Ota stood outside the door, nodding as he watched the two sergeants hang up their plaques. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although he heard the noisy voices behind him clearly, he turned a deaf ear, everyone did their own business, and whoever liked to talk about it said. Unconsciously, Ota was also contaminated with some of Xia Rui's ways of doing things.

After arranging for a few sergeants to continue refining the iron, Ota was about to go to the library to continue checking the ancient text's annotations, when someone behind him said unceremoniously:

"You have such a big breath, you are young and don't learn to do such a gimmick, maybe you can bluff the guests who don't know how to do it, but you can't fool us sledgehammers, now you take off the plaque and let you go, if you insist on acting recklessly, don't blame us for going to the forging association to sue you." When the time comes... Hmph, someone will sue you for a trick and seal your door. ”

Those who dare to call themselves 'sledgehammers' are all people who have opened shops and accepted apprentices, and blacksmiths and apprentices below the refiner are what people call 'little hammers', which is the rule of the industry, not a title but everyone who has entered the industry understands.

Orta looked back and saw that the person who spoke was a red-faced, forty-year-old man with big shoulders and a round waist, and four more than half a step behind him, headed by him.

Two of them had seen them when they inspected the shop a few days ago, and they were both shop owners, and the other two were not weak, but they dared to call 'sledgehammers' naturally the bosses.

Ota looked at them and asked lightly, "Where did you see that this is a gimmick, just because I'm too young, right?"

The man didn't expect Ota's attitude to be so cold, and from the indifferent look on his face, he also felt extremely confident, and he didn't feel a little hesitant in his heart.

"Is this kid really a forger? But he's too young, my eldest son is his age, and he can't even lift a hammer a few times......" The red-faced man half-turned around and glanced at a few people behind him, with a look of inquiry.

The people all shook their heads in disbelief. They all have the same idea, this age is similar to the apprentice in the shop, it is impossible to become a master without three or four years of penance, let alone a forger, impossible, absolutely impossible.

The red-faced man had confidence in his heart, and turned around and said: "You just say that we don't believe it, unless you show your real skills, and your blacksmith badge must also be taken out, we have to test it." ”

Who are you, where did you come from? If you don't believe it, don't believe it, if you say test, you will test? Ota almost scolded, but his calm personality was not as hot as Xia Rui, so it was just almost.

At this time, other onlookers from a distance also gathered, and even those who set up stalls got closer, listening with one ear on one side, and having to look at the stalls on the other side, for fear that the things would be swept away, and they would be tired enough for a while.

Seeing that Ota was unwilling to deal with them, the red-faced man suddenly came to his senses and shouted: "Don't you can't take out the badge, dare to say that you are a blacksmith without a badge? ”

"How do you speak, looking for death?" The sergeants at the door stopped working, and those who took a few steps forward were about to move roughly.

"Fighting is forbidden in the city-state, do you dare to try one of me?" the red-faced man was not convinced, and shouted.

Orta waved his hand to several sergeants and said, "Remember their appearance and shop, and when I go to the Forge Guild to get a blacksmith badge and come back, I will take you to find them, and when the time comes, I will be scolded to death." After saying that, Ota left without looking back.

The people were stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and one of them said, "Where did this kid get so much confidence?

"I feel the same, who wouldn't talk big about Haikou?"

"He can't just take the opportunity to slip away, can he?"

"It's hard to say, let's go, let's go over and watch him, if this kid runs away halfway, let's demolish him, we can't let such two knives muddy the waters of this line." ”

"Yes, let's go, follow him and watch him......" The five sledgehammers discussed, and they were not far behind, anyway, the market has been bad recently, and there are apprentices in the store, so there is nothing to worry about.

As soon as they were arguing, the other bosses or the master craftsmen in the shop also rushed up, "Let's go, I don't have anything to do anyway, let's go and see." ”

The Forging Association is at the other end of the square, a three-story stone building, and the sign at the entrance is engraved with a raised forging hammer, and there are five fiery red stars on the bottom of the forging hammer, which represents the five levels of the forging industry.

When I went up the stairs and pushed open the door, I immediately heard all kinds of noisy hammers coming from inside, and when I entered the hall, I saw more than twenty young men sweating profusely wielding hammers and beating swords or shields.

On one side of the hall there was a long table, and behind it sat three people, drinking water and chatting. One of them, who had sparse eyebrows in his forties, looked over and said very politely, "Are you also here to participate in the apprenticeship promotion?" It's too late, disqualified, come next month." ”

Otalen paused for a moment, apprentice promotion?Oh, it turns out that this is the apprentice's promotion assessment once a month, I said why are so many people sweating here, but am I so much like an apprentice?Ota was a little speechless, but he still walked over.

"Hey, I said what's the matter with you? Didn't you hear what I just said? What are you doing if you don't keep the time, go back and come back next month. The man said impatiently and stood up.

Many of the apprentices who were in the assessment looked at this side, and some of them still showed a gloating smile.

At this time, the door behind Ota opened again, and more than a dozen people came in, and it was the red-faced man who walked in front.

"If you're late, you'll go back..."The man thought he was late again, and said very unhappily, when he saw that these people were all about forty years old, and there were a few familiar shop owners, he couldn't help but be stunned, and quickly asked: "What are you ......?"

"They came to see my jokes. Ota said.

"Look at your jokes, what jokes?" said the two overseers, who were chatting behind the long table, also walked over.

"He hasn't even been assessed as a forger, and he dares to name the shop a forging shop, isn't this muddying the waters, I must expose him today. ”

"Maybe it's a liar, this is discrediting the forging industry, and we sledgehammers will have to suffer in the future. ”

When you said everything I said here, the examiner and the two overseers understood, and even the apprentices put down their hammers and looked at this side.

Ota looked at them with a sneer, and said disdainfully: "You will know whether I am a liar or not, and we will settle the account after I finish the assessment." He looked back at the examiner and asked, "What are the requirements for assessing the forger?" ”

The examiner, who had sparse eyebrows, waved his hand, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and said:

"It stands to reason that today is only the assessment of apprentice promotion, but no one has applied for the forger assessment for more than two years, and today there are so many senior sledgehammers in the industry, then I will make an exception, and everyone will also be a witness, so let him be here with these apprentices, well... Do you have any opinions?"

"No comment, besides, this young man looks very confident, and I am also a little curious. An overseer said with a smile.

"I don't have a problem with that, there are just a few sledgehammers here, and I think their words are still very reasonable, and we must not let the black sheep ruin the reputation of this industry. The other overseer gave Orta a meaningful look, a look of disgust on his face.

"Well, since there is no objection, you can first fill out a form and register it, which is the constitution of the association. In addition, you need to spend your own money to buy the materials and drawings for the assessment, and you can take the things away after the forging inspection, is there a problem?" asked the examiner.

"No problem. Ota nodded, he was very proficient in several things for the assessment, and he didn't need drawings at all, unless he had never touched it, he needed to buy other people's drawings, just like the metal prosthetics he studied, and he had drawn no less than ten drawings himself.

In the hall, the casting table and other objects are ready-made, and Ota filled out the form and handed over two silver coins and bought ten refined iron blocks, no way, in order to save time, he definitely can't start with iron ore.

The casting table on one side of the wall was cleared, and the charcoal furnace next to it emitted a scorching temperature, and the refined iron gradually began to change color.

In front of everyone's eyes, Orta calmly took off his coat and hung it aside, picked up the leather forged skirt and tied it, picked out the two heaviest forging hammers and waved them a few times, adapting to their weight, it still felt a little light, but there was no way.

A set of movements is natural and smooth, and it looks like a sledgehammer.

The eyes of the chief examiner and the overseer, who had a slight impression of Ota, lit up, and they glanced at each other, and they both saw the look of approval in the other party's eyes.

The faces of those who followed and questioned Ota were not very good-looking, because they could see clearly that Ota had chosen the two largest and heaviest casting hammers, and the relaxed look when he was adjusting to the weight just now immediately surprised these people, "This kid, what a lot of strength." These people thought so.

"Bell"

There was a crisp sound, and a sledgehammer landed on the fine iron.

On the opposite side, more than two dozen apprentices were stunned, and they had been learning forging for two or three years, how could they never hear such a crisp sound?

Just when the sledgehammers were also brightening their eyes, Orta suddenly closed his eyes, and the two sledgehammers jumped lightly on the fine iron block, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, like the friction between lovers, and like the laughter of brothers, and the short voice was like the joy of a child in the field, extremely clear.