After inspecting the two rooms, Yang Fan walked to the door of the main house, and the sound of striking iron that he had heard before came from this room.

When you open the door, a wave of heat suddenly hits your face, and the whole room is shining with orange fire, even if you just stand in the doorway, you can feel the hot temperature of the house.

The first thing that catches your eye is several large stoves, each with a small bellows next to it, and a leather tube between the bellows and the stove. On the other side of the stove is a cast iron table, which is used to beat the iron embryo. Next to the iron platform is a large bucket filled with cold water to cool the beaten iron embryos.

At this time, in the house, there is only one stove in operation, and next to the stove, a big man with a top body is constantly waving the hammer in his hand, knocking on a red-hot iron embryo on the iron platform, judging from the shape of the iron embryo, it should be a broadsword used by "infantry".

The most striking thing is the big man who struck iron, perhaps because it was too hot in the blacksmith shop, so the big man shaved off all his hair, and his sweat-stained bald head actually shone in the light of the fire. **'s upper body muscles bulge, especially the double iron arms, which are actually thicker than Yang Fan's thighs.

As if he was too concerned with the work at hand, the blacksmith did not notice the few people entering the room, and knocked on the sword embryo with his head down, and with each stroke, the sword embryo on the iron platform would burst out in a scattered field.

Yang Fan didn't bother him, just stood at the door and looked at the sweaty blacksmith, waiting for him to complete this forging.

Lily couldn't stand the heat here, so she flew outside to play on her own, and when Gate and Ed saw Yang Fan standing at the door and didn't speak, they naturally didn't talk much. For a while, although there were a few more people in the blacksmith shop, there was still only the sound of clanging iron.

Time passed slowly, the sword embryo on the iron platform had gradually taken shape, the sparks that burst out from the hammer hitting it were becoming less and less, and the originally red iron embryo was already black at this time, and the bald man finally stopped the hammer in his hand.

Yang Fan, who thought it was over, was about to step forward, but saw the bald man throw the beaten sword embryo into the furnace again, and then walked to the side and began to turn the bellows. The furnace, which was already red, received the wind from the bellows, and a half-meter-high blue flame suddenly rose, and the sword embryo that was thrown into the furnace also turned red again at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When the entire sword embryo was burned red, the bald man stopped the bellows in his hand, and then used an iron tong to pull out the sword embryo and put it on the iron platform, starting a new round of percussion.

Yang Fan, who had been waiting at the door, was not impatient, he had also learned some things about forging in his previous life, as the so-called hundred refining into steel, the longer the forging, the fewer impurities in the weapon, and the higher the quality, so seeing the bald man forging so seriously, Yang Fan was of course full of joy.

After repeating it several times, more than two hours had passed, and the forging of the bald man was finally completed after immersing the sword embryo in the bucket, and as the sword embryo came into contact with the cold water in the bucket, after a snort, a faint layer of water vapor rose from the stove.

It was only at this time that Yang Fan slowly moved his somewhat numb legs and walked up.

The bald man who had been focusing on striking iron heard the footsteps, and finally raised his head, and hurriedly greeted Yang Fan after seeing him.

"The host, the blacksmith Okuyama salutes you. With that, he got down on one knee.

Yang Fan stepped forward and grabbed his sweat-stained arm and said, "Get up quickly! I also just returned to the territory, so come and have a look." ”

"Master, it's stuffy and hot in the house, let's go out and talk!" Okuyama said as he stood up.

Since it was still early spring, the temperature was still relatively low in the morning and evening, so Yang Fan didn't wear a lot. And the temperature inside the blacksmith shop was at least several times higher than outside, so Yang Fan was already sweating profusely at this time, and it was also a shame that he was able to stand at the door for more than two hours.

Hearing Aoshan's proposal, Yang Fan nodded in agreement, then turned around and walked out of the blacksmith shop with a few people.

As soon as they walked out of the door, several people suddenly felt a burst of refreshment, separated by a door, but it was like two seasons.

After sitting down on the stone steps at the door, Yang Fan looked at the bald man and asked, "Aoshan, are you alone in the blacksmith shop now?"

"Yes, master. Okuyama replied.

Yang Fan was slightly stunned, turned his head to look at the blacksmith shop, and wondered, "Then why are there so many stoves in it?"

Okuyama wiped the sweat stains on his bald head and smiled: "Master, it's like this." We blacksmiths can take apprentices, and when the apprentices are out of the school, they can be assigned to a separate furnace, and if I take in several apprentices at the same time, when they are all out of the school, the furnaces will no longer be empty. ”

"Then what are the conditions for you to accept apprentices?" Yang Fan asked curiously.

"There are no conditions, as long as the body is strong and hard-working. ”

In a huge territory, it is simply not enough to have only one blacksmith, not to mention making weapons for soldiers, just building the iron tools that are often needed in the territory cannot be completed by a single blacksmith.

Therefore, when he knew that there was only one person in the blacksmith shop, Yang Fan was still faintly worried. It wasn't until Okuyama said that he could accept apprentices that he breathed a sigh of relief.

But now in the territory, except for the peasants who are soldiers, where are there idlers for him to accept apprentices, thinking of this, Yang Fan couldn't help asking: "Can anyone be your apprentice?"

"Of course, but we blacksmiths generally accept farmers as apprentices, because they are the most hard-working people, and they don't have much combat power, so letting them be blacksmiths will not affect the strength of their masters. Okuyama replied.

The blacksmith's only role in the game is to sell weapons of war. However, in the real world, it is different, whether it is the equipment building, maintenance and repair of soldiers, or the agricultural tools used by farmers in production, they are inseparable from the blacksmith shop, so the important surname of the blacksmith shop now is self-evident.

With the continuous development of the territory, the demand for blacksmiths will definitely continue to increase, if the conditions for blacksmiths to accept apprentices are too harsh, it will definitely affect Yang Fan's overall strength at that time, so after knowing that the peasants with the largest population base and the weakest combat effectiveness can be transferred to become blacksmiths, Yang Fan can be regarded as truly relieved.

Then Yang Fan asked about the functions of the two small houses outside the blacksmith shop, and Aoshan also explained them to him one by one.

Generally speaking, as he had guessed, the small house on the left, which was connected to the main house by pipes, was designed to increase the temperature of the furnaces, and when all the furnaces in the smithy were working at the same time, someone could be sent to turn the large blower to increase the power of all the furnaces.

The "swimming pool" on the right can provide the blacksmiths with cold water on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also be used by the blacksmiths to clean and cool down.