Chapter 10: The Forge Master

Lin Jie obviously saw that his grandfather wanted him to become a poet, but he was not interested in any poetry and songs, but ran to Uncle Hu from time to time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Uncle Hu, how can your hoe be so exquisite!" Lin Jie looked surprised, stroking the small hoe that had just been forged, and admired it repeatedly.

"Hehe, Xiaojie, you are here again, but it's a pity that you are a little younger, otherwise I would have taken you as an apprentice because you are so interested in blacksmithing. Uncle Hu also really likes Lin Jie, and when he saw Lin Jie, he moved the idea of accepting apprentices.

"Well, Uncle Hu, I want to grow up to be as strong as you, and become a blacksmith who can craft the best weapons!" Lin Jie stared at Uncle Hu without blinking. Uncle Hu is not very old, and his perennial life of striking iron has exercised a body of tendon meat, and in Lin Jie's opinion, he is not inferior to those bodybuilders on the earth.

Uncle Hu's face bloomed: "The people who make weapons are not ordinary blacksmiths, those people are respected as blacksmiths"

"Forging master, then Uncle Hu, are you also a forging master?" Lin Jie looked at Uncle Hu curiously.

Uncle Hu proudly puffed out his chest and said, "Of course, although I usually build and repair some farm tools, I can also forge weapons!" In front of the child, he naturally would not say that he was not a forger, and he would indeed build weapons.

Blacksmith Hu once forged weapons for the war soul master in the city, but the quality of the weapons he forged was really not high, and the business was very difficult.

Lin Jie clapped his hands happily: "Okay, okay, I must become a forging master like Uncle Hu in the future." Since there is no basic industrial system in this world, Lin Jie made up his mind to start with the most basic knowledge.

In addition to Lin Jie's going to Uncle Hu to watch the iron, his grandfather is also different from before.

"Xiaojie, how do you pronounce this word?" Grandpa took a stone and drew it on the ground.

"Grandpa, you've asked this word dozens of times, I would have known it a long time ago!" Lin Jie stepped forward and gently shook his grandfather's arm.

Grandpa smiled and said, "Didn't I make you more impressed!"

In his spare time, grandpa actually began to teach Lin Jie to read and write. Lin Jie muttered to himself, could it be that his grandfather heard him sigh that day, "When the book is used, he hates less", so he really wanted to train him to be a poet?

However, Lin Jie is not exclusive to reading and writing, he knows that reading and writing at any time is the most basic survival skill, and even if he can't become a poet in the future, at least he can't be blind in this world.

Grandpa's knowledge is not very good, but it is not very difficult to teach Lin Jie enlightenment.

"Do you understand this?" Grandpa looked at Lin Jie in surprise.

Lin Jie smiled and nodded, he was a scholar who had been systematically exposed to modern education, and it was naturally not a problem to learn the things taught by his grandfather.

In the age of the expansion of knowledge on the planet, there are countless books on learning experiences alone.

Grandpa nodded with satisfaction, this kid, if only he could pass the original soul power test! Teaching him to read and write seems to be effortless.

In the following days, Lin Jie either ran to Uncle Hu, or read and read with his grandfather, and the time spent playing with other children was far less than before. Grandpa was afraid that Lin Jie hadn't escaped from the shadow of the original soul power test, so he didn't care about him whatever he did, seeing Lin Jie's gradually stretched brows, grandpa finally put his heart at ease and became happy.

"Uncle Hu, are you the tools you made out of these stones?" After so many days of contact, Lin Jie had already known Uncle Hu's temper, and almost every word could tickle him.

Uncle Hu nodded and said proudly: "That's nature! Those are iron ores, they have to be melted down, all the impurities have to be removed, and then after continuous forging, they can become fine iron that can be used to make tools." This is ironmaking, and ironmaking is the basic skill of every blacksmith. ”

Lin Jie still admired it: "Uncle Hu is really amazing! No wonder people from other villages come to you to strike iron." "Needless to say, the quality of the tools made by a blacksmith is not to mention even the worst of the blacksmiths.

Lin Jie finally knew that in this world, the method of iron-making is the same as on the earth, but in this world, these jobs are still too primitive, and these jobs on the earth are handed over to the automated production line. Thanks to the high iron content of iron ore in this world, otherwise these blacksmiths would not have to die of exhaustion.

After such a long time, Lin Jie fully understood the work of a blacksmith and knew the whole process of forging.

Uncle Hu also liked Lin Jie more and more, if Lin Jie wasn't too young, he would have wanted to start teaching Lin Jie to strike iron, and the seven-year-old Lin Jie couldn't wield the huge hammer used to strike iron at all.

Five months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Jie sat on a chair in his cabin, holding a book of this world in his hand, but his eyes were not focused on the book.

It's already the end of August, and next month is the day when Gundam will report to the Holy Fort Battle Spirit Academy, although Lin Jie's original soul power test results are even stronger than Gundam's, but he can't afford to pay for his tuition, which is really amazing.

Although Lin Jie was determined to take an unusual path, he still felt a sense of loss at the thought of not being able to go to the Soul Master Academy to study, his actual age was only seven years old after all.

Lin Jie didn't want his grandfather to know, he didn't want to make his grandfather sad.

"Xiaojie!" Lin Jie was in a daze, and he didn't notice that his grandfather pushed the door in.

Lin Jie hurriedly stood up: "Grandpa, why are you here?" He didn't notice that there was still a tear in the corner of his eye.

Grandpa walked up to Lin Jie and hugged him tightly in his arms, reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of Lin Jie's eyes, and said softly: "Child, you can go to the Holy Fort War Spirit Academy as a self-funded student, why don't you tell grandpa?"

Lin Jie was stunned, somehow grandpa actually knew the news, Lin Jie smiled and said: "Grandpa, I don't want to go, anyway, my original soul power test failed, and it's probably useless to go!"

Grandpa looked at Lin Jie lovingly, sighed, and said, "Child, it was grandpa who dragged you down." As he spoke, his eyes were already red.

Lin Jie hurriedly said: "No, grandpa is the best, grandpa is the best to Xiaojie, I don't want to be a self-funded student." ”

Grandpa looked down at Lin Jie's eyes, his eyes were full of determination, this is really a sensible child.

Lin Jie felt his grandfather's arms around him tighten, and a teardrop slipped down his cheek.

"Grandpa is crying!" Lin Jie suddenly broke away from his grandfather's arm and said in a loud voice: "Grandpa don't cry, grandpa don't cry, it's Xiaojie who doesn't want to go, Xiaojie really doesn't want to go, Xiaojie wants to stay by grandpa's side." As he spoke, he reached out to wipe his grandfather's eyes.

Grandpa hugged Lin Jie in his arms again, and said continuously: "Grandpa doesn't cry, grandpa doesn't cry...... but where can he stop the tears in his eyes.

Lin Jie panicked, he had never seen his grandfather so sad: "Grandpa, you believe me, I want to stay with my grandfather and take good care of my grandfather when I grow up." ”