"Oh, it's nothing. The Sword Sealing Conference is over, right? Now we have a month to go home. I want to ask you what your plans are."
"so."
Zhou Rui has not been home for a year, but now he has just learned the art of forging from Zhang Shiqian, and now Zhou Rui is reluctant to leave here.
"I want to go to various places first and then decide whether to go back or not."
Zhou Fan looked at Zhou Rui in surprise and said, "Aren't you going to go back?"
"If you have this plan, when are you going to go back?"
Zhou Fan said with some embarrassment: "I'm not planning to go back either. I want to go somewhere while I have nothing to do."
After leaving Zhou Fan, Zhou Rui came to the forging room while eating.
Early in the morning, Zhang Shiqian had already started forging things in the forging room.
Seeing Zhou Rui coming, Zhang Shiqian was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Zhou Rui, help me get the refining stone quickly."
Zhou Rui looked around, pointed to a silver-white boulder on the ground, and asked, "Uncle Zhang, is this the one?"
"Hurry, put it in the fire!" Zhang Shiqian urged Zhou Rui eagerly.
Zhou Rui quickly threw the refining stone into the furnace fire. As soon as the refining stone was roasted by the flames in the furnace, the flames in the entire furnace turned blue.
"Well, the timing is just right, Zhou Rui, look here." Zhang Shiqian pointed to the ore in the furnace and said, "In three days, this ore will be ready."
Zhou Rui couldn't understand what Zhang Shiqian was doing anymore, so he could only nod his head in agreement.
Zhou Rui saw that Zhang Shiqian had put down his work and said, "Uncle Zhang, I don't want to go home for this month. I want to stay here and learn the art of forging from you."
"Oh?" Zhang Shiqian looked at Zhou Rui happily and said, "I really did not misjudge you. You can work so hard and it is not in vain that I have trained you."
Zhang Shiqian pointed to a pile of iron ore next to the house and said: "Since you are determined to learn, let's start now! From now on, you can refine all this pile of iron ore. This is your first task."
Zhou Rui looked at the mountains of ore in front of him, opened his mouth and asked, "Uncle Zhang, are you kidding me?"
Zhang Shiqian looked at Zhou Rui seriously and said, "Do you think I'm joking?"
Zhou Rui looked at Zhang Shiqian's serious expression and said bravely: "Don't worry, Uncle Zhang, I promise to finish it!"
Although he said this, looking at this pile of iron ore, Zhou Rui had no idea what to do.
Bai Yue lay next to Zhou Rui's ear and whispered: "Such a large pile of iron ore will take at least three to five months if it is forged normally."
Zhou Rui scratched his head and said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning."
As he spoke, Zhou Rui rolled up his sleeves and wrists.
"bring it on!"
It is true that everything is difficult at the beginning. Zhou Rui heated up the fire and threw the first piece of iron ore into the furnace. In Zhou Rui's eyes, forging is such a simple matter, as long as he looks at the iron ore.
Just melt it and then refine it.
But after waiting for a long time, Tieshi didn't respond at all.
Zhang Shiqian watched Zhou Rui's movements from the side and said with a smile: "Zhou Rui, you have to use your brain for everything. Even the most basic refining is not so easy."
After listening to Zhang Shiqian's words, Zhou Rui repeatedly adjusted the temperature of the flame in the furnace and finally found the right temperature to melt the iron ore.
After some exploration, although Zhou Rui was able to successfully refine iron ore, the forging speed was very slow.
It takes Zhou Rui about an hour to completely refine a piece of iron ore. But looking at the mountains of iron ore, Zhou Rui thought in his heart, if he continues to refine it like this, let alone learn to forge, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it.
It would take a year or two to refine such a large pile of iron ore without eating or sleeping.
"Uncle Zhang, although I can now refine iron ore, the speed is too slow now."
Zhang Shiqian still said the same thing and said: "I have already taught you that you should use your brain more."
Zhou Rui looked thoughtfully at the large pile of iron ore in front of him.
"How can we speed up the refining process?"
Bai Yue also looked at Zhou Rui boredly and said: "Good martial arts, if you don't practice mental skills, why don't you come here to learn some forging skills?"
"What do you know? It's hard for me to find something that interests me now. Of course I have to study it carefully."
"Then you go ahead and refine the ore, and I'll take a good rest first."
After saying that, Bai Yue fell asleep soundly.
Zhou Rui continued to refine the iron ore, and suddenly an inspiration flashed in Zhou Rui's mind.
Zhou Rui shouted loudly and said: "Yes, how could I forget him!"
Bai Yue was also frightened and jumped up after being called out by Zhou Rui.