Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Rusty Broadsword
Wang Kun reached out and picked up a rusty big knife, and with one force with both hands, he listened to "Bang!" With a bang, the knife was cut off so easily.
He took the two halves of the broken knife, looked carefully at the light of the torch, and said to Li Hao: "Are there any patterns and marks on it, it should not be left by some big family or a squire with a nursing home, and the years buried here have continued." ”
Li Hao nodded, "It seems that it was at least a few decades ago, and I don't know who it was, but it was buried in such a remote place." ”
Then they picked up the broken wood from the wooden boxes where the weapons were loaded and looked at them to see if there were any markings on them.
Looking at these weapons and jewels, it doesn't look like they belong to a big family, and it is likely that some squires with guards at home hid in order to avoid the war.
However, Wang Kun and Wang Qiang looked at all the crumbs of the wooden box, and found nothing.
Qian Yan looked at the rusty blades, frowned, and said, "These knives should all be useless, they are all rotten." ”
Yang Dashan echoed: "I can't see the original color anymore, it shouldn't be possible, right?" ”
Wang Kun said with a smile: "Not really, if you send it to the blacksmith shop to melt these, you can still build it again, it's just a little more loss." ”
"Can't we build it ourselves?" Qian Yan looked curious.
Wang Kun shook his head, "It's not so easy to make iron tools, especially to melt these into molten iron, not only must there be a special melting furnace, but also coal and stone, ordinary wood can't melt it." ”
Yang Dashan patted his thigh and said: "We melted a batch before, and we picked up a few Khitan big knives at that time, of course, we didn't melt it that day, but just burned it soft and broke it into iron pieces."
Now it is put on the wheel of the donkey cart, at that time there was no iron in the wheel, we just used coal and stone, the coal and stone was Liu Sanli injured his leg at that time, the coal kiln gave compensation, and now there is a sack on the car. ”
Li Hao and the three looked at him in surprise, they knew that Liu Sanli had an injury on his leg, and some things in the car were rarely taken down, they always thought that it was these people's belongings, but they didn't expect it to be coal.
However, Wang Kun still shook his head and said: "It's not enough to have coal and stone, but it can be burned red and soft in an ordinary stove, if it is melted, it is not possible, and a special stove is needed." ”
Seeing that they were disappointed, they continued: "Although this knife has rusted like this, it is a pity to throw it away, but if you take so much scrap iron away, it will be too heavy." ”
Yang Dashan and a few people felt that it was also a problem, they were about to go on the road when they saw it, and they couldn't stay here for long, there was no water here, and there was no way to stay for a long time.
Qian Yan looked at the iron knives that seemed to have been scrapped, and said to the ugly ugly in her arms: "This knife has become like this, can it really be rebuilt?" ”
Chouchou shook his head, "I also know that the iron has been softened and changed into a shape, as for this kind of rust and corrosion, I really don't know if it can be melted into molten iron, so the melting point should be higher, right?"
Before, when we were in Yangjiaping, we just burned the iron red and soft, and the ordinary earthen stove could do it, but if we really said that the iron was melted, it was estimated that it would not work, and the furnace must be made of that unique refractory brick, otherwise the first one would burn the furnace down. ”
Listening to the ugly words, Qian Yan felt that it was very reasonable, but she didn't say much, just now Wang Kun also said that there is a place for professional iron, and she should know this.
She doesn't understand this thing, it's not right, it's right, it's a little weird, she is a little girl who can even make weapons, so she can't say it.
In the end, everyone discussed it, but decided to take these rusty knives with them and destroy them all to pieces, so that people could not see the original appearance, and they were not afraid that others would see it.
When you get to the city, you can find a blacksmith shop, and you can make other ironware.
What Li Hao thought was that it was best to remake weapons, and if he arrived in Hancheng, if the second brother was fine, he would just hand these over to the second brother.
No matter how small the fly is, it's meat, and it's good to add some weapons to the soldiers under the second brother.
In fact, there are not many knives, only two boxes, almost fifty or sixty pieces, and after rusting, a layer of corrosion has been lost, and it is not so heavy.
However, there are some problems with these gold and silver jewelry, if they are not hidden, if they encounter Khitans or robbers on the road, it is really a deadly existence.
Without these things, you may still be able to live, and having these is a life talisman.