Chapter 11 Practice makes perfect

Lin Xia hurriedly rushed to the Forgotten Worry Forest with a red quality hoe on his shoulder. But when he just came down from Forget Worry County, there was a bunch of people talking about it behind his buttocks.

"Look, I'm not mistaken? What's the matter with the hoe he's carrying on his shoulder? It looks like the blade is shining silver, and it's cold. A player who was following Lin Xia's ass pointed and pointed.

"Yes, yes, is this man armed with a hoe?" said another.

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All kinds of voices swirled in my ears. Lin Xia never expected that Li Chengfeng, who once wore a yellow robe and carried a fish intestine sword in the city of Forget Worry County, was not as swaggering as he was now carrying a hoe. Seeing that there were more and more people watching the excitement behind, Lin Xia shook his head helplessly. But in order not to reveal his secret, Lin Xia still decided to go to Tang Zhu's side to have a look first.

"The weapons I fight are sold only to those who are loyal and brave. Before he arrived at the door of the blacksmith shop, he heard Tang Zhu muttering this sentence again.

"Brother Tang Zhu, look at me, am I a loyal and courageous person?" Lin Xia asked a little mischievously.

"Hahahaha, of course Shaoxia is a loyal and courageous person, otherwise how could it be ............" Before Tang Zhu could finish speaking, Lin Xia glanced around and saw the lively people, and immediately stepped forward to interrupt Tang Zhu.

"Hey, Brother Tang, why do you only build weapons for those who are loyal and brave?" Lin Xia simply asked as he saw that there were fewer and fewer people around him.

"Shaoxia doesn't know anything! Then I'll tell Shaoxia about it. Tang Zhu stopped what he was doing, sat at the table in front of the shop, poured himself a cup of tea and began to speak.

It turned out that this Tang Zhu's ancestral home was the mysterious Bashu Tang Gate. Tangmen has been a mysterious place since ancient times, because it is located in the land of Bashu, and is located in the deep mountains and old forests, and the disciples in the door rarely walk in the rivers and lakes. But because the Tang Sect is a master of using drugs, the people who have fought with the Tang Sect are either killed on the spot, or die violently afterwards, and the people in the rivers and lakes will talk about the Tang Dynasty when they hear the name of the Tang Sect. Grandpa Tang Zhu was a famous craftsman in the Tang Sect back then, and he forged secret weapons for the disciples of the Tang Sect in the Tang Sect. However, because the hidden weapons of the disciples of the Tang Sect were all smeared with poison, the people injured by the secret weapons all died tragically under the poison. Once he went down the mountain to purchase in Furong City, Grandpa Tang Zhu saw several disciples of the Tang Sect and the disciples of the Shushan Sect having conflicts, and the disciples of the Tang Sect quietly took out the secret weapon cast by Grandpa Tang Zhu. Several disciples of the Shushan Sect turned into pools of blood on the way back to the sect. The Shushan faction is famous for its uprightness and chivalrous heart, and everyone praises it in Bashu, but now because of a little quarrel, the disciples of the Tang Sect are ruthless. Grandpa Tang Zhu couldn't bear it, so he found an excuse to quit the Tang Gate, returned to his hometown, and came to this county to fight iron. Before the death of Grandpa Tang Zhu, he summoned the ancestors of later generations and passed down the ancestral training, only to build weapons for those who are loyal and brave. This is what he says every time he hangs on his lips, it turns out that he is always reminding himself not to forget his ancestors.

"I didn't expect Mr. Tang to understand the righteousness so well. Let me and other juniors admire!" Lin Xia stood up and said.

"Hey, that's all in the past. If you have nothing to do today, you will talk about it casually. Tang Zhu returned to the desk and tinkled and banged.

Lin Xia saw that the surrounding onlookers had dispersed, so he planned to quietly go to the Forgotten Forest to dig and mine. But when I think about it, it seems that something is wrong.

Then he asked Tang Zhu again: "Brother Tang, I found a piece of iron ore in the Forgotten Worries Forest a few days ago, I wonder if this iron ore can be useful when it is dug up?"

Tang Zhu said: "Whether the young man takes it to smelt the armor himself or gives it to me to help the young man build it." You can also sell it to me or the grocery store for silver. ”

Lin Xia was excited at the school at that time, and went down the mountain directly with a hoe, only then did he remember that he had only learned skills, but he didn't know how to operate it. Now I understand everything clearly from Tang Zhu.

The Forgotten Forest, because it is deep and quiet and has no use, makes the Forgotten Forest close to the crowded Forgotten County, but no one really wants to come to this place where birds don't, and there are often green forest thieves who appear here to rob money and take their lives.

When Lin Xia came to the Forgotten Worries Forest with a hoe, it took a lot of effort to find the iron ore found before. The fire vermilion fruit still hangs on the branches, like a ball of flame. Lin Xia has never mined, and even in reality, he doesn't know how to mine, but Lin Xia has dug bamboo shoots and thinks it makes sense. So I decided to start with the soil around the iron ore to see if I could dig up the iron ore like bamboo shoots.

After digging for about a few minutes, Lin Xia got a system prompt: Congratulations on getting Iron Ore ×2.

"Haha, isn't it as difficult to dig as you imagined!" Lin Xia said to himself happily while holding the iron ore.

Keep looking, there may be more around. So Lin Xia carried the hoe and continued to dig around. In about half an hour, half a sack was dug up. So Lin Xia returned to Tang Zhu with the hemp bag on his back.

"Brother Tang, I'm back, how about you look at my ores?" Lin Xia happily poured out all the iron ore in the sack, which was mixed with a few pieces of associated ore.

"Well, yes, yes. It's really not easy for Shaoxia to be able to dig so quickly and so many flawless ores for the first time when he mines! Tang Zhu looked at the iron ore and nodded.

"It's all the credit of this red quality hoe that Brother Tang built for me!" Lin Xia and Tang Zhu said to each other.

Then Lin Xia began to process iron ore with Tang Zhu. The first thing is to wash the soil attached to the iron ore, and then break the ore. In the history of Chinese civilization, the skill of smelting bronze metals had already begun to flourish in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Iron tools began to be vigorously developed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to the emergence of iron tools, but also accelerated the development of Chinese agricultural civilization.

According to Tang Zhu's instructions, the ore was crushed and poured into a high furnace. The most important thing in smelting is temperature, and the high-waist furnace can effectively maintain the temperature. After the crushed ore was poured in, Tang Zhu then poured in a large amount of charcoal. Then he instructed Lin Xia to start blowing wind and raise the temperature. Soon after, fiery red molten iron began to flow from one side of the furnace. Tang Zhu had long been seasoned in placing a sword mold in the place where the molten iron flowed out. After the molten iron is filled with the sword mold, close the furnace valve.

After the molten iron solidifies, the sword embryo is obtained. Tang Zhu told Lin Xia that such a sword embryo still needed to be hammered tens of thousands of times before it could be completed. As a result, Lin Xia began to heat and hammer the quenching sword embryo repeatedly in the furnace not far from Tang Zhu. Lin Xia realized at this time that it was not easy to forge a weapon.

Ding-dong, I don't know how long the sword embryo has been hammered, and finally it is no longer a sword embryo. The blade of the sword is already showing its rays. At this time, Tang Zhu also came over to personally guide Lin Xia.

Finally, Wang Ergou, who was silent in striking iron and couldn't extricate himself, was woken up by a system prompt. System Prompt: Congratulations to the young man for obtaining the Iron Sword ×1 (Quality: Unidentified)

"Brother Tang, I have finally succeeded in forging an iron sword. Identify it for me. Lin Xia looked at Tang Zhu and said.

Tang Zhu said: "The appraisal fee is 50 silver taels. ”

Lin Xia's eyes widened and he stammered and asked, "50...... 50 taels, why is it so expensive!"

"Young Xia, don't think it's expensive, what if it's a purple quality divine weapon?" Tang Zhu said as he looked at Lin Xia with a smile.

In fact, identification is to open the edge of the weapon, and the good opening of the blade directly affects the quality of the sword. With the completion of Tang Zhu's blade identification, Lin Xia also received a system prompt again.

System Prompt: Congratulations to the young man for obtaining the sharpened sword (green quality).

Lin Xia looked at the system prompt, and his face turned blue. Damn Tang Zhu also hacked him for 50 silver taels, and also fooled him into saying that the appraisal was of high quality.

"That young man...... Don't be discouraged, it's already very good to be able to hit a green quality long sword for the first time, and I think I only hit a blue one for the first time!" Tang Zhu said without a backache as he stood still.

Lin Xia's first casting can play green quality, which is really good. Each step in the casting process has a great impact on the quality of the punched goods. For example, in smelting in a furnace, the amount of charcoal added directly affects the purity of molten iron, and the number of hammering determines the amount of impurities removed. The key to quenching is the stiffness of the object being hit. Therefore, it is really good for a novice beginner to be able to hit the green quality for the first time.

"Shaoxia's proficiency is not enough, stay more and practice more, and when the proficiency is enough, you can come to me, and I will explain the key to the next layer of casting to Shaoxia. Tang Zhu said.

Lin Xia said goodbye, Tang Zhu took the sword he had just punched, and ran to the Forget Worry Society to find Mo Zhai. But Mo Zhai was contemplating the doctrine at this time, and he had no time to take care of Lin Xia, so he only asked the boy to send a scroll out and write it: Forget the Worry Forest to find the logger.

Lin Xia knew that this seemed to be a logging and woodworking skill task. He carried the hoe and ran to the Forgotten Worry Forest.

"I've been around the Forest so many times, and although I haven't traveled all over it, I haven't seen anyone logging here! Why is this map so big? It's so hard to find someone or something. Lin Xia walked around in the woods.

Just when Lin Xia turned around for half an hour and didn't find that he was about to give up, he suddenly heard singing not far away. It turned out to be the sound of the lumberjack's trumpet.

Lin Xia followed the sound and saw an old man in his sixties cutting down a big tree. Lin Xia stepped forward and asked, "Are you Mr. Mo's friend Lumberman?"

"Hey, Old Man Mo is hiding on the dirt mountain in Forget Worry County to teach a bunch of yellow-haired girls who have not dried up, how can he still become a gentleman?"

When Lin Xia heard the old man say this, he knew that the relationship between the two must be unusual. Then he said: "Mr. Mo is now studying a new doctrine with a group of his students!"

When the old man heard this, he was happy and said, "That doctrine has a good study of Raushzi, and it is better to have fun with the old man and me in cutting wood." ”

Lin Xia said: "Zi is not a fish, how do you know the joy of fish?"

The old man paused when he heard this. So he turned around and asked Lin Xia, "What are you doing here to find my old man?"

Lin Xia respectfully bowed his hand to the old man and said: At the beginning of the next year, Mr. Mengmeng loved and taught me all the crafts of the Mo family. This time, I came here to ask the old gentleman how to cut wood. ”

The old man said, "Don't talk to my old man or anything like that, logging is about being familiar with a word." Skill comes from practice. ”

After listening to the old man's words, Lin Xia found that it turned out that these skills needed to be skilled to master better. So Lin Xia followed the logger and started logging.

After Lin Xia had already been able to choose and cut wood on his own, the old man told Lin Xia that he could go back to the Forgotten Forest to find Old Man Lu, and he would teach Lin Xia the skills of woodworking.