportionally, the adult age of dwarves is also 18 years old. Ola's beard looks like an uncle in his thirties.

"No, nothing." After staring for two or three seconds, Xia Zuo came back to his senses and continued the work at hand.

"Impossible! You definitely have something to say! Ola gritted his teeth and raised his arms. He also knew what was special about his appearance, he began to grow a beard before the age of ten, and was often laughed at by children of the same age, and now he looked older than Claire's father.

"Ola," Horf said in a low voice, "that young man is a customer in the shop, be respectful, add fire, the first quenching and enchantment are almost complete." ”

Ora did so sullenly, trampled on the blower, and sprinkled a handful of alchemical powder into the fire, which roared to the roof, even more powerful than the last time, very dazzling.

Xia Zuo squinted and saw that it was like a powerful gas stove in the kitchen of a restaurant, and the flames hit the bottom of the pot, no wonder this room was built with special rocks.

"The temperature of the second calcination needs to be higher, because it is necessary to perfectly integrate the enchanted spell mark with the sword body, and now this sword is a fire enchanted sword, which can emit flames by itself, which means that the ordinary temperature can no longer hurt it." Holf put on dark goggles, cautiously approached the stove, and put his sword in as he said.

"Father! How do you take the initiative to reveal your craft to others, it's a secret, right!? ”

"Haha, it's okay... Instead, I think that guests can do nothing about "magic forging", and they should also appreciate the charm of hand-forging," after the second heating, Horf looked back and took off his goggles, revealing a serious look, "How about it, come and work in the store, I fancy your efficiency, as a supplement, I can also teach you more forging methods, all of which are the knowledge I have learned and accumulated over the decades, not only to make a one-handed sword with iron, but also to make it by hand, and to experience it with heart, it is much more interesting." ”

"Well, no..."Xia Zuo was about to run out of slag, seeing that his level had risen to 7, he smiled, and had no negotiable attitude at all, "I have other jobs in my hometown, and in a few days it will be the day of paycheck, I have to hurry up and make myself more durable, and then live... You can't lack arms and legs, so you can arrive in the north safe and sound to find the old village chief's acquaintances and dig up clues to go home..."

Actually rejecting his father's suggestion, Aura snorted lightly, Horf's skills are very famous in the kingdom, and even many craftsmen in the royal capital want to learn, what qualifications does he have to refuse.

"Oh... Then you, a guest, are also a forger in your hometown? Horf, on the other hand, was less indignant.

"I'm a company intern who just graduated from school not long ago, and my usual work mainly includes serving tea and water, post-production, well, occasionally helping the company send the official account and Weibo content, and by the way, being a customer service, although the salary of the operation position is not mine, and the salary of the tea and water delivery post is not ...... On the official account, I cooperated with the advertising editor to edit some cold jokes that no one could read, and it can also be counted, "Duan Maker"~" After that, Xia Zuo nodded politely to Holf.

"Oh, hmm..." Holf was sweating because of the temperature, he forgot to wipe it for a while, he didn't ask anything else, he didn't understand, he could only guess that Xia Zuo was from other countries, and there were some special industries and vernacular there, and Xia Zuo wore many hats and was very capable.

Rebecca's house is a simple three-bedroom house, and she cleans the interior every day. Today, too, before dawn, she took care of the things at home, carried her empty bag, bypassed the altar mountain, and went to the forest to the west to collect medicine.

In the bedroom, Andrew leaned against the head of the bed, covering his mouth and coughing twice from time to time, and still looking out the window after looking up.

Andrew is also in his thirties, but his hair is gray and his face is haggard, which is not unrelated to the illness that has plagued him for many years.

The bread and broth on the bedside table was his breakfast, which Rebecca had made before leaving the house, but it had not moved at all, it was already cold.

In addition to breakfast, there was also the lunch that the neighbors routinely brought in, which didn't seem as rich as the breakfast prepared by Rebecca. Not surprisingly, Andrew didn't take a bite, and in exchange, Rebecca would give some of the scarce herbs she had collected from far away places outside the village to her neighbors.

Andrew never felt hungry all day long, and almost only when Rebecca came home to urge him, he barely ate it, even if it was just that breakfast.

However, the village chief Grevald, who is good at controlling the growth of plants, has magic effects according to the type of plant, and the herbs and mushrooms that Andrew usually needs to take continuously are not among them. And according to the village chief, mushrooms seem to be different from ordinary plants, although they can't move.

At this time, a familiar voice came from outside the house, Andrew was overjoyed and re-covered the quilt, but he couldn't think about it, so he hurriedly picked up the breakfast at the bedside and ate it, otherwise he would be blamed by his daughter.

"It's all said! This is the wound that the werewolf caused me when I met the monster in the cave! Rebecca had arrived not far from the door, and the argument was becoming clearer.

She had already gone to the village chief's house, where she recounted in detail the monsters she had encountered in the cave, revealing her injuries, which Grim had inevitably known.

"How can there be a giant werewolf in the mine!? Ah, my poor Rebecca, that guy must be bullying you, right? Immediately after Rebecca, Grim's voice was filled with grief and anger.

"That's right." "That's it!" "When I look at the man in tattered clothes, he is certainly not a good fellow." The other two swordsmen chimed in.

"Annoying, stop following me!" Rebecca arrived at the door and lowered her voice, she still couldn't let her father know about her bruises, and she gently pushed the door open.

After entering the house, he stopped the three Grims at the door, waved outward, and made a gesture of repatriation.

Before Grim could intercede, he slammed the door shut, and the closed door was only a millimeter away from his nose.

Unable to let go of his worries about Rebecca and unable to disobey her, Grim had to leave in sorrow...... But the seed of hatred for Xia Zuo was buried deeper and deeper in my heart.