The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 430 Shen Le, you have come to this day! Hit me! Hit me hard! (Seeking monthly votes)
"Boss, it won't be that bad if you're just forging iron, right?"

After receiving instructions from his boss like "Please help me build a blacksmith furnace, and it would be better to find a reliable blacksmith", Lao You felt very bad.

What?
Blacksmithing?

The boss’s hobbies are getting more and more outrageous!

It's okay to make a lab and tinker with some instruments, but is it necessary to do it yourself?

Wearing a fire-resistant work suit, a bib, sweating in front of the fire, swinging a sledgehammer to forge iron, this doesn't quite match your style of painting!
No, it's totally mismatched!

"Boss, there are so many nails! How many do you need? Can't we just order them directly? That studio is pretty good. They are all made by hand by experienced craftsmen, and the delivery is fast!"

“I want to buy a new one directly…”

Shen Le sighed. But it was not possible. From the perspective of cultural relic restoration, if the original materials can be used, they should be used as much as possible. The previous materials cannot be thrown away and replaced with new materials.

Wouldn't it be better if we built a new one?

Modern materials, modern craftsmanship, guaranteed beauty, guaranteed 100% restoration of appearance!

Look, last week's!
From the perspective of spiritual tool repair, it is even more impossible to replace it casually. New parts can be replaced, but the spiritual energy on the old parts, why don't you try to replace it?
Shen Le didn't even need to open his spiritual eyes to see the weight of time, the joy and excitement, the sorrow and despair accumulated on those iron nails.

You want him to grab all these things and move them to the newly bought nails?

Sorry, he really doesn't have that ability!
"Then... Boss, if that doesn't work, why don't we send these nails to someone else's studio and have the master add some iron and hammer them in again?"

Lao You thought about it, then carefully proposed another suggestion. Shen Le shook his head helplessly:
"That won't do. At least, I have to hammer the first few nails in myself. Then I'll know if I can be lazy..."

It is common sense in Taoism that fire can ward off evil spirits, ghosts, and restrain all dark and gloomy things.

If these nails are hammered in again, who knows if the special power inside them will be destroyed?
He made up his mind, and Lao You had no choice but to help run errands. After running the equipment and the decoration, he delivered the information to Shen Le:

"Eh? You don't need to use your hands to hit me now?"

"It's been a long time since I last used it, boss!" Lao You actually knew about it a long time ago, but he also pretended to be like "I just found out about it recently":

"Now, except for some new ones, such as sword-forging competitions, most people use machines to forge swords! It's much more convenient than forging swords by hand!
This small ironmaking furnace is powered by electricity, is not expensive, does not take up space, and is much more convenient than burning coal. Who would want to suffer that kind of hardship when there are machines?"

"emmm..."

Shen Le flipped through the information he gave him and was indeed quite tempted. Anyway, he had to hammer in nails now, and maybe he would have to repair other things in the future, such as armor, weapons, etc.:
"Then, how about a set?"

"Okay! Don't worry, boss!"

The piece of land worth 200 million yuan next to Shen Le’s mansion has been acquired and is currently being renovated room by room and converted into a studio.

Lao You watched the construction team and quickly renovated a forging room and put the forging furnace in. When he was about to ask the blacksmith for advice, the alloy master rushed in excitedly and shouted as soon as he entered the door:
"Shen Le, you want to forge iron? Why don't you come to me for it?"

Shen Le: “…”

Why are you everywhere?
How come you got the news so quickly?

Also, how do you know how to forge iron?
Didn’t you throw them all into your stomach?
"How come I can't forge iron!" The alloy tycoon puffed out his chest and bulged his belly, his eyes widened so wide that they almost became goldfish eyes - or, he could compete with the hyperthyroidism patient.

He picked up an iron nail, tossed it in his hand, and twisted it:
"Oh, wrought iron, good wrought iron. Eh? What?"

He put his nose close to the tip, sniffed it hard, and then licked it. Shen Le was nervous and was about to shout "Don't take a bite", when he saw the alloy boss grinning:
"It smells like salt. Have you been in the sea for a long time?"

Shen Le had to admire him. After desalination, 98% of the salt in this nail has been removed. Only the last 2% is left. If you smell it or lick it, you can taste it, right?

This level is extremely high!

"Of course I can forge iron! Now the Special Affairs Bureau supplies alloy steel. Before, if you wanted to have good iron, it was extremely expensive! If I don't forge it myself, how much can I buy?"

Okay... okay. Shen Le was completely convinced. He stepped aside and pointed to the electric forging furnace next to him:

"Come on, please—"

"wait wait wait……"

Alloy Boss was at a loss for words. No such thing! No surprise attack!

I know how to forge iron, which means I know how to control the temperature. I know the color of the fire and the color of the iron. I also know how to control the force and angle of the forging.

Doesn’t mean I can operate these new devices!

"Where's the instruction manual? Show it to me! - Lao You, I'm talking to you! Don't think I didn't see you trying to hold back your laughter!"

He fiddled with the thick manual in his hand. After a long time, he finally started the forge successfully and began to try out the iron material he had prepared.

Throw it in, press the button, watch the iron gradually burn red, watch the iron be automatically spit out by the forging furnace, and then send it to the electric forging machine for forging.

The alloy master stood nearby, holding the clamp and turning the iron material continuously, and watched as dark flakes kept splashing out of the golden-red iron material and continuously falling onto the anvil:

"Don't just watch!" Alloy Boss urged him:
"Bring a broom! Clean up these iron filings! If you don't clean them up, the iron filings will come back when you forge iron next time!" Shen Le: "..."

Sweep, broom?

Where is the broom?
Oh, there really is a big broom made of bamboo branches next to it - if this broom touches the hot iron filings, won’t it catch fire?

"hurry up!"

The alloy boss continued to urge him. Shen Le simply gave up and pointed at the anvil:
"Cleaning Technique!"

The invisible wind of magic swept past. The anvil was instantly clean and bright. All the iron filings were instantly swept into the waste bin next to it, leaving nothing behind.

The alloy boss turned his head slightly, gave Shen Le a thumbs up, and continued to control the angle of the iron material.

Heating, forging, annealing, tempering, heating again, forging again, back and forth several times, a half-foot long hanging nail was made, slightly thicker in the middle, slightly thinner at both ends, and bent on one side.

He took it in his hand, compared it with the old nails waiting to be reforged in the box next to him, and handed it to Shen Le:

"Do you understand? Come and play it again!"

Shen Le: “???”

So fast?
Just show me once and let me get started?
Boss, I'm not saying, but you sound a bit like "1+1=2, do you understand? Come on, solve this system of linear equations with two variables!"
The alloy boss had a bright smile on his face, staring at him closely, with a look of joy that said, "Hey, hey, you have come to this day too." Shen Le had no choice but to grab a piece of iron, throw it into the forging furnace, and start heating it.

Heating is not a big deal, and the forging strength is also adjusted. All you need to do is keep adjusting the forging position. The alloy master kept giving instructions:

"Put it in a little further! This way some places are not hit! Don't shrink back, the iron filings won't splash on you from this position!"

"Turn! Turn! Don't keep hitting the same spot!"

"Turn faster! If you go so slowly, the iron will get cold and you'll have to start over!"

"Pay attention to the angle! This iron nail is not straight, it is a bit like a date pit! You can't even hammer in this kind of straight nail, so how are you going to control it when you turn around and hammer in a curved piece of iron!"

"Okay! Take it out! Anneal! - Remember this color! If it's a little darker, it won't be hot enough and can't be annealed. It needs to be sent back for reheating and re-annealing!"

"Pay attention to the sound! The lower the temperature, the quieter the churning sound of the annealing oil! I don't need to remind you next time, you should remember it yourself!"

"Okay, take it out and play it again!"

Poor Shen Le just hammered in an iron nail and the alloy boss pointed out seventy or eighty mistakes, scolding him until he was sweating profusely.

He hit one more, and then another, and after hitting more than ten in a row, the Alloy Boss was roughly satisfied and raised his hand to let him go:
"Well, after practicing to this extent, you can basically get the hang of it. - Machines are still more convenient! If you switch to manual forging, you still haven't learned how to swing a hammer!"

It's hard to say whether you have learned how to swing a hammer, but it is very likely that you don't swing it with enough frequency, the landing point is wrong, and the hammer goes crooked or slanted.

Shen Le sincerely thanked modern technology and, under the guidance of the alloy master, cut a small piece of iron, put it together with the old nail, and prepared to re-forge it.

As soon as the old nails entered the forge, he frowned:
"This doesn't work!"

"how?"

"The spiritual energy on this nail..."

Shen Le groaned. The aura of the nails was rather dark and gloomy, and when heated in the forge, the whining sound almost pierced his ears.

Shen Le subconsciously extended his mental power, trying to encircle these auras and press them back, but when these auras encountered the high temperature, it was like boiling soup poured on snow, and it was instantly destroyed!

"By the way, is there any way to recast the nail without damaging the aura inside?"

He looked at Alloy Boss for help. Alloy Boss pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly:

"I can't do it. Ask the Special Affairs Bureau if there is any good weaponsmith who can do it?"

Shen Le could only accept the suggestion and send a message to ask. The director of the Special Affairs Bureau in Magic City was very willing to help and directly sent a weaponsmith from the Special Affairs Bureau over.

The big man picked up the nail, weighed it, sniffed it, closed his eyes and felt it, then shook his head helplessly:

"I can't do it. This kind of power conflicts with the flames. If I do it, I can only burn them clean. Or, you can ask the people in Miaojiang or Xiangxi?"

Those black dog nails or zombie nails, maybe someone who is good at making these kinds of magical tools can do it?

Shen Le once again sought help from the Special Affairs Bureau. However, this time, he did not receive any good news:
"This aura is too weak... The iron nails are also ordinary iron, not spiritual iron. If we can do it, how many nails can we get out of a hundred kilograms of iron nails?"

Shen Le: “…”

Forget it, I'll just figure it out myself!

　It’s the end of the month!

　　The last three days of the month!

　　Asking for a monthly ticket!
　　Is it possible for the cat to get 2,000 votes this month?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)