Chapter 36 Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth
The old man smiled, he knew what Xin Kun wanted to do, and handed her a piece of black steel. Xin Kun clamped the black steel into the opening and hammered it in.
"In this way, a thousand taels can't be beaten." The master has really never seen this kind of play, but he knows how to do it.
Between the two axes, there is a black steel with extremely high hardness, and two steels of different hardness are mixed together, and the black steel has not yet burned red. Then after the axe is laid, the tip of the axe will be much harder than the average axe.
"Yes, only flower steel is used, as an axe, or the stiffness is almost good." She explained, put the steel in the fire again, and buried it with charcoal. Looking at his grandfather, "For the rest, come on, I'll make a handle." ”
"You don't want to be wooden?" The old man now knows his granddaughter very well, and yes, this is a sharp weapon that can kill people, if it is a sharp weapon to kill, how can it be made into a wooden axe handle.
"It's not fun to make wood." She smiled a little, and picked out the jelly roll she had made yesterday, only one piece slowly softened and was beaten into a column. But it doesn't matter, it's important that she doesn't hit it to the thickness she wants, and then puts the iron rod in the hole of the anvil.
A small worker was called, and the two of them clamped the steel handle on one side, and turned it in circles like a grinder.
After a few laps, she let people go, knocked out the handle herself, and made an arc. If you have a little common sense, you will know that this is what a hand axe should look like.
However, everyone wants to know what Xin Kun will do, it's not that they haven't made hand axes with iron handles, but they are more one-piece molded.
Or like the steel clamped in the edge of the axe, when the axe is not yet formed, the steel that does not belong to one becomes one.
But now, seeing what she did, it was obvious that it was the same as the wooden handle, which was to be assembled later.
The old man didn't look at her, he only glanced at the drawing, and then lowered his head and picked up the axe.
When Cai Guan followed Guo Peng and them to the workshop again, they saw a hand axe that was about to take shape, and a handle that was being polished.
"So fast?" Guo Peng was stunned, feeling that he didn't seem to have been going for a long time, why could they do it so quickly.
"It's not a particularly difficult thing in the first place." She spread her hands. Seeing Guo Peng, he hurriedly pointed to the place where he had just drawn the black line, "Just right, help me cut it from here." ”
Guo Peng didn't resist at all, so he went to get the saw. I saw it up intently.
"You can't find someone who can help you saw?" Cai Guan said slowly.
He really couldn't get used to seeing his stupid cousin being turned around. Even if he knew that he was stupid, he still felt pain when outsiders did this.
"This is a birthday gift from him to his father, and I think it will be different if he does it himself." She smiled at Cai Guan and went to find a piece of brass to come out. Beat the width of the handle. It is then sharpened into a single-sided blade on a whetstone.
Xin Ye beat the axe, but did not quench it, he was waiting for Xin Kun to decide the way to quench.
"Quench with oil." Xin Kun smiled at his grandfather.
The old man removed the impurities from the axe and put it in the fire. The small worker on the side immediately pulled up the bellows, and the flames almost rushed out of the furnace.
Xin Kun was grinding the handle, and after Guo Peng sawed out a nearly two-inch slit, he used an iron frustration to grind around the slit.
Finally, the old man returned to the fire and handed the axe to his granddaughter.
Xin Kun shoved the crack in the handle into the hole reserved by the axe. It wasn't easy to get in, but Xin Kun was very experienced, turned the axe upside down, and gently tapped the handle, and through the reaction force, the axe slowly moved into position.
The copper sheet just now was driven into that thin slit. The saw sawed off the excess, and she struck again, and the handle of the axe had a beautiful golden trim on the head.
Brass has a higher expansion rate than steel, as in a wooden handle, and in the same place, a piece of steel is also nailed into it. The expansion rate of the steel sheet is much higher than that of wood, and no matter what temperature changes, it can bite the axe and prevent it from falling off.
And everyone who looks at it knows that this handle is no less strong than that of cast iron. But the performance of the axe, completely different.
"It's not polished yet." Guo Peng took a look, although he could already see the appearance of the flame pattern, but it was still black.
He had already looked up and down, and the place where he held his hand was where Xin Kun and Xiao Gong had just rotated together. A natural spiral pattern is formed there. A natural friction is formed that does not come off.
"We're halfway there, and the rest is your gift. Polish, carve, and then a beautiful cowhide cover, and you'll be a gift for your father. However, if he doesn't take this to cut you, I won't say anything. She smiled, threw the axe to Guo Peng, and stretched out her hand to Gu Hong by the way, "Thank you for your patronage, two thousand taels, this is made of new steel." ”
The people behind, including Xin Ye, lowered their heads to find some work, when they didn't hear what Xin Whale was saying. Just now, I thought that one thousand taels was too cheap, but now when I heard her say two thousand taels, I lowered my head.
Gu Hong looked at Cai Guan, he didn't pay this money. The main thing is that the prince didn't give him so much money.
Cai Guan grinded his teeth and looked at Guo Peng, but it seemed that it was useless to look at him, but it was not right to say Xin Kun, it didn't seem to be, look at the axe, and the sword that Guo Peng treated as a treasure just now in the county seat. Just looking at the sword, he felt that one thousand taels was worth it, while Xin Kun only used five hundred taels.
Now he asked them for two thousand taels, which must have been the price they felt necessary. But two thousand taels, who has nothing to do with two thousand taels to go out.
"Master Xin, I'll send you back two thousand taels." Cai Guan could only laugh and sigh at Xin Ye.
"It's okay, the steel of this axe is very good, fire produces gold, gold and wood, so the steel handle used, this must be an excellent axe." Xin Ye had to raise his head and smirk.
Xin Kun thought about it for a moment, so this was the purpose of the old man who thought of using the flame pattern and the steel handle. The problem is that I use my own steel handle, which is really just to be strong and good-looking.
And as I just said, this is Mr. Guo's weapon, and the general weapon axe is in pairs, and she fights like this, in fact, it is so that Mr. Guo can use the flying axe, and while using the bracelet on the wrist, he can throw it out and pull it back. So in this way, whether it is the handle or the axe, it must be extremely tight.
As a result, the old man actually came up with the five elements, the flame is to make gold, and the axe is metal, of course, it is the talisman of the axe; And the steel handle, it is because of Jin Kemu.
Well, she thinks that grandpa has won, and if this can be broken, there really is nothing that can't be broken.
She fights like this, just because she is good-looking, she really doesn't understand what the five elements are.