Hearing Li Qing's urging, Yue Heng still didn't move, blinked his eyes, and asked, "Second Senior Brother, is it possible that after I finish this, I can enter the forging room to learn to strike iron?"

Li Qing was stunned for a moment, and slapped over: "Do you still want to learn how to strike iron? Do you know how many years it takes for an apprentice craftsman to become a master? Pick up water for a year, chop firewood for a year, sharpen knives and pull boxes for another three years! I just thought about striking iron for two days, and I don't want to get out of here and do things quickly!"

Yue Heng was not angry, he bent down and bowed: "Second Senior Brother, then I'm gone!"

The Seiko workshop is built in the middle of the mountain, there are trees and forests on the mountain, and there is a special cold lake, but the scale of the dust and smoke pavilion is small, and the best site cannot be divided, so it has to be carried by manpower every day to carry the cold lake water, wood and ground flint.

Li Qing was deliberately making things difficult, other wood-cutting apprentices could take sharp carpentry saws, Yue Heng only got a rusty axe, other water-carrying apprentices could be equipped with the most comfortable flat poles, and Yue Heng could only carry buckets empty-handed.

You must know that a bucket can hold at least 100 catties of water, and it is not that ordinary people really can't do this kind of work.

Yue Heng happily left the workshop and walked up the mountain road.

The mountain trail was busy, and along the way, I saw several apprentices from small workshops, all of whom were sent to carry water and chop wood, and after meeting, they all smiled at each other and said hello.

Why is it so troublesome?

First of all, seawater cannot be used as forging cooling water, because it contains a lot of salt and impurities, which is easy to cause imperceptible internal damage to weapons and reduce the service life.

Secondly, the cold lake in the mountains contains some rare trace elements, and the weapons forged with the cold lake water are tougher and sharper than those forged in the inland areas. This is also an important reason why the high-end forging industry in Luohui Island is thriving.

Lenghu was firmly held by the government. The blacksmith shops of all sizes in the entire Luohui Island can only allocate the amount of water according to the influence of the forces behind them. And it is only used for high-end forging products, and it is very troublesome to take water and store it every day.

But this has been a convention for decades, and everyone has tacitly agreed that everyone has to follow the rules, and trouble must also do it.

Yue Heng climbed the mountain for half an hour, wiped his sweat a little panting, and came to the designated water point. The government guards patrolled and controlled a water platform cistern, and everyone who came to fetch water had to hand in a water ticket from their respective workshop before entering.

Looking at the long queue, he was dumbfounded with a large empty bucket in one hand.

There was a long queue at the water point, I am afraid that there were as many as a hundred people, and the apprentices of the other workshops originally had a bitter look, but they all laughed when they saw Yue Heng.

"Yo, what kind of apprentice is this, carrying water empty-handed? Pretty rare!"

"Hey, yours, look at your little arms and legs. Can you move such a big bucket?"

"Look at this dress, it turns out that he is still the little brother of the Dust and Smoke Pavilion Seiko!

"That short-legged Li guy is notoriously tricky and difficult, little brother, you are blessed, since you can't resist, then lie down and enjoy it!"

These guys didn't have backache when they stood and talked, and they were all making fun of Yue Heng, as if they were all superior to him.

In fact, there is a big barrel beast soul waterwheel parked on the road not far away, and the people who carry water here are all newcomers, and they are not qualified to drive, they can only bully and bully newcomers here, it is Wang Mazi who laughs at Zhang Bald, it is not much better.

The other two elementary school apprentices in the Seigong Workshop did not argue, and when they saw Yue Heng being laughed at by the collective, they felt embarrassed, and they didn't dare to come out, so they honestly waited at the end of the line.

It doesn't matter if he is ridiculed, but Yue Heng realizes that he can't do this, if he really uses it like this, I'm afraid he will have to go back and forth to the mountain dozens of times a day, and he won't be exhausted!

He simply turned his head away from the water point and went straight into the forest at a turn that no one was paying attention to.

"Yo! The young man still has a temper!"

"Can't you say a few words? I can't even make jokes, I'm so careful!"

"Let him go, see if he can't lift water, how can Bantam Li clean him up!"

The group of junior apprentices giggled and shouted at Yue Heng's departing back.

Yue Heng decided, the way to do it once and for all is to lead the water down the mountain, and the government can only guard the cold lake on the top of the mountain, but it can't manage the cave and the undercurrent stream, right?

Perhaps to others, looking for streams or caves is an unreliable task, but the government has searched the entire island of Nak Hui a hundred years ago, and any canals that leak out of the cold lake have been blocked and sealed, and every once in a while they will re-patrol the mountains to find new leaks.

But who is Yue Heng?

"Tide" and "Hong" are in his body, he has the strongest sense of the water element, after the release of his divine sense, even if the water vein is hidden three or four feet below the ground, he can also sense that the water vein on the bright side is controlled by the government, he doesn't care, just find a way to make a dark water vein!

Yue Heng spent half a day near the mountain wall about a hundred zhang away from the Seigong Workshop to identify a dark stream two zhang deep behind the mountain rock wall.

This place is very remote, it belongs to the undeveloped territory, if it is handled well, the government will not be able to find this place even if it patrols the mountains.

Yue Heng marked this place and left quickly, half an hour later, he dragged three bundles of bamboos over, and then after another half an hour, he hummed and dragged a few small trees with thick bowl mouths, gestured, and showed a satisfied smile.

The Seiko workshop is in full swing, the apprentices are busy selecting materials, removing slag, sieving, pulling boxes, burning piles of iron ore, tinkling and dinging sounds one after another, and the heat waves blow one after another to the outside of the workshop.

Guo Haibao is the master of the Seiji Workshop, of course he will not do it himself, Luo Cangtian and the eldest apprentice disappeared and were not in the workshop, Li Qing, the second apprentice, took on the task of commanding the daily forging, and loudly scolded the apprentices in the forging room.

It didn't take long for Li Qing to leave the forging room, the work of striking iron was too tiring and annoying, although he didn't need to do it himself, he also needed to rest and take a breath.

Glancing at the water room in the courtyard, but not seeing Yue Heng, Li Qing casually grabbed a water-carrying junior apprentice who had just come back and asked, "Did you see Luo Yimei?"

The apprentice shook his head nervously: "He didn't carry water with us. ”

Li Qing was stunned for a moment, looked at the sky, two hours had passed, this Luo Yimei hadn't come back yet, it was the other day, this kid dared to be lazy!

Just as he was about to get angry, a head stuck out from the gate of the courtyard, it was Yue Heng's ordinary face, with a sincere smile on his face, and shouted loudly: "Second senior brother, can you call a few people to help me?"

"What can I help you?"

"Help me mop wood!"

Yue Heng explained, he wanted to use bamboo to directly divert water to the Seiji workshop, so that he didn't have to work hard every day to go up the mountain to carry water.

"Tell you to drag the wood!" Li Qing slapped over, Yue Heng just lowered his head and dodged another move. (To be continued.) )