Chapter 81: Striking Iron
"Bingyuan Pavilion!" Chu Hao muttered, this was a blacksmith shop.
If there is a shortage of people here, it must be manual work, right?
Chu Hao walked in, and immediately a guy greeted him and said, "Little brother, what kind of weapon do you need?" Just choose, the weapon created by our Bingyuan Pavilion is definitely the best in the entire Tianhe County! If you don't pick something that is pleasing to the eye here, it's okay, as long as you say what you want, we can tailor it for you!"
"I'm just here to ask if you need someone to do manual work!" Chu Hao said with a smile.
"Oh!" the guy immediately lost his enthusiasm when he heard this, and said, "Then you go to the backyard and ask, I seem to have heard that there is an apprentice who is not working, and there is a shortage of people!"
"Thank you!" Chu Hao waved his hand and walked towards the inner courtyard.
After passing through the patio, I heard the sound of tinkling and ding, which was the most obvious sound of striking iron.
This backyard was the place where the weapons were made, and the furnace was burning, emitting a scorching wave of air, which made Chu Hao immediately sweat on his body. When I walked in, I saw three young men waving hammers with their bare arms and striking the red iron.
Because they were focused on their own work, and because they were too noisy to hide the sound of their footsteps, the three of them didn't notice Chu Hao's arrival, and they were still beating there.
Chu Hao shouted twice, but found that his voice was also drowned out by the sound of knocking iron, so he had to walk forward, as close as possible to a young man.
After a while, the young man finally noticed him, and he couldn't help but be stunned, stopped what he was doing, and asked, "Who are you, and how did you come here?"
He struck it a few times with his hammer, two long and two short, as if it was some kind of signal, and the other two immediately stopped and said, "Hey, are you just having dinner? Why is it so early today, I still don't feel hungry!"
The first young man looked at Chu Hao and asked the previous question again.
Chu Hao said: "My name is Chu Hao, and I want to come as an apprentice!"
"Oh!" said the young man, nodding, "Simple, take a piece of iron from the pile of iron in the middle of the yard, put it in the furnace and burn it red, and hammer it repeatedly. Each piece of iron here weighs 50 pounds, and if you beat it to 10 pounds, you're done!"
He paused for a moment and said, "You have experience in striking iron before?"
"No!" Chu Hao shook his head.
"Thinking that you are a newcomer, give you 10 days, if you can't temper 50 pounds of rough iron to 10 pounds within ten days, then you can go to find work elsewhere!" The young man said, "There is no salary for these ten days, but you can eat and live!"
Chu Hao nodded and said, "Okay!" These ten days are the probationary period.
"My name is Jiang Han, I'm the head, you can just call me Brother Zhang!" the young man said again.
This young man is indeed a few years older than Chu Hao, and Chu Hao doesn't care, and says with a smile: "Okay, Brother Zhang!"
There are four anvils here, just enough for four people to temper at the same time. But there was a hut in the middle, the door was open, but there was no one inside, and when I looked inside, there was also a furnace and an anvil, and all kinds of tools for making it.
That should be the place where the blacksmith works, like Jiang and Han, the three are just apprentices, so naturally they can only make iron and do some hard work without technical content.
Chu Hao naturally didn't come to learn to strike iron or forge weapons, but he wanted to temper his physique, which was a good exercise. Moreover, if you can make some money in the future, you can also subsidize it.
He walked to the middle of the yard and picked up a piece of thick iron, sure enough, about 50 catties, probably weighed it before, he took the rough iron to the edge of the furnace, the raging flame made his skin seem to crack, and the sweat evaporated into water vapor as soon as it came out.
A strange thought suddenly crossed Chu Hao's heart, and there was an urge to throw himself in, which couldn't help but make him shiver, wondering why he had such an idea?
He took the iron clamp, put it in the furnace, and hurriedly took a few steps back, no longer looking at the blazing fire, and the impulse in his heart slowly disappeared.
The fire was very strong, and after only burning for ten minutes, the iron became red, and Chu Hao took out the iron and put it on the anvil. He picked up the hammer on the side and shook it, good fellow, this hammer does not look big, but the weight is extremely terrifying, at least a few thousand pounds!
Chu Hao couldn't help but be surprised, what metal actually has such a large density?
He turned over the periodic table in his mind, and he was 100% sure that there was absolutely no metal of this kind on Earth!
However, the hammer weighing thousands of catties could almost be said to be like a toy in front of the strength of his current third-order martial artist, he danced the hammer, and when he struck it, a hole immediately appeared in the red thick iron, and sparks shot out.
Ding, Chu Hao kept swinging the hammer, he consciously observed the three of Jiang and Han, imitating their techniques of striking iron, and soon, his movements changed from rusty to skilled, and no one would believe that this was the first day he learned to strike iron.
- Even a demon who can learn high-level martial arts in a day, what's so difficult to learn this kind of technique that only comes and goes a few times?
It's the experience that's hard!
How to pick the hammer, simple! But where to choose the landing point, it depends on experience!
Because the shape of the iron hammered by each person is different, the focus point is different, so the reaction force is also different, and the effect on quenching is also different.
Chu Hao carefully experienced that the powerful derivative analysis ability unfolded, and as soon as the hammer went down, the brain would immediately tell him what the effect was. In this way, after only half an hour, he became an experienced old "apprentice", and the hammer in his hand became more and more urgent.
Ding! Ding!
Every blow of the hammer seems to conform to a certain law, making a crisp sound, like a song.
The corners of Chu Hao's mouth gradually showed a smile, which was a manifestation of his concentration.
The crude iron, which was originally the size of a human head, was quenched and beaten, and the impurities were constantly removed, changing little by little in the direction of the fine iron!
Expertise is the result of long and hard practice!
Don't look at the hammer is not heavy, but it is still tired enough to choke after half an hour in one breath, Chu Hao had no choice but to hand over the hammer to his left hand and continue to work. But the agility of the left hand was obviously far from being comparable to that of the right, and his efficiency immediately plummeted.
"This can practice the balance of the left and right hands!" Chu Hao said in his heart, most people must be accustomed to a certain hand, and most of them are right-handed, but if they can make the left and right hands as flexible, maybe it will work wonders!
For example, if you have been fighting with a sword in your right hand, and your right hand is severely injured in the battle and you can't use the sword again, then the opponent may take it lightly.
Taking this as an exercise, Chu Hao naturally enjoyed it and devoted himself wholeheartedly.
He also took off his shirt, revealing his fair upper body, but he had been practicing under the waterfall for half a year before, and he had to carry a big stone frog every day, and his muscles had already been trained!
The lines of the whole body are like carved out of stone, but they do not give people a sense of hideousness, only the beauty of smooth lines!
After three hours, Chu Hao's two arms were sore, but this piece of thick iron was less than one-third of the original size!
There are only 15 pounds left at most!
Super scary rate of progress!
He looked at Jiang Han and the three of them, and couldn't help but secretly speak, because these three people almost never stopped from beginning to end, and they also changed their left hand when their right hand was tired, and changed their right hand when they were tired, constantly alternating, but they still maintained the original rate.
The strength of these three people may not be stronger than him, but their physique is definitely above him!
After all, his strength has grown too fast in the past ten days, and his physique is actually still at the level of 100,000 catties, and these three people strike iron every day, so their physical fitness must be exceptionally good.
At this moment, I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl walking in with her hands tied behind her back and walking in with cheerful steps. She has a good figure, she can also have a face, she can be called a little beauty, but there is still a gap between her and the big beauty.
After seeing this big girl, Jiang Han and the three of them stopped their work at the same time, and ran over one after another, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, bringing tea and water, and looking flattering.
It's just that the three of them obviously don't like this big girl, so she keeps fanning her little hands, as if she is afraid that the body odor of the three of them will smoke herself.
However, her eyes soon saw Chu Hao, and her eyes couldn't help but light up.
In fact, both the strong and the handsome are attractive, and of course it would be better if the strong man was still a handsome guy.
The eldest girl glared at Jiang Han and the three of them, and said, "Don't go back to work yet, be careful that I tell my father and deduct your wages!"
Hearing her say this, Jiang Han and the three of them had no choice but to reluctantly return to their original positions and continue to knock on the iron, but their eyes were always staring at the girl, regardless of how well they were doing the work in their hands.
Chu Hao immediately understood in his heart that this girl's father should be a blacksmith who had not yet come, holding the real "power of life and death" of the four of them. And Jiang Han and the three of them deliberately flattered this girl, naturally they wanted to be promoted from an apprentice to a son-in-law.
It's just that after a turn of thought, he began to focus on the "career" of striking iron, which is a good way to exercise his physique.
The girl came over with her hands cut behind her back, and kept looking left and right at him, looking eccentric.
Chu Hao was stared at by her uncomfortable, so he stopped and said, "Is there something wrong?" Because Jiang Han and the three of them were all fishing, this voice entered each other's ears unhindered.
"Are you new here today?" the girl asked rhetorically.
Chu Hao nodded and said, "My name is Chu Hao, and I'm new!" He raised his hammer and struck it again, to see if he could beat this piece of thick iron into ten catties before the evening.
"My name is Guo Yushuang, and my father is the blacksmith here, and he is also the person in charge of this Bingyuan Pavilion branch!" the girl said her identity, and seemed to be expecting Chu Hao to put down the hammer immediately and become enthusiastic.
Chu Hao just "oh" for a moment, and then tinkled again.
This kind of indifference did not make the girl angry, but made her feel that Chu Hao was very cool, how could she stick to herself like a three-person dog in Jiang Han, and she didn't have any manly spirit at all!
This made Jiang Han and the three of them almost angry, people ignore you, what are you guilty of? But when they think about themselves, aren't they also cheap?
Ding Ding Ding!
They pounded the iron hard, and for a while, the backyard was so noisy that even Guo Yushuang couldn't hear what Guo Yushuang was saying.
"We'll talk after dinner in the evening!" the girl said with a rippling heart and left with affection.
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