Chapter 18 Harvest Gradually
Master Langyue assigned Azule and Niga to different copper smelting rooms, and asked them to start learning from the ground and as handymen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Azule followed a bronze smelter named Cell, and the number of the bronze smelting room was numbered "Twenty-Three", which was written on the door in the Beiban symbol. Master Sail was silent, did not bring an apprentice, nor did he treat Azule as an apprentice, but only regarded Azule as a handyman, he asked Azule to be able to see, touch, and learn, but he couldn't ask. There were a total of five people in this "Twenty-Three" copper smelting room, and there were three people besides Master Sail and Azule, all three of whom were strong and strong, and there was no communication between them, and Azule didn't even know what the names of these three people were. Master Sail mainly monitored the number and frequency of adding tin and other materials, as well as the final sword forming procedure, and among the other three, one was responsible for feeding, one was responsible for casting, and one was responsible for repairing samples, and Azul consciously became a handyman.
Niga's treatment seems to be a little better, and the two of them often communicate on the way to and from the Cast Iron Division, and even after returning to the dormitory, Niga will take the initiative to come to Azul to talk about the day's gains. In Niga's words, the two of them were in the Bronze Division during the day, and like the apprentices selected by the Cast Iron Division in previous years, they were destined to be treated differently by the apprentices of the Bronze Division, and when they returned to the Cast Iron Division at night, they were faced with the unfavorable situation of being isolated by the apprentices of the Cast Iron Division, so that the two sides were not pleasing and it was very difficult to behave. Niga even offered to move to Asur's room, but Azul politely refused.
The master he followed was not bad-tempered, and sometimes even took the initiative to teach him the ratio of ingredients, the heat of casting, etc., and he was basically half-familiar with the new master, apprentice and other helpers. When Azul thought of his situation, he felt very bad, he followed a strange master, and as a result, the first few apprentices also became strange apprentices, the master did not teach, and the apprentices did not seem to really learn, and there was not even anything to learn, did he have to waste time and energy endlessly.
In addition, Nica also conveyed a message, it is said that the recent Shuntianju and Xizeguo, which are adjacent to the Northern Barbarians, seem to have a tendency to join forces to invade the north, which breaks the previous state of independent non-aggression of the three parties, and the Northern Barbarian Wuxiang was assigned by the Heavenly Khan to order the engineers to concentrate on preparing for war such as weapons and supporting the garrison and change of defense of the army in the south. As a result, the demand for weapons in the Iron and Bronze Divisions increased dramatically, and in order to arm the warriors of the idle tribes, Gongcheng had to work overtime to produce weapons and armor.
Azule didn't complain, and he didn't plan to talk much, it was not easy for him to enter the Bronze Division, which was one step closer to successfully learning to forge swords and be called a craftsman. In addition, Azule recently found that with the gradual deepening of his cultivation of the internal strength and mental method, his perception of the outside world and his control of subtle things have been qualitatively improved. But when I met a master who was unwilling to teach this kind of ability, I had no way to defend myself, and it seemed that I could only comprehend it again and again.
Azule was very attentive to learn the new bronze refining method from watching and listening, and the entire smelting process was already seen, but some programs involved data, and some procedures involved principles, all of which were unknown, and there was no way to get any closer. He was able to use his sensitive perception to estimate some data, but it was only an estimate, and because there was no way to verify it, it could not be used by me at all. Azule thought about it and decided that he still wanted to break the deadlock, he couldn't wait, maybe he could gain knowledge from the exchange with Niga, but Niga seemed to be rough, but he was as careful as a hair, and when it came to key knowledge such as data and proportions, he often kept silent, or talked about him left and right.
When Azule was working in the copper smelting room, in addition to doing miscellaneous work and studying, he could also pay attention to this copper smelting room that was surrounded on three sides and left alone. He found that the four pillars supporting the three walls were all made of fine iron, and some symbols could be carved crookedly on them, these symbols were rather strange, not the Central Plains characters he was familiar with, nor the Beiban symbols he knew, but his intuition told him that these symbols were not random and simple depictions, and they must have a special effect. Because after his own careful observation, when casting some key procedures for different weapons, Master Sail would inadvertently compare and look at the symbols on the different pillars in them. In contrast, Azule was very excited, but he disguised it well, in his opinion, as long as he cracked one or two of the symbols, he would be able to learn more about bronze casting.
The attentive Azul was absolutely right, and his careless actions even caused a brief moment of surprise from Master Cell. At the end of a busy day, Master Cell, who was the first to leave, stayed, and when Azul, who had packed up all kinds of materials and miscellaneous items, finished his work, only Master Sail and Azul were left in the copper smelting room. Cell's first spoke: "You found out?"
Azule looked directly into Cell's eyes, and quickly calculated in his heart, thinking about whether he should admit or deny, whether admitting it would be more passable, or directly denying it would be more able to dispel Sayre's doubts, his foundation was not stable, what would he suffer if he admitted it, and if he didn't admit it, could he simply fool him through. After a short silence, Azule still made up his mind to fight, maybe this is the best way to break the deadlock, Azule said slowly and quietly: "I found a little bit".
"Yes, there is no secret that can be hidden forever, this copper smelting room was passed down to me by my master. Although I am a master, I am not really his disciple, and I was just like you now, an apprentice, or rather a handyman. He started this bronze division, and one day he didn't say goodbye, and he disappeared, and even caused the engineer and the witch to ask, and these four pillars were left by him. Others only think of it as a trace left in the forging process, but they don't know that there is a secret hidden in it, and I have learned less than one out of ten. My master called himself 'Ou Yezi', and said that if he can understand the carving of the four pillars, he will be able to inherit his casting and refining metaphysics. In the future, I will explain some introductory knowledge in the process of casting, and as for whether you can assist each other to understand the metaphysics left by the master, it depends on your personal creation. But remember, I don't want to bury what my master has learned to tell you this, and if you talk nonsense, I will not show mercy. Cell's sleeves were brushed away.
In the following days, Cell's seemed to be a different person, and he began to deliberately explain some basic knowledge and processes during the casting process, which made the other three people puzzled, but only Azul knew, and he slowly got started. However, as he further deepened his studies, he found that it was impossible to comprehend more metaphysics on the pillars in a limited time, and this had to be tempered and experimented at the same time, so Azule forced himself to memorize the so-called metaphysics depicted on the pillars by rote, which may one day come in handy.