After walking along the main street for a while, the two turned left and right, and what appeared in front of them was a courtyard wall with red walls and green tiles, and there was a small door on the courtyard wall that could only allow horses to pass through, which was the back door of the mansion of the old man Wang in Li Hongwei's mouth, which was reserved for the people to pass.

Li Hongwei sent the horses back from the small door of the mansion, and was not qualified to enter with strangers, Yang Qing waited outside the door for a while, and then the two went straight to the eight-wrought iron shop.

"Look, there is an eight-wrought iron shop in front, let's go, let's go in" Li Hongwei pointed to a plaque with a black background and said with a smile.

The façade is deserted, and there are no pedestrians in sight.

Eight wrought iron is paved on the only shop street in the town, and the house is made of marble, the stone surface is polished flat, and the gaps between the stones are tightly bridged.

Li Hongwei led Yang Qing in, there was a row of shelves in the store, and there were more than ten weapons on the shelves, including knives, swords, axes and other common weapons.

After a few words with the young man who was in charge of the shop, he learned that Wang Erli and his apprentice were in the blacksmith shop, so he led Yang Qing into the backyard. The shop in front is for selling some finished weapons, and the backyard is the place where the blacksmith shops and people live. There are three main rooms in the backyard, one wing room in the east and one in the east, and in the middle is an open space, and there is a well in the open space, and some barrels and barrels are placed elsewhere.

The doors and windows of the east wing room are all open, and there is a sound of 'bells' striking iron, and there is a white gas bubbling from the 'silk', and this wing room is an iron-striking shop. Before Li Hongwei entered the door, he shouted inside, "Master Wang, Master Wang"

"Who?" Some hoarse voices came, and then walked out a middle-aged man with bare arms and full of Han, this middle-aged man was about seven feet tall, with a Chinese face, a black stubble on his face, a strong body, and the muscles of his upper body were swollen and powerful, it was Wang Erli, the owner and master of the eight-wrought iron shop.

"Master Wang, it's me, Xiao Li," Li Hongwei replied with a smile.

"Oh, it's Xiao Li, what's the matter" Wang Erli was enthusiastic in his words, recognizing Li Hongwei, last time Li Hongwei and several soldiers came here with the housekeeper to order weapons.

"I didn't expect Master Wang to remember me, I came here to ask you for help this time" Li Hongwei said politely, he didn't beat around the bush with Wang Erli, and directly said that Yang Qing was going to this blacksmith's shop.

"Master Wang, my brother doesn't have much money, you see let him do chores here for you, be a junior apprentice, just teach a few times when you're happy" Li Hongwei pulled Yang Qing over and said solemnly.

"My brother is very diligent and honest"

When Wang Erli heard that it was not a matter of ordering weapons, he became lukewarm.

"I know what you mean, I originally had one here, I just left a few days ago" Wang Erli's tone was not salty or light, and he looked Yang Qing up and down, "How old are you, can you do work?"

"Fourteen, I can work, my family can do any job" Yang Qing replied in a low voice, his expression restrained, and there was trepidation in his heart.

"Let's stay and do it first, I can tell you, I can only take care of food and housing, I don't guarantee whether I can learn this craft" Wang Erli said with a pout, don't think about it, just make money and don't lose money, and drive away if it doesn't work.

"Then thank you Master Wang, don't worry, my brother will definitely do the work well" Li Hongwei thanked Wang Erli, and when he saw Wang Erli's expression, he gradually collected the smile on his face.

"Thank you, Xiao Li and Steward Wang suggested that it is enough to come to me to build weapons" Wang Erli waved his hand and pulled the business together, "Yang Qing, come in with me"

"Yang Qing, you go with Master Wang, study hard with Master Wang, I'll go back, and I'll take the time to come and see you in the future" Li Hongwei said in an encouraging tone, and finished the matter, he was very happy to be able to help his neighbors like this.

"I know, Brother Hongwei, thank you very much," Yang Qing said gratefully, hiding the trepidation in his heart.

Yang Qing was grateful to Li Hongwei, and it was all thanks to Li Hongwei's help that he was able to get out of the village and leave the ordinary life of farming and nightwork.

Yang Qing was afraid of the stern-faced Wang Erli, and followed him into the blacksmith shop with trepidation, seeing a completely unfamiliar environment, contact with all strangers, and the fear in his heart was only known to him.

There were also two bare-armed young men in the blacksmith shop, who were busy inside, and when they saw Yang Qing entering, they all stood up and watched.

"This is a new junior apprentice, you don't have to do those groceries in the future, just let Yang Qing come," Wang Erli instructed lightly to the two young men

The two young men nodded to show that they understood, and after glancing at Yang Qing, they stopped paying attention to him, lowered their heads and got busy, they understood the meaning of 'junior apprentice' in Wang Erli's mouth, and they had no interest in talking.

Yang Qing grinned, shyly wanting to say hello, but was pressed back into her stomach by that lukewarm glance.

These two young men are Wang Erli's apprentices, with big eyes, a short one called Lin Bo, triangular eyes, and a square chin called Sun Tao. The young man looking at the shop in front of him was called Zhang Bin.

Next, Wang Erli began to tell him what he needed to do here, inside the blacksmith shop, outside the blacksmith shop, these jobs don't require any technical content, and he can do it with strong hands.

The three main houses are where Wang Erli's family of three live, and he told Yang Qing not to go in without greeting. At night, I stayed in the Westinghouse, which was used as a utility room, and there was a futon left behind by a former elementary school student.

After a while, the uneasiness and panic in Yang Qing's heart had not disappeared, and what Wang Erli said made him feel deeply humiliated, and this feeling was a hundred times stronger than making him unable to eat and clothe.

Yang Qing didn't want to stay in this blacksmith anymore, Wang Erli's attitude towards him was like treating his subordinates and slaves, guarding him like a thief. Before he came, he expected that he would definitely not be at home as comfortable as here, but he didn't expect to be so despised by others.

took a deep breath, suppressed the unspeakable impulse in his heart, and was able to come out once all thanks to Li Hongwei's help, if he encountered some difficulties, how could he be worthy of his parents if he went back, and his family became a joke in the whole village.

If you can't even stand this grievance, then you are destined to have to nest in the big village of slap and farm.

Yang Qing put the burden in the utility room in a low mood, the utility room was piled up with scattered sundries, and a thin quilt covered with black stains on the soil kang was spread in a small corner, looking like a dog kennel from a distance.

Looking at this utility room, Yang Qing suddenly felt homesick. Shaking his head and leaving it behind, he turned around and walked out, he remembered his father's words when he left, he must be diligent.

As the saying goes, there are three major hardships in the world: striking iron, supporting the boat, and grinding tofu. Boating: During the wind and waves, there is a danger of capsizing and dying at any time. Iron: Enduring the heat by the furnace at night, living is like going to hell, and if you blow a hammer, you will sweat like a needle. Selling tofu: sleeping on three shifts and getting up on five shifts, doing donkey work, and getting a small amount of money that can only make ends meet.

The wing room of the blacksmith is wider, with an iron furnace in the middle, and a large bellows attached to the iron furnace. Next to the iron furnace was a square pool and iron piers, and black iron slag was scattered around it.

Iron striking seems simple but not easy to learn, it is easy to get started, and it is very difficult to learn to be proficient. Wang Erli's three apprentices have all studied for two or three years, and now they can barely read and build some ordinary iron tools.

The coke in the iron furnace has turned dark red, and most of the water in the pool has become water vapor that has been dispersed from the open roof, and a shovel is formed, which is completed by Wang Erli's apprentice, Wang Erli pointed on the side, and sometimes took the main hammer and smashed it a few times, and the process of building is to teach the apprentice, it is too complicated for him to let the apprentice read the power to do it, and the building is broken, and the loss is his Wang Erli's silver.

Yang Qing didn't see the process of building, at that time he hadn't arrived at the eight-wrought iron shop, and when Yang Qing came out of the utility room and entered the blacksmith shop, it was time to finish the building, and Yang Qing hurriedly stepped forward to help clean up.

"This hammer has more than a dozen catties, how much strength does it take to pick him up" Yangqin sighed in his heart, picking up two hammers and not knowing where to put them.

"The hammer must be simple, and if you hesitate, the hammer will be unstable," Wang Erli and the three of them gathered together, looking at the shovel that had just been built, Wang Erli reprimanded a few words from time to time. "You two don't have long eyes, can't you see this obviously, and this, this..."

Seeing Wang Erli's somewhat angry face, Yang Qing didn't dare to step forward to ask, and turned his eyes around to find the place that was conspicuous and unhindered to walking, not knowing Wang Erli's habits, Yang Qing could only do this, and finally put it next to the shelf where Wang Erli and the three of them were standing, and there were semi-finished products and a small jar of white powder on the shelf.

He gathered the irregularly shaped iron blocks on the ground to the corners, and brought four buckets of water from the yard to fill the pool in the iron-striking shop and sweep away the iron slag on the ground.

Yang Qing finished all this, Wang Erli and the three of them also dispersed, and Yang Qing could hear the conversation between them, but he couldn't understand it.

"Just clean up before the furnace opens in the afternoon, let's go eat first" Lin Bo, who had big eyes, said flatly, Yang Qing finished all these groceries for them, and it was pleasing to look at him. "You can call me Brother Lin, this is your grandson"

"Brother Lin, Brother Sun" Yang Qing greeted with a smile, and Yang Qing could feel the change in Lin Bo and Sun Tao's attitudes.

"We are also eating here at noon, you eat with us" This "Brother Sun" made Sun Tao very useful, and he was embarrassed to keep a straight face.

Wang Erli looked around, saw that the ground was clean, and then turned around and walked out of the blacksmith's shop.

The noon meal was ready, and a beautiful woman in her thirties dressed brightly brought a pot of steamed buns and a pot of soup to the courtyard, and sent one to the front house shop and that Zhang Bin. Seeing more Yang Qing, he went to the house and took out a pair of dishes and chopsticks.

The steamed bun is a solid steamed bun, the soup is cabbage soup, and there are a few oil flowers floating on the clear soup.

Yang Qing and the three of them all ate in the yard, Lin Bo and Sun Tao had long been accustomed to this life, so they all took care of themselves and took a steamed bun and squatted in the yard to eat.

Wang Erli walked into the house, Yang Qing was not so restrained, and he also served the soup and took a steamed bun to start his first meal at the eight wrought iron shop in Shuangxing Town.

"Yang Qing, clean up the furnace after eating, and clean up all the burned coke ashes," Lin Bo said vaguely as he chewed on the steamed bun in his mouth.

"Well, Brother Lin, where will you clean up" Yang Qing readily agreed, knowing that these were his jobs, Lin Bo took the initiative to say it, and he asked what he didn't understand.

chatted and got acquainted with each other, Lin Bo and Sun Tao are both talkative people, they don't dare to talk nonsense in front of Wang Erli, and they don't have any scruples about Yang Qing.

During the meal, Yang Qing learned from Lin Bo and Sun Tao that the previous apprentice was about the same age as him and was also a countryman.

'Lazy and don't work' This is the reason why Lin Bo and Sun Tao said, Yang Qing was suspicious when he heard it, and he couldn't figure out if he said it to him on purpose.