Chapter 45

"Do you know how to make iron?"

Standing in the room, Duan Hong glanced at Xiang Ning with a faint smile.

The huge stove in the room has been lit up, and I don't know what fuel it is. There is no air box blowing, and it is burning very vigorously. The flame is burning, which makes the temperature in the room rise a lot.

It's still summer now. It's already hot. When it's warmed up again, Ning Xiao feels that he's going to sweat before he moves.

"I haven't tried, but isn't ironing just ironing?" Ning Xiao looked at the hammer on the table, which was much bigger than the small hammer he used yesterday, and its weight was absolutely not light.

"What is iron striking? Is it not iron striking?" Duan Hong snorted, "do you think it's so easy to strike iron?"

"I've seen blacksmiths before. It's just to knock the iron, shape it and then quench it." Ning Xiao said what he saw in his previous life.

"Fart!" Duan Hong drank flatly, then went to the workbench, threw a piece of iron into the stove and began to calcine. Rather smile sharp eyed, clearly see that piece of iron color dark, there are a little bit of Venus above, is the Star City specialty star meteorite!

"I'll give you a demonstration first, and let you see what iron striking is!" Duan Hong took off his upper clothes, revealing a strong muscle, angular appearance, completely unlike an old man can have the body!

Just when Ning Xiao was surprised by Duan Hong's muscles, the meteorite also burned red in the furnace. Duan Hong took out the iron block with a pair of pliers and put it on the forging table. With a hammer in one hand, he said to Ning Xiao, "watch it!"

Then, the hammer in the right hand fell abruptly, banging on the iron block!

Burning red meteorite suddenly burst out a piece of fine Mars, visible to the naked eye shriveled down a piece, and then the knocking sound became a piece, rather smile and gape at the hammer with a shadow constantly hit the iron, Mars splashed, and its volume is constantly getting smaller!

When the percussion stopped, the meteorite, which was half the size of a head, was only the size of a fist, and the little golden light was more dense and bright!

Duan Hong didn't even have any sweat on his forehead. He threw the hammer calmly and looked at Ning with a smile: "now you know what a blacksmith is?"

Ning Xiao looked at the reduced several times of the iron, feel the brain is blank. Originally, he also knew that the forging process is to knock out the impurities in the coarse iron to make the iron more pure, but this is too exaggerated! It is impossible for the former punching and forging machine to reduce a piece of coarse iron so much! What's more, Duan Hong forged a piece of meteorite just now. In terms of mass, this meteorite is better than the refined steel of previous generations!

Is this the blacksmith?! Ning Xiao's heart is full of shock.

Seeing that Ning Xiao was shocked, Duan Hong was quite satisfied and explained: "the process I just did is called compression, which is to remove impurities from metal materials and make them more pure. This is the most basic, but it's what every good blacksmith must master, and it's also the most difficult part. "

"The most basic is the most difficult?" Ning Xiao looks at Duan Hong in surprise.

"Yes, the most basic is the most difficult!" Duan Hong nodded. "What I have just done is called compression forging only. It compresses the material volume and compels impurities. On the other hand, there is still refining and forging. It is to extract and extract the most essential part of the material.

"Compression? Purification? " Ning Xiao nodded thoughtfully.

"The value of compressed meteorite is 20 times higher than that of ordinary meteorite of the same volume, because its strength is greater and its adaptability to spiritual power is better. However, I'm afraid there are no more than 10 people in the whole star city who can do compression forging. Of course, I'm not in it. " Duan Hong is not without pride.

"20 times higher?" Rather smile surprised, looking at the compression star meteorite on the table, eyes began to change toward gold coins.

The volume of forged compressed meteorite is about five or six times smaller than the original, but its value is 20 times higher. This is a huge profit! If you knock like this, you will earn several times the price difference! This is a road to make money!

For example, if one meter long star meteorite iron is worth 100 gold coins, then one centimeter is one gold coin. If one meter long star meteorite iron is forged into compressed star meteorite iron, the volume will be reduced to one-fifth, that is, 20 cm. The star meteorite iron is worth 20 gold coins, but the compressed star meteorite iron is worth 400 gold coins. After scraping the 100 principal, you earn 300 gold coins! It's a great deal!

Seeing the apprentice with only gold coins in his eyes, Duan Hong coughed and poured a basin of cold water over his face: "it's impossible for you to do compression forging now. Practice hard. Maybe it will be done in a few years."

Rather smile as if did not hear general, pull Duan Hong's hand, serious way: "master, what is the value of purified meteorite?"

Looking at Ning Xiao's serious appearance, Duan Hong said: "after the purification and forging of meteorite iron, it is called star gold iron. Among them, Venus is completely purified, and its whole body is gold. Its value is more than 150 times that of ordinary meteorite iron!"

"Damn it Ning Xiao suddenly burst a rude sentence, and then said sincerely, "master, please teach me how to forge! I want to learn how to forge as soon as possible! It's all money

Duan Hong took a puff from the corner of his mouth, slapped Ning Xiao's head with a slap, staggered him, and then scolded: "you little rabbit, you want to run before you learn to walk? How about forging? You are dreaming! Let's make the iron first! Today your task is to reduce the size of ordinary meteorite by one tenth! It's up to me to deal with you! "

With that, he kicked Ning Xiao to the forging stage.

It's really starting to work. Ning Xiaocai knows how hard it is. The hammer is very heavy. It's more than 20 jin. It's ok if he doesn't wear a ring armor plastic body suit. But now Ning Xiaoshi is wearing this kengdai suit. It's very difficult to just lift the hammer. Besides, Duan Hong of dog day hangs an iron ring beside him, Let him every lift must knock on the hoop to count!

This is the enhanced version of yesterday's training!

Moreover, the meteorite was extremely hard. Even if it was burned red in the furnace, Ning Xiaochui was shocked. His palms were numb, and the sparks splashed by knocking down were far less than Duan Hong's!

Fortunately, for every dozen minutes of beating, the meteorite needs to be sent to the tempering furnace for calcination. In less than a minute, Ning Xiao's body can rest a little. Otherwise, Ning Xiao doesn't know whether he can survive the whole morning

After watching Ning Xiao beat for a while, Duan Hong got up and left. Seeing Ning Xiao's seriousness, he knew that his apprentice would never be lazy. This iron beating is very strong for his body. He believed that Ning Xiao could feel it. Although this boy is full of money, Duan Hong could not hide his desire for strength improvement.

However, at the beginning, Ning Xiao was able to make a lot of money after learning to compress and forge. But after beating for a while, he felt that the spiritual power and the body began to gradually merge under the confinement of the ring armor plastic body suit. Every time he waved the hammer, he could feel the happy feeling that the spiritual power and the physical power burst out together, which made Ning Xiao gradually forget what to make money!

As long as I continue to practice like this, my body will be more in line with the operation of spiritual power, and the explosive force of muscles will undoubtedly be more powerful! Rather smile eyes persistent, persistent beating in front of the iron, even forget the time, forget the place!

Until Duan Hong called him.

"Stinky boy, stop and eat!" Duan Hong called at the kitchen door. Ning Xiao, who is still immersed in ironmaking, wakes up.

"Have you eaten?" Ning Xiao looks up in doubt, and then he feels a burst of emptiness in his body. His spiritual power has run out and almost dried up in this unconscious process! And the body strength is also exhausted, at the moment actually a soft foot, good hanging down.

It's ok if you don't wake up. Your body will continue to move with inertia, ignoring fatigue, hunger and other negative feelings. Once you wake up, all the fatigue will come out... Ning Xiao feels that you can eat a cow if you are hungry now!

"Son of a bitch!" Duan Hong held Ning Xiao and handed him a bowl of lavender water, which gave off a strange smell, "drink this first! I really don't know whether I should praise you for your hard work or for being stupid. I haven't had a rest in the morning. Seeing you work so hard, I made you a delicious meal! "

It's true, but Duan Hong actually prepared this meal at the beginning. Ning Xiao's practice consumes a lot of body. If he can't keep up with the nutrition, it's easy to waste it. How can Duan Hong be willing to give up? What's more, seeing Ning Xiao working so hard now, he feels that it's worthwhile for him to spend the whole night hunting last night!

"This is what you gave me yesterday, master?" Rather smile will drink that bowl of water, feel the familiar smell, asked.

"Yes, it can warm and nourish your body. You are blessed, too. It's precious!" Duan Hong snorted and helped Ning Xiao to go to the kitchen.

"Why didn't you just drink it yesterday and give it back to me?" Rather smile smash bar smash mouth, some dissatisfaction way. He still misses the feeling of his whole body glowing yesterday!

"Fart!" Duan Hong was angry. "I don't have many of them. Yesterday, it was an emergency. You consumed too much, so you can go straight down. Now it's good to drink diluted water! Do you know how expensive it is! "

"Yes, I'm greedy! Thank you for your love Ning Xiao apologized perfunctorily while twitching his nose. "It's so fragrant, master. You're a good craftsman."

So, Ning Xiao came to the kitchen, and then saw that the food at that table was almost meat, and some strange animal fur piled in the corner explained what kind of meat these meat were!

Ning Xiao looked back at Duan Hong in surprise. The old man was still proud and charming. Then Ning Xiao put his arms around Duan Hong's shoulder and said with a smile: "master, you are so nice! You have worked hard! "

Duan Hong snorted and did not speak, but his eyes were smiling.