From time to time, Ming Tie has already arrived in the usual hard room, find a bamboo basket of red iron ore, all poured into the stone furnace, and then put many coal mines together, light the fire, he has to refine iron from the iron ore first, this is the first step, but also the most important step, the quality of the iron smelted depends on this step, but Ming Tie can not interfere too much, as long as the furnace fire maintains the temperature, he can't control the excess, it depends on luck.

And he didn't have nothing to do after that, so he saw Ming Tie take out a long black knife that he had forged yesterday and take it to the huge whetstone on the side and sharpen it.

Time passed in a hurry, and it was noon in a blink of an eye, on the edge of the small pool not far from the shop, Ming Tie washed his face with water, washed off the iron ash on it, and then also passed the long knife in his hand and went into the water, turning into a bright and shaky appearance in a blink of an eye.

"After that, with a handle, it should be fine. ”

Ming Tie held the long knife in his hand and looked at it carefully, and felt that he was still not very satisfied, although it was a slight improvement compared to before, but for such an important artifact as a knife, it was definitely not enough.

Get up and walk towards the shop, the furnace of iron ore should have turned into molten iron.

"I hope the condition is a little better, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't turn into scrap metal. ”

Generally, the iron smelted is good, precipitated at the low end of the furnace, as long as it is taken out and then melted into a piece, it can be forged into a knife, but if you are unlucky, there are too many impurities doped in the iron, because Ming Iron cannot remove those impurities, and the iron with many impurities is not easy to forge, the iron is brittle, even if the knife is forged, as long as it touches with a hard object, it may be bent or broken.

When he came to the humble house, he put the long shining knife in his hand in the basket on one side, took out a vessel made of stone from the top of the cupboard, and then walked to the burning fireplace.

Ming Tie carefully opened the bottom of the furnace, and the red molten iron slowly flowed out, flowing into the utensils that Ming Tie had prepared a long time ago, and the light emitted by the molten iron illuminated Ming Tie's face red, and the temperature was terrifyingly high.

Then put it into the water, a burst of water vapor filled, and a piece of fine iron came out like this, and I waited for a while.

Ming Tie was holding a piece of iron that was slightly larger than his fist in his hand, but looking at the appearance of this piece of iron, Ming Tie's brows furrowed slightly.

It's not that there are too many impurities, but on the contrary, there are few impurities in it, the color is pure blue, but some of them look like bronze, which is not at all comparable to the previous fine iron, which is a situation that Mingtie has never seen.

After pondering for a while, I still don't understand what this is all about, and Mingtie has never been exposed to such fine iron.

"No matter, let's hammer forge and take a look first. ”

Ming Tie felt that it was useless to think too much, so he put it directly into the furnace.

After a moment and a half, Ming Tie took out the piece of red fine iron from the stove with iron tongs, put it on the stone platform and began to beat it.

Hammered flattened, then folded, then calcined, and after multiple steps, it is put into the furnace and continues to be calcined.

But after an hour or two, Ming Tie just found that something was wrong, the volume of this piece of fine iron became almost half, not only that, but the hardness also rose a lot, even if it was roasted red, it was also hard to knock Ming Tie, dozens of hammers, only slightly changed.

After a few more hours, Ming Tie finally made this pale cyan fine iron into a four-foot long shape, but it felt too thin and thin, and roughly speaking, it was not intended to be a long needle, not at all to be able to forge a long knife.

At this time, the sky was already gray, and Ming Tie's stomach was also ringing, and he had eaten some dry food when he had time out this day, and now he was very hungry.

Looking at the arm-length cyan fine iron in front of him, Ming Tie couldn't think of anything for a while.

He also knew that this was a good piece of fine iron, and the hardness was much stronger than that of ordinary fine iron, but it was a little less material, if it was bigger, forging a knife would be a good knife, which was originally such a big piece, but now it doesn't know why it is getting smaller and smaller the more it is beaten.

"Forget it, it's important to go home first, while it's still dark, get up early, don't run into those people again. ”

Ming Tie was still a little scared in his heart, and he came to strike iron in such a hurry today, mostly to transfer his own mind, and there were many questions in his heart, but he still forced himself not to ask, mostly thinking about nothing.

This piece of fine iron was placed on the stone platform like this, and Ming Tie decided to talk about it tomorrow, quickly cleaned up the shop outside, locked the door and ran towards the place home.

"I just don't know where those thieves are, don't come to harm me again!!"

Ming Tie thought so, his pace was much faster than before, he was still flustered, afraid that something would happen again.

The journey was also very windy, and by the time it was completely dark, he had already returned.

Ming Tie was going to see his father, he and his father hadn't seen each other for two days, and he had a fight with his father the day before yesterday, Ming Tie's father didn't approve of Ming Tie continuing to fight iron, saying that he wanted Ming Tie to go to the big city in the east to be a restaurant junior.

And how can Ming Tie, who is unyielding by nature, agree, not to mention that his father's legs and feet are becoming more and more inconvenient, and the old diseases of his youth attack occur from time to time, and he has to go to collect medicine, that is, he quarrels with his father, and finally provokes his father to be angry, that is, he tells Ming Tie not to see himself, saying that he doesn't need Ming Tie to manage.

In this way, he has been turned away for two days, mainly taking care of Mingtie's sister.

Ming Tie has no mother since he was a child, he was brought up by his father, and he has always obeyed his father's words, and today his father's anger has also disappeared a little, saying that he let Ming Tie go over to eat together.

Although Ming Tie was also happy, he also went to his house first, took some clothes, and went to the lake not far away to wash his body.

After taking care of everything, his long hair fluttered lightly, and he turned into a refreshing look and walked towards his father's house.

I still remember that it was the house he lived in with his father when he was a child, it was very simple, and then he built a house, which was supposed to be lived in by his father, but his father refused to live or die, so he let his brother and sister live in it, he tried his best to persuade him, but his father was stubborn, he simply refused, and in the end there was no way.

But he didn't go to live in the end, he didn't agree with his father's behavior, as if he was against him, he spent more than a month on the side of his father's house, and he built a simple house, which is the origin of Mingtie's own house, and the slightly better house was only for his sister to live in.

Walked to the door, looked at some patterns on the door, that was painted when I was a child, the painting is a blue ball, painted with blue, white and green, now it seems, I don't know what it means, but I still miss it.

knocked on the door gently, just heard my sister's crisp voice, only said "come", and the next moment the door opened.

The scene that greeted Ming Tie's eyes was still the same as before, the simple house, only a wooden table, a few stools, a chair, a bookshelf, and a wooden bed, all of which were made by Ming Tie's father himself, and it has been around for nearly ten years, since Ming Tie was a child.

And his father is still the same, sitting on a chair, holding a small bowl in his hand, slowly drinking the wine, his father is a wine fairy, he has been soaking in the wine jar since he can remember, only this time because of the recurrence of the old disease, was stopped by Ming Tie from continuing to drink.

And now that Ming Tie saw it, his face, which was still smiling at his sister, collapsed instantly.

"Qiao'er!!Didn't I say that my father can't drink during this time? Why do you buy wine for your father to !!drink again?" Ming Tie said in a very stern tone, he had seen his father's painful appearance, and he was very impressed.

And before his sister could say anything, Ming Tie's father turned around, still with that serious face.

The words he said made Ming Tie unable to refute.

"Do you still have to take care of Lao Tzu's drinking? Eat your food!"

His father was not a man of many words, and he stopped talking, but silently drank the wine in the bowl, but his expression was thoughtful.

Ming Tie glared at his sister, and also walked over, sat on a wooden stool, picked up the dishes and chopsticks he had prepared for himself, and began to eat.

My sister also smiled bitterly, walked aside, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and ate, neither of the two people in front of her spoke, and she didn't dare to say anything.

In this way, the room is also very quiet for a while, and she is also used to it, since Ming Bufan took over the blacksmith shop, the two have become like this, rarely talk to each other, but many things are communicated without words, Qiao'er knows that these two people have their own attachments in their hearts.