Chapter 004: Striking Iron

Ryan talks to Moya's father and offers that he can work right away.

Actually, this is not because Rui is in a hurry, mainly because noon is approaching, and if you work immediately, you can eat immediately.

After lunch, Daddy Moya took Ryan to familiarize himself with the blacksmith shop.

Although it is a small blacksmith shop, the place is very large. There is a small attic in front, and on the first floor is a shop that sells things, the shop is taken care of by Moya's father's wife, and the second floor is lived.

There are a variety of ironware on the shop. The equipment is mainly weapons, but of course there are some other equipment, such as agricultural tools. However, Kata City is known as the "City of Mercenaries", and weapons are naturally hot-selling equipment, and other equipment is just a foil.

Among the weapons, it is basically a sword, all kinds of swords, including short swords, long swords, thin swords, heavy swords, two-handed swords, etc., and other types of weapons are almost not seen, which shows how popular swords are in this world.

In addition to the sword used for attack, there are various shields for protection, and a small amount of iron armor. There are small, medium, and large shields, light and heavy shields, shields made of pure iron, shields made of wood inside, breaded iron outside, and so on. As for the iron armor, it is a high-tech weapon, and Mo Ya's blacksmith shop only sells a small amount of iron armor.

Of course, the weapons sold by Mo Ya's father's blacksmith shop are all ordinary goods, and there are very few high-end goods. It's not that Daddy Moya can't build good weapons, it's just that the consumption level of mercenaries in Kata City is really average, and few people can afford too expensive weapons, and the mercenaries who can afford expensive weapons look down on small blacksmith shops like Daddy Moya, and they usually go to large blacksmith shops to buy them.

Although Mo Ya's father sells cheap and common goods, he has small profits and quick turnover, and his business is still quite good.

There is a large courtyard at the back of the blacksmith shop, and there are several houses behind the yard, which are the iron-making house and the blacksmithing room, which is where the iron-making is made.

Daddy Moya teaches Ryan how to work, which is actually very simple, first assisting Daddy Moya to smelt iron ore into molten iron, and then pouring molten iron into a mold and melting it into the general shape of the device to be made. For example, to make a sword, the molten iron is first melted into a long strip of iron.

After that, it's Ryan's job. Ryan needs to heat and hammer the iron to make it hard and make it the shape of the instrument.

After striking the iron, Ryan's work is over, and the rest of the work is handed over to Moya's father, who will carefully build and grind it. Of course, some equipment that is too simple, such as farm tools, does not need to be rebuilt, and can be hammered directly by Ryan.

At the end, Daddy Moya took Ryan to a small room on the side, which was where Ryan would live in the future. According to Daddy Moya, Ryan will live here in the future, and such a wide yard will be his. Daddy Moya and his wife live in the small attic above the shop, and when the door of the shop and the yard is closed at night, it is two worlds that do not disturb each other.

"It's all old husbands and wives, and they still want a two-person world." Ryan couldn't help but muttered in his stomach.

After a lot of verbosity, Daddy Moya asked Ryan to start striking iron. made Ryan can't help but sigh: "The boss of this world is the same as in his previous life, exploiting the value of workers to the maximum." ”

The physical work of striking iron was a completely incompetent job for Ryan's thin body in his previous life, but for Ryan, who is now a big man, it was as simple as eating.

Wielding a hammer weighing more than ten pounds, Ryan didn't feel a heavy burden, after all, as a mercenary who used to specialize in meat shields, a dozen pounds was really trivial.

Moreover, to be a blacksmith assistant, you don't need too much skill, you just need to vigorously smash the iron block with a hammer, which makes Ruian, who was half-hearted and didn't learn much technology before, feel a lot more relieved.

After smashing some large instruments with hundreds of hammers, smashing some small instruments with dozens of hammers, and smashing more than a dozen instruments in a row, Ryan finished today's workload.

The business of the blacksmith shop is quite good, but it can't sell so many instruments, only about ten pieces a day. Moreover, Daddy Moya can't accomplish much in a day's work. Although these devices are bargains, they are not shoddy and will take some time.

After waving the hammer for a long time, although the hammer is not heavy for Ryan, but after half a day, Ryan still feels that his arm is sore, and he is a little unbearable.

Ryan discovered that one of the shortcomings of this body was that it had a lot of strength, but it didn't have enough stamina to last.

The night gradually fell, a large plate in the courtyard lit a bonfire, illuminating the whole courtyard, Moya's father was still busy, although there were few unfinished instruments at hand, but he still finished them and rested.

Ryan, who finished his work and had nothing to do, didn't help in the yard, even if he wanted to, he couldn't help, and besides, Daddy Moya didn't want him to help. He stayed in his little room, staring at the small but bright oil lamp on the table, and now he finally knew that the world was lit with oil. To be honest, Ryan, who used to work late overtime in his previous life, feels a little unaccustomed to it when he is free.

But if he wants to go out drinking and brag like Ryan did before, he doesn't want to. So Ryan continued to think about his future plans.

The night was getting deeper, and Daddy Moya had finally finished his work, and he closed the yard door when he had cleaned up. In this way, Ryan stayed alone in this wide and quiet yard.

Ryan suddenly felt a boundless loneliness welling up in his heart, turning into a faint sorrow flowing through his body. I can't help but think of my past life in my mind......

At this time, Ryan shook his head violently, as if shaking away these memories that he didn't want to recall. He stood up and walked up and down the small room, muttering to himself, "Big man, great power...... Strength...... Velocity...... Increase speed...... Big, bulky ......"

Next, Ryan tried to crouch down and stand up. He found that the whole movement was very bulky, and he could squat down, but the speed was not slow, and it looked reluctant.

Ryan took a few quick steps forward, and found that his feet were so stiff that he couldn't take a step. Not to mention kicking, it's hard to spread your feet at a 45-degree angle. With such feet, I really can't think of anything I can do other than make Ryan a meat shield that doesn't need to move.

Ryan waved his hands back and forth quickly, left and right, and found that the speed was very fast, but the muscles of the upper arm were very large, and there was a feeling of obstruction between the swings. Also, it may be that Ryan used to use his right hand too much, so that his left hand felt far less powerful and fast than his right hand.

When he tried this, Ryan couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was completely speechless for the previous Ryan, and with such skills, he could still live a mercenary life for two years before he had an accident, which was incredible. However, now that he knows what the problem is, he has to find a way to solve it.

Turning over the previous memories, Ryan smiled bitterly again, the only way Ryan exercised his body in the past was weightlifting. Constantly lifting weights and being very diligent, this made Ryan's body become big and strong.

Moreover, from previous memories, I know that many people in this world also use the method of lifting weights to exercise their strength.

Ryan searched his memories carefully, hoping to find a way to change his current lack of strength and dexterity. After a while, Ryan was disappointed and speechless, the previous Ryan was really a mess, not only did he not know anything, but he didn't understand anything.

As a last resort, Ryan can only rely on the memories of his past life to improve his abilities. But in his previous life, Ryan was just an ordinary factory worker, even if he graduated from a junior college. How is it possible to know what exercises are cheats? Speaking of exercise cheats, Ryan in his previous life has seen a lot from the description of novels and performances on TV, if Ryan in his previous life wants to talk about the names of exercises and dance a few times to imitate the moves on TV, he can do it, but if he wants to use any exercise cheats to improve his ability, then he is really powerless.

In the end, Ryan can only decide to use some popular physical exercise methods to exercise his current body from tomorrow, such as running, push-ups, sit-ups, etc., plus a set of broadcast gymnastics. See if you can improve your body's dexterity and increase your speed.